Pennsylvania Alumni Reception
Friday, June 9, 6-7:30pm
Westin Bonaventure, Santa Barbara B

Heading to AIA-Los Angeles? Honor the Penn alumni elevated to the College of Fellows, including PennDesign faculty members Bill Braham and Harris Steinberg, at this reception. All alumni attending the convention and alums who live in Los Angeles are welcome. RSVP to the PennDesign Alumni Office

MARTHA'S VINEYARD TOUR

PennDesign Boston is pleased to present MARTHA'S VINEYARD: an Exclusive Tour of Cutting Edge Architecture on Saturday, June 24. Space is limited. Email regional director Eve Isenberg MArch'03 by May 15 at eveisenberg@yahoo.com to sign up for this day-long tour. Details will be emailed to all Boston-area alumni. 

Career Connection Day on March 31 was a tremendous success, with 52 firms/organizations and 250 students in attendance. Alumni take note: Career Services has an email listserv to notify alumni of position openings for people with five+ years experience. Position titles of recent postings include senior land use planner, project architect, executive director of a preservation organization, landscape architect project manager, urban designer and senior design architect. To be added to the listserv, email Julie Vick at vick@pobox.upenn.edu. To post a job or internship opening for students or alumni, visit the PennLink website.

The PennDesign NY Chapter is organizing tours and discussions of projects/neighborhoods/areas in NYC! We would really like to include projects that PennDesign alums are involved/familiar with so we can get some insight and behind-the-scenes information.

The tours and discussions will include interesting architecture, planning, parks, waterfronts, preservation, art, landscape architecture and other projects that alums are involved with. They will also include non-Penn projects/areas to provide a framework for each walking tour. We will be organizing one or more walking tours in Downtown Manhattan; other areas being considered are Midtown Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.

If you are currently involved with, worked on, or knowledgeable about a project/area, please email the Chapter: penndesignny@earthlink.net. And, check out our updated webpage for info about upcoming events!

Daniel A. Ashworth, Jr. MLA'04
is a registered landscape architect as of March. He is currently working on a wide range of design projects with Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc, Orlando, FL.

Mark Brosseau MFA'01 
has a solo exhibition, Word Space, at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, from May 31-July 1. The opening reception is on First Friday, June 2, 6-8:30pm. 

Juliet Geldi BSE'01 MArch'04 and PennDesign lecturer Gavin Riggall MArch'04
in conjunction with Philadelphia architects Charles Loomis and Chariss McAfee, are among the five finalist teams in the Urban Voids Competition. The team is currently applying their original proposal, "Waterwork," to an assigned site on the West side of Fairmount Park for the next phase of the competition. The five finalist teams will present their projects this month to a jury that will select one or more winners who may then have the opportunity to implement their ideas.

Peter Exley MArch'90
reports that the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL offers residency programs to artists from all artistic disciplines, including architecture and landscape architecture. The application deadline for the August 7-27 session, at which Peter will serve as a master artist, is May 19. Visit the ACA website for details and to apply.

Saeri Kiritani MFA'97
is exhibiting three works of art and participated in a live-performance art show as part of a month-long tribute to Immigrant History Week, which began on April 21 at the International Center, 50 West 23rd Street, New York, NY.

1980s

David Hinson MArch'83
chair of the architecture program at Auburn University, is leading a team of upper-level students in a design-build studio focused on the incorporation of factory-based construction in affordable housing. Students in the Designhabitat 2 Studio are partnering with Palm Harbor Homes and Habitat for Humanity to build two innovative homes for Katrina-affected families in West Alabama this spring. More information on the studio is available at www.designhabitat.org

Lucinda R. Sanders MLA'89 
adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture at PennDesign and principal, Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA, was the keynote speaker at "Design Matters Forum II: The Providence Waterfront" on March 18 in Providence, RI. The public forum focused on the future of Providence's waterfront which, Sanders recommended in her presentation, should respect the current street patterns and existing layout of the area.

1970s

Michael V. Murphy MArch'76 
principal of Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects, Baltimore, MD, recently was sworn in for a four-year term as a commissioner of the City of Baltimore’s Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP).  

Mimi Oritsky MFA'79 
has a solo exhibition, New Paintings, at Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY, through May 20. Alumni are welcome at the opening reception on Saturday, May 6, 6-8pm.

EVENTS

May 12-13
ALUMNI WEEKEND @ PENN 
Register online today!

May 15
PENNDESIGN GRADUATION
Speaker: Steve Wynn

June 9
ALUMNI RECEPTION @ AIA-LOS ANGELES 
RSVP to the PennDesign Alumni Office

June 24
MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOUSE TOUR 
RSVP by May 15 to Eve Isenberg MArch'03

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