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Bridging Studio and Research, Students Explore Israel-Lebanon Border In early 2018, two students in the final year of their Master’s in Landscape Architecture program at PennDesign were standing on shores of the Mediterranean Sea on either side of the border, calling out each other’s names. One was in Lebanon. The other was in Israel.
PennDesign Alumna, Faculty Win National Design Awards One PennDesign alumna and one faculty member are among the winners of the 2018 National Design Awards, announced this week by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Envisioning Urbanism for the Automation Age If there’s one topic sure to be on the minds of many at PennDesign’s upcoming Commencement Ceremony, it’s work. Clay Gruber, a Montana native who studied sociology as an undergraduate, has a unique perspective. 
Q&A: University Architect David Hollenberg This summer, alumnus and faculty member David Hollenberg (MArch’75) retires from his role as university architect, a position he has held since 2006. Here, Hollenberg talks to former student and PennPraxis Research Associate Molly Lester (MSHP’12) about his interdisciplinary roots, working on Independence Mall with the National Park Service, three decades of teaching in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, and his favorite places on campus. 
The Fair Housing Act at 50: Scholars Gather for Symposium On April 11, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, PennDesign Assistant Professor of City and Regional Vincent Reina co-hosted symposium on the ongoing implementation of the landmark civil rights law. Wendell Pritchett, Provost and Presidential Professor of Law and Education at Penn, and Susan Wachter, Sussman Professor and Professor of Real Estate and Finance, also co-hosted the symposium, which was presented by the Penn Institute for Urban Research (PennIUR). 
Fine Arts Students Complete Mini-Residencies at RAIR A partnership between the FIne Arts Department and a project called Recycled Artist in Residency, or RAIR, which is housed at Revolution Recovery. 
Historic Preservation Alumni Honored by the National Trust Two Historic Preservation alumni were honored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the new initiative 40 Under 40: People Saving Places.
48 years ago: PennDesign Dean Fritz Steiner on Earth Day “Every day is Earth Day for me now; that’s what I do,” says Dean and Paley Professor of Penn’s School of Design, Frederick Steiner. “My work, my life, has been devoted to making the world a better place through an understanding of our environment and how we relate to our built and natural environments.”
Students’ Sustainable Pet Food Wins $50,000 iDesign Prize The iDesign Prize gives Penn student teams the chance to launch an innovative product design venture after graduation. It is awarded for innovative physical products that solve a real problem in the world and are supported by holistic design, engineering and business planning. 
A Kahn Model Receives a Gentle Makeover A sketch model for Louis Kahn’s famed National Assembly Building of Bangladesh is getting a gentle makeover, with guidance from two of Kahn’s former associates. “This model is an incredibly important part of the design process, revealing the creative mind at work,” says William Whitaker, curator of the Architectural Archives at PennDesign.
Making Mongolian ger dwellings more energy-efficient Not much is known about energy use and comfort in gers. A team from PennDesign’s Center for Environmental Building and Design hopes to change that with their on-the-ground research in the coldest capital city in the world, as well as in Philadelphia.
ARI and the Next Frontier for Architects At PennDesign, architecture education extends beyond current practices into the realm of ideas, facilitating exchanges and debates across disciplinary boundaries.