Stuart Weitzman School of Design Impact Report

Lead by Design CAMPAIGN IMPACT REPORT

CONTENTS

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Campaign Priorities

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Student Support

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Faculty Support

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Centers

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Facilities

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Donors & Volunteers

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Lead by Design Dear Friends, The Stuart Weitzman School of Design has long been guided by a deeply rooted belief in people, and I am especially grateful for our strong community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other supporters. I am proud beyond words of the ways in which our students, faculty, and staff have continued to fulfill the academic and public engagement aspects of our mission since we had to modify our operations through the pandemic.

What’s more, we found new ways to communicate, collaborate, and care for each other, and saw just how adaptable and resilient humanity can be.

In navigating recent challenges, it’s also been reassuring and heartening to know we have so much which connects us. There’s our shared experience of Penn’s glorious campus and brilliant faculty, our deep commitment to students’ success, and our longstanding passion for excellence. Above all, we support one another when called upon for help.

The Power of Penn and our Lead by Design campaign (2013–2021) have put us on a path to building a brighter future for ourselves and future generations by strengthening the University of Pennsylvania’s commitment to inclusion, innovation, and impact. When the public phase of the campaign launched three years ago, no one could have imagined the challenges we would face, especially these past two years.

I extend my profound gratitude to all of you who have supported our work. Over the course of this campaign, I’ve also relished watching alumni catching up with one another, getting reacquainted with their alma mater, and helping guide our students into the next chapter of their career.

I’m happy to report that the School’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion has also been strengthened. During the campaign, faculty, students, and staff across the Weitzman School have been engaged in a thoughtful review of our policies, procedures, and protocols in order to address structural inequality and eliminate bias.

Not only do campaigns like Lead by Design have financial goals, designed to fund key initiatives that position the institution for future success, they also act as a catalyst, creating momentum to build the world we all want to live in.

Lead by Design set out to increase support for our students, our faculty members, our centers, and our facilities. And we were successful: we dramatically increased financial aid offerings to

FALL 2021

our top candidates, we endowed seven new faculty and center director positions, and we established the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites, and the Center for Public Art and Space. We enhanced our footprint on campus with the new Stuart Weitzman Plaza, made significant changes to our studio spaces in Meyerson Hall, created a new robotics lab and spaces for the Integrated Product Design Studio, the Architectural Conservation Laboratory, and the Center for Architectural Conservation. Additionally, the Silverstein Lab and Project Spaces, located in Addams Hall, allowed us to create one of the best photography programs in the country. And, in this campaign, Penn named our School in honor of Stuart Weitzman, Wharton Class of 1963, in recognition of both his ongoing philanthropic support of the University and his active engagement in its academic activities.

Members of our Dean’s Council and the Penn Weitzman Alumni Association have advised us on how to best connect with our alumni around the globe while also assisting our current students with their careers and future ambitions. Our research centers have recruited dynamic individuals to serve on advisory boards to help leverage the Weitzman School as a leader with its new initiatives.

I hope all of you will continue to be an active part of our community. There will be much more to celebrate in the years ahead.

Finally, I want to also thank Marilyn Jordan Taylor, whose leadership as our School’s dean in the first years of the campaign proved essential. I am especially grateful to Kevin Penn (W’83), who has served as an inspirational Chair of the Weitzman School Board of Advisors for multiple years and throughout the campaign.

Thank you for all you do for our School, and for being a part of our community.

Sincerely yours,

Frederick Steiner (MRP’77, MA’86, PhD’86) Dean and Paley Professor and Co-Executive Director, The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design

CA MPAIGN PRIORITIES

People Are the Priority

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The Lead by Design campaign focused on people—students and faculty—as well as the centers that leverage their collaborations and the spaces that fuel their creativity.

Thanks to the support of our alumni and friends, the results have been nothing short of momentous.

DURING THE CAMPAIGN, THE SCHOOL’S ENDOWMENT SAW TREMENDOUS GROWTH

MILLIONS

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02 Faculty Support Seven new named endowed faculty and center director positions were created. These opportunities bolster the School’s ability to attract, retain, and support the work of renowned thought leaders and practitioners.

The impact of endowed positions will continue well into the future, expanding the frontiers of practice, inspiring students, and lifting the reputation of the School to new heights.

01 Student Support Widespread enthusiasm for funding Weitzman students during the campaign increased the average individual financial aid package by over half and created an unprecedented number of new fellowships. This engenders a new level of diversity in the student body, enriching the learning environment for all.

These changes will reverberate across the professions for generations to come.

03 Centers The School’s centers bring an interdisciplinary approach and design thinking to urgent social challenges. The support received during this campaign heightened their ability to conceive and actualize solutions and helped to launch new academic centers focused on energy policy, urbanism and ecology, public art, and the preservation of civil rights sites.

