Indian Architect Anupama Kundoo Named 2021 Recipient of RIBA Charles Jencks Award

The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced the 2021 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award as the esteemed Indian architect Anupama Kundoo. This annual award is given to an in

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Published - Wednesday, 25 Aug, 2021

Indian Architect Anupama Kundoo Named 2021 Recipient of RIBA Charles Jencks Award

The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced the 2021 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award as the esteemed Indian architect Anupama Kundoo. This annual award is given to an individual or practice who has simultaneously made a major contribution to both the theory and practice of architecture. Anupama will be presented with the award on November 02. Anupama Kundoo trained as an architect in Mumbai before building a substantial body of work in the experimental town of Auroville, in Puducheery from 1990–2005. Working in this environment she developed a long-term research project into sustainable and building technologies with an experimental approach to material reuse and sustainable construction methods. She has taken this research into design units and workshops in universities around the world including at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, as a senior lecturer in the University of Queensland, Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University and she is currently Professor at the FH Potsdam. Her work and design process was recently on show in a exhibition at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, with a monograph called Anupama Kundoo: Taking Time: The Architects Studio. Anupama’s practice is holistic; combining research, building and teaching to create architecture outside of the mainstream of the commercial, developer-driven world. Her practice has a strong theoretical and ideological conviction that drives material research, collaborates with local builders, and experiments with sustainable working methods. The 2021 RIBA Charles Jencks Award jury was: RIBA President Elect Simon Allford; architect and critic Edwin Heathcote; architect and Dean of the RCA, Dr Adrian Lahoud; Jencks Foundation founder Lily Jencks, and previous Jencks Award winner, architect Benedetta Tagliabue.