Landscape Architecture Design/Build Studio

Landscape Architecture Design/Build Studio - Philadelphia Flower Show Exhibit

Update: 2/13/2024 - Temple University explores Philadelphia’s maritime legacy at the 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show

A cornerstone project that shapes the junior year at Temple Ambler in Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Landscape Architecture program is during  the junior year with the Landscape Architecture Design studio: Design/Build. This studio is known for its participation in PHS: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s The Philadelphia Flower Show. 

Students design and create in the Innovation Studio in the Temple Ambler Research and Collaboration Building under the guidance of two seasoned Landscape Architects. Horticulture students and staff prepare all the plants included in the exhibit. This class project offers a unique hands-on experience that allows students to create, build, and showcase their talents for visitors to the Philadelphia Flower Show. The Ambler campus program has been participating in the Flower Show for over 90 years – beginning in 1932 as the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women and then under Temple University since 1956. 

2024 Philadelphia Flower Show Exhibit SNEAK PEEK - Landscape Architecture Design Studio

 

Flower Show 2024 Preview

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Landscape Architecture Junior Design-Build Studio is “preparing to launch” for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Flower Show, which will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from March 2 to 10, 2024.
The students last week provided a preview of their design in the Innovation Studio in the Temple Ambler Research and Collaboration Building, where during the spring semester they will build the exhibit then take it apart again to build it once more at the Convention Center. The PHS theme for the 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show is “United by Flowers.” View the gallery of images here.
The student team for the 2024 exhibit includes Landscape Architecture juniors Owen Lambert, Ruby Kabuiku, Cecelia Quay, Laetitia Zagabe, Simone Keg, Margaret Murphy and Zachary Neyen.
“We will be addressing the Flower Show theme — and the Educational category theme of ‘Gardening for Greater Philadelphia’ — by creating an exhibit that focuses on the history, culture, materials, elements, gardens and climate, both past and present, of Philadelphia’s River Wards, specifically Pennsport,” said Adjunct Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Michael LoFurno, who is navigating the students through the project with Adjunct Instructor and Temple Landscape Architecture program alumnus Anthony Zachornacki. “We intend to represent the Delaware River’s history as an active shipping port for coal, sugar, and other goods, which we may contrast with the recent re-wilding of the pier areas.

 

2023 Philadelphia Flower Show Exhibit - Landscape Architecture Design Studio

2/21/23

Temple University gets ready for the Philadelphia Flower Show

Temple will present "The Power of Nature - Plug Into It" at the Philadelphia Flower Show from March 4 through March 12.

JAMES F. DUFFY

YouTube - Temple University Plugs Into “The Power of Nature” for the Philadelphia Flower Show

 

2023 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show GOLD MEDAL 

PHS Gardening for the Greater Good Award for the exhibit that best exemplifies PHS's mission to activate horticulture and gardening as a force for the "greater good" by advancing the health and well-being of the people and their environments.

The Pennsylvania Landscape Nursery Association Trophy to exhibit showing the most effective use of plants and best use of design in the educational category. 

The Bulkley Medal of the Garden Club of America for a special exhibit in the field of horticulture, botany, or conservation. The exhibit of exceptional educational merit increases the knowledge and awareness of the viewing public. It is the exhibit that best combines an important message with the ability to convey that message to the public. 

The Alfred M. Campbell Memorial Trophy for the educational major exhibit that demonstrates the most successful use of a variety of plants in a unique fashion. 

The Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania awarded, if merited, to an exhibit of unusual excellence (under 1,000 square feet) in the category of Conservation.

Thanks most to the Landscape Architecture Junior Class, Nicolette Bovier, Nick Dattilo, Robert De Petris, Sydny DeRoma, Noah Drossner, Margaret Hamilton, Bryan Hopp, Lauren Kobistek, Danny Logue, Daniel Maradiaga-Portillo, Chandler McLaurin, Patrick Rieker, Wyatt Schmon, Ziyu Wu