Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), the pioneering New York-based design studio, has been selected to receive the 2022 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture, and Suisman Urban Design and the iQuilt Partnership have been selected to receive the 2022 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning for Hartford400. They will be honored at a February 21, 2023 ceremony which raises funds for student scholarships.
Weitzman School in the Media
“Here’s what Pennsylvania can learn from a world climate meeting”
In an op-ed, Cornelia Colijn, executive director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, explains the state’s centrality to the American energy transition and calls on officials to allocate funding toward the 2050 goal of reducing greenhouse emissions by 80%.
“How Philly can stay ahead of the curve in addressing climate change”
Eugénie Birch, Nussdorf Professor and co-director of PennIUR, and Visiting Scholar Mauricio Rodas, point to Philadelphia’s recent strides and yet-unrealized opportunities in responding to extreme heat.
“2022 ACADIA conference, Hybrids & Haecceities, covers extra-disciplinary collaboration, the importance of tiny things, and the ethics of artificial intelligence”
Davis Richardson reports on the architectural education event of the year, organized by Weitzman faculty.
“The Long Game”
Weitzman's Sean Burkholder, Keith VanDerSys and colleagues have been working with the US Army Corps of Engineers to adapt its interventions in the landscape and its role in building infrastructure for an age of climate change and environmental fragility.
“Digging up modernist myths at the Glass House”
In an interview, artist and Assistant Professor of Fine Arts David Hartt talks his work to surface the narrative possibilites of the lengendary architect's former home.
“The Statue”
In a 6-part podcast about monuments, Paul Farber, senior research scholar at the Center for Public Art & Space, takes a deep dive into the history of Philly’s iconic Rocky Statue.
