Three teams from the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of Architecture have been recognized by The American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) with 2021 student honor awards. Their design proposals address water scarcity at a major port city in China, the relationship between rural locales and bird habitat in Canada, and social inequity in the capital of Ecuador.
Weitzman School in the Media
“Philly transportation needs a universal way to measure racial equity”
In an Op-Ed, Master of City Planning students Seunglee David Park and Emily Kennedy suggest how SEPTA could be a nationwide model.
“Report: West Philadelphia renters face a growing risk of displacement”
PlanPhilly covers a new housing market report co-authored by Ken Steif, director of the MUSA program at Weitzman, and commissioned by City Council member Jamie Gauthier (MCP'04).
“Preserving Brutal Histories, One Garment at a Time”
Textile conservationist Julia Brennan is working with Assoicate Professor Randall Mason at Nyamata, one of the national genocide memorials in Rwanda, to ensure the past is not forgotten.
“Philly project expands nationally to ask: Who deserves a monument?”
Monument Lab, the renowned public art and history project that began in a course taught by Weitzman's Paul Farber, will expand its reach dramatically in 2021, thanks to support from the Mellon Foundation.
“The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020”
An exhbition by artist and alum Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA'10) is seen as exemplary of the art community's “persistence in the face of a pandemic.”
“Buildings Are Becoming a Huge Source of Carbon Pollution”
A new United Nations report signals massive waste and a moral obligation to redirect investement, says Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director at The McHarg Center.
