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
“How ‘Filthydelphia’ made Earth Day a thing”
Catalina Jaramillo reports on the Weitzman planning students who organized an historic weeklong program 50 years ago.
“Press of the West”
'Colorado Experience' reports on a Weitzman initiative to resurrect a rare, historic print shop in Southwest Colorado as a cultural hub.
“Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 3”
Dean Steiner reflects on "living in the digital world" since Penn moved to online learing.
“UPenn students recreated their campus on 'Minecraft' in painstaking detail while stuck at home”
Master of Architecture candidate Michael Willhoit is among the Penn students flexing their creative muscles in this ongoing building project.
“US Nears Half a Million COVID-19 Cases”
Rachel Maddow highlights a new mapping tool created by undergraduate design faculty member Mahir Yavuz.
“The coronavirus is exposing America’s housing crisis”
“We were in a national crisis before the Covid pandemic,” says Vincent Reina, assistant professor of city and regional planning.
