This Week at PennDesign - March 30, 2012

Friday, March 30
HAPPY HOUR
5:30PM, Meyerson Patio

Happy hour is back on the patio! Bring your Penn and State-issued IDs to participate.

Monday, April 2
OPEN HOUSE + SPECIAL HAPPY HOUR
8:30AM, Locations vary

Welcome, new students! There will be a special Open House Happy Hour in Meyerson Lower Gallery at 5:30 following this day-long introduction to PennDesign.

Tuesday, April 3
WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI & MOSHE SAFDIE
6:30PM, Meyerson Lower Gallery

Architectural critic and PennDesign Meyerson Professor of Urbanism Witold Rybczynski will join architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author Moshe Safdie in conversation about Safdie's body of work and philosophy.

Wednesday, April 4
URBTRANS MEETING: VUKAN VUCHIC
NOON, Meyerson B3

Contact Liza (elco@design) or Chris (diprima@design) with questions.

Thursday April 5
GAPSA WINE WALK
6PM, GSE, 37th & Locust Walk

GAPSA’s third annual Wine-Walk will bring you a fantastic experience in wine tasting. 

VISITING ARTIST: MOYRA DAVEY
6:30pm, Institute for Contemporary Art, 36th & Sansom Streets, Philadelphia

Friday, April 6
SUPER HAPPY HOUR
5:30PM, Meyerson Lower Gallery

Time for another big one - bring your Penn and State-issued IDs to participate.

Monday, April 9
IN THE TERRAIN OF WATER II
3-7PM, Meyerson Lower Gallery

Participants include Pietro Laureano, Anna Heringer, Dilip da Cunha, Anuradha Mathur, Liat Margolis, Antje Stokman, James Timberlake, and others.

Tuesday, April 10
PHILIPPE RAHM
6:30PM, Meyerson Lower Gallery
Sponsor: Ewing Cole

Rahm is Principal of Philippe Rahm Architects, based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological to the meteorological, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability.

Wednesday April 11
DAVID FIXLER
6PM, Meyerson Upper Gallery

Fixler has guided the restoration and renovation of numerous significant landmark facilities for government and higher education clients around the country. He is the Principal, Design + Preservation, EYP/AE Inc.

SPIEGEL LECTURE: PETER GREENAWAY
6:30PM, Meyerson B1

PennDesign is pleased to announce Peter Greenaway, made possible bythe Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts. The project takes the form of a city-wide collaborative installation on the occasion of the film director's visit to Philadelphia in April 2012, and has been organized in partnership with Slought Foundation and the Cinema Studies and Fine Arts Programs at Penn. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

Thursday April 12
URBANIZED: FILM SCREENING & CONVERSATION
6pm, Meyerson B1
Sponsor: Penn IUR, Cinema Studies, Urban Studies

Ricky Burdett
Director, Lse Cities & Urban Age
James Corner
professor & Chair of landscape archtecture
Gary Hustwit
Director & Producer, Urbanized

REGISTER: urbanizedatpenndesign.eventbrite.com

See all upcoming Lecture Series events

Through April 20
CHAI-NA/CHINA SIGNS
1-6PM, Thurs-Sat, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Slought Foundation and the Department of Fine Arts at PennDesign are pleased to announce Chai-na/China Signs, featuring artists Huang Rui and Ko Siu Lan. An installation featuring documentation of performance works by the artists, will be on display at Slought Foundation from March 16 through April 20. 

Financial Aid News
Continuing students should be aware that next year, the $8,500 subsidized portion of the Federal Direct Loan will no longer be subsidized by the Federal government.  Instead, it will be added to the unsubsidized portion of $12,500, making the total $20,500 Federal Direct Loan unsubsidized.

New lecture videos are up on Vimeo.

Looking for the Mid & Final Review schedule?

Evan Litvin & Lea Oxenhandler, M.Arch'12 and Penn Law students Aaron Tjoa and Sarah Besnof have been chosen as finalists in the Fels Pubic Policy Challenge!

The Fine Arts Spring Ceramics Sale is April 18-19, 10am – 430pm on Locust Walk at 36th Street. 30% of the proceeds support a Clay Scholarship for UPenn students/70% go to the artist (UPenn students, faculty and staff).

Orkan Telhan, Professor of Emerging Design Practices - Fine Arts is part of the Russian-Austrian science art project Dust, opening April 12 in Moscow.

The New York DIRT Launch at Van Alen is May 24!

Notice anything different about the Meyerson lobby? More improvements coming!