PennDesign Online - June 2008

The alumni newsline for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Published by PennDesign Alumni Association (PDAA)
Volume 8, Number 8
June 2008


TAYLOR NAMED NEW DEAN
	Marilyn Jordan Taylor will join PennDesign as the new Dean of the School, beginning October 1. Partner in Charge of the Urban Design and Planning Practice at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP and the first woman to serve as Chairman of the firm, Taylor is internationally known for her distinguished and passionate involvement in the design of large-scale urban projects and civic initiatives. She was also both the first architect and Chairman of the Urban Land Institute. Current Dean Gary Hack, who formally completes his 12-year term on June 30, has graciously agreed to extend his term through September 30 to insure a smooth transition. See the Almanac for the full announcement by President Amy Gutmann and Provost Ron Daniels.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2008!

Dean Gary Hack gave an inspiring commencement address and PDAA board president Nancy Goldenberg MCP'80 conferred alumni status on the class of 2008 at PennDesign's graduation last month. Join us in welcoming the new graduates to the PennDesign Alumni Association, and register for the Penn Alumni Career Network (PACNet) to mentor them and current students!

Attn New Grads: we send regional email invites to alumni based on your street address, so make sure to update your contact info on Penn's Online Community when you relocate.

SUMMER SCHEDULE AND EVENTS
PennDesign Online is sent from September through June, so you'll hear from us again in the fall. Enjoy the summer, and see below and the Events Calendar for upcoming events! Tour of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, Saturday, June 14, 11am The tour includes a special exhibition of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop's schematic design for the renovation of Harvard's 3 art museums, uniting them under one roof. Cost: $8 musuem admission paid at the door (allows access to all 3 Harvard art museums for the day); individual checks at optional lunch on Harvard Square See the Events Calendar for details, RSVP online now or contact the Alumni Office for assistance. Looking for something to do this summer? Check out the Alumni Shows and Exhibitions Calendar for PennDesign alumni shows around the world. To be listed on the calendar, submit title, date, location and website to the Alumni Office.

SUPPORT FOR OUR STUDENTS
	PDAA board president Nancy Goldenberg MCP'80 presented the PennDesign Student Council with a check for $1,000 toward improvements in 2 student lounges in Meyerson and Morgan. PDAA Student Representatives Matt Kelly MArch'08 and Jake Levine MArch'08, and Student Council co-chair Hernaldo Flores MArch'08 accepted the check on behalf of the students. The academic year has ended, but the 2007-2008 PennDesign Annual Fund is still raising money for student scholarships! We need 234 more donors to set a new record for participation. Give online by June 30th to be included in the 2007-2008 Honor Roll of Contributors.

FACULTY TEACHING AWARDS & MEDALS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Congrats to the faculty who received teaching awards this spring; see the Almanac for details.

G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching:
John Moore, Monroe and Edna Gutman Professor of fine arts and chair of fine arts
Donovon Rypkema, lecturer of historic preservation
David Gouverneur, lecturer of landscape architecture

Distinguished Teaching in the Undergraduate Programs:
Matt Neff , fine arts lecturer in printmaking

Dean's Medals of Achievement were awarded to 3 members of the PennDesign community at graduation in recognition of their vision, leadership and extraordinary service to the School. Join us in congratulating them!

Richard Baron, Julia Moore Converse and A. Eugene Kohn BArch'53 MArch'57

ON THE LINE

Please note: some alumni names are hyperlinked to email addresses
2000s
	Esperanza Altamar MFA'00 is Manager of Community Programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and was recently interviewed for a feature by The Philadelphia Inquirer on Museum employees' favorite works in the collection. Altamar discussed her interest in the Dutch tiles, one of which is pictured at left.
John Cluver CRT'00 was named partner after 14 years with Voith and Mactavish Architects, where he had been the firm’s Director of Preservation to date; he was also recently appointed to the Architectural Advisory Committee of the Philadelphia Historical Commission. Cluver’s interests lie in the preservation of historic structures and design traditions. He was the project manager for the award-winning rehabilitation of the Frank Furness-designed Centennial Bank Building, and for the restoration of Yale University’s second oldest building, Dwight Hall.
Julia Barbosa Landois MFA'07 was awarded an Artpace Travel Grant to participate in this year's Performance Studies international conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her solo exhibition, Veiled in Flesh, opens with a performance on June 6th at Cactus Bra Space in San Antonio, TX and runs through June 20th. She will also be featured in Reforming US: Immigration Through Art, showing June 1-July 13 at Loyola University Chicago's Crown Center Gallery.
Corrine Packard C'01 MCP'02 was recently named the Vice President of Development at the Hudson Yards Development Corporation, the New York City 501(c)(3) local development corporation charged with spearheading the implementation of the Hudson Yards redevelopment program, which includes the extension of the No.7 Subway Line, the redevelopment of the MTA Railyards, and other development sites between roughly 30th St. and 42nd St., west of 8th Ave. Prior to working at HYDC, Packard was a Vice President of the Financial Services division of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where she structured City incentives and discretionary capital investments in real estate and economic development projects throughout the five boroughs.
Hunter Stabler MFA'06 announces his new artist's website: www.hunterstabler.com. He will have a solo show this month at Pageant Soloveev at 6th and Bainbridge in Philadelphia, June 13 - August 3.
Jeffrey Tubbs MCP'03 of JDT International, Inc. invites fellow alumni and friends to a launch party for the Flats at Girard Pointe, a CRL2 development project, at Northbowl, 909 N 2nd St in Philadelphia, Thursday, June 5 at 6:30pm. Come to eat, drink, bowl, shoot pool and buy a house! RSVP to girardpointe@gmail.com. Partners for the event include Solardelphia, the Energy Coordinating Agency, Greenable and Energy Star.
Nathan Wasserbauer MFA'06 CRT'06 has a solo exhibition at the Parisian Laundry Gallery in Montreal, Canada, through July 6. He is currently an artist-in-residence at the Chashama Visual Arts Program in New York City.
1990s

