The
alumni newsline for the University of Pennsylvania School of
Design
Published by PennDesign Alumni Association (PDAA)
Volume 7,
Number 6
February 2007
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The
alumni newsline for the University of Pennsylvania School of
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ANNUAL GIVING UPDATE |
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Thank you to the 443 donors who have invested $261,374 in our students in the 2006-2007 academic year! We are conducting a phonathon beginning this month to reach our annual giving goals of $375,000 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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RECRUITING OPPORTUNITIES |
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Interested in recruiting new PennDesign graduates? Represent your firm/organization at Career Connection Day, March 23. There's no charge to attend and it's a great opportunity to meet your future employees and summer interns. Come early and join us for a special luncheon for alumni attending Career Connection Day. Can't come? Participate in the Virtual Career Fair, March 19-30. For information on both events AND the online Resume Books, go to the Career Services website. |
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URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE |
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Gold Coast City, Australia will host the 2007 International Urban Design Conference, Waves of Change - Cities at Crossroads, September 6-8. The conference will feature national and international keynote presenters and includes workshops, debates and tours of Australia's fastest growing city, showcasing the attributes of a premier tourist destination, from tall buildings to medium density housing to the hinterland "Eco-village" development. For more information or to submit your abstract online, visit the conference website. |
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ON THE LINE |
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Please note: some alumni names are hyperlinked to email addresses | |
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Todd Hoehn MArch'01
was project architect for the Seattle Art Museum/Olympic Sculpture Park designed by Weiss/Manfredi of New York. The design team also included Marion Weiss, Graham Chair Professor at PennDesign, and Julie Parrett MLA'97, landscape architect consultant. 50,000 visitors flocked to the park on the grand opening weekend, January 20-21. (Image at left by Benjamin Benschneider) |
| Yong-Hyun Yu MArch'04
and his colleagues, Richard Alomar, ASLA and Kenji Suzuki, AIA at di Domenico + Partners, LLP (New York, NY) won first place in the Chicago Prize 2007 – Crossing the Drive competition, sponsored by the Chicago Architectural Club. Marion Weiss served as jury chair and keynote speaker at the award ceremony and exhibition opening at the Art Institute of Chicago. | |
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Cory Kegerise MS'03
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Kristin Szwajkowski MCP'02
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Aaron Brooks MFA'96
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| David Chacon C'89 MArch'94
project architect for OMA's China Central Television project in Beijing, reports an exhibition of the project at New York's MoMA: OMA in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters, through February 26. Scheduled to open for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the complex, which comprises three buildings and a media park on a site east of Beijing's Forbidden City, embodies a proposal for social and urban change through a rethinking of the tall building. | ||
| Dev Hawley MArch'95
recently left Walt Disney Imagineering after more than 10 years. He is the Vice President of Capital Projects, managing the Americas portfolio with Goldman Sachs & Co. He, his wife Ellen and two children (Bennett and Adeline) have relocated from Hong Kong and Los Angeles to Greenwich, CT. | ||
| Yikwon Kim MFA'97
was invited to lecture at YanBian University, YanBian, China on December 22, and recently organized a public art project with local artists, Art is me, Art is you, Series #3. He is now accepting exhibition proposals at aSFe Gallery in Center City, Philadelphia, for 2007-2008. | ||
| Barbara Lampen CW'74 MRP'78
is a deputy director for the World Trade Center Redevelopment at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey where she is responsible for development of the Freedom Tower. | ||
| Bob Langnas MFA'91
chairs the Arts and Humanities Department at St. Louis Community College's Florissant Valley campus, which has one of the few two-year art departments to be nationally accredited, and offers programs in General Fine Arts, Photography, Graphic Communications, Art Education, and Philosophy/Humanities. Bob just completed his sabbatical project, in which he studied newly developed nontoxic printmaking techniques. He continues to judge numerous regional shows, work for the Artists' Advisory Board of the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, MO, lecture and exhibit extensively (recent solo shows were at Westminster College and Flo Valley), and is represented by Art Resources. | ||
| Brian Phillips MArch'96
founding principal of Interface Studio, announces that his firm was awarded the Silver Medal by AIA Philadelphia at their 2006 Design Awards for the Sheridan Street Housing project. The project proposes 13 green, affordable houses in North Philadelphia, and was featured in an article by architecture critic, Inga Saffron, in The Philadelphia Inquirer. | ||
| Sarah Roche MFA'96
has a solo exhibition of recent paintings, works on paper and scupture entitled The Collection, on view at Cerulean Arts in Philadelphia through February 23. | ||
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Richard Ryan MLA'97 |
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Harley Bartlett C'81
announces that his new website is up and running, and showcases his latest painting and mural projects. At left, a commission completed for the Harvard Club (Commonwealth Ave. location), Boston, MA. |
| Sergio Coscia C'85
was promoted to associate at Hillier Architecture in Philadelphia. He is working on the new campus for Episcopal Academy; the new Philadelphia offices for CBS Broadcasting; and the new Catto Community School and Boys & Girls Club of Camden, which recently won a New Jersey Smart Growth award. | |
| Arun Jain MArch'86 MCP'86
Chief Urban Designer of Portland, Oregon, has been recently elected the US Representative on the Bureau of the International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP) based in The Hague, The Netherlands. In Portland he continues to develop a comprehensive knowledge base for its Central City to better inform short and long term urban design responses. An exhibition of his group's urban design maps, drawings, charts and diagrams is currently underway at the Marylhurst University's Art Gym. | |
| Sarah McCoubrey C'79 MFA'81
received a 2007 Fellowship for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a national research library and learned society of American history and culture. This visiting fellowship is for historical research by creative artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative, non-formulaic works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history. McCoubrey will be doing research for her project, Hannah Morse: Landscape Painter. | |
| Jeffrey
Reed MFA'83 is showing his work at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, on view through February 20. | |
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Joanne Gover Yoshida W'82 MArch'86
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David
Gilmour MCP'78 | |
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Arthur "Woody" Pier C'75 MArch'78
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| William
Lukens MArch'62 will exhibit a solo show of recent paintings, acrylic on canvas, during the month of February at the DaVinci Art Alliance in Philadelphia. The opening reception is February 10, 5:30-8pm; gallery hours are 1-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays. | |
| Donald Stastny MArch'69 MCP'69 MFA'69
founding partner of StastnyBrun Architects, received the 2006 Medal of Honor from the Northwest and Pacific region of AIA. He is the sixth member from the region to receive this honor, which was awarded for the overall impact his projects, planning leadership and dedication to design excellence have had in the region. He worked closely with dozens of Native American groups to create cultural facilities that mirror their heritage, including the new Portland State University Native American Student and Community Center (at right). |
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Robert Cassway
BArch'58 won 1st prize in The Council for The Arts of Southern New Jersey’s annual juried photo show. His photo, Abandoned Grain Elevators, Inverness, Montana, (left) is one of a series of photographs for a forthcoming book of the “Vanishing West.” |
| Patrick Quinn
MArch'59 was a speaker at the international conference on western art in Morocco sponsored by the Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association in Marrakesh this past November. Since retiring from the RPI faculty (where he is professor emeritus), he has also lectured in India, Australia, New Zealand and has completed four small architectural projects in the Albany, NY, Capital district. | |
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Gerald Schwam
BArch'53 | |
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