On January 22, 2025, the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design will honor SANAA, the Tokyo-based architecture firm founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, as the recipient of the 2024 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture. Sejima will accept the award and give a talk... View full entry »
The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design welcomes seven new members of the standing and associated faculty in the 2024 - 2025 Academic Year, subject to University approval, and two new department chairs. “As communities across the US and abroad face imminent threats from... View full entry »
KoningEizenberg Architecture has been selected to receive the 2023 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture and James Corner Field Operations has been selected to receive the 2023 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning for the Reimagine Middle Branch Plan, a comprehensive plan to... View full entry »
With heat records shattered across Europe and North America this summer, the immediate risks of climate change to public health, private property, and infrastructure have never been more evident. Meanwhile, the Inflation Reduction Act represents the single largest investment in climate and energy... View full entry »
The University of Pennsylvania has been selected to receive $2.4M in funding from the US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of the ARPA-E HESTIA program, which prioritizes overcoming barriers associated with carbon-storing buildings... View full entry »
Six Weitzman Master of Architecture students were selected for Metropolis magazine's Future 100, a group of the top 50 interior design and top 50 architecture students graduating from North American institutions. There were only 31 students in the Graduate Architecture category with Weitzman... View full entry »
Image: Moynihan Train Hall photographed just before its public opening. Photo courtesy Office of Governor Andrew Cuomo.Before she was dean of the Weitzman School, from 2008 to 2016, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Marilyn Jordan Taylor was an architect and partner at Skidmore... View full entry »
Image: A simulation demonstrating how higher wall reflectance can lead to “hot spots” (shown as red squares) where UV light leaks into the lower, occupied zone. Courtesy of Miamiao Hou and Dorit Aviv.Two studies by Dorit Aviv, assistant professor of architecture and director of the Thermal... View full entry »
Last spring, as COVID-19 was shutting down office buildings and storefronts around the country, Associate Professor of Architecture Ferda Kolatan spent a lot of time walking around New York, where he lives, and thinking about how the pandemic could permanently alter the architecture of the city... View full entry »
Across the United States wintertime surges in COVID-19 cases and a slow vaccine rollout are two vivid examples of how the pandemic continues to impact daily life. And, because COVID-19 both spreads more easily indoors and has had a major impact on health care facilities, the interconnectedness... View full entry »
Each spring, first-year graduate architecture students are introduced to the themes of the ARCH 502 design studio through the Schenk-Woodman Competition. The studio always focuses on a timely spatial challenge in Philadelphia, says Associate Professor of Architecture Annette Fierro, who... View full entry »
On September 29, the Weitzman Office of Development and Alumni Relations brought together two alums of the Department of Architecture, Vanessa Keith (MArch’00) and Julie Torres Moskovitz (MArch’00), for an online conversation on how their design practices allow them to engage as activists on... View full entry »
The Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design has received a $300,000 project grant from The Pew Center for Art & Heritage for their exhibition, What Minerva Built. The interdisciplinary project critically examines the complicated heritage work... View full entry »
Students entering architecture school often think of design as linear, says architect Vanessa Keith (MArch’00), who joined the faculty in the Department of Architecture this fall. They tend to want to move forward in stages: first the floor plan, then the elevation, and so on. But “creativity... View full entry »
In his new book, Building Time: Architecture, Event, and Experience (Bloomsbury, 2020), David Leatherbarrow, professor of architecture, gives a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, to demonstrate the centrality of time in modern architecture. In this excerpt... View full entry »
Since architect Peter Eisenman founded the renowned Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York in 1967, he’s earned important commissions around the world and published a number of influential writings. In 2005, his much-anticipated design for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews... View full entry »
As COVID-19 cases rise rapidly across the U.S., there’s evidence showing that the virus spreads more easily during indoor activities. CDC guidelines now recommend in-person social activities, including holiday gatherings, be conducted outdoors instead of indoors whenever possible. Now, as... View full entry »
Masoud Akbarzadeh, an assistant professor of architecture at Weitzman who directs the Polyhedral Structures Lab, is on a team of Penn researchers who have been tapped to drive “the Future of Manufacturing” with innovative, interdisciplinary projects supported by the National Science... View full entry »
Among the Weitzman School’s latest efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion within our community and the design professions, the School has established the Julian Abele Fellowship in Architecture, which will be given annually to a graduate architecture student or students once the... View full entry »
Last summer, over 92 students and recent graduates and 31 faculty members across the Weitzman School—including programs in architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, urban spatial analytics, fine arts, historic preservation, Integrated Product Design, and several labs—worked on... View full entry »
In 2007, Penn President Amy Gutmann became the first Ivy League president to commit to tracking and reducing the university’s carbon emissions as part of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment pledge. Two years later, the University published its first Climate... View full entry »
The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design has announced a series of faculty appointments and promotions effective in Academic Year 2020-2021, subject to University approval, in the Department of Architecture.“We are extremely fortunate to have a community of innovative... View full entry »
In his new book, Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton University Press, 2020), Daniel Barber, associate professor of architecture, charts the ways that twentieth century architects incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs before the... View full entry »
Architizer, widely recognized as the world’s leading online platform for architecture and building-products, has announced the winners of the 8th Annual Architizer A+Awards, and the Department of Architecture at Weitzman is represented by multiple faculty members and alumni. Winka Dubbeldam... View full entry »
Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory Sophie Hochhäusl was appointed the Princeton Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities for the 2020-2021 academic year. She will also be a Visting Assistant Professor at Princeton’s School of Architecture (SoA)... View full entry »
A jury of distinguished architects, educators, graphic and industrial designers has selected the winners of the Summer School at Penn design challenge, a student competition organized by the Department of Architecture at Weitzman to create a mobile medical testing unit for COVID-19. 1st Place... View full entry »
Graham Professor of Practice in Architecture Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi of WEISS/MANFREDI have been awarded the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. It is the highest honor given by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello. "Marion... View full entry »
The Department of Architecture at Weitzman is partnering with Surface Media, publisher of Surface, the 27-year-old American magazine of global contemporary design, to launch Surface Summer School at Penn, a design challenge and competition. The challenge will invite Weitzman students to respond... View full entry »
As American healthcare workers fight heroically to keep pace with the coronavirus outbreak, Penn faculty and students are pitching in to provide needed medical gear for the University's hospitals.An effort to produce new face shields for hospital workers at Penn is being led by the Penn Health... View full entry »
People have long speculated about how new technologies will impact the future. While science fiction often focuses on the impacts of fantastic feats like flying cars or mutant vaccines, there are also a number of tangible questions about the future that need solutions: Will there be enough food... View full entry »
