Anupama Kundoo’s practice critically examines how ‘time’ is a material resource, exploring how architects might design from the perspectives of labor, time, and regeneration. In her project Volontariat Houses for Homeless Children, she incorporates a rare technology pioneered by Ray Meeker of Golden Bridge Pottery, which consists of baking a mud house insitu, after constructing it. The house becomes a producer of sustainable building materials instead of being a consumer.
Kundoo is the 2021 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks award for simultaneous major contributions to both the theory and practice of architecture and the Auguste Perret Prize 2021 for architectural technology for her innovative use of local building techniques, material sourcing and construction principles, all the while being acutely responsive to the environment, climate and culture.
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