Reflecting on 2019 DesignPhiladelphia Festival and Getting Excited for What’s Coming in 2020!
By Rodni Hicks on Mar 10, 2020
It’s been a few months since we wrapped the 2019 DesignPhiladelphia Festival, and we are already well underway planning for this upcoming October festival. As all of our event partners and designers start brainstorming what their programming will be for this year, I felt it was important to share some important statistics about last year’s festival. In particular, how having Cherry Street Pier as our second festival hub, has created new opportunities for our festival and our local designers.Festival attendance was a record…Read Full Story
This year’s Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards honored the Bronx-based urban revitalization strategist (and MacArthur Fellow) Majora Carter and the Student Design Award winners from Leeds Beckett University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Massachusetts. Two hundred people attended the Awards Ceremony at the Center for Architecture and Design on February 11th, including the award winners and Philadelphia’s community of developers, urban planners, architects, and urbanophiles. The student winners…
This year’s On The Rise exhibition (January 23 – March 5, 2020) honors the 2019 Philadelphia Emerging Architect (PEA) winning firm Studio 6mm, founded by Brian Szymanik and David Quadrini, as well as the 2019 Young Architect Award winners Fátima Olivieri of KieranTimberlake and Drew Lavine of Re:Vision Architecture. The PEA Prize is awarded to a promising firm less than ten years old producing high-quality design and thinking within the Philadelphia region. The Young Architect prize honors architects under 40 who…
Have a passion for architecture, urban planning, and design? Join our crew of volunteers to inspire the next generation of thoughtful designers! Over the past two years, the Center has worked to increase design educational programming for K-12 students in Philadelphia. Our activities took place in public school classrooms, as part of summer camps at Philly rec centers, at the Center for Architecture and Design, and in partnership with other child-focused groups from around the city. Since 2018, we’ve engaged approximately…
The Center for Architecture and Design has been approved for an Art Works grant to support an exhibition celebrating the Women’s Suffrage Centennial. This project will celebrate and interpret the Women’s Suffrage from a multidisciplinary design cohort of Philadelphia women designers in collaboration with Philadelphia’s young women and future design talent. Overall, the National Endowment for the Arts has approved 1,187 grants totaling $27.3 million in the first round of fiscal year 2020 funding to support arts projects…
MIS Capital Returns as Presenting SponsorPhiladelphia, PA, January 24, 2020 – The Center for Architecture and Design (Center) will host a talk by Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, Majora Carter, as the recipient of the 2020 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Award. Most known for her work as a real estate developer and urban revitalization strategy consultant, she is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous economic developments, green-infrastructure projects and policies, and job training and…
We are excited to announce that we have launched a pilot for DesignPhilly News to share the stories about our local design community all year long, not just during the Festival. Thanks to our initial underwriting supporter, Thomas Jefferson University, we will bring you fresh news items every week. We are hopeful that using this platform we can continue to highlight the awesomeness and depth of our local design community and that we can connect to one another to expand our collective audiences and advocate for great design…
Millésimé a Design Showroom in Old City, is hosting an event to benefit the local animal shelter – PAWS. Designs, books and pets come together for a very special event. Millésimé and Ligne Roset will host the Philadelphia launch of Mr. Waffles Loves Design, the new book by design writer Lisa S. Roberts. During the event, PAWS, the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society, will be onsite at the Millésimé design store with adoptable cats and dogs.Lisa will be signing copies of her book and all profits from the sales…
O’Donnell & Naccarato is a creative consulting structural engineering firm operating nationally to support the entire building lifecycle. O&N leverages 38 years of experience in the design of new buildings, renovations, retrofits, expansions, and restorations of all types and levels of complexity. O&N has over 50 Engineers registered across 49 states plus the District of Columbia. Annually, the firm is responsible for the design of 850 projects on average with construction values in excess of $2 billion. O’Donnell &…
In March 1970 after several months of meetings, a “launching party” was held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to introduce to the public what would become COLLAB. In November 2019, COLLAB invites you to celebrate five decades of supporting design at the Museum.COLLAB 50 | Saturday, November 16th | Dinner Dance 7pm – 11pm | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Info: philamuseum.org/collabA friends group of the Museum, COLLAB supports the collection of Modern and Contemporary Design byhosting international luminaries through the…
