Temple University

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 through moments of public engagement. Block parties, markets, and festivals serve as events that illustrate the complex relationship between public spaces and urban life. 

His current work employs the idea of play to investigate how bodies, rules, and spaces condition ideas of access and equity to the public realm.  As places of play are qualified by a diverse group of users, working in coordination and competition, they serve as exceptional models for democratic spaces.  

To complement his own teaching and writing, Jeremy is deeply involved in cultivating interdisciplinary work.  He has served as an editor for the Architectural Research Centers Consortium journal, Enquiry, for more than a decade.  The journal’s mission to provide a platform for diverse scholarship and to foster a research culture offers him the opportunity to see architecture through the lenses of anthropologists, historians, engineers, and artists, and support their work.  

SMArchS, Architecture + Urbanism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004 

MSArch, Informatics and Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002  

BArch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001 
BS Building Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2000