University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design

Tomorrow: Join us for a lecture by Ellie Abrons, organized by the Department of Architecture. Abrons is principal of T+E+A+M, and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. https://bit.ly/31qjoN3

Tomorrow: Andrea Roberts gives a lecture for the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, entitled "The Freedom Colony Repertoire: Promising Approaches to Bridging and Bonding Social Capital between Urban and Rural Black Mecca." https://bit.ly/2TeyNf7

Researchers at PennPraxis, the consulting and community engagement arm of the School, are collaborating on the Global Nighttime Recovery Plan, which provides best practices for safely reengaging with nightlife. https://bit.ly/3dFYyOC @pennpraxis Photo by @JtDelphia

On Monday, 10/19, 4:00pm CDT, Marion Weiss, Graham Professor of Practice in Architecture, and her partner Michael Manfredi will give a virtual lecture, organized by Places Journal and the Fay Jones School, University of Arkansas. https://bit.ly/3nXIn4a

Join us WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21 for the fourth session of our Farm of the Future dialogs, Water Management. Lamonte Garber, Watershed Restoration Coordinator at Stroud Research Center, gives an overview of agricultural water quality protection and natural resource stewardship in the White and Red Clay Creek watersheds of New Bolton Center and beyond. Clare Billett, Senior Program Officer for Watershed Protection at William Penn Foundation, discusses funding, strategies for water...shed protection, and novel agricultural stream buffers. Halina Steiner, Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Ohio State University, shares her work designing hydrologic and infrastructure systems for technical performance and legibility. Event link will be sent out on Wednesday; registration closes 2 hours before event. https://bit.ly/3k0Per7 See more

Monday, October 19, 1:00pm Designing Practice Join Rudabeh Pakravan (MArch’00), Kristen Sidell (MArch’00), and Maxine Skaggs Kennedy (MArch’00) for a discussion on designing practices that engage with the community and the culture of architecture. https://bit.ly/350Wn4p

A report from a Penn team, spearheaded by Associate Professor of Fine Arts Orkan Telhan, offers lessons from two years of discussions among educators, scientists, biodesigners, and artists to examine the ways in which their work intersects. Anytime a technology advances faster than the public's ability to understand it, it creates fear, uncertainty, suspicion, and legislation, which makes a critical understanding and discussion of these emerging technologies paramount, the authors write. https://bit.ly/2FDezZm

The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy announced a student blog competition focusing on the transition of the energy system away from fossil fuels. Winning entries, due by 10/30, will be published on the Center’s site, with cash prizes for three finalists. https://bit.ly/3lQdmxh

Four PennPraxis Design Fellows, under the leadership of Ellen Neises, adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture and executive director at PennPraxis, recently worked to re-imagine a former slate quarry as a heritage park in the Lehigh Valley. https://bit.ly/3lQC7sT

Join us on Thursday, October 15, 7:00pm EDT, for an event organized by the Architectural Archives. Laurie Olin, practice professor emeritus of landscape architecture, shares some of the work from his latest book, France Sketchbooks (ORO Editions, 2019). https://bit.ly/3dqpRfT

The Weitzman School is launching a new initiative, the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS), to advance the understanding and sustainable conservation of heritage sites relating to African American struggles for equality, from before the passage of the 14th Amendment to the present day. Brent Leggs, whose work as executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation was the subject of a January feature in ‘The New Yorker,’ joins CPCRS as a senior advisor and adjunct associate professor. Learn more at a virtual panel discussion on October 27. https://bit.ly/372WfUw

Half a century after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, American neighborhoods remain segregated by race and class, contributing to generational poverty and the racial wealth gap. In a new volume edited by Vincent Reina, assistant professor of city and regional planning at Weitzman, 14 scholarsincluding Weitzman’s Francesca Russello Ammon and Akira Drake Rodriguezexplore the problem and offer tools that, if appropriately supported, can promote racial and economic equity in America. To mark the publication of the book, for the rest of October, PennIUR is hosting a series of panel discussions on different aspects of the Fair Housing Act’s legacy. https://bit.ly/3k4IVmc

Opening Today 'Mixing Chambers' Mixing Chambers is a virtual installation of designs by first-year graduate architecture students accessed via QR codes in the Stoner Courtyard of the Penn Museum. Through October 19. https://bit.ly/3drfdWb