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The Weitzman School of Design 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 the Weitzman School, 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 rec
04/21/2026
Wednesday, 6:00pm. Join us for a panel discussion from the McHarg Center, presented as part of Earth Week at Penn. This is the final event in a four-part series advocating for designing processes that are for, by, and with Indigenous communities.
https://www.design.upenn.edu/events/designing-and-indigenous-voices-land
04/09/2026
Tonight, 6:30pm. Join us for a lecture from Weitzman’s Black Designers Society, a student initiative, with support from City & Regional Planning. Hazel Ruth Edwards will give a talk focused on campuses as cultural landscapes, spaces shaped by history, race, and public life. The talk is grounded in her research and teaching at Howard University, where the campus itself reflects a long history of Black architectural and planning leadership.
https://www.design.upenn.edu/events/abele-lecture-hazel-ruth-edwards
04/08/2026
Tonight, 6:30pm. Join us for a lecture from Architecture. Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, of OPEN Architecture, will give a talk called "OPEN as both verb and adjective in Architecture." The firm’s Sun Tower project in Yantai, China, an oceanfront cultural facility, has become a local attraction in part because of how the building’s geometry aligns with the movement of the sun.
https://www.design.upenn.edu/events/li-hu-and-huang-wenjing
04/02/2026
Tonight, 6:30pm. Join us for a lecture from Landscape Architecture. Caroline Tracey, will discuss her just-published book, a hybrid memoir titled ‘Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History.’ The book takes readers across the American West, Mexico, Argentina, and Kazakhstan to document these fragile environments.
https://www.design.upenn.edu/events/caroline-tracey-salt-lakes
04/02/2026
Tonight, 6:00pm. Join us for a lecture from Fine Arts at Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art by R. H. Quaytman. The New York Times has decribed the work of the artist as “challenging, deeply retinal painting — for some, overpowering.”
https://www.design.upenn.edu/events/r-h-quaytman
04/02/2026
