PennDesign In Review - February 2012

Wed. 1 February

A look at what's coming up at the School of Design this month.

Dan Willis (penn state) and william braham (pennDesign) at the architecture and energy symposium

Spring 2012 Interdisciplinary Studios and Courses

Water in Dhaka. Dead space in New Orleans. Play in Ankara. Enclaves in Las Palmas. Watch short videos of Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor and PennDesign faculty presenting select Spring 2012 studios that showcase the School’s interdisciplinary strengths and design’s reach in the world - Watch videos.

Unveiling Kahn in Rome: Piazza Campidoglio

To celebrate the 111th birthday of Louis I. Kahn--one of the most influential architects of the 20th century--please join us for the unveiling of his recently-acquired work, Piazza Campidoglio, Rome, 1950, with remarks by his son Nathaniel Kahn. - Read More.

New Issue of Change Over Time

The latest issue of Change Over Time, a new, semiannual journal publishing original, peer-reviewed research on the history, theory, and praxis of conservation and the built environment, addresses Heritage Recording in the Digital Age. The first of a two-part series on the methodological and theoretical approaches to the documentation and recording of historic sites, Digital Heritage offers papers presented at the international symposium SmartDOC-heritage held at PennDesign. - Read More.


	Firms of Marion Weiss, Laurie Olin shortlisted for National Mall Competition
	Lab headed by Frank Matero wins National Park Impact Grant for Green Roof Project
	Amy Hillier on Mapping the Du Bois Philadelphia Negro
	Game Changer: James Corner, Urban Dreamscaper
	Art and Culture Talks: Joshua Mosley at Albany University Art Museum
	Dean Marilyn Taylor, Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize committee member, on cities' transformation


	Remembering Visionary Architect and Theorist Anne Tyng, PhD'75
	"The Cool Kid" Faris Al-Shathir, MArch'08 profiles in The NY Times
	Praxis at 10: Director Harris Steinberg, MArch'82 offers a profile of a decade's work
	Alumni from across US hosting PennDesign "On the Road" events

Feb 2	Architecture of Discourse—A conversation event about how a school invites discourse
Feb 2	Diana Cooper—PennDesign Fine Arts Lecture @ the ICA
Feb 3	Safeword—MFA Class of 2013 Opening Reception
Feb 3	PennDesign On the Road *Los Angeles*
Feb 4	PennDesign On the Road *San Francisco*
Feb 5	PennDesign On the Road *Seattle - new time*
Feb 11	Architectures of the Text: An Inquiry into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Feb 13	Annual Ian L. McHarg Lecture: Adriaan Geuze—"Re-frame"
Feb 15	PennDesign On the Road *Washington DC*
Feb 16	Visual Studies Lecture: Orkan Telhan—"Of Mice and Men"
Feb 20	Kahn in Rome—Unveiling of the Piazza Campidoglio with Nathaniel Kahn
Feb 23	Spiegel Lecture: Paula Scher—Designer, Pentagram
Feb 27	Enrique Peñalosa—Former Mayor of Bogotá
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PennDesign In Review - February 2012

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