Anuradha Mathur

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture

mathur2@design.upenn.edu

Biography

B.Arch., School of Architecture, Ahmedabad (1986)
M.L.A., University of Pennsylvania (1991)

Associate professor Anuradha Mathur is co-author, with Dilip da Cunha, of Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore's Terrain (Rupa & Co., 2006), and Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (Yale University Press, 2001). Her design firm Mathur/da Cunha received the Young Architects award for 2000 by the Architectural League of New York. Her awarded projects are part of a publication by Princeton Architectural Press and the Architectural League entitled, Second Nature. Mathur's work is directed toward design and the representation of landscapes as shifting and dynamic. Mathur is currently investigating the landscape of Mumbai, in particular the re-articulation of the Mithi River that was made visible by devastating floods in 2005.