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
“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.
“Reimagining Boundaries to Solve Our Biggest Challenges”
Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner and co-authors of his latest book, "Megaregions and America's Future," argue for a megaregional approach.
“Ken Lum: Art Gallery of Ontario”
A recent exhibition of work by the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and chair of fine arts "connects recurrent threads within the artist’s practice: mortality, the instabilities of identity, and difference, filtered through the artist’s trademark acerbic humor."
“How much mining is needed to save the planet?”
Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director at The McHarg Center, says the Inflation Reduction Act doesn't take up the question but gives the industry a boost.
“In Tuskegee and Pennsylvania, Educators Lead the Next Generation of Architectural Preservation”
A collaboration from Weitzman's Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS) aims to diversify the preservation profession and protect cultural heritage sites at risk of being lost forever.
“Ken Lum Holds Up a Mirror to the World ”
A review of the latest solo exhbition with Ken Lum, Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and chair of fine arts, notes the "sophisticated interplay between image, text, materials, color, and driving ideas."
