Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo

What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of Indian-born architect Anupama Kundoo as a manifesto for a different kind of architecture. Using local resources, Kundoo designs buildings of extraordinary beauty that care for people and the planet.

Nature and labor are being exploited by the construction industry worldwide. At the same time, many people can no longer afford their homes. How did building become so destructive, and what can architects do to counteract this? In Anupama Kundoo‘s projects, wealth lies not in precious materials and perfected industrial products, but in the innovative use of locally abundant resources. Her projects are constructed knowledge for a new relationship between time, money, and materials. The exhibition enables Kundoo’s lively architecture to be experienced sensually and is a call for doing architecture otherwise.

In the companion volume “Abundance Not Capital. The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo”, Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny explore the path of „abundance“ as a resistance against „never enough.“ Essays by international authors contextualize Kundoo‘s work. The MIT Press, 2025.