"MAKING LANDSCAPES" AT PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN,
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN, AND LIGHTING

Exhibition Opening + Lecture
Dilip da Cunha and Anuradha Mathur: "Making Landscapes"
Glass Corner Lecture: Thursday, April 3rd, 6:15pm
Opening reception following lecture, 7:30—8:30pm
Exhibition: April 3rd – May 19th
Architecture Gallery, 25 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor
M-F 9am – 6pm
Free admission

The Department of Architecture, Interior Design, and Lighting at Parsons School of Design is pleased to announce the lecture and opening of "Making Landscapes," an exhibition presenting the work of Dilip da Cunha and Anuradha Mathur, that runs from April 3rd – May 19th. Featuring excerpts from Mathur and da Cunha's engagement with three landscapes—Fresh Kills in New York, Bangalore in India, and the Lower Mississippi—the exhibition will be launched with a lecture given by the architects on Thursday, April 3rd, at 6:15 PM. An opening reception will immediately follow the lecture. Admission is free of charge.

Dilip da Cunha and Anuradha Mathur are principles of the design practice, Mathur / da Cunha, with offices based in Philadelphia and Bangalore. Da Cunha and Mathur are the authors of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (Yale University Press 2001), and are working on a book entitled Deccan Traverses: Constructing Bangalore's Landscape. They received the Young Architects award for 2000 by the Architectural League of New York.

Dilip da Cunha is a faculty member of the Parsons School of Design Department of Architecture, Interior Design, and Lighting, and a lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Anuradha Mathur is associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Pennsylvania.

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The Department of Architecture, Interior Design, and Lighting represents a bold initiative at Parsons School of Design to take a lead role in establishing new curricular relationships between these disciplines. With a faculty drawn from all three professional communities in New York City, the Department's unprecedented inter-disciplinary design education distinguishes Parsons among schools of architecture and design. Students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels examine the designed environment in all of its complex forms, multiple scales, and diverse social practices, from landscapes to furniture, cities to performance spaces. Adept in digital design and drafting, lighting and material technologies, history and cultural theory, students acquire a keen grasp of how subtle variations of space, form, texture, color and light affect the end user. Students' interdisciplinary training and digital expertise provide them with a range of career opportunities in the design world.

Parsons School of Design, a division of New School University, is one of the largest degree-granting colleges of art and design in the nation. Currently enrolled are about 2,400 undergraduate students, 500 graduate students, and 2,500 non-degree students from all 50 of the United States and from 60 countries. Parsons' main campuses are located in New York City's Greenwich Village and Midtown Manhattan. In addition, Parsons has affiliate schools in Paris, France; Kanazawa, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; and at Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. Undergraduate degrees are offered in Architectural Design, Communication Design, Design and Management, Design and Technology, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, Illustration, Interior Design, Photography, Product Design. Graduate degrees are granted in Architecture, Design and Technology, Lighting Design, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, and the History of Decorative Arts. For further information on Parsons, call 212-229-8910 or visit the Web site at www.parsons.edu.