University of Pennsylvania School of Design
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The University of Pennsylvania School of Design (PennDesign) is the design school of the University of Pennsylvania
. It is currently ranked 3rd in urban planning
by The Best Colleges, 10th in urban planning
by Planetizen
, and 8th in architecture by DesignIntelligence. PennDesign offers degrees in architecture
, landscape architecture
, city
and regional planning
, historic preservation
, and fine arts, as well as several dual degrees with other graduate schools at the University of Pennsylvania
, including the Wharton School
and Penn Law
. The School of Design is known for its distinguished faculty, which have included architects Louis Kahn
and Robert Venturi
and pioneer of landscape architecture Ian McHarg
. Denise Scott Brown
graduated from the School of Design in 1960.
, who formed the first Philadelphia School. In 1903, these architects were joined by Frenchman Paul Philippe Cret
, winner of seven national competitions.
In 1914, Penn's original initiative was augmented with lectures in city planning and landscape architecture, while within another seven years fine arts and music had joined architectural studies to create an independent undergraduate School of Fine Arts, modeled on the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The School of Fine Arts joined with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Museum School to offer programs in painting and sculpture. In 1924, Landscape Architecture was made into an autonomous department.
In the 1950s the school was under the leadership of G. Holmes Perkins, recruited from Harvard to reinvigorate the offerings. Perkins, founded the city planning department and focused the landscape architecture program on urban ecology. The Department of Architecture saw the arrival of structural engineers Robert LeRicolais and August Komendant
, along with architects Romaldo Giurgola
, Robert Venturi
, Robert Geddes. He included 1924 Penn graduate Louis I. Kahn among the architecture faculty. A dedicated educator and philosopher, Kahn became the spiritual leader of the revived Philadelphia School at Penn.
In 1958 the School was renamed the Graduate School of Fine Arts, and before long, the GSFA had become a home for the leading figures in each of the disciplines. The City and Regional Planning Department recruited an extraordinary array of faculty including Lewis Mumford
, Charles Abrams, Britton Harris, Martin Meyerson, Edmund Bacon, Erwin Gutkind, Denise Scott Brown
, and Ann Louise Strong. A renewed Department of Landscape Architecture came under the dynamic leadership of Ian McHarg
, while Peter Shepheard, architect, landscape architect and planner, succeeded Perkins as dean. A Civic Design Program later renamed Urban Design and led by David Crane
was established as a joint offering by Architecture and City Planning. The Fine Arts Department became a full-fledged professional program under the leadership of Piero Dorazio, Neil Welliver, and Robert Engman. And in the early 1980s, the school added a program in Historic Preservation. The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation is headed by Randall F Mason. Other faculty include Frank Matero (who is also the Director of the Program's Architectural Conservation Laboratory), David De Long, Lindsay Falck, David Hollenberg, John Brayton Hinchman, Gail Winkler, A.E. Charola, John Milner, Donovan Rypkema, and Michael Henry among many others.
Named Dean in 1996, Gary Hack revived many of the school’s programs, giving attention to the Department of City and Regional Planning by recruiting well known practitioners and academics including Jonathan Barnett
, Robert Yaro, Thomas Daniels, Lynne Sagalyn, John Landis, and Eugenie Birch, and the Department of Landscape Architecture under the leadership of James Corner
, known for his work through his firm Field Operations on the designs for New York City's High Line and Fresh Kills land fill, and Laurie Olin
, Professor of Practice. Frank Matero leads the Architectural Conservation Laboratory (www.conlab.org), and has applied his expertise in conservation to New Orleans, Gordion, Mesa Verde, Bandelier, Philadelphia's Merchant's Exchange and other critically threatened places. The Department of Architecture faculty includes Witold Rybczynski
, Marion Weiss, Cecil Balmond
, Enrique Norten
, Winka Dubbeldam, Detlef Mertins, and David Leatherbarrow
, while the Department of Fine Arts was strengthened with the addition of painter John Moore
, painter Jackie Tileston
, artist Joshua Mosley
and sculptor Terry Adkins
and most recently artist, designer and researcher Orkan Telhan
and photographer Nancy Davenport
. As Chair, John Moore
brought internationally renowned artists and critics to the School of Design, including Robert Storr
, Robert Hughes
, Chuck Close
and Eric Fischl
. In addition, Hack created Penn Praxis, the practice arm of the school, whose most prominent projects have been undertaken by its Delaware Riverfront Planning Project and its Center for Affordable Housing. Other associated centers and institutes include the T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies
, the Center for Redevelopment Excellence (CUREx), and the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR). In 2003, the school changed its name to the School of Design – known familiarly as PennDesign – to reflect a more accurate description of the School's major concerns and advancements made across a variety of fields.
