UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A project led by Penn State researcher Felecia Davis that explores Black culture, its relationship to technology, and concepts of translation in architectural design is featured in the “Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design” exhibition that opened... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As issues surrounding climate change and global warming continue to make headlines around the world, Penn State researchers in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School are researching ways to lessen the effect building components have on the environment by... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Felecia Davis, Penn State associate professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, is contributing to a mobile art installation that helps memorialize the liberators of Black America as part of her involvement as a cofounding... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Lisa Iulo, professor of architecture and director of the Hamer Center for Community Design in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, was named the winner of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2024 Faculty Award. Iulo... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture will welcome Spanish architect and educator Amadeu Santacana to its Department of Architecture faculty as an assistant teaching professor, effective Aug. 1. Santacana comes to Penn State after teaching... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Frank Jacobus, professor and head of the Department of Architecture and Stuckeman Chair of Integrative Design in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, is set to go on a four-week artist residency at Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee to work... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Meisam Dadfarmay, a master of architecture student in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School who will graduate from Penn State in August, has been named one of the top 100 architecture graduate students in the United States and Canada by Metropolis... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State has named two recipients of its Interdisciplinary Design Professorship: Hannes Famira, graphic designer, type designer and founding principal of FamiraFonts, and Luisa Caldas, professor of architecture... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Farzad Hashemi, who graduated from Penn State in 2023 with a doctorate in architecture, was recently named the recipient of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Dissertation Award. He is the second recipient of the prestigious research award in as many... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A virtual lecture from artist and architect Yussef Agbo-Ola, founding principal of Olaniyi Studio, will kick off the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School’s spring 2024 Lecture + Exhibit Series at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 27. Titled “The Art of Poetic... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The federally designated Oil Region National Heritage Area in the northwestern portion of Pennsylvania is where the modern petroleum age began in the 1800s. Oil City, Pennsylvania, is included in this area; however, the oil companies that supported the town’s economy... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Laia Celma, assistant teaching professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State, was named an inaugural recipient of the OBEL AWARD Teaching Fellowship, a premier teaching and research fellowship from the Henrik Frode... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Work by Felecia Davis, associate professor of architecture in the Stuckeman School, and her team of Computational Textiles Lab (SOFTLAB) researchers in the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing at Penn State that explores Black culture, its relationship to technology... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A project created by two Stuckeman School architecture professors in the College of Arts and Architecture that exposes how coal mine fires affect the environment is featured in the “Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground” exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School at Penn State will host J. Meejin Yoon, co-founder of Höweler + Yoon Architecture and the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning, at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 as the final guest this semester in the... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State will host a research symposium on Nov. 13-14 to examine the relationship between refugee displacement, climate and architecture. Titled “(Dis)Place: From tent camps to the future of urbanism – The... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An interdisciplinary research project led by Penn State Stuckeman School researchers and architecture faculty members Felecia Davis and Benay Gürsoy that explores the use of biomaterials and knitted textiles as sustainable building materials is featured in the... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A video that highlights the work a Penn State team is doing to 3D print houses that can sustain life on Mars is featured in a new $8.5 million core exhibit opening Nov. 4 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. “Wondrous Space” is a two-story, 7,500-square-foot... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State will welcome two guests as part of its 2023-24 Lecture and Exhibit Series for separate talks on Oct. 4: architect Martin Rauch of Lehm Ton Erde and graphic designer David Heasty of Triboro. Rauch... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State kicks off its 2023-24 Lecture and Exhibit Series at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 20 with Mireia Luzárraga, co-founder of the Barcelona-based architecture and design studio TAKK, in the Stuckeman Family... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State is hosting a Research Open House on Sept. 13 from noon to 1:30 p.m. to showcase the breadth of design research being done by the school’s faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, along with... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State has welcomed Hungary natives Orsolya Gáspár and Istvan Gyulovics as full-time faculty members in the Department of Architecture for the 2023-24 academic year. Most recently a visiting fellow at... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State architecture faculty members in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School are among the 89 architects and architectural firms from around the world that were invited to display their work as part of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Felecia Davis, associate professor of architecture in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, has been named the WJOR Architecture Fellow by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, which comes with a $15,000 award to produce an architectural project... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Frank Jacobus has been named head of the Department of Architecture in Penn State’s Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture, effective July 1. An architect, designer, artist and educator, he has spent 16 years in higher education, most recently serving... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A strong drive to always learn more has been one of the defining elements of Dan Willis’ career at Penn State. Willis, interim department head and professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, is retiring June 30. Willis, who... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The tendency of cities to trap heat — a phenomenon called the “urban heat island,” often referred to as the UHI effect — can lead to dangerous temperatures in the summer months, but new Penn State research suggests that certain urban factors can reduce this effect... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture will welcome William W. Braham, professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, to the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space at noon on April 7 as a part of the... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School will welcome Spanish architect and historian Juan José Lahuerta to the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space for a lecture titled “Triumphant Modernity: Some Images of Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture in the... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture will host Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats, co-founding principals of the architecture firm Flores & Prats, for a virtual lecture at 6 p.m. on Feb. 15 as part of the school’s Lecture and Exhibit Series. ... View full entry »
