THIS WEEK at PennDesign - October 5, 2012

Friday, October 5
HAPPY HOUR
5:30PM, Meyerson Plaza

Bring IDs to participate.

Monday, October 8 
PETER CALTHORPE
6pm, Meyerson Lower Gallery

Peter Calthorpe has been named one of 25 "innovators on the cutting edge" by Newsweek Magazine for his work redefining the models of urban and suburban growth in America. He speaks this Monday on "Reflections on Urbanisms--New, Traditional, and Global" in conversation with Alan Greenberger.

Wednesday, October 10
RAHUL MEHROTRA
6PM, Meyerson Lower Gallery
Co-Sponsor: Center for Advanced Study of India

Rahul Mehrotra is Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and a practicing architect, urban designer, and educator. His firm, RMA Architects, was founded in 1990 in Mumbai. He will speak about recent work by RMA Architects in Mumbai. Stephen Kieran introduces.

Thursday, October 11
MOVIE MATTER
6:30PM, Meyerson Lower Gallery
Co-Sponsor: DesignPhiladelphia

A Record or a Process? Why are designers not creating their own movies? Part presentation and part discussion, we will look at the experimental, speculative, and strange work of designers who manipulate the moving image process, and not simply as documentation. With Jinhee Park and John Hong of SsD, Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim of IK studio, and Alicia Imperiale of Tyler School of Art.

through January 18
UNCOMMON MODERN: Commercial Vernacular Architecture in Greater Philadelphia, 1937-1970
10AM-5PM, Kroiz Gallery, Architectural Archives

Works on view include a remarkable series of recent photographs by Betsy Manning as well as rare original drawings by figures such as Louis I. Kahn who contributed to this important and underappreciated architectural legacy.

Friday, October 5
VISTA SANS WOOD TYPE PROJECT - EXHIBITION & ARTIST TALK

Tricia Treacy and Ashley John Pigford created a Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) router to then create wood type of the digital font Vista Sans™ and sent it to 20 international designers/artists/printmakers/studios. Each participant was challenged to interpret these materials as an edition of prints. The exhibition includes all of the prints and video documentation of how the type was made.

Monday, October 8
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: OVERDRAFT
5PM, Zellerbach Auditorium - Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts,
3680 Walnut Street

Penn IUR and Wharton present a documentary screening of Overdraft

Friday, October 12
VISTA SANS WOOD TYPE PROJECT
5:30PM, AIGA Space
Co-Sponsor: DesignPhiladelphia

Part art project, part utopian visionary action, The Vista Sans Wood Type Project is an unsinkable love affair with technology in service to art and art as a vehicle for the possibility of a collaborative community.