The Weitzman Fall 2022 Lecture Series brings together distinguished architects, landscape architects, artists, historians, preservationists, planners, energy policy makers, mobility experts, and data scientists from the US and abroad to discuss recent work and emerging trends in the built environment and visual culture.
Weitzman School in the Media
“‘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.
“David Hartt’s A Colored Garden Is In Full Bloom at The Glass House”
The Associate Professor Fine Arts has planted a circular garden on Philip Johnson's lawn inspired by the under-appreciated paintings of 19th-century artist Charles Ethan Porter.
“Trees as Influencers”
What could possibly be bad about planting trees? Associate Professor Landscape Architecture Sonja Duempelmann, a historian of urban landscapes, answers the question in this short TED talk.
