Night Fever
DJ “Michael the Lion” (also a researcher and lecturer in the Weitzman School of Design) is a big believer in the nighttime economy.
Preserving Civil Rights Heritage
New center aims to preserve civil rights sites.
Creative Minds: Assemble
Journal LA+ takes on big themes, multiple disciplines.
PennDesign Gets a New Name
School of Design named for Stuart Weitzman W’63.
Resiliency by Design
New PennDesign program launches with roundtable on resilience.
PennDesign at Manitoga
Architecture students were artists-in-residence at Manitoga estate.
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.
Preservation and the Public Good
False choice? Historic preservation and the public good.
Venerating Venturi
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture turns 50
Feed Them, Seymour
Window, Nov|Dec 2016
iDesigning the Future
Better breast-pumping bra takes $50,000 iDesign Prize.
UT’s Loss Is PennDesign’s Gain
Alumnus Fritz Steiner, of UT-Austin, named new PennDesign dean.
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.
“Historic Philadelphia,” Rethought
Historic preservation studio challenges neighborhood assumptions.
A Story-Winning Prize
CPCW award for innovation: start the (hand-cranked) presses!
The Transformer
He turned an abandoned stretch of elevated rail tracks on Manhattan’s lower West Side from an eyesore to a treasured urban amenity, and put playing fields and green space where a garbage dump taller than the Statue of Liberty once sprawled. Now Penn Design alumnus and professor James Corner is creating a modern-day pleasure garden on the site of London’s Summer Olympics.
Habitat For (Aging) Humanity
PennDesign conference explores architecture of old age.
New Design Dean
SOM’s Marilyn Jordan Taylor succeeds Hack at Design
Hack Leaving Design
PennDesign Dean Gary Hack to step down
The Bearable Lightness of Becky Young
Becky Young retrospective
Arts Calendar
Sep|Oct 2003
Rising From the Ashes, A First Home for Fine Arts
A home for fine arts in Addams Hall
New Faces
Department of Fine Arts Graduate Faculty.