Monday, May 5 at 5:00 PM
This Spring, The Salon explores the relationship between Philadelphia and its institutions of higher education, with a focus on the resilience required by each to thrive during changing times.
The May conversation will focus on universities and the built environment of our city.
Inga Saffron is the architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. For more than 20 years, she has been an advocate for meaningful design, accessible public spaces and transit, affordable housing, historic preservation and policies that make our cities more livable and climate resilient. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the 2018 Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum, a 2012 Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. In June 2020, Rutgers University Press published a selection of her Inquirer columns about Philadelphia’s urban recovery, "Becoming Philadelphia: How an old American city made itself new again."
