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Penn IUR Scholar

Timothy Beatley

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Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, School of Architecture, University of Virginia

About

Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Beatley’s work focuses on creating sustainable communities and cultivating creative strategies through which cities and towns can reduce their ecological footprints. Beatley is an author of or contributor to more than fifteen books concerning sustainability. 

Selected Publications

Beatley, Timothy. 2010. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Planning for Coastal Resilience: Best Practices for Calamitous Times, Washington, DC: Island Press, July, 2009.

Beatley, Timothy. 2005. Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Beatley, Timothy, Peter Newman and Heather Boyer. 2009. Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Beatley, Timothy, David Brower and Anna K. Schwab. 2001. An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Beatley, Timothy. 1999. Planning for Coastal Resilience: Best Practices for Calamitous Times. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Fellow

MarĂ­a Alicia Becdach

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Practitioner Architect and Urban Planning Consultant

About

María Alicia Becdach is a practitioner architect and urban planning consultant. Her urban projects address informality in fragile ecosystems, one of them being the Urban Development and Territorial Plan for the Galapagos Islands with a focus on preserving the environmental services. Her research and teaching has focused on informal settlements, rapid urbanization and urban inequalities. Formerly she served as a professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Universidad de las Américas in Quito, Ecuador. She holds a bachelor of Architecture from Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Faculty Fellow

Matthijs Bouw

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Rockefeller Urban Resilience Fellow

Professor of Practice

McHarg Center Fellow for Risk and Resilience

About

Matthijs Bouw is a Dutch architect and urbanist and founder of One Architecture (est. 1995), an award-winning Amsterdam and New York-based design and planning firm. He is the Rockefeller Urban Resilience Fellow for the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

Bouw’s work at Penn theorizes and positions design as an integrator and innovator among scales, disciplines, actors and issues in urban resilience and water management projects. He is a driving force between RBD U, a network of design schools that collaborate on resilience issues, and is developing the Chief Resilience Officer curriculum for 100 Resilient Cities. Additionally, he researches how to achieve and increase ‘resilience value’ in the implementation of complex projects.

Bouw’s practice is known for its unique approach in which programmatic, financial, technical and organizational issues are addressed, communicated and resolved through design. Bouw has been a pioneer in the use of design as a tool for collaboration, for instance through the development of ‘Design Studios’ as an instrument to support the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment with its long term planning.

In New York City, the office co-leads the BIG Team that won the Rebuild by Design competition for the flood protection of Manhattan, and is currently part of the multi-disciplinary teams executing the first phase of the East Side Coastal Resiliency project for Lower Manhattan, as well as planning the Lower Manhattan Coastal Protection project. In Panama City, he is the urban designer in the ‘Water Dialogues’ team. In the Netherlands, One are part of the ‘Hackable City’ team for Buiksloterham, a large scale brownfield redevelopment in Amsterdam-Noord based on the principles of the circular economy.

Matthijs Bouw co-curated (with Kristin Feireiss) the 2000 Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale and has published articles and reviews in many architectural publications, such as Wiederhall, de Architect, Archis/Volume, Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, Bauwelt and MONU. In 2006, the Korean DD series published a monograph of One Architecture's work. In addition to his practice and publications, Matthijs Bouw teaches and lectures internationally. He was a guest professor at, TU Delft, Berlage Institute, TU Graz, University of Kentucky College of Design and Sci-Arc, and was professor i.V. of Gebaeudelehre und Grundlagen des Entwerfens at the RWTH Aachen.

In 2014, Matthew Stadler’s book on Bouw’s work, Deventer, was published by nai010publishers. The book describes the unique combination of project and process in his firm.

Bouw's most recent book, Building with Nature, focuses on nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation. 

Emerging Scholar

Zhenkun Gan

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Assistant Professor, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Areas of Interest

    About

    Zhenkun Gan is a lecturer in architecture (Assistant Professor) at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (BUCEA) in China. His current research focuses on urban design, urban renewal, historic village conservation, and rural revitalization. He received a BA in Art and Design from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and a Ph.D. in Architecture from Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. He was a Visiting Scholar at Penn IUR in the 2019-2020 academic year.

