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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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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

Story | 04.24.2026 Connecting Black Culture, Music, and Community with the Built Environment

In the Media

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

Energy & Environment Gov. Shapiro has a plan to make data centers bring their own energy. Now comes the hard part.

Addressing consumer energy costs will not only require building new, clean energy generation and accounting for transmission costs, but also modernizing the grid in a way that makes more use of existing generation, says the Kleinman Center's John Quigley.

Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Penn researchers are turning food scraps into building materials — from pineapple peels to celery stalks

Laia Mogas-Soldevila and her team at the DumoLab are testing biomaterials that keep food waste out of landfills, make healthier building materials, and tackle climate change.

WHYY

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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