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2016

  • October

    • Creating Schuylkill Yards

      October 05, 2016

      On Thursday, October 13th, The Department of Architecture & Interiors’ Arfaa Lecture will feature Harris Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Executive Director of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, and Gerard Sweeney, President of Brandywine Realty Trusts for a panel discussion entitled Town and Gown: Creating Schuylkill Yards, focusing on the major development plans for West Philadelphia being led by Drexel in partnership with Brandywine.

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    • Design Research Symposium

      October 05, 2016

      On Friday, October 14th we’ll host the Design Research Symposium, a series of events that explore the emerging field growing out of the work of artists, designers and interdisciplinary collaborators whose investigations push the boundaries of traditional disciplines, requiring interdisciplinary approaches, the mastery of new technologies, and intensive research to unearth solutions to practical and aesthetic problems.

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    • Top Interior Design Rankings

      October 05, 2016

      The highly respected DesignIntelligence, published by the Design Futures Council, has just released its ranking of top Interior Design schools for 2016-17.

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  • September

    • Artists and Scholars in Residence

      September 21, 2016

      For the academic year 2016-2017, we’re pleased to host six exciting residencies which will bring talented artists and designers to campus to teach, demonstrate, run charrettes and give public performances and lectures.

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  • August

  • June

    • Giant Toilet

      June 06, 2016

      In the summer of 2015 a class of Drexel Architecture and Design students worked with Greensgrow to create and develop a plan for its new site at 51st and Baltimore Avenue - with designs for a unique Solar Composting Toilet. 

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    • Building a Tiny House

      June 06, 2016

      This summer students from the Architecture program will build a ‘Tiny House'.

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  • May

    • Partnership with the African American Museum 

      May 02, 2016

      A new collaboration between Drexel’s Center for Cultural Partnerships and the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) will have Westphal students in the graduate Arts Administration and Museum Leadership, and students from our Architecture and Interior Design programs working closely with the Museum.

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    • Emergent Synthetic Life

      May 02, 2016

      Nurturing Emergent Synthetic Life (NESL), a 6-minute short film by Professor Nicole Koltick, Director of the Design Futures Lab, produced in collaboration collaboration with Film & Television Professor Jocelyn Tarquini-Motter and Dragon Productions, will premiere on Wednesday, May 4th at 6pm in the URBN Annex Screening Room.

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  • March

    • Recording Rome

      March 25, 2016

      A new intensive study abroad course

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    • Glorious Work

      March 09, 2016

      The students in our 17 undergraduate programs continuously produce wonderfully dynamic work that reflects their accomplished skills and creative vision of the world. We’re incredibly proud of what they achieve and we think you’ll enjoy this short video which showcases work from all of our programs.

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  • February