Anupama Kundoo

Monday, November 21, 2016
Anupama Kundoo’s internationally recognized and award-winning architecture practice started in 1990, demonstrates a strong focus on material research and experimentation towards an architecture that has low environmental impact and is appropriate to the socio-economic context. Kundoo has built extensively in India and has had the experience of working, researching and teaching in a variety of cultural contexts across the world: TU Berlin, AA School of Architecture London, Parsons New School of Design New York, University of Queensland Brisbane, IUAV Venice and ETSAB Barcelona. She is currently Professor at UCJC Madrid where she is Chair of ‘Affordable Habitat’. She is also the Strauch Visiting Critic at Cornell University.
Kundoo’s work extends to urban design and planning projects, with her background in rapid urbanisation related development issues, about which she has written extensively. She taught urban management at the TU Berlin and recently proposed her strategies for a future city for Africa, as part of the Milan Triennale 2014. She is the author of Roger Anger: Research on Beauty/Recherche sur la Beauté, Architecture 1958-2008 published in Berlin by Jovis Verlag in 2009. Her latest publication is a book chapter Rethinking affordability in economic and environmental terms in the Routledge book Inclusive Urbanisation: Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research in the Age of Climate Change, 2015.
Anupama Kundoo was born in Pune, India in 1967. She graduated from Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai in 1989, and received her PhD degree from the TU Berlin in 2008. In 2013 Kundoo received an honourable mention in the ArcVision International Prize for Women in Architecture for ‘her dedication when approaching the problem of affordability of construction and sustainability in all aspects’. Her latest installation, Building Knowledge, An inventory of strategies is currently exhibited at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale.

[@libaneration5282]

I'm ashamed that I have not heard of her before. She is a true architect in every sense of the word and will be soon of the world great masters.

[@archpatrickjuma8190]

kundoo Is A GREAT ARCHITECT blending in style vernacular and contemporary AND enforcing rediscovery of architects disconnect with the rural fork and embracing working and elevating the rich and curious craft men and to sum it she does not care what happens to the pots but the potter if stop subscribing . come to Africa Kenya your idea of sustainability on affordable housing is worth adopting .i have learned wealth of knowledge how to deal with clay and urban recycles
PATRICK JUMA OTIENO -Mombasa Kenya

[@TheMarPacifico]

A great learning experience watching Anupama's video...a very resourceful lady...great video

[@aakardev4699]

Liked the presentation. We have rich tradition of design. Even bricks are high energy embodied materials. Shall we abandoned the Red Brick building material too? I disagree with Anupama with use of steel and cement. How do we solve the problems? Can we solve million hosuing for all by using bamboo, thatch, and mud walls. These applications have limited scalability. We need more better ideas and certainly advancing, affordable and acceptable one. And people do not have time to form there own settlement on own. What if We do not act now as a designer, .. agree to no over engineering, but the optimal design is required to house the millions...