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penndesign/now:
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penndesign/now: PennDesign is an inventive place of learning where the many fields of architecture, planning, preservation, landscape and the fine arts come together on shared ground. At PennDesign, we are dedicated to design that is creative in nature and transformative in impact. In a collaborative environment that fosters inquiry and experimentation, faculty and students seek to recast the distinction between theory and practice, expand knowledge and invention through research, and contribute works of value and beauty. PennDesign now.
penndesign/now: perspective/ 8–9
Amy Gutmann
action/
ideas/ 18–19
Fumihiko Maki
32–33
University President 20–21 10–11
Zaha Hadid
Marilyn Jordan Taylor Dean, PennDesign
22–23
Eduardo Glandt
24–25
48–49
Inspired by a
Rail Work in the
Anuradha Mathur,
Midsummer’s
Northeast
Dilip da Cunha
Night Dream
Megaregion
Simon Kim and
Robert Yaro,
Mark Yim
Marilyn Taylor
Ben’s House:
42–43
Frank Matero
Barry Bergdoll
T.C. Chan Center
50–51
List of Lectures
36–37
Symposium:
Ali Malkawi 44–45
Studio Slavonice
experience/ 72–73
Laurie Olin
UrbanSHED M.Arch ’11, with
64–65
Sense and Non-sense
Sarah Khan and
David Leatherbarrow
Andres Cortes
Kotor, Montenegro
74–75
Randall Mason
Design Awards
Schuylkill Watershed
A Tribute to
Address
Michael Nairn,
Dean, School
Professor
Peter Brown
Harris Steinberg
of Nursing
John Dixon Hunt 52–53
Unspoken Boarders 2010 Conference: Rebuilding Communities after Disaster Black Student Alliance
54–55
PennPraxis Green2015: An Action Plan for 500 New Acres of Open Space Andrew Goodman
56–57
List of studios
68–69
dread Joshua Mosley
people/ 80–81
Graduates
82–87
Donors
88
Faculty
Young-Hwan Choi,
Bernice Elza Homes Richard Wesley
A Framework for
Afaf Meleis
Laurie Olin
60–63
Schuylkill Green: Resiliency within the
28–29
beauty/
66–67
and Applied Science 14–15
Making High-Speed
in an Estuary
at Franklin Court 26–27
The Robot Etudes:
policy/
Designing History
Thom Mayne
Dean, School of Engineering
40–41
Narciso Rodriguez 34–35
12–13
SOAK: Mumbai
energy/
76–77
Aging in Africa, Matthias Hollwich
perspective/gutmann:
Amy Gutmann President
University of Pennsylvania 2010
President Amy Gutmann is a forceful advocate for the urban university and its role in shaping the communities it serves. When she became the university’s eighth president in 2004, she implemented The
Penn Compact, her vision for making Penn both a global leader in teaching, research, and professional practice, and shepherded its physical and social realization through PennConnects. In compelling faculty,
students, and staff at Penn to see the University as a dynamic agent of social, economic, and civic progress, she is superb in her ability to be a client and a steward for design that matters.
Design matters. The phrase that’s gaining currency in the design world has particular relevance here at Penn. More than adescription, it’s an assertion—of the vital role that art and design can play in shaping the conversation around today’s most pressing issues and in formulating the solutions to them... Design matters. The phrase that’s gaining currency
Biennale before captivating local audiences at the ICA.
in the design world has particular relevance here at
The same vision is also informing the School’s
Penn. More than a description, it’s an assertion—of
involvement in a web of novel interdisciplinary
the vital role that art and design can play in shaping the
partnerships. Indeed, PennDesign is ground zero
conversation around today’s most pressing issues and
for some of the most fascinating collaborations
in formulating the solutions to them. And it captures
going on at this University today. Take LabStudio,
perfectly the conviction and the urgency fueling
which joins faculty and students from the Schools of
everyone connected to PennDesign now.
Medicine, Design, and Engineering to apply design
From the school’s dean, to its faculty, to its students,
theories to biological matter and systems. Producing
to its alumni working in every corner of the globe—
stunning graphic representations of these dynamic
PennDesign is leading the way in creating a new vision
processes, their utterly unique work opens a whole new
of art and design professionals as a positive force for
dimension for understanding disease processes.
change in society.
It’s just one of many new dimensions that PennDesign
That vision is what’s powering a dazzling array of
is opening—not only for its students and faculty
high-profile projects that are engaging PennDesign
but for all of Penn.With research and projects that
students and faculty on a local, national, and global
reach deeply into communities across the globe and
level. Just this year, Penn Praxis, a PennDesign
into disciplines across the University, and a strong
initiative that brings students and faculty together
desire to share its work with a wider audience than
to consult with communities throughout the world
ever, PennDesign is initiating all of us into a new
on design projects, was retained by the Philadelphia
understanding of the power of art and design.
Parks and Recreation Commission to help create
—Amy Gutmann
500 acres of green space city-wide. Also this year,
PennDesign faculty and students, as part of a studio
exploring the potential for a national high-speed rail network, developed a plan for a Northeast system so extraordinary that they were invited to present
their ideas to Vice President Joe Biden. Interim Fine
Arts Chair and Associate Professor of Animation and
Digital Media, Joshua Mosley, is catalyzing fresh ways of seeing things—most recently with his animated installation, dread, which premiered at the Venice
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perspective/taylor:
Marilyn Jordan Taylor Dean, PennDesign
University of Pennsylvania 2010
Since becoming Dean in 2008, Marilyn Jordan Taylor has connected with students across disciplines, elevated research and scholarship among faculty, and embraced
the legacy and future of PennDesign. As a professional, her reputation was built on leadership, large-scale urban projects —from New York’s Moynihan Station to
Hong Kong International Airport’s SkyCity—and an indomitable vivacity and compassion for the world of design.
We are committed to longevity based on integrity over trend. PennDesign/Now puts into print what cannot be
of short essays for John Dixon Hunt, spoke strongly on
captured on paper. The events, words, images,
behalf of saving Ben’s House, and went to Montenegro
provocations, propositions, actions and experiences
to preserve the heritage of Kotor. We boldly advocated
of a thriving school, an inventive place of learning, in a
high-speed rail and stalked the Schuykill River watershed
great urban research university, in a city of legacy and
from its headwaters to the Delaware. Humans from
promise, are recorded here as a prompt to memory and
the Pig Iron Theater Company and robots from the
an impetus toward action.
imaginative minds of design and engineering students
The year 2010 sat midstream between the shock
danced in the woods and fell in love at the Prince Theater.
of slow recovery and the disappearance, at all levels
The beauty of place, history, words and animation filled
of government, of the resources with which to
our house and spilled outside. We urged each other to
rebuild. With characteristic verve the University of
cross the “unspoken borders” of bias that impact design
Pennsylvania began the construction of Penn Park, a
and community.
glorious green swath of playing fields and planted berms
While much of the year is documented in photographs,
designed for connecting university and community.
PennDesign/Now also preserves the words that
The City of Philadelphia launched a comprehensive
stirred our souls or, in some cases, invaded our calm.
planning effort, the first in decades, while also setting
Curator Barry Bergdoll spoke of architecture rather
an objective of putting a park within a ten-minute walk
than architects, City Council member Peter Brown
of every city resident. The Tea Party cheered their
underlined the role of cities in creating wealth for all,
impending victories and prepared to shelve billions
and Professor David Leatherbarrow talked about sense
of federal initiative dollars. Snow fell in near-record
and non-sense in design. Landscape architect Laurie
amounts and stayed around in the winter chill.
Olin was, as always, our voice for the quality of beauty.
We’re trained to know that context—political,
At PennDesign we believe in the power and artistry of
economic, social and environmental—affects us, yet
design and in the importance of design to the policies,
in the academic year that stretched from July 2009 to
investments, and public will of the future.
June 2010, context did not define or limit the range of
In Anu Mathur’s Mumbai: City in an Estuary and in
our imagination. Students and faculty at the School of
Matthias’ Hollwich’s Aging in Africa, we set the table for
Design warmly welcomed Fumihiko Maki, Zaha Hadid,
the year ahead in 2011.
and Thom Mayne for star turns on the Meyerson
—Marilyn Jordan Taylor
stage, and listened closely as Narcisco Rodriguez and John Hoke questioned one another about sources of inspiration for material designs. We created a “Fest”
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perspective/glandt:
Eduardo Glandt Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania 2010
With more than 35 years at Penn, globetrotting Buenos Aires native Eduardo Glandt—Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 1999—has
The intersection of engineering and design is driving new frontiers of possibility at Penn.
seen the transformation of the school from the birthplace of ENIAC to the front lines of nanotechnology, where designers and engineers often work hand in hand.
When this collaboration is at its best, the results can be not just technically brilliant but engagingly beautiful.
Integrated Product Design, the interdisciplinary program that combines the teaching of practical engineering problems with the challenge of design, is broadening the disciplines of engineering, design, and business. ipd trains students in a uniquely multidisciplinary method, melding traditional fields of study in a collaborative and scholarly setting. Students and faculty are encouraged to think outside of traditional professional lines to anticipate rising issues and develop strategic answers. The environment provided by Program Director Mark Yim, Gabel Family Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Simon Kim, Assistant Professor of Architecture, and other PennDesign faculty serves to prepare students in complex reasoning and practical decision-making.
My association with world-renowned architects and PennDesign faculty Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake began with the commission of Levine Hall, home of Computer and Information Science. Their design features an elegant random lattice façade, reminiscent of the geometric painting of the noted Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. Since that time, my partnership with Stephen and James, as well as PennDesign, has been nurtured by our common concern that the solutions produced by design have a large impact on the people and programs housed in these buildings. Their collaborative presentation of robots in action and humans in response shines light on the potential of robotic intelligence and crosscultural communication. —Eduardo Glandt
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perspective/meleis:
Afaf Meleis Dean, School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania 2010
Dean Afaf Meleis came to head the School of Nursing in 2002, after almost 35 years on the faculty at UCLA. Having spent much of her career working on
As urban populations continue to expand at an unprecedented rate, the demand for our communities to be responsive and adaptive to inhabitants’ health needs is greater than ever.
international nursing, health and women’s issues, she understands how important good design is to promoting healthy environments and communities. A native
of Egypt and graduate of the University of Alexandria, she knows the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.
On their surfaces, the School of Nursing and the
infrastructure, safety threats and reduced access
School of Design have little in common—nursing
to health care and other resources can conflate to
focuses on the application of science to patients and
produce dire health outcomes.
their families, design focuses on the development
Women play critical and multiple roles in societies
of cities, housing, transportation, and the systems
as mothers, leaders, students, decision-makers, voters
that allow us to navigate the world. Only at Penn
and workers. They are the backbone of families and
would this unlikely pairing come together to inform
communities. Health research combined with design
the debate on issues surrounding women’s health
practice and other areas of study and expertise here
and empowerment. In 2010, I had the opportunity
at Penn are creating an increasingly influential body
to work with Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor and City
of study that can serve to aid and empower not only
Planning Professor Genie Birch when Penn Nursing
women, but the individuals and families they care for
partnered with the International Council on Women’s
and the communities in which they live.
Health Issues (icowhi) to host its 18th conference
—Afaf Meleis
entitled Cities and Women’s Health: Global Perspectives. The conference attracted over 350 participants from more than 30 countries and proved fertile ground for the exchange of research and cross-pollination of ideas for which the University of Pennsylvania is renowned. PennDesign’s collaborative infrastructure powerfully contributes to the important dialogue on issues women face in cities that impact their health and life experiences. As urban populations continue to expand at an unprecedented rate, the demand for our communities to be responsive and adaptive to inhabitants’ health needs is greater than ever. This urgent need for intervention is both health-related and dependent on the fundamental systemic needs of things like human shelter and clean drinking water. The impact of urban living is especially felt by women as gender biases, economic disparities, outmoded
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ideas/maki:
Fumihiko Maki
Lecture
Fumihiko Maki’s structures are transformative space with their abundance of natural light and white. More than just design elements, their composition breaks
5 November 2009
“the building is a
small city”
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down walls between inside and outside, and alter one’s experience with a building as moving from interior and exterior, and back again. Stunning examples of this
were shared of this element during Maki’s 2009 lecture, from the Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo to Penn’s new Annenberg Public Policy Center.
“Natural light which is the most important parameter for experiencing a space, but also materiality is important because the texture of a building will be defined by the materials we use.” 19
ideas /hadid:
Zaha Hadid
Lecture
22 March 2010
One look at certain architectural forms, and the viewer knows they could come only from the hand of Zaha Hadid. An international leader in large-scale design,
the first female Pritzker Architecture Prize winner treated the PennDesign community to an entertaining spring 2010 lecture that was a tour de force of her vast,
undulating structures whose shocking shapes and daring angles challenge every architecture convention in the book.
