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.
Constructing a New Kahn
Louis Kahn had more or less completed his designs for Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park when he died in 1974. It finally opened last fall to glowing reviews—but it could easily have been a disaster. Or nothing.
Passing the Vernacular
Venturi Scott Brown, post-Bob-and-Denise.
Designing the Ultimate Doll House
Ting Li C’03
Shaping Sound and Software
Michael Tiemann EAS’87
$15 Million Gift for a New ARCH
$15 million anonymous gift to renovate ARCH.
Inhabiting Geometry
Gallery-scale model by architect Anne Tyng Gr’75 at ICA.
Habitat For (Aging) Humanity
PennDesign conference explores architecture of old age.
Designing Men
Alumni firm KieranTimberlake’s London embassy.
Abele Honored
A mural and new neighborhood park in southwest Center City named in Abele’s honor.
The Music Building Gets a Tune-Up
Rave reviews for music building makeover
Penn Club of New York Gets Landmark Status
Penn Club of New York approved for landmark status
Restoring Andalusia
John Hanson C’83 and John Milner Ar’64
From Words to Buildings
What good is language to an architect?
Not Your Typical Pop-up Book
Works in paper. Pop Up Architecture
Rebirth of Mirth
Window, Jan|Feb 2010