While constructing his own house at Anangpur, he practiced the same concepts he preached and popularized. He built low-cost, low-energy, climatically suited and aesthetic houses with recycled waste for people’s real needs keeping the human'e' scale alive.
The construction technologies used in high-income group housing are the same used in a slum rehabilitation scheme. To my mind it is simple and requires a blend of nature's bounty, traditional wisdom and advancement of the technologies developed by man.' He lays stress on building for cost-effectiveness without compromising on the aesthetics of any building. Laul shares, 'I have chosen to do RE.SEARCH and not research as we know it. After more than three decades of relentless work and unique masterpieces, evolving the best cost effective and sustainable technologies in India and the world, his name has become synonymous to this type of construction Laul has been involved in various teaching/hands-on training programs. His works often incorporate tradition with contemporary style. His design concepts speak of the clarity of design and detailing. He has been instrumental in promoting the sustainable and cost effective technologies throughout India and abroad and is the co-author of several policies for Housing.Īnil Laul is known for his understated, pure organic but geometrical forms. He is the member of Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage (INTACH) and senior advisor/consultant to various bodies like the Development Alternatives, Delhi Urban Art Commission, Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure Planning and Engineering Centre (UTTIPEC), The Energy and Research Institute (TERI), Oxfam, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), United Nations Environment Program etc. He was the prime member of the Art Advisory Committee, Architecture Advisory Committee, Projects Appraisal Committee, Building Materials Advisory Committee and Governing Council of Building Centre of HUDCO (Housing and Urban Development Corporation) in the past. He has always been the favorite of his students. He has been an inspiration for his students and fellow teachers.
He has been a passionate teacher, a terror in the class and a friend outside the class. He was a former visiting professor at SPA, Delhi and the former Chairman of the Habitat Polytechnic. Stein, Ram Sharma Kanvinde to name a few. He has worked with Joseph Allen Stein & Mrs. He was born on August 6, 1944, in Amritsar, Punjab He studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi in 1968. He was also instrumental in setting up the Laurie Baker Building Centre (LBBC) in Delhi, an organization organization promoting low-cost, eco-friendly structures. He also has many Hi-end & Hi-tech structures structures like the Cube-on-vertex, Geodesic domes, Space frames, A-frames to his credit. He is considered the 'Master Blaster of Low Cost Housing & Earthquake engineering' in the country. He is the principal architect of Anangpur Building Centre and Academy for Sustainable Habitat Research and Action (ASHRA). Anil Laul was an Indian architect architect and urban planner, particularly noted for his sensitivity to the needs of the poor and for his use of traditional methods and materials dovetailing dovetailing the contemporary element into his designs.