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SHIVA KUMAR | Architectural Team

BRISBANE

1. What is your favourite food? Bread – in all its various forms.

2. Who is your favourite Architect / Designer? Mies van der Rohe and the idea of structural honesty.

3. What do you love most about the design profession? Every single day has something new to offer.

4. What are you most afraid of?  Uncertainty and running out of time to fulfil my goals.

5. What’s your favourite building and/or landscape design? The Farnsworth House (of course).

6. What would you like to do that you haven’t yet? To actually help construct a permanent building – a step up from my grass hut building days.

7. What place is on your bucket list to travel to? British country towns for Christmas!

8. if you weren’t an Architect / L. Architect or Interior designer, what would you be? A structural engineer or mechanical engineer – I love how buildings work.

9. What is your hobby? Sewing and portrait photography.

10. What’s your favourite T.V show? Southpark, IT Crowd and Jane Austen’s Emma(2009) and Pride and Prejudice(2005)

11. What is your ‘spirit animal’? A dog with social anxiety.

12. If you could only keep 5 possessions what would they be?

  • The box that holds reminders of my most special memories (I have been filling that box since I was 10)

  • Sewing machine

  • Camera

  • My photo album

  • My fabric hoard

13. What is your most valuable professional quality? Attention to detail and the desire to never stop learning.

14. If you could witness any event of the past, present, or future, what would it be? The day we make contact with intelligent extra-terrestrial beings….