In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Two environmental designers discuss The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal, including what a future map of America, shaped by climate change and a Green New Deal, might look like, as climate change will alter where Americans live and work, and produce energy and food.
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The theme of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, “How will we live together?” has assumed a new significance as the coronavirus pandemic has swept across the globe. As health concerns led to shutdowns in Italy, the Biennale’s opening was postponed until August 29, but the Weitzman School stands to be well represented if the landmark event can take place.
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Sean Burkholder, Sophie Debiasi Hochhäusl, and Willie Udell received G. Holmes Perkins Teaching Awards for 2020, in recognition of distinguished teaching and innovation in a classroom, seminar, or studio setting.
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In “Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale,” Jonathan Barnett, retired professor of practice in the Weitzman School of Design describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment, without having to wait for massive government funding or new governmental structures. In this excerpt, Barnett lays out three new initiatives that can reshape current trends in regional design.
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In “Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale,” Jonathan Barnett, retired professor of practice in the Department of City and Regional Planning, describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment, without having to wait for massive government funding or new governmental structures.
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Lisa Servon, the Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School, has been named research fellow at the Madison, Wisconsin-based Filene Research Institute, where she’ll lead the new Center of Excellence for Consumer Financial Lives in Transition.
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The assistant professor of architecture Masoud Akbarzadeh has received a Faculty Early Career Development grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop a computational framework for the use, development, and integration of geometry-based structural design methods in three dimensions.
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For nearly four decades, Leatherbarrow has taught graduate and undergraduate courses exploring the interdependence of design and theory, and is one of the world’s leading experts in the history and theory of architecture.
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A professor and chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Servon has just been appointed the Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor. It’s one of two presidential professorships established as part of the School’s Lead by Design Campaign with the goal of diversifying the faculty by attracting and retaining acclaimed scholars and practitioners in endowed positions.
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Olin, one of the most renowned landscape architects practicing today, is the focus of Sitting Still, a new documentary in production for release next year.
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