04 Facilities New and reimagined spaces became catalysts for invention, dialogue, and collaboration. Our enhanced facilities will allow the School to attract exceptional students and faculty while responding to increased partnerships and collaborations across all disciplines.

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STUDENT SUPPO R T

Student Support Soars Support for Weitzman students transforms lives and enhances the classroom and campus experience for all.

The admission of gifted students with new perspectives also leads to greater equity and diversity in the professions. Over the campaign, the rate of African American students accepting offers from the School more than doubled, and the average fellowship amount for incoming students grew by 60 percent. The generosity shown during Lead by Design helped to create more than 40 new fellowships, allowing exceptional students to train and begin practice without crushing debt. Gifts to the Annual Fund increased by 62 percent, fueling the support that underpins many foundational student needs. Annual Fund giving also made it possible to initiate grants for students who face emergencies.

Michelle Cho

Master of Fine Arts, Class of 2022 Recipient of the Amrita Sen and Ravi Ahuja Fellowship

“Before receiving the fellowship, I was set on not attending school this semester and holding off until I could receive more scholarships or grants to do so. I am so grateful that the Amrita Sen and Ravi Ahuja Fellowship provided me with enough financial support to continue my education and set me on a path for success.”

Eric Fries

Master of Architecture, Class of 2022 Recipient of the Fund for 125 Years of Architecture

“The University of Pennsylvania was my first choice for graduate school and without this generous support, I would likely not have been able to attend. My time at Penn has already been extremely fruitful, enriching my outlook on design. I’m very glad to have the chance to interact with so many interesting students and faculty members.”

Emilio Martínez

Master of Fine Arts, Class of 2022 Master of City and Regional Planning, Class of 2022 Recipient of the Leight Foundation Fellowship

“Having this fellowship extended for an additional year has made it possible for me to pursue a second degree in the field of Urban Planning. I am the first student at Penn to pursue a dual degree in Fine Arts and City and Regional Planning. When we had to switch to online learning, the faculty and leadership made it feasible and meaningful.

I’m grateful to be in this learning community and feel supported and represented.”

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AVERAGE FINANCIAL AID FOR INCOMING STUDENTS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY DURING THE CAMPAIGN

$30,000 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $0

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Lisa Servon

Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning Department of City and Regional Planning

“We notice a significant change now in the diversity of our students. Our more diverse classrooms have led to richer conversations about how to work in all kinds of neighborhoods. The campaign has increased our visibility in the area of equity.”

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STUDENT SUPPORT

Fellowships at the Weitzman School Student fellowships at the Weitzman School are essential in attracting the best and the brightest who will both study at Penn and advance the state of practice over the course of their careers. The School is grateful for the generosity of those who have created the following new fellowships during the campaign.

New Fellowship Funds

Fund for 125 Years of Architecture Julian Abele Fellowship Atkin Fellowship

Richard W. Bartholomew and Julia Moore Converse Fellowship in Architecture Berger Fellowship

Daniel S. Bomson Family Fellowship

John and Catherine Carrafiell Fellowship Lee and Rolaine Copeland Fellowship Lindsay Falck Fellowship

Jay Goldman Design Fellowship Mark Goldstein Fellowship

Dawn and Brian Gonick Architectural Conservation Professional Development Fund David E. Gross Fellowship

Halpern Family Fellowship

Albert Kalimian Fellowship

The Kanter Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architectural Innovation

Catherine and Key Kolb Endowment Fund

Harvey and Barbara Kroiz Fellowship in Architecture Landscape Architecture 100

Leight Foundation Fellowship J. Roland Lieber Fellowship

Marjorie Miller Luke Scholarship

Christopher Leland Lyon Memorial Fund

Muscoe Martin Green Building Fellowship

The Ian L. McHarg Center Dual Degree Fellowship Moelis Scholars Program

George W. Neff Memorial Fellowship

Kevin S. and Erica J. Penn Fellowship Pickman Udell Fellowship

Richard M. Rosan Fellowship

Amrita Sen and Ravi Ahuja Fellowship Sellers-McHarg Center Fellows

Sellers Student Jobs Fellowship

Gary N. Siegler Energy Fellowship Transportation Fellowship

van Beuren-Glascock Fellowship

John and Beatrice Wesley Memorial Prize Richard Wesley Fellowship

Willoughby Family Fellowship

Witte-Sakamoto Family Prize in City and Regional Planning

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FELLOWSHIP SPOTLIGHT: Moelis Scholars Program Thanks to the generosity of Ron Moelis (C’78,

W’78), the Moelis Scholars Program supports students in the Weitzman Master of City and

Regional Planning program, with tuition remission, internships, mentoring, and support to attend conferences, along with other benefits. The

ultimate goal is not only to bring people from a

range of backgrounds into the planning discipline, but also to help diverse leaders enter the private and public world of urban development.

