Born July 4, 1944 in New York City, U.S.A.

 

1962-65.  Pepperdine College.  Studied art on an athletic scholarship for    basketball. 

1965-70.  University of Southern California. Four years of Architecure School.  BFA in ceramics.

1971.       Came to India.  Founded Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry with wife Deborah Smith.   Produce a varied line of wheel thrown stoneware pottery. Run training program for students from all parts of India.

 

Selected Architecture/Construction

 

1999-97.  Fire-stabilized shrine for Nrityagram dance community, Bangalore.

1995.       Six low-cost fire-stabilized mud houses for the Volontariat, Pondicherry

1994.       Began 50 fire-stabilized mud houses for Salem DRDA, Tamil Nadu.    Only 6 houses were fired and one finished. 

1993.               Design for Sarovar Park Hotels, Pondicherry.

1992.        Staff housing/office/lab/security for Minota Aquatech Ltd., a   subsidiary of The Indian Tobacco Corporation , Tuticorin.  Fire-stabilized construction.                

1991.       Satyajit/Chintan house, fire-stabilized mud in Auroville. 

1990.       Demonstrated fire-stabilzed construction for low-cost housing at Auroville Information and Reception  Center. 

1988.       Built “Agni Jata”.  First fire-stabilized mud house for a very courageous client in Auroville, India.  Produced a 30-minute video on the process.

1985-87. First experiments in “Fire Stabilized Mud Building”. 

 

Exhibitions/Awards

 

2003.       Installation at The Visual Arts Gallery, Habitat Center, New Delhi.

2001.       Kurukshetra.  Installation with Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi.

2000.       Perenial Earth, Quickening Fire, an Exhibition of Stoneware at  Cymroza Art Gallery,  Mumbai.      

1999.       The video Agni Jata wins Bronze medal at the Ceramics Millennium, Amsterdam

1998.       Studio Potters Exhibtion.  Fourteen potters, Cymroza Gallery, Mumbai. 

1996.       First one-person show of ceramics at the Eicher Gallery, New Delhi

1980-83. All India Studio Potter Exhibition, New Delhi.

 

Lectures/Workshops/Consultancy

 

2003.      NCECA Conference.  “Indian Ceramics” with Deborah Smith, Jane Perryman and Gerry Williams.

1991.      Conducted one month workshop for village potters from the Puddokottai/Tanjavur area of Tamil Nadu for the Madras Craft Foundation

1990.      Lecture on fire-stabilized construction at Maryland Art Institute, Hunter College, The Aga Khan Foudation, M.I.T., Southern California Institute of Architecture, Hartnell College, Monterey Peninsula College, HUDCO, New Delhi

1989.      Six weeks as design consultant to GTZ’s Ceramic Promotion Project, Nepal.

1986.      Lecture on fired building process at the International Conference on Mud  Architecture,  (MUD MUD), Trivandrum.

               One month as design consultant to GTZ’s Ceramic Promotion Project, Nepal.

 

Selected Bibliography

 

Danisch, Jim and Chase, Judith, Golden Bridge Pottery, Ceramics Monthly, June/July/August, 2002.

Danisch, Jim, Ray Meeker’s Fired Houses, Ceramics Monthly, January, 2001.

Desai, Prajna, Firing the Immagination, The Art News Magazine of India, Vol. lll, Issue lll, July ’98. 

Perryman, Jane, Houses on Fire, Ceramic Review, November, December, 1996.

Grewal, Royina, The Potter Architect, Inside/Outside, October, 1993.

T. Manivanan, The Baked Houses of Pondicherry, Indian Express, Nov. 3, 1991.

Kundoo, Anupama, Agni Jata, Indian Architect and Builder, November, 1990.

 

Selected Published Articles

 

The Interior of Being. The Architecture of Anupama Kundoo, Inside/Outside.  January, 2000.

Save  the rural potter... and all that, The Econonic Times, May 3, 1992.

Mud. Towards a Fire-stabilized Mud Building Technology, Architecture+Design, April, 1991.

Kiln Technology.   A Demonstration and a Challenge, Indian Architect and Builder, November, 1990.