About CSA Partners | Architecture Firm Leadership Team
Our Business Grows With Your Trust
CSA Partners is a Chicago architecture firm founded in 2010, expanding to a Mumbai office in 2014. In our first years, our architecture firm leadership team won three design competitions and secured two cultural campus projects, establishing CSA Partners as an award-winning architecture firm from the start. Since then, we’ve built lasting relationships with clients across institutional, religious, cultural, and government and civic sectors nationally and internationally, many of whom have returned to us for repeat projects over the years.
We approach every project with a clean slate. We bring deep, specialized skill to each commission, but we believe every project, large or small, deserves its own due diligence and undivided attention. Innovation, beauty, and consistency are intense motivators in our desire to be a leading architecture and design firm. That pursuit has grown our footprint to 88 projects designed and 54 constructed, with a track record our clients often describe as remarkable given the scale involved. We credit that consistency to a simple principle: humility, at every level of our practice.
Our Values
Innovation
The aesthetic diversity of our work shows that we approach each project from the specificity of the client, context, site, philosophy and metaphor where applicable. This uniqueness translates into both aesthetic and technological innovation. We’ve seen, time and again, that innovation, brought forth by being lean, humble, and nimble, reduces project costs rather than adding to them.
Consistency
We remain qualitatively consistent in everything we do, though consistency shouldn’t be confused with mundaneness or monotony. Our consistent rigor in design and documentation quality is what allows us the beauty and innovation we pursue so deeply. Consistency is the foundation of innovation. A jazz musician capable of exceptional improvisation still needs their fundamentals as second nature.
Beauty
We believe that beauty in any form is absolute. When things are beautiful one does not need to talk about them. The object and the experiential space within created speaks for itself.
People First
Our approach centers on a “people first” belief: that design meaningfully shapes the wellbeing of generations to come. We arrived at this early in our firm’s history, and it’s shaped every decision since. This is because the physical, emotional, and spatial wellbeing of our clients is paramount. It’s this commitment that has earned us repeat business from more than 50 past and present clients.
Meet Our Architecture Firm Leadership Team
For us, built form is not about making self-serving statements. It’s about creating something timeless with enduring multi-generational impact, shaped and made to be truly dwelled in by the people.

As Principal Emeritus Mr. Batliwala ( A RIBA member) ensured that the firm benefited from the full breadth of his expertise and versatility including projects such as the Taj Intercontinental Tower and the TATA Management Training Center. His mentorship is deeply valued even today.

As Principal Emeritus Mr. Patell (A Taliesin Fellow) brought his immense design expertise to bear fully to the firms benefit. These designs included projects for Bhabha Atomic Research Center and the NCPA.
Join us in our journey
As an architecture firm with offices in Chicago and Mumbai,
we bring the same standard of design across both markets.
Chicago Office
Call Us: +(1) 312-578-0550, +(1) 312-578-0552
Email Us: contact@csa-partners.com
Visit Us: 205 W Randolph Street, Suite 1645, Chicago IL 60606
Mumbai Office
Call Us: +91-2223615706
Email Us: contact@csa-partners.com
Visit Us: 69 A Nepeansea Road, Manisha 1st Flr, Mumbai 400 006, India



