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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State has named two recipients of its Interdisciplinary Design Professorship: Hannes Famira, graphic designer, type designer and founding principal of FamiraFonts, and Luisa Caldas, professor of architecture... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Farzad Hashemi, who graduated from Penn State in 2023 with a doctorate in architecture, was recently named the recipient of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Dissertation Award. He is the second recipient of the prestigious research award in as many... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A virtual lecture from artist and architect Yussef Agbo-Ola, founding principal of Olaniyi Studio, will kick off the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School’s spring 2024 Lecture + Exhibit Series at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 27. Titled “The Art of Poetic... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The federally designated Oil Region National Heritage Area in the northwestern portion of Pennsylvania is where the modern petroleum age began in the 1800s. Oil City, Pennsylvania, is included in this area; however, the oil companies that supported the town’s economy... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Laia Celma, assistant teaching professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State, was named an inaugural recipient of the OBEL AWARD Teaching Fellowship, a premier teaching and research fellowship from the Henrik Frode... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Work by Felecia Davis, associate professor of architecture in the Stuckeman School, and her team of Computational Textiles Lab (SOFTLAB) researchers in the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing at Penn State that explores Black culture, its relationship to technology... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A project created by two Stuckeman School architecture professors in the College of Arts and Architecture that exposes how coal mine fires affect the environment is featured in the “Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground” exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School at Penn State will host J. Meejin Yoon, co-founder of Höweler + Yoon Architecture and the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning, at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 as the final guest this semester in the... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State will host a research symposium on Nov. 13-14 to examine the relationship between refugee displacement, climate and architecture. Titled “(Dis)Place: From tent camps to the future of urbanism – The... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An interdisciplinary research project led by Penn State Stuckeman School researchers and architecture faculty members Felecia Davis and Benay Gürsoy that explores the use of biomaterials and knitted textiles as sustainable building materials is featured in the... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A video that highlights the work a Penn State team is doing to 3D print houses that can sustain life on Mars is featured in a new $8.5 million core exhibit opening Nov. 4 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. “Wondrous Space” is a two-story, 7,500-square-foot... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State will welcome two guests as part of its 2023-24 Lecture and Exhibit Series for separate talks on Oct. 4: architect Martin Rauch of Lehm Ton Erde and graphic designer David Heasty of Triboro. Rauch... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State kicks off its 2023-24 Lecture and Exhibit Series at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 20 with Mireia Luzárraga, co-founder of the Barcelona-based architecture and design studio TAKK, in the Stuckeman Family... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State is hosting a Research Open House on Sept. 13 from noon to 1:30 p.m. to showcase the breadth of design research being done by the school’s faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, along with... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State has welcomed Hungary natives Orsolya Gáspár and Istvan Gyulovics as full-time faculty members in the Department of Architecture for the 2023-24 academic year. Most recently a visiting fellow at... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State architecture faculty members in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School are among the 89 architects and architectural firms from around the world that were invited to display their work as part of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Felecia Davis, associate professor of architecture in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, has been named the WJOR Architecture Fellow by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, which comes with a $15,000 award to produce an architectural project... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Frank Jacobus has been named head of the Department of Architecture in Penn State’s Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture, effective July 1. An architect, designer, artist and educator, he has spent 16 years in higher education, most recently serving... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A strong drive to always learn more has been one of the defining elements of Dan Willis’ career at Penn State. Willis, interim department head and professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, is retiring June 30. Willis, who... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The tendency of cities to trap heat — a phenomenon called the “urban heat island,” often referred to as the UHI effect — can lead to dangerous temperatures in the summer months, but new Penn State research suggests that certain urban factors can reduce this effect... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture will welcome William W. Braham, professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, to the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space at noon on April 7 as a part of the... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School will welcome Spanish architect and historian Juan José Lahuerta to the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space for a lecture titled “Triumphant Modernity: Some Images of Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture in the... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture will host Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats, co-founding principals of the architecture firm Flores & Prats, for a virtual lecture at 6 p.m. on Feb. 15 as part of the school’s Lecture and Exhibit Series. ... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Projects developed by Felecia Davis, associate professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, and student researchers in her Computational Textiles Lab (SOFTLAB) in the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing (SCDC) are featured in... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School will host Mollie Claypool and Gilles Restin, co-founders of Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR), a design and technology company based in the U.K., for a virtual lecture at noon on Feb. 8 as a part of the school’s... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An architecture faculty member in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School and a recent architecture alumna of the school have been recognized for their research by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), an international... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, nearly 600 million tons of construction and demolition debris from man-made polymers and petroleum-based materials was generated in 2018 in the United States. That total amounts to more than twice the amount of... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Penn State-designed window screen system that automatically changes its shape based on indoor and outdoor environmental conditions is part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal through Dec. 5. The responsive building façade system features... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Architectural scientist, designer and educator Mae-ling Lokko will discuss her work as the founder of Willow Technologies, Ltd. in Accra, Ghana, which upcycles agricultural waste into affordable bio-based building materials and for water quality treatment applications, at... View full entry »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State will host a virtual international research symposium focused on embodied carbon, which is the term for the greenhouse gas emissions that arise from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance and disposal of building materials, and its effect on... View full entry »