In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Christopher Carlos Brzovic and Julian Turley have been selected for the Moelis Scholars Program in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School. Brzovic is pursuing a Master of City Planning with a concentration in Housing, Community, and Economic Development; Turley is pursuing a Master of City Planning with a concentration in Public and Private Development.
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Miller, a postdoctoral fellow, lecturer and the director of Justice and Belonging Initiatives at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, joined the nine-member Philadelphia Art Commission, filling a vacancy for art and architecture faculty.
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PEG office of landscape + architecture, the firm of Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys, associate professor and senior lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture, received an honorable mention in the 2021 World Landscape Architecture Awards for their project, Fantasy Island: The Galápagos Archipelago.
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The show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “New Grit: Art & Philly Now,” focuses on local artists and their relationship to the city, the exhibition will feature work by 25 artists, including Sharon Hayes, David Hartt, and Ken Lum.
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Richard Weller, professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at Penn, will present three bodies of work as part of the As One Planet exhibition in the Central Pavilion. Winka Dubbeldam, Miller Professor and chair of the Department of Architecture at Penn and director of the Advanced Research and Innovation (ARI) Lab at Penn, serves as one of the creative directors for City X Venice at the Italian Pavilion.
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In March, a group of Abele’s living descendants joined a virtual panel celebrating the life of their long-overlooked forebear, the first Black student to graduate from Penn’s architecture program. The panel was kicked off by David Brownlee, who presented an overview of Abele’s architectural career, in which he contributed to the designs of the Free Library, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Irvine Auditorium on Penn’s campus.
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PennPraxis, the consulting and community engagement arm of the Weitzman School of Design, and the The Water Center at Penn have been engaged by the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority to lead the development of a comprehensive stormwater master plan for Pittsburgh.
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The American Institute of Architecture awarded 102 of members admission into the College of Fellows for 2021, the highest level of membership and honor within AIA. Three are Weitzman faculty members and eight are alums.
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A team of Master of City Planning and Master of Landscape Architecture students at Weitzman won an Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Award from Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture and Design. The team’s proposal reimagines the 1300-acre Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery site located along the Schuylkill River in Southwest Philadelphia.
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Sixteen teams of first-year graduate architecture students spent the last week and a half in January designing carnival floats for a 52nd Street celebration of Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the emancipation of American slaves on June 19, 1865. For the remainder of the studio, the students will focus on developing a market for the 52nd Street El station, incorporating the carnival theme.
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