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Anupama Kundoo Architect
Anupama Kundoo
- 2023
- Speaker
- Social Sciences & Humanities
Anupama Kundoo’s research-oriented practice has generated people-centric architecture and urban strategies. Her rigorous research and experimentation questions basic assumptions and construction habits adopted by humanity across time. She rethinks materiality through investing in human resources and human resourcefulness, such as ingenuity, time, skills, care and community. She is currently Professor at Potsdam School of Architecture. She received the RIBA Charles Jencks award, the Auguste Perret Prize and the Building Sense Now global award of the German Sustainable Building Council in 2021 and the Global Award for Sustainable architecture under UNESCO patronage in 2022.