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Weitzman externships in retrospect: Aidan Williams
Aidan Williams.

Weitzman Master of Architecture student Aidan Williams.

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Weitzman externships in retrospect: Aidan Williams

The Weitzman Master of Architecture student spent his externship with in situ studio, a small design-based architecture practice.

From the Weitzman School of Design

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The museum as object of design
Ferda Kolatan (seated far right) in his studio pointing to photographs on the wall with onlookers.

Weitzman’s Ferda Kolatan (seated far right) in his MSD-AAD studio.

(Image: Dylan Li)

The museum as object of design

From expansion projects to new builds, faculty and students at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design are helping museums deepen connections to their site and community.

From the Weitzman School of Design

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Weitzman externships in retrospect: Harisa Martinos
Harisa Martinos.

“What surprised me was how natural the transition from school to practice felt,” says Weitzman MLA candidate Harisa Martinos.

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Weitzman externships in retrospect: Harisa Martinos

The master of landscape architecture candidate spent her externship at a New York City firm, absorbing its culture and learning its design process.

From the Weitzman School of Design

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In school and in practice, mass timber gains ground

In school and in practice, mass timber gains ground

Penn architects and students are designing with mass timber to highlight its expressive potential and sustainability for construction in cities around the world.

Turning peels into pavers: How Penn designers turn food scraps into biodegradable building materials
Two students working with biodegradable food waste specimens.

At the DumoLab, research associate Yasaman Amirzehni is working to develop a biocomposite suitable for indoor and outdoor cladding applications, which could eventually serve as true structural components like load-bearing columns.

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Turning peels into pavers: How Penn designers turn food scraps into biodegradable building materials

The Weitzman School’s Laia Mogas-Soldevila and Yasaman Amirzehni transform unavoidable food waste—like fruit peels and eggshells, which account for 14.8% of post-consumer restaurant food waste—into durable, biodegradable building materials in collaboration with Penn Dining.

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Ph.D. researcher Yefan Zhi wins the Hangai Prize

Ph.D. researcher Yefan Zhi wins the Hangai Prize

Yefan Zhi, a third-year Ph.D. student in architecture at the Weitzman School and a member of the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory has won the Hangai Prize at the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Annual Symposium 2025 for co-authoring the paper “Surface-Toolpath Twins of Shell Components in 3D Concrete Printing for Optimized Buildability and Surface Quality”.