“I don’t think we should repeat ourselves, but I am also not someone who wants to jump around everyday wearing a new outfit. Maybe for my clothes, but not in my work.” 20
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ideas/rodriguez & hoke:
Narciso Rodriguez with John Hoke III
Lecture
7 April 2010
A conversation between two friends bore an intimate look into the minds of two designers regarded for their work with the tactile and the identifiable—fashion
designer Narciso Rodriguez and John Hoke III (MArch ’92), Vice President of Nike Design. Rodriguez, whose fluid garments exude beautiful structure
both inside and out, and the globallyrecognized innovator Hoke showed that wide appeal need not be based on a compromise in vision.
“I got to sit at the end of the master’s desk and learn from there... I WORK hard...to find new ways to do the same old thing.” 22
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ideas/mayne:
Thom Mayne
Lecture
22 April 2010
Thom Mayne likes to argue. But not just for argument’s sake—his architectural style comes from a commitment to dialogue and the natural provocation
that arises. That belief in conflict combines with a committed sense of urbanism and a brave willingness to disrupt typical systems in order to
create urban form. And the results— on wide display in the four decades since he started his own firm—challenge designers to do better.
I am fascinated with architecture as a manifestation of a From very early on, I had some sort of instinct of chance dialogue. It’s concretizing the way we behave within behavior, incomplete disruption, not as a radical act, but psychological, personal terms and the way we behave as a normative condition. I see that as the world we live in. politically within a democratic, egalitarian society. 24
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ideas/bergdoll:
It
is a great honor to have been invited to speak to you at this important threshold in your personal and professional lives. Personally, of course, I am delighted to be invited back to my home town—where I discovered my passion for architecture and for cities—to share this moment with you; but all the more, professionally, as I feel that in a way we have traversed an unexpected set of challenges together, ones in which the centrality of the design professions has become again manifestly clear even if larger forces, in which architects are themselves all too often complicit, are enormous in acting to marginalize the disciplines of architecture, landscape, and urban planning and design. Many of you enrolled in the degree programs of the School of Design three years ago just as I embarked, in 2007, on my own journey of discovering, venturing out of the academy to take the reins of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. For the past three years, thus, we have not only been learning new professions—me architecture curator, you architecture, city planning, landscape design, historic preservation, and urban analytics, and I hope, as you have done so, side by side the cooperative interdisciplinary approaches that are fundamental to the future vitality of the design professions. In School of Design and Museum, then, we have been trying to discover meaningful positions and prospects; even as the design professions have been jolted as almost never before into discussion of just where the moral compass should be set. I trust that you share with me, and so many others around the world, the sense that the horizon of expectations, the matrix in which decisions were made and values assessed, back in 2007, seems now quite distant—distant from the uncertainties that accompany passage into the second decade of this now
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not so new century. Even what seemed like the emerging new paradigms three years ago—the rapid maturation of digital fabrication, an explosion of new materials, a wide spread acceptance of the priority of sustainability, a slowly reawakening ethos of social responsibility, are —and need to be—submitted, to intensive questioning and exploration from perspectives that are gaining daily in urgency. In 2007 the overlapping worlds of architecture and design were very much, perhaps like the worlds of politics and of finance, and thus of building and of spatial development, persuaded that old laws of cycles and periods had definitively yielded to new models of uninterrupted growth, limitless possibilities, and perhaps even the transcendence of the disruptive paradigm of the cyclical, and sometimes, violent, swings of economic growth and building demand. In 2010 that mood seems hard to recapture. The neologism “Starchitect”— which did little service even to the handful of design talents whose work was regarded largely from a very superficial set of criteria of relevance largely to the affluent citizens of the G20 countries—has lost much of its luster. Certainly I don’t image it is, in 2010, a viable role model for future designers, since along with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and now the sovereign debt crisis emerging in Europe, has come an equally impressive crash of new commissions for expensive private houses and showy museum additions, the prime building types that sustained that attention. A few years ago it seemed that the reduction of the range of tasks for architecture was in direct relationship to the small percentage of the profession who could hope to excel within the paradigms of early twenty-first century media culture. Of course there were other outlets, some of the most innovative
Barry Bergdoll
design work even entered in a rarified way into public discourse through limited edition objects for sales in the overheated art market. Research seemed limited to the academy, a rift between academy and profession had widened. Clearly this is not a model for the interface between design and the world that is sustainable, if it ever was. I am not among those who believe that what we are currently experiencing is a temporary downturn; nor that that we need simply to wait it out. I am no economist, political scientist, or financial analyst; but I think it is now abundantly clear to any of us following the historical information revealed by each new excavation of our assumptions brought on by the crisis, that there were ample signs that that euphoria was un-tethered long before the band ceased to play, that many of the causes are structural rather than ephemeral. It seems to me that we are living through a paradigm shift as fundamental as that launched thirty years ago, when the dual doctrines of unregulated markets and the winnowing of government’s role in large scale planning and intervention for the public good (even as the public sector, in fact, never ceased to grow), was set into motion by the Regan and Thatcher revolutions in the English-speaking world. These doctrines have become an international paradigm with the accelerated march of globalization in the wake of the sudden thawing of the Cold War, almost exactly twenty years ago. What is certain is that we need to be thinking of new ways of intervening in the world, rather than wait for things to return to a normal that is now a historical artifact, and this is no where more true than in architecture and design. But happily—for me and for you—I have not been invited to the Wharton School, but rather the Penn School of Design, a school that has distinguished itself over and over again as a leader in innovation from the days of Louis Kahn, Robert Venturi, Romaldo Giurgola and Ian
Commencement
As the 2010 graduation speaker, Barry Bergdoll addressed the seismic shift occurring in design—and the world over—as a result of the global economic
17 May 2010
unconventionally. From the first I gave McHarg, to the current generation of your myself the mandate of making the museum teachers who are exploring diverse new a platform for the stakes of architecture as paradigms for the delivery of design in the it is practiced now, a platform where public digital age, along with interdisciplinary and professionals alike could confront connections between landscape and the process that is “design thinking,” architecture, between regional planning and economic analysis, between design and rather than merely observing end results. the current demographic crisis, all of which Beautiful buildings displayed divorced of the contextual framework of their genesis, make Penn one of the most interesting is an old art museum paradigm that runs laboratories of design potential anywhere ever the risk of reducing architecture to in the world. It seems to me that as a result so many consumer or media objects, no you are particularly well placed to move matter what the intent of their makers on to the practice of design in emerging or clients. That was the intent in 2008 new paradigms, not waiting for them to of “Home Delivery,” with its complex come into focus clearly enough for you presentation of the stakes of digital to see where the opportunities lie, but fabrication read against the larger history building those very opportunities through of the multiple replications of architectural the continuation of the exploration and solutions in the dream of pre-fabrication the challenges that you have embraced since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. here into the demanding but very needy This will be the profile of my colleague environment out there for designers. If Andres Lepik’s “Small Scale, Big Change” one thing is clear it is that the various which opens in September and presents professions taught here will only prosper, the work of architects around the world and have the transformative power that is who define a task and invent the way their potential, when practiced in taught of getting it done for the betterment of dialogue and collaboration. local populations rather than waiting for This is the role that parallels the challenges I have posed for myself, and it is a competition or a commission to come one that I have tried to facilitate in my own along that might serve as an occasion; I think that the coupling of superb innovative redefinition of curatorial practice. In 2007 architecture with wholly new ways of I was hired to guide the architecture and transforming an urban or social situation design program of a museum still in the throes of one of the great expansions of the will be a revelation for many. In such exhibitions, visitors are shown a profile of last generation with ambitious plans for a the architect as an interdisciplinary, artistic second expansion in less than a decade; a and intellectual entrepreneur, rather than year later I found myself negotiating with simply as the artist who can give brilliant my colleagues a museum with reduced budgets, eroded endowments, and a smaller and memorable forms to briefs written by others. In avoiding frequent monographic staff. Happily with the Mies van der Rohe displays, we are determined to promote not archive as one of our greatest assets we individual architects but rather architecture, were well placed to face a new age of “Less landscape, and design as such and the full is More;” and to do so not with the idea range of their centrality in our public realm, that the challenges represented so many a task all the more important in a period in problems to solve but that they must be which the public posting of private wish lists embraced as new opportunities to think on social media sites often passes as a form of public discourse.
I don’t intend here—as an art historian crippled by the lack of images—to explicate in details the innovative interdisciplinary design thinking that faces the challenges of climate change on view currently in “Rising Currents,” but I do want to take up Dean Marilyn Taylor’s invitation to make that exhibition my main subject in the short time I have left this afternoon. And that in order to sketch in some of the ways in which I think that that project’s claims for the role of the design professions in our society are relevant to you as you leave the laboratory of the university to engage in professions that may, at first, seem ill prepared to absorb your energies and talents. Even if you have not yet seen it I hope by now the attention it has garnered has made you aware of the premise: namely to respond to the long term challenges posed by climate change and accompanying sea level rise as it plays out in the continent’s largest metropolis. This is not an urgency in which design has often been seen as central, but our self-given mandate was to reveal the contrary. The approach is glocal, an attitude towards acting locally on issues shared planet-wide which has been gaining increasing traction in the face of the uncritical acceptance of globalizing normalization. In 2010 for the first time more than half the world’s population lives in large cities, and of the 20 largest metropolises on the planet, 15 of them lie substantially in floodable zones that will be remodeled by climate change even without design intervention. Even as the workshops were underway last winter at MoMA’s transformed school house PSl, the estimates of sea level rise were adjusted radically upward with evidence of more rapid polar ice cap melt. The specific challenge posed to the five interdisciplinary teams of architects, landscape designers, ecologists, engineers, and other designers who accepted our invitation to a residency at PS1 was to respond to the Latrobe team report led by engineer Guy Nordenson, landscape designer Catherine Seavitt, and
architect Adam Yarinsky, for a radical expansion of the palette of techniques for intervention.
We are determined to promote not individual architects but rather architecture, landscape, and design as such, a task all the more important in a period in which [posting on] social media sites often passes as a form of public discourse.
Implicit was a critique of the ruling doctrine of both the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and the developers who have made a bee line for New York City’s waterfront, to include not only traditional hard infrastructure approaches, but also a whole range of “soft” infrastructure techniques and design interventions which are multi-functional, protective as well as energy producing. At a time when the national debate on infrastructure and new energy sources are focused on “shovel-ready” projects that will stimulate the economy, it seemed to me vital to demonstrate, even on the modest scale of a small set of case studies, or soundings, that we now have an important opportunity to foster new research and fresh thinking about the use of urban coastlines, about the collaborative designs of architects and landscape designers, about the fact that design is a form for imagining wholly new solutions rather than a way of decorating solutions found by others. Rather than running from the rising sea levels and leaving the problem solving to engineers who will build the defenses, we sought to harness the new interdisciplinary experiments that have been emerging in the design world to embrace the coastline, mediate the environmental challenges, and provide both solutions and images for thinking of mid-21st century urban life differently. The audiences are multi-fold, as they must be for an architectural gallery inside one of the world’s most visited and popular museums of art: the general public, government policy makers who de facto form the physical fabric of the region, and the design professions themselves in a period when the economic recession provides challenges not experienced for two generations. Attendance has been beyond our wildest hopes, even if the level of exchange on the accompanying web site—perhaps you could raise the stakes here when you are next on the internet—
crisis. Seeing opportunity amid the debris, Bergdoll, the MoMA’s Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design and Professor at Columbia University,
delivered of bounding and timely message on responsibility, engagement and hope to PennDesign’s newest graduates.
reveals that we all still have a long way to go together, we might agree that that form of engagement is the most viable posture for to bridge the gap between speaking to one a design professional as the 21st century another as designers, and to the vital task enters its second decade with a sense of of claiming a central place at the national anxiety definitely much more founded than public debate about infrastructure, climate structure, post sub prime crisis development, that which eleven years ago accompanied the ephemeral Y2K threat, a momentary and other a myriad of other urgent issues where design should be at the table from the blimp in the unthinking faith in technology. Since then the digital forces of the globe menu planning. Some are bewildered by this new use of the have revealed themselves capable of causing radical destruction and shifts of museum not as a sanctuary for continually wealth in automatically programmed sales relaunching a battle in a war won long ago, and purchases of stocks by mega computers namely the status of architecture as art, but malfunctioning for a nanosecond, even as rather the posture of the museum as a form of advocacy. I insist that this critique—most computer driven armaments fail to reach real targets. There is indeed real cause for recently voiced in the surprising setting anxiety, and new crises continue to emerge, of a presentation of the project to students but it seems to me that the most pertinent and critics at the University of Caracas in stance as you translate the wealth of Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela—arrives rather research in which you have engaged in this belatedly. MoMA was founded within days school and venture outside the academy is of the stock market crash of 1929 and came further activist engagement. Your challenge of age in the Depression. From the first is to convert the daily stakes you took on its agenda was multi-fold. Even if most here into new research opportunities, and architectural histories have preferred to to advocate for the central role of design retain the aesthetic manifesto of Philip in the robustness of the societies where Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock’s you elect to practice as a central part of seminal “International Style” exhibition of any national agenda. But this it seems 1932; but the most sustained activity of the to me is something that you can only do, department’s first decade was exhibitions once you have calibrated your own ethical and programs advocating for better public compass, set a standard for what it means housing. These had direct impacts on the to act as a designer, and engage to work creation of the New York City Housing collaboratively with the other disciplines Authority in 1934 and on the passage of the that have been trained here side by side Federal Housing Act of 1937, much of this with you, and with the issues that the fast due to the activism of the young Catherine changing global situation is bringing us Bauer and the advocacy of Lewis Mumford, every day. The architecture of the future who went on to teach here in this school for many years. It is the renewal of this advocacy will not be a new set of formal experiments, but rather a new approach to working role that has seemed to me increasingly together to craft a meaningful public urgent in defining the role for a Department of Architecture & Design not only as a mirror realm resilient to the challenges already manifestly evident before us. of the range of invention, innovation, and artistry to be found in the design professions, Thank you so much for allowing me to share part of this great ceremony with you. but also as an instrument, even an agent, for —Barry Bergdoll the engagement of the design professions with the most pressing issues of the day. I hope that I am right in my premise that having lived through the last three years 27
ideas/lectures:
PennDesign
Lecture Series
2009—2010
The classroom is just the appetizer. PennDesign’s ongoing lecture series and symposia bring professionals and academics from the tops of their fields to
Meyerson Hall, where they engage not just by imparting knowledge, but frequently guiding and critiquing studio work. Students enjoy up-close-and-personal
access to the people shaping today’s design world—and get a taste of what it will be like to shape tomorrow’s themselves.