The Weitzman School Awards The Weitzman School Awards celebrate the achievements of visionary Weitzman students, faculty, and alumni, as well as leaders in architecture and planning outside of the Penn community—while building support for the next generation.

The School’s annual Awards event has raised over $550,000 to directly support student fellowships in architecture and city and regional planning at Weitzman, ensuring that the cost of attending the School is not a barrier for students of any background.

The Kanter Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architectural Innovation and the Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture

Award Recipients 2018–2021 The Kanter Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architectural Innovation

The Witte-Sakamoto Family Prize in City and Regional Planning

Established in 2017 by a generous gift from Weitzman School of Design alumna Lori Kanter Tritsch and Penn Trustee and Wharton alumnus William P. Lauder, the Kanter Tritsch Prize is awarded annually to a second-year Master of Architecture student to cover the bulk of tuition and fees in the final year of study. Every year, the Weitzman School of Design also awards a Medal to a practicing architect or architects for leadership in energy and architectural innovation.

Patrick William Danahy (MArch’20)

Avery Harmon (MCP’21)

The Witte-Sakamoto Family Prize and Medal in City and Regional Planning Established in 2018 by a generous gift from Weitzman School of Design alumnus Bill Witte and his wife Keiko Sakamoto, the WitteSakamoto Family Prize in City and Regional Planning provides a fellowship to cover the bulk of tuition and fees for a student entering his or her final year in the Master of City and Regional Planning program. The School also presents a Medal annually to a firm, team, or individual for an exemplary plan that advances plan making in at least four of the following areas: social equity, environmental quality, design, public health, mobility, housing affordability, and economic development.

Alexandra Mae Adamski (MArch’19) Paul Germaine McCoy (MArch’21) Beikel Rivas (MArch’22)

The Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien A. Eugene Kohn Peter Eisenman

MASS Design Group

Amie Patel (MCP’20)

Xuezhu (Gillian) Zhao (MCP’22) The Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning Regional Plan Association’s Fourth Regional Plan City of Philadelphia, GreenPlan Philadelphia City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis 2040

Keiko Sakamoto, Bill Witte (C’73, MCP’75), Lori Kanter Tritsch (MArch’85), William P. Lauder (W’83), Erica Penn, and Kevin Penn (W’83) at the 2019 Weitzman School Awards.

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FACU L TY S U P PORT

Faculty: Scholars, Practitioners, Innovators, and Mentors Endowed professorships and directorships ignite a virtuous cycle that starts by giving brilliant scholars and practitioners the secure foundation they need to maximize their impact. They become magnets for phenomenal students, enhancing the School’s reputation, which again attracts more superb professors and students, and advances the mission of the School. Lead by Design created seven new endowed positions, elevating the intellectual life of the entire Weitzman community.

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New Endowed Professorships & Directorships — Carrafiell Assistant Professorship in Fine Arts — Andrew Gordon Assistant Professorship — Matt and Erika Nord Director, Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites — Laurie Olin Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture — Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professorship — Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professorship — Wilks Family McHarg Center Director

Billy Fleming Wilks Family McHarg Center Director

“The support from the Wilks family has allowed us to move The McHarg Center in exciting new directions, while taking on projects that cement The Center’s status as a global leader in the climate, policy, and design arena. The endowment for the McHarg directorship has allowed us to build The Center from the ground up.”

Ken Lum Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and Chair of Fine Arts

“I am profoundly appreciative of the support that helps the mission of the Weitzman School, and Fine Arts in particular, to sustain a future of innovative creativity at the highest critical standards.”

New Research, Program, and Lecture Funds Vigorous faculty research advances the School’s mission, helps attract and retain top students, and ensures that the Weitzman School stays at the forefront of practice. Similarly, funds for programs and visiting lecturers enrich the learning experience and nurture innovation. The School is grateful to those who established funds to support these key initiatives.

— Abend Family Lecture Fund — Asia Urban Research Studio — Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites Discretionary Fund — Warren W. Cunningham Annual Lecture Fund — EwingCole Student Initiatives Fund — Jeffrey Fine, C’76, MArch’78 and Andrea Katz Lecture Fund — Goldsmith Research Fund at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy — Integrated Product Design Program and i-Design Award Fund — Kahn Society Fund

— Kleinman Center General Purpose and Endowment Fund — Korman Special Projects Fund for Architectural Archives — Harvey and Barbara Kroiz Endowed Fund for the Architectural Archives in the School of Design — Landscape Architecture Plus (LA+) Journal Fund — The Ian L. McHarg Center Discretionary Fund — PennPraxis Annual and Project Fund — Sellers-McHarg Center Public Impact Fund

Baroque Topologies exhibition by Andrew Saunders at The Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery.

— Weitzman School Student Emergency Fund design.upenn.edu 11

CENTERS

The Synergy of Centers Centers at the Weitzman School deepen its impact-driven mission and keep it responsive to evolving social needs. In this campaign alone, new academic centers have launched—and quickly achieved success—in public art, the preservation of civil rights, urbanism and ecology, and energy policy.

