The new cafe at PennDesign’s Meyerson Hall could open as early as next Friday. The cafe will be operated by 12th Street Catering. Credit: Ceaphas Stubbs As soon as next week, students will have a new ...

Water is everywhere before it is somewhere. It is rain before it is rivers, it soaks before it flows, it spreads before it gathers, it blurs before it clarifies. Water at these moments in the ...

Faculty from the School of Design helped to create a seasonal “pop-up” space transforming Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a public park. Five years ago, Fairmount Park Conservancy and Philadelphia ...

This June, 23 Philadelphia public schools will be closed for good, adding around 65 acres to the city’s already heavy burden of vacant land. For the city, dealing with these soon-to-be-empty buildings ...

The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design (PennDesign) has begun a five-year collaborative research agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright ...

Marilyn Jordan Taylor was appointed dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design today. Taylor is a partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill where she leads the firm’s urban design and planning ...

Frederick Steiner. Image Courtesy of University of Texas at Austin "I am excited and honored to return to Penn as dean of Penn Design,” Steiner said. “This is an exciting time for students, scholars ...

As an alum of PennDesign, I have been receiving reminders that this year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of a major work, “Design with Nature,” by Ian McHarg. A Scotsman born near Glasgow, ...

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