Published by PennDesign Alumni Association (PDAA)
Volume 6, Number 5
January 2006
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| The alumni newsline for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design Published by PennDesign Alumni Association (PDAA) Volume 6, Number 5 January 2006 |
| HAPPY NEW YEAR! |
| Get involved this year by registering with the Online Community, attending an Alumni Event, coming back to campus for Alumni Weekend, and keeping in touch with the Alumni Office. We enjoy hearing from you! |
| NEW YORK HOLIDAY PARTY + SHOWCASE OF ALUMNI WORK |
The NY Chapter Holiday Party + Showcase of Alumni Work is scheduled for January 26 at the Ballroom at The Prince George! Come find out what other PennDesign alumni are working on, rekindle friendships and connect with alumni, faculty and guests.
The registration deadline for the discounted rate is January 16.
To register and learn more about the event,
visit the NY Chapter webpage. The NY Chapter would like to thank the Sponsors who have signed up so far to showcase their work: |
| Gold Sponsors: GF55 Architects Pier, Fine Associates Architects Field Operations |
Silver Sponsors: Helmsley-Spear, Inc. DG3 Associates New York Landmarks Conservancy MarjorieVanCura.com Sam Schwartz PLLC Ulterior Mode LLC |
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| There are many benefits and opportunities associated with sponsorship. If you are interested in being a Sponsor, or have questions about the event, please contact regional director Bridget Dugan: penndesignny@earthlink.net |
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| GREAT RANKINGS |
The DesignIntelligence rankings for 2006 have been announced, and PennDesign fared extremely well this year: Architecture ranked 4th and Landscape Architecture ranked 2nd, based on a survey that asked employers to name the schools from which the best-prepared graduates they hired during the past five years hailed. |
| LESSONS FROM KATRINA - SYMPOSIUM AT PENN: Feb 2 & 3, 2006 |
| Join the Penn Institute of Urban Research for an interactive symposium on rebuilding cities and their environs after a disaster. Leading national experts, including Nick Spitzer C'72, Anu Mathur MLA'93, Larry Vale and Mark Zandi W'81 PhD'93, will address the broader implications of events such as Hurricane Katrina for cities across the nation. Visit www.upenn.edu/penniur/rebuilding to register; space is limited. |
| ON THE LINE |
| 2000s |
| Bill Bickford MArch'02 started his own firm, DePree Bickford Associates LLC, in Chicago, IL. He will succeed Elizabeth Hitchcock MArch'92 as the new PDAA regional director in Chicago this year. |
| 1990s |
Greg Colling MArch'97 |
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has been appointed assistant dean of the School of Engineering of Architecture at the Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon. |
| Ellen Kahn MFA'92 has work featured in the show "Small Works" at the Bond Gallery, 5 Rivington Street, New York, NY through January 15. Her work also appears in a spread on artists inspired by botanicals in the January/February issue of Domino Magazine. |
| Max Kalhammer MCP'97 is the planning director for the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, which has three communities or reservations in Nevada and one in California and hundreds of off-reservation members living inside and outside traditional Washoe homelands. In addition, the Tribe has jurisdiction over individial or family trust allotments and Tribal Trust parcels located in Carson City and Alpine, Placer, Sierra, Douglas, and Washoe Counties. In 2003, Max founded a non-profit corporation, African Sky Youth Art Campaign, with the mission to provide professional art and animation training to disadvantaged young adults in the US and abroad. |
| Chris Reed MLA'95 reports that his Boston-based firm stoss has been authorized by the City Council of Green Bay, WI to begin full design services on the $12M phase-one Fox Riverfront (image below), and the firm is a finalist in the Erie Street Plaza Design Competition in Milwaukee, WI. Reed was selected to design a garden for the 7th International Garden Festival at Jardins de Metis/Reford Gardens in Quebec in June, and he is teaching the elective studio "de/generative urbanism" and an advanced construction workshop in Penn's landscape architecture department this spring. |
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| 1980s |
| Jeffrey Reed MFA'83 has a show at the George Billis Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, New York, NY through January 22. |
| 1960s |
Martin E. Rich, AIA MArch'64 received top prize in the twelfth annual AIA Miami International Photography Competition. He was awarded "Best in Show" for his photograph titled "Mill" which was exhibited in Miami, FL in December. In addition, two of his photographs "Mill" and "Glow" are featured in the American Architecture Foundation's Architecture 2006 (AIA) calendar. Martin Rich currently heads the firm, Martin E. Rich Architect, PC, based in New York City. Founded in 1975, the firm has specialized in and received recognition for a range of corporate commercial and medical facility projects. |
Jim Sinatra MLA'66 |
| 1950s |
| Paul G. Dentiste AICP, FIBA MCP'59 was reappointed by Mayor Bill LaFortune, City of Tulsa, Oklahoma and confirmed by the City Council to the City of Tulsa's Human Rights Commission. He is a planning consultant to telecom site acquisition companies and the government. |
| 1940s |
| Helen Ross Staley BArch'44 reports from Easton, MD that she retired her architectural practice last March, the same month in which she and her husband celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. |
| HAPPENINGS |
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ALUMNI EVENTS |
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| KEEP IN TOUCH |
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