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News from the Weitzman School of Design // January 30, 2023 |
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FEATURED STORY |
| Excerpt: Burkholder and Lutsky on the Ecologies of the Great LakesThe coastal zone of the Great Lakes reflects an increasingly dysfunctional relationship between the people of the basin and the resources that support them. In their new book Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin (University of Pittsburg Press, 2022), Sean Burkholder, the Andrew Gordon Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, and Karen Lutsky, assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota, call for a reset through critical, experiential, and pluralistic understandings of place. “While care and joy often characterize the tourism, privatization, and local heritage of these waterfronts, the sites are also entangled with their own injustice and wastefulness,” the authors write. | |
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FEATURED STORY |
| Evaluating the Impact of Emergency Rental AssistanceAs part of the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Emergency Rental Assistance Program provided unprecedented rental assistance funding to states, tribes, and localities for their residents. The Housing Initiative at Penn (HIP) has been selected by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to study the impact of the Program on housing stability, and particularly on eviction. “We hope to learn what aspects of local programs and legal structures best helped keep people housed,” says Katharine Nelson, the director of research at HIP | |
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OTHER NEWS |
Anchoring Pittsburgh’s Water Strategy in Equity and Environmental JusticePennPraxis and the Water Center at Penn led a team of local and international leaders who developed a comprehensive stormwater strategic plan for the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA), which was released for public comment this month. The plan is the first phase of a long-term planning effort to foreground equity and community participation in prioritizing responses to stormwater challenges in this city of hills and rivers. Read the plan |
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China Plays Competitor, and Collaborator, in the Energy Transition (audio)China is indispensable in the global effort to address climate change and speed the transition to clean energy. On the latest episode of Energy Policy Now, the podcast from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Scott Moore, author of China’s Next Act, discusses China’s global role in energy technology and sustainability. Listen to the podcast |
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The Value of Words in ArchitectureBuilding Theories: Architecture as the Art of Building, a new publication by Franca Trubiano, associate professor of architecture and chair of the Graduate Group of Architecture, offers a close reading of texts from antiquity, the Renaissance, and the nineteenth century, along with a critical eye on architectural theory post-1968. Learn more |
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Carbon Accounting at Penn | A University-wide annual report, the Climate and Sustainability Action Plan, outlines progress during the last year toward sustainability goals made in academics, waste minimization, utilities and operations, purchasing, transportation, and outreach and engagement. The carbon accounting for the report is produced by Weitzman’s Center for Environmental Building & Design, led by Professor of Architecture William W. Braham. Learn more |
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Balkrishna Doshi (1927-2023) | The acclaimed Indian architect who traveled to Philadelphia in 1960 to meet Louis Kahn and subsequently collaborated with him on the Indian Institute of Management has died; his work on several projects can be found in the collections of the Architectural Archives. Learn more |
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| Grant AME Church, the oldest Black church in Albuquerque and the first Black church in New Mexico, is one of dozens of heritage sites whose histories are illuminated on the Instagram feed of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites. Via @civilrightsites |
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IN THE MEDIA |
Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach | An assignment from her instructor in the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics Program spurred Lizzie Shackney to explore ChatGPT, but she’s not ready to rely on it. The New York Times |
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La Brea Tar Pits pushes forward with its indoor-outdoor makeover | Marion Weiss, Graham Professor of Practice in Architecture, talks about how her firm is collaborating with LA- and Amsterdam-based firms to reimagine visitors’ experience of the storied paleontological research site. Los Angeles Times |
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RECENT WEITZMAN EVENTS (VIDEO) |
| Melvin A. Marshall | CPCRS Dialogues Recorded on November 2, 2022 Watch now |
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| Casey Mack | Digesting Metabolism: Artificial Land in Japan 1954–2202 Recorded on January 18, 2023 Watch now |
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WEITZMAN EVENTS |
| HISTORIC PRESERVATION LECTURE Susan Singh | Postwar Modern Urban Townhomes: Early Chicago Work of Homer Rissman (1949-1953) 5:00pm | Kleinman Energy Forum, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia Learn more |
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| CITY & REGIONAL PLANNING LECTURE Nisha Botchwey | The Power of Youth Participation and Advocacy Toward Healthy Place Making 6:00pm | Meyerson Hall, B03, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia Learn more |
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| HISTORIC PRESERVATION LECTURE Rohit Jigyasu | In Practice 3:00pm | Meyerson Hall, 3N, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia Learn more |
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| HISTORIC PRESERVATION LECTURE Glenn Boornazian | In Practice 3:00pm | Meyerson Hall, 3N, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia Learn more |
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FEATURED EVENTS |
| Time. And Again.
Opening day of a solo exhibition of work by Ken Lum, the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and chair of fine arts
432 South Alameda Street, Los Angeles, California Learn more |
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| AE8: 8th International Architecture and Environment Symposium | Decision Support in Urban Social-Ecological Systems
A virtual lecture entitled “Redesigning Our Urban World” by Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner
9:30am CT | Online Learn more |
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| Denise Scott Brown: A Symposium A one-day conference on the alum (MCP’60, MArch’65) and former faculty member, organized by Yale University
Hastings Hall, 180 York Street, New Haven, Connecticut Learn more |
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| Weitzman School Awards Honoring Diller Scofidio + Renfro with the 2022 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture and Suisman Urban Design and the iQuilt Partnership with the 2022 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning for Hartford400
6:00pm | The Shed, 545 West 30th Street, New York, New York Learn more |
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| Selections from the Archives: Rami George An exhibition of work by alum and Lecturer in Fine Arts George (MFA’19), organized by the William Way LGBT Community Center
1315 Spruce Street, Philadelphia Learn more |
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| Housing Justice Futures: Philadelphia Forum on Design, Race, and Climate Change A two-day conference organized by the Department of Architecture
Meyerson Hall, Plaza Gallery, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia Learn more |
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