JON CALAME, Minerva Partners, Divided Cities: Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Mostar and Nicosia; STEPHEN KIERAN, Kieran Timberlake Associates, Dwelling; NINA KATCHADOURIAN, Fine Arts Senior Critic; TRENT LETHCO, Arup, Reshaping the City: New Visions for Urban Transport; NICK GIANOPULOS, JOHN MILNER, DENISE SCOTT BROWN, and ROBERT VENTURI: Franklin Court: A Conversation; JOÃO GOMES DA SILVA , Atelier Global, Recent Work; JOHN YAU, Visiting Fine Arts Critic; ELLEN DUNHAM-JONES, Georgia Institute of Technology, Retrofitting Suburbia; EELCO HOOFTMAN, Gross.Max, Land / Scape / Architecture; AN-MY Lê, Senior Critic; JASON JOHNSON, Future Cities Lab; PHILADELPHIA MODERN: PRESERVING BETH SHOLOM, David De Long, Emily Cooperman, Gunny Harboe, Michael Henry, Dorothy Krotzer, Derek Trelstad; PAOLO BÜRGI, Studio Bürgi, The Landscape Project: Between Rediscovery and Intervention; JOHN DIXON HUNT, Honoring John Dixon Hunt, Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, Essays, Tributes and Images in Honor of Professor John Dixon Hunt’s Contributions to the History and Theory of Landscape Architecture; FUMIHIKO MAKI, Maki and Associates; NEW FORMS OF PUBLIC SPACE, James Corner, Julie Beckman, Matthew Ritchie, Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor, and Michael Larice; MATTHEW RITCHIE; BJARKE INGELS; RANDALL MASON, The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City, GARY LAWRENCE, ARUP, Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience: Preparation for a Chaotic Climate Future, GEOFF MANAUGH, BLDGBLOG, Wired Magazine, The Turbulence Biennial; OLAF BREUNING, Visiting Artist; JOSEPH RYKWERT, What Makes Your Eye Judicious?, JERRY VAN EYCK, West 8, West 8: Urban (and) Landscape; NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE, MIT Media Lab, Integrated Product Design Seminar; DAVID HUMPHREY,Visiting Artist; DAVID LEATHERBARROW, Sense and Non-Sense in Contemporary Architecture; CHARLES ATLAS, Film artist; MILER LAGOS, Visiting Artist; CONVERSATIONS: THE NEW BARNES FOUNDATION, Billie Tsien, Tod Williams, David Leatherbarrow, Derek Gillman, and others; SAM DURANT, Multimedia Artist; FRANKLIN COURT: A CONVERSATION, Nick Gianopulos, John Milner, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi; KEN SMITH, Ken Smith Landscape Architect, biglittleskipthemiddle; ELEANOR ANITN, Photographer; NTIN; GREGG PASQUARELLI, SHoP Architects; MARCEL SMETS, State Architect to the Flemish Government, Infrastructure Design in the Contemporary Landscape; TAKAHARU TEZUKA , Tezuka Architects; DOMINIQUE PERRAULT, Dominique Perrault Architecture; CORNELIA OBERLANDER AND ROSA KLIASS, Fifty Years of North|South Axis Landscape Architecture Practice; The Annual Ian l. McHarg Lecture; ANTHONY VIDLER; Dean of the School of Architecture, The Cooper Union; JOAN FITZGERALD, Director, Law, Policy and Society Program; Director, Urban Studies Undergraduate Minor, Northeastern University, Emerald Cities:Urban Sustainability and Economic Development; JONATHAN ROSE, Jonathan Rose Companies, MARTIN REIN- CANO; TOPOTEK 1, Personal Public Space, ZAHA HADID, Integrated Product Design Lecture; STAN ALLEN, Princeton University, Stan Allen Architect; JUN KANEKO; MICHAEL BIERUT in conversation with CHEE PEARLMAN; JOÃO NUNES PROAP, New Landscapes, ROBERT NICHOLLS, University of Southampton, TIMUR GALEN, Goldman Sachs; EDUARDO ROJAS, Inter-American Development Bank, Sustaining the Preservation of Historic Centers; NARCISO RODRIGUEZ and JOHN HOKE III, Nike; DAVID SCOTT, Arup; DANA SCHULTZ; ETHAN CARR, University of Virginia; GARY HILL; THOM MAYNE, Morphosis; SOAK: MUMBAI IN AN ESTUARY, Book Launch and Panel Discussion, Teddy Cruz, Nina-Marie Lister, Lindsay Bremner with Anuradha Mathur, Dilip da Cunha and others... 28
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SOAK
Exhibition and Publication
26 April 2010
Soak is a new visualization of Mumbai’s terrain. It presents
Coastline
Mumbai in an estuary, a fluid threshold between land and
The first section of Soak looks at the build up to war against the
sea. It encourages design interventions that hold monsoon
monsoon as rooted in a belief that land can be separated from the
waters rather than channel them out to sea; that work with the
sea. It traces the drawing of the coast line; its tentative if artful
gradient of an estuary; that accommodate uncertainty through
beginnings in early European maps and its pursuit in the “fair
resilience, not overcome it with prediction. It moves Mumbai out
weather season” by English marine and land surveyors in the 18th
of the language of flood and the widely accepted trajectory of
and 19th centuries.
Landscapes are living phenomena that need to be negotiated, not controlled. SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary is a book and exhibition by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip
Da Cunha that explores design and artistic expression in a natural world that, despite your best intentions, has its own ideas. The earth breathes; lands flood; nature
decides. It’s up to designers to welcome the environment not as a challenge but as an opportunity.
war with the sea and monsoon that this language perpetuates. It recovers the world of soak. Soak is about making peace with
Estuary
the sea; about designing with the monsoon in an estuary. There
The second section of Soak draws out landscapes that survive
are three sections to SOAK:
beyond the delineating eye of the surveyor and pervasive colonial descriptions, both appreciative and critical, that begin by seeing Mumbai’s terrain divided into objects in geographic space. These landscapes, which include swamps, oarts, talaos, and bazaars, occupy the fluid and open gradient of an estuary, a terrain that operates more as a filter between land and sea than a line between them. They demand a different way of seeing and a different mode of representation through section, horizon and time. Projects The third section of Soak proposes 12 initiations in a terrain that reaches from the hills of Salsette in the north, with their commanding access to the sea all around, to the five historic forts of Worli, Mahim, Rewa, Sion and Sewri that were once waterfront sentinels of Mumbai’s estuary. Each initiation works to resolve the problem of flood not by enforcing lines but by transforming Mumbai into a place that absorbs the monsoon and sea, a place that accommodates soak. —Anuradha Mathur, MLA ’93, HOM ’02, and Dilip da Cunha
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Ben’s House
Architectural Archives
Historians have reconstructed the Penn founder’s life so many times, that the only way to get a fresh perspective on the man is through deconstruction. Designers of Franklin Court, an exhibit and
2009–2010
Since the excavations of Pompeii, archaeological sites have
of mediation between the past and the present, preservation
Franklin’s House in Philadelphia and part of Independence
long been a part of heritage and tourism, certainly before the
determines what we see, experience, and know about the
National Historical Park, a team of designers, engineers,
use of the term “heritage” and the formal study of tourism.
past. Increasingly, contemporary practice has moved toward
and archaeologists, and archeologists led by Philadelphia’s
Archaeological sites exist in a state rarely imagined by their
finding an acceptable balance between protecting the
brilliant team, Robert Venturi, HON’80, and Denise Scott
makers. Their fragmentation, dereliction, and abandonment are
historical and aesthetic values inherent in the form and
Brown, MCP’60, MArch’65, HON’94, offered a revolutionary
further modified through subsequent practices of excavation
fabric of the existing built environment, including evidence
solution during America’s Bicentennial in 1976 by revealing the
and display— the latter intended to reveal and give evidence
of age through weathering and subsequent alterations. Such
site’s historical and aesthetic authenticities through real and
of history and experience. The anticipation of preservation as
concerns have been fundamental to preservation theory
exaggerated elements. The result was the construction of a
an integral part of the archaeological project began in the 18th
and practice since at least the mid-19th century. Yet the
spatial montage that never confuses the present with the past
century with the belief in and contemplation of nature and the
tension inherent in this dialectic defines the very nature of
yet allows visitors an open-ended experience of history, memory,
solace that could be derived from a ruin. The ruin stimulated
conservation as the push and pull between the emotional and
and time. Earlier plans in the 1950s to celebrate Franklin on
and exercised the onlooker; the effect sometimes enhanced by
humanistic on the one hand, and the rational and scientific,
the site of his house included building a memorial park or
selective destruction and cultivated vegetation. The pleasure
on the other. At Franklin Court, the site of Benjamin
architectural reconstruction. They were rejected despite the use
conversation led by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, did just that, allowing the frame of his “ghost house” to serve as a reminder — both of his larger-than-life
presence, which we can feel even when we don’t see it, and that no matter how much we read about him, some details we’ll never unearth.
of a ruin was to reconstruct in the mind’s eye the structure in its original state. The better one understood the ruin, the better the imaginative reconstruction. Site preservation is a critical act that results in the conscious production of place. As an activity
WILL THE MEMORIAL BE SAVED TO ILLUMINATE THE EXPERIENCE OF LOST HISTORY?
of both approaches within the National Park Service (NPS) and the nation in general since the 1920s. The alternative solution proved that interpretation and somatic experience could be achieved together through the skillful combination and display of above—and below—ground archaeology as well as reconstruction, twoand three-dimensional historic space as a hidden urban court and garden, an abstract house plan and volume. —Frank G. Matero
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John Dixon Hunt
Symposium
29–30 October 2009
John Dixon Hunt
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In the age of instantaneous recognition, Professor Emeritus John Dixon Hunt’s name and influence on the field of landscape architecture endures. Accolades and
accomplishments abounding, the author, editor, and professor to countless enrapt students (and his indelible work) were given rousing tribute by a most appreciative
JDH Has Been a Mentor to Us All A Tribute to John Dixon Hunt What is remarkable is that within so brief a period of time JDH, as he has been known somewhat affectionately since arriving here at Penn, moved from a seemingly periphery situation on the edge of the landscape architecture community. He then went on to be the Head of the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks to the Chairmanship of one of the most influential Departments of Landscape Architecture in the World, all the while editing two international journals (one of which he founded), Word and Image and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed landscapes, and initiating and editing the University of Pennsylvania Press Series in Landscape Architecture. In that same period he has organized conferences, curriculum, delivered papers, published a flurry of important and authoritative books on landscape history and theory, while functioning as a communications interchange in English, French, German, and Dutch for leading scholars and practitioners in a half a dozen countries on several continents. John has changed and enlarged the literature and scholarly life of our field enormously and I for one am deeply grateful and indebted to him for it. When I went to Harvard in 1982 there were no trained landscape historians on the faculty there nor at Penn, Berkeley or much of anywhere. Mostly what there was were occasional visitors who were historians such as Al Fein. Landscape architects that had traveled some and had read a bit taught history, usually using Norman Newton’s Design on the Land, which was as out of date by then as it is now.
