The Architecture Cure
At Kleinman Center, discussing architecture that heals.
Extreme Makeover: Dental Edition
After $15 million renovation, dental clinic is ready for liftoff.
Victorian Modernist
George Thomas Gr’75 on Frank Furness’s 19th-century modernism.
PennDesign at Manitoga
Architecture students were artists-in-residence at Manitoga estate.
Hill Rises
The Eero Saarinen-designed landmark has reopened after a 15-month, $80 million renovation, with its distinctive mid-century style lovingly restored and a host of new amenities for students.
Unpacking the Industrial Lunch Box
A recent installation at Slought offered manufactured food for thought.
Atlas for the End of the World
Auditing the globe’s protected landscapes—and the forces threatening them.
Tiny Houses, Big Improvements
Sharon Lee C’77 has big ideas about tiny houses for the homeless.
Scanning Sacred Interiors
With his high-tech Baroque Topologies project, associate professor of architecture Andrew Saunders is adding new dimensions to the study of Italian Baroque churches. It’s also serious eye candy.
A Life Entangled: Shedding new light on Louis Kahn
A life of Kahn. You Say to Brick.
Preservation and the Public Good
False choice? Historic preservation and the public good.
Good Ghosts
Celebrating the Palestra—the beloved “cathedral of college basketball”—at 90 years young.
Venerating Venturi
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture turns 50
Perry World House
Penn unveils its ambitious global policy center—which, in the run-up to the US presidential election, has wasted no time hosting a Who’s Who in the realm of world affairs.
New College House
New College House opens.
Tungsten Temple
Mixed use, Dhaka-style.
The Dhaka Studio
Eight years ago, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake turned their Penn Design senior studio upside down. They demoted design in favor of research, gave aesthetics a back seat to social science and data analysis, and took all their students to Bangladesh.
$80 Million to Restore Hill’s “Wow!”
Hill House to get $80 million renovation.
The Shapes of Things to Come
Haresh Lalvani Gr’81 believes there’s a universal code for architecture and sculpture—a “morphological genome” that determines the shape of built structures, similar to the way that DNA shapes living things. And he’s well into the process of decoding it.
Flagship Design for Pennovation Works
Architects selected for Pennovation Center at former South Bank site.
White Tower Power
White Towers Revisited at Architectural Archives.
The House(s) That Kahn Built
We chat with two Penn scholars who are leading the study of alumnus-architect Louis Kahn's residential designs.
ARCH Reopens
ARCH reopens after $24.5 million makeover.
Preserving the Pueblos
Design alumni are helping restore ancient pueblos in New Mexico.