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Kiron Cheerla
Kiron Cheerla was born in 1972 in Hyderabad. He wanted to become an architect at a very early age. He passed with a gold medal from the school of planning and architecture at J.N.T. University in December 1994 and pursued a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1995. He worked for R.P.G.A. Design Group in Texas (a small upcoming firm) for a year and a half before returning to India. While pursuing an independent practice, he worked as a local head for a Mumbai-based reputed firm (Somaya and Kalappa Consultants), mainly to get experience and work on larger-scale projects. In 2003, he formed an independent practice, Kiron Cheerla Architecture.