Anupama Kundoo
(Germany)
Anupama Kundoo graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1989 and received her PhD from TU Berlin in 2008. Her research-oriented practice, started in 1990 in India, has generated people-centred architecture based on spatial and material research for low environmental impact while being socio-economically beneficial. She is currently Professor of Architecture at T.U. Berlin. She received the RIBA Charles Jencks Award for her contribution to architectural theory, the 2021 Auguste Perret Prize for architectural technology, and the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture under UNESCO patronage in 2022.
Her studios are based in Berlin, Germany, and Pondicherry, India. Kundoo’s research and experimentation in new materiality for architecture stem from questioning basic assumptions and construction habits shaped by industrialisation. Rather than focusing on shortage, she explores abundance through human resources and resourcefulness, such as ingenuity, time, skills, care, and community.
The publication Abundance Not Capital. The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo, edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, and Architekturzentrum Wien (MIT Press, 2025), highlights her key strategies for human-centred development of the built environment and enrichment beyond capital-driven systems and large supply chains.
