Anupama Kundoo: More Common Than Different
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ธ.ค. 2020
- “We all feel that human society deserves better.”
In this personal interview Indian architect, Anupama Kundoo reflects on her way into architecture. Growing up in Mumbai, she had an early interest in both the arts as well as math and science. Due to a test, which a family member suggested to her, architecture came up as a profession. “I stumbled into architecture, but it was a blessing. The second I realized it, there was no looking back. Architecture and design would allow me to develop my interest in everything. But they would also ground me and allow me to be of service.” Read less ...
Kundoo never wanted to become, what she calls a wage-slave. After school, she had applied to study in the US but decided to stay in her home country. Standing at a crossroad in your life are very important times, she says, “because you could choose the wrong road”.
“I had a very strong intuitive voice telling me to just prolong whatever I was doing, even though it did not seem clear from the outside. I decided to leave Bombay and move to South India to figure out and understand my country. I didn’t know where I was going. But I knew what I was leaving. I didn’t know what I wanted. But I knew what I didn’t want. If you see something, you cannot unsee it anymore.”
Kundoo ended up in Auroville, engaging herself for many years in a project that defines itself as a “universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.”
Kundoo also speaks about time as the most important human resource. “I feel that a lot of the problems we have in today’s world have come because of that wrong notion that time is money. No, time is the only resource we have when we are alive.” While we’re saving other resources, Kundoo argues, we don’t seem to mind spending our own time freely on anything. This is why she encourages people to use their time wisely - to use fewer natural resources and more human resources: “Use more brain, use more muscle, use more time. Because people grow clever in the end when we do that.”
Anupama Kundoo was born in Pune, India in 1967. She graduated from Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai in 1989, and received her Ph.D. degree from the TU Berlin in 2008.
Kundoo’s internationally recognized and award-winning architecture practice started in 1990 and demonstrates a strong focus on material research and experimentation towards an architecture that has a low environmental impact and is appropriate to the socio-economic 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: TU Berlin, AA School of Architecture London, Parsons New School of Design New York, University of Queensland Brisbane, IUAV Venice and ETSAB Barcelona. In 2013 Kundoo received an honorable 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’. The same year she participated in La Biennale di Venezia directed by David Chipperfield. For more see: www.anupamakundoo.com/
Anupama Kundoo was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in her studio in Berlin in March 2020.
Camera: Jakob Solbakken
Edited by Klaus Elmer
Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2020
Supported by Dreyers Fond - บันเทิง
OMG! I feel she is the reflection of me...I wish I had an hour with her just to talk
I saw her exhibition in Louisiana a few months ago (when the pandemic lockdown wasn't happening), about her and her life's work. I just adored it all. She's such an inspiration!
I just learned about her today.how Are you doing today 23:58
I saw it twice; just to get everything in what Ms Kundoo was saying! Thank you so much, Anupama, I feel as if I found words for my feelings! TBH, I randomly watched it (I am not an architect) but thoroughly enjoyed it, every aspect of it!!! So much that, I watched it twice (!), the second time with a 15-year-old, who shares the same feeling after watching it. :) :) Thank you!!
Imp pointers for me were (some are paraphrased):
- My first project is me!
- Fear is a dangerous advisor!
- Time is the most important resource (and not money!).
- Not courageous but vulnerable (I put it as I didn't have a choice. :D)
- Vulnerable, fearful but did not allow the fear to dictate my decisions.
- Not knowing what you are going to get but surely knowing what you are leaving behind!
- Opportunity to create something new after leaving something old. In the process, bringing parts of past wisdom to march forward.
- Sustainability is the new word for collective living we have been doing from ages!!
~Thank you for each of these pearls!! Lots of love~xoxo
I randomly saw and I could relate to a lot of things and felt she is speaking on behalf of me. Feel like contacting her for the implemantation of ideas that I have being a creative and out of box thinker.
Thought -provoking ....at times intense but more exploring .... good analysis of human nature with architecture
Having very clear and composed thoughts about life and architecture..
Anupama ma'am 🙏🏼 huge respect to you. I watched this thrice because the way you explained everything in this video is truly inspiring. I can relate to this alot. thank you
Such wise words, so inspiring. Thank you 🙏
Very intricate way explaining connection of life and architecture.
this is beautiful, thank u for sharing 🦋🌹
beautiful. so inspiring
Form, function and environment! Love your work!
Had listened to many .but fell in love with her .she's special.felt she's true in her understanding about life and it connections with our development, liking,and our choices.
She's true to herself.
Love
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It's quite an informative interview. Thank you so much, madame Anupama. Your "collective life philosophy" is quite intriguing. I am not only going to reconsider but try to start living it. ✌
i like the way she explained the use of light in different design culture same goes to africa or at least where i come from (nigeria), most of our activities are done in places with to much exposure to light so what makes us feel at home is less light or just the ability to control light there for small openings unlike in the west large opening glass houses and all that.
great video
I feel her in my thoughts-wise and very humane!
Fantastic
Very nice.
Defenitely a "Modern great of India".
People tend to exaggerate things when they talk about their own life stories. Obviously bad patches, bad choices are less talked about.
Interesting
Greetings. I am not a native English speaker and I am not really fluent in the language. I would appreciate that you enable the option of "automatically generated subtitles" or you put some subtitles directly. Thanks. Greetings from Colombia.
I want one plan mam
Oversimplification of the standardised... that’s everywhere, clothes, education, job, ‘relationship goals’... it’s as if we’re from a cookie cutter.
using cognitive behavioral therapy to design
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