A recent Philadelphia Inquirer story on the relocation of NASDQ’s futures and options trading and tech operation to the new FMC tower in University City drew upon and linked to The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made, a 2010 release by Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Domenic Vitiello. Read more.
Vitiello also appeared in the latest episode of Philadelphia: The Great Experiment, an ongoing documentary series that unravels the City of Brotherly Love’s culture and history from tightly-focused perspectives. In Episode 7, An Equal Chance, as Philadelphia is thrust into the Civil War, Vitiello discusses the Pennsylvania Railroad and Underground Railroad.
Might adding new laws to the generally accepted principals of thermodynamics influence the nature of building design? In a recent talk on the subject, William W. Braham, Professor of Architecture and Director of the TC Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies, offered speculations and provocations, based on his recent book, Architecture and Systems Ecology: Thermodynamic Principles of Environmental Building Design, in three parts (Routledge). Read more.
At the invitation of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Anuradha Mathur, Professor of Landscape Architecture, discussed how the characteristics of water can influence landscape design. Read more.
PennDesign’s Integrated Product Design program recently co-sponsored a roundtable on Law & Product Design. Led by Peter Bressler, Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, some 20 experts in both patent law and industrial design convened to discuss the broader and more long-range implications of the Apple v. Samsung case, scheduled to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court later this year. Read more.
Ever since prehistoric times, cultures around the globe have created monuments. On Friday, May 27, Professor of Fine Arts and Director of Undergraduate Fine Arts Ken Lum will explore the differences and similarities in how their ideas have been realized as part of a panel called “Monuments in Flux,” at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. The evening, which also serves as the opening reception for Micro-Monuments, an exhibition of 32 small-scale examples, will be jointly presented with the Washington Sculptors Group. Organized by WSC, the assemblage was first shown at the Salzland Museum in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Read more.
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