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| The alumni newsline for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design Published by PennDesign Alumni Association (PDAA) Volume 5, Number 7 March 2005 |
| PENNDESIGN NOW REALLY ONLINE |
Beginning this month we are sending PennDesign Online in HTML. We hope you'll find the new format user-friendly! This is our first issue, so there may be glitches. Please direct feedback to the PennDesign Alumni Office. As in the past, the current and archived issues will be posted on the PennDesign alumni website. Please submit alumni news items by the 15th of the month prior to publication (September - June). |
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| CHUCK CLOSE TO SPEAK AT PENN - APRIL 7 |
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American photorealist painter Chuck Close has been named the 2005 Locks Foundation Distinguished Artist and will present a slide lecture at the Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theater on Thursday, April 7 at 6pm as part of the Locks Foundation Distinguished Artist Program. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. To reserve tickets, visit the Annenberg Center website. |
| PLANNING FROM COAST TO COAST |
APA - SAN FRANCISCO The Wharton/Penn Real Estate group is holding a talk by Dean Hack and Omar Blaik, Penn VP for Facilities & Real Estate Services, at Wharton West on March 22. Reception: 5:30-7pm; program: 7-8:30pm; contact Daniel Shambaugh WG'98 for more info. |
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GAMBLING IN PHILADELPHIA Last month's gambling charrette organized by Harris Steinberg C'78 MArch'82, executive director of PennPraxis, was a huge win for the School. At left is "Centrifuge," the winning design proposal for the Market Street site. See the Philadelphia Daily News for more coverage (registration required). |
| CAREER SERVICES AND YOU |
Are you hiring? Career Services is piloting a Virtual Career Fair for PennDesign students and alumni from April 4 - 15; Career Day is on April 8. Alumni are encouraged to participate. Register online today! Once registered, you will be authorized to preview the portfolios of graduating PennDesign students via online Resume Books. |
Are you looking to get hired? Employers regularly contact Career Services with job opportunities for new and experienced alumni. You can find them online by registering with PennLink. To get the word out about jobs, Career Services is creating an email listserv specifically for PennDesign alumni. Sign up online to receive email notices about design-related job openings. |
| ON THE LINE |
1990s |
| 1980s James Corner MLA'86 CRT'86 chair of PennDesign's department of landscape architecture, and his firm, Field Operations, New York, are represented in the exhibition "Groundswell: Constructing The Contemporary Landscape" at MoMA's newly renovated midtown Manhattan location. Curated by PennDesign Overseer Peter Reed MA'83 PhD'89, Groundswell also features work by PennDesign faculty Peter Latz and Marion Weiss. Corner was recently nominated by Wired magazine for a "Rave award" in the architecture category for his firm's High Line project in Manhattan. |
1970s Elissa Gore CW'73 MFA'74 elissagore@earthlink.net |
| 1960s Yildirim Yavuz MArch'65 yavuzy@metu.edu.tr professor of architecture at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, invites his Kahn studio classmates to contact him. |
| LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS & ALUMNI EVENTS |
LECTURES The spring 2005 lecture series and |
SYMPOSIA Thursday, March 31, 6:30pm EXHIBITIONS |
ALUMNI EVENTS
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| KEEP IN TOUCH |
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