Students and community members celebrated the Lex Street Garden’s completion on May 4, 2023.
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Design and build, but first, collaborate
The Weitzman School’s spring design-build studio was a collaboration between students, community leaders, and residents to develop a key site as a visible distillation of the New Freedom District in West Philadelphia.
“My colleagues and I were trained to infiltrate the authoritarian system and try to make it more human by working critically and analytically,” says Krzysztof Wodiczko, a distinguished visiting professor of fine arts at Weitzman who grew up in Poland.
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At the intersection of art and design, masks that impart truth
The Weitzman School’s Krzysztof Wodiczko, a distinguished visiting professor of fine arts at the Weitzman School, explores identity, culture, technology, and design in his classes.
Carley will be the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning in the Weitzman School with an affiliation with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.
The joys of ‘liberated yet respectful observation’ in Seoul
Students in the Weitzman School spent two weeks with visiting artists, curators, and language instructors in Seoul, developing working vocabularies of Korean culture for a well-researched visual portfolio.
Treated fire resilient forest, after thinning and prescribed burning, in the Tahoe National Forest, a project partner with the North Yuba Forest Partnership. From left: Lon Henderson, U.S. Forest Service; Weitzman students Ari Vamos, Vyusti Agarwalla, Jiajing Dai, Caz Gagne, and Oliver Atwood.
(Image: Nicholas Pevzner)
Designing for, and with, forests
Nicholas Pevzner, assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, is leading a landscape architecture studio that focuses on forest management in the American West.
Thabo Lenneiye on PennPraxis, global outreach, and cross-discipline collaboration
The new managing director of The Weitzman School’s PennPraxis is a Penn alum who has worked for years on complex mixed-use development and urban planning projects and spearheading DEI initiatives.
Weitzman’s first dual degree student in Fine Arts and Historic Preservation
In a Q&A, Aislinn Pentecost-Farren discusses her road to the dual degree program and how the legacy of historic sites is foundational to the climate crisis.
Weitzman’s celebration of visionary architecture and planning returns to New York
Held at The Shed in New York City, and hosted by Weitzman Dean Fritz Steiner, Penn President Liz Magill joined the celebration with awards and prizes for innovative architecture and planning.
A view of Mosul following attacks on the city by ISIS. Image: Gina Haney
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A new role for NATO in conflict zones
One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, PIK Professor Lynn Meskell calls on the alliance to take a more expansive view of cultural property protection.
