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Ng Honored with Teaching Award

Rashida Ng, has been honored with the G. Holmes Perkins Distinguished Teaching Awards for the Academic Year 2023-2024 at the Weitzman…

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Rethinking Assessment in Architecture

Rashida Ng, Chair of Undergraduate Architecture, weighs in on the future of the crit, a fixture of architectural education since its inception at the École des Beaux-Arts in France. She highlights…

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Building Bridges with Architecture: Lorraine's 'Urbanity from the Ocean' Workshop Experience in Taiwan

With the support of the Butner Family Award, Lorraine participated in the “Urbanity from the Ocean” Visiting School workshop hosted by the Architectural Association School of…

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Innovative Towers Project "Hide & Seek" Showcased at ICA

The latest architectural masterpiece, the Towers project, has been unveiled at…

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Rashida Ng named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania

Rashida Ng, a distinguished alumna of the University of Pennsylvania's Master of Architecture program, has been honored as a 2023…

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Professor Aker Presents in Iceland - Architectural Beginnings

At the recent ACSA/EAAE conference in Reykjavík, Scott Aker detailed the avant-garde pedagogy behind the University of Pennsylvania's ARCH 1010 Introduction to…

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A Minimalist Approach to Baroque Optics

In June, Scott Aker participated in the Nexus 2023: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics, a 14th international, interdisciplinary conference…

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Miranda Mote, UPenn Alum, Awarded Prestigious Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture

Miranda Mote, an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania's PhD program in Architecture, has developed an approach to writing…

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The brief: Affordable housing that’s both contextual and funky

In the fall semester of 2022, a cohort of fourth-year students enrolled in the undergraduate architecture program were presented with an opportunity to explore the issue of housing justice as the…

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Meet Jobie Hill, architect and founder of Saving Slave Houses

Jobie Hill, architect and founder of Saving Slave Houses, joined ARCH-401, as a consultant and a co-instructor with Scott Aker and Richard Wesley in the fall of 2021. The subject of the design…