    Dr. Gan is a member of the International Society of City and Regional Planners, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, and the Architectural Society of China. He has also served as a technical director at the Architecture Institute of Beijing Jiangong Architecture Design and Research Institute since 2020.

    His articles have been published in various academic journals and international conferences, such as the 2019 ISOCARP World Planning Congress, ICOMOS-CIAV & ISCEAH 2019 Joint Annual Meeting & International Conference, and UIA 2017 Seoul World Architects Congress. Dr. Gan has been engaged in many scientific research and design practice projects, including the Street Design Guideline of Beijing Sub-center, the Renovation and Comprehensive Upgrading Planning of Beijing Financial Technology and Professional Service Innovation Demonstration Zone, and the Characteristics and Optimization Strategy Research of Spatial Structure of Historic Villages in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. He was awarded First Prize in the Beijing Excellent Urban and Rural Planning Competition in 2019 and the Bronze Award in the Beijing Youth Architects Creative Design Competition in 2016.

    Faculty Fellow

    David Gouverneur

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    Associate Professor of Practice, City and Regional Planning

    About

    David Gouverneur is Associate Professor of Practice, City and Regional Planning. Previously, he was the Chair of the School of Architecture and Professor in the Departments of Architecture, and City and Regional Planning at Universidad Simón Bolívar; Director of Urban Development of Venezuela; Co-founder and Professor of the Urban Design program, and Director of the Mayor’s Institute in Urban Design at Universidad Metropolitana, in Caracas. He is the two-time recipient of the G. Holmes Perkins Award for distinguished teaching at PennDesign and co-recipient of the Venezuelan National Architecture award in 2000 and in 2016. His professional practice focuses on improvement of existing informal settlements, the rehabilitation of areas affected by extraordinary natural events, areas of new centralities, new mixed-use districts, and the rehabilitation of cultural landscapes. His main area of research focuses on the notion of Informal Armatures, a method to address the rampant Self-Constructed urbanization, the dominant urban form in many countries of the Global South. He has lectured extensively, written articles and organized seminars and workshops, particularly in Latin America. He received his M.Arch in Urban Design from Harvard University (1980), and B.Arch from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela (1977). 

    Selected Publications

    Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements: Shaping the Self-Constructed City. Routledge 2014.

    El diseño de nuevos asentamientos informales. Universidad de La Salle/Universidad Eafit, Colombia, 2016

    Editor of Revisiting Urban Renewal: Alternatives for Public Housing in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. PennDesign/Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2012

    Co author of: The Rehabilitation of the Littoral Central, Venezuela, with the support of Universidad Metropolitana/Harvard University,Toddman Editores, Caracas, 2000.

    Faculty Fellow

    Zhongjie Lin

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    Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning

    About

    Dr. Zhongjie Lin is a scholar and practitioner of urbanism. He studies and teaches urban design, ecological urbanism, utopianism, and Asian architecture and urbanism. He has authored or co-authored several books including Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan, Urban Design in the Global Perspective, The Making of a Chinese Model New Town, and most recently Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China. He is working on a new book entitled Constructing Utopias: China’s Emerging New Town Movement, to be published by the Princeton University Press.

    Dr. Lin’s research work has earned him the honors including a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2012 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He also received research grants and awards from many national and international foundations such as the Social Science Research Council, the Graham Foundation, the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, the Asian Cultural Council, the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, and the National Science Foundation of China.

    Before he joined the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Dr. Lin was Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he served as Director of Master of Urban Design Program since 2014. He is also a co-founder of Futurepolis, an awarding-winning international design firm. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from Tongji University.

