Phillip M. Crosby is a registered architect and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania where his research focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary urbanism. He is writing a dissertation on the urban discourse of Team 10. He is a contributing author and the associate editor (with Megan Born, Helene Furján, and Lily Jencks) of the forthcoming book Dirt, which will be published by MIT Press in early 2012. In addition to his academic research, in 2007 he founded the award-winning interdisciplinary design practice DUAL:workshop.
Ph.D. — University of Pennsylvania — 2008 to present
Graduate Certificate in Urban Studies — University of Pennsylvania — 2008 to present
M.Arch. — Georgia Institute of Technology — 2003
B. Des. — University of Florida — 2000
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Temple University, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Courses Taught:
Fall 2011 — ARCH 9991 — Directed Research: M.Arch. Thesis Preparation
Fall 2011 — ARCH 3243 — Movements in Modern Architecture
Fall 2010 — ARCH 4431 — 5th-year Undergraduate Advanced Research Studio
Topic — Re-Imagining Infrastructures: Interstate 95, Liminal Territories, and Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer / Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant
Courses Taught:
Fall 2009 — ARCH 611 — History & Theory III (with Prof. Helene Furján)
Spring 2010 — ARCH 512 — History & Theory II (with Prof. Helene Furján)
Summer 2010 — ARCH 510 — History of Architecture: Pre-History to Postmodernism
City of St. Petersburg, FL, Senior Capital Projects Coordinator
University of Pennsylvania, PhD, PhD Program in Architecture
Research Topics:
Twentieth-century urbanism with a focus on Team 10
Contemporary theories of architecture and urbanism
Dissertation Topic:
The In-Between and the Everyday: The Urban Discourse of Team 10, 1947-1981
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Certificate in Urban Studies
Research Topic:
Who Killed the Electric Streetcar: GM and National City Lines in Philadelphia
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), MArch, Architecture
Masters Project Topic:
PARKing Surfaces: Infrastructural Urbanism for St. Petersburg, FL
PennDesign Fellowship, Scholarship
Merit fellowship of full tuition plus stipend
Will M. Mehlhorn Scholarship, Scholarship
Merit scholarship awarded for excellence in architectural theory
Will M. Mehlhorn Scholarship, Scholarship
Merit scholarship awarded for excellence in architectural theory
Merit Award for Architecture — AIA Tampa Bay Design Awards, Award
Awarded to HUMPback House by DUAL:workshop
Jury Chair: Don Singer, FAIA
AIA Florida Emerging Professionals Design Competition, 1st Place
Awarded to HUMPback House by DUAL:workshop
Jury Chair: David J. Lewis
Gold Award — Community Beautification Board of Gainesville, FL , Award
Awarded to The Village at Haile Market Square by Lyman Davidson Dooley, Inc.
Best Architecture Activists — Weekly Planet Best of the Bay, Award
AIA Tampa Bay President's Award, Award
Awarded for service to the chapter
Merit Award for Architecture — AIA Tampa Bay Design Awards, Award
Awarded to The Marketplace at Birmingham Village by Lyman Davidson Dooley, Inc.
Jury Chair: James Bowen, AIA
Merit Award for Architecture — AIA Tampa Bay Design Awards, Award
Awarded to Missing: World Trade Center 9.11 Memorial (with Kenneth Cowart)
Jury Chair: Keith Reeves, FAIA
SOM Traveling Fellowship, Nomination
One of three graduating students nominated by Georgia Tech faculty
SGF-IR Traveling Fellowship, 2nd Place
Awarded to PARK[ing] Surfaces: Infrastructural Urbanism for St. Petersburg, FL (Masters Project)
Jury Chair: Mark Robbins
