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.
Weitzman School in the Media
“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.
“Rotterdam’s Witte de With Center Picks New ‘Decolonial’ Name After Multi-Year Back-and-Forth”
The Museum's new name celebrates the subject of a 1990 artwork by the Weitzman School's Ken Lum.
