Working with wood in a building requires specific skills, and carpentry and joinery are the two main trades that handle wood in architecture and construction.
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Titled American Framing , the United States pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, will explore the omnipresence and creative power of wood-framed construction in American architecture, an overlooked structural element. Curated by Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner, the exhibition will be on display at the Giardini della Biennale from May 22 through November 21, 2021.
Architects and Associate Professors Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner have been selected to organize and curate
American Framing. The pavilion is commissioned by Paul Preissner and the University of Illinois at Chicago, with the collaboration of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The site-specific installation on the pavilion s façade, along with photographs, models, and site-responsive furniture, will animate the entrance of the neoclassical pavilion and will highlight an architectural element that has been often overlook
April 29, 2021 Portrait of Susan La Flesche Picotte, who graduated from the Woman s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1889. Photo courtesy Legacy Center Archives, Drexel College of Medicine
Back in 2014, when researchers affiliated with Drexel University’s University Research Computing Facility (URCF) were deciding the name of its first high-performance computer cluster, they went with an ancient, mythological choice: Proteus, the shape-changing sea god from Greek mythology.
When naming its replacement computer cluster, the URCF went with something a little closer to home.
Picotte, which opened in February, is named in honor of Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915), MD, who, according to current research, was the first Native American to become a physician in the U.S. Picotte graduated in 1889 from one of the Drexel University College of Medicine’s predecessor schools, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), one of the world’s first medic
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Courtesy Duane Garvais Lawrence
Lenice Blackbird, a 25-year-old member of the Omaha Tribe in Nebraska, left her home in late June to isolate after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and she never returned. Her body was found a few days later in the woods near a cabin in Macy, Nebraska, according to reports in the
Siouxland News.
In September, her mother, Donna Blackbird, stood with friends and family on the Omaha Reservation, holding a poster decorated with Lenice’s face and a red handprint widely used to symbolize Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and told her family’s story to Duane Garvais Lawrence and his Facebook Live audience.