This spring, Matt Miller (
@drmattjmiller
), a post-doctoral fellow who teaches in the Department of City and Regional Planning (
@penn_planning
) and is better known as Dr. Matt, was appointed to the newly-created role of director of Justice and Belonging (JxB).
The Weitzman School is launching a new initiative, the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS), to advance the understanding and sustainable conservation of heritage sites relating to African American struggles for equality.
Julian Brave NoiseCat, an activist and writer who helped put environmental justice on the national agenda, has accepted an invitation from the
@Penn
Stuart Weitzman School of Design to speak at its May 14 Commencement Ceremony.
Weitzman has named Catherine Seavitt Nordenson to be the next chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Her work explores climate-adaptive futures in urban environments and novel mitigation strategies addressing the climate emergency.
Big news! Our project "Design with Nature Now" has received a Pew Center for Arts & Heritage grant. The project highlights dynamic and visionary approaches to landscape design and development in the face of climate change and urbanization.
#PewArtsGrants
Amber Wiley, an architectural and urban historian whose work centers on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban communities, joins Weitzman as Presidential Associate Professor and the inaugural Matt and Erika Nord Director of
@civilrightsites
.
An article in The New York Times discusses the work of Weitzman's Billy Fleming (
@joobilly
)and Orkan Telhan (
@orkan
) in light of their independent efforts to "Design for the Future When the Future is Bleak."
Join the National Planning History Conference, Thursday, 10/20, to Saturday, 10/22, which includes Weitzman's Eugenie Birch, Akira Drake Rodriguez (
@AkiraDrake
), and Domenic Vitiello.
New (school) year, new handle! Keep the mentions coming, and stay tuned for updates from architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation, and fine arts.
An op-ed by PennDesign's Elizabeth Greenspan and Randall Mason appeared in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. The article explores the ways that cities maintain, or fail to maintain, their public spaces.
@PennPraxis
A team of four students from Weitzman’s Department of City and Regional Planning has won ITS America’s Emerging Leaders Program Global Challenge for the Americas region.
@ITS_America
Congratulations to city and regional planning faculty members Zhongjie Lin and Megan Ryerson for earning tenure. Their work making cities livable exemplifies the union of research and practice that drives innovation at Penn.
#leadbydesign
#penndesign
"Our goal is to train the next generation of data scientists working to convert government data into actionable public policy intelligence." Check out this interview with
@KenSteif
, director of our Master of Urban Spatial Analytics program.
Registration Opens for ‘Design With Nature Now’
The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology's conference brings Ursula Heise, Erle Ellis, James Corner, Anne Whiston Spirn, and many others to PennDesign in June 2019.
#leadbydesign
#mchargcenter
TOMORROW
Thurs, 4/8, 5:00pm EDT
Join us for a lecture from Daniel Barber (
@DanielABarber
), hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture. Barber's research and teaching are organized around two major trajectories...
A Fall 2020 interdisciplinary studio at Weitzman called Designing a Green New Deal asked students to produce a digital “atlas” documenting three different American regions’ carceral, fossil fuel, and industrial agriculture landscapes.
PennDesign congratulates Francesca Ammon, of the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, for earning tenure. Ammon is a cultural historian of the American city, with an emphasis on the built environment.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Design has received $1.25 million from the Harry T. Wilks Family Foundation to establish the Wilks Family McHarg Center Directorship.
On September 28, The Ian McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology is a cosponsor of The Adaptation Blueprint, a symposium on how to plan, design, and finance the coastal cities of the future.
Writing for PLACES, Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, describes the Green New Deal as the “biggest design idea in a century."
#leadbydesign
“Bob Venturi changed the course of architecture theory and practice. He was a giant.” – Dean Frederick Steiner.
The PennDesign community is deeply saddened by his passing. We are collecting reminiscences from former students for an online tribute. Submit to news
@design
.upenn.edu
WATCH - “We have designed illiterately for too long,” says Weitzman Dean Steiner in this 1.5 Minute Climate Lecture. “So my message today is simple: Let’s plant trees — lots of them. Trees play a central role in designing with ecology. Trees are good.”
