NEXT AT DAG:

Thursday, September 4 at 8:00 a.m.  NEW VENUE at Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street.  Please enter through the building lobby, not the Bookstore and Design Center.

Casino Site Plan Review – Report to Mayor Michael A. Nutter.  PennPraxis Executive Director Harris Steinberg will speak about Praxis’ review of the proposed waterfront casino designs completed at the request of Mayor Nutter and events since the report was released. 

NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION:

Alan Greenberger, AIA, has been named by Mayor Nutter as the new executive director of the Planning Commission.  Greenberger is a partner at MGA Partners, Architects; a founder and former chair of DAG; and a long-time teacher at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania.  Click here for the text of his speech following the Mayor's announcement on August 15.

DAG SPACE - NEW WEBSITE FEATURE:

To advance DAG's goal of promoting good design by encouraging thoughtful public discussion of design matters, DAG is initiating a monthly opinion piece.  The second in the series by David B. Brownlee, The Jury’s Back, is about design review in Philadelphia during the first half of the 20th century.  This is a particularly relevant topic given Mayor Nutter’s plan to create a Deisgn Review Advisory Board.  Brownlee is a historian of architecture and city planning and author or co-author of books on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Penn campus,Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and Louis Kahn.  He served on the Philadelphia Historical Commission for fifteen years