The document provides an overview of PennDesign's fall 2011 convocation and studio/elective presentations. It lists enrollment numbers and gives a breakdown of students by school. It outlines the international representation in the incoming class and previews the fall lecture series. It then provides summaries of several architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, city planning, and fine arts studios, highlighting the themes and projects. Goals for the upcoming year are outlined, focusing on visibility, research, faculty development, curriculum innovation, critical discourse, diversity, administration, and resources.

1. FALL 2011 CONVOCATION &
STUDIO/ELECTIVE PRESENTATIONS
Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor
9.7.2011

2. Welcome.

3. SCHOOL PROFILE
Incoming Class: 337
Total Students: 653

4. SCHOOL PROFILE
ARCH
CPLN
FNAR
HSPV
LARP
MUSA

5. INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION
31 countries

6. ELEVATING DISCOURSE
Fall 2011 Lecture Series
www.design.upenn.edu/events

7. ECONOMIC VITALITY & COMMUNITY RESILIENCY

8. CREATE VALUE & BEAUTY

9. creative in nature
transformative in impact

10. GOAL 1
Advance our visibility and influence through
thought leadership, international engagement,
and strategic communications.

12. GOAL 2
Expand PennDesign’s research as an essential,
integral element of our academic community
and future professional practice.

14. GOAL 3
Build the faculty of the future.

16. GOAL 4
Innovate and experiment to create a better,
stronger, student-serving curriculum.

18. GOAL 5
Enhance the community culture of PennDesign,
specifically though an emphasis on critical
design discourse.

20. GOAL 6
Prepare a draft Diversity Plan for implementation.

22. GOAL 7
Complete the administrative team and improve
staff communications.

24. GOAL 8
Expand the resources of the school.

26. www.design.upenn.edu/
architecture
ARCH
studios

27. ARCH 701-204. Studio Skytropolis
Matthias Hollwich

28. Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 1/16
SK Y TROPOLIS
Skytropolis

29. Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 2/16
geneRIC
San Paulo

30. Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 4/16
CO n T e x T
Journal Square

31. Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 5/16
SITeS
Journal Square

32. ARCH 701-201.
Ali Rahim

33. Nested Urban Formations
“Dream Hub”, Yongsan, Seoul, Korea

43. ARCH 701-202.
Enrique Norten & Irina Verona

49. ARCH 701-203. Design Studio IV / Fall
2011Aggregated Figuration: The hotel as a
Model of Urbanization
Peter Trummer

50. Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Immeubles-Villas by Le Corbusier, 1925

51. Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Unité d’Habitation in Marseille by Le Corbusier, 1950

52. Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Plug-in City, by Peter Cook (Archigram), 1964

53. Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Hotel Sphinx in New York, by Elia Zenghelis (OMA), 1975,

54. Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel by John Portman, 1985,

55. Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel by John Portman, 1985, Photo, by Jaime Ardiles-Arce

56. Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
The Hotel as a model of urbanization, Design Studio by Peter Trummer 2011, Models by Philipp Steger & Andreas Daberto

57. Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV

58. ARCH 703.
Winka Dubbeldam

59. PP@PD WINKA DUBBELDAM, FERDA KOLATAN, ROLAND SNOOKS
POST PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM PENN DESIGN // M-ARCH 2

60. From the Mechanical to the Organic
It is in Florida that we find three related future city models; the Venus project with Jacques Fresco, the Epcot design by Walt Disney and
Celebration by the Walt Disney Company, a community based on the Epcot design.
2010-2011
// FALL 2010

67. SUPRA STUDIO // FALL 2011
Exploring New Architecture Prototypes for High Risk Coastal Regions in the USA

68. THE STUDIO JOINS THOM MAYNE’S “SUPRA STUDIO”
Culture Now investigates the contemporary American condition to shift perspectives in struggling U.S. cities.
“We (and by this I mean scientists first) are beginning to see that those organizations
once called metaphorically alive are truly alive, but animated by a life of a larger scope
and wider definition. I call this greater life "hyperlife." Hyperlife is a particular type of
vivisystem endowed with integrity, robustness, and cohesiveness -- a strong vivisystem
rather than a lax one. A rain forest and a periwinkle, an electronic network and a
servomechanism, SimCity and New York City, all possess degrees of hyperlife”
Kevin Kelly
THREE CITIES ARE EXAMINED:

70. For this year’s PPD studio we join the Supra Studio and study these three Coastal cities to investigate
how intelligent data collection and re-use of materials can create a more responsive/responsible environment.
Robotic collection systems, automated collection of trash and/or pollution [oil] as well as the recycling of
those materials are to be carefully examined for their potentials in designing [con]temporary and adaptable
units for sustainable coastal regions. These units will challenge conventional ideas of recycling and re-use
of materials within an architectural context and expand the research into new modes/models of design, which
form a deeper ecology between technology and nature, production and consumption, parts and material. In
order to achieve this, three design aspects will be particularly highlighted: Complex organizations, material
behavior, and component intelligence
COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND BEHAVIORAL LOGIC

72. www.design.upenn.edu/
landscape-architecture
LARP
studios

73. LARP 701. Marina da Gloria, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
James Corner and Richard Kennedy

78. LARP 701. Studio V Limotrophe Drylands:
Drylands Design Competition, Arizona
Ellen Neises

79. LIMITROPHE DRYLANDS
Drylands Design Competition is sponsored by the California Architectural Foundation and the Arid Lands Institute.
Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of how well they respond to scarcity and volatility of water supply, reduce
energy consumption, promote social equity, and project a new future for the West. Project type and site are open.
Jurors are Teddy Cruz, Shannon Nichol, Enrique Norten, Michael Rotondi, Greg Otto, Tom Anglewicz, Mary Griffin.