    Faculty Fellow

    Christopher Marcinkoski

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    Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design

    School/Department

    Areas of Interest

      About

      Christopher Marcinkoski is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in the School of Design. He is a licensed architect and founding director of PORT A+U, a leading-edge urban design consultancy with ongoing projects in Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia. Prior to his appointment at Penn, Marcinkoski was a senior associate at James Corner Field Operations in New York where he led that office’s large-scale urban design work including the QianHai Water City in Shenzhen and Shelby Farms Park in Memphis. Marcinkoski’s current research uses the urbanistic crisis that emerged in Spain over the first decade of the 21st century as a platform for considering the increasingly speculative nature of contemporary urbanization, and in particular, the disciplinary implications for the design and planning professions engaged in the work that comprises this phenomenon. 

      Selected Publications

      Marcinkoski, C. 2016. The City That Never Was: Reconsidering the Speculative Nature of Contemporary Urbanization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press.

      Marcinkoski, C. 2014. “Notes on the Horizontal: Landscape-Driven Strategies for the Vertical Cities Challenge.” 2013 Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition + Symposium. National University of Singapore and World Future Foundation.

      Marcinkoski, C. 2013. “Re-Cultivating the Forest City.” American Collegiate Schools of Architecture 101st Annual Conference.

      Penn IUR Scholar

      Suzana Pasternak

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      Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Sao Paulo

      About

      Suzana Pasternak is Professor of Architecture and Urbanization at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paulo, where she teaches courses on urbanization, demography, and housing. Her work focuses on housing services in developing urban areas and includes research on the development of and life in Sao Paulo’s squatter settlements. 

      Selected Publications

      Pasternak, Suzana. 2012. Mudanças na Estrutura Sócio-ocupacional das Metrópoles Brasileiras. Cadernos Metrópole (PUC-SP), 14: 233-278.

      Pasternak, Suzana and Lucia Maria Machado Bógus. 2011. A Dinâmica Espacial da Desigualdade na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo. Estudos sobre Urbanização, Arquitetura e Preservação, 47: 1-88.

      Pasternak, Suzana and Lucia Maria Machado Bógus Bógus. 2011. Urbanização, Meio Ambiente e Saúde em São Paulo. InterfacEHS (Ed. Português), 6: 51-72.

      Pasternak, Suzana. 2011. O Estado de São Paulo no Censo 2010. Nyssa, 199: 24.

      Pasternak, Suzana. 2010. Loteamentos Irregulares No Município de São Paulo: Uma Avaliação Espacial Urbanística. Planejamento e Politicas Publicas, 1: 131-170.

      Fellow

      Inga Saffron

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      Architecture Critic, The Philadelphia Inquirer

      About

      Inga Saffron writes about architecture, design and planning issues for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her popular column, “Changing Skyline” has been appearing on Fridays in the paper’s Home & Design section since 1999. In 2012, she completed a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 2014 and in 2010 received the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award.

      Prior to her current role, Saffron spent five years as a correspondent in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union for The Inquirer. She covered wars in the former Yugoslavia and in Chechnya, and witnessed the destruction of Sarajevo and Grozny. It was in part because of those experiences that she became interested in the fate of cities and began writing about architecture.

      Saffron began her journalism career as a magazine writer in Ireland and worked for the Courier-News in Plainfield, N.J., before joining The Inquirer in 1985 as a suburban reporter. She is the author of Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again, published by Rutgers University Press in 2020, and Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy, published by Broadway Books in 2002.

      Penn IUR Scholar

      Harris M. Steinberg

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      Executive Director, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation

      About

      Harris M. Steinberg is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Architecture at Drexel University. He acted as the founding Executive Director of PennPraxis and an Adjunct Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning in the School of Design. PennPraxis is the clinical arm of the School of Design, with the mission of fosteromg faculty and student collaboration on real world projects across the school’s five disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation and fine arts. From 2003 until 2006, Harris was the Director of the Center for Innovation in Affordable Housing Design. He was a Lecturer at PennDesign from 1998 to 2003 and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in PennDesign’s Architecture Department from 2003 to 2006. Harris’ professional experience includes work at Venturi Raunch Scott Brown and Geddes Brecher Qualis Cunningham. He was the founding partner of Steinberg & Schade Architects and Steinberg & Stevens Architects. Harris’s work at PennPraxis focuses on large-scale civic conversations about thorny urban design challenges.  From 2006 to 2007, he led the landmark Civic Vision for the Central Delaware Riverfront, which brought more than four thousand Philadelphians together to build a vision plan for seven miles of Philadelphia’s Delaware riverfront. The project changed planning history and culture in Philadelphia and ushered in a new era of waterfront development for the city. He subsequently led the creation of Green2015 for the City of Philadelphia, an action plan to add 500 acres of park to the city by 2015, and most recently released the More Park, Less Way report to activate the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Harris is currently working on a vision and action plan for Fairmount Park—a project that looks at how to update and transform a 2400-acre, nineteenth-century watershed park for the twenty-first century.

