Akshay Kaul specializes in the field of ecological planning, landscape and sustainable architecture and possesses more than 25 years of experience in India and USA. His is one of the only landscape architecture firms in India that has been doing sustainable landscape for more than 20 years in India.
He received his Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, USA. He has worked for Peter Walker William Johnson and Partners, one of the leading landscape planning and design firms in the world on international projects in Asia, Europe and USA.
He has received International Award for Living Design City Competition for Sustainable Cities – 2011. He has also won the International Competition Design for South Asian University. New Delhi He has won other large campus design Master Planning Competition for Institute of Public Health and Management at Gujarat and University of Science and Technology – Kashmir. He has provided sustainable landscape design for IRRAD, Gurgaon campus that has received LEED platinum rating. His three different resort projects in Bangalore, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer has received numerous international reviews and stand out amongst the top 10 Yoga resorts and top five resort in the world in their own category. Raas Jodhpur, a boutique resort won the best building award at the World Architecture Festival, Barcelona, 2011 for which he did the landscape.
Mr. Kaul is experienced in work on Ecological Planning and landscape design. He has provided specialized consultancy services in these areas for city planning and advising government, township master plan and design, campus design for institutions, schools and colleges, corporate headquarters, water front parks, resorts, hotels, parks, plazas and many other projects.
His areas of specialization also includes rainwater harvesting and waste water management and its integration in landscape design as a design feature. He has conducted workshops in landscape architecture and ecological planning for leading hotels, institutions, industries, NGO’s and various other agencies.
He has been an advisor to State Urban Agenda for Rajasthan for Master Planning for City of Jaipur and urban environmental development issues. He is on the expert committee UTTIPEC (DDA) on ecological corridors in Delhi. He was also advisor to Janagraha – on Urban Planning and Urban Ecology for Administrative Reforms Commission for Government of India.
He has been a resource person for rainwater harvesting for Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. He has been a visiting faculty at the Department of Landscape, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, TVB School of Habitat Studies (TVB SCH), New Delhi, Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon and Jamia Milia Univeristy, New Delhi. He has also delivered lectures and conducted workshops in India for students from Yale University, Ecole Nationale Superiure du paysage de Versailles, France, Universidad Politécnica Madrid, Spain.
