Shimul Javeri Kadri

Shimul Javeri Kadri is the founder of SJK Architects, a Mumbai-based, multi-disciplinary design firm renowned for its energy-conscious approach. Under Kadri’s direction, the 32-year-old firm has received several notable honours, including the most recent Prix Versailles Award, IIA Awards, WADE ASIA NATIONAL AWARDS and has also been shortlisted for INDE Awards (2022). Outside of SJK […]

Riyaz Tayyibji

Riyaz Tayyibji is the founder and principal architect of Anthill Design, an Ahmedabad-based architecture and design practice. Under his direction, the firm has curated global exhibitions on Ahmedabad’s architecture and urbanity. “The Stepwells of Ahmedabad: A Conversation Between Water and Heritage,” which debuted in 2016 at the Kanoria Centre for Arts and the Sabarmati Ashram […]

Veeram Shah

Veeram Shah is the chief architect and founder of the multidisciplinary Ahmedabad firm Design ni Dukaan, which specialises in furniture, products, interior design, and architecture. He is also the co-founder and head of the organisations P.O.D. and Dotto-Objects of Curiosity. P.O.D., an acronym for Pieces of Desire, are both design studios focusing on product design. […]

Mallika Sarabhai

Dr. Mallika Sarabhai is an activist and a celebrated Kuchipudi and Bharatnatyam dancer, performer, and choreographer. Dr Sarabhai, a Padma Bhushan recipient, is also the co-director of Ahmedabad’s Darpana Academy of Performing Arts.In addition to her Ph.D. in organisational behaviour, she holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Dr. Sarabhai has […]

Nida Mahmood

Nida Mahmood is a fashion designer, and founder of her Delhi-based eponymous label. Mahmood is renowned for her quirky, eclectic style – under her leadership her label continues to follow her design philosophy “art translated” in more ways than one, drawing influences from Indian culture. Indian Kitsch being her muse and forte, her collections showcased […]

Sanchit Arora

Sanchit Arora is the principal architect of the Delhi-based design firm Renesa Architects. His practice is focused on creating designs that are not only visually striking but also environmentally and socially responsible. Arora acquired his bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Sushant School of Art & Architecture, Gurgaon, India with scholarship programmes from some of the […]

Satyajeet Patwardhan

Satyajeet Patwardhan is the co-founder of amoeba design, which is based in Pune, Maharashtra. After completing his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Nasik, Patwardhan went on to obtain his M.Arch. in Sustainable Design from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He worked with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in New York before moving back […]

Biju Kuriakose

Biju Kuriakose co-founded architectureRED, a Chennai-based architecture firm, along with Kishore Panikkar. Ranging from residential to commercial projects, their projects also include developing master plans for townships in Tamil Nadu, a mixed-use master plan for Salalah in Oman, affordable housing development projects, and multiple institutional buildings within Chennai. architectureRED has won numerous national as well […]

Brijesh Shaijal

Brijesh Shaijal is the co-founder and principal architect of Design Ashram, a multidisciplinary architectural firm based in Kerala. The firm, which was founded in 2005, handles a wide range of projects, and incorporates heritage conservation, adaptive reuse, and urban design in its work. The firm specializes in retaining authentic heritage with modern lifestyle statements. Besides […]

Soumitro Ghosh

Soumitro Ghosh is the principal architect and the co-founder of Mathew & Ghosh Architects, a Bangalore-based firm known for its innovative and sustainable designs. Ghosh has previously worked with Pritzker Laureate B.V. Doshi, R.J. Vasavada, Neelkanth Chaaya, and others before starting his practise in 1995 with architect Nisha Mathew. The award-winning practise follows a context-centric, […]

Vinu Daniel

Vinu Daniel completed his B. Arch in 2005 from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, following which he worked with the Auroville Earth Institute for the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) post-tsunami construction. After returning from Pondicherry in 2007, he founded “Wallmakers,” which others named after the first project, a compound wall. Many eye-openers in the […]

Huzefa Rangwala

Huzefa Rangwala is the co-founder of Mumbai-based architecture and design practice MuseLab. Rangwala studied architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Mumbai and then went to the Georgia Institute of Technology to pursue his Master’s in Architecture with a specialisation in Digital Manufacturing. Before co-founding MuseLAB, Rangwala worked at Urban Studio India, Niles Bolton Associates […]