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Leslie Richards in front of red brick building Story Q&A: Leslie Richards, Professor of Practice in City & Regional Planning April 25, 2025
abc7 news Story DumoLab's research on bio-composites covered by ABC7 News March 6, 2025
CATRes PIs with Nasa Representatives Story Center for Air Transportation Resilience Holds Kickoff Meeting December 20, 2024
Two researchers pouring hydrogel into a protoype Story Weitzman Faculty Receive NSF Award for Graduate Student Training Program Bridging Engineering and Architecture November 30, 2024
Rebuild Team Photo Story Weitzman Faculty Selected as Team for Rebuild Philadelphia November 22, 2024
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Concrete building under construction Story Toward Carbon-Negative Architecture September 26, 2024
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psu Story Dr Mogas-Soldevila to give track Keynote at the PSU LiMC2 'Biomaterials and Nature-based Solutions' Workshop June 10, 2024
MDPI Story Dr. Laia Mogas-Soldevila to Guest Edit an MDPI Journal in Applied Sciences Issue May 15, 2024
UCH Story Dr. Mogas-Soldevila on "Physics & Contemporary Architecture" for University of Chicago April 15, 2024
dlr at gsd Story Join Dr. Mogas-Soldevila at Harvard GSD's Material Time on April 12th April 7, 2024
laia p Story Dr Mogas-Soldevila to Speak at Princeton's Materials Institute "Advanced Manufacturing Symposium" February 21, 2024
book chap Story Recent book Chapter for Springer Nature by Dr. Mogas-Soldevila is out on "Low Energy Adaptive Biological Material Skins from Nature to Buildings" January 31, 2024
laia arc Story Dr Mogas-Soldevila honored as Discussion Leader for GRC's Multifunctional Materials and Structures January 31, 2024
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Composite image of two people Story Spring 2024 Lectures Series Opens January 18 January 12, 2024
Students gesture toward models with renderings on wall behind Story Harnessing Ancient Materials and AI for Sustainable Architecture December 18, 2023
Composite image of two people Story Weitzman Architecture Faculty Present New Research on Urban History and Biomaterials to International Audiences October 26, 2023
Masoud Akbarzadeh of the Weitzman School of Design leads a multidisciplinary group of architectural designers, structural engineers, computer scientists, and more in his Polyhedral Structures Laboratory. He explores ways in which polyhedral geometries that frequently occur in nature can be used to make stronger and lighter structures, all while using fewer materials. Akbarzadeh discusses a recent study drawing inspiration from dragonfly wings. (Image: iStock / yanikap) Story Natural structures can give rise to stronger, lighter systems July 18, 2023
Technological Disruption and Urban Regeneration Roundtable Discussion at Penn Wharton China Center Story Technological Disruption and Urban Regeneration Roundtable Discussion at Penn Wharton China Center May 22, 2023
EMA ImageoftheYear of multinucleate spores of a soil fungus Story DumoLab's recent award featured on PennToday's "Cross-disciplinary collaboration for a healthier planet" May 1, 2023
Image of model Story 3D Printing Drones Work Like Bees to Build and Repair Structures While Flying September 22, 2022
A man walking through grassy marshland Story Corps Collaboration June 15, 2022
3-d rendering of African landscape with pyramid-shaped buildings Story Spring Architecture Courses Take on Climate Change January 27, 2022
View across park from table tennis stadium to field hockey stadium Story Winka Dubbeldam on Designing the 2022 Asian Games Park January 23, 2022
Parallel lines of underwater stone embankments hug a shoreline under turquoise water Story Designing with Nature on the Great Lakes October 15, 2021
501 Reviews Story Graduate Architecture Presents ‘Hyperlapse Chambers’ at the Weitzman School of Design October 4, 2021