Professor Anupama Kundoo is an architect, writer and researcher with a strong focus on materials research who built a substantial body of work in the experimental town of Auroville in Puducherry, India from 1990 to 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 at universities around the world. Her innovative approach to architecture is supported by intensive research and experimentation, from the integration of energy and water efficient infrastructure solutions to building prototypes that are environmentally sound and socioeconomically beneficial. Kundoo studied architecture at the Sir J.J. College of Architecture in Bombay and holds a PhD from the Technical University of Berlin. She lives and works in Berlin, but most of her research and built work is focused on regions in India.