Built on Roots. Refined by Craft.

My name is Adithya Iyer. I grew up in South India, in a family where the rhythms of life moved to the sound of temple bells.

Every morning began with the smell of agarbatti and fresh flowers at the household shrine. Every festival meant walking barefoot on warm stone floors worn smooth by a thousand years of devotion. Every summer meant visits to ancient temples where the gopurams rose so high they seemed to hold up the sky — and as a child, I genuinely believed they did.

I did not know it then. But I was receiving an education in sacred space that no university in the world could give me.

When I came to Canada to pursue my Masters in Interior Design and Project Management, I brought that education with me.

In studios and lecture halls, I learned the Western vocabulary of space — proportion, circulation, material, light, programme. I learned how buildings are conceived, planned, budgeted, presented, and sold. I learned what it takes to make a client see a space that does not yet exist.

But I also noticed something that no one else in the room seemed to notice.

None of the textbooks covered the Vastupurusha mandala. None of the professors knew what a garbhagriha was or why its dimensions are sacred. And when I looked at the Hindu temples being planned across North America — beautiful in their ambition — I saw committees struggling to raise funds from blueprints that most donors could not read, and visions that deserved to be seen long before the first stone was laid.

I saw a gap that only someone like me could fill. Someone who had grown up inside that tradition. Someone who now had the technical tools and the design education to render those visions in photorealistic three dimensions for the communities that needed them most.

Skanda Designs was born from that realisation.

The name is deliberate. Skanda — Lord Murugan, the deity of wisdom, strategy, and victory — is the presiding presence of South Indian temple culture and the son of Shiva himself. To name this studio after him is not a branding decision. It is a statement of intention.

Today, from Mississauga, we serve architects, developers, and temple communities across Canada and the United States — bringing every project to life with technical precision and genuine cultural understanding, whether it is a luxury resort, a commercial tower, or a sacred temple that a diaspora community will gather in for the next hundred years.

Every render Skanda Designs produces carries the same intention: to make the invisible visible — so that the people who believe in a space can see it clearly, feel it fully, and give everything they have to bring it to life.