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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.”

Four people wearing white hardhats are putting shovels into a trough of dirt in front of a stage, which is outside in front of a brick building.

Celebrating future renovation and expansion of historic Stuart Weitzman Hall

At a ceremonial groundbreaking, Dean Fritz Steiner, Stuart Weitzman, President Liz Magill, and Matt Nord of the School’s board of advisors joined guests to celebrate the future renovation and expansion of the 130-year-old Weitzman School of Design building now named Stuart Weitzman Hall.

Ancient rock carvings unearthed in northern Iraqi city of Mosul

Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are supporting the reconstruction effort for the Mashki Gate in Iraq, which led to the discovery of eight marble slabs dating back to the Assyrians.

In Tuskegee and Pennsylvania, educators lead the next generation of architectural preservation

Randall Mason of the Weitzman School of Design discusses his efforts in collaboration with Tuskegee University to restore the Armstrong School, a piece of Tuskegee’s legacy and an opportunity to train students in historical preservation.

The 2022 ACADIA conference, kicking off later this month in Philadelphia, will explore new modes of practice

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture is returning to an in-person conference at Penn after two years of virtual events, with a quote from Fritz Steiner of the Weitzman School of Design.

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