The alumni newsline for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Published by PennDesign Alumni Association (PDAA)
Volume 7, Number 4
December 2006

 

HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS

Give the Gift of Art
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100 X 100 Benefit Art Auction
Friday, December 1
Reception and Preview, 5pm
Auction, 7:15pm
Meyerson Galleries

100 works of art for $100 each by prominent artists; recent work by alumni and students also included. All proceeds to benefit the MFA Thesis Exhibition in May 2007 (image at right by Clay Neigher, MFA'07).


Give the Gift of Scholarship

Support the Annual Fund, and you support student scholarships!

Give the gift of scholarship this holiday season, and help us reach this year's
goal of $375,000 by contributing online to the Annual Fund.

Contribute by December 31 to receive 2006 tax credit.
 
UPCOMING MIAMI EVENTS
Vizcaya Reception and Lecture  

Wednesday, December 13, 6pm
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
3251 South Miami Avenue
Miami, FL

 

Join Witold Rybczynski, Meyerson professor of urbanism at PennDesign and Wharton, for a reception and lecture based on his new book, Vizcaya: An American Villa and its Makers. The cost for the event is $15 per person. RSVP by December 6 to Penn Alumni Relations: 215-898-6418.

 
PennDesign Florida Happy Hour
Save-the-Date: Tuesday, January 16
Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, Miami, FL
Stay tuned for more information!

 
PRAXIS RECEIVES $1.6 MILLION FOR RIVERFRONT PLANNING
The William Penn Foundation awarded a $1.6 million grant to PennPraxis for the Central Delaware Riverfront Planning Process and Praxis capacity building. PennPraxis, the nonprofit consulting arm of PennDesign, plans to launch a full website for the waterfront plan later this month; in the meantime, see the Plan Philly website for details.
 

PROJECT NEW ORLEANS

island_ridge   Studios led by Anuradha Mathur, landscape architecture, and Marion Weiss, architecture, traveled to New Orleans last spring to investigate the design of the Lower Mississippi and future redevelopment possibilities. Student work is pictured at left (Huiqing Kuang, "Island Ridge") and online at the Project New Orleans website.

 

ON THE LINE

Please note: some alumni names are hyperlinked to email addresses

2000s

Kazi Ashraf PhD'02
announces a call for entries for the Kenneth F. Brown Architecture Design Award Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The award carries a $25,000 cash prize and an invitation to speak at the International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture; registration fee is due December 10 and project submission deadline is January 31.

1990s

Urshula Barbour MFA'94
reports that her studio, Pure+Applied, is designing the exhibition, "Robert Moses & the Modern City," to open at the Museum of the City of New York in January 2007. P+A has also designed "Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now" for MoMA and the exhibition "Willing to Be Lucky: Ambitious New Yorkers in the Pages of LOOK Magazine."

Ellen Kahn MFA'92
will show her work in the Winter Salon at the Lesley Heller Gallery in New York, December 2-21. Kahn will attend the opening on the 2nd from 4-6pm; please stop by to say hello!

1980s

Dozier Bell MFA'86
has a solo show at DFN Gallery in New York through January 12.
Rebecca Fant MArch'89
is the 2006 President of the Charlotte, NC chapter of the American Institute of Architects, which serves 850 members. She started her own firm, Architecture Matters PLLC, in 2005, providing residential and small commercial architectural services with an environmental design focus.

Laura Starr, MLA'84
announces the formation of Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners. Based in lower Manhattan, the firm specializes in public and institutional planning and landscape architecture. Starr was formerly a principal at Saratoga Associates where she led all a multidisciplinary team to redesign the Battery Bosque in Historic Battery Park. Last month the project received the top Excellence on the Waterfront Award from the Waterfront Center.

1970s

Peter Elkin C'68 MArch'73
heads Elkin Architecture, PC on Long Island, NY; most of his firm's work is commercial, industrial, or multi-family residential. Recent projects include a 17,000 square foot sports and health complex in Riverdale, NY for the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations; Park South Lofts, a 20 story condominium conversion on 30th Street and Park Avenue, New York City; and a 120,000 square foot distribution center for Olympus America, Inc, in Hauppauge, NY.

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Monty Freeman MArch'75
and his firm, Belmont Freeman Architects, won awards from both the Connecticut and New York State Chapters of the AIA for their renovation of the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, pictured at right. The Zilkha Gallery is the centerpiece of Wesleyan’s 1973 Center for the Arts, a complex of iconic buildings by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Architects. The project, which upgraded all building systems and finishes to make the gallery more adaptable to the display of contemporary art, was a challenging exercise in the historic preservation of a strong work of modernist architecture.

Eleanor Hubbard CW'67 MFA'71
recently had fourteen of her paintings selected by the United States Ambassador to Slovenia for inclusion in the U.S.State Department's Art In Embassies Program. Hubbard held workshops and lectures in Ljubljana and Maribor. 

1960s
Barry Moore MArch'65
adjunct associate professor at the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, was awarded the Edward J. Rominiec Teaching Award by the Texas Society of Architects. One of only three U of H faculty to have received the award, he was thus honored for his twenty-year affiliation with the University, where he originated the curriculum in historic preservation; founded the summer Mexico Studio, in which students have been documenting UNESCO World Heritage Sites; and directs the Workshop for Historic Architecture. His students have won five Graduation Exhibition Design Awards, and three student research projects have been recognized for excellence by the Houston Chapter of the AIA. Moore fits his teaching into his professional practice in Gensler's Houston office.

Martin Rich MArch'64
has two photographs in the American Architectural Foundation's 2007 AIA Calendar. This is the tenth time his photos have been included in the AIA yearly calendars. In addition, his photographs of Louis Kahn drawing at the blackboard continue to be published in new books on Kahn's work. Rich heads an architectural practice in New York City.

 

HAPPENINGS

LECTURES

December 4
NUR AKIN
"Historic Preservation in Turkey"
B3, Meyerson

December 8
DANIELA COLAFRANCESCHI
"Landscape+Land&Scape"
B3, Meyerson

ALUMNI EVENTS
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Tuesday, January 16
ALUMNI HAPPY HOUR - MIAMI

Friday, March 23
CAREER CONNECTION DAY

Monday, April 16
ALUMNI RECEPTION AT APA - PHILADELPHIA

Friday, May 4
ALUMNI RECEPTION AT AIA - SAN ANTONIO

Friday, May 11 - Saturday, May 12
ALUMNI WEEKEND AT PENN


 

EXHIBITIONS

December 1
100 x 100 ART AUCTION
Meyerson Galleries
Reception and Preview: 5pm; Auction: 7:15pm

December 4-11
FINE ARTS UNDERGRADUATE SENIOR THESIS PREVIEW SHOW
Addams Gallery
Reception: December 5, 5-7pm

December 4-23
TOSHIMITSU ITO: PRINTS OF LANDSCAPE
Printmaking Studio, Morgan Building
Reception: December 8, 4-6pm

Through mid-December
CRISES
Commemorating the anniversaries of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina; includes work by Elizabeth Lim, MFA'07
Annenberg School for Communication

Through December 17
FERTILIZERS: OLIN/EISENMAN
ICA
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