Sunday, February 1, 2015
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
In fall 2003, the historic Graduate School of Fine Arts became the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Our new name—familiarly PennDesign—describes what we are now, a single school, within a great university, dedicated to promoting excellence in design across a…
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In fall 2003, the historic Graduate School of Fine Arts became the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Our new name—familiarly PennDesign—describes what we are now, a single school, within a great university, dedicated to promoting excellence in design across a rich diversity of programs—Architecture, City Planning, Landscape Architecture, Fine Arts, Historic Preservation, Digital Media Design and Visual Studies.
The change in our name underscores our belief in the centrality of design to all aspects of creativity. A dual challenge is offered to our students: explore a broad range of possibilities through both practice and theory. Students at PennDesign seek the critical balance between art and practicality, the why and the how, the left brain and the right.
As our students and their work impact our global environment through the making of thoughtful places and objects, our new name celebrates the future of PennDesign as a leading center for design education and practice in the 21st century and beyond.
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September 9-13: Michel Rojkind, rojkind arquitectos | Lessons from Detroit | Mark Huppert, Preservation Green Lab | Baltimore Ave Dollar Stroll
This week PennDesign's speaker series returns for the new school year, we'll see what Philly might learn from Detroit's bankruptcy, and the Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll is back. TALK: MICHEL ROJKIND,…Mixplace students lead 40th Street walking party to move the conversation forward
Last week nine teens participating in Mixplace Studio led a walking party on 40th Street from Walnut to Wallace streets. The idea was to spur a moving dialogue about 40th Street…More Related ArticlesPennDesign students develop a model for managing closed school buildings
This June, 23 Philadelphia public schools will be closed for good, adding around 65 acres to the city’s already heavy burden of vacant land. For the city, dealing with these soon-to-be-empty… -
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PennDesign 2015 Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer IPD Lecture: Richard Saul Wurman
2015 Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer IPD Lecture: Richard Saul Wurman
Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, 06:30pm
Meyerson Hall
Lower Gallery
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA
Richard Saul Wurman
2015 Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Integrated Product Design Lecture
Monday, February 2 | 6:30PM
Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery
Registration is encouraged. To register, please click here.
PennDesign Lecture: Antoine Picon
Antoine Picon
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015, 06:30pm
Lower Gallery
102 Meyerson Hall
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Director of Research at the GSD. He teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture and technology. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, Picon works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the eighteenth century to the present. His French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (1988; English translation, 1992) is a synthetic study of the disciplinary "deep structures" of…
PennDesign Lecture - Laurie Olin
Laurie Olin
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, 06:00pm
Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery
The Annual Ian L. McHarg Lecture
Laurie Olin is a distinguished teacher, author, and one of the most renowned landscape architects practicing today. From vision to realization, he has guided many of the Olin Studio's signature projects, which span the history of the studio from the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington DC to Bryant Park in New York City. His recent projects include the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and Simon and Helen Director Park in Portland.
Laurie studied civil engineering at the University of Alaska and pursued architecture at…
PennDesign Lecture: Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto
Nanako Umemoto and Jesse Reiser
Monday, Feb. 9, 2015, 06:30pm
Lower Gallery
102 Meyerson Hall
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have practiced in New York City as Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture P.C. since 1986. Jesse Reiser is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, and currently serves as the Director of Graduate. Nanako Umemoto is currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, and leads a yearly design workshop at Hong Kong University. Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture P.C., an internationally recognized architectural firm, has built projects at a…
PennDesign Lecture: Kelly Shannon - New Urban Natures: Blue and Green for Belgium and Vietnam
Kelly Shannon
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, 06:00pm
Meyerson Hall, B3
Kelly Shannon, Professor and Director of the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Southern California presents, “New Urban Natures: Blue and Green for Belgium and Vietnam.”
PennDesign Lecture - Susan Macdonald - Conserving Modern Heritage
Susan Macdonald - Conserving Modern Heritage
Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, 06:00pm
Room B-3, Meyerson Hall
'Somewhere Between History and Current Events: Conserving Modern Heritage'
Susan Macdonald
Head of Field Projects
Getty Conservation Institute
PennDesign: Simulating Natures
This symposium explores how recent forms of media influence our understanding and formation of landscapes. We will examine the substantial changes that have occurred within the digital realm over the last decade, focusing in particular on the development of computationally enabled imaging and modeling. How can we better engage the “invisibles”—biotic and abiotic interactions and flows—that exist outside of our creation but nevertheless can only be understood through our systems of representation? This symposium considers emerging methods and vocabularies that engage this question, and looks to our allied fields—engineering, ecology, art and architecture—for points of convergence, and also to challenge our…
PennDesign Symposium: Simulating Natures
Symposium: Simulating Natures
Thursday, Mar. 19, 2015 — Friday, Mar. 20, 2015
Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
In order to design for movement, a whole new system of conceptualizing must be undertaken. Our present systems of design and planning are invariably limited by our techniques and our methods of symbolizing ideas. We know only how to delineate static symbols, so that is all that we do.
–Lawrence Halprin
The relationships between stasis and change, control and flux, and form and process are central to conceptualizing landscapes. Such notions pertain not only to the material growth…
