Ar. Sameep Padora is the principal architect and founder of Mumbai based studio, sP+a (Sameep Padora & Associates) as well as Director of sPare, a research initiative looking at issues of urbanization & architecture in India and through the graphical case studies (de)coding Mumbai, documents the development of Mumbai’s housing fabric through the evolution of building and development codes. His firm has won many awards including the winning design for the proposed National War Museum near India Gate.