A jury of distinguished architects, educators, graphic and industrial designers has selected the winners of the Summer School at Penn design challenge, a student competition organized by the Departent of Architecture at Weitzman to create a mobile medical testing unit for COVID-19.
Weitzman School in the Media
“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.
“Architecture Chair Winka Dubbeldam on Architectural Education for the Future”
“The challenge to architects is to operate at scales greater and smaller than that of the building,” says Dubbeldam in a wide-ranging interview.
