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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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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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, 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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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

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

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 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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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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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 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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Sally Harrison, AIA

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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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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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

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 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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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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Pablo Meninato

Associate Professor

Pablo Meninato, PhD, is an architect, architectural critic, and educator whose research focuses on the principles and mechanisms that govern the architectural and urban project. A native of Argentina, Meninato has taught and practiced…

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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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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. His experience spanning over a decade includes leading design teams for public architecture and large-scale urban projects, along with…

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Allen Pierce

Adjunct Faculty

Allen Pierce is the principal of Heima, an architecture and design practice focused on small, high-craft projects that seek depth of experience through the careful tuning of material in time. A co-founder of the “ideas workshop” Gnomon, Allen is…

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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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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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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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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 Curriculum Coordinator of Facilities Management & Architecture Majors. She is a registered architect, educator and artist harnessing technological…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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