The Architectural Archives The Architectural Archives plays a pivotal role in the education of Weitzman students, offering unique opportunities to interact with drawings, models, and other archival materials that energize and elevate conversations about the creative process. Archives exhibitions, publications, and programs also serve alumni and a widening international public. Some pivotal gifts and exhibitions made possible by the campaign are highlighted below: — Over the course of the campaign, important acquisitions of materials related to the work of Louis Kahn came from Urs Buttiker, Nathaniel Kahn, and Sue Ann Kahn. Significant additions to existing Archives collections include gifts from Paola Frascari for the Marco Frascari Collection, and Carol McHarg for the Ian Lennox McHarg Collection. Clare Yellin made a major donation of presentation drawings and photographs related to metalworker Samuel Yellin. Feodore Pitcairn contributed two pastel renderings by Richard Neutra, and William Peck donated a pair of wrought iron gateways that were designed by Frank Furness for his brother Horace Howard Furness.

— New collections were established related to the following architects and firms: Steven Goldberg, Herman Hassinger, KieranTimberlake, Walter Livingston, John Nicolais, Laurie Olin, Anant Raje, Louis Sauer, Frank Schlessinger, and Marianna Thomas. Two drawings by Gertrude Olmsted, one of the first women to enroll in design studios at Penn (1925–26), were given by William and Sally Rhoads.

— The Philadelphia Museum of Art donated one of the neon griffins designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown from the Museum’s West Foyer, along with selected furnishings from their Members Lounge. David and Louise Trubeck also contributed materials related to their house on Nantucket, designed in 1970–71 by Venturi and Rauch, Architects.

— Between 2013 and 2021, the Architectural Archives collaborated on the organization of a number of major traveling retrospective exhibitions. These included Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture (organized by the Vitra Design Museum; 2012–17), an exhibition presented at eight venues across Europe, Asia, and the United States and seen by over 450,000 people; and Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966–71 (organized by the Graham Foundation, Chicago; 2014–16), and seen at venues in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.

— The Archives played a lead role in organizing a series of three exhibitions marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ian McHarg’s Design With Nature.

The project, entitled Design With Nature Now, was funded through a grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. Two more grants from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage made possible the exhibitions of Shofuso and Modernism, which drew heavily on the Archives collections and was guest curated by William Whitaker, and What Minerva Built, an exhibition focused on America’s first independent female architect, Minerva Parker Nichols (1863–1949).

Additional exhibitions organized by the Archives and presented in the Harvey & Irwin Kroiz Gallery included White Towers Revisited (2015); Barton Meyers: Works of Architecture and Urbanism (in collaboration with the University of California Santa Barbara, Art, Design and Architecture Museum; 2015–16); Harriet Pattison: Gardens and Landscapes (2016); KieranTimberlake: Drawn + Quartered (2016); Back Matter: The Making of Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction (2016–17); Mario Romañach: Do You Love Architecture? (2017–18); and Drawing: Laurie Olin (2018).

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The Center for Public Art and Space The Center for Public Art and Space (CPAS) is a platform for artistic research and civic engagement that supports Penn faculty, staff, and students in incubating public art projects and securing grant-based funding. The Center advances the work of exceptional MFA students as artists in residence, and partners on critical initiatives that bridge the campus and the public realm across Philadelphia and beyond. Highlights of campaign-fueled accomplishments include the following: — OverTime Grant and Augmented Reality App Launch The Center received a $100,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to produce OverTime, its first augmented reality tour, in partnership with Monument Lab. OverTime is a public art and technology platform designed to allow users to dig deeper into the living history of a city. The project launched in Philadelphia in spring 2021, and was featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, and Philly Voice.

— “Town Hall” Transnational Symposium CPAS co-hosted Monument Lab’s 2020 transnational Town Hall symposium with partners at the Goethe-Institut and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. Keynote participants included Paul Ramírez Jonas, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Seph Rodney, Daniela Schiller, Jasmine Wahi, Mabel Wilson, and Mirjam Zadoff. Over 900 attendees gathered for the two-day event.

— Graduate Researchers and Visiting Scholar In its first years of operation, CPAS granted a Graduate Artist Residency to David Johnson (MFA’20); engaged Allison Nkwocha as a Graduate Researcher; and invited critical geographer Sue Mobley as its first Visiting Scholar-in-Residence.

OverTime with Ursula Rucker, augmented reality app, Philadelphia Art Museum steps, March ’21.

(Images, top to bottom: production still, Lori Waselcuk/Monument Lab.)

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CENTERS

The Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites The Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS) advances the understanding and sustainable conservation of heritage places that commemorate American civil rights histories and Black heritage. Launched in 2020, CPCRS has already had far-reaching impact in academia, and more broadly, through public events, as highlighted below: — Through the generosity of Matt (W’01) and Erika Nord along with Kevin (W’83) and Erica Penn, an endowed directorship for CPCRS was established. The Matt and Erika Nord Director, Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites, will help ensure the continued vitality of CPCRS in perpetuity.

