Born in northern India, Sameep Padora established sP+a in Mumbai in 2007, and is the Director of sPare, a research initiative looking at issues of urbanization and architecture in India. sPare’s maiden project, a documentation and analysis of historic housing types within the city of Mumbai resulted in a traveling exhibition entitled ‘In the Name of Housing’ and a book published by the UDRI. He is one of the founding members of the Bandra Collective, an organization of architects focused on the design of public spaces in Mumbai. Padora is a member of academic councils for a number of architectural schools in India and is a member of the National Technical Committee of Habitat for Humanity, India. He completed his undergraduate studies in Mumbai in 1996, followed by post-graduate studies at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2005.