Denise & Robert were both into Mannerism and other kinds of decorative architecture. They began to share ideas and research. One colleague told Denise: “you should marry Robert Venturi.” But it wasn’t like that... at least, not yet. New
#99pi
by
@trufelman
Penn Today recaps Designing a Green New Deal, which brought 1,400 people to Irvine Auditorium on September 13. Leaders in a range of fields discussed the implications of the resolution introduced into Congress in February aimed at stemming climate change.
Check out
@malcolmburnley
's coverage of the
@PennPraxis
Civic Infrastructure Summit in
@PlanPhilly
: "It’s a way of thinking about cities — a kind of course correction of pedagogy — that is trying to collapse many of the divisions in urban life."
Congratulation to PennDesign's Megan Reyerson, associate dean for research, whose student design team won the RAISE Award from the Federal Aviation Administration.
#leadbydesign
“This anniversary has forced us to ask ourselves: what are the most pressing social and ecological challenges of our generation(s)? Where do planning and design fit within them?” via
@CityLab
@JooBilly
Wishing Denise Scott Brown a fantastic birthday today. Celebrate her 92nd birthday by watching this talk from earlier this year with
@fridagrahn
,
@lizgreenspan
, and observations by Denise Scott Brown.
Congratulations to PennDesign's Frank Matero, professor and chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, who receives the Receive Sheldon and Caroline Keck Award this week from
@conservators
!
@ChangeTimeJourn
On behalf of Dean Steiner and Miller Professor of Architecture Winka Dubbeldam, congratulations to Professor of Architecture David Leatherbarrow, who is celebrating his 35th anniversary at
@Penn
.
— JUST ANNOUNCED —
David Leatherbarrow has been awarded the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion.
The Topaz Medallion honors those who educate others to ensure architecture’s enduring excellence.
Cc:
@ACSAUpdate
Congratulations to Kleinman Center's (
@kleinmanenergy
) Jennifer Wilcox (
@jwilceclab
) on her appointment as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy at the Department of
@ENERGY
!
Has landscape architecture focused too much on the urban over the last 50 years? Has the field turned its back on the rural? Does that make landscape architects reactive instead of proactive? Important questions from Susskind at
#dwnn
.
Today at 1:00! Don't miss Dirk Sijmons, Kongjian Yu, Dennis Scott, Rob Levinthal on some of the most ambitious efforts from landscape architects to re-shape the planet.
Meyerson Galleries, 210 South 34 Street, Free to all
#dwnn
#leadbydesign
@mchargcenter
A fall design studio explored what landscape architecture and ecological thinking can offer in a town where economic development is urgently needed—and officials are now incorporating student work in their grant applications.
Brent Leggs, executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, joins CPCRS as a senior advisor and adjunct associate professor.
@SavingPlaces
PennDesign’s Architectural Archives recently helped digitize over 800 items related to Sea Ranch, Lawrence Halprin’s residential development in North California noted for its environmentally sensitive design.
#leadbydesign
Next Thursday: Green Infrastructure? A Symposium on the Technologies of Nature and the Natures of Technology.
Sponsored by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.
Congratulations to Weitzman’s Francesca Ammon, director of our History of the Built Environment Initiative, a new concentration for the PhD in City and Regional Planning.
This spring, the Center for Public Art and Space at Weitzman will be hosting renowned writer, artist, and educator Ashon Crawley (C'03). as its 2022 visiting scholar artist.
@ashoncrawley
@Monument_Lab
@paul_farber
@penn
PennDesign congratulates faculty member Aaron Wunsch for earning tenure. Wunsch has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, with tenure, in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Department of Landscape Architecture.
#leadbydesign
A trove of maps and data, just released by The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology and meant to illustrate the spatial consequences of climate change, is highlighted on 'Penn Today.'
On the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg's landmark book Design With Nature, Erle Ellis and other big thinkers on the built environment consider the role of humanity in re-shaping the planet. See for yourself in Design With Nature NOW, on view through 9/15.
