Date: October 30, 2009 - 5:00pm
Location: AME 202
For the past decade Dilip da Cunha and his partner Anuradha Mathur have focused their artistic and design expertise on cultural and ecological issues of contentious landscapes. Their investigations have taken them to diverse terrains, including the Lower Mississippi, New York, Sundarbans, the Rio Grande, Bangalore and Mumbai. They believe that landscapes are shifting, living phenomena that demand an attitude of negotiation rather than unilateral control. They are the authors of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), Deccan Tranverses: The Making of Bangalore's Terrain (New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2006), and Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2009). The lecture is free and open to the public.
Da Cunha is an architect and planner, and partner in the firm of Mathur da Cunha. He teaches in the Parsons School of Design, New York, and in the College of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, a Masters in City Planning From MIT, a Masters in Housing from SPA, New Delhi, and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Bangalore University.
