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What to Keep and Erase

AN in conversation with architect and educator Rossana Hu

Setting the Record Straight

Lin Huiyin, visionary Chinese architect, preservationist, and activist, will be awarded a posthumous architecture diploma from UPenn

Real-World Applications

Penn to launch a new online course for professionals centered on sustainability

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Terra-cotta Trapezoids

Penn moves forward with performing arts center designed by Steven Holl Architects

No Longer Forgotten

Penn exhibition surfaces the story of Minerva Parker Nichols, the first American woman to have an independent architecture practice

New Role

Rossana Hu of Neri&Hu named chair of the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design architecture department

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Deep Relief

A sculptural foam installation demonstrates the promise of a new technology-focused degree at Penn

On the Mother Road

Pennsylvania and New Mexico universities score National Park Service grant to preserve Route 66

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Kind Tech

2022 ACADIA conference, Hybrids & Haecceities, covers extra-disciplinary collaboration, the importance of tiny things, and the ethics of artificial intelligence

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Computational Non-binary

The 2022 ACADIA conference, kicking off later this month in Philadelphia, will explore new modes of practice

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Incoming

Amber Wiley named director of the Weitzman School of Design’s Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites

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If The Shoe Fits

Penn’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design is getting a namesake academic building

Deborah Berke Partners shakes up Penn’s campus with terra-cotta baguettes

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A New Paradigm

Foster + Partners’ massive “hospital of the future” for Penn Medicine opens in West Philadelphia

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No Planet B

The Weitzman School of Design will ponder the fate of a fragile planet at the Venice Architecture Biennale

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"Essential Places of Reflection For Our Democracy"

The Weitzman School of Design launches a center for civil rights sites preservation

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New Leads

Zoë Ryan to lead the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania

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School’s Out…Forever?

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing architecture schools to rethink remote learning

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