— The Weitzman School Graduate Program in Historic Preservation continues its collaboration with Kwesi Daniels, PhD, department head, and his colleagues at Tuskegee University Architecture Department on courses focusing on historic preservation at civil rights heritage sites in Alabama.

— A monthly series of virtual talks raises visibility, deepens discussion, and advances scholarship about civil rights heritage and the issues of equity, memory, and design that preservation brings to light. Each CPCRS Dialogue features a scholar, practitioner, or artist making singular contributions to the understanding of civil rights heritage.

— In November 2021, CPCRS will host a virtual symposium to address the urgency of preserving sites, stories, and organizations representing the heritage of civil rights. Scholars from around the country will contribute talks and participate in roundtable discussions.

— CPCRS actively catalogs resources that explore the intersection of civil rights histories, Black heritage, and the built environment. This list includes groundbreaking publications from the 19th century to today. The list is updated daily to reflect the latest work in the field.

CPCRS supported four summer interns in 2021, from both Penn and Tuskegee University, to work on documentation projects preserving Black heritage sites in the Philadelphia region and Alabama. These internships included research and writing for nominations to the National Register of Historic Places, under the guidance of Associate Professor of Preservation Aaron Wunsch and Sarah Lerner (MSHP’20), Manager, Administration and Communications at the Center.

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The Armstrong School, in Marion County, Alabama, was built around 1906 by a rural African American community collaborating with Tuskegee University architecture faculty. It was a prototype for Rosenwald Schools, later built by the thousands in the segregated South.

The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology The mission of The McHarg Center is to bring environmental and social scientists together with planners, designers, policy-makers, and communities to develop practical, innovative ways to improve the quality of life in the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In only four years, the Center has accomplished a great deal, including the following: — The Harry T. Wilks Family Foundation secured the success of The McHarg Center in perpetuity, through a gift to name its directorship.

— The 2017 launch of the Center helped mark the 50th anniversary of McHarg’s landmark book, Design With Nature, and established a critical climate and design research hub within the Weitzman School.

— The Center’s June 2019 public debut of Design With Nature Now included a major international conference, three exhibitions, and a new book published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

— The McHarg Center held the largest climate event in Penn’s history, “Designing a Green New Deal,” in the fall of 2019, featuring dozens of policy, design, and advocacy experts discussing the scale, scope, and pace of transformation that the climate crisis demands. More than 1,400 people attended, and over 10,000 watched via livestream.

— Four major research groups have been established within The McHarg Center, each led by standing faculty in landscape architecture: Biodiversity, led

by Richard Weller and Karen M’Closkey; Climate Policy, led by Billy Fleming and Nicholas Pevzner; the Environmental Modeling Lab, led by Sean Burkholder and Keith VanDerSys; and Public Realm, led by Sonja Duempelmann and Chris Marcinkoski.

Design With Nature Now exhibition, 2019.

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Kleinman Center for Energy Policy The mission of the Kleinman Center is to create the conditions for policy innovation that support a just and efficient transition to sustainable energy. The Center received a renewal gift of $30 million that established an endowment fund that ensures its permanence and supports all programming, which is highlighted below: — Students received research grants, were able to attend conferences, held internships and research assistantships, and benefited from programmed events.

— The faculty research budget funded research grants and policy outcome-tracking, publications, workshops, and convenings with decision makers and policy influencers.

— The Kleinman Center held events such as the annual Carnot Prize, Energy Week at Penn, the annual public lecture series, the leadership series, and the energy economics and finance seminar.

— Approximately 40 digests and papers have been published by visiting scholars, faculty, research staff, and research assistants.

— The University has made an additional commitment for three new faculty positions in energy policy, to enhance the impact and visibility of Center research on pressing global challenges. New faculty attract additional teams of researchers and students to

Penn. Already, the Center has hired Jennifer Wilcox as Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy. Wilcox is currently on public service leave as the principal deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management.

Offers to other outstanding candidates are pending.

— Additional gifts to the Kleinman Center have funded specific projects, such as the application of robust decision-making tools to solve local energy transition challenges. These projects have yielded papers, policy digests, podcasts, and conference presentations that resulted in meetings with decision makers, testimonies, and quotes and references in journals and the media (e.g., The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, E&E News).

— With campaign support, an Associate Director of Academic Programming and Student Engagement was hired for the Kleinman Center.

Stephanie Carlisle, lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design, doing fieldwork in a ger settlement on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. With a Kleinman Center grant, Carlisle and Nicholas Pevzner, assistant professor in Landscape Architecture, explored the urban design and energy transition challenges for decarbonizing the city, from quasi-informal ger communities where families burn raw coal to survive frigid winters, to the rest of the city, which gets electricity from Soviet-era coal-fired power plants.

