Landscape architect to lecture Jan. 25 for SU School of Architecture at The WarehouseJanuary 17, 2006Jaime Winne Alvarez jlwinne@syr.edu
Landscape architect Anuradha Mathur will lecture at the Syracuse University School of Architecture Jan. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the main auditorium of the school’s new home, The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St. Her lecture, “Traversing Landscape,” is free and open to the public. For information on public parking at The Warehouse, call (315) 443-8238.
Mathur is associate professor in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania and principal of the design firm Mathur/da Cunha. Her firm received the Young Architects award in 2000 from the Architectural League of New York. She is co-author of “Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape” (Yale University Press, 2001), and her awarded projects are part of a publication by Princeton Architectural Press and the Architectural League titled “Second Nature” (2001).
Mathur’s work is directed toward design and the representation of landscapes as shifting anddynamic. She is currently investigating the landscape of the Deccan Plateau in South India, providing the basis for an innovative design strategy for the city of Bangalore.
For more information, contact Mary Kate O’Brien, communications manager for the School ofArchitecture, at (315) 443-2388 or mcobrien@syr.edu.
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