2024 Common Ground, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

ARCHITECTURE + ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN DEPARTMENT

Tyler School of Art and Architecture

Temple University

Ground

Common Ground

A sampling of work from the 2023-34 academic year by students in the Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture programs in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.

Tyler Architecture + Environmental Design Graduate Faculty

Stephen Anderson

Kate Benisek

Mauricio Bertet

Sonja Bijelic

Ryan Devlin

Jeffrey Doshna

Sasha Eisenman

Clifton Fordham

Sally Harrison

Nathan M. Heavers

Pauline Hurley-Kurtz

Robert T. Kuper

Baldev S. Lamba

Lynn Mandarano

Tyler Graduate Faculty

Mariola Alvarez

Philip Betancourt

Gerard F. Brown

Douglas Bucci

Susan E. Cahan

Joshua Caplan

Tracy E. Cooper

Mia Culbertson

Chad D. Curtis

Matt Curtius

Delaney DeMott

Therese Dolan

Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver

Linda Earle

Christopher McAdams

Pablo Meninato

Taryn Mudge

Jeffrey Nesbit

Michael Olszewski

Eric W. Oskey

Jeffrey Richards

Fauzia Sadiq Garcia

Robert Z. Shuman Jr.

Ulysses S. Vance III

Jeremy Voorhees

Na Wei

M. Katherine Wingert-Playdon

Andrew Wit

Amze J. Emmons

Jane DeRose Evans

Mark Thomas Gibson

Philip Glahn

Abby Ryan Guido

Marcia B. Hall

Jesse Harrod

John Hatfield

David Herman Jr.

Kelly A. Holohan

Renee E. Jackson

C.T. Jasper

Simona Josan

Jessica J. Julius

Lisa Kay

Nichola Kinch

Joseph R. Kopta

Scott R. Laserow

Roberto Lugo

Dermot MacCormack

Rebecca Michaels

Additonal Architecture-Landscape Architecture Graduate Instructors

Mandy Palasik

Alex Kiehl

Ken Jacobs

Jamie Ferello

Tim Kerner

Gabriella Cesarino

Amy Rivera

Allen Pierce

Concetta Martone

Mario Gentile

Tim Barnes

Ximena Valle

Michael Coll

Anne Brennan

Benjamin Snyder

Bess Wellborn Yates

Judy Venonsky

Zach Cross

Jodi Baumgarten

Kevin Reis

Mark Gallagher

Stephen Sousa

Jesse Forrester

Leah Modigliani

Dona R. Nelson

Emily Neumeier

Odili Odita

Karyn Olivier

Sharyn A. O’Mara

Pepón Osorio

Alpesh Kantilal Patel

Erin Pauwels

Andrea Ray

Lauren Sandler

Bryan Martin Satalino

Paul E. Sheriff

Mark Shetabi

Gerald Silk

Samantha Simpson

Hester Stinnett

Alexandra Strada

Kim D. Strommen

Corinne Teed

Jessica Vaughn

Ashley D. West

Mallory Weston

Byron Wolfe

William Yalowitz

Nathan William Young

With great enthusiasm, we present the first annual edition of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Graduate Catalogue, showcasing a selection of work by students in the Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture programs.

This catalogue features work from design studios and seminar-based workshops, offering a snapshot of the evolving conversations and interests shared by students and faculty over the three-year course of study. While some course offerings recur each year, their content and emphasis shift over time. This publication series is intended to reflect those changes and ongoing developments.

Our programs are shaped by three core areas of inquiry: ecological design and sustainable practices; socio-cultural design innovation; and experimental thinking through making. These themes provide a framework for faculty to share their expertise and for students to explore and define their own interests. The catalogue is organized into four thematic sections to reflect this structure:

Climate Change + Resilience presents work from three studios:

FINDING THE POINT—ACUPUNCTURE

ARCHITECTURE explores how societal, ecological, and psychological systems influence hyperlocal sites in the face of environmental change. Students selected sites of personal interest from forests and prairies to urban settings— examining how small-scale interventions can catalyze broader change.

