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.
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“Expert Q&A: Frederick Steiner”
Dean and Paley Profesor Fritz Steiner talks to Biohabitats about the making of Design With Nature Now and his experience with mentor Ian McHarg,
“50 Years After Design With Nature, Ian McHarg’s Ideas Still Define Landscape Architecture”
Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director of The McHarg Center, traces the late Penn professor's enduring influence.
“Back to Yourself: Winka Dubbeldam on Learning to Design and Relearning to Practice”
A wide ranging interview with the Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture.
“To reform the credit card industry, start with credit scores”
In an Op-Ed, Lisa Servon, Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and chair of city and regional planning, calls on Congress to address inequity perpetuated by the financial services industry.
“Meet the Student Selected for the Whitney Biennial”
For Carolyn Lazard, who completes their MFA this spring, exhibiting as part of the 2019 Whitney Biennial is the latest step in 20 years of making art.
“Schuylkill Yards development may rest on the Quaker dead”
The Inquirer interviews Aaron Wunsch, associate professor, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, about how the planned Schuylkill Yards development impacts two of the city’s largest abandoned cemeteries.
