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"radial fluidity" / valmik VYAS (MArch'11) + hyung woo KIM (MArch'11)

Penn's Year of Water Event: Terrain of Water Symposium

How might water change the way we think about design? Anuradha Mathur, associate professor of landscape architecture, curated this weekend's exhibition and symposim to raise questions on how we image and imagine the terrain of water. Read More or Play Slideshow.

Design Around the World: Traveling Studios

Imagining practice around the world is a unique PennDesign experience. Upper level students from across all disciplines traveled to New Orleans, Chicago, Czech Republic, Turkey, Madrid, Jerusalem, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Toyko--the last of which was cut short by the tsunami and earthquake (fortunately, everyone is safe).

The Daily Pennsylvanian featured the Fine Arts photography studio--18 days abroad in the cities and slums of India (PHOTO: The Taj Mahal in Agra by Alex Remnick) Read More.

Student Research Informs Congressional Panel on High Speed Rail

Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell offered testimony at the Congressional hearing on High Speed Rail. Watch video of him citing student research from the School of Design - "one of the very best in the country" - and submitting the studio report into record (30:54). Watch Video

Randy Mason on Misunderstanding Historical Preservation

Witold Rybczynski on Glaeser's Triumph of the Cities

Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor, AIANY Design Awards Juror

John Milner Wins Albert Simons Medal of Excellence

Eugenie Birch on the remaking of Detroit

BroadVUE Project Wins NYU Sustainable Development Competition

Michael Gloudeman (MArch '11) Claims Prize for the John Stewardson Memorial Competition in Architecture

PennDesign Honored for Overall Merit in 2011 ULI/Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition

Work by Ferda Kolatan on the cover of
Dwell's Special NYC Issue.

Clint Randall (MCP’09) and Jeff Knowles (MCP'09) Helping Philly Become Healthier

Milner & Carr Conservation (John Milner, BArch’64 and John Carr, MS’95, CERT’97) Restore Sendak Mural

David Aiken (MCP’10) Reports that Diamond and Associates (Roy Diamond, Principal, JD’78, MCP’79) Received National HUD grant

Research on the Energy Consumption in Electronic Advertising Led By Greg Young (MUSA’10)

Apr 1	Kongjian Yu—The Annual Ian L. McHarg Lecture
Apr 1 & 2	Terrain of Water Symposium—Penn's Year of Water Event Tickets Required
Apr 4	John Hopkins—Sustainable Development: The London 2012 Olympic Park
Apr 4	Amy Franceschini—FutureFarmers, A Retrospective, 1999-Present
Apr 6	Beth Cavener Stichter—A Fine Arts Spiegel Lecture
Apr 11	Christopher Payne—Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals *A PDAA Event*
Apr 11	Alumni Reception - Join us for a reception following the Chris Payne (MArch'96) Lecture
Apr 11	APA National Planning Conference - Join us for a PennDesign Alumni Reception *Boston*
Apr 12	Mohsen Mostafavi—The Harvard GSD Dean @ICA
Apr 13	Book Launch: Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts—Featuring author Tony Atkin
Apr 15	Opening Reception for Anne Tyng—Inhibiting Geometry @The Graham Foundation *Chicago*
Apr 18	Doppler Redux: Whiting/Somol—Rice University/University of Illinois at Chicago
Apr 20	Paolo Portoghesi—In conversation with William Menking and Aaron Levy
Apr 21	Screening: "Dream Builders"—The rise and fall of Lehrer/McGovern
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