Shimul Javeri Kadri Explained
Shimul Javeri Kadri |
Birth Date: | 18 October 1962 |
Birth Place: | Mumbai, India |
Spouse: | Rahul Kadri |
Nationality: | Indian |
Alma Mater: | University of Michigan, Academy of Architecture, Mumbai |
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
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.
Honors and awards
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.[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]
Notes and References
- Web site: Malhotra . Purvi . 5 May 2008 . 21 January 2008 . Bricks and mortar . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230222081413/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/supplement/story/20080121-bricks-and-mortar-735071-2008-01-10 . 22 February 2023 . 18 October 2015 . India Today.
- Web site: Vasudev . Shefalee . 28 May 2016 . India is going through a cultural colonization, says Shimul Javeri . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240325074214/https://www.livemint.com/Companies/P2DJO7W76FcvzntnyTLllJ/India-is-going-through-a-cultural-colonization-Shimul-Javer.html . 25 March 2024 . 19 June 2019 . . en.
- News: 27 July 2017 . Hot 100 - 2017 - SJK Architects . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230317141550/https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/lists/2618-shimul-javeri-kadri . 17 March 2023 . 19 June 2019 . Architect and Interiors India . en.
- Web site: 8 March 2018 . AD100 Awards Cutting Edge: Aesthetes who aren't afraid to experiment and innovate . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230317141555/https://www.architecturaldigest.in/magazine-story/ad100-awards-cutting-edge-architects-who-arent-afraid-to-experiment/#s-cust0 . 17 March 2023 . 19 June 2019 . Architectural Digest India . en-US.
- Web site: Kelkar . Gauri . 11 April 2017 . AD50 2017 Avant-Garde: SJK Architects . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230606030241/https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/ad50-2017-avant-garde-sjk-architects/ . 6 June 2023 . 19 June 2019 . Architectural Digest India . en.
- Web site: 27 March 2019 . AD100 2019: SJK Architects . subscription . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190405004351/https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/ad100-2019-sjk-architects-mumbai/ . 5 April 2019 . 19 June 2019 . Architectural Digest India . en-US.
- Web site: Sharma . Komal . 17 November 2017 . Shimul Javeri Kadri: What I wear should adequately express who I am . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240226213157/https://lifestyle.livemint.com/news/talking-point/shimul-javeri-kadri-what-i-wear-should-adequately-express-who-i-am-111646919812987.html . 26 February 2024 . 19 June 2019 . . en.
- Book: Desai, Madhavi . Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and Contemporary Practices . 2016-10-14 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-315-45464-1 . en.
- Book: Woods, Mary N. . Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi . 2016-10-04 . Routledge . 978-1-134-77429-6 . en.
- Pai . Aditi . 18 May 2018 . Architecture is a collaboration with people, ideas and attitudes: Shimul Javeri Kadri . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230317141633/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/supplement/story/20180528-architecture-is-a-collaboration-with-people-ideas-and-attitudes-shimul-javeri-kadri-1236202-2018-05-18 . 17 March 2023 . 19 June 2019 . . en.
- Web site: Shimul Javeri Kadri – The Hecar Foundation. Hecar Foundation. 18 October 2015.
- Web site: Balaram . Rajashree . 2021-11-09 . This serene new hotel in Bodh Gaya mixes luxury with Buddhist spirituality . 2024-07-31 . Architectural Digest India . en-IN.
- Web site: Avni . Raut . 2021-05-27 . Chennai: SJK Architects design a building that intrigues with distinctive architectural appeal . 2024-07-31 . Architectural Digest India . en-IN.
- Web site: 2016 Awards . deviated . https://web.archive.org/web/20230331034005/https://www.prix-versailles.com/2016-awards . 31 March 2023 . 19 June 2019 . Prix Versailles . en.
- Web site: 30 May 2016 . 2016 Prix Versailles at UNESCO, nine winners from around the world . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240608014841/http://diversum.net/fichiers/File/(en)_Prix_Versailles_30-05-2016.pdf . 8 June 2024 . 10 July 2024 . diversum.net . Prix Versailles press release.
- Web site: User . 2019-06-19 . WADe ASIA . en-US.
- Web site: 2018-03-08 . AD100 Awards Cutting Edge: Aesthetes who aren't afraid to experiment and innovate . 2024-07-31 . Architectural Digest India . en-US.