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Meet Minerva Parker Nichols, the groundbreaking, totally badass female architect you’ve never heard of

Alumna Molly Lester of the Weitzman School of Design and a curatorial team at the Architectural Archives are honoring architect Minerva Parker Nichols with an exhibition.

Almost Studio’s heart-shaped topiary mini-maze blooms in Times Square for Valentine’s Day

Almost Studio, co-founded by Dorian Booth and Anthony Gagliardi of the Weitzman School of Design, has installed an interactive maze-like hedge row configuration opposite Times Square’s Red Steps in New York City.

A sculptural foam installation demonstrates the promise of a new technology-focused degree at Penn

Graduate students in a new robotics and fabrication program at the Weitzman School of Design, under the guidance of Andrew Saunders, have installed a large-scale sculptural wall in the atrium of the Middletown, Pennsylvania, Free Library.

Fifty years of “Learning from Las Vegas”

A profile examines the architectural novel “Learning from Las Vegas” co-written by Denise Scott Brown, formerly of the Weitzman School of Design.

Laia Mogas-Soldevila leans over a railing to smell a hanging display at the ICA.

Clearing the air with biomaterials

Senseable Biomaterials for Healthier Habitats, a project led by assistant professor of architecture Laia Mogas-Soldevila, contributed a lattice installation made from architectural biomaterials to the ICA, acting as an antimicrobial air purifier.

Pennsylvania and New Mexico universities score National Park Service grant to preserve Route 66

Frank Matero of the Weitzman School of Design and colleagues have secured a National Park Service grant for the preservation of the Route 66 cultural landscape in Tucumcari, New Mexico.

University of Pennsylvania to stage exhibition on first woman architect in U.S. to practice solo

Penn graduate Molly Lester and a curatorial team of the Architectural Archives at the Weitzman School of Design will be honoring architect Minerva Parker Nichols with an exhibition.

National Mall commissions six artists for monument exhibition

Paul Farber of the Weitzman School of Design is co-curating an exhibition at the National Mall that will reimagine the role of monuments in the telling of history.

A large two-story wall inside a library beside a staircase.

A relief wall that’s a window onto architecture’s future

A public library relief wall is a novel approach to architectural design and robotic fabrication from the Weitzman School and the Robotics Lab.

Weitzman’s Daniela Fabricius on architecture, labor, and history

The architectural theorist and historian is teaching a class titled Architecture and Labor while working on two books, including “The Ethics of Calculation: Architecture and Rationalism in Postwar Germany.”

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