Anuradha Mathur

  • Headshot of Anu Mathur

  • Image from Mississippi Floods. Image credit: Mathur | Da Cunha
  • Image from Soak. Image credit: Mathur | Da Cunha
  • Image from Ocean of Rain. Image credit: Mathur | Da Cunha

Anuradha Mathur

Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania and Principal of Mathur | da Cunha

 

Anuradha Mathur, an architect and landscape architect, is Professor Emeritus at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Her work has focused on how water is visualized and engaged in ways that lead to conditions of its excess and scarcity, but also opportunities that its ubiquity offers for new visualizations of place, and resilience through design. She is author with Dilip da Cunha of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001); Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (2006); Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009) and co-editors of Design in the Terrain of Water (2014). These books accompanied major public exhibitions that form an intrinsic part of Mathur and da Cunha’s practice. A selection from their work is currently part of an exhibition curated by Bruno Latour titled ‘Critical Zones’ at the ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.

University of Southern California