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.
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“National parks are great. Now, let's create a World Park.”
Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture Richard Weller explains why, to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems, protected areas should be connected into a gigantic World Park.
“The artist creating mind-bending new worlds from the queer Black experience”
Alum Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA‘10) talks about a decade of work that challenges the hegemony of Western art history.
“David Hartt’s A Colored Garden Is In Full Bloom at The Glass House”
The Associate Professor Fine Arts has planted a circular garden on Philip Johnson's lawn inspired by the under-appreciated paintings of 19th-century artist Charles Ethan Porter.
“Trees as Influencers”
What could possibly be bad about planting trees? Associate Professor Landscape Architecture Sonja Duempelmann, a historian of urban landscapes, answers the question in this short TED talk.
“Urban forest or urban boulevard? Philadelphia tries to reimagine the Parkway—again.”
Architecture Critic Inga Saffron revisits the public debate about the iconic site, which Weitzman faculty Paul Levy and Laurie Olin have helped lead.
“The Travel Industry’s Reckoning With Race and Inclusion”
Paul Farber, Weitzman faculty member and co-founder of the public art and history project Monument Lab, talks about efforts to change the way travelers of all colors understand America’s racially fraught history.
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