On May 15, 2008, President Amy Gutmann
announced that Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Chairman of the Urban Land Institute
and erstwhile Chairman of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, was named Dean of the University of Pennsylvania
School of Design. She has replaced outgoing Dean Gary Hack.
City & Regional Planning
Fine Arts
Historic Preservation
Landscape Architecture
Urban Spatial Analytics
Certificates are offered in Urban Design, Historic Preservation, Time-Based Media, Graphic Design, Urban Redevelopment and Real Estate Design and Development. Joint Degrees are offered among all programs in the School of Design, as well as with the Wharton School, Penn Law, School of Social Policy and Practice, The Fels School of Government, The School of Education, and The School of Engineering and Applied Science
A student-run journal of the Department of City and Regional Planning.
PDF archive available here
Process
The Landscapes in Process series is an annual publication of work undertaken in design studios, lectures and seminars as well as student awards, faculty news and list of graduates.
PDF archive available here
Via Publications
viaPublications is a student-edited and student-managed publishing entity based at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. viaPublications includes VIA Journal (1968-2000), and viaBooks (2008-).
WORK
The WORK series of publications documents student work in architectural design studios and courses each year, as well as events, faculty news and student awards. It also includes abstracts of PhD dissertations defended that year.
PDF archive available here
Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall
"Located in the former Skinner Hall, overlooking Walnut Street across from the University Bookstore, the state-of-the-art facility has been named The Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall in memory of the former Penn student and world-renowned cartoonist, Charles Addams
(1912-1988). The building houses student works and studios for fine arts students."
Duhring Wing
"Attached to the Fisher Fine Arts Library."
Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library (also known as Furness Library)
"The historic library is the major masterpiece of Philadelphia's most important Victorian architect, Frank Furness. Combining genius in planning and form, it is a seminal library design that expresses function while merging the imagery of cathedral and railroad station. Additions in 1916, 1922, and 1931; Restored from 1986-91 by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. The 1931 McGoodwin addition, is home to the Arthur Ross Gallery."
Meyerson Hall
Meyerson Hall houses the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. The building, designed by the architecture firm of Martin, Stewart, Nobel & Class, was constructed in 1967 in concrete and brick. The total area of the building is 93,780 square feet (8,712 m2).
Morgan Building
"Originally this was part of the Foulke and Long Institute, an orpahanage. The Morgan Building shares the brick, north Italian vocabulary with other buildings of the Pepper era and plays a major role in defining the character of 34th Street."
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
. It is currently ranked 3rd in urban planning
Urban planning
Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....
by The Best Colleges, 10th in urban planning
Urban planning
Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....
by Planetizen
Planetizen
Planetizen is a planning-related news website owned by Urban Insight of Los Angeles, California. It features user-submitted and editor-evaluated news and weekly user-contributed op-eds about urban planning and several related fields...
, and 8th in architecture by DesignIntelligence. PennDesign offers degrees in architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, landscape architecture
Landscape architecture
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions...
, city
Urban planning
Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....
and regional planning
Regional planning
Regional planning deals with the efficient placement of land use activities, infrastructure, and settlement growth across a larger area of land than an individual city or town. The related field of urban planning deals with the specific issues of city planning...
, historic preservation
Historic preservation
Historic preservation is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance...
