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.

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.

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 including at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, as a senior lecturer in the University of Queensland, Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University and she is currently Professor at the FH Potsdam. Her work and design process was recently on show in a exhibition at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, with a monograph called Anupama Kundoo: Taking Time: The Architects Studio...

RIBA: Anupama Kundoo named the 2021 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award