84. approach:
The studio will develop a territorial framework plan and physical designs for selected sites and prototype elements
that engage water bodies and infrastructure, and enrich the context conditioned by them.
MAPPING, MODELLING, FIELD WORK AND ANALYSIS
• map and model a rich data set, including geomorphology, depth to water table, soil salinity,
magnitude of flood events, inundation frequency, vegetation types
• interpret findings with guidance from experts
• explore sites with local guides and master the science of key processes
• interview people who can help identify the issues of the territory
TERRITORIAL FRAMEWORK PLAN, INTERVENTION SITES AND CONCEPT
• build a set of arguments that responds creatively to the context and
stakes out a compelling program
• create a coherent large‐scale framework plan
SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND BOARD DEVELOPMENT >> SUBMISSION 12 / 15
• develop physical design for selected sites, prototypical elements and processes
• refine clarity and immediacy of visualization on competition boards

85. LARP 760. Topics in Ecological Design:
Designated Ecologies
Ellen Neises

86. designed ecologies seminar
conceptual, artistic and technical dimensions of ecology as a source of invention in design
“Nature contains the history of the evolution of matter, life, and man. It is the arena of past, present, and future.
It exhibits the laws that obtain. It contains every quest that man can pursue. It tells every important story that
man would know. Therein lie its richness, mystery, and charm.” —Ian McHarg

87. topics:
CREATIVITY OF NATURAL PROCESS
evolved intelligence of organization; change agents at the organism, species and community levels
ECOLOGIES OF INVASION AND SUCCESSION
dynamics of community transformation; points of leverage on ecosystem trajectory amenable to design
ECOLOGY OF EQUILIBRIUM
theories of punctuated equilibrium, emergence, and tipping points as they bear on a philosophy of practice
ECOLOGY OF DESERTIFICATION
science of soft responses to aquifer depletion and loss of native systems
ECOLOGY OF INUNDATION
sea level rise and storm surge; reconceptualizing waterfront as episodic, biodiverse water interfaces, lenses, bodies
ECOLOGIES OF LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION
economics, natural systems, technology, sociobiology, long time horizons and clever systemic catalysts

88. case study projects:
Fresh Kills Lifescape Staten Island, New York, US (Field Operations, 2001‐)
Bos Park Amsterdam, Netherlands (Cornelis van Eesteren /Jacoba Mulder, 1934‐1964)
The Spit Toronto, Canada (Toronto Harbour Commission engineers, 1950‐)
Oostvaardersplassen Flevoland, Netherlands (National Forest Service, 1968‐)
Yuma East Wetland Lower Colorado River, Arizona, US (Fred Phillips Consulting, 1999‐)
Gaviotas Llanos Lowlands, Colombia (Paolo Lugari, 1971‐)
OysterTecture Brooklyn, New York, US (SCAPE Studio, 2010)
Euromediterranee Marseille, France (Agence Ter, 2008‐)
Rhine Meuse Scheldt Quays Antwerp, Belgium (PROAP, 2009‐)
Guanacaste Conservation Area Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Daniel Janzen, 1989‐)
Hafencity Public Space Hamburg, Germany (EMBT, 2002‐2010)
Deichpark Elbinsel Elbe Island, Hamburg, Germany (OSP / Studio Urbane Landschaften, 2011‐)
Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Hamburg Germany (2007‐2013)

89. guest lectures:
SOIL: ROBERT PINE Soil Engineer, Pine and Swallow Environmental
WATER: FRANCO MONTALTO Professor of Civil Engineering, Drexel University
PLANTS: MATT URBANSKI Principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates
PROCESS: CHRIS REED Principal, STOSS Landscape Urbanism

90. LARP 701.
Valerio Morabito

94. LARP 701.
Jerry Van Eyck

98. LARP 760. Topics in Ecological Design:
Contemporary Issues in Sustainability, London
2012 Olympic Park & Other European Examples
John Hopkins

102. www.design.upenn.edu/
historic-preservation
HSPV
studios

103. HSPV 701. Preservation Studio
Mason/Wang/Barucco
HSPV 701. American Architecture
Wunsch
HSPV 741. Seminar: Future of Heritage
Randall Mason

104. Thaddeus Stevens School

105. Plays & Players Theater

106. Germantown Town Hall

107. Penn’s Rotunda (First Church of Christ Scientist)

108. Greenwich, Cumberland County, NJ

113. www.design.upenn.edu/
city-regional-planning
CPLN
studios

114. CPLN 530. Land Use Planning
Tom Daniels

115. What is good about this design?

116. Scenario vs. Trend

119. CPLN 651. International Infrastructure
Planning & Finance
David Hsu

121. CPLN 760 Public Realm Studio
Evan Rose

127. www.design.upenn.edu/
fine-arts
FNAR
studios

128. FNAR Sculpture Practices
Terry Adkins

133. FNAR Graduate Photo Seminar
Nancy Davenport

140. FNAR Graduate Video Seminar
Joshua Mosley

145. Party.