Exhibition tour

Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo

In Austrian sign language

Fri 14.11.2025, 17:00-18:00
Frau mit Kopfbedeckung sitzt auf einer Betonbank auf einem großen Platz

At this library in Puducherry, a delicate thin concrete slab roof sits on the walls made of locally produced bricks. Anupama Kundoo: Library Nandalal Sewa Samithi, Puducherry, 2018
© Photograph: Javier Callejas

What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? The exhibition “Abundance Not Capital” presents the work of 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.

Curators: Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny
Project coordination: Agnes Wyskitensky

The companion volume “Abundance Not Capital. The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo”, will be published by The MIT Press in 2025.

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