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With the new Academic Year, Weitzman welcomes the newest members of the standing faculty. They come to Penn from leading institutions of higher learning across the United States, Europe, and Asia, and bring expertise in architecture.
Vanessa Grossman, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Vanessa Grossman was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology. Her work addresses the intersections of architecture with ideology, housing, and governments, with a special focus on local and global practices in Cold War-era Europe and Latin America. Her research and teaching interests include postwar French architecture and politics, the urban and housing histories of Europe, Latin America and the Amazon Forest, intersectionality and the politics of climate change, architectural exhibitions, and archives. This fall, Grossman leads a section of History and Theory III - Contemporary Architectural Theories, which aims to build literacy in contemporary architectural discourse in correlation with design culture.
Fernando Lara, Professor of Architecture
Before joining Weitzman, Fernando Lara was the Roessner Centennial Professorship in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He works on theorizing spaces of the Americas with an emphasis on the dissemination of design ideas beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries. He has written widely about issues that pertain to the built environment of our continent. This fall, Lara leads a section of History and Theory III - Contemporary Architectural Theories, which aims to build literacy in contemporary architectural discourse in correlation with design culture.