A number of scholars trained in art history, architecture history, and geography were gravitating to landscape study. The few art historians working particularly with gardens such as David Coffin at Princeton or Elizabeth MacDougal at Dumbarton Oaks had very little exposure to or connection with either the students or practitioners in the field of landscape architecture. JDH stood out then, as he does today, for his great knowledge and ability to position physical design within its cultural setting and for a gregarious nature which led him to engage those who actually make the work he has studied with
enthusiasm and skill. Unlike many historians, he is an enthusiastic observer of the actual products of his study with exceptional visual acuity, which he combines with a love of physically being in the landscape and moving about in it. An avid hiker and skier for much of his life, he has personal experience of the differences and gradients between the natural world and that of design, and seems to relish both. John has been a mentor to us all. His emphasis and development of an ever evolving and changing series of topics in a sequence of theory courses has been his way of dealing with the problem of having American format lecture classes with little in the way of the English tutorial method in which to work. In so doing he has striven to raise the level of critical thought of both our faculty and students. I have been extremely fortunate to participate in these courses for a number of years, sharing the lectures and resulting discussion with him and the students. It has been more than stimulating.
landscape and design and PennDesign community. Much like the man himself, the symposium gathered far across disciplines and specialties to demonstrate what it means to truly possess great effect.
John managed to do something I’d yearned for, first as a student in architecture, then as a young faculty member here, and as a practitioner, which was to get us all to read more, to learn as much about the world and what has been accomplished, thought, known and imagined about gardens and the landscape, and how it has or might shape our own work. There were moments in our class when I felt my role was to play Judy to his Punch—the idiot savant practitioner—but always, it was clear that he was keenly aware of the enormous number of issues and dilemmas facing those of us in practice. He was sympathetic, curious, and appreciative, and continually absorbing, understanding, and processing an enormous amount from us while we in turn were being sharpened, educated and strengthened by him. The Department of Landscape Architecture at Penn became world famous under the leadership of Ian McHarg. A few years after his retirement and the Chairmanship of Anne Spirn, one of Ian’s protoges, our search committee pondered what to do next. Ian was a hard act to follow, and the discussion centered upon what to do if we were to continue to lead the field and to set new goals for the profession as well as its pedagogy. The committee wisely decided that we needed to reinforce the social engagement of our field, especially as a humanist art and not merely as an applied social science—not instead of ecology, but in conjunction with it. Our committee concluded we needed someone to help develop and push history and theory. Thus we asked John to join us. The result has been a dramatic success. Under John’s leadership Penn continued as a beacon of thought and innovation for the field, continuing to produce leading practitioners and educators who have fanned out to all portions of the globe. Partly as a result of the litany of works I reeled off above, and his unwavering efforts in the classroom and school faculty our school and the field have gained significantly. John it has been a great run, and I am grateful, as I know my colleagues and your students are. I will truly miss you. —Laurie Olin
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OBOT TUDES
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Robot Etudes
Annenberg Center Harold Prince Theater
15 May 2010
Mechatronic devices interacting with actors on stage at the Pig Iron Theatre Company elicit expressive forms of relationship—this is far from a forbidding
destiny once imagined in science fiction between robotics and humans. Seemingly disparate, oddly complementary, the Robot Etudes struck a treaty of methods and
The Robot Etudes was the product of three discrete traditions—architecture, engineering, and theater—in the understanding that the collaboration as a whole would be greater than the overlap of its parts. Professors Mark Yim from Modular Robotics and Simon Kim from PennDesign, with the Pig Iron Theater Company, took one semester to deliver an experimental approach to the forest depicted within Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Working with students from both disciplines, and the actors and production crew, various robotic prototypes and networked machines were designed to perform and engage human actors in an integrated, reactive environment. The Robot Etudes played to a full audience in the spring of 2010 at the Harold Prince Theater at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts. —Simon Kim
The Robot Etudes offered a surprising glimpse into the interaction between men and machines. The teams of robotic inventions developed by teams of architecture and engineering students became equal participants in the re-representation of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Among the most delightful scenes were between human and robot actors, with the sometimes peculiar and sometimes subtle gestures of the robots leading both to remarkable interactions and hilarious misunderstandings. I was there with a nine year old, who was captivated by a set of giant, artificial wings that responded to the least variation in the breathing of the actor who wore them, and became wholly organic extensions. —Dr. William W. Braham, MArch ’95, PhD’04
practice, among disciplines classic and futuristic, to deliver the most unexpected twist of them all—a wonder of possibilities.
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T.C. Chan Center
Research Consulting Communication
Philadelphia Beijing
Created and led by Professor Ali Malkawi, HOM ’05, the T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies works across continents to develop new
knowledge, technologies and processes for energy efficiency, from buildings to cities. With projects in countries from Qatar to Korea to Mexico, the Center
performs collaborative research, consulting and education with members across the engineering and design fields, and in the process builds a more sustainable planet.
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energy/brown: Design Matters, Planning Matters, Politics Matters
Peter Brown
Awards Ceremony
Peter Brown, FAIA, has embodied the ways a PennDesign education can serve both public and private sectors. He worked in architecture and city planning for years,
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starting his own firm after returning to his native Houston in the ’80s. Then in 2005, he was elected to an at-large seat on Houston’s City Council. These combined
experiences formed the basis of Brown’s memorable address to 2010’s PennDesign award recipients.
I am very happy to be back at Penn. The critical interdisciplinary
Urban character is what excites people. Whether it is in the city
Urban Architecture
importance of architecture, city planning and design—the reason
core, a small town main street, a village center, or a Transit-oriented
Good urbanism creates the site, the setting for exceptional
I chose to attend U.of P. in the first place—is thriving.
Development (tod ) in the suburbs, urban character will determine
The Re-urbanization of the American City
architecture, like the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue, the
the successful cities of the 21st century—walkable, mixed-use,
This is the really exciting news—big city mayors, citizen action groups,
The New Age, the Age of Cities.
Library of the uva , the Philadelphia City Hall, the pma as the focal
compact urbanism, served by rail transit, energized by great schools
and private developers are driving the re-urbanization of the central
point of the Franklin Parkway. I worry about Gehry’s Disney Hall,
The 19th century was the age of Empires; the 20th century the age
and centers of the arts and culture, with vibrant public places and
city—people are moving back; what urban sociologist Robert Fishman calls
which seems to fight with its context, although a fascinating, stunning
of nation states; the 21st century the Age of Great Cities. It is in cities
street life. Many cities have pockets of walkable urbanism—but
“the Fifth Great Migration” (following the wave of European immigrants,
building. There is certainly a place for architecture which creates its
that we must stake our claim as the planners and designers, the
it needs to become the norm rather than the exception. This
the settling of the west, the migration to the northern industrial cities, and
own context, like the Kimball Museum and the Salk Center.
form-givers and innovators of a sustainable, livable urban environment.
expanded role of cities in shaping a better planet presents exciting
the white flight to the suburbs). This is happening in spite of struggling
The advances taking place in cities, in the arts, sciences, education,
opportunities for those who want to make the world a better place.
Our Role in Shaping the Future
and just plain innovation in general, will make a smarter planet.
Placemaking
I ran for City Council in Houston, because I felt that one of the fastest
It is all about creativity and innovation . I wish I could say that
Essentially we are talking about “the European Model” (sustainable
growing cities in America needed a clear vision, a plan (“blueprint”)
there are advances in politics as well—the failings in Washington,
development, backed by comprehensive planning and outcomes-
to realize that vision, and outcomes-driven development standards to
and in regional coordination, must be off-set by a new partnership
driven regulations), which 10 years ago the Brookings Institution
shape the built environment. I ran a very competitive race for Mayor
between city governments and the private sector.
said would never catch on in the U.S. But with the growing scarcity
in 2009, and now I serve as the Mayor’s Chairman for International
of resources, global warming, an excessive carbon footprint , and
Trade and Development.
Five purposes of cities:
high energy costs, it’s pretty clear, most cities are competing, even
PennDesign graduates—it is your world. Carpe Diem. I am a living
1. To create of wealth.
in a weak economy, to embrace the European model. This is good
example—international business development and tod projects in
2. To maximize exchange, and minimize travel time.
news for all of us. Placemaking is a multi-disciplinary enterprise—
Houston, including our first “modern streetcar” line. I am helping the
3. To build the middle class.
where architecture, sensitive to its context and relationship to the
capitol city of Lithuania to decide on its new transit system. Previously
4. To foster creativity, innovation
surrounding built environment, serves to define, to shape, an exciting
I worked on the master plan for Riga, Latvia, and St. Petersburg’s first
5. To inform us what it means to be human,
public realm, whether a vibrant park, square or street.
zoning ordinance. As well, I am assisting two neglected neighborhoods
research, health care, energy conservation, advanced technology,
in an increasingly diverse society; the advancement of the public good.
We need to pay much more attention to the street as a key element
schools, and physical deterioration. The re-emergence of the central city depends on gifted, passionate people, committed to change, getting involved—in new business startups, in politics, in city government, in design firms, civic clubs, and in their neighborhood, committed to changing the world. Shaping the future, rather than letting it shape us—that’s what we do. My advice, is to get involved an “Go for it!” —Peter Brown, BArch’64, MArch’66, MCP’66, Cert’66
in Houston to create a tifz (tax-increment financing zone) based on an
of placemaking. Urban form and character are critical—recognizing
innovative master plan for neighborhood revitalization.
that the nature of the built environment has an enormous impact on
I have started a new non-profit, called BetterHouston.org to
human behavior, individual and collective, and thus plays a huge role
promote livable neighborhoods and walkable transit-served urbanism,
in shaping the future.
backed by better planning and urban design. We are promoting 10 great streets, 10 great projects, and 10 great neighborhoods, with a web site and monthly Bulletin. I have also started a Political Action Committee, the Build Houston Better pac , a non-partisan civic betterment group to screen, endorse and finance candidates.
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High-Speed Rail Studio
Led by Professors Bob Yaro and Marilyn Taylor, this second-year planning studio took up President Obama’s challenge to design a high-speed rail network for the 21st century—one that would unite the
Northeast and help realize the region’s full economic potential. Their plan is a new alignment connecting the corridor from D.C. to Boston, with speeds rivaling international competitors. Perhaps not surprisingly,
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it caught the attention and accolades of the White House and emboldened Amtrak to raise its aspirations in a service that transforms the economy of the Northeast Megaregion.
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THE H IDDE N RI VE R Schuylkill Green Studio
City Planning
Spring 2010
Led by Harris Steinberg and Michael Nairn, the Schuylkill Green studio combined careful GIS analysis with smart approaches to governance and
implementation, envisioning a resilient watershed where serious investment in ecological infrastructure results in long-term improvements in health, equity, economic
security, and social vibrancy. With all the right sticks and carrots, the plan preserved natural resources, created a connected network, and shaped a sense of place.
Philadelphia and its metropolitan region are tied together through ecological infrastructure, which second-year graduate planning students explored in the spring 2010 studio Schuylkill Green. The so-called “Hidden River” carries issues of politics, governance, economics, transportation and land use in its currents; Schuylkill Green plumbed the many ecological services necessary for a resilient region, from the green tops of the state forests in the Schuylkill Highlands of Berks County to the green roofs of Philadelphia 130 miles downstream. Stretching over 11 counties, the Schuylkill wends through former industrial towns, across some of the most fertile non-irrigated farmland in the United States, past suburban development along the peri-urban fringe before entering Philadelphia, where the Lower Schuylkill River (below the dam at the Art Museum) is a postindustrial no-man’s land. The watershed covers 2,000 square miles and provides drinking water for 1.75 million people. The river’s upper reaches are within the vast Marcellus Shale deposit — natural gas that lies beneath two-thirds of Pennsylvania and threatens water quality throughout the region. The studio mapped development trends, pollution sources, population growth, transportation, tree cover, governance and ecological assets. Students created GIS conservation and restoration models, and conducted in-depth research and analysis of the political and policy implications of a regional growth management strategy. They called for a Register of Natural Capital — a regional land conservation registry with a governing commission empowered with reviewing and approving any development that threatens protected natural capital. In so doing, they learned the politics and policies required to ensure that environmental planning has a seat at the development table. —Michael Nairn, MLA’85 and Harris Steinberg, BA’78, MArch’82
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Black Student Alliance
Unspoken Borders Conference
The Black Student Alliance plays an important role in the
These questions, along with many others, highlight a growing
PennDesign community by convening an annual conference
need to evaluate the social conditions, historical precedents and
called “Unspoken Borders.” This year’s conference, “Rebuilding
design decisions that have led to today’s conditions. The Unspoken
Communities after Disaster,” examined successes and failures of
Borders 2010 conference identified contemporary approaches
strategically designed redevelopment efforts.
that are confronting the current power structure, and ones that
Recent years have seen a series of natural disasters that have
are seeking to establish new, justice-oriented design strategies
changed the physical and social landscape of cities worldwide.
that begin rebuilding communities with intentions to include all
In addition, American’s rust belt has been dying for years, leaving
residents and not to remove those in lower-income brackets.
a string of troubled city districts across the country. Previous
—PennDesign Black Student Alliance
mistakes in planning and design have proven to be difficult to fix, due to the lack of synergy and collaboration between politicians, designers, planners, economists, businesses, and residents. The recent downturn in the economy has provided yet another blow,
23-24 April 2010
Elijah Anderson, PhD Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman Professor of Sociology at Yale University and is one of the most respected scholars in the field of urban inequality.
