Head, heart and the big picture: Meet Luminary, Shimul Javeri Kadri

“Environmental sustainability – there’s not even a question it’s the most important thing that an architect needs to do. But to me, the social sustainability and the cultural sustainability are equally important parameters that we really focus on. I feel like environmental sustainability is the basic hygiene that an architect must maintain and respond to, but for somebody who works in India, it is the cultural sustainability. I believe in a culture’s sense of beauty, as being an extremely important value that one needs to sustain, hold on to and evolve. I also believe in social sustainability. How does one involve people who have skills and use those skills effectively? Each time when intervening in a new city you need to be able to meet the city’s needs and to contribute to that city,” says Shimul, Founder and Partner, SJK Architects, one of the sustainable architecture firms in Mumbai.