fall 2011 convocation web
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On Wednesday, September 7th, Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor assembled the University of Pennsylvania School of Design community to kick off the academic year.TRANSCRIPT
FALL 2011 CONVOCATION & STUDIO/ELECTIVE PRESENTATIONS
Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor 9.7.2011
Welcome.
SCHOOL PROFILE
Incoming Class: 337 Total Students: 653
SCHOOL PROFILE
ARCH
CPLN
FNAR
HSPV
LARP
MUSA
INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION
31 countries
ELEVATING DISCOURSE
Fall 2011 Lecture Series www.design.upenn.edu/events
ECONOMIC VITALITY & COMMUNITY RESILIENCY
CREATE VALUE & BEAUTY
creative in nature transformative in impact
GOAL 1 Advance our visibility and influence through thought leadership, international engagement, and strategic communications.
GOAL 2 Expand PennDesign’s research as an essential, integral element of our academic community and future professional practice.
GOAL 3 Build the faculty of the future.
GOAL 4 Innovate and experiment to create a better, stronger, student-serving curriculum.
GOAL 5 Enhance the community culture of PennDesign, specifically though an emphasis on critical design discourse.
GOAL 6 Prepare a draft Diversity Plan for implementation.
GOAL 7 Complete the administrative team and improve staff communications.
GOAL 8 Expand the resources of the school.
ARCH studios
www.design.upenn.edu/ architecture
ARCH 701-204. Studio Skytropolis Matthias Hollwich
Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 1/16
Skytropolis
SK Y T RO PO LIS
Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 2/16
San Paulo
g eneR IC
Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 4/16
Journal Square
CO n T e x T
Matthias Hollwich, PennDesign, ARCH 701 Studio: Skytropolis 5/16
Journal Square
S I T eS
ARCH 701-201. Ali Rahim
Nested Urban Formations “Dream Hub”, Yongsan, Seoul, Korea
ARCH 701-202. Enrique Norten & Irina Verona
ARCH 701-203. Design Studio IV / Fall 2011Aggregated Figuration: The hotel as a Model of Urbanization Peter Trummer
Immeubles-Villas by Le Corbusier, 1925
Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Unité d’Habitation in Marseille by Le Corbusier, 1950
Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Plug-in City, by Peter Cook (Archigram), 1964
Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Hotel Sphinx in New York, by Elia Zenghelis (OMA), 1975,
Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel by John Portman, 1985,
Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel by John Portman, 1985, Photo, by Jaime Ardiles-Arce
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
Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
Aggregated Figuration / Peter Trummer / Arch 701-203 Design Studio IV
ARCH 703. Winka Dubbeldam
PP@PDPOST PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM PENN DESIGN // M-ARCH 2
WINKA DUBBELDAM, FERDA KOLATAN, ROLAND SNOOKS
2010-2011
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 andCelebration by the Walt Disney Company, a community based on the Epcot design.
// FALL 2010
SUPRA STUDIO // FALL 2011
Exploring New Architecture Prototypes for High Risk Coastal Regions in the USA
“We (and by this I mean scientists first) are beginning to see that those organizationsonce called metaphorically alive are truly alive, but animated by a life of a larger scopeand wider definition. I call this greater life "hyperlife." Hyperlife is a particular type ofvivisystem endowed with integrity, robustness, and cohesiveness -- a strong vivisystemrather than a lax one. A rain forest and a periwinkle, an electronic network and aservomechanism, SimCity and New York City, all possess degrees of hyperlife”
Kevin Kelly
THREE CITIES ARE EXAMINED:
THE STUDIO JOINS THOM MAYNE’S “SUPRA STUDIO”Culture Now investigates the contemporary American condition to shift perspectives in struggling U.S. cities.
For this year’s PPD studio we join the Supra Studio and study these three Coastal cities to investigatehow 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 ofthose materials are to be carefully examined for their potentials in designing [con]temporary and adaptableunits 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, whichform a deeper ecology between technology and nature, production and consumption, parts and material. Inorder to achieve this, three design aspects will be particularly highlighted: Complex organizations, material
behavior, and component intelligence
COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND BEHAVIORAL LOGIC
LARP studios
www.design.upenn.edu/ landscape-architecture
LARP 701. Marina da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil James Corner and Richard Kennedy
LARP 701. Studio V Limotrophe Drylands: Drylands Design Competition, Arizona Ellen Neises
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.
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
LARP 760. Topics in Ecological Design: Designated Ecologies Ellen Neises
“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
designed ecologies seminar conceptual, artistic and technical dimensions of ecology as a source of invention in design
topics:
CREATIVITY OF NATURAL PROCESS evolved intelligence of organization; change agents at the organism, species and community levels
ECOLOGIES OF INVASION AND SUCCESSIONdynamics 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 DESERTIFICATIONscience of soft responses to aquifer depletion and loss of native systems
ECOLOGY OF INUNDATIONsea level rise and storm surge; reconceptualizing waterfront as episodic, biodiverse water interfaces, lenses, bodies
ECOLOGIES OF LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-SYSTEM TRANSFORMATIONeconomics, natural systems, technology, sociobiology, long time horizons and clever systemic catalysts
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)
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
LARP 701. Valerio Morabito
LARP 701. Jerry Van Eyck
LARP 760. Topics in Ecological Design: Contemporary Issues in Sustainability, London 2012 Olympic Park & Other European Examples John Hopkins
HSPV studios
www.design.upenn.edu/ historic-preservation
HSPV 701. Preservation Studio Mason/Wang/Barucco HSPV 701. American Architecture Wunsch HSPV 741. Seminar: Future of Heritage Randall Mason
Thaddeus Stevens School
Plays & Players Theater
Germantown Town Hall
Penn’s Rotunda (First Church of Christ Scientist)
Greenwich, Cumberland County, NJ
CPLN studios
www.design.upenn.edu/ city-regional-planning
CPLN 530. Land Use Planning Tom Daniels
What is good about this design?
Scenario vs. Trend
CPLN 651. International Infrastructure Planning & Finance David Hsu
CPLN 760 Public Realm Studio Evan Rose
FNAR studios
www.design.upenn.edu/ fine-arts
FNAR Sculpture Practices Terry Adkins
FNAR Graduate Photo Seminar Nancy Davenport
FNAR Graduate Video Seminar Joshua Mosley
Party.