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
“In the wake of Ida’s destruction, Philly needs lifesaving water resilience”
Jonah Garnick, a second-year student in the Master of City Planning program, reminds us of the essential role of water in sustaning cities, and the actions cities can take to mitigate climate change.
“America Has Always Struggled to Memorialize Tragedy. Some Communities Are Trying to Do Better for COVID-19.”
Paul Farber, senior research scholar at Weitzman’s Center for Public Art and Space, illuminates the complex history of U.S. memorials.
“‘The towers were burning’: The view of 9/11 as a train from Philly pulled into New York”
Practice Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture Laurie Olin offers a visual account of history unfolding before his eyes.
“More Philly landlords are selling properties and deferring maintenance, which threatens the supply of affordable housing”
A new report from the Housing Initiative at Penn, led by Weitzman’s Vincent Reina, raises alarm.
“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.
