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Walking and listening in San Juan with Ernesto Pujol
Group of people walking around a coffee plantation in Puerto Rico.

Walking through the Hacienda Buena Vista coffee plantation, Ponce. (Image: Carlos Rodríguez, Para la Naturaleza, PR./Weitzman News)

Walking and listening in San Juan with Ernesto Pujol

An eight-day trip to Puerto Rico following a seminar taught by Fine Arts visiting professor led students through the city while engaged in a process of listening to the urban spaces of San Juan and the colonized ecology of its post-industrial hinterlands.

From the Weitzman School of Design

A visual archive of an iconic American boulevard
a 1960s car parked in front of the motel sunset in los angeles

Artist Edward Ruscha amassed a huge collection of photographs of Sunset Boulevard during the late 20th century. Now, Penn’s Francesca Ammon is leading a digital humanities project called “Sunset over Sunset,” which will use these images to understand the impacts of small-scale changes on the urban environment. (Image: From Sunset Blvd. shoot, Ed Ruscha, 1966. Streets of Los Angeles Archive. The Getty Research Institute, 2012.M.1. © Ed Ruscha)

A visual archive of an iconic American boulevard

A trio of undergraduate students worked this summer with Professor Francesca Ammon to catalog and organize photographs for the digital humanities project ‘Sunset over Sunset.’

Erica K. Brockmeier

Americans face looming rent crisis
Brick facades on a rainy day

Ahousing complex in Albany County, New York on May 5, 2021. Image: Tyler A. McNeil.

Americans face looming rent crisis

When the CDC’s eviction moratorium is lifted, 11 million Americans will face housing instability.

Kristina García

In the backyard at the Philadelphia Flower Show
Abdallah Tabet grips rake in garden Abdallah Tabet, a lecturer in the Weitzman School of Design, designed the 1,000-square-foot exhibit “Philly-Beirut” (pictured) for the 2021 Philadelphia Flower Show.

In the backyard at the Philadelphia Flower Show

Abdallah Tabet of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design is one of 34 major exhibitors at this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show.
The new American status symbol: A backyard that’s basically a fancy living room

The new American status symbol: A backyard that’s basically a fancy living room

Witold Rybczynski of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design commented on the popularity of exterior decorating in U.S. households. “All these alternative spaces, the sunroom, the parlor, create variety,” he said. “There are wonderful pleasures in being able to eat in different places. It brings a richness into your life.”