      Selected Publications

      Steinberg, H.M. “On the Role of the Public and the Press in the Creation of a Civic Vision for the Central Delaware.” P. Latz and  R. Gessler (eds.) Entwicklung von Analyse- und Methodenrepertoires zur Reintegration von altindustriellen Standorten in Urbane Funkionsraume n Fallbeispielen in Deutschland und den USA. Technical University of Munich, 2010: 397-407.

      Steinberg, H.M. “Philadelphia in the Year 2059.” S.G. Knowles (ed.) Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009: 112-144.

      Daniels, T.L. and Steinberg, H.M. “Lessons from Sri Lanka.” E.L. Birch and S. Wachter (eds.) Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006: 244-255.

      Sokoloff, H.J., Steinberg H.M. and Pyser, S.N. “Deliberative City Planning on the Philadelphia Waterfront.” J. Gastil and P. Levine (eds). The Deliberative Democracy Handbook. Jossey-Bass, 2005: 185-196.

      Faculty Fellow

      Nancy Steinhardt

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      Professor of East Asian Art

      Curator of Chinese Art, PENN Museum

      About

      Nancy Steinhardt is Professor of East Asian Art, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Curator of Chinese Art at the Penn Museum. She received her PhD. at Harvard in 1981 and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1978-81. Steinhardt taught at Bryn Mawr from 1981-1982 before coming to Penn in 1982. Her research focuses on the art, architecture, and archaeology of China, Korea, and Japan from the 2nd through the 14th centuries; she has done fieldwork in all three countries. Steinhardt is particularly interested in how Chinese art is borrowed, adopted, adapted, and reinterpreted at China’s borders. Her current research projects are “The Borders of Chinese Architecture” and “Chinese Architecture under Mongolian Rule.”

      Selected Publications

      Steinhardt, Nancy, editor, with Xinian Fu, author, and Alexandra Harrer, translator. 2017. Chinese Architecture: Twelve Lectures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

      Steinhardt, Nancy. 2015. China’s Early Mosques. Edinburgh University Press.

      Steinhardt, Nancy.2014. Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

      Steinhardt, Nancy, Jeffrey W. Cody, and Tony Atkin, eds. 2011. Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

      Faculty Fellow

      Marilyn Jordan Taylor

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      Professor of Architecture and Urban Design

      About

      Marilyn Jordan Taylor is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She was Dean of the School of Design from 2008-2016. She is recognized worldwide as a thought leader in urban design, as well as a woman pioneer in the fields of architecture, planning, and construction. A Partner in Charge of the Urban Design and Planning Practice at Skidmore Owings and Merrill, LLP (SOM) and the first woman to serve as Chairman of SOM, she is internationally known for her distinguished and passionate involvement in the design of large-scale urban projects and civic initiatives. Over a thirty-five-year career with SOM, she led many of the firm’s largest and most complex projects around the world. She was also both the first architect and the first woman to serve as chairman (2005-07) of the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research and educational institution, where she championed a renewed focus on cities, sustainable communities, and infrastructure investment.

      Selected Publications

      Taylor, Marilyn Jordan. 2009. “Urban design looking forward.” In Urban Design, edited by Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

      Taylor, Marilyn Jordan. 2007. “On recent urban design and tall buildings.” In Harvard Design Magazine 26.

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