As part of the 11th “building, dwelling, thinking” cultural programme to be held at Cersaie 2019, architect Anupama Kundoo will give a conference at 4:00 pm on Wednesday 25th September in the Architecture Gallery.

Internationally-acclaimed architect Anupama Kundoo was born in Pune, India, in 1967 and founded her practice in 1990. Throughout her award-winning career, she has conducted extensive research into materials to achieve architecture that has low environmental impact and is appropriate to the socioeconomic context. Kundoo has built extensively in India and has had the experience of working, researching and teaching in a variety of cultural contexts across the world. She is currently Professor at UCJC Madrid where she is Chair of “Affordable Habitat”. She is also the Strauch Visiting Critic at Cornell University.

Kundoo graduated from Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai in 1989, and received her PhD degree from the TU Berlin in 2008. In 2013, she received an honourable mention in the ArcVision International Prize for Women in Architecture for “her dedication when approaching the problem of affordability of construction and sustainability in all aspects.”

Participants in this conference are entitled to two professional educational credits for architects. Participation in one of the meetings held daily in the Architecture Gallery (Gallery 21/22 – at 12:30 pm on 23, 25, 26 and 27 September and at 1:30 pm on 24 September) grants a further educational credit, subject to signing of the attendance register.

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