Anupama Kundoo is an internationally recognised and award-winning Indian architect who started her practice in 1990. Not only does she have extensive experience in building varied architectural projects in India but also has the experience of working, researching and teaching in a variety of cultural contexts across the world.

Kundoo has focused on building sustainable architecture to minimise impact in the construction process whilst maintaining the connection with the community. She specializes in making low-impact building technologies that are environmentally and socio-economically beneficial by incorporating everyday materials and low-skilled artisans. Material research and experimenting with locally sourced materials has been a key element of her work style.

Kundoo has many residential and public buildings to her accolade; some of which include the Wall House in Auromodele, Volontariat Home for Homeless Children in Puducherry, Samskara in Delhi among others. In 2016, Kundoo unveiled a prototype house that can be built in just six days using Lego-like blocks of a material called ferrocement - a material made by layering mortar or plaster over metal mesh.

Wall House, Auromodele

Volontariat Home for Homeless Children, Puducherry

Samskara, Delhi

As per media interactions, Kundoo strongly believes that architecture must be appropriate to the context, and if buildings in developing countries are produced as high-tech as they are produced in the industrialized countries, the result will be exclusive, out of reach of the bulk of the population, and only affordable by the elite and create issues of identity.