Mona Doctor-Pingel

An architect based m Auroville. She studied architecture at the Center for Environment and Planning (CEPT), Ahmedabad, and has a master’s degree in Appropriate Technology from Flensburg University, Germany. Her Studio Naqshbandi experiments with various building technologies using local materials and craftsmen, and incorporates principles of Building  Biology. She has been actively involved in different planning bodies of Auroville. Currently, she is also part of the five-year Indo-US joint research initiative on Building Energy Efficiency. She is the author of a monograph on Poppo Pingel, which forms a part of the series of monographs on the pioneering architects of Auroville.