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. Her projects focus on architecture that is transformative, including a book on the Snøhetta designed Charles Temple Library as a reflection of the city and campus culture and research on La Fonda, which focuses on how the surrounding landscape and cultural...

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.

Erdoğan Ford’s research has been published in the Journal of Architectural Education and supported by the American Institute of Architects New York Center for Architecture’s Arnold W. Brunner Grant. She previously taught at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and held...

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. In her teaching, Harrison seeks to engage students in the complex mosaic of urban places, offering both experiential and...

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.
 
In 2017, McAdams founded Plural—a research-based practice, investigating the integration of emerging technologies and their architectural applications. His work spans a wide range of projects types, from objects to offices, gardens to...

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. Additionally, in 2018 he was individually...

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.
 
Fauzia is principal at Sadiq Garcia Design,...

Ulysses Sean Vance is a registered architect and educator working on the implementation of inclusive design and the architectural characteristics of health equity in domestic and institutional settings. He is co-founder of UVXYZI—a design firm dedicated to visualizing the protocols that service inclusive design agendas and communicating the differences in human capacity. His work engages the Triple Aim mandate in healthcare for improving the patient and caregiver experience. 

He has co-authored research and academic papers through North Carolina State University’s College of...

William Bourke is an architectural designer and educator whose research looks at Urban Church Adaptive Reuse and the impact cultural institutions have on cities and their communities. Through explorations focused on history, design and cultural heritage, his work looks to promote deeper thinking and create more meaningful connections between the existing fabric and new architecture interventions.

MArch, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

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 studio has developed a body of project-based research designed to leverage the embodied potential in existing buildings, infrastructure and open spaces to provide a framework for future sustainable development and connectivity between people and places.

MArch, University of Pennsylvania
BSArch, Catholic University of America

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 sustainability director and university architect in higher education. He currently serves as the vice chair of Philadelphia’s Civic Design Review Committee.

Master of Government Administration, Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania
MArch, University of Pennsylvania
BS Arch, University of Virginia

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 American buildings in rural, suburban and urban environments.

PhD, University of Pennsylvania
MA, University of Pennsylvania
BArch, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BSEd, Temple University

Timothy Kerner is the principal of Terra Studio, LLC, an architecture firm in Center City Philadelphia that focuses on residential and educational architecture and community planning. His research focuses on the relationship between architectural form, the urban environment and social history.

MArch, University of Pennsylvania
MCP, University of Pennsylvania
BA, University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Lovett Keshet is the design principal of Lovett Keshet Studio, a practice that creates new forms with innovative construction methods to achieve unique concepts. 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 surface curvature.

MArch, Harvard University 
BArch, University of Pennsylvania

Kevin Moran is a Senior Manager with the Urban Land Institute (ULI) where he supports sustainable and thriving communities throughout the Philadelphia region. He has an extensive nonprofit management and economic development background, having previously served as executive director for the Northern Liberties BID and Fairmount CDC.

MA, Villanova University
BS, Villanova University

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-winning projects in a wide range of scales and circumstances.

MArch, Pennsylvania State University
BArch, Pennsylvania State University

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
BS, Drexel University

Wendy Sumida is a registered architect and co-founder of Via Laulima, a Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary design firm. Her academic and working philosophy is founded on integrated design thinking, which emphasizes the importance of process through collaborative engagement and diversified inquiry to produce transformative solutions through the medium of product and space.

MArch, University of Pennsylvania
BArch, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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 environments with the many dimensions of cultural heritage, including geography, climate, economic history, power relationships, beliefs, literature and arts.

MArch, University of Pennsylvania
BA, Oberlin College

Margaux Van Houtte is an architect and educator whose work explores narrative and place. She is interested in understanding dwelling as a means of achieving a space that delights the senses, engages the soul and memory, actively involves and empowers.

MArch, Rhode Island School of Design
BAS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

As a Philadelphia-based designer for Coscia Moos Architecture, Jake’s professional work focuses primarily on residential and mixed-use projects. His designs are shaped by a personal background in handcraft and a belief that architects should be responsible for not only the environmental sustainability of their work but also the ways buildings sustain us emotionally and spiritually.

MArch, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BSArch, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

Professor Knowles’ research focuses on the study of urbanism, architectural history and most recently on the sensual and haptic aspects of architecture. She has been exploring and documenting the theoretical underpinnings of a concept that seems to have disappeared from the world of architecture, namely comfort in architecture and the notion that architecture can potentially be a curative power through the embodiment of all the senses. The architectural work within her atelier, BJC/Knowles, has been primarily focused on buildings that serve children with either physical or mental disabilities. The work of the atelier has been published internationally.