Shefali Balwani is co-founder of Architecture BRIO, established in 2006. Born in Mumbai, she studied at the CEPT’s School of Architecture in Ahmedabad. After graduating she worked with Rahul Mehrotra Architects (RMA) in Mumbai on a variety of projects including the first phase of the Magic Bus campus in Karjat. She later joined the office of Channa Daswatte in Sri Lanka, where she worked on some of the office’s prestigious hospitality projects. Shefali is a frequent speaker at institutions and forums around the world. She has lectured at the KVD forum at CEPT in Ahmedabad; the Landscape Architecture conference in Sydney, Australia; the MASA conference in Bengaluru; the Malaysian Institute of Architects in Kuala Lumpur and at Columbia University’s GSAPP in New York. She appeared in the BBC documentary World’s Most Extraordinary Homes together with Robert Verrijt.