PennDesign In Review - September 2012

Sat. 1 September

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

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First year master of landscape architecture students at bartram's garden / sally willig
events calendar
Dean's Convocation and Studio Presentations

On Tuesday, September 4, Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor welcomes faculty, students, alumni and friends for the Fall 2012 semester-opening event, where PennDesign faculty will present a selection of studios and courses that showcase the School’s interdisciplinary strengths. Shown: Gabe Martinez's "Advanced Topics: Photo-based Installation" will stimulate students to create photography-based works of art that break from traditional practices. - Read More.

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Fall 2012 Lecture Series

PennDesign's Fall 2012 Lecture Series features a lineup of award-winning architects, urban planners, theorists, designers, and artists, beginning with Professor Emeritus John Dixon Hunt in conversation with his colleagues on A World of Gardens and concluding with Theaster Gates, artist and cultural planner. The symposium Making Space brings together a wide range of voices to challenge the accepted client-service-based format of professional practice in favor of modes that enhace and expand the cultural potency and agency of design - Read More.

Tokyo Designers Week
Louis Kahn Collection at the Vitra Design Museum

Opening September 3 at the Vitra Design Museum, the retrospective Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture presents roughly 40 selected buildings and projects in the form of newly constructed and historic models, plans and original drawings, photographs and films. The exhibition is a cooperation of the Vitra Design Museum, the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam. - Read More

faculty newsEdit Home Page items

  Enrique Norten at the Venice Biennale Mexico Pavilion
  Laura Wolf Powers on Balancing Analytics with Politics in Human Capital-Centered Economic Development Planning
  James Corner's Race Street Pier in Landezine
  Matt Freedman's Le Grand Slam Guignol at Flux Factory
  Marion Weiss featured as an Architectural Digest Innovator

faculty news

  MFA Alum Wael Shawky at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
  SooJin (Steven) Park, MArch'11 authors Le Corbusier Redrawn: The Houses
  Lea Oxenhandler, MArch'12, is Architectural Designer for KieranTimberlake's London Embassy
  Sarah Gamble, MFA'01 at Edward Thorp Gallery
  Brian English, MCP'03 named Aspen Scholar

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events calendar

Sept 1
Dean's Convocation & Studio Presentations
Sept 8
Opening of Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture at Netherlands Architecture Institute with Nathaniel Kahn and William Whitaker
Sept 10
John Dixon Hunt: A World of Gardens with David Leatherbarrow, Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto,Valerio Morabito, Ellen Neises, and Paula Deitz
Sept 13
Gabriel Metcalfe
Sept 14
I Don't Question the Things You Do Anymore by the MFA Class of 2013
Sept 19
Peter Trummer
Sept 20
Uncommon Modern: Commercial Vernacular Architecture in Greater Philadelphia, 1937-1970
Sept 24
Drylands Design: Constructing Indigeneity with Hadley and Peter Arnold and Ellen Neises
Sept 27-28
Making Space Symposium - REGISTER
Sept 27
Jon Kessler
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