Hi. I go to UPenn and I am graduating with the MArch this May. If you are interested in structure, Penn Design is not for you. Winka Dubbledam is the new Chair and she's bringing in a lot of new changes. She likes the experimental designs.
Whilst you can choose professors that have a significant professional portfolio of work, e.g. Scott Erdy from Erdy McHenry, Brian Phillips, Marion Weiss, the focus at penn is on the experimental design. In the first year at Penn, you don't get to choose your studio but in the final 2 years, you do. In the final 2 years I guess you can avoid the experimental studios.
Because Penn Design is in transition (before Winka became the Chair 2 years ago, David Leatherbarrow was the interim chair for 5 years) there is a high turn over of professors. So there are some hits and misses. You may get a good professor or you may get a bad professor. So i guess you have to be lucky. When you pay all that money to go to an Ivy league school, I think you should be near guaranteed a good professor all the time.
Graduate admission：Upenn march2 VS UT-austin march2
I could not make the decisions easily. could anyone give me some useful suggestion?
Hi. I go to UPenn and I am graduating with the MArch this May. If you are interested in structure, Penn Design is not for you. Winka Dubbledam is the new Chair and she's bringing in a lot of new changes. She likes the experimental designs.
Whilst you can choose professors that have a significant professional portfolio of work, e.g. Scott Erdy from Erdy McHenry, Brian Phillips, Marion Weiss, the focus at penn is on the experimental design. In the first year at Penn, you don't get to choose your studio but in the final 2 years, you do. In the final 2 years I guess you can avoid the experimental studios.
Because Penn Design is in transition (before Winka became the Chair 2 years ago, David Leatherbarrow was the interim chair for 5 years) there is a high turn over of professors. So there are some hits and misses. You may get a good professor or you may get a bad professor. So i guess you have to be lucky. When you pay all that money to go to an Ivy league school, I think you should be near guaranteed a good professor all the time.
also check this thread out:
http://archinect.com/forum/thread/73242610/upenn-over-ucla
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