JulIe Beckman’s most notable
project, the Pentagon memorial, was dedicated and opened to the public on September 11, 2008. KBAS was named one of the 2006 Young Architects by the Architectural League of new York.
rIchard farleY, alBerto cavallero, and Stuart mardeuSZ
of KlingStubbins were awarded design of the 3,425,000-SF, mixed-use gateway
Business center in master-planned
Songdo International Business District, Incheon, South Korea, a 1,500 acre project being developed by new York headquartered Gale International and Korea’s Posco E&C. Sondgo IBD brings together KlingStubbins along with renowned design firms such as Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, HoK, Daniel Liebskind, and engineering firm Arup to create one of the world’s most environmentally-friendly cities.
mark gardner participated in
a competition through his office, Stephan Jaklitsch Architects and had two prototypes fabricated by Dejah Enterprises. the prototypes have been installed by the city in Manhattan at Astor Place and also at PS1. the proposal is that the bike racks be mass produced by using recycled automobile parts.
Phu hoang was selected for the 2009 Young architects forum award. matthIaS hollWIch firm’s award
winning vision of urbanism, metreePolIS, was featured in the German Pavillion at the Venice Biennale. HWKn’s work has been widely published and was most recently featured in the Harvard Design
Review, the new York Times, and Der Spiegel.
mark Igou’s project, hill county SeZ office complex in Hyderabad,
India received a prestigious sustainable construction award from the Holcim Foundation at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology.
ferda kolatan participated in
Digital Pulse in Architecture at Florida International University and his project
dunehouse was exhibited at “AASt
Advanced Architecture Settimo tokyo”. His project composite house was exhibited at Slought Foundation, Philadelphia as part of the show “1:5:25 Emergent Perspectives.” He participated with a new project at this year’s Siggraph Exhibition in new orleans.
tIna manIS of tina Manis Associates
was selected among a group of five final- ists to design the art fund Pavilion. the Pavilion will initially appear as part of tent London’s exhibit at the London Design Festival 2009 before taking up residence at the Lightbox as an annual summer pavilion and gallery space.
BrIan PhIllIPS’ Philadelphia-based ISA
won awards for three separate projects at the 2008 AIA Philadelphia Design Awards as well as the 2008 Philadelphia Emerging Architecture Prize. the firm exhibited work at A Clean Break (a pop- up pre-fab exhibit) and the Center for Architecture in Philadelphia, and at the Suraci Gallery at Marywood University.
ShaWn rIckenBacker, partner of
rickenbacker + Leung won the Breadth of Environmental and Design research for their entry for re:vISIon dallaS a zero Carbon Community of 500 units of housing and commercial space. they also presented their proposal to the City Planning Dept. of newark nJ for renew- able Energy and remediation Public Architecture.
JennY e. SaBIn lectured on her re-
search and design practice at numerous conferences and Universities including Siggraph Evolve 08 Design and
Computation Galleries, ACADIA 2008 Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Computation Group Lecture Series at MIt, the Algorithmic Design research Group at Columbia University, the annual Smart Geometry Conference in San Francisco and the College of Architecture at texas A&M University. Sabin’s design work and collaborative research with Peter Lloyd Jones was featured in several exhibitions most recently at the Slought Foundation, the Esther M. Klein Gallery and at Ars Electronica, Linz Austria. Jenny Sabin and Ferda Kolatan were awarded a book con- tract with Bentley Systems to co-author
Meander Variegating Architecture.
239. SHAWn rICKEnBACKEr, competition
entry, re:Vision Dallas
240. JoSH oWEn, the Monroe 8125: the
Monroe 8125 challenges the notion that all products are engineered to employ some degree of planned obsolescence as a business strategy. Designed for commercial use, the 8125 is the latest in a line of adding machines which benefits from nearly a century of manufacturing and interactive experience with Monroe’s users. this project is the result of a total brand program developed for Monroe which encompasses product, graphic, packaging and strategic brand management.
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fall 2008 September 18Book launch: VIA: Occupation
Department: Dean’s office, Architecture
october 2 BarrY Bergdoll
the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art Delivered Home: reflections on prefabrication and digital fabrication in light of the current MoMA exhibition Home Delivery:
Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
october 11
SYmPoSIum: the engineering of architecture: remembering Professor Peter mccleary’s 43 Years at Penn Professor Peter McCleary has
been teaching, conducting research, and mentoring students at Penn since 1965. In honor of these contributions, as well as his constant endeavors to deepen the level of discourse on issues of structure and space, colleagues and friends gathered at Skirkanich Hall to present essays they wrote for the occasion. Participants include Stanford Anderson, nicholas Goldsmith, Peter Land, David Leatherbarrow, Claudine Lorenz, Ali Malkawi, robert Marino, Antoine Picon, Mike rubin, and richard Wesley. Sponsored by Penn Design. Co-organizers: Catherine Bonier and Ali Malkawi.
november 6–8
InternatIonal SYmPoSIum and eXhIBItIon: re-Imagining cities: urban design after the age of oil
this symposium and exhibition examined how cities need to be re-imagined and
re-designed to address the twin global challenges of reducing carbon emissions and unprecedented energy prices. this historic event marks the 50th Anniversary of the 1958 University of Pennsylvania— rockefeller Foundation “Conference on Urban Design Criticism,” whose participants, including Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Louis Kahn, Ian McHarg, and Lewis Mumford, helped to define the new field of urban design for the 20th Century.
november 14
colloQuIum and eXhIBItIon: the dresser trunk Project and Places of refuge
the Dresser trunk project brought ten prominent artists, architects, and landscape architects together to explore places of refuge for black travelers during segregation. these explorations take the form of “dresser trunks” in a traveling exhibition. the Places of refuge colloquium explored many of the themes embedded in the exhibit in order to take stock of where we are today in relation to race and space.
november 13 Jeanne gang Studio/Gang/Architects, Chicago november 18 WIllIam alSoP SMC ALSoP, London Recent Work SPrIng 2009 January 29 JÜergen maYer
J. Mayer H. Architects, Berlin, Germany the EwingCole Lecture
february 18 Stefan BehnISch
Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart, Germany the Donald Prowler Lecture
march 16
SIgI moeSlInger/ maSamIchI udagaWa
Antenna Design, new York
Recent Work
Host department: Architecture
april 3 talk 20
Host department: PennDesign Student group
april 3–4
unSPoken BorderS conference the ecologies of Inequality and the future of design in race + Space + Politics
Keynote Speaker: teddy Cruz, estudio teddy cruz
Host department: PennDesign Black Student Alliance
april 15 Book launch
Sense Formations
Homa Farjadi Conversation
Homa Farjadi / xavier Costa / neil Leach
april 22 Book launch
Architecture Oriented Otherwise
David Leatherbarrow
may 6 Book launch
My Two Polish Grandfathers
Witold rybczynski
245. HoMA FArJADI, Sense Formations 246. DAVID LEAtHErBArroW,
Architecture Oriented Otherwise
247. WItoLD rYBCzYnSKI,
My Two Polish grandfathers
248. Attendees at the Unskpoken
Borders Conference
249, 250. Branching Morphogenesis on
view at Ars Electronica, Linz Austria through December 31, 2009. Design by JEnnY E. SABIn and AnDrEW LUCIA with PEtEr LLoYD JonES and AnnEttE FIErro
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