Stephanie Carlisle (second from right) stands with Weitzman students in a typical Mongolian dwelling called a ger, assembled on Penn’s campus. During winter, students monitored the thermal performance in order to study how Mongolian housing might transition from burning coal to electric heat.

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PennPraxis With substantial growth in gift support over the last three years, PennPraxis has evolved from the planning and preservation practice arm of the Weitzman School into an engine for diverse and ambitious interdisciplinary collaborations that advance design justice. Campaign gifts have made it possible for Weitzman students and faculty to initiate high-impact projects and expand their reach, as highlighted below: — The size, complexity, diversity, and impact of commissions have grown substantially, with PennPraxis responding generously to each community and their potential. Examples of broadening reach and influence include the citywide water and environmental justice plan for Pittsburgh; housing relief plans for six major US cities; the 25-year comprehensive plan for the Lehigh Valley; and exuberant, politically engaged design studios for 300 low-income youth of color in New York City through The Fresh Air Fund.

— Powered by students under good leadership, PennPraxis projects like the climate-smart design for a 14-mile section of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor have won national awards, including a top honor for student collaboration from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

— PennPraxis created the Design Fellows Program in June 2018. In its first three years, the program deployed a total of 252 students and young alumni to work together on challenging design problems, yielding remarkable outcomes. PennPraxis now engages students and alumni from all parts of the School in creative, beyond-the-market opportunities that help students develop agency and cultivate the next generation of leaders.

— The Design Fellows Program is now a distinguishing feature of the Weitzman School, with many prospective students stating that the visible accomplishments of PennPraxis—and the support it gives activist designers—are important reasons for choosing Penn. The Design Fellows Program and the PennPraxis Studio+ initiative—a multidisciplinary design/build studio that strengthens the School’s relationships with Philadelphia communities—is energizing the push for equity.

Fresh Air Everywhere Studio students work on exquisite corpse drawings in groups of three, with each group creating a third of the drawing without seeing what other groups have already drawn.

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FACILITIES

Spaces Designed for Innovation In order to teach, research, learn, and innovate, faculty and students require spaces that encourage their most audacious visions. Lead by Design helped the School take major steps in that direction.

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Photo © Sahar Coston-Hardy

Stuart Weitzman Plaza

The Stuart Weitzman Plaza provides a new gateway to campus and improves east–west connectivity, while at the same time, increases the prominence of the Weitzman School at Penn, and expands opportunities for use of the Plaza by the School and campus community.

Meyerson Hall The transformation of studio spaces in Meyerson Hall has brought state-of-the-art equipment, lighting, and flexibility to this august building. A reconceived entrance, plus new signage and a wayfinding system, establishes Meyerson Hall as the true center of design at Penn, with more changes on the horizon.

Photo © 2021 Jeffrey Totaro, courtesy of KSS Architects

Integrated Product Design Studio In partnership with Wharton, Engineering, and the Weitzman School, the Integrated Product Design Studio moved to its new home in Tangen Hall, a space built for creativity, technology, and innovation. design.upenn.edu 19

FACILITIES

Robotics Lab Completion of the Advanced Research and Innovation Lab epitomizes the campaign’s investment in the future. It brings together faculty expertise in fabrication, measurement, and modeling technologies with the creative potential of robotics, to make possible a new degree in Robotics and Autonomous Systems—the most recent addition to the Architecture Department’s series of advanced Master of Science in Design programs.

Silverstein Lab and Project Spaces The Silverstein Digital Projects Lab advances lens-based classrooms for digital photo proofing, printing, and review.

The Silverstein Project Spaces include three large, flexibly configurable shooting studios for video, photo, performance, mixed media production, and project installation.

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Architectural Conservation Laboratory (ACL) Thanks to the campaign, the ACL moved from Meyerson Hall to its new home in the Durhing Wing adjacent to the Fisher Fine Arts Library. The new, state-of-the art facility supports materialbased inquiry and brings together advances in teaching and research in architectural conservation. It also houses the School’s comprehensive historic building materials study collection.

Center for Architectural Conservation (CAC) The Center for Architectural Conservation (CAC) is a leading research and training facility for young architectural conservators and plays an essential role in teaching students the skills they will use as professionals, along with offering fieldwork that cannot always be replicated in other environments. The Center adopted and renovated a 2,000-square-foot space at 4201 Spruce Street to optimize its function for the 21st century.

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D O NORS & V O LU N TEERS

Generosity for Generations of Students Support for the campaign is an investment in the future of creative practice, an affirmation of the power of design to solve existential problems, and a reflection of society’s shared past and future. It is impossible to adequately thank those who contributed time, expertise, and financial resources. This campaign not only set a record for giving in the history of the School, it also strengthened the Weitzman community. Generations of students will reap the benefits of this outpouring of generosity, and practice will never be the same.

