Architect Anupama Kundoo began her practice in 1990 in Auroville, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, when she arrived in the experimental township as a fresh graduate. Founded by spiritual guru Mirra Alfassa (known as “the Mother”) and designed by French architect Roger Anger, Auroville was developed as “a city of the future.” The soul of the township is the meditation center, Matrimandir, and from it different zones radiate outward like the rings of a galaxy. Once the Mother This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Eight Buy Now Related Stories Design Issue 51 Yellow Nose Studio The Taiwanese duo whose Berlin studio is—quite literally—a playground. Design Interiors Issue 49 Mimi Shodeinde An audience with the architect. Design Issue 48 The Aalto Boat The Finnish architect was a visionary completest—and an amateur boatman. Design Interiors Issue 43 Vincent Van Duysen At home with the cult architect. Arts & Culture Design Issue 36 Alexis Sablone Not many architects skate for their country, and not many skateboarders design the parks they skate in. Design Issue 33 Archive: Roberto Burle Marx Buoyed by the bossa nova experimentalism of mid-century Brazil, an opera-loving landscape architect struck out against the diktats of cool modernism.
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