Water is everywhere before it is somewhere. It is rain before it is rivers, it soaks before it flows, it spreads before it gathers, it blurs before it clarifies. Water at these moments in the ...
The United Nations Human Settlement’s Program recently named PennDesign professor Eugenie Birch chair of the World Urban Campaign, an organization that advocates sustainable city development. Birch is ...
Faculty from the School of Design helped to create a seasonal “pop-up” space transforming Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a public park. Five years ago, Fairmount Park Conservancy and Philadelphia ...
As Mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa radically changed the city’s urban environment. His planning agenda centered on making equitable changes to provide the most benefit for the most people. His rule ...
Marilyn Jordan Taylor was appointed dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design today. Taylor is a partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill where she leads the firm’s urban design and planning ...
The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design (PennDesign) has begun a five-year collaborative research agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright ...
Frederick Steiner. Image Courtesy of University of Texas at Austin "I am excited and honored to return to Penn as dean of Penn Design,” Steiner said. “This is an exciting time for students, scholars ...
LA+ ICONOCLAST challenges designers to reimagine and redesign New York's Central Park for the 21st century following a fictional eco-terrorist attack that devastates the park. LA+ invites submissions ...
Frederick “Fritz” Steiner made national headlines in late February with the announcement that he will leave the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (UTSOA) to become the dean of the ...