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Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
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.
More than a decade of research by Molly Lester of the Weitzman School of Design is the foundation of a new exhibition at Penn’s Architectural Archives: “Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect” focuses on the nation’s first woman to practice architecture independently.
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.
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.
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.
Undergraduate architecture students and community members strike a balance for a proposed development in historic Germantown.
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.
The initial cohort of five students from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt are finishing their first semester on Penn’s campus as Sawiris Scholars.
A public library relief wall is a novel approach to architectural design and robotic fabrication from the Weitzman School and the Robotics Lab.
From Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall to the Schuylkill River, four researchers share their science and their spaces.
Louisa Shepard
Senior News Officer
lshepard@upenn.edu
Alumna Molly Lester of the Weitzman School of Design and William Whitaker of the Architectural Archives are honoring architect Minerva Parker Nichols with an exhibit.
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Ph.D. student Jay Arzu in the Weitzman School of Design and a group of activists have reproposed a Roosevelt Boulevard subway, citing safety and accessibility.
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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.
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Doctoral student Jay Arzu of the Weitzman School of Design outlines SEPTA transit projects that could replace its scrapped $3 billion King of Prussia line.
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Jamaal W. Green of the Weitzman School of Design says that Philadelphia’s combination of high homeownership rates, entrenched poverty, and poor homeowners is a recipe for deferred maintenance.
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Paul Farber of the Weitzman School of Design is hosting “The Statue,” a six-part podcast produced by the Monument Lab and WHYY and dedicated to the Rocky statue.
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