The Weitzman Fall 2022 Lecture Series brings together distinguished architects, landscape architects, artists, historians, preservationists, planners, energy policy makers, mobility experts, and data scientists from the US and abroad to discuss recent work and emerging trends in the built environment and visual culture.
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“After generations of displacement and evictions, a Philly woman reclaims a place in the city”
Akira Drake Rodriguez, assistant professor of city and regional planning, offers perspective on the trauma experienced by the homeless.
“Modern architecture and climate: design before air conditioning”
Associate Professor of Architecture Daniel Barber talks to ABC Radio National of Australia about an overlooked strand over modernism.
“Open House New York”
Associate Professor Randy Mason, director of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites, takes us on an audio tour of New York's now-abandoned North Brother Island.
“Architects take Climate Action!”
Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director at The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, talks about how the Center has actively engaged designers as well as policy makers, educators, and students.
“Philly artist wins big national fellowship awarded to disabled artists”
Recognized by the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations this month, alum Carolyn Lazard (MFA'19) also exhibited in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
“Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments”
Monument Lab, the public art and history studio co-founded by Weitzman's Ken Lum and Paul Farber, has received $4 Million for new art and justice initiatives.
