In conjunction with the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, CityX Venice, a virtual exhibition of new and recent work by leading architects and designers from around the world, opened online in May. Winka Dubbeldam, who is Miller Professor and chair of the Department of Architecture and director of the Advanced Research and Innovation (ARI) Lab, served as one of the creative directors, inviting faculty members to present examples of the design-research under way at Weitzman.
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“The American Jobs Plan Should Help Us Avoid Climate Catastrophe, Not Build a Carbon Bomb”
Billy Fleming, of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, looks at President Biden’s infrastructure proposal and its implications for designers.
“2021’s Most & Least Energy-Expensive States – WalletHub Study”
Mark Alan Hughes, faculty director at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, helps decipher Americans’ energy costs relative to their location and consumption habits.
“Yorktown was supposed to be Philly’s Black suburb. Now development is converging on the neighborhood.”
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Vincent Reina illuminates the unintended consequences of a new zoning bill from the City Council.
“Morphosis’ Shenzhen skyscraper sets world record with detached core”
Thom Mayne, Cret Chair Professor of Practice in Architecture at Weitzman, describes the design strategy behind the Hanking Center, a mixed-use complex with a commercial office tower and retail center.
“‘What we can’t live without’: Richard Weller at the Venice Biennale”
A trio of installations by Richard Weller, Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, professor and chair of landscape architecture at Weitzman, consider biodiversity at a planetary scale.
“Tech Helps Planners Weigh Development, Historic Preservation”
Weitzman’s Ken Steif and Akira Drake Rodriguez talk about the app they developed with MUSA students for planners to gauge resident preference for preserving historic homes against need for higher-density housing.
