Assistant Professor and Curricular Head of Architecture Foundations

Seher Erdogan Ford, AIA

• Website:www.effo.co
• Contact: seher.erdogan@temple.edu
• Phone Number: 215-204-3204
• Room Number: Architecture 206

• Seher Erdoğan Ford is an architect whose design research and creative projects engage in sensory inquiry through the lenses of multisensory representation, architectural heritage and pedagogy, while experimenting with diverse media. Erdoğan Ford enjoys collaborating with other designers and across disciplines.

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Professor

Sally Harrison, AIA

• Website:http://tyler.temple.edu/urban-workshop-0
• Contact: sally.harrison@temple.edu
• Phone Number: 215-204-8813
• Room Number: Architecture 134

• 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 university-based collaborative that undertakes research, design and design-build projects in neighborhoods where questions of social justice, creative expression and community building are played out in the physical environment.

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Assistant Professor of Instruction

Christopher McAdams

• Website:www.pluralarchitecture.studio
• Contact: christopher.mcadams@temple.edu
• Phone Number: 215-777-9204
• Room Number: Architecture 207

• Christopher McAdams is an architect and technologist working with augmented and virtual reality platforms to investigate immersive and interactive spaces. He uses parametric tooling, digital fabrication and augmented reality and virtual reality to generate new opportunities in the built realm and explore unbuilt work from history.
   
  

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Associate Professor of Practice

Eric Oskey, RA

• Contact: eoskey@temple.edu
• Phone Number: 267-975-4993
• Room Number: Architecture 409

• Eric Oskey is a registered architect who engages the intersections between practice, research and education. As a practitioner he is partner of the award-winning firm Moto Designshop (Moto) which is recognized for well-considered and -crafted projects. Moto has won the American Institute of Architect (AIA) Philadelphia’s Emerging Architects Prize; The Great Bell Christ Church Display Competition; the Fallen Heroes Memorial Competition; the 2018 AIA Philadelphia Devine Detail Prize; the 2018 AIA Pennsylvania Bronze Medal as well as numerous others.

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Assistant Professor of Instruction

Fauzia Sadiq Garcia, AIA LEED AP

• Website:www.sadiqgarciadesign.com
• Contact: fauzia.sadiqgarcia@temple.edu
• Phone Number: 215-777-9700
• Room Number: Architecture 207

• Fauzia Sadiq Garcia is a registered architect, educator and artist harnessing technological advancements to challenge traditional use of materials and construction methods while advocating for a multidisciplinary approach to design that can influence new methodologies. Her research focuses on high-performance building envelopes, evaluating the multiple facets of exterior cladding to shift beyond aesthetic functions to a more holistic approach for cladding. Her teaching focuses on architectural design and building technology.
   
  

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Associate Dean and Director of Architecture and Environmental Design

Kate Wingert-Playdon

• Contact: mwingert@temple.edu
• Phone Number: 215-204-7903
• Room Number: Architecture 306

• Kate Wingert-Playdon is focused on cultural identity as expressed in construction histories, buildings and sites. Her applied and scholarly research begins with the premise that a more comprehensive understanding of the cultural dimension of our built environment is realized when many voices and viewpoints are used to understand it.

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Adjunct Associate Professor

Warren Bailey

• Contact: warren.bailey@temple.edu
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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Bill Craig, RA, CPHC®

• Website:http://www.mershondesign.com/
• Contact: bill.craig@temple.edu

• Bill is Principal at Mershon Design, a Philadelphia-based architecture firm that focuses on environmentally-responsive residential and small non-residential projects, both new construction and renovation.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Alfred Dragani

• Contact: alfred.dragani@temple.edu

• Alfred Dragani is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture teaching Design lll. His platform for studio instruction is centered around an interest in capturing the embodied potential in existing built urban fabric, infrastructure, and open spaces, as well as suburban buildings and infrastructure to provide a framework for future sustainable development and connectivity between people and places. Alfred sees the critical task at hand for educators in architecture curriculums as a program consisting of five principal disciplines.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Jason Jackson

• Contact: tug61174@temple.edu

• Jason Jackson is a Senior Designer at Interface Studio Architects, an award-winning design and research based firm in Philadelphia. He received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado and his Masters in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Throughout his career, his work and curricula have reflected his dedication to integrating digital tools with architecture and graphic representation. His teaching process focuses on experimental methods of deploying parametric systems to design.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Matt Karp, AIA

• Website:http://www.bcj.com/
• Contact: matt.karp@temple.edu

• Matt Karp is the Information and Design Technology Manager for Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Philadelphia, a licensed architect, and an active civic volunteer. His experience includes all phases of design, documentation, and construction for institutional projects with colleges, universities, and private organizations. His focus is on using technology to inform design, construction, and sustainability.

