Copenhagen exhibition explores the work of Indian architect Anupama Kundoo

‘The Architect’s Studio: Anupama Kundoo’ – a dedicated show on the Indian architect’s work – opens at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in DenmarkThe Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s fourth exhibition in the series The Archi­tect’s Studio, dedicated to Indian architect Anupama Kundoo, opens this week at the acclaimed Danish cultural hub. The show is set to focus and explore Kundoo’s fascinating body of work to-date, ‘opening the door’ to the architect’s workshop and archives.

A keen advocate of sustainability in architecture – a concept that stretches several layers in the field, and touches from environmental to social concerns – Kundoo started her career from a base in the experimental city of Auroville in south-eastern India upon her graduation from architecture school – even building there her first home in 1990, Hut Petite Ferme.

One of the show’s centrepieces is a 1:1 construction of Kundoo’s single cell module that forms the basis of her co-housing project envisaged for Auroville. Using this method, ‘a single house can be built in seven days by the homeowner-to-be using simple crates cast in ferrocement,’ explains the architect.

One of her most recent and biggest projects, the town and housing development project Line of Goodwill for the city of Auroville, is also a key display in the show, which elaborates on the union between craft traditions and contemporary forms, the now and the before, the local and the international. §Shah House, 2003, Brahmangarh, India. Photography: Javier CallejasCreativity, An Urban Eco-Community, 2003, Auroville, India.

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