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Freedom from the Known: Imagining the Future Without the Baggage of the Past
Author(s) -
Kundoo Anupama
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2301
Subject(s) - instinct , work (physics) , architectural engineering , sociology , engineering , environmental ethics , ecology , mechanical engineering , biology , philosophy
As a newly qualified female architect in early 1990s India, Anupama Kundoo 's first instinct was to seek to live as independently and lightly as possible – and to help others to do likewise. A self‐build project intended to be temporary turned into a lifestyle, and led to a career focused on engaging local workers in eco‐minded building that marries new technology with familiar materials. Now based in Madrid, she describes her journey so far, including her own built work and her doctoral studies of a project involving mud dwellings fired to permanence when fully built.