Assistant Professor of Architecture Masoud Akbarzadeh has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support the development of a robust computational framework for the use, development, and integration of geometry-based... View full entry »
The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design is pleased to announce that it will host the 2020 annual Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference. The conference will take place on October 29-31, 2020 following a... View full entry »
Release Date: December 12, 2019PHILADELPHIA— David Leatherbarrow, professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, has been named as the 2020 recipient of the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. The announcement was... View full entry »
Seven decades after he first came to Penn, A. Eugene Kohn (BArch’53, MArch’57) stood before a group of Weitzman faculty, alumni, donors, and students last week and told a story about his mother. When he was young, Kohn told the audience, she made a living as a dressmaker. But she refused to... View full entry »
This one-year post-professional program launches in Fall 2020 in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. The Master of Science in Design: Robotics and Autonomous Systems [MSD-RAS] aims to critically develop novel approaches to the design... View full entry »
Philadelphia—The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design has selected KPF cofounder A. Eugene Kohn as the 2019 recipient of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design, and the Regional Plan Association (RPA) Fourth Regional Plan as the... View full entry »
In Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures, Associate Professor of Architecture Franca Trubiano and alumnae Ramona Adlakha (MArch’18) and Ramune Bartuskait (MArch’18) gather reflections on the renewal of feminist thought in architecture (Framing Stories), challenges to practice made... View full entry »
Media Contact: Michael Grant, mrgrant@design.upenn.edu, 215.898.2539 Philadelphia—The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design will host a public celebration on Thursday, October 3, 2019 to highlight the School’s new name, honor Penn philanthropist and footwear icon Stuart... View full entry »
Awards Include Student Prizes, Scholarships Recognizing Emerging Talent Philadelphia—The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design has selected KPF cofounder A. Eugene Kohn as the 2019 recipient of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental... View full entry »
Watch the VideoView the List of Graduates and Awards Recipients If graduation is inherently an occasion for celebration—an academic victory lap after a marathon of studio reviews, exams, and thesis deadlines—the Stuart Weitzman School of Design’s 2019 Commencement Ceremony was the ultimate... View full entry »
Weitzman School alumnus Gary Polk (MArch’18) was awarded a 2019 Archiprix International Hunter Douglas Award in Santiago, Chile. His design, Synthetic Cultures, was one of 7 finalists out of 407 nominees from around the world. He was the only representative from the United States. Of Polk's... View full entry »
Historically, architecture has been a “man’s world.” But as times change, and even more women enter the field, the next challenge is keeping them in it—and providing them the encouragement to move up. “It’s one thing to be an architect,” says Franca Trubiano, an associate professor... View full entry »
“In the best of circumstances,” says Franca Trubiano, associate professor of architecture at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, “we have a balance between a theory that speaks about architecture and one that speaks beyond it.” Throughout the last few decades of the 20th century, as a... View full entry »
February 26, 2019 PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania will name its School of Design in honor of award-winning designer and footwear icon Stuart Weitzman, Wharton Class of 1963, in recognition of both his ongoing philanthropic support of the University and his active engagement in its... View full entry »
57 Pavilions is a 21st-century manual documenting architectural design research at PennDesign examining new potentials for part to whole assemblies where experiments in material expression, morphology, performance and culture fuse with advanced digital design processes and fabrication to produce... View full entry »
Pressing Matters VII, an annual publication of the Department of Architecture at PennDesign, is now available. We Exhibit We participated in the Architecture Biennale in Venice again this year; Associate Professor of Practice Ferda Kolatan curated the exhibition "12 Objects & 12 Images" that... View full entry »
An exhibition of work from Associate Professor Andrew Saunders' “Baroque Topologies” research is on display at the University of Arkansas. It was designed by Saunders with PennDesign graduate architecture students Kurt Nelson and Ariel Cooke-Zamora. The exhibition is presented by the Fay Jones... View full entry »
PennDesign has selected Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to receive the inaugural Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design. The Medal was presented at a benefit in New York City on October 15, 2018, along with the $50,000 Kanter Tritsch Prize for an exceptional... View full entry »
Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture Winka Dubbeldam was recently interviewed by Surface. From a meditation studio in Manhattan to a sports, retail, and recreation complex in Hangzhou, China, she has continually taken on new challenges in her practice, Archi-Tectonics. “Character and... View full entry »
Asset Architecture 3 is the latest installment in the Department of Architecture series edited by Ali Rahim, professor of architecture and director of the Master of Science in Design with a concentration in Advanced Architectural Design (MSD-AAD) program. Published by ORO Editions, this issue... View full entry »
Graduate Architecture had the honor of hosting Sir Peter Cook for the EwingCole Lecture and a three-day studio workshop for 500-level students from September 4-6, 2018. Sir Peter Cook is the founder of Archigram and the Cook-Robotham Architecture Bureau (CRAB) Studio, and former Chair of The... View full entry »
Dazhong Yi (MArch’18) received the Innovation Award from online research platform archoutloud.com. In “Home: What is the Future?” competitors were asked to consider “the impact of population shifts, the unpredictability of our changing ecosystem, contemporary forms of community housing and... View full entry »
The prototype, when it’s finished, will be a one-to-one scale model of a tiny house, with the entire building envelope under 400 square feet. It will be made of concrete, with all finishes and furnishings—from sinks to shelving—built into the form. It will consist of about ten total pieces... View full entry »
PennDesign is widely recognized in China, not only for training the next generation of designers and preservationists, but as the alma mater of the founders of modern architecture. Now, this first wave of Chinese alumni, which included the power couple Liang Sicheng (GAr’27) and Huiyin Lin... View full entry »
It’s not too late to catch the work of students and faculty in the Department of Architecture at the 2018 Venice Biennale. The 16th International Architecture Exhibition, which opened May 26, continues through November 25 in the Giardini and Arsenale venues, and in other locations in Venice... View full entry »
With the new Academic Year, PennDesign welcomes four new members of the standing faculty, subject to University approval: Dorit Aviv, lecturer, Department of Architecture; Sean Burkholder, assistant professor, Department of Landscape Architecture; Sophie Debiasi Hochhäusl, assistant professor... View full entry »
Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture Winka Dubbeldam was the featured guest at the third installment of The Architects Series by Plan Magazine. Hosted at SpazioFMGperl'Architettura in Milan, "The Architects Series - A documentary on: Archi-Tectonics" includes behind-the-scenes footage of... View full entry »
One PennDesign alumna and one faculty member are among the winners of the 2018 National Design Awards, announced this week by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Weiss/Manfredi, the New York-based architecture firm co-founded by PennDesign Graham Chair Professor of Architecture Marion... View full entry »
It was a big night for Chipper. This April, the specialty pet food designed by graduate students Laura Colagrande (Department of Architecture and Integrated Product Design Program), and Haley Russell and Amanda Robison (both of Wharton) earned all the winnings in the third annual iDesign Prize... View full entry »
Endemic Architecture, led by alumnus Clark Thenhaus (MArch’07), recently completed a project for California College of the Arts (CCA) that has won a 2017 AN Best of Design Award from Architect’s Newspaper for a public landscape. Confetti Urbanism reimagines the CCA Back Lot as a lively... View full entry »
