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UPenn Weitzman School of Design Architecture Chair Winka Dubbeldam on Architectural Education for the Future

2020-04-06T09:00:00-04:00

Archinect's Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programs, pedagogical approaches, and academic goals, as defined by the dean–giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty, and academic environment.

For our latest installment, we spoke with Winka Dubbeldam, Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture of the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. The Weitzman School is home to a range of academic design programs—including focuses on architecture, city and regional planning, fine arts, historic preservation, landscape architecture, and urban spatial analytics—and to a collection of think-tanks and research centers, including the Green New Deal and landscape urbanism-focused McHarg Center.

In our conversation, Dubbeldam, who is also a founding principal at Archi-Tectonics, highlights some of the latest research and academic endeavors at the Weitz...

Redlines: LA+

2018-06-19T09:00:00-04:00

Redlines is a collection of interviews with editors that make today's most provocative architectural publications come to life. While architecture is traditionally concerned with buildings, materials, and scale, their importance and historical impact are recorded through words, books, and images that are often organized, published, and disseminated. Redlines seeks to understand the pedagogical and design frameworks that shape this process.

In this installment we look at LA+, a biannual publication produced by the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. Issues explore landscape architecture's interdisciplinary potential, bringing readers a rich collection of work from designers, historians, artists, geographers, psychologists, ecologists, planners, scientists, philosophers, and many more.

LA+ and other publications featured in the series are now available at Archinect Outpost, our new initiative in downtown LA’s Arts District!

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Screen/Print #46: 'Quick Images' Complicate Architectural Discourse in 'Hatch' from Penn Design

2016-10-27T12:25:00-04:00

What is architectural discourse in an era of so-called "quick images"? As a collection of conversations between students and professors, Hatch explores the culture of social media and the subsequent disconnect it has created between disciplined, professional works of architecture and flashy (if ubiquitous) presentations.

Screen/Print #39: "Pleasure" from PennDesign's LA+

2016-01-07T13:55:00-05:00

In an era marked by ecological crisis, the figure of the landscape architect can assume an austere, if not downright sanctimonious, stance. Like some contemporary prophet, the landscape architect calls for repentance, moderation, and preparation – a voice in the wilderness of our apparently excessive time. Yet the discipline’s origins are far less pious, as is made clear in “Pleasure,” the newest issue of LA+, produced by the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. Revisiting arcadias of past and present – from the gardens of Ancient Rome to the resort-styled Discovery Bay development in Hong Kong – the issue considers the complex relationship between landscape architecture and pleasure.

Screen/Print #35: PennDesign's "LA+"

2015-07-23T17:58:00-04:00

It all comes back to the land. LA+, the new publication produced by the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, places landscape architecture at the origin point of a diverse panoply of disciplines. Put out twice annually, LA+ features precisely curated content from an array of professions that all come to focus on the landscape.