Mrs. Leena Kumar is a graduate of architecture from the Bangalore University and set up an architecture practice in 1990, KUMAR CONSULTANTS, an Award Winning Architectural Firm. The firm has worked through several projects of Hospitality, Residential, Institutional, Educational, Industrial, Commercial and Health Care. After years of exposure to high-end and costly solutions, low- cost designs and simple solutions, designs born from community and traditional strategies, she has concluded on the infinite and endless joy of built spaces that continue as a thread from history.
She has been involved with the larger fraternity of Architects and Interior Designers since 2008. She was on the core technical committee of the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) for formulating the rating system of green interiors which was launched in November 2015 at the Green Building Congress, Gandhinagar. She convened the first conference on Green Interiors by the IBGC in 2014. As the Chairperson of the Institute of Indian Interior Designers, Bangalore Centre, she conducted a student design competition for the interior spaces of the Mahatma Gandhi and the Swami Vivekananda Metro Stations, to initiate a dialogue between design and public interior spaces.
Her design was one of the nine short listed entries from a total of 427 entries received from all over the globe for the Global Design Competition for the National War Memorial proposed along the Rajpath Marg, New Delhi, called for by the Ministry of Defence, Government of India in December 2016, amongst other awards won.
She has addressed students and architects, made presentations at several schools of Architecture and architectural events, has served as a jury member for architectural competitions and to evaluate student’s works at various Universities.
She is presently the Chairperson of Assocham Gem, Karnataka Chapter.
