Anupama Kundoo Explained

Anupama Kundoo
Birth Date:24 April 1967
Birth Place:Pune, India
Nationality:Indian
Occupation:Architect, Professor
Years Active:1990–present

Anupama Kundoo (born in Pune in 1967) is an Indian architect.

Biography

Anupama Kundoo studied architecture at the Sir J. J. College of Architecture, University of Bombay and received her degree in 1989. She was awarded the Vastu Shilpa Foundation Fellowship in 1996 for her thesis on "Urban Eco-Community: Design and Analysis for Sustainability". She got her doctoral degree from Technische Universität Berlin in 2008.[1]

Kundoo established herself as an architect in Auroville in 1990 where she designed and built many buildings with "energy and water efficient infrastructure" adaptations. She worked here from middle of 1990 till 2002.[2]

Kundoo taught at Technische Universität Berlin and later at Technische Universität Darmstadt during 2005.[3] She worked as Assistant Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, New York until 2011 then moving to Australia as a senior lecturer in the University of Queensland. In 2014, she shifted to Europe and began working at the European School of Architecture and Technology at the Universidad Camilo José Cela in Madrid.[4]

Work

Her approach to building design is based on material research that minimizes environmental effects. Her basic design approach is to use "waste materials, unskilled labour and local communities".

One of the notable buildings built for her own residence is titled the "Wall House", built in a community area of with a built-in space of constructed for one million Rupees in 2000, in Auroville for communal living. This house is L-Shaped in the plan, has a courtyard in the middle; while it is modern in concept it adopts traditional "vernacular" use of materials such as compressed earth, concrete, and steel. The bathroom is set in an open-to-sky design, with smooth merging with the interior and external spaces and landscaped, giving it both a modern and a regional appearance. A full-sized replica of her Wall House was made by hand and exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.[2] New York Times called it as "a gem among rubble".

Another of her theme is "Liberty" which presents a reading place as a free library, a creation built with three types of trees fixed in the centre of a square space. The trees' trunks and branches are made from steel and the leaves made of salvaged books, with the floor made of concrete. This was exhibited at the Placa de Salvador Segui in Barcelona during June–September 2014.[5]

Publications

Books
Papers[6]

Awards

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anupama Kundoo Strauch Visiting Critic. Cornell University. 16 November 2015. Ithaca, New York. 2014.
  2. Web site: Heathcote. Edwin . Anupama Kundoo's handmade architecture. 28 March 2014. 17 October 2015. The Financial Times Ltd.
  3. Web site: Bricks and mortar. 10 January 2008. India Today. Anupama Kundoo. 17 October 2015.
  4. Web site: The Architect is Present': biografía de Anupama Kundoo. Arquitectura Viva. 16 November 2015. Madrid, Spain. 14 March 2014. 17 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117020803/http://www.arquitecturaviva.com/en/Info/News/Details/5625. dead.
  5. Book: Pavilions, Pop-Ups and Parasols: The Impact of Real and Virtual Meeting on Physical Space. 2 June 2015. Wiley. 978-1-118-82904-2. 69.
  6. Web site: Anupama Kundoo . 17 October 2015. indian-architects.com.
  7. Web site: 2021-08-18. Anupama Kundoo awarded the 2021 RIBA Charles Jencks Award. 2021-08-19. Dezeen. en.
  8. Web site: 2021-08-18. Anupama Kundoo Receives The 2021 RIBA Charles Jencks Award. 2021-08-19. ArchDaily. en-US.

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