The School is grateful to the following leadership donors and volunteers for their time and dedication during the silent and public phases of Lead by Design.

Stephen N. Abend, MArch’65

Laura G. Carey, BA’09, MArch’14, MLA’14

Christian Gabriel

Bill Adair

Catherine Carrafiell, C’91 and John Carrafiell

Sandra L. Garz, MCP’75

Erika and Jay Abramson, W’83, L’86 Dean Stewart Adler, Esq., W’79, L’83 AECOM Asia Company Limited

Nisa C. Amoils, Esq., L’95 and Bradley Amoils Danielle Mandelbaum Anderman, C’94 Donna M. Andrews, MSHP’01

John G. Carr, MSHP’95

Mary E. Carroll-Coelho, MArch’13 Kin Hung Chan, MS’03

Hsinyi M. Chen, MLA’04

Richard C. Collier, Jr., MRP’77 and Carol R. Collier, MRP’77

Anonymous

Lee G. Copeland, MArch’63, MCP’63

Anthony J. Atkin, MArch’74

James Corner, MLA’86 and

Sarah Weidner Astheimer, CGS’01, MLA’05 Autodesk, Inc.

Annette Cords, MFA’93 Anne-Marie F. Corner

F. Cecil Baker, BArch’67, MArch’68

Shannon Cunniff

Robin M. Beckett, MCP’75

Jianan Dai, MArch’22

Richard W. Bartholomew, C’63, MArch’65 Ronald K. Bednar, MCP’90

Eleanor H. Bendell, GED’47

William T. Bickford, MArch’02

Sarah J. Blitzer, MArch’15, MSHP’15 Paul Bonney

Diane Frost Boston, MArch’93

Nisha D. Botchwey, MCP’99, PhD’03

Jestena C. Boughton, CW’68, MLA’79 Keith Bowers

Catherine Gibson Broh, MArch’96

Orville Gordon Browne Foundation Mark Brownstein

Ignacio Bunster, MLA’79

Gouverneur S. Cadwalader, MArch’12

Charlette Michelle Caldwell, MSHP’16 Garlen Capita

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Warren W. Cunningham, BArch’49 Dorothy Ann Daly, MLA’98 Kwesi Daniels

Jason R. Danielson, MArch’97

Mark L. Gardner, MArch’00 The Getty Foundation

Mark E. Ginsberg, MArch’85

Laurence A. Goldberg, W’89 and Carrie L. Goldberg

Steven M. Goldberg, MArch’62 Nancy A. Goldenberg, MCP’80 Jay G. Goldman, W’79

Carl H. Goldsmith, W’88 and Ashley Goldsmith Jordan B. Goldstein, MArch’96 Mark R. Goldstein, C’83, W’83

Dawn Melbourne Gonick, MSHP’94 and Brian M. Gonick, W’86

Jeff Goodell

Eric N. Gribetz, W’95 and

Carin H. Gribetz, MD, C’96

Johnette E. Davies, MSHP’97

David E. Gross, BA’77, MArch’80

Martine A. Decamp, MCP’03

Susan S. Hakkarainen, CGS’04

Amanda W. Davis, MSHP’07

Cyrus Dezfuli-Arjomandi, MA’84, PhD’85 Mansi Dhanuka, MEBD’17

Jennifer Burke Hagan, MCP’01 Michael J. Halpern, W’83 and Nancy J. Steiner, MD

Todd E. Drake, MArch’94

Leslee B. Halpern-Rogath, CW’73

Kimberly Driggins

Geri and Mason Haupt, W’77

Roberta F. Dranoff, MCP’74 and Carl E. Dranoff Emily J. Duncan, C’04

Ke Feng, MArch’98, WEV’09

Faye Brunswic Harwell, MLA’75

Dominique M. Hawkins, BA’88, MArch’92,

MSHP’92 and George C. Skarmeas, PhD’83

Jeffrey M. Fine, BA’76, MArch’78

Robert P. Heidenberg, JD, C’80

Edward C. Friedrichs III, MArch’68

William B. Heyer, BA’09, MArch’11

Amy L. Freitag, MLA’94, MSHP’94

Richard A. Herman Irrevocable Trust

Edmund D. Hollander, MLA’83

Max M. Mason III, MFA’84

Sara Pevaroff Schuh, MLA’95

Alexander B. Hurst, C’01

MaryFrances McCourt

Sally Searle

Ara K. Hovnanian, W’79, WG’79 Zenas W. Hutcheson IV, MFA’13 Erika Lee Johnson, MCP’03

Wendy Evans Joseph, BA’77 Albert Kalimian, W’79

Kathryn A. Kaman, BFA’06, MFA’09 Lori Kanter Tritsch, MArch’85 and William P. Lauder, W’83

