Ar. Rajkumar Kumawat, founder and principal of Rajkumar Architects, has been designing award-winning spaces in Jaipur since 1997, mixing modernist ideas with the city's considerable heritage. But there's something else informing his work that most architects avoid: Vastu. Not as decoration, but as groundwork. He'll relocate entire rooms if the energy's off, persuading doubtful clients that old wisdom contains answers modern architecture keeps overlooking. His latest residential project converted sceptics. The real question isn't whether Vastu holds up. It's what happens when an architect respects it enough to make it central to his practice.