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2021 RIBA Charles Jencks Award Winner
17 August 2021
Anupama Kundoo to receive 2021 RIBA Charles Jencks Award

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RIBA Charles Jencks Award 2021 Winner: Anupama Kundoo
Tuesday 17th of August 2021 – The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are thrilled to announce the 2021 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award is the esteemed Indian architect Anupama Kundoo.
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photo : Javier Callejas
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 Tuesday 2 November at 6.30pm (BST) after which she will deliver a lecture and be interviewed by a critic in collaboration with the New Architecture Writers program, with questions from an online audience. Sharana Daycare:

photo : Javier Callejas
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 incl...