In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
PennDesign’s distinguished center for training and research in the technical conservation of the built environment, The Center for Architectural Conservation, led by Frank G. Matero, has a new home and a new name.
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Stuart-Smith and Akbarzadeh, assistant professors of architecture at PennDesign, are working a tiny house prototype consisting of about ten total pieces, which can be assembled and disassembled. Each piece will be cast inside a mold that will be cut by a robot in the ARI Robotics Lab.
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Penn Praxis, the social impact design and community engagement consulting arm of PennDesign, has been working with the South Whitehall township to formulate a series of design ideas for improving its streetscapes and prominent public places.
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On October 19, 2018, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design will award its fourth annual Carnot Prize to the Honorable Shri Piyush Goyal, India’s former minister of power and renewables and current minister of railways and coal.
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Tod Williams and Billie Tsien will receive the inaugural Kanter Tritsch Medal in Energy and Architectural Innovation this October, and Alexandra Mae Adamski is the recipient of the Kanter Tritsch Prize for an exceptional second-year graduate architecture student.
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A Leading by Design discussion with the designers about the creation and unveiling of the memorial, five years to the day since the collapse of the Salvation Army building that killed five people.
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Students of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at PennDesign have chosen four sites in the Highlands, a 1.85 million-acre ecoregion from northwestern Connecticut to eastern Pennsylvania to focus a living landscape design intervention directly.
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Two graduate students explore the physical, political and historical borderlands between two countries in conflict, bringing landscape design concepts outside the studio and embedding them in a physical space that has naturalized war into its terrain.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Penn $1.5 million for “The Inclusive City: Past, Present, and Future,” a five-year project focused on urban diversity and inclusion. It builds on a collaboration by PennDesign, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Penn Institute for Urban Research that brings together students and faculty to examine cities at the intersection of humanities and design.
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The newly-digitized archive of Ed Ruscha's landmark series of Los Angeles photographs examines changes along Sunset Boulevard from 1966 to 2007.
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