Rodney Leon Rodney Leon is founder and principal of Rodney Leon Architects PLLC. He is the designer of the African Burial Ground Memorial in New York City—the only National Monument dedicated Randall Mason to the contributions Randall Mason is an of people of African Associate Professor descent. and Chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at PennDesign.
Student-run conferences and symposia give PennDesigners the opportunity to both participate in and steer the design conversation. The annual Unspoken Borders conference, convened by the
Black Student Alliance, explores the nexus between race, space and class, and in the process, students and faculty alike uncover how latent biases can affect their work.
Anuradha Mathur Anuradha Mathur is an Associate Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department of PennDesign. Mathur, along with her partner Dilip da Cunha, has focused her artistic and design expertise for the past decade on cultural and ecological issues of contentious landscapes.
Lawrence Vale Lawrence Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at M.I.T.
Brian Phillips Brian Phillips, MArch’96, is founding principal of ISA, a Philadelphia-based architecture and research office. ISA views projects as unique and complex networks of relationships that are subject to a broad range of constituents, challenges and opportunities.
The most recent incarnation was themed “Rebuilding Communities After Disaster,” lending a timely urgency to the real-world problems the event tackles every year.
Laura Wolf-Powers Laura Wolf-Powers teaches several courses in the Community and Economic Development concentration of the Department of City and Regional Planning at PennDesign. .
exacerbating many social and economic issues. It is now clear that something must be done to target the disenfranchised in most cities while creating new development to help stabilize the housing and job markets. Looking at post-event recovery plans and actions, how has the design community responded and conceived innovative ways to rebuild? Taking into account models from Hurricane Katrina; the Asian Tsunami; terrorist bombings in New York City, London, and Mumbai; the civil wars in Africa, and now the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile; how will the design and planning fields contribute to healing these locations? Should it commemorate what came before or inspire a new way of living? How will these tragedies influence the way we practice in the future, in terms of safety, durability, and sustainability? Examining issues facing cities such as Detroit and Philadelphia, what can be done to breathe new life into these disinvested locales?
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PennPraxis
Green2015 Plan
Philadelphia
It doesn’t all have to be Central Park—or even Fairmount Park. PennPraxis’ Green2015 shows how to improve the health and well-being of all Philadelphians by
creating neighborhood-scaled green spaces within walking distance of everyone, with a goal of 500 new acres by 2015. Through collaboration, partnerships and smart
utilization of already-city-owned land, Philadelphia can create a parks network that threads green open space through every pocket of the city.
In 2010, PennPraxis worked with Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation to develop an action plan for creating 500 acres of new park space in Philadelphia by 2015 — a goal set in Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s sustainability plan, Greenworks Philadelphia. The ensuing report Green2015: An Action Plan for the First 500 Acres outlines a strategy to affordably and efficiently transform underused spaces to green locations. Providing walkable access to park space for all Philadelphia residents, the 500 acre goal is a minimum target advancing the objective of making Philadelphia more equitable, livable, and competitive. Green2015 aims to unite city government and neighborhood residents to transform vacant or underused land in Philadelphia into safe and stimulating parks for neighbors to enjoy. Most of the land that can be greened is already publicly owned and therefore requires no money to acquire. The planning, implementation, and maintenance of these parks will be a collaborative effort among many partners, including neighbors, businesses, nonprofits, developers, and the city. —Andrew Goodman, BA’06, MCP’07
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studios/2009–2010:
PennDesign
Graduate Studios
2009–2010
Upper-level studios at PennDesign are much more than just an opportunity for students to try their hands at international projects in far-flung locales from Mexico
City to Florence, nationally in New Orleans, or build on their artistic integrity locally in Philadelphia. When working for clients with vexing concerns that often demand
creative solutions, Penn’s students in all departments encounter real-world challenges that prepare them to work just about anywhere.
AR C H P R E P S T U D I O / S T U DY AB R OAD : M E X I C O C I T Y / S T U DY AB R OAD : PAR I S / D E S I G N S T U D I O I / D E S I G N S T U D I O I I I / M I G R AT I N G F O R M AT I O N S : V E RT I C AL U R B AN I S M F O R N E W Y O R K C I T Y / T H E AM PAR O M U S E U M : A N E W AN T H R O P O L O G I CAL W I N G . P U E B L A , M E X I C O / R I N C O N D E L A V I E JA , G U AN AC A S T E , C OS TA R I CA / AG E -T E C T U R E / D E S I G N S T U D I O V / D E S I G N S T U D I O : AR C H I T E CT U R AL A S S O C I AT I O N, L O N D O N / P OS T- P R O F D E S I G N S T U D I O / F R O M AVAN T- G AR D E T O H E R I TAG E : W H AT T O D O W I T H P H I L I P J O H N S O N ’ S T E N T O F T O M O R R OW AN D T H E N E W Y O R K S TAT E PAV I L I O N / U R B AN D E S I G N S T U D I O / G R ADU AT E S T U D I O I : PAI N T I N G / G R ADU AT E S T U D I O I : S C U L P T U R E / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I : P R I N T M AK I N G / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I : P H OT O G R AP H Y / G R ADU AT E S T U D I O I I I : PAI N T I N G / G R ADU AT E S T U D I O I I I : S C U L P T U R E / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I I I : P R I N T M AK I N G / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I I I : P H OT O G R AP H Y / S T U D I O / S T U D I O I : T R AV E R S I N G L AN DS C AP E : T H E S C H U Y L K I L L R I V E R T R AI L / S T U D I O I I I : U R B AN T R AN S F O R M AT I O N AN D T H E M AK I N G O F S U S TAI N AB L E D I S T R I C T S / S T U D I O I I I : U R B AN T R AN S F O R M AT I O N AN D T H E M AK I N G O F C O M M U N I T I E S / S T U D I O V: V I L AD E CAN S, B AR C E L O N A / S T U D I O V: S I G N S O F L I F E : R E S U R FAC I N G T H E S T R I P, L A S V E G A S / S T U D I O V: PAR C O D E L L A P I AN A , S E S T O F I O R E N T I N O, F L O R E N C E / S T U D I O V: L I S B O N { H I } S T O RY, C I T Y R E AL I T Y. D E S I G N V I S I O N S / D E S I G N S T U D I O I I / D E S I G N S T U D I O I V / I N T E R I O R I T I E S : AN U R B AN C LU B F O R T O KY O / B OTAN I C E C O L O G I E S : C U LT I VAT E D I N F R A S T RU C T U R E S / E C O L O GY— D E S I G N — S Y N E R GY / R E S E AR C H S T U D I O / C O M P L E X P H E N O M E N A : D E V E L O P I N G N O N - L I N E AR M ET H O D O L O G I E S / F O R M S O F I S O M O R P H S : M AT E R I AL S PAC E / AL M OS T N OT H I N G / M AR I N E S I M U L AT I O N L AB AN D AQ UAR I U M AT L AK E T E XC O C O / F I N I T E VAR I AT I O N S : T H E S CAL I N G O F FAB R I CAT I O N / I N D E P E N D E N T T H E S I S / P L AN N I N G S T U D I O : M AK I N G H I G H S P E E D R AI L W O R K F O R T H E N O RT H E A S T M E G AR E G I O N / P L AN N I N G S T U D I O : D E S I G N I N G T R AN S P O RTAT I O N AN D E C O N O M I C D E V E L O P M E N T I N T H E C E N T R AL F L O R I DA —TAM PA B AY S U P E R R E G I O N / P L AN N I N G S T U D I O : S OU T H E A S T E R N P E N N S Y LVAN I A G R E E N I N F R A S T RU C T U R E S T U D I O / P L AN N I N G S T U D I O : AF F O R DAB L E H OU S I N G T R AN S F O R M AT I O N S T U D I O / S T U D I O : P O L I CY AN D P R O J E CT E VALUAT I O N S T U D I O / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I I : PAI N T I N G / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I I : S C U L P T U R E / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I I : P R I N T M AK I N G / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I I : P H OT O G R AP H Y / G R ADU AT E S T U D I O I V: PAI N T I N G / G R ADU AT E S T U D I O I V: S C U L P T U R E / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I V: P R I N T M AK I N G / G R ADUAT E S T U D I O I V: P H OT O G R AP H Y / S T U D I O I I : G R OU N DW O R K— A PAR K F O R TAC O N Y, PA / S T U D I O I V: S L AV O N I C E , CZ E C H R E P U B L I C I I / S T U D I O I V: T R AFAR I A , AL M ADA , P O RT U G AL / S T U D I O V I : C R E E K F O RT S : AN C H O R S & E V E N T S — M U M B AI , I N D I A / S T U D I O V I : B O G OTA S T U D I O : 3 D E PART M E N T S + M U LT I P L E E X P L O R AT I O N S / S T U D I O V I : M E G A S T RU CT U R AL L AN DS C AP E S L I N E AR C I T Y—T O KY O B AY P R O J E C T, JAPAN / S T U D I O V I : ( ) T H E S PAC E B ET W E E N —T O R O N T O, CAN ADA / AR C H P R E P S T U D I O / S T U DY AB R OAD : M E X I C O C I T Y / S T U DY AB R OAD : PAR I S / A N D M O R E . . . 56
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beauty/slavonice:
Slavonice Studio
Landscape Architecture
Spring 2010
Studio Slavonice, a landscape architecture workshop led by OLIN Partners Laurie Olin and Hallie Boyce at PennDesign, matches the talent of graduate landscape architecture students with real-world
design problems. The immersive and continuing project, centered in the medieval Czech city Slavonice, focuses on urban and rural design issues identified as urgent by the Slavonice City Council.
The students’ solutions — beautiful in form, practical in application — and the integrative exercise prove academic settings conform to no borders.
Studio Slavonice a landscape architecture workshop led by OLIN Partners Laurie Olin and Hallie Boyce at the PennDesign, explores sustainable development of the Green Belt, an area of the former Iron Curtain containing some of the most significant habitats for biodiversity in Europe. Olin and Boyce, along with 15 of their students, travelled to Slavonice to present the results of the workshop with the local community at the Centre for the Future, an organization that promotes research directed toward a sustainable and diverse future.—Laurie Olin
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beauty/slavonice: Our predecessors have been driven to record their encounters and feelings regarding land, whether the fading sunlight on the granite peaks of the Sierra, the wind through the snow-covered branches of pines north of Xian, the advancing shadows from live oaks across the Roman Campagna, or the animate sleeping forms of eroded mesas near Abiqiu. Yet, to what purpose? As animals we have a sense of being of the world, that part of being alive is to sense the living nature of our environment. As creatures of society we also are invested with ideas and concepts, values and habits, memory and history, regarding the world, our struggles, and endeavors regarding the land. Landscapes, whether natural or contrived, normally exceed our ability to absorb or understand them in one glance. They contain a surfeit of detail, extending beyond our ability to count or measure. They stimulate our senses: the movement of leaves and clouds; the sparkling, shifting and shimmering of light on the surface of water; the shadows and light playing upon the ground nearby or distant hills; the heft and weight of the bones of the earth; the smell and color of the earth; the distant glint of light on a peak or bend in a river; birds scudding overhead; a train or traffic crawling up an incline; a patch of yellow aspen leaves amid the dark spruce. Beauty is a surplus of gratuitous stimulus and pleasure. We are unable to possess and hold it; its fugitive and ephemeral nature engenders a sharp sense of the moment, and frequently thereby one of incipient loss. So much of what has been painted records nostalgia for disappearing places and scenes. Beauty has an eternal and timeless nature, so one understands the recurrent and atavistic themes of people wandering and reposing in nature and landscapes, of an emphasis upon mountains and water, ancient trees and agricultural scenes. Beauty is serious, it is deep, and it has great value for sentient humans. While there are many manifestations, one of the most accessible remains to be found in land, whether natural or designed. A loss or diminution in our interest or comprehension of beauty regarding land or landscape would indeed be a great loss. —Laurie Olin
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Land and Beauty
Slavonice, Czech Republic
Spring 2010
Laurie Olin, Professor of Landscape Architecture, led an immersive, multi-year studio to the medieval Czech city Slavonice. Laurie’s philosophy of practice, which
shaped the studio, comes through clearly in his “Land and Beauty” speech originally given to The Philosophical Society of Texas, excerpted here.