, and fine arts, as well as several dual degrees with other graduate schools at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, including the Wharton School
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States...
and Penn Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The University of Pennsylvania Law School, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Ivy League, it is among the oldest and most selective law schools in the nation. It is currently ranked 7th overall by U.S. News & World Report,...
. The School of Design is known for its distinguished faculty, which have included architects Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn was an American architect, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935...
and Robert Venturi
Robert Venturi
Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century...
and pioneer of landscape architecture Ian McHarg
Ian McHarg
Ian L. McHarg was born in Clydebank, Scotland and became a landscape architect and a renowned writer on regional planning using natural systems. He was the founder of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. His 1969 book Design with Nature...
. Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown, is an architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia...
graduated from the School of Design in 1960.
History
Architectural courses were first offered by the University of Pennsylvania in 1868, making the school the second oldest architectural program in the United States. By the turn of the century it was well established, attracting well-known local architects: Walter Cope, John Stewardson, Frank Miles Day, and Wilson EyreWilson Eyre
Wilson Eyre, Jr. was an influential American architect, teacher and writer who practiced in the Philadelphia area...
, who formed the first Philadelphia School. In 1903, these architects were joined by Frenchman Paul Philippe Cret
Paul Philippe Cret
Paul Philippe Cret was a French-American architect and industrial designer. For more than thirty years, he headed the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.- Biography :...
, winner of seven national competitions.
In 1914, Penn's original initiative was augmented with lectures in city planning and landscape architecture, while within another seven years fine arts and music had joined architectural studies to create an independent undergraduate School of Fine Arts, modeled on the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The School of Fine Arts joined with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Museum School to offer programs in painting and sculpture. In 1924, Landscape Architecture was made into an autonomous department.
In the 1950s the school was under the leadership of G. Holmes Perkins, recruited from Harvard to reinvigorate the offerings. Perkins, founded the city planning department and focused the landscape architecture program on urban ecology. The Department of Architecture saw the arrival of structural engineers Robert LeRicolais and August Komendant
August Komendant
August E. Komendant was a structural engineer and a pioneer in the field of reinforced concrete, which can be used to build stronger and more graceful structures than normal concrete. He was born in Estonia and earned a doctorate in engineering in Germany. After World War II he immigrated to...
, along with architects Romaldo Giurgola
Romaldo Giurgola
Romaldo Giurgola AO is an Italian-American-Australian academic architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Galatina, in the south of Italy in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome...
, Robert Venturi
Robert Venturi
Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century...
, Robert Geddes. He included 1924 Penn graduate Louis I. Kahn among the architecture faculty. A dedicated educator and philosopher, Kahn became the spiritual leader of the revived Philadelphia School at Penn.
In 1958 the School was renamed the Graduate School of Fine Arts, and before long, the GSFA had become a home for the leading figures in each of the disciplines. The City and Regional Planning Department recruited an extraordinary array of faculty including Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer...
, Charles Abrams, Britton Harris, Martin Meyerson, Edmund Bacon, Erwin Gutkind, Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown, is an architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia...
, and Ann Louise Strong. A renewed Department of Landscape Architecture came under the dynamic leadership of Ian McHarg
Ian McHarg
Ian L. McHarg was born in Clydebank, Scotland and became a landscape architect and a renowned writer on regional planning using natural systems. He was the founder of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. His 1969 book Design with Nature...
, while Peter Shepheard, architect, landscape architect and planner, succeeded Perkins as dean. A Civic Design Program later renamed Urban Design and led by David Crane
David Crane
David Crane may refer to:* David Crane , former Chief Prosecutor for the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for Sierra Leone* David Crane , video game designer, programmer and co-founder of Activision...
was established as a joint offering by Architecture and City Planning. The Fine Arts Department became a full-fledged professional program under the leadership of Piero Dorazio, Neil Welliver, and Robert Engman. And in the early 1980s, the school added a program in Historic Preservation. The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation is headed by Randall F Mason. Other faculty include Frank Matero (who is also the Director of the Program's Architectural Conservation Laboratory), David De Long, Lindsay Falck, David Hollenberg, John Brayton Hinchman, Gail Winkler, A.E. Charola, John Milner, Donovan Rypkema, and Michael Henry among many others.
