Kiranpani house by mette lange
Mette Lange is a Danish architect. A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1990, she divides her time between Denmark and India. She has received awards and recognition for the mobile schools she has designed for nomad children in Goa.
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Born in Gentofte to the north of Copenhagen, she graduating in 1990. In 1994 she married fellow architect Anders Linnet (born 1952). The couple set up Linnet & Lange ApS in 1996, specializing in facade renovation. In 2002, she established her own studio, Mette Lange Architects. She now divides her time between Denmark, where she spends the summers, and Goa in India where she lives and works in the winter.
Her main occupation in Goa, together with her husband, has been the MovingSchools project, under which they have created classrooms on wheels which can be moved to wherever migrant families from India's Karnataka province decide to live and work. Each unit accommodates from 15 to 20 pupils, far less than normal Indian classrooms of up to 60. Although the prototypes are being built in India, there are plans to extend the project to other countries. As the schools are simply designed and constructed with cheap local materials, ordinary carpenters and metal workers can built them without difficulty. In 2010, Lange received a Nykredit's Motivational Prize of DKK 100,000 for the Moving Schools Project which was seen as making an important contribution to social sustainability. In 2013, for her schools in India she also received a grant from the Henning Larsen Foundation.
Lange has also designed homes in Denmark, including summer houses or holiday homes built of sustainable local materials. An outstanding example is the Villa Buresø in a wooded area near Slangerup, not far from Copenhagen.