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beauty/leatherbarrow:
Sense and Non-Sense
Architecture
The aim of this lecture is to describe the sense and non-sense
forgotten that common understanding and agreement are real
of architecture in our time—which is to say the architecture
possibilities for architecture.
of the past decade or so. The words sense and non-sense
If it is obvious that the two concepts—sense and non-sense—
were used in their common meanings: things have or make
should be considered together, the next point will probably
sense when they are intelligible or sensible, when they answer
need some explanation. Insofar as sense is the aim of meaning
expectations and meet desires. Windows in a wall, for instance,
formation, non-sense is intrinsic to its beginning. This does not
make sense when they provide light, air, and desired views,
mean that disorientation and ambiguity are desired, just required
much like words in a sentence become sensible when they
in both project making and architectural experience. With only
convey intelligible meaning or the kinds of behavior that suit
this first assertion, this apology for non-sense, one might feel
a given situation. Knowing what is sensible does not require
and fear that this argument is about to enter difficult terrain. Yes
reflective thought either (that comes later); more important
and no. While the topic is not simple it is not unfamiliar. Those
is memory, especially cultural memory, and even more so
involved in design know that architectural creativity requires
emotions and perception—with the eyes, ears, hands and feet,
a transition from possible realities to real possibilities; from
the whole body in fact.
interesting but indefinite indications to persuasive proposals.
Nonsense, by contrast, is what we suffer when places,
Projects begin with conditions that appear senseless and end
actions, or things are unclear, ungraspable, or out of place
with solutions that seem right precisely because they expand
and character. Sense, on this account, would seem to be
the limits of what has been taken to be sensible. As Louis I.
positive; non-sense negative. That evaluation, however, is
Kahn recommended, “A great building must begin with the
far too categorical. Although it might be entertaining to
un-measurable, go through measurable means when it is
list examples under each heading, more interesting is the
designed, and in the end must be un-measurable.”
question concerning the basis on which these assessments
—David Leatherbarrow, HOM’91
7 December 2009
Continuing the dialogue of what the normative paradigms in architecture are informs how we understand and interact with contemporary design. Contemplative
and rigorous, Professor and Associate Dean David Leatherbarrow explores the philosophical reasoning between logic (and its mirror illogic) in architecture,
as well as their contextual implications for comprehension. The meaning is immediate. The application—evolving. Sure enough, we may one day awake to find ourselves on common ground.
are made. This includes not only the choices each of us makes individually, but those we might agree on—works that communicate common sense. Despite all the signs to the contrary, architecture is still a public art, the results of which are known and felt commonly as the framework and image of our lives. Because concern for architecture is shared, some measure of agreement about any given work’s quality and sense should be possible. Perhaps this question about sense arises out of concern that these days we seem to have
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beauty/conservation: On choosing Kotor as the studio location We look for a convergence of a couple different things when we think about sites for the European Conservation Course. One, it’s got to be a place of great significance and prominence in its heritage value--that’s one of the first considerations. Kotor is a very old place that has been extremely well conserved over the years, despite wars, political change, and earthquakes. It is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The World Heritage Site is actually the landscape within which the town sits. That’s sort of a sideline--we don’t work in places just because they are World Heritage Sites. We work in places that are complex, important and have a lot of significance. You have to have big challenges for our students because the students really want that. Second ingredient, and sort of implied by the European Conservation Course name, the site has to be in Europe, partly because that is the hearth of the conservation field. A lot of the first theories, practices, and projects grew up in Western Europe and then were exported all over the world. Understanding how conservation is practiced in Europe is a different educational experience and that is why there is a whole course organized around it. The third ingredient is having local partners, which are the most important conduit for local knowledge. For any particular place, whether it is Kotor, or Italy, or China, you can read some stuff on it in English and you can go there as a tourist
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and understand it on a certain level. But to go there and get the deep understanding that is required for meaningful conservation work, you have got to have other avenues to understanding the place. Local partners are key and translators are the hinges to that process. We’ve got a couple great partners in Kotor, one of whom lives and grew up there, and teaches at the University of Montenegro. I was a visiting scholar there several years ago. Through that, we hatched the idea of doing some sort of project in Kotor around some of the specific challenges that they are facing, which in the last few years have been lots of tourism, pressure of more and different kinds of tourism, like cruise ships, lots of second home purchasing before the crash. There was an earthquake about 20 or 30 years ago which is an obvious threat that they have responded to really well. There are these fortifications that define and distinguish the place. They are a remarkable set of fortifications. They are not really well invested in and well taken care of. We are trying to address that and address how the different pieces of it fit together.
On defining studio work To define the problem is a part of the studio. Here is this place, here is why it is significant, here are the issues characterizing the problems, define in scope what the solution paths are. So the students had to, in understanding the place, get an understanding of what the issues are and how they can be addressed. We are doing it for two years. We did one last summer, and we will go back next summer. The first summer we focused on some larger scale issues. How the landscape is managed and planned so that the overriding significance of the whole region—this remarkable bay and the towns that grew up around it—how that can be protected, and understood and conserved. Focusing in on smaller scales, how the whole town and this whole system of public spaces work. It’s more of an urban conservation question. How was the development on the two sides of the town but outside the walls of the historic city, how did those effect the appreciation of the historic town itself. Another that we began to get into is the issue of the fortifications themselves, which spread up this really dramatic hillside and give you an incredible view of the whole region. There are all these issues of how to keep it from falling down, how to manage it, how to get people into it, how to interpret it. All urban conservation and landscape conservation issues, large scale things, were all preface to the second summer where we will work on smaller scale issues. How to reuse or restore a particular building because there are a number of vacant buildings in town. How to address the material conservation and architectural issues with fortifications because in some places they are threatened or are falling down, invasive plants are degrading them, etc.
Kotor Studio
Historic Preservation
On site context To understand the place as a cultural landscape, which is a term of art that we often use, means to understand how people shape the natural world to their human ends. Why is the town where it is? Why does it have the particular shape that it does? What did people do for a living? Why is there this big, fancy Venetian town, hundreds of miles from Venice on the other side of the water? All these questions of how to understand the building, the town, and the use of the land come from understanding the historical connection between the shape of the land, the geography of the place, and what people did there. Those things in the cultural landscape frame are assumed to be connected, not separate things that have to be connected. To understand the scenery is to also understand its history. They are all really one in the same, if you frame it that way. There is no denying the charisma of the place, but I care about that we do preservation and conservation in not just charismatic places. It’s the analog in the preservation world is that it’s not all about pandas and Siberian tigers. What about the slugs and algae and swamps which are just as important to the overall functioning of the natural and cultural system?
Summer 2010
Embraced by ancient fortifications and under the shadow of St. John’s Hill, the rustic red tiles of Kotor, Montenegro seemingly tumble down to blue edge of
Boka Kotorska Bay. The impacts of tourism, natural disaster, and economy are also evident—an ancient city with very modern issues. Observing Kotor’s cultural, landscape,
and built heritage, students in Historic Preservation’s European Conservation class aimed for solutions to keep Kotor’s unique character intact for years to come.
We were looking for both the charismatic and the everyday. One of the remarkable things to me, and I think you would hear this from some of the students who worked there last summer, is that one of the restaurants that we went to a lot was owned by a guy whose family, and himself, were local fishing captains. Fishing is traditionally a really important way of life in the bay. So there is this great fish restaurant in a tiny back alley in the town. The pictures that are inside of it and the stories that you get from it are about his family’s fishing heritage. The sardines he’ll bring out will be prepared the way they used to be prepared with enough salt to make your arms fall off. There are other kinds of uncharismatic but deeply meaningful cultural expressions. They are really important part of understanding a place and responding as conservation professionals to the architecture. It’s not just all professionalism we take to it. It all has to be tempered by opening yourself to learning about a place in other ways. You can’t substitute one for the other. —Randall F. Mason
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beauty/mosley:
dread
Institute of Contemporary Art
Associate Professor Joshua Mosley’s digital film, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Spring 2009, contemplates an imagined encounter
16 January — 29 March, 2009
between the astute philosophical minds Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Blaise Pascal. Contemplating creation among nature, the thought turns to the central questions of
being and truth. Within the deliberation of the human relationship with the divine and secular rises a quiet knowing of what is gained by answers unknown.
T H E D I A L O G U E I N T H E A N I M AT I O N D R E A D I S L O O S E LY B A S E D O N M Y R E A D I N G O F PA S C A L ’ S P E N S É E S A N D R O U S S E A U ’ S E M I L E . B O T H T E X T S P R E S E N T T H E D I F F I C U LT Y O F R E S O LV I N G T H E H U M A N R E L AT I O N S H I P T O N AT U R E A N D E X I S T E N C E W H I L E A L S O A C C E P T I N G G O D A S T H E C R E AT O R . T H E H I N T S O F M O N S T R O U S PA R T S I N T H E F I G U R E S O F C O W A N D D R E A D I N D I C AT E T H AT T H E A N I M A L S H AV E N E A R LY E V O LV E D T O T H E I R NORMAL FORMS. THE DOG HAS ONE HEAD INSTEAD OF THREE, AND T H E C O W D O E S N O T H AV E F O U R H U M A N F I G U R E S E M E R G I N G F R O M H E R B A C K . T H E F O R M O F D R E A D , A N D H I S N A M E , TA K E S A F T E R T H E D O G S U B J E C T O F E A D W E A R D M U Y B R I D G E ’ S P H O T O G R A P H I C M O T I O N S T U D Y. I N PA S T W O R K S , I ’ V E C H O S E N A P H Y S I C A L M AT E R I A L F O R T H E P U P P E T S A N D A F L AT F L I C K E R I N G H A N D - T R E AT E D S U R F A C E F O R T H E L A N D S C A P E . T H I S C O M B I N AT I O N S E E M E D T O C R E AT E A S E PA R AT I O N B E T W E E N T H E B O D I E S O F T H E C H A R AC T E R S A N D T H E T H O U G H T S I N T H E I R M I N D . E AC H BAC KG RO U N D I N D R E A D C O N S I S T S O F I R R E G U L A R C YC L E S O F S I X D I G I TA L P H O T O G R A P H S . T H E P H O T O S W E R E E N H A N C E D I N T H E T R A N S L AT I O N F R O M C O L O R T O B L A C K - A N D - W H I T E S O T H AT S M A L L E L E M E N T S A P P E A R MO R E N U M E RO U S . MY M E T H O D O F C OM P O S I N G T H E M U S I C R E L AT E S T O T H E S A M P L I N G P R O C E S S O F T H E A N I M AT I O N ; I N E S S E N C E , I T I S A N I N T R I C AT E A S S E M B LY O F S H O R T R E C O R D I N G S O F S I N G L E N OT E S . T H E C L A Y A N D R E S I N F I G U R E S W E R E 3 D S C A N N E D F O R T H E A N I M AT I O N C A P T U R I N G T H E H A N D - M O D E L E D S U R FAC E , T H E N C A S T I N B R O N Z E T O M A K E A F I X E D P H Y S I C A L I M P R E S S I O N . T H E N U M E R I C F I G U R AT I V E M E S H E S T H AT R E S U LT E D F R O M T H E S C A N N I N G S E E M E D T O S U G G E S T T O M E T H AT T H E C H A R A C T E R S ’ M I N D S W O U L D N O T N E E D T O B E P R E S S U R I Z E D I N T H E I R B O D I E S , I N S T E A D T H E M I N D S C O U L D B E E Q U A L LY PRESENT IN THE LANDSCAPE.
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experience/UrbanSHED:
UrbanSHED
International Design Competition
Using the New York City sidewalk as a canvas, first-year architecture student Young Hwan Choi, with the New York-based design firm Agencie
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Group’s Sarrah Khan and Andres Cortes, developed the winning design for the UrbanSHED competition. Selected from 164 applicants, the innovative Urban
Umbrella will cover 6,000 sites in the city and a once-bulky facet of urban life now makes the city more beautiful from the ground up.
In my State of the City speech, I talked about the innovation and enterprise that fuels our city, and today we are showing off of that entrepreneurial spirit. Sidewalk sheds are a part of New York life—reflecting the face of a city that is constantly changing—yet the sheds themselves haven’t evolved at all during the past four decades, and it’s time to bring them into the 21st century. The new structures will complement the City’s architectural beauty rather than take it away from it, while increasing space and safety for pedestrians and reducing the impact of construction on businesses and building owners. —Michael Bloomberg
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Dedication 21 October 2009
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What is shared responsibility merged with real-world educational practice? At Bernice Elza Homes, safe housing options for six young families. The multi-year collaboration between a PennDesign team led by Richard
Wesley and local social service agencies expanded the meaning of whole architecture to a new level. More than an affordable housing project, Bernice Elza Homes is an
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expressive outcome that gives consideration to a community’s cultural, economic, user and social needs in the realm of forward-thinking design elements.
