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Bookquick/“Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este, 1956-1961”
For most landscape architects, and designers in general, the name Roberto Burle Marx immediately brings to mind his painterly vision of the landscape and his inspired use of the flora of his native Brazil. Marx’s work began to gain attention in the 1930s, and, teaming up with famed architects such as Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, Marx helped create some of the most beautiful vistas ever created. He also would eventually become one of the most influential landscape architects of the century.
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Editor's Pick: Personal politics
“Herod’s Law,” Luis Estrada’s story of political corruption—a searing satire of the long-ruling Mexican Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)—was a phenomenon when released in 2000. Given that the PRI was still in power at the time of its release, that’s not particularly surprising. And while some critics have charged Estrada’s obvious indignation does more harm than good—the San Francisco Chronicle, for one, contended the filmmaker was “so charged by anger and emotion that storytelling grows clouded”—others have been more forgiving.
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SEPTA in need of new ideas, more funding
Vukan Vuchic has spent his career studying transit systems the world over, and in that time has seen the best and the worst in public transportation—from Houston and Tokyo to Munich and New York. One thing he’s never seen, however, is a city the size of Philadelphia cut transit services quite as drastically as SEPTA recently threatened to. For a system that already is obsolete, he says, any more cutbacks would be disastrous—and likely spell doom for transit in the Philadelphia region.
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Nobel laureate urges peace
Speaking in a rich, musical voice, Wole Soyinka urged the standing room-only crowd to preserve human rights, especially for those who cannot fight for their own protection. “Impunity always breeds greater impunity. …The gates of hell fly open when the strong overwhelm the weak and innocent,”said Soyinka, a novelist, poet and dramatist, and the first African to win the Nobel Prize in 1986 for Literature.
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Penn Museum Archaeochemist and International Scholars Confirm 9,000-Year History of Chinese Fermented Beverages
PHILADELPHIA -- Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Northern China have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey and fruit was being produced as early as 9,000 years ago, approximately the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East.
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Two From Penn Win Marshall Scholarships
PHILADELPHIA- University of Pennsylvania students Harveen Bal and Gabriel Mandujano have been named Marshall Scholars, Bal selected in the New York region, Mandujano in the Washington, D.C. region. Bal, a senior health and societies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is from Bloomfield, N.J., and a University Scholar at Penn. She will take an M.Phil. in development studies at the University of Oxford.
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Inventor Dean Kamen to Receive Berger Award
WHAT: The Harold Berger Award is bestowed bi-annually by Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science to a technological innovator who has made a lasting contribution to the quality of our lives. WHO: Dean Kamen, inventor and physicist, founder of DEKA Research & Development and creator of the Segway Human Transporter. Kamen will receive the award for his creative use of technology to advance health care and his championing of engineering education.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania, Levine Hall, Wu & Chen Auditorium,
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University Square Merchants Kick Off the Holidays with Week of Special Events
PHILADELPHIA -- You can learn to snowshoe, help a local family, and check off your holiday shopping list when you visit University Square during the annual Holiday Fest from Dec. 13-17. This year, in addition to enjoying the specials offered by the merchants of Penn shopping and dining district, adventurous patrons can take advantage of free showshoe lessons from Eastern Mountain Sports. The lessons will be offered at noon Dec. 14 and 15 at EMS on 36th Street in University Square.
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Penn Education Professor Challenges the Belief that More Schooling Is Needed for the Jobs of Tomorrow
PHILADELPHIA -- In a new book "The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling," University of Pennsylvania education professor Marvin Lazerson and his co-author W. Norton Grubb challenge the widespread view that schools can do everything. They especially target the most commonly held notions about work and school including everything from the ability of schools at every level to prepare workers to the need for a more highly educated workforce and find a system based more on faith than evidence.
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Rebecca Bushnell Named Dean of University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences
PHILADELPHIA-- Rebecca Bushnell, dean of University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences and a distinguished scholar of English literature, will become the next dean of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences effective Jan. 1. She will also hold the title of Thomas S. Gates Jr. Professor.