PennDesign Online

The alumni newsline for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Published by PennDesign Alumni Association (PDAA)
Volume 7, Number 5
January 2007


HAPPY NEW YEAR!
	Start the new year off right by reconnecting to PennDesign! Reconnect by... - attending an Alumni Event in your region; - returning to campus for Alumni Weekend, May 11-12; - signing up to mentor students with the Penn Alumni Career Network (PACNet);& - submitting a news item or image for publication in PennDesign Online.
(above) Winter Sunset, Elissa Gore CW'73 MFA'74

ATTN: UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE ALUMNI

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GLOBAL INSIGHT NEWS

Check out the latest issue of the Global Insight online newsletter published by PennDesign's Building Simulation Group, which includes a report on the inaugural meeting of the T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies.

ON THE LINE

Please note: some alumni names are hyperlinked to email addresses

1990s

Daniel Heyman MFA'91 had his work selected for New Prints 2007/Winter at the International Print Center New York from January 10- February 22. The piece chosen is a drypoint portrait made in Amman, Jordan, of a former detainee from Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. His Abu Ghraib Detainee Project series of 18 portraits will be shown February 22-May 7 at The Print Center in Philadelphia; see his website for more information.
Wonsang Ryu MLA'94 announces that his company, Images Landscape Architecture, Inc., received two awards this year from the Landscape Contractors Association of MD-DC-VA. Established in 2002, Images specializes in luxury residential landscape architecture and design/build in the Mid-Atlantic region.
1980s
Mark Ginsberg MArch'85 founding partner of Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, recently received press in the New York Times for his firm's design of an affordable housing model incorporating energy-efficient technology in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
Keith Moskow MArch'86 reports that his firm, Moskow Architects, was selected in an international competition to design the Boston 9-11 Memorial (at right) on a two-acre site at Logan Airport.

1970s
Lydia Hunn MFA'71 is traveling in Australia and New Zealand through mid-April while on sabbatical leave from Drexel University's department of visual studies.
1960s
	Idaherma Williams MFA'63 will show her woodblock series, The Twelve Labors of Hercules, at The Philadelphia Sketch Club, January 12-28; the opening reception is January 14, 2-5pm. The series will be on display again in June at the Erdman Gallery at Princeton Theological Seminary. Pictured at left: Sunflower with Antique Vase.

HAPPENINGS

LECTURES January 10 JANE GOLDEN "Murals as Community Builders" January 11 RICHARD LIEBHART "The Tomb Chamber in Tumulus MM at Gordion, Turkey: Studying and Preserving the Oldest Standing Building in the World " January 11 RUTHERFORD PLATT "The Humane Metropolis: Holly Whyte Lives On " January 17 CARLOS BASUALDO "Tropicália: Revolution in Brazilian Culture"			February 1 JAMES CORNER "Thickety Thick " February 5 MARNIE WEBER February 5 MAJORA CARTER "Sustainable South Bronx: Design is Deliberate " SPECIAL EVENTS + EXHIBITIONS January 8-27 UNDERGRADUATE FINE ARTS JURIED EXHIBITION Addams Gallery Reception: January 9, 5-7pm January 10, 5-7pm REDEDICATION OF THE APSE The Apse, 4th Floor, Fisher Fine Arts Library January 18 - February 16 FIRST YEAR MFA EXHIBITION Meyerson Lower Gallery Reception: January 19, 5-7pm January 31 - February 7 MFA VIDEO EXHIBITION Meyerson Upper Gallery Reception: February 2 , 5-7pm ALUMNI EVENTS Click here for more information about these and other events: Tuesday, January 16 ALUMNI HAPPY HOUR - MIAMI Monday, March 19 - Friday, March 30 VIRTUAL CAREER FAIR 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
January 22 NIKKI LEE
January 29 EILEEN NEFF January 29 DAVID ERDMAN & MARCELYN GOW "Architecture in Formation " January 30 JANE GOLDEN
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