Stuart Weitzman School of Design
102 Meyerson Hall
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia—The University of Pennsylvania School of Design (PennDesign) Fall 2017 Lecture Series brings nearly 30 renowned architects, landscape architects, planners, preservationists, historians, data scientists, and artists to Philadelphia this fall. The series opens on Wednesday, September 6, with the KPF Lecture featuring UN Studio Founder and Principal Architect Ben van Berkel on the firm’s masterplan for Amsterdam’s Arnhem Central railway station and concludes on Thursday, November 30, with a talk by artist Laurel Nakadate.
Among the highlights:
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Wednesday, September 6, 6:30pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Ben van Berkel, founder and principal architect, UN Studio
Arnhem Station: A Station with a Twist
KPF Sponsored Lecture
Presented by the Department of Architecture
Tuesday, September 12, 5:00pm
Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
Urban Book Talk with Domenic Vitiello, assistant professor of city and regional planning, PennDesign
Vitiello talks about Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States, which he co-edited with Thomas Sugrue. Featuring contributions by leading scholars across the social sciences, Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States is the first book to document immigrant-led revitalization; published by Penn Press.
Presented by Penn IUR (not a unit of PennDesign)
Wednesday, September 13, 6:30pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
A Worker’s Lunch Box: A series of interviews with factory workers by Nina Rappaport from the Vertical Urban Factory
Film screening and discussion with the director and guests
Co-presented by the Department of Architecture and Slought
Thursday, September 14, 6:00pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Public Interest Design Panel + Exchange
“Manifestos: What does Community Engaged Design Mean to You?”
Praxis Dialogues are presented by PennPraxis, the center for applied research, outreach, and practice at PennDesign
Monday, September 18, 6:30pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Timothy Morton, professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University
“There are More Parts than Wholes”
Presented by the Department of Architecture
Tuesday, September 19, 6:00pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Patrice Frey, President and CEO, National Main Street Center
“Main Streets Now: Preservation-Based Community Revitalization in New Economy”
Presented by the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
Thursday, September 21, 6:00pm
Barbara Wilks, FAIA, FASLA, founding principal, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
“Structuring Confluence”
Presented by the Department of Landscape Architecture
Wednesday, September 27, 6:30pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Keith Krumwiede, director, Krum|Co, California and New York
“Once Upon a Time in Another America”
Presented by the Department of Architecture
Thursday, September 28, 6:30pm
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia
Paul Ramirez Jonas
MFA Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Fine Arts
Wednesday, October 4, 5:30pm
Frederick Steiner, dean and Paley Professor, PennDesign
Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
“Watching the Light in Rome”
Presented by the Arthur Ross Gallery (not a unit of PennDesign) in conjunction with the exhibition A View of One’s Own: Three Women Photographers in Rome
Wednesday, October 11, 6:00pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Mindy Fullilove, Professor of Urban Policy and Health, Parsons School of Design, The New School
Presented by the Department of City and Regional Planning
Thursday, October 12, 6:00pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Fredric Quivik, professor of history (retired), Michigan Tech; editor, IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Presented by the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
Thursday, October 12, 6:30pm
Morgan Building, 205 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Michael Brenson on David Smith
Friday, October 13, 10:00am
Morgan Building, 205 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Panel Discussion on David Smith
With Michael Leja, James and Nan Farquhar Professor of the History of Art, Penn; Sarah Hamill, assistant professor of art history, Oberlin College; Taylor Davis, co-chair, Sculpture, Bard College; and moderator Matthew Affron, Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Presented by the Department of Fine Arts
Thursday, October 19, 6:30pm
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia
Mike Cloud
MFA Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Fine Arts
Wednesday, October 25, 6:30pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
William Whitaker, curator and collections manager, Architectural Archives, PennDesign
“Uncrating Kahn”
Co-presented by the Office of the Dean at PennDesign with The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Wednesday, November 1, 6:30pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Robert Stuart-Smith, assistant professor of architecture, PennDesign, and director of Robert Stuart-Smith Design/Kokkugia and the Autonomous Manufacturing Lab: PennDesign and UCL-Computer Science, London
“Behavioral Production”
Presented by the Department of Architecture
Thursday, November 2, 6:00pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Sharon E. Sutton, professor emerita of architecture and urban design, adjunct professor emerita of social work, University of Washington
“When Ivory Towers Were Black: Lessons in Re-Imagining Universities and Communities”
Presented by City and Regional Planning
Thursday, November 2, 6:30pm
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia
Anicka Yi
MFA Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Fine Arts
Friday, November 3, 5:30pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Wendy Lesser
“You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn”
Presented by PennDesign Development and Alumni Relations
Monday, November 6, 6:30pm
Scott Erdy, FAIA, LEED AP, co-founder and principal, Erdy McHenry Architecture, Philadelphia
Practical Matters
Presented by the Department of Architecture
Thursday, November 9, 6:00pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Stanislaus Fung, associate professor, School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Recent Work
Presented by the Department of Landscape Architecture
Wednesday, November 15, 11:00am – 1:00pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Penn GIS Day
In conjunction with GIS Day, a national day addressing the importance of geospatial analysis, speakers investigate the role of computer vision and remote sensing in shaping data acquisition, geospatial analysis, and technology developments in cartography. With Rob Emanuele, vice president of research and technical lead on the GeoTrellis Team, Azavea; Abhishek Guar, deep learning engineer, Neurala, Inc; and Chris Holmes, SVP, Product Architecture, Planet.
Presented by the MUSA program in the Department of City and Regional Planning with Penn IUR.
Friday – Saturday, November 17 – 18
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
“The Culture of Cultivation: Designing with Agriculture”
Conference organized by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, assistant professor of landscape architecture, PennDesign
Presented by the Department of Landscape Architecture
Monday, November 20, 6:00pm
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
Vladimir Sitta, Terragram, Landscape Architecture + Urban Design, Prague and Sydney
Recent Work
Presented by the Department of Landscape Architecture
Thursday, November 30
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia
Laurel Nakadate
MFA Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Fine Arts