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Design Weekly
10.31.22
News from the Weitzman School of Design
FEATURED NEWS
Q&A: Daniela Fabricius on Teaching Architectural Theory
Daniela Fabricius, an architectural theorist and historian who recently joined Weitzman as an assistant professor of architecture, talks about a course on labor and architecture she is teaching, her work has an editor with the influential journal Log, and her connection with the theorist Jennifer Bloomer, whose writings were especially popular in the 1990s. “Her work is so relevant now, especially for young women and queer students who are really interested in the issues she talks about.” Fabricius says.   
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The Future of Stuart Weitzman Hall
On October 25, Penn President Liz Magill was joined by Stuart Weitzman (W’63), Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner, and Matt Nord (W’01), of the Weitzman Board of Advisors, for a ceremonial groundbreaking for the planned renovation and expansion of Stuart Weitzman Hall, formerly knowns as the Morgan Building. “The artful renovation of Stuart Weitzman Hall will provide a much-needed central space for design students to learn from world-renowned faculty, to engage in conversations and creative explorations, and to showcase the work that they have done together,” Magill said.
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NEWS
Rebalancing our Relationship with the Earth
An essay by Melina Miyowapan Laboucan-Massimo, a visiting scholar at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, describes the ways that the ecological knowledge of Indigenous peoples brings with it solutions to the climate crisis. “To address the climate crisis, a global paradigm shift back to living within the natural laws of our Earth is essential,” Laboucan-Massimo writes.
 
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Material Innovation
Ascent magazine reports on one of several partnerships between the Department of Architecture and manufacturers to make building materials more sustainable and efficient. Richard Garber’s students are learning to design with precast concrete and create reusable forms for Northeast Precast.
 
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Weitzman at ACSP Toronto
More than two dozen faculty members and PhD students in the Department of City and Regional Planning will present work at the annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, focusing on inclusive cities, in Toronto from November 3–5. Weitzman is hosting a reception for alums.
 
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New Publication from Matt Neff
Hyperopia, a new artist book by Matt Neff, director of undergraduate fine arts and design, has been published by Seaton Street Press. 
 
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Forty Years of Historic Preservation
On October 22, the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation celebrated its 40th anniversary with an event that included presentations by several alums, as well as the former chair of the Program, David De Long (pictured). A photo gallery captures the event, which brought together alums, students, faculty, and friends of the Program.
 
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Weitzman hosted the much-anticipated 2022 conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), a weeklong immersion in robotics, augmented reality, and AI featuring an exhibition of recent faculty work and curated projects. 
IN THE NEWS
“A new urban narrative for sustainable development”
Eugénie Birch, the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education and co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, says issues of urban development have been consistently undervalued in national discussion.
Nature Sustainability

“The Constellation of Plans: Toward a New Structure of Comprehensive Plans in US Cities”
Christine Quattro, a PhD student in city and regional planning and Crossways Professor Thomas Daniels identifiy a new, emerging structure for comprehensive plans using a central plan tied to a variety of functional plans (for example housing or transportation), neighborhood plans, and special topics plans, such as a climate action plan.
Land

“The Fragmenting Countryside and the Challenge of Retaining Agricultural Land: The Vermont Case”
Crossways Professor Thomas Daniels and alum Kyle McCarthy (MUSA’21) covers the history of rural land use change in Vermont from 1960 to 2018 and shows the decline in farming acreage and the creation of many lots of less than 20 acres, which have limited use for farming.
Society and Natural Resources
 
WEITZMAN EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
ADMISSIONS EVENT
Fall Open House
Monday, October 31 | Online
 
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CPCRS LECTURE
CPCRS Dialogues
Melvin A. Marshall
Wednesday, November 2, 12:00pm | Online
 
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LECTURE
Observing: A Manifesto
Jane Wolff
Thursday, November 3, 6:00pm | Kleinman Energy Forum, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 
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FINE ARTS LECTURE
Carolyn Lazard (MFA'19)
Thursday, November 3, 6:00pm | Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S 36th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 
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FEATURED EVENTS
Disrupt: Business of Architecture Symposium
A three-day virtual conference that includes Miller Professor and Chair of Architecture Winka Dubbeldam
Tuesday, November 1–Thursday, November 3 | Online
 
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From Las Vegas to Rome: Photographs by Iwan Baan
An exhibition of photographs organized on the occasion of Learning from Las Vegas, by longtime faculty member Robert Venturi and alum Denise Scott Brown (MCP’60, MArch’65)
Through Sunday, November 27 | American Academy in Rome Gallery, Via Angelo Masina, 5, Rome, Italy
 
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