In her talk, Anupama reflects on life and work. She says “life is the generator and the driver, life is central in architecture”.
Anupama Kundoo was born in 1967 in Pune, India. She graduated in 1989 from the Sir J. J. College of Architecture at the University of Mumbai. Kundoo, has offices in Auroville and Madrid. For her work, knowledge and education are the requirements for successful design in technical and social terms.
She architecture is characterized by aesthetics, their play with light and shadow, the spatial understanding of interwoven indoor and outdoor spaces, the embedding of their buildings in a landscaped frame and the fine-tuning of the used materials.
Kundoo conducts research and education worldwide, including ETSAB Barcelona, Parsons New School of Design New York and the University of Queensland. Her projects include buildings such as Hemant Divya, Auroville Town Hall Complex and Wall House. In 2013 she received the Dr. V. Joshi Award and in 2015 she was awarded the NDTV Commercial Interior of the Year.
Anupama Kundoo was born in 1967 in Pune, India. She graduated in 1989 from the Sir J. J. College of Architecture at the University of Mumbai. Kundoo, has offices in Auroville and Madrid. For her work, knowledge and education are the requirements for successful design in technical and social terms.
She architecture is characterized by aesthetics, their play with light and shadow, the spatial understanding of interwoven indoor and outdoor spaces, the embedding of their buildings in a landscaped frame and the fine-tuning of the used materials.
Kundoo conducts research and education worldwide, including ETSAB Barcelona, Parsons New School of Design New York and the University of Queensland. Her projects include buildings such as Hemant Divya, Auroville Town Hall Complex and Wall House. In 2013 she received the Dr. V. Joshi Award and in 2015 she was awarded the NDTV Commercial Interior of the Year.
About Architects not Architecture
Founded in Hamburg in 2015, Architects, not Architecture. aims to bring to the stage what usually goes unseen. For each event they invite three well-known architects, who instead of talking about their award-winning international projects, are asked to talk about themselves. They speak about their path, their influences and experiences, and dive deeper into their intellectual biography. This enables a better understanding of their work, without them even mentioning it.
Most of us find it difficult to speak about the relevant experiences and the impact they had on us. But isn’t it the encounters, the unique experiences, the harsh times, the wild years at university, that one friend, teacher or family member that shaped our values and thus the person we are today? And isn’t it these values that influence how and what we create?
At least this is what Architects, not Architecture. (AnA) believes, which is why they created the event format that has expanded to multiple European cities over the past five years. Each architect is asked to talk about themselves and their individual path without mentioning their work. It is admittedly hard to do so in front of hundreds of unfamiliar faces when you are only used to talking about architecture in such a setting.
We are used to seeing talks about their work, now we will have the opportunity to get to know their architecture from a very different and personal perspective.
