Help build
the world
you want
to live in

Weitzman prepares students to address complex sociocultural and environmental issues through thoughtful inquiry, creative expression, and innovation. As a diverse community of scholars and practitioners, we are committed to advancing the public good – locally, nationally, and globally – through architecture, city and regional planning, the fine arts, historic preservation, landscape architecture, and urban spatial analytics.

Learn more about our values and leadership

Fisher Fine Arts Library Exterior Restoration

As one of Penn's architectural gems is restored, the Library remains open and operating normally.

Learn more

Opening Fall 2025: Stuart Weitzman Hall

Under one roof, artists will push the boundaries of creative expression as designers and planners devise solutions to neighborhood challenges, policy experts develop the means to accelerate the sustainable energy transition, and community members take part in year-round exhibitions and lectures.

Learn more

Rendering of east facade showing windowed artist studios

We Are Weitzman

“I felt like I was hitting a wall in my art-making and really sought to learn from and with other people.” Cacie Rosario Master of Fine Arts Student

“There's a lot of room for improvement on how we plan our streets.” Xiaoxia (Summer) Dong Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning

Meet the people of Weitzman

The Latest

News

Composite of headshots of Whetstone and Mason

Story | 06.26.2025 New Faculty and Chair in the Department of Historic Preservation

Fingers jutting into waterway afford visitors views

Story | 06.24.2025 At the Intersection of Design, Planning, and Improv

Story | 06.04.2025 Native Plants from Afar

Story | 05.29.2025 Spring Architecture Studios Bridge Local and Global, Material and Conceptual

In the media

Can Americans Just Stop Building New Highways? Professor of City and Regional Planning Erick Guerra summarizes the hard lessons of his new book, Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction. Bloomberg CityLab

Charred chimneys are all that’s left of these LA midcentury homes. Inside the quest to save them A piece of history burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. Now, Weitzman alum Evan Curtis Hall (MFA'20) is salvaging what’s left to honor the architecture, and eventually create a memorial. The Guardian

2025 SEU-PENN Summer School: Innovative Rural-scape The SEU-Penn Summer School successfully brought together faculty and students from Weitzman and four universities in China to explore pathways for rural revitalization. World Landscape Architect

Independence National Historical Park and its demolished history: What you need to know “If we hadn’t torn down all those buildings, there would be structures and sites to help us tell more stories about the history of Philadelphia,” says Francesca Russello Ammon, associate professor of historic preservation and city and regional planning. WHYY

Year End Show 2025

Discover hundreds of projects by students in the Class of 2025, who took on challenges from sea-level rise in New York City to vocational training for Dubai's migrant workforce.

Start exploring