After years of design and construction, Bernice Elza Homes is complete. Located on the corner of 38th and Brandywine Street inthe Mantua neighborhood of West Philadelphia, Bernice Elza Homes provides permanent supportive rental housing for six special needs teenage mothers and their children. The project was dedicated on Wednesday, October 21 by Philadelphia Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell and People’s Emergency Center President Gloria Guard. Bernice Elza Homes is named for Blackwell’s mother, Bernice C. Brooks, and Guard’s mother, Elza Marques Guard. The project is the result of a successful collaboration between the People’s Emergency Center Community Development Corporation (PEC-CDC) and PennDesign. The project was designed by students and faculty in PennDesign’s undergraduate program in architecture and funded by a Community Outreach Partnership Center Futures Grant through the Office of Community Partnerships in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Design. As the development partner for Bernice Elza Homes, PEC-CDC acquired the land, secured financing, and constructed the project under the direction of PEC’s Kira Strong, senior project manager, and Matthew Bear, project manager. The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Housing and Community Development assisted PEC with securing construction financing —Richard Wesley
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experience/sub-saharan africa:
Aging in Africa
Architecture
Cote D’Ivoire
In Sub Saharan Africa, potential is found in how we address the opportunities and challenges that are paramount to a global aging population. Considered
with graceful dynamism by Hollwich Kushner, the firm of Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign instructor, their expressive form answers distinctive community needs
with a derivation in cultural and physical settings. Moreover, Aging in Africa is equally a gentle reminder that even within our most existential considerations and
The project, set on a sliver of land between the Atlantic and an inland lagoon, is organized like a typical Cote D’Ivoire village around a central spine, which stretches North/South from existing streets to capture the site’s prevailing winds. Perforations along the perimeter let the natural vegetation grow into the village and capitalize on the stunning views towards the water. Single-story residential buildings frame the village’s spine and submerge into nature at their back-ends to facilitate Image: Mattias Hollwich
drainage and to blend the site’s edge with the environment.
Aging in Africa sets out to be the first age-valued community
The project’s public buildings are centered on the village axis to
on the African continent where the elderly can maintain a
reinforce their communal function. Based on simple geometries,
meaningful and healthy lifestyle in a comfortable and safe
the building shapes tilt and fold in relationship to each other, yet
environment. It is a retirement community for Catholic priests
with an individual expression. The peaks of the church employ a
that are excluded from the traditional, family-based, model
simple geometry that yields an iconic form that is at once a novel
of elder care in Cote D’Ivoire. The architecture is shaped by
and familiar type of sacred space.
deploying a holistic set of social, economic and environmentally
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sustainable theories pertaining to elder living and care. It is about architecture that does not just house caring, it is architecture as the caring device. Our hope is that it is an inspiration for a new breed of community that values the efficacy of spirit over efficiency of care.
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people/graduates: Architecture Master of Architecture Christopher James Allen Colin Applegate Nidhi Dinesh Urmil Arya Alexa M Baker Rui Bao Richard B. Baxley Ana Carolina Blomeier James Robert Gordon Bowman Marcia Budet Alvarado Benjamin G Callam Carrie Chan Hui Ying Candy Chan Jacob Allen Chandler David C. Chen Qi Chen Chen Yao Justin Chitwood Matt Chin Soon Choot Kittiya Choowanthanapakorn Tiffany Masako Dahlen Chi Lien Dang Subhajit Das Jason James DeMarco Ian Michael Doherty Weijia Dora Dong Florina Dutt Dwight A. Engel Joshua Michael Evans Chun Fang Kuan-Ting Fang Emaan Farhoud Gera Star Feigon Adam Michael Fettig Rebecca Fuchs Aroussiak Gabrielian Karen Elizabeth Glik Andrea Lauren Gulyas Julio Guzman Ji Su Han Peter Bolton Hanby Andrew William Haney Andrea Lynn Miyoko Hansen Peng Hong Adam Ward Hostetler Riziki S. House Jae Hun Hur Gregory William Hurcomb John Alstan Jakubiec Nakita Ann Johnson Olga S. Karnatova Erick Hill Katzenstein Jonathan Frederic Kayton Hyunsoo Kim Nicolas Emmanuel Koff Alexander L. Lee Hajung Lee Hye-Seung Lee Thabo P. M. Lenneiye Cheng-Wei Lin Joseph Michael Littrell Ding Liu
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City Planning Johanna Luise Lofstrom Marta Mackiewicz Katherine Whitney Mandel Liwen Mao Jamie Mastro Crista A. McDonald Melinda McMillan Virginia Melnyk Ginna Claire Nguyen Kimberly Ann Nofal Joo Hyung Oh Raphael Jose Osuna Segarra Jeffrey M. Palitsch Changsoon Park Jinkyung Park Rebecca S. Popowsky James Leslie Poulin Jieyu Pu Danielle Zoe Rivera Juliane Roberts Margaux Schindler Becky Doran Shoemaker Julie Ting Fung Siu Riggs Pearson Skepnek Jason M. Smith Kristen Smith Qiao Song Yu-Han Annabelle Su So Sugita Dale Parker Suttle III Janine Sutton Andrew James Swartzell Kar Yee Tam Han Tang Jaclynn M. Treat Lily Trinh Jennifer L. Trumble Steven M. Tucker Ana Luisa Untiveros-Ferrel Keiko Sumikawa Vuong Xuedong Wang Yang Wang Yiqin Wang Wei Ziyue Sean Louis Williams Tya C. Winn Karen L Wong Yoon Jihyoon Jessica Danielle Yubas Wenqing Zhang Jingyi Zhao Master of Science John R. Brilla III Bret Andrew Taboada
Master of City Planning Mathew S. Abramsky Olayemi Adediji David W. Aiken Christopher Anthony Alexander Lacey Allison Babcock Jeffrey Howard Barg James Mark Bennett Amy D. Bernknopf Cassidy Ann Boulan Jeffrey Larson Bumgardner Trinity Nicolle Busch Natalie Frances Cheng Theodore Dayton Clement Aron Gabriel Cohen Lucy Evans Corbett Diana Michelle Cornely John Seamus Curran Ethan Hoyt Daniels Andrew Graham Dawson Elizabeth Jean Dow Anna Pauline Ellis Leah Rae Fiasca Susanne Fogt Judith Hogan Frankel Christian Bruce Gass David M. Gest Allison Gillum James Edward Granger Zachary Alan Guren Xue Han Matthew Andrew Handel Bruce Jay Hansen Linying He Victoria Pereira Hershey Damian Holynskyj Joshua L. Hooper Liyuan Huang Lou Huang Yirui Huang Lisa B. Jacobson Dae Hyun Kang Katherine M. Keller Aaron Kelley Christopher David Khorey Patrick William Kidd Zlata Kobzantsev Gloria Lau Erika Michelle Lindsey Reuben S MacMartin Tiffany Marcelle McCann Mason Reidt McClellan Bethany Ann McKellips Colin Richard McLean
Michael Wyn Miller Luke Aaron Mitchell Daniel O’Shaughnessy Nicole Ashley Parillo Nelson Zhuojian Peng John Christopher Robinson Bryan Evan Rodda Laura Lederer Sagues Matthew Craig Sargenti William Stephen Scott Cara Elizabeth Seabury Paul Shabsis Thethan Soe Gretchen Claire Sweeney Noah Michael Swistak Kevin Michael Thomas Paul S. Thompson Jeffrey Philip Tiell Danae Tilghman Eliza Shaw Valk Christopher White Selina Alys Zapata Chenghao Zhang Feng Zhu Master of Arts Stephanie R. Ryberg Doctor of Philosophy Rong-Syh Huang Daniel A. Moscovici Stephanie R. Ryberg Nicholas L. Stapp Khaled Aly Tarabieh
2009–2010
Fine Arts
Historic Preservation
Master of Fine Arts Marc Edmund Blumthal Tay Cha Hsuan Ju Susan Fang Kurt Aloysius Freyer Nsenga Knight Chris Lawrence Jiwon Lee Liby Norman Pedroso Limoso Kyle LoPinto Joseph A. Ovelman III Maria Rajewski Heather Ramsdale Jacolby T. Satterwhite Ramon Carlos Urenia Leigh Kathryn Van Duzer Christie Mae Whisman Nathan Thomas Wilson Cay Yoon
Master of Science in Historic Preservation Lindsey Elaine Allen Elvan Cobb Meaghan Colahan Mark Edward Donofrio Sarah Elizabeth Hawes Helen Grace Johnson Nakita Ann Johnson Patrick William Kidd Charles W Lawrence Johanna Luise Lofstrom Valerie Herzfeld Magolan Crystal Leah Medler Katie Milgrim Marissa Jean Moshier Tiffani Lee Simple Jayne O. Spector Lauren Elizabeth Vollono Natalie Weinberger Christine Wells Jacqueline R. Wiese Katharine Helene Woodman
Master of Landscape Architecture Donghyouk Ahn Francisco Allard Jane Earlene Anderson James Mark Bennett Marisa S. Bernstein Bret O Betnar Jessica Hope Brown Megan Murphy Burke Jing Cai Ho Ling Chang Rong Chen Hang Cheng JiSu Choi YoungJoon Choi Aron Gabriel Cohen Rebecca Fuchs Aroussiak Gabrielian Marguerite Landrum Graham Peter Bolton Hanby Jessica M. Henson Biyoung Heo Vivian Ying Hu Xiaohan Jie Janelle Louise Johnson Elizabeth Glennon Keary Nicolas Emmanuel Koff Joseph A. Kubik Gloria Lau Jinwook Lee Lauren Nicole Mandel Melinda McMillan Michael Wyn Miller Anna Park Rebecca S. Popowsky Sookyung Shin Riggs Pearson Skepnek Lily Trinh Steven M. Tucker Stephanie Michelle Ulrich Eliza Shaw Valk Emily Vogler Yitian Wang Sean Louis Williams Keyu Yan Yin Yu
Urban Spatial Analytics
Certificate Programs
Master of Urban and Spatial Analytics Eugene Brusilovskiy Hsing-Chia Cheng Christopher Carlton Clarke Sarah Elaine Cordivano Calum Ben Davey Kimberly A. Edmunds Melissa Alexandra Larsen David William O’Malley Charles Philip Racsa Kenneth Steif Gregory W. Young
Advanced Conservation and Site Management Marlene Lauren Goeke Ecological Architecture Gera Star Feigon Zachary Alan Guren Nakita Ann Johnson Crista A. McDonald Geographical Information Systems Feng Zhu Graphic Design James Leslie Poulin Leigh Kathryn Van Duzer Historic Preservation Janelle Louise Johnson Mason Reidt McClellan John Viking Nelson Nicole Ashley Parillo Jaclynn M. Treat Imogen Wirth-Granlund Xi Yang Land Preservation Lacey Allison Babcock Trinity Nicolle Busch Elizabeth Jean Dow Allison Gillum Landscape Studies Aaron Kelley Luke Aaron Mitchell Raphael Jose Osuna Segarra Chenghao Zhang
Real Estate Design and Development Mathew S. Abramsky Diana Michelle Cornely Ian Michael Doherty Weijia Dora Dong Andrea Lauren Gulyas Xue Han Matthew Andrew Handel Victoria Pereira Hershey Yirui Huang Zlata Kobzantsev Katie Milgrim Laura Lederer Sagues Julie Ting Fung Siu Kar Yee Tam Jessica Danielle Yubas Time-Based Interactive Media Hsuan Ju Susan Fang Chris Lawrence Liby Norman Pedroso Limoso Joseph A. Ovelman III Jacolby T. Satterwhite Ramon Carlos Urenia Cay Yoon Urban Design Marcia Budet Alvarado Jing Cai Olga S. Karnatova Gloria Lau Hye-Seung Lee Marta Mackiewicz Jinkyung Park Nelson Zhuojian Peng William Stephen Scott Gretchen Claire Sweeney Keiko Sumikawa Vuong Tya C. Winn
Doctor of Philosophy Peter Louis Laurence Grace Shuenhwa Ong Yan Tania Calovi Pereira Esra Sahin
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people/donors: Halpern-Rogath Fine Arts Travelling
Kelly Family Studio Arts Initiatives
McHarg Professorship: Landscape
Penn Design Annual Special Projects
Don Prowler Endowment Fund
Howard A. Silverstein & Patricia Bleznak
Fellowship
Nancy Lee B. Kelly
Architecture
AnneMarie F. Corner WG’89
Marshal James Compton MArch’87
Silverstein Photography Program Term Fund
Leslee B. Halpern-Rogath CW’73
Paul K. Kelly C’62, WG’64
Steven Huang C’99, MCP’00
James Corner MLA’86, CERT’86
Mary Ida Compton G’86
Howard A. Silverstein W’69
Patricia Anne Lemmerman MLA’86
Barbara D. Kroiz
Howard Katz
Patricia B. Silverstein C’81
Kohn Endowed Fellowship in Architecture
George P. Mitchell
Harvey E. Kroiz
in memory of Don Prowler
Robert and Susan Heidenberg Endowed
A. Eugene Kohn BArch’53, MArch’57
Edward T. Overton, Jr. MRP’83
Toby D. Lewis CW’56
Martha Wood Subber MArch’86
Howard A. Silverstein & Patricia
Fellowship Fund
Barbara Shattuck Kohn
William L. Rohrer MRP’75
Sara Liebowitz
Carolyn J. Wennblom C’87
Bleznak Silverstein Photography
Robert S. Turner MRP’77, PhD’83
Ted Liebowitz
Berton E. Korman Fund
Amy Karen Wolfe C’77, MRP’80, PhD’86
John LiftonZoline
Robin M. Beckett Discretionary Fund
Howard A. Silverstein W’69
Berton E. Korman BArch’55
James H. Wolford
for Laurie Olin’s Studio Trip
at the School of Design
Patricia B. Silverstein C’81
Pamela LiftonZoline
Robin M. Beckett MCP’75
David Rogath
Robert Heidenberg C’80 Susan Heidenberg Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer IPD (Integrated
Sallie G. Korman
Product Design) Lecture Series through “Poor Richard’s Charitable Trust”
Lachs-Adler Fund Undergrad Fine Arts
Program Endowed Fund
Undergraduate Fine Arts Director’s
Ottawa Animation Festival Term Fund
for Laurie Olin’s Studio Trip
Anonymous
Laurie D. Olin
Romanach Memorial Fellowship
Discretionary Fund
for Olin Partnership
Foster D. Dale MArch’85
Anonymous
Lisa S. Roberts CW’74
Dean Stewart Adler, Esquire W’79, L’83
David W. Seltzer WG’76
Susanna E. Lachs, Esquire CW’74, ASC’76
Penn Design Gift Suspense
Lucinda R. Sanders MLA’89
Logan P. Hottle WEV’75, WG’76
Laise Fine Arts Scholarship Fund
Anonymous (2)
for John Dixon Hunt Symposium
Willard D. Hottle MArch’65
Jane Marrow Fellowship
Estate of Clemens A. Laise CHE’08
Van Alen Traveling Fellowships Gift Fund
Victoria Steiger Olin CW’75, MLA’77 for Olin Partnership
Shedd Fund for Architectural Archives
Antonymous (2)
Richard H. Wesley
Peter Shedd Reed G’83, PhD’89
Cassandra V. Ludington
G.H. Perkins Distinguished Visiting
Shedd Fund for Landscape Studies
Warren Powers Laird Myers Fund
Christopher Leland Lyon Memorial Fund
Professorship
Peter Shedd Reed G’83, PhD’89
Warren P. Myers
Leland H. Lyon, Jr.
