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Weitzman School of Design at Penn retweeted
Join us tomorrow night for a special live recording of How to Really Run a City in partnership with the @WeitzmanSchool . Michael Nutter will discuss his Impact Scholars program with inaugural scholars Kasim Reed and G.T. Bynum.
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Last week in Philadelphia, @landpolicy and the University of Pennsylvania's Ian McHarg Center for Urbanism + Ecology & @WaterCenterPenn premiered the documentary “Reclaiming the Rain: Philadelphia’s Green Initiative for Stormwater Management and City Revitalization.”
ALT Group photo of the speakers at the Reclaiming the Rain film screening and panel discussion. From left to right, Marc Cammarata, Michael Nutter, Anne Whiston Spirn, Howard M. Neukrug, Dakin Henderson, and Frederick R. Steiner stand in a circular event space between two large presentation screens.
Weitzman School of Design at Penn retweeted
On March 25, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and @Penn are hosting a screening in Philadelphia of a documentary that charts a city’s bold attempts to improve communities through green infrastructure.
ALT Title card over a blurred view of the Philadelphia skyline and riverfront reads, “Reclaiming the Rain: Philadelphia’s Green Initiative for Stormwater Management & City Revitalization.”
Weitzman and @pennmuseum have teamed up with @WorldMonuments for a pair of special events on heritage conservation and social responsibility. Tonight, architect and urban conservationist Brinda Somaya. Next Thur, Expanding Knowledge, Deepening Impact: The Future of Preservation.
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Antón García-Abril visits the Weitzman School of Design for the EwingCole Lecture: Architecture of the Earth. The talk explores our research on the intersection of engineering and natural materials.
Feb 4, 6:30 PM Meyerson Hall, B1. Link in image description for more info.
ALT https://www.design.upenn.edu/events/ewingcole-lecture-anton-garcia-abril
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Sarah Rottenberg applied human-centered design principles to support three Penn Forward working groups as they developed ideas to guide Penn’s next decade. As executive director of Penn’s Integrated Product Design program, she helped translate design thinking into institutional strategy.
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Breakthrough and Penn asked 20 young teens to imagine Philadelphia in 50 years. They created a vision for the future — and hope for the kids themselves.
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Weitzman School of Design at Penn retweeted
A new course probes the connection between neighborhood sounds and identities. | 📝: @joanngreco | 🎨: George Kevin Jordan | 🏷️: @WeitzmanSchool
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Thanks to all the contributors to LA+ ENVIRONMENT, out now from @oroeditions
Our own @JessicaConardEP talks East Palestine, plastic's toxic chemicals, and what the U.S. must do to ensure this disaster isn't repeated in your town in the award-winning LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture. Kudos, @WeitzmanSchool!
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Penn Climate is delighted to welcome Professor @DoritAviv to the Penn Climate Seminar Series for her talk Rethinking the future of cooling: combatting rising heat without air conditioning at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, November 12 in Steinberg-Dietrich 350. Aviv is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the @WeitzmanSchool and the director of the Thermal Architecture Lab, a cross-disciplinary laboratory at the intersection of thermodynamics, architecture, and material science. Her research focuses on decarbonizing the built environment by developing innovative solutions to challenges like cooling, air quality, and energy performance.
ALT Penn Climate Seminar Wednesday, November 12, 2025 12:00 pm Steinberg-Dietrich Hall Room 350
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As featured in CNN, researchers, @MSEATPENN @ShuYangPenn , @WeitzmanSchool Masoud Akbarzadeh at the University of Pennsylvania are reimagining the world’s most used building material and one of its biggest carbon emitters.
Their project, Diamanti, combines robotic 3D printing, a sustainable concrete mix, and nature-inspired design to create lighter, stronger, and carbon-absorbing structures.
Read more in CNN’s feature on this groundbreaking research.
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Thanks to Ke-An Chiang GFA’25, the Greenfield Intercultural Center now outranks College Hall as the oldest building owned by Penn. | 📝: Nicole Perry | 📸: Courtesy Philadelphia Historical Commisssion | 🏷️: #philadelphia #historicalbuilding @weitzmanschool thepenngazette.com/a-villa-i…
Weitzman invites applications for the Master of Science in Design with a concentration in Property Development and Design (MSD-PDD)—a new, 1-year, post-professional program tailored for architects, landscape architects, and planners looking to lead in real estate development.
Congratulations to the team behind Green Heart Louisville @UofLEnvirome @uofl for illustrating the possibilities when design, planning, and science come together. Registration for the public celebration opens September 4.
We're delighted to announce the @WeitzmanSchool of Design at @UofPenn will be honoring the Green Heart Louisville Project with the 2025 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City & Regional Planning at a ceremony in November. More to come!
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Weitzman School of Design at Penn retweeted
UPenn’s Weitzman School of Design @WeitzmanSchool has revealed its 2025 medalists: Marina Tabassum Architects, designers of the latest Serpentine Pavilion, earn the Kanter Tritsch Medal, while Green Heart Louisville wins the Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal.
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