The Architects' Journal, August 30th, 2007
Sunand Prasad, the soon-to-be president of the RIBA, seems to make a point of praising you on your interviewing technique.
'That's another very good question,' he says after a pause, and waits again to contemplate his answer. It is very disarming.
In a few days' time the charming, diminutive 57 year old will take over the reins from Jack Pringle and become the first non-white president in the institutions 173-year history.
Prasad, who was brought up in the foothills of the Himalayas in India, now stands on top of the UK's institutional, architectural pile.
'I don't think people know whethe...
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