Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha work between Philadelphia and Bangalore.
They 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’s new book The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019. Mathur and da Cunha are currently working on a book and exhibition titled Ocean of Rain.
Mathur and da Cunha have received many awards and are regularly invited to present their work and ideas in academic and professional forums internationally. They were joint recipients of a 2017 Pew Fellowship Grant and da Cunha received a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2020.
Anuradha Mathur, an architect and landscape architect, is Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dilip da Cunha, an architect and planner, has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of Design and Harvard University. He is currently Adjunct Professor GSAPP at Columbia University.
dilip@mathurdacunha.com | mathur2@design.upenn.edu