Adjunct Associate Professor

Sonja Bijelic

• Website:http://www.archstudio2227.com
• Contact: sonja.bijelic@temple.edu

• Sonja Bijelic is a registered architect and co-principal of ArchSTUDIO2227, a Philadelphia architectural firm. She is an award winning architect with over 20 years of experience. Before founding ArchSTUDIO2227, she worked for Philip Johnson and John Burgee in New York and Hillier in Philadelphia, where she became an associate principal. 

  Sonja gained international recognition for adapting a 1916 Chester power plant into a high-tech headquarters and received numerous awards for various projects throughout the US combining high design with historic structures. 

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Phillip M. Crosby

• Contact: crosbyp@temple.edu

• Phillip M. Crosby is a registered architect and the founding principal of DUAL:workshop, a research-based, multi-disciplinary design practice based in Philadelphia. He has received a Master of Science in Architectural History and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Design in Architecture from the University of Florida. Phillip’s research and teaching focuses on postwar urbanism and contemporary architectural theory.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Alfred Dragani

• 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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Assistant Professor

Clifton Fordham, RA, IFMA, LEED AP

• Website:www.cliftonfordham.com
• Contact: clifton.fordham@temple.edu
• Room Number: Architecture Building 133

• Clifton Fordham is a registered architect and principal of Clifton Fordham Architect based in Philadelphia.  He has led projects for internationally recognized architectural firms including KieranTimberlake Associates, Voith & MacTavish Architects, Rafael Vinoly Architects, and Gensler.  His project experience includes the Penn Law School Lecture Hall Renovation, the Smilow Research Center Tower at the University of Pennsylvania, and the D’Angelo University Center at St. John’s University.

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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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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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Assistant Professor

Gabriel Kaprielian

• Contact: gabriel.kaprielian@temple.edu

• Gabriel Kaprielian is a designer, urbanist, and artist. With degrees in both architecture and city planning, his creative work and research are multi-scalar in approach and explore the intersections between resilient cities, sustainable design, emergent technologies, and digital fabrication. His professional experience includes traditional architecture practice with award-winning firms, social focused architecture as a Design Fellow at Architecture for Humanity, urban design in the public sector, and as an Artist-in-Resident at Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop in San Francisco.

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Adjunct Associate Professor

Timothy Kerner

• Website:http://www.terra-studio.com
• Contact: tug33224@temple.edu

• Timothy Kerner, AIA teaches urbanism and architectural design and is principal of Terra Studio, LLC, an architecture firm in Center City Philadelphia that specializes in urban housing, public space and community planning. His academic research focuses on the relationship between architectural form, the urban environment and social history. He holds Master degrees in Architecture and City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

   

   

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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 Associate Professor

Ben Leech

• Contact: tug33949@temple.edu

• Ben Leech is a historic preservationist and former Director of Advocacy (2010-2015) for the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, where he authored more than two dozen successful nominations for properties added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, among other accomplishments. Prior to joining the Alliance in 2010, Leech was a preservation planner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Assistant Professor

Christopher McAdams

• Website:http://www.DIGSAU.com
• Contact: christopher.mcadams@temple.edu

• Christopher McAdams is a project designer at DIGSAU and founding researcher at Pluralist, a design laboratory based in Philadelphia. Specializing in digital design, fabrication and visualization, his work explores the hybridization of digital and physical realms, seeking new opportunities for architectural design. With a portfolio of work that spans from small apartments to large office buildings, gardens to galleries, Chris believes in the power of design to transform the urban fabric.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Taryn Mudge

• Contact: taryn.mudge@temple.edu
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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Fátima Olivieri

• A native of Puerto Rico, Fátima Olivieri is an architect and writer currently working at KieranTimberlake. She received an M.Arch. from the University of Virginia during which she received a Design Excellence Award for her Graduate Thesis. She has taught at the University of Virginia and has been a guest critic at several universities.  At KieranTimberlake Fátima has worked on projects of ranging scales, most recently for New York University. Her personal research focuses on the role of climate & context in the public realm.

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Adjunct Instructor

Mandy Palasik, AIA, LEED AP

• Website:https://www.theartblog.org/author/mpalasik/
• Contact: Amanda.palasik@temple.edu

• Mandy Palasik is a registered architect and weekend writer whose work has been published internationally. She received her M.Arch with a focus on housing and urbanism from the Architectural Association (AA) and B.Arch from Southern Polytechnic with a minor in Construction Management. While at AA, she conducted field research on informal development as part of an international design workshop in Recife, Brazil. Her research interests explore community-based urban development, post-industrial revitalization, housing, and domesticity.

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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 & Digital Photography at Tyler, and now Photography and Visual Literacy for the Division of Architecture and Environmental Design at Tyler.

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Associate Professor of Instruction

Vojislav Ristic

• Website:www.archstudio2227.com
• Contact: vristic@temple.edu
• Room Number: Architecture Building 139

• Vojislav Ristic is an educator and co-principal of ArchSTUDIO2227, located in Philadelphia. The office 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 & space and exploration of the parallels between building and automobile design & construction.

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Assistant Professor

Fauzia Sadiq Garcia, AIA LEED AP

• Website:http://www.sadiqgarciadesign.com
• Contact: fauzia.sadiqgarcia@temple.edu
• Room Number: 207

• Fauzia Sadiq Garcia is a registered architect and principal at Sadiq Garcia Design, a visual art and design practice. As an architect, Fauzia has focused on bringing a high level of design knowledge and critique to the profession. Her interests are twofold: how to harness technological advancements to change the status quo of building materials and construction methods, and researching how multidisciplinary approaches to design can influence new methodologies. Her current teaching focuses on design and building technology. 

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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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Associate Dean and Professor, Division of Architecture and Environmental Design

Kate Wingert-Playdon

• Contact: mwingert@temple.edu
• Room Number: Architecture Building 306

• Kate Wingert-Playdon is Associate Dean of the Division of Architecture and Environmental Design and Professor of the Architecture Department. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in architecture and preservation. Her research and design work is focused on cultural landscapes. The work addresses the overlaps of architecture, site, and settlement, focused on the underlying cultural manifestation of places and the particularity of sites. Her most recent work addresses a number of sites and includes research on the Philadelphia plan and the architecture of the American Southwest.

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Assistant Professor

Andrew John Wit

• Website:andrewjohnwit.com
• Contact: andrew.wit@temple.edu
• Room Number: Architecture Building 137

• Professor Wit is a designer and researcher operating on the fringe of design, technology and robotics. His projects and research on environmentally adaptive/intelligent building design processes and systems has been widely disseminated in both academic conferences and professional magazines and galleries. In addition, Andrew has practiced internationally at offices such as Tsushima Design Studio, Atelier Bow Wow and Toyo Ito Associates in Tokyo, Japan.

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Adjunct Associate Professor

Adriana Valdez Young

• Website:English for Action

• Adriana is an urban designer and educator based in New York City. She currently leads consumer research and insights at littleBits electronics, an open hardware tool for kids to invent their own technology. She also teaches design research at the Parsons School of Design. Adriana's work has been at the intersection of inclusion, empowerment and design.

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