The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design is the design school of the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...

, in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...

. It offers degrees in

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

landscape architecture Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

and regional planning,

historic preservation Historic preservation (US), built heritage preservation or built heritage conservation (UK), is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance. It is a philos ...

, and

fine arts In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwor ...

, as well as several dual degrees with other graduate schools at the University of Pennsylvania. Formerly known as PennDesign, it was renamed in 2019 after

Stuart Weitzman Stuart A. Weitzman (born 1941) is an American shoe designer, entrepreneur, philatelist, and founder of the shoe company Stuart Weitzman. Weitzman has designed footwear for Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Career In the late 1950s, Weitzman's father, ...

donated an undisclosed sum.

Notable alumni

* Julian Abele * William J. Bain * Eugenie L. Birch * Frank L. Bodine * Eduardo Catalano * James Corner *

Paul Davidoff Paul Davidoff (February 14, 1930 – December 27, 1984) was an American planner, planning educator, and planning theoretician who conceptualized " advocacy planning" with his wife, Linda Stone Davidoff. In legal scholarship, he is known as the pr ...

Frank Miles Day Frank Miles Day (April 5, 1861 – June 15, 1918) was a Philadelphia-based architect who specialized in residences and academic buildings. Career In 1883, he graduated from the Towne School of the University of Pennsylvania, and traveled to Europ ...

* Joseph Esherick * Sheldon Fox *

Marco Frascari Marco Frascari (1945 – June 2, 2013) was an Italian architect and architectural theorist. He was born in Mantua, in northern Italy, in 1945. He studied with Carlo Scarpa and Arrigo Rudi at Università Iuav di Venezia and received his PhD in Archi ...

* Bruce Graham * Charles Gwathmey *

Henry C. Hibbs Henry C. Hibbs (1882–1949) was an American architect. He designed many buildings on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee as well as Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. He also designed the libraries of Fisk ...

* Eric J. Hill * Leicester Bodine Holland *

Louis Kahn Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. W ...

Stephen Kieran KieranTimberlake is an American architecture firm founded by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The firm espouses a philosophy of sustainable design, collaborative design, and in-depth research. They h ...

* A. Eugene Kohn * William Harold Lee *

Richard Longstreth Richard W. Longstreth (born 4 March 1946, Pasadena) is an architectural historian and a professor at George Washington University where he directs the program in historic preservation. Longstreth received an A.B. in architecture from the Universi ...

Qingyun Ma Qingyun Ma (; born 1965) is a Chinese architect. Early life and education Born in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, Ma received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering in Architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He studied architecture at the ...

* Louis Magaziner *

Milton Bennett Medary, Jr. Milton Bennett Medary Jr. (February 6, 1874 – August 7, 1929) was an American architect from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, practicing with the firm Zantzinger, Borie and Medary from 1910 until his death. Biography Medary attended the University ...

Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg II (September 25, 1887 – January 19, 1980) was a leading architect, an American military and political leader who served as a US Congressman from Pennsylvania, and a member of the Muhlenberg political dynasty. ...

* Jayson Musson * Barton Myers * John Nolen * Rai Okamoto * Lionel Pries * Leslie Richards * Jenny Sabin * Adèle Naudé Santos *

Jacolby Satterwhite Jacolby Satterwhite (born 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an Americans, American contemporary artist recognized for fusing performance art, performance, Computer animation, digital animation, and personal ephemera to create immersive installa ...

* Denise Scott Brown *

Wael Shawky Wael Shawky is an Egyptian artist. Based on extensive periods of research and enquiry, Wael Shawky’s work tackles notions of national, religious and artistic identity through film, performance and storytelling. Shawky frames contemporary culture ...

James Timberlake James H. Timberlake (March 22, 1846 – February 21, 1891) was an American law enforcement officer, Civil War soldier, farmer and rancher who served as a deputy U.S. marshal for the Western District of Missouri. Timberlake is best known for bein ...

* Anne Tyng * David A. Wallace *

William Ward Watkin William Ward Watkin (January 21, 1886 – June 24, 1952) was an architect primarily practicing in Houston, Texas. He was the founder of the Architecture Department of Rice University in 1912, and remained on the Rice faculty until his death. ...

* Georgina Pope Yeatman

Gallery

FisherFineArtsLibrary.JPG,

Fisher Fine Arts Library The Fisher Fine Arts Library was the primary library of the University of Pennsylvania from 1891 to 1962. The red sandstone, brick-and- terra-cotta Venetian Gothic giant—part fortress and part cathedral—was designed by the acclaimed ...

, designed by Philadelphia architect

Frank Furness Frank Heyling Furness (November 12, 1839 - June 27, 1912) was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often unordinarily scaled b ...

, houses architecture studios on the 3rd and 4th floors.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:School of Design, University of Pennsylvania 1914 establishments in Pennsylvania Design schools in the United States Design, School of

Notable alumni

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