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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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Mid-century building with new paint and signage and pedestrians outside

Story | 06.08.2026 Celebrating History and Possibility on Market Street

Young woman in graduation regalia at podium

Story | 05.18.2026 Weitzman Community Celebrates Class of 2026

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Story | 05.15.2026 At the Intersection of Energy and Agriculture

Alvarado and Owes render of village showing tree canopy and outdoor seating

Story | 05.13.2026 Architecture, Landscape, and Community in Harmony

Story | 05.11.2026 Penn Awarded Institutional Challenge Grant to Advance Partnership on Youth Homelessness in Pennsylvania

Story | 05.04.2026 The Museum as Object of Design

In the Media

Neri&Hu Design for Continuity

"The studio has managed to retain material richness, conceptual rigor, and daring formal qualities that felt so fresh when it was just the two of them," writes Diana Budds of Rossana Hu and Lyndon Neri's firm.

Metropolis

The University Avenue Bridge is a Philly gem. It’s embarrassing how it remains neglected.

Randall Mason joined reporter Peter Dobrin on a visit to the 1929 structure designed by Paul Philippe Cret, the Frenchman who elevated Penn's architecture program to international prominence.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Design Vanguard 2026 Winners

FORMA, which is led by Daniel Markiewicz, has been named to this year’s Architectural Record Design Vanguard, a group of leading firms and individual practitioners who represent the promise of the next generation of architects.

Architectural Record

Penn researchers turn food scraps into building materials

Through a partnership with Penn Dining and Penn Farm, Laia Mogas-Soldevila and her team at DumoLab are using unavoidable food waste to develop biodegradable building materials and furniture.

CBS Philadelphia

In Brief

Weitzman Faculty and Guest Lecturers Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

Rossana Hu, the Miller Professor and chair of architecture, and guest lecturers Lina Ghotmeh and Dorte Mandrup were recognized at a June 11, 2026 ceremony in San Diego.

AIA

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

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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