Looking to be inspired by more great arts-focused content this fall? Check out the B. PHL Innovation Festival. B. PHL is a new, city-wide innovation festival designed to build the city’s reputation as the most innovative city on the East Coast. On Oct. 15-17, locations around Philadelphia will host more than 200 interactive workshops, sessions, exhibits, and events highlighting innovation in a range of fields. B. PHL will give attendees face-to-face access to the visionaries shaping the future of Philadelphia over three…
Attendees Focused on Reducing Waste and Innovating Existing On-board Delivery Services to Minimize Amtrak’s Environmental footprint. PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday evening, Amtrak welcomed 20 DesignPhiladelphia industrial and product designers and students onboard trains at William H. Gray III 30th Street Station in an effort to source potential sustainable delivery solutions at its “Food Delivery Design with Amtrak- Get Carried Away” design charrette. DesignPhiladelphia is a 10-day festival produced by the Center for…
Iconic tile provider Nemo Tile + Stone has recently opened up shop in Philadelphia’s Old City District, welcoming architects, interior designers, and design enthusiasts alike to specify the brand’s extensive selection of surfacing materials. We chatted with Nemo Tile + Stone’s Design Director, Katie Michael-Battaglia to learn a bit more about what the brand has geared up for the showroom. What made you select the Old City District location?“The Old City District is being transformed into a design destination, with…
PHILADELPHIA, PA – October 8, 2019. The Center for Emerging Visual Artists celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) this October. We are proud to be a part of a community that has empowered artists through this program for the past two decades and we look forward to many more ahead of us. Fostering meaningful interaction between artists and the public, POST promotes a greater awareness and appreciation for the creative minds that make Philadelphia a vibrant place to live, work, and…
Environmental cataclysms, global warming, depleting natural resources and our dependency on diminishing oil reserves beg for changes in the built environment, an area responsible for a large portion of the problems. Toxic substances are often used in the production of conventional construction materials, and at the end of their life cycle they are dumped into landfills in massive quantities. Our mission is to disrupt this cycle by bringing a product to market that requires no pesticides or herbicides to grow, no harmful…
Penn has taken great strides to enhance its inclusive community, and has promised to strengthen existing diverse and local partnerships while creating new ones. Engaging locally is a fundamental component to President Gutmann's Penn Compact 2020, and one expression of that engagement is Penn's economic inclusion initiatives, which provide opportunities for local individuals and businesses to participate in the economic activity of Philadelphia's largest private employer. For more than two decades, Penn has had a…
Coscia Moos and Keast & Hood have come together outside of the typical project design setting to partner on a maritime themed installation, titled “Expanse”. The partnership originated during the firm’s collaboration on a recent adaptive re-use project in Philadelphia. Partnering on an installation for DesignPhiladelphia gave both firms a chance to grow their relationship beyond traditional project constraints and charette through a totally different design process. As designers, Coscia Moos valued this opportunity to…
Newly developed epicenter of design east of City Hall, East Market, will host the Open House of all Open Houses for all design lovers, during DesignPhiladelphia on Thursday, Oct 10. As one of the most innovative and transformative projects in Center City, East Market is a natural location partner for the festival. Located in the heart of the city, East Market will highlight the impact designers can have on the resurgence of a community and how a space can empower makers, thinkers, doers, and believers to grow and reimagine…
This exhibition brings together some of ongoing design research projects at the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory (PSL) at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Each work on display is a unique design response to specific conditions of forces being brought into equilibrium. These examples illustrate an unconventional design method that introduces the inclusion of force equilibrium at the very early stages of design. With this method, a designer can precisely control the geometry of the flow of…
My high school locker room was covered with the same motivational posters that hang in athletic facilities around the world: “Hard work beats talent.” “If you can believe it, you can achieve it.” And the perennial coaching favorite — “There is no ‘I’ in team.” While the intention of that axiom was right, I think the coaches were wrong. Teams are made up of a bunch of “I”s — Individuals with unique personalities, skills and needs. On the field or in the office, a team performs at its best when the…