Named Dean in 1996, Gary Hack revived many of the school’s programs, giving attention to the Department of City and Regional Planning by recruiting well known practitioners and academics including Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett is a football agent and is the chairman and founder of Stellar Group Limited. He is credited as being the man who brought Lennox Lewis into the boxing world....
, Robert Yaro, Thomas Daniels, Lynne Sagalyn, John Landis, and Eugenie Birch, and the Department of Landscape Architecture under the leadership of James Corner
James Corner
James Corner is a Landscape Architect and theorist with numerous works to his credit which explore the contemporary meaning of architectural landscaping, with a focus on "developing innovative approaches toward landscape architectural design and urbanism." His designs of note include Fresh Kills...
, known for his work through his firm Field Operations on the designs for New York City's High Line and Fresh Kills land fill, and Laurie Olin
Laurie Olin
Laurie Olin is an American landscape architect. He has worked on everything from private residences to large public parks. Olin grew up in Alaska, and earned his degree in Architecture from the University of Washington, in Seattle where he was mentored under Richard Haag. After graduating he...
, Professor of Practice. Frank Matero leads the Architectural Conservation Laboratory (www.conlab.org), and has applied his expertise in conservation to New Orleans, Gordion, Mesa Verde, Bandelier, Philadelphia's Merchant's Exchange and other critically threatened places. The Department of Architecture faculty includes Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski , is a Canadian-American architect, professor and writer.Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He attended Loyola High School , located on Sherbrooke street, in Montreal-Ouest...
, Marion Weiss, Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan/British designer, engineer, artist, architect, and writer. He has been hailed as "one of the most important forces in contemporary architecture today," and in 2003 received the prestigious RIBA Charles Jencks award for Theory in Practice. He is also the recipient of...
, Enrique Norten
Enrique Norten
Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA, is a Mexican architect and principal of the design firm TEN Arquitectos . Norten was born in Mexico City in 1954 where he graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana with a degree in architecture in 1978. He obtained a Master of Architecture from Cornell University in...
, Winka Dubbeldam, Detlef Mertins, and David Leatherbarrow
David Leatherbarrow
David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, where he has taught since 1984. He received his B.Arch. from the University of Kentucky and holds a Ph.D. in Art from the University of...
, while the Department of Fine Arts was strengthened with the addition of painter John Moore
John Moore (painter)
John Moore is an American artist and painter. Moore is regarded as an important contemporary American Realist...
, painter Jackie Tileston
Jackie Tileston
Jackie Tileston is an American artist and painter. She is Associate Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at The University of Pennsylvania. Her work is represented both by Zg Gallery in Chicago and Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia...
, artist Joshua Mosley
Joshua Mosley
Joshua Mosley is an American artist and animator. He is Professor and Chair of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. His work is represented by in Chicago. He is the recipient of the 2007 Joseph H...
and sculptor Terry Adkins
Terry Adkins
Terry Adkins is an American artist. He is Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania....
and most recently artist, designer and researcher Orkan Telhan
Orkan Telhan
Orkan Telhan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher. Telhan is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Emerging Design Practices in the School of Design at The University of Pennsylvania...
and photographer Nancy Davenport
Nancy Davenport
Nancy Davenport is a Canadian photographer. She is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania...
. As Chair, John Moore
John Moore (painter)
John Moore is an American artist and painter. Moore is regarded as an important contemporary American Realist...
brought internationally renowned artists and critics to the School of Design, including Robert Storr
Robert Storr
-Education:Robert Storr received his B.A. in History and French from Swarthmore College in 1972, and earned an M.F.A. in Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978.-Career:...
, Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes
-Politicians:*Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside , British Labour politician, MP for Aberdeen North*Robert Gurth Hughes , British Conservative politician, MP for Harrow West-Sportsmen:*Robert Hughes , of Stamford FC...
