A major exhibition at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark shines a spotlight on Anupama Kundoo, an Indian architect with an unique knowledge of traditional materials and craft traditions.
Anupama Kundoo ? Taking Time offers an insight into the ideas driving Kundoo's "slow architecture" approach, which she has applied to both housing and community infrastructure.
The first room, The Architecture of Time, is dedicated to archive material
Favouring hand-made elements over mass-produced components, her work centres around ongoing, intensive research into sustainable practices and materials.
This is revealed here through the inclusion of Kundoo's architectural archive, which not only contains a number of intricate models but also various construction tools and material samples. Architectural models reveal the design of Kundoo's own home, Wall House
Exhibition highlights include a full-scale mockup of Kundoo's affordable housing concept, Full Fill Home, which debuted at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016.
There are also detailed models of Kundoo's own home, Wall House, a building that champions regional building traditions like achakal bricks and terracotta roofing systems.
Wall House was built with local traditions like achakal bricks and terracotta roofing
Anupama Kundoo ? Taking Time is the latest instalment in a series of exhibitions titled The Architect's Studio, curated by Kjeld Kjeldsen and Mette Marie Kallehauge. In each, the aim has been to reveal th...