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  • Photo of Kate Wingert-Playdon wearing a blue shirt, looking at the camera

    Kate Wingert-Playdon

    Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture

    Kate Wingert-Playdon is focused on cultural identity as expressed in design and construction histories, buildings and sites. Her applied and scholarly research begins with the premise that a more comprehensive understanding of the cultural…

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  • Sasha W. Eisenman smiling at the camera.

    Sasha Eisenman, PhD

    Associate Professor and Chair of Architecture and Environmental Design

    Sasha Eisenman is a botanist and horticulturist with a diverse portfolio of research projects. Currently, his primary area of research is on the survival, health and ecophysiological responses of plants in green infrastructure systems (tree…

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  • Fauzia Sadiq Garcia smiling inside an architecture studio at Tyler, surrounded by build models and design materials.

    Fauzia Sadiq Garcia, RA, LEED AP, IFMA

    Associate Professor and Program Head of Architecture, Facilities Management and Historic Preservation

    Fauzia Sadiq Garcia is an Associate Professor of Instruction at Temple University and Program Head of Facilities Management & Architecture Majors. She is a registered architect, educator and artist harnessing technological advancements to…

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  • Christopher McAdams standing in an architecture studio, looking at and smiling for the camera.

    Christopher McAdams

    Associate Professor and Curriculum Coordinator of Architecture, Facilities Management and Historic Preservation

    Christopher McAdams is an architect and technologist working with augmented and virtual reality platforms to investigate immersive and interactive spaces. His work uses parametric tooling, digital fabrication, and mixed reality systems to…

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  • Jeremy Voorhees looking at the camera.

    Jeremy Voorhees

    Associate Professor and Architecture Foundations Curriculum Coordinator

    Jeremy Voorhees is a designer and researcher focusing on the political and cultural dimensions of architectural design. Primarily concerned with cities, his work explores the role that architecture and architects play in shaping communities…

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  • Jeffrey S. Nesbit looking at the camera with his arms crossed.

    Jeffrey Nesbit

    Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

    Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and founding director of the research group Grounding Design. Grounding Design His experience spanning over a decade includes leading design teams for public architecture and large-scale urban…

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  • Laurin Aman smiling and looking away from the camera.

    Laurin Aman

    Assistant Professor

    Laurin Aman (she/they) is an educator, researcher, designer, and fabricator. Her research, “(un)making material ecologies”, reimagines material life cycles to exist in reciprocity with environments and explores spatial potentials that materialize…

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  • Stephen Anderson sitting on a stool inside Tyler, smiling warmly at the camera.

    Stephen Anderson, Ph.D., M.Arch, RA

    Associate Professor

    Stephen Anderson is a licensed architect, architectural educator, and researcher focusing on the ethical and civic dimensions of architecture; the intersection of cities, nature, and architecture, especially regarding concepts of nature and human…

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  • Mauricio Bertat standing and looking at the camera, with photographs of architecture projects displayed behind him.

    Mauricio Bertet

    Professor of Practice

    Mauricio Bertet is a registered architect from Madrid, Spain. From 1994-1998, Bertet worked as a collaborating architect at the office of Rafael Moneo in Madrid, and from 1998-2001, he served as director of the Architecture and Store…

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  • Sonja Bijelic standing in a studio space, looking at the camera, surrounded by work.

    Sonja Bijelic, RA

    Associate Professor

    Sonja Bijelic is a registered architect and principal of ArchSTUDIO2227, a Philadelphia architectural firm. She is an award-winning architect with over 25 years of experience. Before founding ArchSTUDIO2227, she worked for Philip…

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  • Clifton Fordhamsmiling and posing in a studio

    Clifton Fordham

    Associate Professor

      Clifton Fordham is a registered architect who teaches architectural design, building technology and project planning. He is editor of the book Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the…

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  • Sally Harrison smiles at the camera, standing in front of a vibrant mural filled with flowers.

