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Explore five graduate and postgraduate degree programs at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture

2024-01-03T17:15:00-05:00

This post is brought to you by Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, an Archinect Partner School

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, recently ranked one of the top 100 national universities in the United States, offers graduate degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, horticulture, historic preservation, facilities management, community development, and city and regional planning.

With its diverse portfolio of disciplines in the built and natural environment, Tyler provides a multifaceted Architecture and Environmental Design (AED) curriculum that emphasizes engaged learning on-site and in design studios, as well as collaborative workshops. In our planning and community development programs, students explore current issues using the urban complexities of Philadelphia as a place for field study and research.

Image courtesy of Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.

Tyler’s programs are distinguished by a culture...

Tyler School of Art and Architecture presents Learning to See: Denise Scott Brown exhibition through September 18, 2021

2021-07-19T09:00:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

This summer, Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University presents Learning to See : Denise Scott Brown, an immersive show examining Denise Scott Brown’s defining views on architecture and urbanism understood through her photographs of cities and landscapes taken throughout her life, and largely during the 1960s and 1970s.

The exhibition is open to the public through September 18, 2021.

Denise Scott Brown, who has based her architectural practice in Philadelphia since the late 1960s, says, “I have never thought of myself as a photographer, only an architect and urbanist, but for seven decades I have taken photographs and use photography to illustrate the ideas behind what I teach, design and write. These reflect so much of who I am.”

Learning to See : Denise Scott Brown is a parallel storytelling of Scott Brown’s iconographic legacy with her thoughts on architecture and the environme...

Temple University's Rashida Ng elected ACSA president

2019-10-15T16:16:00-04:00

Rashida Ng, chair of the Department of Architecture & Environmental Design at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University has been elected as the new president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) for the 2019-2020 year.

Professor Ng, according to a press release announcing her selection, will "work to advance architectural pedagogy by coordinating with the discipline’s accreditation, licensing, and education communities, all of which are vital to student learning and development."

Remarking on the election, Professor Ng stated via an announcement, “The year ahead is an important one—ACSA is launching new initiatives to support research and teaching, as well as retooling its annual meeting to reach more faculty and practitioners in architecture. We will also be supporting schools during the release of the 2020 [NAAB] accreditation standards. We are committed to increasing access and supporting the retention of students from disadvantaged...

Snøhetta pierces a new library at Temple University with a dramatic skylight and heroic entry portals

2019-09-23T14:30:00-04:00

Global architecture firm Snøhetta has completed a sculptural library complex for Temple University in Philadelphia. The Charles Library facility opened its doors for the Fall 2019 semester a few weeks ago and is designed as a collaborative social learning space that reinterprets the traditional research library typology.

The building is wrapped in granite tiles to match the surrounding campus buildings. Image courtesy of © Michael Grimm.

Wrapped by a collection of generous plazas and filled with dramatic, multi-story spaces shaped around dramatic architectural volumes, the building aims to unite traditional academic resources with interdisciplinary and technology-focused facilities and student-oriented study and social spaces.

The lower levels of the building are faced with vertical bands of granite to match the campus buildings surrounding the library, while the complex is capped by a glass-walled upper story and a green roof. The building is bisected by a large three-story atrium ...

Get Lectured: Temple University, Spring '14

2014-03-05T13:00:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Since we've been receiving more submissions lately, we're gonna show off posters more often — and so you can see what events are happening in architecture schools right now!

Wednesday's poster comes from the Architecture department at Temple University's Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Listed below are upcoming events only. Unless noted, events take place at 6:00 pm in the Architecture Building: 104 2001 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122.

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March 7 - April 2
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Get Lectured: Temple University Fall '13

2013-10-28T15:37:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

Here on Archinect we recently launched "Get Lectured", where we'll feature a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. (UPDATE: We've added international schools!) Check back regularly to stay up-to-date and mark your calendars for any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our first GL post this week comes from the Temple University, Tyler School of Art - Department of Architecture. Although their Fall 2013 Public Lecture Program is almost done, the great variety of lecture topicsd this semester is still worth knowing about -- plus, there's next season to look out for. Past lecturers at Temple's Department of Architecture have included Snøhetta, digsau, beatriz colomina, and MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Unless noted**, lectures are at 6:00 p...

Shedding its Fusty Architectural Past, Philly Welcomes Nordic Starchitect Snøhetta

2013-03-28T19:40:00-04:00

The latest evidence of Philadelphia’s architectural comeback? The Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta is coming to town for a project at Temple University. “We have a fantastic tradition of quality architeture and urbanism in Philadelphia, but we do go through low ebbs in that tradition,” says Harris Steinberg, the executive director of PennPraxis, the clinical arm of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design.

The Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta has designed some of the most notable buildings and public spaces in the world over the last 15 years. The new Oslo Opera House. Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina. A reconfigured Times Square in New York, and a massive expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Next up? Temple University’s library, on a still-gritty stretch of Broad Street between Montgomery and Norris in North Philadelphia. Snøhetta director and co-founder Craig Dykers is delivering a lecture on campus next week, sharing some of his firm’s work with Temple students and a general audience of designers, architects and urbanists.

Dykers might shed some light on Snøhetta’s early stage thinking for the library project, but design work has not yet begun, so don’t expect any renderings.

Even so, Dykers is likely to address a full house. The Oslo-based firm, which was featured in a glowing 5,400-word New Yorker profile in January, is very much in vogue. Plenty of its...