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About Weitzman School
Weitzman School (@weitzman_school) is a College & university creator on Instagram, also filed under Education & Career. The account has 46,207 followers and 1,670 published posts. Recent posts average 228 likes and 2 comments, an engagement rate of 0.48%.
With 46.2K followers, Weitzman School is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 430 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 107 followers per account Weitzman School follows. Weitzman School is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Weitzman School under College & university, with Education & Career as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Weitzman School runs to 8 words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Weitzman School dates from May 2026.
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1,670 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Weitzman School, 7 are carousels and 3 are videos. That mix leans toward carousels. Weitzman School has built a substantial archive of 1,670 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 28 followers for each post published. Weitzman School also keeps 2 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 193 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include work, students, architecture, through and design. The captions tag #weitzmanschoolofdesign, #weitzmanarchitecture, #universityofpennsylvania, #penndesign and #upenn.
During Spring’s time as an undergrad, she worked for an indie game board company and a game research lab and took part in game research learning about the power of games to enact social change through play. “I thought it would be really meaningful and effective to utilize that power in relation to my studies of architecture here at Weitzman which is why I opted to pursue it as a thesis project for my final year,” she said of her project.
Spring hosted a community event with the Cedar Park community where she engaged neighborhood members in an in-person playing of her game. There was a big map of Cedar Park, game playing pieces, kits for information delivery, etc. She presented the event, and its conclusions, as the manifestation of her thesis work at her final review.
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The Architectural Archives would like to extend a warm congratulations to the class of 2026!!!
In celebration of the occasion, we thought we would share a few photographs pertaining to the history of the Weitzman School of Design, including a photograph of Louis I. Kahn in his cap and gown in June, 1924, as well as a photo of the 1924 Architecture Society with Professor Paul Cret as well as students Louis Kahn and Yang Tingbao.
We asked our Director and Chief Curator, William Whitaker, for more information about this lovely photographic collection:
“The bulk of the photographs were taken for the Architecture Society, and found by the staff of the Fisher Fine Arts Library in a storage closet. They transferred the collection to the Architectural Archives about 10 years ago. What a wonderful view into the life of the school, its faculty and staff (there are a few women in the photos), and, of course, the students. The emphasis here is in seeing the students in well-lit spaces, producing designs using watercolor washes and charcoal. Much work was by hand (obviously no computers were used in the making of those drawings), and the library - an important reference in a Beaux-arts education - was in the middle of the school, itself (then housed in Hayden Hall). It’s fascinating to see architectural renderings - many are by Penn faculty members (like George Koyl), including several which remain in the Archives’ collections.”
Congratulations again to the graduates and happy summer to all!
For more information, please visit or contact the Architectural Archives at
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The Titled Inujima 犬島: Architecture Becomes Environment, the studio asked students to design an architectural intervention on the island, where Sejima has already designed five art pavilions, a gazebo, and the Inujima Life Garden, a renovation of a greenhouse.
“In the studio, we try to revitalize the island one structure at a time,” said Sejima, the Paul Philippe Cret Visiting Professor at Weitzman. “When we worked there, one project told me what I should do next.”
1) Ricardo Alvarado and David Owe’s design challenges the rigid boundaries of built space through the creation of interior gardens that grow outward through the canopy.
2) Spencer Relihan and Jack Bradley designed a shaded canopy for an outdoor communal kitchen that reuses wood from Inujima’s abandoned houses while also redirecting wind through a tensioned scrim.
3) Laura Ellis and Tylor Chu’s plan, Marine Life of Inujima, reimagines the island’s shoreline as a place where people can learn, gather, fish, and participate in the restoration of marine life.
4) Veronica Moore and Leeane Li designed a communal space where visitors can build small stone sculptures and engage with the changing material qualities of Inujima’s granite as it reacts to water.
5) In Ivy Liu and Lisa Liu’s scheme, sited along a waterway, three stone-based devices redirect, slow, filter, and collect water with minimal human intervention, creating new spatial relationships between plants and people.
6) Junxi Liu and Etta Yang’s design, Undead Soul, features a series of floating balloons attached to the island’s granite boulders.
7) With Sejima and Oki as their guides, Master of Architecture students traveled to Inujima as part of Weitzman’s Spring 2026 Travel Week.
8) Students presented their designs to the guest critics at the final review at Meyerson Hall on May 5.
In a keynote address, Inga Saffron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, described her work in terms of making and protecting better urban spaces. “You can’t solve all the problems facing the world right now,” Saffron told graduates, “but by mindfully sticking to your beliefs in your professional life, you can be part of the resistance.”
