Penn IUR and PennPraxis are co-hosting this workshop for Penn faculty members and students in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and its exhibition, Work on What You Love: Bruce Mau Rethinking Design (on view through April 3, 2016). At this event, Mau will lead Penn faculty and students in a workshop setting to apply new ways of

Andrea Pane, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Architectural Conservation University of Naples Federico II  

Matthew Coolid​ge is the founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, an education and research organization based in Los Angeles. Since 1994, the Center has produced exhibitions, presentations, tours, publications, online resources, and other public programs that examine, describe, and explain the built landscape of the nation.

 Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia "Mark Wasiuta teaches at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University where he is the Director of Exhibitions and Co-Director of the Masters of Science in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP). He studied at the University of British Columbia, Princeton University, and Harvard University. His research focuses on postwar environmental design, an area

Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia "Craig Buckley completed his MA at the University of Western Ontario, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, and received his PhD from Princeton University in 2013. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. His

What makes a place walkable? The answer lies in older urban neighborhoods, where density, proximity, and a human-scaled built environment made walking the best way to get around. With their connected streets, multi-story buildings, small urban blocks, diverse uses, and transit access, these places provide a blueprint for sustainable transportation and urban infill. As more

The Department of Architecture at PennDesign welcomes Prof. Dr. Werner Sobek, Founder, Werner Sobek Company Group, and Director, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design. Prof. Werner Sobek is an architect, consulting engineer, proof engineer for all fields of structural engineering, and holds various licenses, e.g. a Structural Engineering License for Illinois. As a successor

Images play a critical role in shaping perceptions of what cities are, have been, and should be. Documentary images, in particular, have both influenced and reflected the implementation of urban policy. In the Progressive Era, for example, Jacob Riis’s lantern slides stimulated tenement reform in New York City. In the 1930s, Farm Security Administration photographs helped justify