Editor's note: This announcement has been updated to reflect a programming change since it was originally published. Bernard Tschumi will speak on Wednesday, August 31.
Weitzman School in the Media
“Ask a Ranger: The hand of the original builder: Wupatki Pueblo”
Gonick Family Professor and Chair of Historic Preservation Frank Matero talks about the work faculty and students are doing to protect a Native ancestral site.
“Major preservation work progresses at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and Taliesin West”
Students and faculty from the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation are documenting conditions at the UNESCO World Heritage Sites to help plan their future.
“A Bigger Canvas for Jayson Musson Includes Puppets and Picasso”
Multimedia artist and alum Jayson Musson (MFA'11) talks about the work in new solo exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.
“Penn partners with West Philly High to give it a new ‘front porch’ and teach students about careers”
Area high school students designed and built a new communal space as part of Design to Thrive, a summer program from PennPraxis.
“Ken Lum with Iyko Day”
Ken Lum, Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and chair of fine arts, talks about how his art deals with race, class, global capital, and the push and pull of identity in Asian North America.
“Climate change means some coastal groundwater may soon be too salty to drink. What can cities do?”
Salt in the drinking water supply is going to become more common in cities, especially on the coasts, says Weitzman's Allison Lassiter.