    Sally Harrison, AIA

    Urban Workshop Director and Professor

    Sally Harrison is an architect, urban designer, educator, and scholar whose creative work and research explore the social impacts of design in underserved communities. She is the director and co-founder of The Urban Workshop, an interdisciplinary…

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  • Pablo Meninato, with his arms crossed looks at the camera in an architecture studio space.

    Pablo Meninato

    Associate Professor

    Pablo Meninato, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Temple University Tyler School of Art and Architecture. His work focuses on the intersections of architecture, urbanism, and social change, with a special focus on Latin America. He is a…

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  • Taryn Mudge smiling at the camera with her arms crossed.

    Taryn Mudge

    Assistant Professor

    Taryn Mudge is an architectural educator and scholar whose research focuses on design pedagogies and methods of visual research in architecture. She recently received a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from the University of…

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  • Jeff Richards looking and smiling at the camera.

    Jeff Richards, RA

    Assistant Professor

    Jeff Richards is a registered architect whose work explores the potential of architectonic components such as material, structure and building envelope to both reinforce and transform conceptual approach. His teaching and practice examine the…

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  • Robert Shuman Jr., AIA LEED AP

    Robert Shuman

    Associate Professor

    Robert Shuman’s practice is dedicated to the making of consequential works in real space and time, with craft and consideration both of their sustenance of essential human experience and appreciation of their impact on our common environment. He…

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  • Ulysses Sean Vance looking at the camera.

    Ulysses Sean Vance

    Associate Professor

    My research in architecture is directed by accessibility in buildings and involves designing interventions for the health and well-being of underserved communities. It is research founded on inclusive decision-making in the planning and…

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    Na Wei, RA, LEED AP

    Associate Professor

    Na Wei is the Founding Principal of WEI architects (aka Elevation Workshop), a design firm originally founded in New York and currently based in Beijing since 2009. The idea of the genius loci is very particular in Wei’s work. She professes a…

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  • Andrew John Wit smiling, leaning on a desk with his arms crossed in a Tyler architecture studio.

    Andrew Wit

    Associate Professor

    Andrew John Wit leads research focused on novel building systems generated through composites, emerging tools and robotics. He is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary research group wito*, Laboratory for Intelligent Environments; co-author of…

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  • Justin Kyle Bernard

    Justin Bernard

    Adjunct Faculty

    Justin Bernard is a Philadelphia-based educator, designer and fabricator with over a decade of experience in design and education, spanning from Philadelphia to sunny San Diego. Justin's professional work encompasses a variety of fields, including…

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  • Phillip M. Crosby

    Phillip Crosby

    Adjunct Faculty

      Phillip M. Crosby is the founding principal at DUAL:workshop—an award-winning, research-based interdisciplinary design practice that focuses on both large-scaled urban design frameworks and small-scaled tactical urbanist interventions…

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  • Frank de Santis

    Frank de Santis

    Adjunct Faculty

    Frank de Santis is an architect and educator whose efforts bridge academic inquiry and practical design, with a focus on beginning design pedagogy and residential projects. He believes architectural education should empower students to thoughtfully…

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  • Alfred Dragani

    Alfred Dragani

    Adjunct Faculty

    Alfred Dragani is a founding principal of Dragani Martone Studio | dMAS, a Philadelphia-based architecture, planning and interior design studio focused on sustainable and innovative design strategies for the adaptive reuse of existing buildings. The…

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  • Alana F. Dunoff, FMP, IFMA Fellow

    Alana Dunoff, FMP, IFMA Fellow

    Adjunct Faculty

      Alana F. Dunoff, ProFM, FMP, IFMA Fellow, is a strategic facility planning consultant and facilities management professional with more than 28 years of field experience. She is passionate about Facilities Management education and teaching…

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  • Dan Garofalo, AIA

    Dan Garofalo, AIA

    Adjunct Faculty

      Dan Garofalo, AIA is an architect, urbanist and sustainability professional and principal at Dan Garofalo, Architect. His professional career includes both architecture and urban design and more than 20 years as a…

