Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
Lecture and Workshop
Traversing Terrains / Imagining Landscapes
Monday 5/8, 6pm, Tipton Hall, CSF
Workshop Dates: 5/9 - 12

Lecture
Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha will lecture on their award winning work as landscape architects, exploring the intersection of human design and dynamic terrains. Their project, 'Mississippi Floods' traces the history and effects of infrastructure design on the lower Mississippi river since the end of the 19th century. 'Deccan Traverses' follows the history of the area of India around Bangalore where British amateurs in the service of the East India Company invented landscapes that continue to provide the language of today's administration, education and everyday conversation - the creation of the myth of the Garden City. Mathur is Associate Professor of landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and da Cunha is faculty in the Department of Architecture at Parsons in NYC.

Workshop
To traverse is to walk in appreciation of what Henry David Thoreau called wildness, a terrain where boundaries are blurred, properties recede, and another's guidance is suspended. In this amorphous world one is compelled to plot a unique ground, a ground on which things emerge and extend. It is an act of both transgression and creation. It provides a vocabulary of landscape, a vocabulary by which a terrain is measured, its story told, and its condition transformed.

'Deccan Traverses' and 'Mississippi Floods' will set the tone for a workshop on the upper Rio Grande. For three days we will traverse the Rio Grande allowing the emergence and extension of a unique landscape, making the ordinary extraordinary.

We will deploy four modes of traversing:
Triangulating, Transecting, Photographing, Plotting

Schedule
May 9: 10am - 5pm: Introduction to modes of traversing / Field Work
May 10: 10am - 5pm: Field Work / Studio Work
May 11: 10am - 5pm: Field Work / Studio Work
May 12: 10am - 12 noon: Review and discussion of Work

Note: participants will be encouraged to develop their field work during the workshop beyond the time allocated each day.

The cost of the workshop is $400. Please call for sign-up and more information: 505 - 424 5050