Published by PennDesign Alumni Association (PDAA)
Volume 6, Number 6
February 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 6 February 2006 |
| ANNUAL GIVING AT ALL-TIME HIGH | |
| Thank you to the 486 donors who have invested $241,000 in our students in the 2005-2006 academic year! We are conducting a phonathon beginning this month to reach our annual giving goals of $350,000 and 1200 donors by June 30th. We hope you will take this opportunity to verify your contact information with a University representative and make a gift to PennDesign. All Annual Fund gifts are directed to student scholarships. |
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| PRESERVATION ALUMNI LECTURE SERIES |
Join historic preservation faculty and students for this series of alumni lectures: Friday, February 24, 6pm Dorothy Krotzer MS'01 and Jim Dossett MS'98 Architectural Conservators in Practice: The Wagner-Free Institute of Science Restoration and The Virginia State Capitol Restoration Friday, March 24, 6:30pm Matt Pisarski MS'99 Heritage Preservation Through Regional Planning: A New Jersey Perspective Friday, March 31, 6:30pm Jeremy Wells MS'04 Main Street and Elm Street in Pennsylvania: A Comprehensive Approach to Downtown Revitalization All lectures take place in Furness 306. For more information, contact Gretchen Hilyard |
| REGIONAL ALUMNI EVENTS | |
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Tuesday, February 28, 6:00pm Kevin Starr: California's Most Important Historical Moments Marines' Memorial Club, 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco Reserve tickets online: www.commonwealthclub.org March 2, 5:30pm First Thursday @ Haines Gallery, 49 Geary St, 5th Fl, San Francisco |
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Monday, April 3, 6-8pm PennDesign Chicago Alumni Reception Graham Foundation, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago Golconde: The Introduction of Modernism in India will be on view |
| FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY |
| Architecture graduates from the past 8 years who have at least one year of experience in the office of a practicing architect are invited to enter the Steedman International Design Competition to win a $30,000 traveling fellowship for architectural research and study in foreign countries for a period of nine months. The submission deadline is March 13. Visit the competition website for details. |
| CAREER LISTSERV AND MORE |
| Career Services has access to more and more design-oriented positions for experienced candidates. To learn about these jobs, sign up for the PennDesign alumni listserv on the Career Services website. While you're there, consider registering for the Virtual Career Fair (March 27-April 7) and Career Connection Day (March 31). |
| ON THE LINE |
| Please note: alumni names are hyperlinked to email addresses |
| 2000s |
| Naomi Chung MFA'00 has a solo painting exhibition at Gross McCleaf Gallery, 127 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, through February 21. The opening reception is on Friday, February 3, 5-7pm. |
| Nathaniel Coleman PhD'00 is senior lecturer in architecture and director of architecture and landscape in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He also serves as degree program director of the bachelor of architecture and certificate of architectural practice courses, as well as admissions tutor for the bachelor of architecture course. His first individually authored book, Utopias and Architecture, was recently published in the UK and US by Routledge. The work draws on his ongoing research into the role of utopian imagination in the invention of exemplary architecture and includes discussion of the thought and architecture of Le Corbusier, Louis I. Kahn, Aldo van Eyck, Daniel Libeskind, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and Renzo Piano. |
| 1990s |
| Judy Chen MCP'99 works for GMAC Real Estate IPG in Manhattan and is looking for a developer who is interested in doing a potential project in Shanghai, China. If interested, please contact her for a summary of the project and further discussion. |
Yikwon Peter Kim MFA'97 |
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has published his third book, The History and Development of Digital Art, a collection of essays focusing on the use of digital technology in contemporary art. Yeh has been widely exhibited in the US and abroad at such venues as the Queens Museum of Art, the Kennedy Museum of Art and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum. He currently lives and works in New York City, teaching interactive media courses at Pratt Institute and the Fashion Institute of Technology. |
| 1980s |
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Matthew Elliott MArch'85 is pleased to report that Elliott Elliott Norelius Architecture, Blue Hill, ME received a citation for design excellence from AIA New England for the design of a private residence on Blue Hill Bay (pictured at left). He and his fellow principals, Bruce Norelius MArch'86 and Libby Elliott MArch'87, received their masters degrees from Penn. |
| Niall G. Kirkwood MLA'85 chair of the department of landscape architecture at Harvard GSD, was named the Gerald O'Hare Scholar at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, where he continued his research on post-industrial landscapes through design studios at Harvard in Newry, Derry and Belfast. He has been awarded the Rai Fellowship for Excellence in Higher Education (2006) in Delhi and Mumbai, India, where he will carry out research work on the Mumbai Mills Project. Working for the Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat, Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands, he helped a team of 14 graduate students prepare conceptual design ideas for rethinking flood control and urbanization along the Waal River. The SPONGEcity project was displayed in the Rotterdam International Bienalle Exhibition curated by landscape architect Adriaan Gueze. He also carried out preliminary work in Sri Lanka on "Guidelines of sustainable post-tsunami reconstruction" with representatives from Oxfam GB. |
| Rob Meyer MArch'83 president of Meyer Architecture and Planning, PC, Manchester, VT, has been named chair of the New England Conference of Architectural Registration Boards, the Northeastern representative of the NCARB. |
| Keith Moskow MArch'86 reports that 2005 was his firm's "Martha's Vineyard Year." Moskow Architects, Inc received two Honor Design Awards from the Boston Society of Architects for island residences (Arbor House and MV II) and he wrote the book The Houses of Martha's Vineyard about contemporary island architecture (Monacelli Press). |
| 1970s |
| Claire Marcus CW'74 BFA'76 MFA'78 created work for two public art projects commemorating Benjamin Franklin at 300. "Kites: Art Takes Flight" will be presented by Main Line Art Center this spring and "A Case for Art" was sponsored by Philadelphia Sculptors last fall. Her piece for that show, "Brainstorm/Silver Lining" is part of the "Sustained Winds" exhibit at Arcadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA. |
| 1960s |
Henry Smith-Miller MArch'66 reports that his firm, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, designed the Champlain, NY Border Station (pictured below) for the Department of Homeland Security; the project is now under construction. |
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| John Mayson Whalley MLA'60 former partner, Derek Lovejoy Partnership UK, now heads his own landscape firm, JMW International, mainly working on a range of projects throughout Japan. He welcomes opportunities to work in collaboration with Japanese Penn graduates and invites alumni to contact him by email. |
| Idaherma Williams MFA'63 had a show "The Labors of Hercules" featuring her woodblock prints at Lennox Gallery, London in December. Her woodblock prints are in the show "New Landscapes" at the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA through April 2. |
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EXHIBITIONS February 12 - March 2 |
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