Stephen Anderson is a licensed architect, architectural educator, researcher and PhD candidate focusing on the ethical and civic dimensions of architecture; the intersection of cities, nature and architecture, especially regarding concepts of nature and human nature and their relation to material form; and the natural tensions and potentials that arise between architectural theatricality and the practices and institutions of everyday life. His current research explores concepts of urbanity in the architectural works of Norwegian Pritzker Prize laureate, Sverre Fehn.
 
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Clifton Fordham is a registered architect who teaches architectural design, building technology and project planning. He is editor of the book Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era [Routledge]. Prior to teaching, he was an architect in the offices of KieranTimberlake, Rafael Vinoly, Voith & Mactavish and Gensler. 

Fordham’s primary research area is integrated building design, building enclosures and architectural detailing with a focus on details that regulate the sun. His current...

Gabriel Kaprielian is a designer, artist and educator whose work explores the interconnected relationship of the built and natural environment to inform more resilient and livable cities. His research and creative work are multi-scalar in approach and utilize emergent technologies in mapping, data visualization and digital making to reveal hidden, place-based narratives of the past, present and future. Through visual storytelling, fabrication and installation and interactive media, his work seeks to build knowledge, enable creative discourse and empower public participation.
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Pablo Meninato is an architect, architectural critic and historian whose research focuses on the conception and development of the architectural project. 

He is the author of the book, Unexpected Affinities, where he proposes a historical reassessment of the concept of architectural type and its impact in the design process. In the final portion, the book examines the affinities between the tactics of the readymade, as conceived by the artist Marcel Duchamp, and typological displacement, a question that introduces a reassessment of the correspondences between...

Vojislav Ristic is an educator and co-principal of ArchSTUDIO2227. He is dedicated to a creative multidisciplinary practice that includes building design and research, product design and an industrial process of prefabrication and assembly. His research is focused on the correlation between structures and space and the exploration of the parallels between building and automobile design and construction.

Prior to teaching at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, he taught at the New Jersey School of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania. Some of the projects he...

Robert Shuman’s practice is dedicated to the making of consequential works in real space and time, with craft and consideration both of their sustenance of essential human experience and appreciation of their impact on our common environment. He considers the architecture of both large scale buildings and small scale furniture pieces as the careful assembly of elements with fundamentally different (and often contradictory) physical, economic and experiential properties. He believes architecture owes as much to thoughtful construction as it does to intellectual explication. This perspective...

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...

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.