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02.13.2026 Designing Opportunities, Not Solutions, in Northeast Arizona Students in a Fall 2025 Landscape Architecture studio were asked to listen to the land and channel the community’s aspirations. “In the Hopi culture, these plants are always waiting for you,” says Max Taylor, an ethnobotanist.

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Story | 03.18.2026 My Top Five: Akira Drake Rodriguez | “The City is a Character”

Story | 03.13.2026 Weitzman Alum and Advisor Endows Scholarship Named for Architecture Professor Emeritus

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Story | 03.12.2026 At Penn Farm, Modeling the Future of Sustainable Architecture

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Story | 03.10.2026 Grossman Earns College Art Association Award for Mendes De Rocha Study

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Story | 03.06.2026 A Nightlife Creator Helps Cities Cultivate Their Nighttime Culture and Economy

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Story | 03.05.2026 A Life in Ruins: An Interview with Frank Matero

In the Media

More Air-Conditioners Crank Up as Heat Wave Wilts Large Part of U.S.

“People associate cooling with air-conditioners and they think in order to cool people you need to cool the space by blowing air into it from a mechanical system,” says Dorit Aviv, who studies alternative solutions.

The New York Times

Ani Liu: Eye Heart Womb

The artist and Weitzman faculty member is profiled for a practice at the intersection of art, science, and technology that challenges understandings of bodies and gender.

American Masters on PBS

New York City Rebuilds a Waterfront Park to Hold Back Rising Seas

Matthijs Bouw's firm and the team behind East River Park spent a decade on its design; its opening “show[s] the country and the world that these kind of big things can get done.”

Bloomberg

Frank G. Matero, celebrated historic preservationist and longtime professor of architecture at Penn, has died at 72

In the classroom and at sites around the US and abroad, the late Gonick Family Professor dedicated five decades to "build[ing] bridges between the past and the present through contemporary interpretation.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer ($)

In Brief

James Corner to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Penn

An alum and professor of practice emeritus, Corner is best known for designing New York City’s High Line, a once-abandoned elevated railway that his firm transformed into an urban promenade and garden.

Penn Today

Li Receives Funding to Study Barriers to Energy System Decarbonization

Despite advancements in clean energy generation, fossil fuels continue to play an important role in the energy system. Xiaojiang Li is part of a team that received a $1M grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study how back-up power fossil fuel utilization plays out at the household level in different parts of the US.

Sloan Foundation

Denise Scott Brown. City. Street. House

A retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao explores the distinguished alum's contributions to contemporary visual culture and features numerous works on loan from the Architectural Archives.

Bilbao Museum of Art

London Studies Its Nightlife

A new report co-authored by Michael Fichman for the City of London sets out a comprehensive plan to drive the future of the capital at night.

The Guardian

Announcements

Announcement | 10.08.2025 Open Position: 2026-2027 McHarg Fellowship

Announcement | 10.08.2025 Case Studies in Design: Open Call to Study Projects Designed in Community

Announcement | 02.07.2025 Daily Pennsylvanian Reporting

Announcement | 11.07.2024 Fritz Steiner’s Service as Weitzman Dean at Penn Is Extended

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