Shawn Evans MArch'95 CRT'95 has been appointed to the Architectural Committee of the Philadelphia Historical Commission. Evans is an Associate at Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, based in Philadelphia and Santa Fe, and leads the preservation practice of the firm. He is currently involved in preservation plans for Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, NM and Fort Apache, AZ; in Philadelphia, he is managing preservation projects at Arch Street United Methodist Church, Shiloh Baptist Church, and Fort Mifflin. At the 2008 Building Museums Conference in March, he presented the Master Plan for the Penn Museum, recently completed with David Chipperfield Architects.
	Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto MLA'99 PhD'04 has published her first book, Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (University of Pennsylvania Press), pictured at left. In 2007 Fabiani Giannetto accepted the position of assistant professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park. Vincent McLoughlin MFA'91 is showing his work through June at Bubble House, 3404 Sansom St. in Philadelphia.
Kathryn McFadden BA'95 MFA'97 co-curated an exhibit titled Shirley Gorelick: Frida, Pablo and the Self/The Artist as Model at Rowan University Art Gallery this April-May. The exhibition featured paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by Gorelick (1924 - 2000), a first-generation feminist artist and member of SOHO20, which remains an important women's artist cooperative in New York City. A catalog of the exhibition is available with essays by McFadden and art historian and co-curator Andrew D. Hottle.
Kate Kern Mundie BFA'99 and James Mundie BFA'97 announce their exhibit: Inside/Outside: Kate Kern Mundie and James G. Mundie at The Station Gallery in Greenville, DE, June 6-28. Also, James received a 2008 fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The Mundies are now the proud parents of son Declan Fergus Mundie, born April 17.
Tina Paterno MS'99 was recently featured in an article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer for her work as an architectural conservator at Integrated Conservation Resources, Inc., based in New York City.
Michael Scott MArch'96 CRT'96 has been promoted to Associate Principal at Herbert S Newman and Partners (HSNP) in New Haven, Connecticut. Scott joined the firm in 2006 and has worked on projects across the nation, of a variety of program types and scales, and for a diverse clientele, including corporate, education, and worship communities. His experience ranges from the Corning Corporation and Pixar Animation Studios to The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and The Catholic University of America. Prior to joining HSNP, he worked with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, and McClure Hopkins Architects.
1980s
	Cyrus Dezfuli-Arjomandi MA'84 PhD'85 joined HOK's Science and Technology group in New York City as an associate and senior architect, and would be happy to hear from fellow alumni! Amy Kaufman MFA'82 recently held an open studio in Newton Centre, MA, as part of the Annual Newton Open Studios. Flowers, Flowers is pictured at left.

	Rachel Simmons Schade C'78 MArch'83 of Schade and Bolender Architects wrote the 48-page, full-color Philadelphia Rowhouse Manual recently issued by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as a resource tool for homeowners of the city's most common housing type. The Manual gives a brief history of the rowhouse, and provides tips on making the rowhouse more energy efficient, maximizing small spaces and accommodating 21st-century living. It is available to view and download on the PCPC website.
1970s
Robin Beckett MCP'75 was accepted into the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Leadership Training program held in Portland, ME this month. This competitive program emphasizes providing a participatory experience in leadership and organizational development techniques and the most up-to-date and effective information and training in current preservation practices, issues and action strategies.
Ron Kanter MFA'72 premiered his film about the Philadelphia Police Department at the Philadelphia Film Festival on April 7. New Cops follows a platoon of new recruits through their training at the Philadelphia Police Academy and returns five years later to see how they do the job and what the job has done to them. The film also aired on WHYY-TV in Philadelphia last month.
Carol McHarg MLA'77 has a solo exhibition of her paintings titled Design Against Nature at The White Dog Cafe, 3420 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Pa. On view through mid-June.
Clarence Morgan MFA'78 participated in an exhibition at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis this spring. Works in Hometown Editions were created by Minnesota artists in collaboration with Highpoint Master Printer Cole Rogers.
1960s
	Natvar Bhavsar MFA'65 recently showed his work in Lights and Shadows: Art from Asia and the West at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills, CA. After trips to India and Dubai this spring, he was also featured in the Friday magazine section of Gulf News. Scott Kahn C'67 announces that his painting, Berkshire Nightscape, pictured at left, was selected as one of the ten finalists in The Artful Home Portfolio Competition. The winner will be determined by an online public vote; first prize is $2500 cash plus the publication of a limited edition giclee print, to be prominently displayed and marketed by The Artful Home.

HAPPENINGS

EXHIBITIONS through June 4 MFA THESIS EXHIBITION Ice Box Project Space, 1400 N. American St. Image at right by Simon Slater MFA'08 through June 7 SONGS OF HEARTH AND VALOR, RECITAL IN 8 DOMINIONS, AFTER BESSIE SMITH: TERRY ADKINS The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY through July 6 DREAD: JOSHUA MOSLEY, part of the CERCA series Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego EVENTS June 14 FOGG ART MUSEUM OF HARVARD: ALUMNI TOUR
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