Weitzman News

Laia Mogas-Soldevila and students on balcony overlooking hanging strips

01.04.2023 Clearing the Air with Biomaterials Can building materials make indoor air healthier?

Stories

Cover of Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin

Story | 01.26.2023 Excerpt: Burkholder and Lutsky on the Ecologies of the Great Lakes In their new book Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lak

Multistory red brick and white housing development on corner site

Story | 01.13.2023 The Brief: Affordable Housing That's Both Contextual and ‘Funky’

Graphic reading Open for Discussion

Story | 01.09.2023 Spring 2023 Lectures Series Opens January 18 The Weitzman Spring 2023 Lecture Series brings together distinguished architects, landscape architects, artists, historians, preservationists, filmmakers, planners, and geographers from the U

Elizabeth Delmelle

Story | 12.16.2022 Q&A: Elizabeth Delmelle, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning This summer, geographer and geographic information scientist Elizabeth Delmelle joined the Weitzman faculty and became the director of the School’s Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA) program. In this…

Life Imprint design

Story | 12.15.2022 ‘Disrupt the Reflection’ Competition Winners Announced As part of a campus-wide initiative to make Penn more hospitable to birds, a Fall 2022 ideas competition asked Weitzman students to design exterior window film for select buildings in order to reduce fatal…

A spread from the book

Story | 12.09.2022 Excerpt: 'The Landscape Project' The Landscape Project is the latest publication from the Department of Landscape Architecture.

In the Media

In the Media Architectural marvel or symbol of police brutality? Former headquarters for Philadelphia police faces uncertain future Frank Matero, Gonick Family Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and director of the Center for Architectural Conservation, is among those advocating for the building's future. WHYY

In the Media Fifty Years of 'Learning from Las Vegas' Christopher Hawthorne revisits the breakout book by legendary faculty members Denise Scott Brown (MCP'60 and MArch'65), Hon. FAIA, and Robert Venturi, FAIA. The New Yorker

In the Media La Brea Tar Pits pushes forward with its indoor-outdoor makeover Marion Weiss, Graham Professor of Practice in the Department of Architecture, talks about how her firm is collaborating with LA- and Amsterdam-based firms to reimagine visitors' experience of the storied paleontological research site. Los Angeles Times

In the Media Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach An assignment from her instructor in the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics Program spurred Lizzie Shackney to explore ChatGPT, but she's not ready to rely on it. The New York Times

Announcements

Announcement | 01.30.2023 University of Pennsylvania Set to Receive Funding to Evaluate the Impact of Emergency Rental Assistance on Evictions

Announcement | 01.19.2023 Weitzman Receives National Park Service Grant to Protect and Preserve Route 66 Cultural Landscape

Announcement | 01.13.2023 Groundbreaking Exhibition on Minerva Parker Nichols, America’s First Independent Woman Architect, Opens March 21

Announcement | 11.18.2021 Every Ocean Hughes Named 2021–2022 Sachs Visiting Professor at the Weitzman School

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