page_title: Anil Laul
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Anil Laul / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Anil Laul with his team for a guest lecture at Lovely Professional University in Punjab, India
context_page_description: Anil Laul was an Indian architect and author of Green is Red, who worked on systems designs, primarily in development of Appropriate Building materials and technologies facilitating usage of locally available materials and empowering local human resources. He was a member of INTACH, and advisor to HUDCO and Delhi Urban Arts Commission, who also co-authored many housing policies of several states of India. He received several awards for his projects listed as UNCHS Good Practices. He was listed as a well-known architect of India in John T. Lang's book A Concise History of Modern Architecture in India. He wrote the book "Green is Red" and founded "Anangpur Building Centre" in Faridabad, India to work independently on cost effective sustainable building materials, technologies and earthquake engineering.
  He conducted hands on workshops and trained several enthusiasts. Details of his inventions and projects can be found at www.anangpur.org
context_section_description: He is known for advocating green buildings, low cost sustainable housing based on local materials, pragmatic rehabilitation of slum dwellers, etc. He won international acclaim for inventing cost-effective technologies for sustainable development, including the inter-locking blocks used at Nalanda International School in Vadodara.
caption: Anil Laul with his team at Lovely Professional University, Punjab
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