Jeffrey M. Kaplan, W’87 and

Robin Harrison Kaplan, C’91

Aishwarya Katta-Adiseshaiah, MArch’18 Robert Kaufman, C’76, MCP’77 Brigham M. Keehner, MArch’02

Michael A. Kihn, C’65, MArch’73 Scott Kleinman, C’94, W’94 and Wendy Kleinman

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Taylor Michelle Knoche, MSHP’14, MArch’16 Mark A. Kocent, BA’82, MCP’91

A. Eugene Kohn, BArch’53, MArch’57 and Barbara Shattuck Kohn

Lawrence M. Korman and Korin A. Korman Harvey E. Kroiz and Barbara D. Kroiz

Leander Grayson Krueger, MArch’00 Kenneth M. Kulak, Esq., L’94 Nanci Lanni

Eunyoung Lee, MFA’16

Steven Lefkowitz and Clarissa R. Lefkowitz Brent Leggs

Nathan D. Leight and Elizabeth B. Leight, PhD Charles B. Leitner III, C’81

J. Roland Lieber, MArch’62

Richard S. Linhart, W’83 and Leora Naomi Mogilner, MD

Sueyun Locks

Ryan M. Lohbauer, MArch’07

Suzanne S. Mahoney, MCP’14, MLA’14 Jonathan Ira Mandell, MFA’90

Stuart Giles Mardeusz, BA’90, MArch’95 Marc Margulies, BA’75, MArch’79 Patreese A. Martin, MArch’84 Kathryn A. Masi, MArch’06

Anuradha Mathur, PhD, MLA’91 Patrick S. McDonough, MArch’94, MSHP’94 Michael J. McGuire, CE’69

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Diana C. Mendes, MCP’84 Lynn Meskell, PhD

Gina Michaels, MFA’93

Julia Lynn Scott, MArch’97

Bonnie Stone Sellers, BA’73 and Gary L. Sellers Amrita Sen, W’92 and Ravi Singh Ahuja, WG’97 Karen Seto, PhD

Gary N. Siegler, W’83 and Barbara Siegler Howard A. Silverstein, W’69 and

Patricia Bleznak Silverstein, C’81

Ronald L. Moelis, Esq., C’78, W’78 and

Peter Skillings, MCP’07

Patrick Morgan, G’02, GED’04

Frederick R. Steiner, MRP’77, MA’86, PhD’86 and

Kerry Moelis

Michael P. Nairn, MLA’85

David R. Smith, MArch’90 Anna Steiner

Charles Bruce Neer, MLA’99

Stoneleigh Center

Samuel E. Olshin, BA’82, MArch’86

Marilyn Jordan Taylor

Matthew H. Nord, W’01 and Erika L. Weinberg J. Michael Palmer, MArch’82

Kevin S. Penn, W’83 and Erica J. Penn The William Penn Foundation Mark D. Pettegrow, MFA’90

Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Abdallah S. Tabet, MLA’07 Jason Eric Travers, MFA’98

Patricia Pickman Udell, BA’78 and Mitchell Udell Steven B. Ujifusa, MSHP’05

Barbara van Beuren, MArch’87 and Stephen L. Glascock, MArch’88

Steward Pickett

Leigh K. Van Duzer, MFA’10

Peter A. Piven, MArch’63

Peter F. Vieira, Jr., MArch’96

Matthew E. Pisarski, MSHP’99, CGS’01 Irwin A. Popowsky, Esq., L’77

Rebecca S. Popowsky, MArch’10, MLA’10

Joyce Ann Pressley, C’78, G’81, MA’93, PhD’94 John Quigley

Elizabeth Burling Rairigh, MCP’05, MSHP’05 Heather L. Ramsdale, MFA’10 Chris S. Reed, MLA’95

Peter Shedd Reed, G’83, PhD’89 Monica L. Rhodes, MSHP’12

Judy E. Venonsky, MLA’07 Fon S. Wang, MSHP’07

Susan K. Weiler, MLA’83 Stuart Weitzman, W’63 Barbara Wilks, MLA’93

Sarai Lynne Williams, MCP’17, MLA’17 Gerald M. Willoughby, MCP’70 Mieko Lynne Willoughby, C’87 Michelle K. Winn, C’95 and Andrew Michael Winn

Elliot Rhodeside, MLA’69

William A. Witte, C’73, MCP’75 and

The Rockefeller Foundation

Glenn Wooden, Jr., MFA’20

Richard M. Rosan, MArch’67

Aaron Wunsch

Erin Roark, MArch’98

Mary Pavia Rolla, W’79 Jill Sablosky, MFA’79 Keith L. Sachs, W’67

Lucinda R. Sanders, MLA’89

P. Keiko Sakamoto, Esq.

Deborah C. Woodward, MArch’97 Clare L. Yellin Andrew Zolli

Lisa M. Sardegna, MSHP’05 and David Carrillo Lynn Scarlett

Marvin Schlanger

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