# Rajeev Lunkad

Canonical: https://practice.directcreate.com/about/
Author: Rajeev Lunkad, Direct Create Projects
Type: Founder

Rajeev Lunkad is the founder of Direct Create and the founding practitioner of Cultural Intelligence as Direct Create Projects practices it. Architect and designer of more than three decades, author of the Jal Mahal Mansagar book, builder of the Culture Stack and the Culture Stacking method.

## Role at Direct Create

Rajeev Lunkad is the founder and creative director of Direct Create. He carries primary authorship of every Culture Stack engagement in the practice's archive: the cultural research thread, the methodology design, the voice that runs through proposals and deliverables, and the client relationships that span from the KGK Group partnership, anchored by the Jal Mahal and Mansagar restoration from 2005, to the most recent institutional proposal cycles in late 2025. The practice's intellectual property (the [Culture Stacking](https://practice.directcreate.com/), the restoration framing, the advisory-implementation boundary, the parallel team structure) is centrally shaped by his decisions across more than three decades of practice.

## Voice and practice register

Direct Create's voice, measured and specific, comes from Rajeev's authorial discipline. The practice insists on cultural specificity as a defensible commercial position; refuses cultural decoration after the fact; treats every place as carrying embedded intelligence that contemporary development tends to override; and runs every engagement through the advisory-implementation boundary that keeps DC's authorship clean against the architectural and operational partners on each project.