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  • Mario O. Gentile

    Mario Gentile

    Adjunct Faculty

    As founding partner and Studio Director of the Philadelphia-based Shiftspace, Mario helps guide the strategic direction of the studio’s work for the design of environments, experiences and lifestyle products (under the SHIFT brand). The work and…

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  • Wil Hershner

    Wil Hershner

    Adjunct Faculty

    Wil Hershner is an architectural designer, artist, and educator. His teaching and research interests are focused on both the digital and analogue processes of making, methods of architectural representation and the role it has as a design tool and…

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    Isaac Howland

    Adjunct Faculty

    Isaac teaches representation in the Foundations II sophomore-architecture studio at Tyler. Isaac is a Designer with Colliers Engineering & Design. He has a host of experience including commercial, residential, education, as well as flood…

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  • Ken Jacobs, PhD

    Ken Jacobs, PhD

    Adjunct Faculty

    Ken Jacobs has more than 30 years of progressive professional experience in historic preservation, project-based research, architectural work and construction administratio. He is interested in the adaptive reuse of 18th- through early 20th-century…

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  • Matt Karp, AIA

    Matt Karp, AIA

    Adjunct Faculty

    A licensed architect and an active civic volunteer, Matt Karp focuses on using technology to inform design, construction and sustainability. His experience includes all phases of design, documentation and construction for institutional projects with…

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  • Laura C. Kazmierczak

    Laura Kazmierczak

    Adjunct Faculty

    Laura C. Kazmierczak, AIA, NCIDQ, NCARB is a licensed practicing architect with a background in architecture, interior design, and construction management. She has taught introductory design representation in the foundation studio since 2021. While…

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  • Timothy Kerner, AIA

    Timothy Kerner, AIA

    Adjunct Faculty

    Timothy Kerner is the principal of Terra Studio, LLC, an architecture firm in Center City Philadelphia that focuses on residential and educational architecture and community planning. His research focuses on the relationship between…

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  • Allen Pierce, AIA, LEED AP

    Allen Pierce, AIA, LEED AP

    Adjunct Faculty

    Allen Pierce is an architect, builder, teacher, and scholar based in Philadelphia. At Tyler, Allen teaches courses in design, fabrication, and construction technology. His research and writing are centered on issues of autonomy, agency and…

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  • Christopher Renn

    Christopher Renn

    Adjunct Faculty

      Christopher Renn is an Associate at Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, an internationally recognized design firm known for their humane and responsive design approach. With more than 15 years of professional experience, he has helped lead award…

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  • Amy Rivera

    Amy Rivera

    Adjunct Faculty

    Amy Rivera is the owner of the structural engineering consulting firm, Rivera Structural Design, LLC. She is an appointed member on the Board of Building Standards for Philadelphia's Department of Licenses & Inspection. MS, Drexel University …

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  • Marianna M. Thomas, AIA

    Marianna Thomas, AIA

    Adjunct Faculty

    Marianna Thomas, founder/principal of Marianna Thomas Architects, sees every project as both place-making and storyline in which occupancy by new users is a chapter. Her teaching connects aspirational UNESCO guidelines and patterns of everyday…

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  • J. Brooke Harrington

    J. Brooke Harrington

    Associate Professor Emeritus

    J. Brooke Harrington combined architectural practice, research and teaching for over thirty-five years. In his years of practice, he worked on a number of nationally and internationally recognized buildings and received a National Endowment for…

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  • Brigitte Knowles

    Brigitte Knowles

    Associate Professor Emeritus

    In Memoriam Professor Brigitte Knowles, one of the founding faculty members of the Temple Architecture program, passed away on July 3, 2025. Knowles was a visionary educator and a passionate advocate for design excellence. Her contributions…

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  • John James Pron

    John James Pron

    Associate Professor Emeritus

    John James Pron retired from his teaching position in spring 2013, having taught in the Architecture Program for 37 years. A member of the AIA, he is a registered practicing architect in Pennsylvania and currently serves as Director of…

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