Anuradha Mathur, an architect and landscape architect, was at the time of her passing in 2022 Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.
Dilip da Cunha, an architect and planner, has taught at several universities including Columbia University, Harvard University, and University of Pennsylvania.
Mathur and da Cunha are authors of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001), Deccan Traverses: the Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (2006) and Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009), and co-editors of Design in the Terrain of Water (2014). Da Cunha is the author of The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent (2019). His book The Invention of Land is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press.
Mathur and da Cunha are recipients of several awards and are regularly invited to present their work and ideas in academic and professional forums internationally. They are joint recipients of a 2017 Pew Fellowship Grant and da Cunha received a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2020.
dilip@mathurdacunha.com