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Adjunct Professor

Mykhaylo Kulynych

• Contact: mykhaylo.kulynych@temple.edu

• Mykhaylo Kulynych is a Philadelphia architect with 40+ years in the profession.  He earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Penn State and his Master of Architecture from Washington University, St. Louis, MO.  Mr. Kulynych worked at several Center City architectural firms before joining H2L2 Architects/Planners in 1984.  He became a Principal in 1990.  In 2012 H2L2 joined NELSON, in which he was a Principal of H2L2, a Nelson Company.  In 2014 Mr. Kulynych incorporated as MYKUL Architecture PC.  

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Adjunct Professor

Elizabeth Lovett Keshet, RA

• Website:http://www.lovettkeshet.com
• Contact: elizabeth.keshet@temple.edu

• Elizabeth Lovett Keshet is a registered architect and design principal of the firm Lovett Keshet Studio. She received her Masters in Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and her undergraduate BA in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Her interest in the language of geometry and the pragmatic constraints of materials and construction has led to an expertise in advanced manufacturing and building practices, particularly with regard to surface curvature. This expertise has manifested itself in both the theory and practice of architecture.

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Matthew Price

• Contact: matthew.price@temple.edu
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Adjunct Professor

Mary C. Rhodomoyer

• Website:http://maryrhodomoyer.com/
• Contact: mary.rhodomoyer@temple.edu

• Mary C. Rhodomoyer joined the faculty of Tyler School of Art in 2004. She spent many years teaching Darkroom and Digital Photography at Tyler, and now Photography and Visual Literacy for the Department of Architecture and Environmental Design at Tyler.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Wendy Sumida

• Website:http://vialaulima.com
• Contact: wendy.sumida@temple.edu

• Wendy Sumida is a registered architect and co-founder of Via Laulima, an interdisciplinary design firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She completed her architectural undergraduate studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her curiosity about life on the East Coast, coupled with the desire to become an educator, eventually brought her to Philadelphia where she obtained a Master of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Wendy has over ten years of professional experience in a wide range of commercial and residential projects.

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Adjunct Associate Professor

Marianna M. Thomas, AIA

• Contact: marianna.thomas@temple.edu

• Marianna Thomas, M.Arch, AIA, has worked with existing sites throughout Philadelphia.  She honed her  understanding of historic buildings in renovations at University of Pennsylvania and other campuses, churches, rail stations, and state interpretive sites.  Developing the master plan for Washington Crossing Historic Park and working with faith congregations, she helps groups progress from disparate objectives to shared overview, from planning to prioritized implementation.  Her most satisfying projects preserve the character-defining essence of an historic building, such as Single Sisters

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Margaux Van Houtte

• Contact: tug88843@temple.edu

• A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Margaux seeks to incorporate her understanding of place and culture into her practice as an architect. She recently taught a traveling studio in Richelieu, France devoted to understanding place through a rigorous study of culinary arts and printmaking. Her research and teaching focuses on the importance of narrative in design work.

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Adjunct Professor

Jake Whitehead

• Contact: jake.whitehead@temple.edu

• As a designer, Jake is generally concerned with tectonic explorations in placemaking and carefully shaping the quality of light. With a personal background in handcraft, his work explores the ways in which craft lends itself to thinking about architecture as much as it does the physical making of it. His work is also shaped by the belief that architects should be responsible for not only the environmental sustainability of their work but also the ways in which buildings can sustain us spiritually and emotionally.

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Professor Emeritus

J. Brooke Harrington

• Website:www.balkanarchitecture.org
• Contact: jharring@temple.edu

• 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 the Arts ‘Accomplished Professional’ fellowship that allowed him to further explore and evolve the importance of architectural details in the perception of buildings.

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