Weitzman Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner encouraged students and their families to reflect on the school’s legacy and mission, “to advance the public good by improving places where we live and work” through the school’s 12 degree programs.
Students roared for Fanessa de la Rosa, a graduating Master of City Planning student who gave the Class of 2026 speaker at Saturday’s commencement. De la Rosa said that May had become a time of reflection for her since the passing of her grandmother several years ago. Since then, de la Rosa said she’d come to feel that “Every chapter has a purpose, even if it is currently unknown, and that every challenge has pushed me to recognize that I have the tools to bring my vision to reality, because I can build with and learn from others.”
Graduates returned to at Meyerson Hall, where graduates and their families celebrated and viewed the 2026 Year End Show
The exhibition is on view through May 31 in two campus venues, the Arthur Ross Gallery the Gordon Gallery.
In the second of two videos, Zimmerman introduces work by Sol Kim, Dylan Li, Jingyi Ling, and Shay Myerson.
On Saturday, May 16, join Zimmerman for an in-person tour of the exhibition, presented as part of Alumni Weekend.
Link for event information in stories.
The exhibition is on view through May 31 in two campus venues, the Arthur Ross Gallery the Gordon Gallery.
In the first of two videos, Zimmerman introduces work by Ana González, Cacie Rosario Jackson, Noa Mori Machover, and Ambika Trasi.
On Saturday, May 16, join Zimmerman for an in-person tour of the exhibition, presented as part of Alumni Weekend.
Link for event information in stories.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the Department of Fine Arts at the Weitzman School of Design and the Arthur Ross Gallery to present the work of artists Ana González, Cacie Rosario Jackson, Sol Kim, Dylan Li, Jingyi Ling, Noa Mori Machover, Shay Myerson, and Ambika Trasi. The exhibition was curated by Emily Zimmerman, Director of Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs at the Arthur Ross Gallery.
For the first time the annual exhibition, on view through May 31, is in two campus venues: the Arthur Ross Gallery at the Fisher Fine Arts Library building and the Gordon Gallery at Weitzman Hall.
Read all about it in our “Gallery Seen” blog post, link in bio and comments.
Photos by Eric Sucar
1) “Architecture’s role is to fulfill the needs of the clients by shaping the gallery spaces in the way that will work best for the institution,” says Daniel Markiewicz, an associate professor of practice in architecture, whose Master of Architecture students designed an addition to Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Work by Chenxi Li.
2) Associate Professor of Architecture Ferda Kolatan leads an Advanced Architectural Design studio working in the city of Side on Turkey’s southern coast at an archaeological site with ancient architectural artifacts. Students are charged with designing a new archaeological museum using the ancient building remains that still exist on the site. Work by Eugene Chen and Xiaofeng Mo.
3) For Marion Weiss, Graham Professor of Practice in Architecture and co-founder of the firm, the competition for the Nelson-Atkins commission was “one of the most extraordinary opportunities we could think of.” WEISS/MANFREDI's design (left) follows a 2007 addition by Steven Holl (right). "Museums need to transcend their traditional bounded identities," says Weiss.
4) WEISS/MANFREDI's design for the La Brea Tar Pits Page Museum in Los Angeles
5) "We reject rigid dichotomies in favor of more entangled tensions that sustain the viewer’s attention over time,” says Ferda Kolatan of his MSD-AAD studio. (Photo: Dylan Li)
6) Yichen He and Hannah Xu's design for the site in Side, Turkey
These are just a few of the museums that Weitzman faculty have engaged with in recent years.
Read the full story. Link in stories.
Weitzman caught up with Gouverneur, an associate professor of practice in city and regional planning, after a marathon review at Meyerson Hall.
To learn more about Weitzman’s strategic priorities, including Designing Healthier Cities, see link in bio.
Work by:
Andrea Wu, Ethan Miller, Darren Sun: Piazza della Signoria, Palazzo dei Uffizi, Ponte Vecchio
Chelsea Caro, Andrea Wu, Jenny Su: Public Art for Social and Environmental Advocacy in Philadelphia
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Weitzman School's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.48%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 208 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 114 to 1, with 228 likes and 2 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Weitzman School (@weitzman_school) is a College & university creator on Instagram, also filed under Education & Career. Weitzman School is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Weitzman School runs to 8 words.
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Weitzman School has 46,207 followers on Instagram (46.2K). Set against 430 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 107 followers per account Weitzman School follows. Weitzman School has built a substantial archive of 1,670 posts.
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Weitzman School's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.48%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 208 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 114 to 1, with 228 likes and 2 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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