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08.07.2025 The Making of Weitzman Hall: Architectural Renewal As Weitzman prepares to open its first new building in more than 50 years—an interdisciplinary hub for research and teaching—members of the design and preservation teams talk about the renovation and expansion.

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Story | 09.18.2025 Penn Launches New MSD Program in Property Development and Design for Practicing Architects and Designers

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Story | 09.17.2025 Weitzman Students and Faculty Earn Landscape Architecture Awards for Projects in Ukraine, Brazil, and US

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Story | 09.17.2025 Excerpt: Ammon, Goldstein, and Nelson on Ed Ruscha and Urban Transformation

Heather Boushey

Story | 09.09.2025 Heather Boushey Named Professor of Practice at Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

Story | 09.09.2025 Mapping smarter tree placement in Philadelphia and beyond

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Story | 09.09.2025 Excerpt: Douglas Robb on Listening to Landscape

In the Media

In the Media We need more people like Robert Redford "Redford’s vision for stewarding the American landscape was radical in its simplicity: bring opposing sides together, insist on nuance, reject false choices," writes Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner of the late actor and environmentalist. The Washington Post

In the Media The Architects Shaping NYC’s Public Life Marion Weiss, Graham Professor of Practice in Architecture, and Elizabeth Diller, 2022 recipient of Weitzman's Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture, are reimagining the boundaries between buildings, landscape, and civic life. Metropolis

In the Media KlimaKover Prototype Shelter Opens in New York, Showcasing Low-Energy Cooling for Cities “This is an important demonstration, paving the way to the widescale adoption of low-energy cooling,” says Dorit Aviv, whose Thermal Architecture Lab led the shelter's design. Green

In the Media Interview: Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu Hu, the Miller Professor and chair of architecture at Weitzman, talks about the work of her studio with her life and business partner. Abitare

Announcements

Announcement | 03.05.2025 Case Studies in Design: Open Call to Study Projects Designed in Community

Announcement | 02.07.2025 Daily Pennsylvanian Reporting

Announcement | 11.07.2024 Fritz Steiner’s Service as Weitzman Dean at Penn Is Extended

Announcement | 05.07.2024 Case Studies in Design: Open Call to Study Projects Designed in Community

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