Mathur frequently worked with Dilip da Cunha on water-centered landscape design and projects. They have completed work in Mumbai, Jerusalem, the Western Ghats of India, Sundarbans, Coastal Virginia, and at the US–Mexico border. Mathur and da Cunha have presented their work at GIDEST (Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography, & Social Thought) Seminar at the New School, NY and at the IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) Conference in Bangkok. They have also created forums for others to present work, including the 2011-2012 international symposium titled "In the Terrain of Water," held at PennDesign.
As a professor, Mathur has led studios in Mumbai, Jerusalem, and the Western Ghats of India. In 2013-2014, she and da Cunha lead a team from PennDesign to examine coastal resilience in the Norfolk and the Hampton Roads area of coastal Virginia. The project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, was called "Structures of Coastal Resilience."[1]
In 2016, Mathur and da Cunha were Geddes Visiting Fellows at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh.[2]
With da Cunha, Mathur has written:
- Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (NGMA and Rupa & Co, 2009)
- Deccan Traverses: the Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (Rupa & Co, 2006)
- Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (Yale University Press, 2001)
Mathur and da Cunha also co-edited:
- Design in the Terrain of Water (A+RD Publishers, 2014)[1]
Mathur and da Cunha have won the following awards as a partnership:
