The comprehensive first monograph on Indian architect Anupama Kundoo. The fourth volume in the book series The Architect’s Studio presents the Indian architect Anupama Kundoo (born 1967). Kundoo is a much-revered architect whose work aims to shed light on a scarce resource in our life: time. Kundoo sees time as a forgotten resource in architecture. Constructed as a journey through time, this volume explores how Kundoo integrates traditional Indian building customs, crafts and materials into her current works. In general, Kundoo is concerned with using as few material resources as possible in her architecture, and is attentive to traditional building methods. A perfect distillation of her working methods can be found in the house she built for herself outside the community of Auroville, India. The house, constructed of terracotta, brick, concrete and wood, creates a seamless transition on a human scale between the interior and the exterior with elements of both mirroring each other within and without.
AUTHOR: Anupama Kundoo was born in Pune, India in 1967. In 2013 she 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. Kundoo’s internationally recognised and award-winning architecture practice started in 1990 and 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. She is currently Professor of Affordable Habitat at the UCJC Madrid and the Strauch Visiting Critic at Cornell University. 200 illustrations
