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Shimul Javeri Kadri

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Shimul Javeri Kadri
Born18 October 1962
Mumbai, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Michigan, Academy of Architecture, Mumbai
SpouseRahul Kadri

Shimul Javeri Kadri is an Indian architect who is the founder of SJK Architects, an architectural firm in the city of Mumbai, India.[1]

It has won multiple international & national awards including the Prix Versailles Award (2016)[2] and the World Architecture Festival Award (2012).[3] It has also been named one of Architectural Digest's Top 100 (AD 100)[4] and Top 50 (AD50)[5] that features the most influential architects and interior designers in India.[6] Kadri has a philosophy of building in harmony with nature—using natural elements, sunlight, wind, natural materials, and cultural contexts.[7]

Her projects include museums, hotels, office and industrial buildings, educational institutions, and bungalows.

Biography

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Kadri is the youngest of three children and was thirteen years old when she decided she wanted to be an architect.[8] Kadri studied architecture in Mumbai at the Academy of Architecture where she graduated in 1985. Starting in 1986 she studied urban planning at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. After graduate school, she began her career working for a company in California.[9] She set up SJK Architects after she returned to India from the US in 1990.[10]

Other significant projects include the Synergy Lifestyles factory in Karur, Sparkrill International School and SR Engineering College in Warangal and Ayushakti, an ayurvedic health resort in Mumbai. The challenge was to build this ayurvedic resort in a crowded Mumbai suburb within a narrow 16 m wide plot bounded on three sides by residential buildings, yet infuse it with light, air, space, joy and peace.[11] Kadri's other works include leading the design for a hotel at Bodh Gaya,[12] and an apartment building in Chennai.[13]

Shimul serves as a trustee for Akshara, a women's resource centre in Mumbai a for Save the Children India where she has been actively steering education and women's projects.[citation needed]

Honors and awards

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Award-winning buildings she has designed include the Automobile Design Studio for Mahindra and Mahindra Limited, India, which won the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design Award 2016. The design of the Dasavatara Hotel in Tirupati, India won the Prix Versailles Special Prize in 2016,[14] while the design of the Lotus Cafe in the same hotel won the Prix Versailles in the Restaurants category.[2][15] The design and architecture of the Nirvana Films office, Bengaluru, has won multiple awards including the World Architecture Festival Small Project of the Year Award 2012, the Excellence in Design Award, and the FuturArc Green Leadership Award.[16]

In 2018 Architectural Digest named her firm as one of their AD100 awards.[17]

References

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  1. ^ Malhotra, Purvi (5 May 2008) [21 January 2008]. "Bricks and mortar". India Today. Archived from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  2. ^ a b Vasudev, Shefalee (28 May 2016). "India is going through a cultural colonization, says Shimul Javeri". Mint. Archived from the original on 25 March 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Hot 100 - 2017 - SJK Architects". Architect and Interiors India. 27 July 2017. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  4. ^ "AD100 Awards | Cutting Edge: Aesthetes who aren't afraid to experiment and innovate". Architectural Digest India. 8 March 2018. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  5. ^ Kelkar, Gauri (11 April 2017). "AD50 2017 Avant-Garde: SJK Architects". Architectural Digest India. Archived from the original on 6 June 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  6. ^ "AD100 2019: SJK Architects". Architectural Digest India. 27 March 2019. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  7. ^ Sharma, Komal (17 November 2017). "Shimul Javeri Kadri: What I wear should adequately express who I am". Mint. Archived from the original on 26 February 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  8. ^ Desai, Madhavi (14 October 2016). Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and Contemporary Practices. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-315-45464-1.
  9. ^ Woods, Mary N. (4 October 2016). Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-77429-6.
  10. ^ Pai, Aditi (18 May 2018). "Architecture is a collaboration with people, ideas and attitudes: Shimul Javeri Kadri". India Today. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Shimul Javeri Kadri – The Hecar Foundation". Hecar Foundation. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  12. ^ Balaram, Rajashree (9 November 2021). "This serene new hotel in Bodh Gaya mixes luxury with Buddhist spirituality". Architectural Digest India. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  13. ^ Avni, Raut (27 May 2021). "Chennai: SJK Architects design a building that intrigues with distinctive architectural appeal". Architectural Digest India. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  14. ^ "2016 Awards". Prix Versailles. Archived from the original on 31 March 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  15. ^ "2016 Prix Versailles at UNESCO, nine winners from around the world" (PDF). diversum.net (Prix Versailles press release). 30 May 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 June 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  16. ^ "User". WADe ASIA. Retrieved 19 June 2019.[permanent dead link]
  17. ^ "AD100 Awards | Cutting Edge: Aesthetes who aren't afraid to experiment and innovate". Architectural Digest India. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
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