P N Medappa, graduated from Malnad college of engineering, has 35 years of experience. He has briefly worked with Sri.Sharad Padalkar before joining Chandavarkar and Thacker where he worked for about 11 years. He was inducted as a partner in the prestigious firm Mindspace in 2008.

Medappa believes in human-centric, climate responsive, sustainable design. His constant search for spacial experience, poetics of light, integrating nature into the built is aimed at engaging emotive senses and spawn tranquil feeling.He believes that design is a language binding creativity and context.

He has achieved several accolades, including the A+D Spectrum Award for Institutional Architecture in 2006, the JK Cements Commendation Award in 2008 and again in 2010, the NDTV Design and Architectural Award in the Institutional category in 2014, and most recently in 2023, the JK Cements Architect of the Year Award for the design of KIPCER project in Bangalore.