Carol R. Todd
Louis I. Kahn Archives Fund
Caroline G. Lyon
Thomas A. Todd MArch’59, MCP’59
June Goldfinger
Sara Jane Lyon
Arts Award Fund
Myron H. Goldfinger BArch’55
Gayl L. Maness
Lawrence Shprintz CHE’50
Gordon H. Bemis Landscape Architecture Fellowship Fund Louis I. Kahn Architecture Professorship
Wendy E. Powell MLA’61
Robin D. Dripps MArch’66 Lucia B. Phinney
Lawrence Shprintz Fine
in memory of Chris Lyon Jason Eric Travers MFA’98
Gary & Barbara Siegler Special Projects
in memory of Chris Lyon
Fund in Landscape Architecture Barbara Siegler Gary N. Siegler W’83
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Ted Liebowitz
PENNDESIGN ANNUAL FUND
Daryl M. Rosenblatt MArch’78
Sandra L. Garz MCP’75 *
Scott W. Schoellkopf MFA’92
John LiftonZoline
AND PENN FUND
David A. Ross MCP’80
D. Wylie Greig MCP’72, WG’72
WooGab Shim MArch’72 *
Julie F. Rothenstein C’77
James S. Higgins MS’01, CERT’01
David Roland Smith MArch’90 *
Ambassador ($25,000 and above)
for Laurie Olin’s Studio Trip
David G. Henderson MArch’54
Pamela LiftonZoline
Dean’s Circle ($1,000 to $2,499)
William S. Saslow C’63, MArch’68 *
Paul M. Hirshorn C’62, MCP’64, MArch’72 *
Ruth S. Spector MD W’82
for Laurie Olin’s Studio Trip
Stephen N. Abend MArch’65 *
Robert G. Shaw
Richard W. Huffman
Beth B. Steffian
Founder ($10,000 to $24,999)
Laurie D. Olin
Diane Frost Boston MArch’93 *
in memory of Frank T. Shaw
Anonymous (2)
for Olin Partnership
Janine A. CoslettYass MCP’90
Brian D. Snyder MD C’80, EE’80, GEE’82, M’86, PhD’91
Susan M. Huffman MCP’70 *
Stanley P. Tang C’74 MArch’77
AnneMarie F. Corner WG’89
Erica J. Penn
Steven M. Goldberg MArch’62
Sharon Brown Snyder MFA’83 *
G. Frank Karreman C’80, MArch’85
Carol R. Todd
James Corner MLA’86 CERT’86,
Kevin S. Penn W’83
Michael E. Hickok C’72
Samuel G. White MArch’75
in honor of Murry Romanach
Thomas A. Todd MArch’59, MCP’59 *
Stephen L. Glascock MArch’88 *
Lucinda R. Sanders MLA’89 *
Mary Keefe WG’81
C. Lawrence Whitman MArch’74
Frank D. Kavanagh MArch’95 *
Peter F. Vieira, Jr. MArch’96
Dorian S. Goldman CW’72, BFA’73, MFA’77
for John Dixon Hunt Symposium
Daniel Kelley
Jeffrey Yass
Emanuel Kelly FAIA
Ellis G. Wachs
Fern Karesh Hurst MCP’70
Lisa M. Sardegna MS’05
Richard I. Knapp MCP’82
for Unspoken Borders Conference
Peggy Brenner Wachs, Esquire
Marvin J. Israelow W’69
Prof. John Ames Steffian BArch’57
Alex T. Krueger ENG’96, W’96
Chairman’s Society ($500 to $999)
Peter Kirby BArch’51
CW’59, MCP’75, L’86 *
Toby D. Lewis CW’56
Victoria Steiger Olin CW’75, MLA’77
Leander G. Krueger MArch’00
Scott Parker Allman MArch’94
Meryl P. LessingerBely, V.M.D. V’79
John T. Warren C’87, MCP’88 *
Katherine Roloson
for Olin Partnership
Elisabeth L. Lyon MCP’70 *
Charles E. Bailey MArch’61 *
Nikolaj LessingerBely MFA’76
William B. Washburn BArch’60
William R. B. McCullough MArch’92
Katherine R. Bailey
Henry Jonas Magaziner BArch’36
Joan White
Robert M. Roloson MArch’61 *
BArch’63, MArch’67, MCP’67, CERT’67 *
Peter Steffian BArch’59
Daniel & Joanna Rose Fund
Associate ($2,500 to $4,999)
Dennis C. McGlade MLA’69 *
Joyce W. Bolchover MArch’65 *
Darrell C. Meyer MRP’71 *
Perry J. White MRP’72
for PennDesign London Studio
Young Kyoon Jeong MArch’89
David E. Merrill
William C. Bourne, Jr. MArch’64, MCP’64, CERT’64 *
Theodore L. Oldham MArch’65
James D. Wilner C’64, MFA’70
Spring Semester
Anne Margulies
Winky Miller Merrill C’78
Mark N. Brosseau MFA’01 *
Mark Pollak, Esquire L’71 MCP’72 *
Janet L. Wilson
Katherine Sachs CW’69
Marc Margulies C’75, MArch’79 *
Margy Ellin Meyerson G’93
for Silent Auction 12/03/2009
Arnold H. Robinson
Edward Z. Wronsky, Jr. MArch’63 *
Keith L. Sachs W’67
John D. Morris II C’67, MArch’70 *
Susan J. Miller
John H. Burris MArch’59
in memory of Charles I. Wolf
Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Susan B. Morris MCP’70 *
Patricia Mcadams Nagel NU’70
Steven M. Davis MArch’85
Lester Paul Salwen MD C’74, M’80
Barbara van Beuren MArch’87 *
Arthur S. Pier III C’75, MArch’78 *
Ralph J. Nagel MArch’71, MCP’71, MFA’71
in memory of Lewis Davis
John A. van Beuren MArch’77 *
Caroline A. Piven
Louis J. Delosso C’72, MArch’75
Thomas G. Weatherwax BArch’48
Peter A. Piven MArch’63 *
Michael D. Garz MArch’78 *
Fellow ($5,000 to $9,999) Caroline M. Bentley
Stephen S. Reichstein MCP’61 *
Gregory S. Bentley W’76, WG’77
Susan Mainwaring Roberts CW’72, G’76
Edward C. Friedrichs III MArch’68
George R. Rolfe MArch’68, MCP’68, CERT’68
John W. Gross BArch’43, MArch’48
Richard M. Rosan MArch’67
Robert Heidenberg C’80 Susan Heidenberg Sara Liebowitz
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Faculty
2009—2010
Terry Adkins
Joseph Elliott
Keith Kaseman
John Milner
Domenic Vitiello
Mohamad Al Khayer
Scott Erdy
Deborah Katz
Valerio Morabito
Frederick Wahl
Charles Arena
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Richard Kennedy
Joshua Mosley
Shira Walinsky
Cecil Balmond
Homa Farjadi
Stephen Kieran
Deirdre Murphy
Rachel Weinberger
Jonathan Barnett
Richard Farley
Simon Kim
Enrique Norten
Marion Weiss
Julie Beckman
Annette Fierro
Mehmet Kolatan
Cora Olgyay
Joshua Weiss
Eugenie Birch
Keith Fledderman
Benjamin Krone
Laurie Olin
Richard Wesley
Hanley Bodek
Jonathan Fogelson
Diane Lachman
David Ostrich
Scott White
William Braham
Matthew Freedman
John Landis
Brian Phillips
Anna Wolf-Powers
Suzanne Brandt
Joshua Freese
Michael Larice
Ali Rahim
Jackie Wong
Lasha Brown
Helene Furjan
David Leatherbarrow
Christopher Reed
Aaron Wunsch
Jessica Brown
Michael Gallagher
Jason Lempieri
Scotty Reifsnyder
Robert Yaro
Eugene Brusilovskiy
Mark Gardner
Paul Levy
Karen Rodewald
Yun Yi
Benjamin Bryant
Christopher Gianunzio
Christopher Mackowiak
Witold Rybczynski
Michael Bryant
Jane Golden Heriza
Sumi Maeshima
Lucinda Sanders
Lauren Carelli
Jordan Goldstein
Ali Malkawi
Alexandra Schmidt-Ullrich
Jose Castillo
David Gouverneur
Kristina Manis
Kristen Smith
Chin Choot
Ryan Greenheck
Douglas Martenson
Roland Snooks
Ann Christensen
Gary Hack
Virgil Marti Jr.
Adrienne Stinger
Hanna Cohan
Erinn Hagerty
Gabriel Martinez
Ivanco Talevski
David Comberg
Michael Henry
Randall Mason
Marilyn Taylor
Gavin Cooper
Anthony Heriza
Frank Matero
Jackie Tileston
James Corner
Amy Hillier
Anuradha Mathur
James Timberlake
Todd Costain
Phu Hoang
Robert Matthews
Charles Tomlin
Matthew Courtney
Matthias Hollwich
Karen M’closkey
Tricia Treacy
Joan Curran
Jeremy Holmes
Franca Trubiano
Dilip Da Cunha
Adam Hostetler
Emory Van Cleve
Thomas Daniels
Yuin-Jen Hsu
Keith Vandersys
Manuel Delanda
Pernot Hudson
Kazys Varnelis
Jamie Diamond
Sharka Hyland
Cathrine Veikos
Winka Dubbeldam
Hina Jamelle
Nick Vidnovic
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Credits Page 18–19 Fumihiko Maki photos: —Annenberg Center —Toshiharu Kitajima —Maki and Associates —Jeff Totaro —Anton Grassl Page 20–21 Zaha Hadid photo: Steve Double Page 24–25 Thom Mayne photo: Reiner Zettl Cooper Union photo: Iwan Baan Page 34–35 Ben’s House photos/illustrations: Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates Page 64–65 Sense and Non-sense photos: Sverre Fehn, Hamar Bispegaard Museum Sverre Fehn, Norwegian Museum of Architecture Eric Parry Architects, The Spa at the Mandarin Oriental Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Max Ernst, La mer et la pluie (The Sea and Rain) Foster + Partners, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Page 72–73 UrbanSHED photos: Courtesy of urbanSHED International Design Competition. Urban Umbrella design by Young Hwan Choi, with Andrés Cortés, AIA, and Sarrah Khan, PE, of Agencie Group. Design team members also include Will Robinette, Todd Montgomery and Zachary Colbert. Page 76–77 Aging in Africa: Location: Lagoon Aby, Cote D’Ivoire Architect: HOLLWICH KUSHNER, LLC (HWKN) Client: IBASHO, Emi Kiyota and Foundation Saint Joseph d’Arimathie Scope: Concept Design, Schematic Design, Design Development Status: Schematic Design Completed Fall 2009; Start construction scheduled beginning of 2011 Project Team: Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner, Robert May, Marc Perrotta, and KimByung Kyun Page 89 UrbanSHED image: Courtesy of urbanSHED International Design Competition. Urban Umbrella design by Young Hwan Choi, with Andrés Cortés, AIA, and Sarrah Khan, PE, of Agencie Group. Design team members also include Will Robinette, Todd Montgomery and Zachary Colbert. All other content provided by PennDesign.