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Ulysses Sean Vance, RA

Ulysses Sean Vance, RA

Associate Professor Architecture

Email ulysses.vance@temple.edu

Office Location Tyler, 210S

Website uvxyzi.com

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Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg

Ulysses Sean Vance is an architect whose design research centers on accessibility in the built environment. 

His research is grounded in inclusive decision-making throughout the planning and programming of health services across domestic and institutional spaces. 

His design work maintains a primary emphasis on accommodating the distinct needs that promote the health and well-being of underserved communities. This work encompasses medical hygiene, physical activity, and recovery as health-related design interventions. Active projects explore the complexities of addressing health disparities in urban settings by assessing the degree of adversity, material hardship, and protective factors related to physical, social, neurological diversity, and environmental behavior.

Select Awards

American Institute of Architects / Academy of Architecture for Health. (2024)
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fellow 2024-2025

ARCC-EAAE Best Research Poster Honorable Mention. (2022).
https://www.arcc-arch.org/arcc-eaae-2022-best-paper-and-poster-awards/

Sheikh Zayed Institute Award for Innovation in Pediatric Surgery. (2012) Awarded from the Sheikh Zayed Institute for the Medical Innovation Center Isolation Cart, ISOCART with Dr. Sabina Saddiqui and Dr. Gregory Yanik

Education

  • MArch, North Carolina State University, 2006
  • BArch, Tuskegee University, 1996

Select Publications

Vance, U.S., (2026) Percent for health: Adapting municipal recreation facilities to include medical services. Cities, Volume 169, February 2026, 106586 

Vance,U.S., (2025) “Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practice for Inclusive Design.”  Chapter on “Inclusive Design,” by Vance,U.S., Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003535768

Vance,U.S., (2025) “Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practice for Inclusive Design.”  Chapter on “Available Environments,” by Vance,U.S., Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003535768

Vance,U.S., (2025) “Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practice for Inclusive Design.”  Chapter on “Accommodating Affordances,” by Vance,U.S., Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003535768

Vance,U.S., (2025) “Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practice for Inclusive Design.”  Chapter on “Appropriate Engagements,” by Vance,U.S., Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003535768

Vance,U.S., (2025) “Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practice for Inclusive Design.”  Chapter on “A Percent for Health,” by Vance,U.S., Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003535768

Vance,U.S., (2025) “Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practice for Inclusive Design.”  Chapter on “Conclusive Enfranchisement,” by Vance,U.S., Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003535768

McCormick, E., Vance,U.S., Smith,Z., Harmon,M., Haines,S.,  (2024) “Inside | Out.”  “Respiratory Equity,” by Vance,U.S. Routledge.

Brownell, B., Vance,U.S., and others, (2023) “The Pandemic Effect: Ninety Experts on Immunizing the Built Environment,”. Essay and Images “Samaritan Services,” pages 176,177. Charlotte, NC. 2022. 208 pages. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN: 9781648961649

Vance, U.S. (2020) Open-Air-Space: Inclusive Involvement within a Public Health Crises. The Plan Journal, Volume 5/2020 – Issue 2 [Healthy Urbanism]. https://www.doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2020.05.02.8

Ajibewa, T.A., Lewis, T., Beemer, L.R., Allport, L., Bayl, S., Weston, E., Damen, M., Ransier, B., Stockdill, D., Vance, U.S., Dopp, R., Hasson, R.E. (2019). Classroom-based Strategies to Reduce Disparities in Physical Activity Among Children with Asthma. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Volume 51:5 Supplement. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 51(5S)

Beemer, L.R., Allport, L., Ajibewa, T.A., Bayl, S., Weston, E., Damen, M., Ransier, B., Stockdill, D., Vance, U.S., Hasson, R.E. (2019) Using gamification to enhance student participation in classroom activity breaks. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Volume 51:5 Supplement Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 51(5S)

Beemer,L., Ajibewa, T.A., O’Sullivan, M., Nagy, M., Ransier, B., Stockdill,D., Vance,U., Colabianchi,N., & Hasson, R. (2018). Feasibility of the InPACT Intervention to Enhance Movement and Learning in the Classroom. Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. Manuscript Number: TJACSM-D-17-00064R1