Building Sense Now Global Award: Anupama Kundoo, Guest Professor at the KIT Faculty of Architecture
The Building Sense Now Global Award was presented at a digital award ceremony on November 11, 2021 with the participation of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) and in the course of the world climate conference COP26. The Award is looking for new, innovative design strategies from around the world that want to achieve ambitious goals and deal with climate change and sustainability issues. The award is given to work that has made a difference and has shown special qualities on all levels and scales. This award focuses on architects and their design process as well as the philosophical and ethical questions – not just the final solution in the built project. The initiative seeks disruptive thinking that shows the potential to address large-scale problems in a variety of areas, such as: buildings, urban renewal and transformation projects, urban systems and ecosystems, and people-centered urban design.
This year, the award went to the Indian architect Prof. Dr. Anupama Kundoo. She was honoured for her commitment to climate and culture-friendly construction. She has already implemented more than 100 projects with her offices in Pondicherry and Berlin, most of them in India. She currently holds a Guest Professorship at Faculty of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT together with Maarten Gielen of RotorDC and a Professorship for Structural Design at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. She currently offers a master’s design course at KIT Faculty of Architecture on the topic “Circularity: Architecture as a Mechanism of Waste Capture”.
