In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
This spring, the Center for Public Art and Space at Weitzman will be hosting renowned writer, artist, and educator Ashon Crawley as its 2022 visiting scholar artist. Crawley’s work explores the intersection of performance, blackness, queerness, and spirituality.
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In the fall of 2021, students in landscape architecture and city and regional planning studios at the Weitzman School grappled with the varied challenges of planning for climate change. Their work took place at multiple spatial scales, across decades, and in diverse communities, from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the nation’s capital.
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The McHarg Fellowship is a new $75,000 award given by The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology to an emerging voice in landscape architecture and its related fields. The Fellowship will be awarded competitively on an annual basis and the fellow is expected to be in residence at Weitzman full-time for one academic year from August through May.
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Five faculty members and alums of the Department of Architecture were honored last month by the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute of Architects with a 2021 Architectural Excellence Award. Among the firms from across Pennsylvania recognized for excellence in design, contributions to the profession of architecture, and commitment to the quality of the built environment were Erdy McHenry Architecture, ISA, DIGSAU, and KieranTimberlake, which are led by instructors or graduates of the Weitzman School.
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Hughes is based in Stockholm, where she was professor of art at Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft, and Design from 2013-202. 1In many of her works, she mines the history of 20th-century avant-garde activities that took place in both institutional and public spaces. In particular, she is drawn to the ephemeral history of queer activists and artists. Another ongoing concern is the recognition of the complexities of identity, which often manifests in works that explore the intersection of physical movement and political action.
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Between August of 2020 and July of 2021, more than 180 design studios at 93 universities in 39 states and 10 countries responded to the Superstudio call to submit projects that could help decarbonize the U.S. economy while investing in jobs and social justic, along with dozens of professional firms and individual designers and scholars.
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The new initiative, introduced by the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School, will incorporate a deeper understanding of history and how it influences the material world, and the social, political, and cultural context around city planning, preservation, and design.
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The Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites at Weitzman and the Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University have each received $750,000 toward the Capacity Building for Sustainable Preservation of Civil Rights Heritage Places initiative. The objective for each school is to build capacity among Black-led institutions to reimagine, redesign, and redeploy historic preservation to address the needs of the historical places, organizations, and communities devoted to the legacy of civil rights.
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Wupatki National Monument and its sister Monuments, Walnut Canyon and Sunset Crater Volcano, are unique in North America for their exceptionally well-preserved archeological record, their geographical diversity, and their ancestral significance to Northern Arizona American Indian communities. All three monuments are units of the National Park Service, a longtime partner of Weitzman’s Center for Architectural Conservation.
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The Weitzman School of Design is awarding MASS Design Group, the nonprofit firm based in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda, that got its start building hospitals, with the 2021 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture, and the City of Minneapolis will receive the 2021 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning for Minneapolis 2040, a comprehensive plan to guide the city’s growth.
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