#dwnn
@McHargCenter
Tomorrow: 6:00pm, online: Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos
A public discussion with the authors of 'A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal' joined by Mary Annaïse Heglar and The McHarg Center’s Billy Fleming.
Just announced by The Ian McHarg Center for Urbanism + Ecology: Designing a Green New Deal. An all-star lineup including Jane McAlevey and Naomi Klein. Get your tickets before they're gone!
To observe MLK Day, Weitzman's Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites is organizing 'Picturing Civil Rites,' a digital exhibition to share places from your community or travels where leaders, events and struggles of the Civil Rights movement are marked and remembered.
The Farm of the Future is a series of dialogues, to be held weekly over two months, that gathers thinkers and doers to work together on opportunities to increase animal health and the sustainability of agriculture, which are interconnected with the health of humans and the earth.
Congratulations to Christopher Marcinkoski, associate professor of landscape architecture, whose firm PORT has received an Emerging Voices award from The Architectural League of New York.
We're extremely proud of
@penn_planning
faculty, staff, and students as the Department of City and Regional Planning is recognized for excellence in the field.
Julian Abele (BArch`1902) was the first Black student to graduate with a degree in architecture from Penn. But his architectural legacy in Philadelphia, where he designed the Central Library and contributed to dozens more buildings, is still being uncovered.
Watch a video introducing Design With Nature Now.
Looking at sites like the LA River and New York's Freshkills Park, leading thinkers on the built environment consider the power of humans to shape the natural world.
#dwnn
#leadbydesign
THIS WEDNESDAY
January 27, 2021
Join us for a lecture from Sue Mobley, hosted by the Center for Public Art and Space, in association with Monument Lab. Mobley is a New Orleans-based urbanist, organizer, and advocate.
@wingedisis
@Monument_Lab
PennDesign has been named the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in recognition of Mr. Weitzman’s lifetime commitment and support of Penn and his active engagement with its students.
Tomorrow: Andrea Roberts gives a lecture for the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, entitled "The Freedom Colony Repertoire: Promising Approaches to Bridging and Bonding Social Capital between Urban and Rural Black Mecca."
University Architect David Hollenberg talks with Penn Today about his beginnings in architecture, his piano skills, his favorite cities, and why he can’t just pick one beloved building on campus.
Out now from PennPraxis: the Neighborhood Preservation Toolkit, a free resource for Philadelphians interested in advocating for the places that matter in their communities. Follow the link to download your copy and share with your neighbors.
#leadbydesign
Upcoming
@KleinmanEnergy
lecture! Learn from Felipe Arbelaez about economic, behavioral, and environmental trends in the oil and gas industry
@BP_America
Over the last week,
@LAPlusJournal
has been revealing jurors for its upcoming ICONOCLAST design competition. Yesterday it announced the final juror and jury chair, PennDesign's own Richard Weller | Sign up for more competition details at
Anu Mathur, professor of landscape architecture, will be one of the featured speakers at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam this December.
#leadbydesign
Richard Weller, professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, contributed to a sweeping new report from The Nature Conservancy about the impact of booming cities on biodiversity.
#leadbydesign
Ahead of a daylong symposium he is co-organizing at PennDesign, Matthijs Bouw, associate professor of practice in landscape architecture and architecture, talks about the challenges and opportunities of working on resilience.
#leadbydesign
The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities has announced their next topic director, Daniel A. Barber, associate professor and chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture, who will curate a slate of public events in academic year 2020-2021.
Weitzman has named Rossana Hu to be the next chair of the Department of Architecture. Hu is co-founder of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, the acclaimed interdisciplinary architecture practice based in Shanghai
@neriandhu
Next week,
@Orkan
Telhan, Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Co-founder and Chief Design Officer at
@biorealize
, will give a keynote speech at the 2018 Biodesign Challenge Summit
@MuseumModernArt
"Climate change is a national security threat."
Read an op-ed by Billy Fleming and Katie Randall of the
@McHargCenter
for Urbanism and Ecology in the
@HoustonChron
.