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Harnessing ancient materials and AI for sustainable architecture
Weitzman students prepare for their mid-year review in Meyerson Hall.

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Harnessing ancient materials and AI for sustainable architecture

The Weitzman School’s Robotics Lab and master’s program combines robotics, artificial intelligence, and automated systems in manufacturing and architectural design in ways that are adaptable and sustainable.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Catherine Seavitt’s transdisciplinary approach to landscape architecture
Catherine Seavitt.

Catherine Seavitt, professor and chair of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School.

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Catherine Seavitt’s transdisciplinary approach to landscape architecture

The Weitzman School’s chair of Landscape Architecture discusses her influences and inspirations on her work as an architect and landscape architect.

From the Weitzman School of Design

What’s That? Locust Walk Compass
Students walk around a compass embedded in Locust Walk on Penn campus.

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What’s That? Locust Walk Compass

The granite compass embedded in Locust Walk has become the source of a campus legend.

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Nature-inspired designs give rise to stronger, lighter systems
Wing of a dragonfly close up.

Masoud Akbarzadeh of the Weitzman School of Design leads a multidisciplinary group of architectural designers, structural engineers, computer scientists, and more in his Polyhedral Structures Laboratory. He explores ways in which polyhedral geometries that frequently occur in nature can be used to make stronger and lighter structures, all while using fewer materials. Akbarzadeh discusses a recent study drawing inspiration from dragonfly wings.

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Nature-inspired designs give rise to stronger, lighter systems

Weitzman’s Masoud Akbarzadeh discusses a recent multidisciplinary study that draws inspiration from dragonfly wings to redesign a Boeing 777 to be lighter, stronger, and more sustainable.