, Chuck Close
Chuck Close
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
and Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker.-Early life:Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1967...
. In addition, Hack created Penn Praxis, the practice arm of the school, whose most prominent projects have been undertaken by its Delaware Riverfront Planning Project and its Center for Affordable Housing. Other associated centers and institutes include the T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies
T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies
The T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies is a non-profit organization in the United States headquartered at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to addressing the environmental issues faced by the building industry. The T.C. Chan Center engages in collaborative research...
, the Center for Redevelopment Excellence (CUREx), and the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR). In 2003, the school changed its name to the School of Design – known familiarly as PennDesign – to reflect a more accurate description of the School's major concerns and advancements made across a variety of fields.
On May 15, 2008, President Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann is the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania and the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Communications, and Philosophy...
announced that Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Chairman of the Urban Land Institute
Urban Land Institute
The Urban Land Institute, or ULI, is a non-profit research and education organization with offices in Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, and London...
and erstwhile Chairman of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, was named Dean of the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
School of Design. She has replaced outgoing Dean Gary Hack.
Degree Programs Offered
Architecture- Master of Architecture – Professional
- Master of Architecture – Post Professional
- Master of Science
- Doctor of Philosophy
City & Regional Planning
- Master of City Planning
- Doctor of Philosophy in City Planning
- Accelerated B.A./M.C.P.
Fine Arts
- Master of Fine ArtsMaster of Fine ArtsA Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
Historic Preservation
- Master of Science in Historic Preservation
Landscape Architecture
- Master of Landscape Architecture
Urban Spatial Analytics
- Master of Urban Spatial Analytics
Certificates are offered in Urban Design, Historic Preservation, Time-Based Media, Graphic Design, Urban Redevelopment and Real Estate Design and Development. Joint Degrees are offered among all programs in the School of Design, as well as with the Wharton School, Penn Law, School of Social Policy and Practice, The Fels School of Government, The School of Education, and The School of Engineering and Applied Science
Publications
PanoramaA student-run journal of the Department of City and Regional Planning.
PDF archive available here
Process
The Landscapes in Process series is an annual publication of work undertaken in design studios, lectures and seminars as well as student awards, faculty news and list of graduates.
PDF archive available here
Via Publications
viaPublications is a student-edited and student-managed publishing entity based at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. viaPublications includes VIA Journal (1968-2000), and viaBooks (2008-).
WORK
The WORK series of publications documents student work in architectural design studios and courses each year, as well as events, faculty news and student awards. It also includes abstracts of PhD dissertations defended that year.
PDF archive available here
Buildings
"Located in the former Skinner Hall, overlooking Walnut Street across from the University Bookstore, the state-of-the-art facility has been named The Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall in memory of the former Penn student and world-renowned cartoonist, Charles Addams
Charles Addams
Charles "Chas" Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters...
(1912-1988). The building houses student works and studios for fine arts students."
Duhring Wing
"Attached to the Fisher Fine Arts Library."
Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library (also known as Furness Library)
"The historic library is the major masterpiece of Philadelphia's most important Victorian architect, Frank Furness. Combining genius in planning and form, it is a seminal library design that expresses function while merging the imagery of cathedral and railroad station. Additions in 1916, 1922, and 1931; Restored from 1986-91 by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. The 1931 McGoodwin addition, is home to the Arthur Ross Gallery."
Meyerson Hall
Meyerson Hall houses the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. The building, designed by the architecture firm of Martin, Stewart, Nobel & Class, was constructed in 1967 in concrete and brick. The total area of the building is 93,780 square feet (8,712 m2).
Morgan Building
"Originally this was part of the Foulke and Long Institute, an orpahanage. The Morgan Building shares the brick, north Italian vocabulary with other buildings of the Pepper era and plays a major role in defining the character of 34th Street."
External links
- http://www.design.upenn.edu/ University of Pennsylvania School of Design official web site
- http://www.design.upenn.edu/new/cplan/panorama.htm Panorama (Publication by the Department of City & Regional Planning)
- http://www.design.upenn.edu/ viaBooks