THE FORBIDDEN FOREST studio focuses on reforesting a decommissioned waste treatment plant. Projects investigate how thoughtful design can transform industrial landscapes into beautiful, ecologically rich environments that inspire reforestation.

RE-ENVISIONING OLMSTED’S WEST

RAVINE examines restoration as a tool for addressing both social and environmental challenges in wetland areas. Student proposals integrate rainwater management with broader ecological and community needs.

Urban Ecologies features student work from three studios:

MEDIA INTERSECTION CENTER AND ART STUDIOS examines how human engagement with media, in tandem with a dynamic architectural program, can activate and energize urban neighborhoods.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR SURROUNDING OIL REFINERY

COMMUNITIES centers environmental justice as a catalyst for community resilience. Collaborative projects envision urban futures where health, equity, and justice are central design values.

ADDRESSING SEA LEVEL RISE AT TULPEHAKING explores the cultural and historical significance of sites important to diverse communities. Students worked closely with community representatives to guide design strategies that respond to both environmental threats and cultural heritage.

Comprehensive Design is essential to the professional development of architects and landscape architects, and serves as a benchmark for the depth and integration of learning within our programs.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC tasks students with developing a comprehensive architectural proposal, focusing on space programming, building assembly, and the creation of a shared identity and sense of place. Students work collaboratively, simulating professional practice.

DESIGNING FOR SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY showcases individual capstone projects in landscape architecture. These proposals include not only landscape design but also site restoration strategies, positioning students as agents of positive ecological change.

In the Making highlights work from both a seminar/workshop course and a design-build studio:

FUTURECRAFT is a research seminar investigating the integration of emerging tools, technologies, and methods of architectural representation. Through the use of digital modeling and 3D ceramic printing, students explore new forms of making and speculative fabrication.

SEA MARKET STUDIO focuses on the design and construction of prototype kiosks for vendors at Philadelphia’s Southeast Asian Market, which is transitioning to a permanent location. Students collaborated with local vendors and employed a mix of traditional and contemporary building techniques to create culturally responsive and functional designs. Prototypes were constructed and installed at Temple’s Ambler Campus.

The work presented here exemplifies the values and aspirations of our design community. It reflects the urgency and ambition with which our students approach the pressing issues of our time. We are proud to support them in their education as they prepare to shape the future of our built and natural environments.

KATE WINGERT-PLAYDON

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 30, 2025

Climate Change + Resilience

Climate

ARCH 8011

Finding the Point: Acupuncture Architecture

Advanced Architecture Design Studio Fall 23

LARC 8151

Forbidden Forest

Woodland Design Studio Fall 23

LARC 8152

Re-envisioning Olmsted’s West Ravine

Wetland Design Studio Spring 24

Finding the Point: Acupuncture Architecture

Finding the Point engages a new studio process of architectural design based on the minimal intervention philosophy of Chinese acupunctural medicine. The studio emphasizes a nuanced understanding of built environments as not only programmatic and visual objects but inputs in broader societal, ecological, and psychological systems. Acupuncture architecture engenders students to pursue a diverse array of hyper-localized and proactively developed design solutions in response to a world of increasingly cataclysmic environmental disasters.

Instructors

Na Wei

Eric Oskey

Students

Lindsey Aunkst

Olivia Bartholomew

Victoria Betterly

Tasneem Bookbinder

Romina Broglia

Carly Renee Browngardt

Keaton Bruce

Kyler Brunner

Mike Donahue

Oliver Duffey

Olivia Filaferro

Joseph Guido

Breana Haselbarth

Michael Herrmann

Margaret How

Colleen Ivkovich

Mariano Mattei

Kathryn Nocella

Kat Oberman

Logan Paulukow

Gabriel Santos

Dylan Schrader

Daniel Vagnoni

Michael Wasicko

Finding the Point: Acupuncture Architecture

Finding the Point: Acupuncture Architecture

Forbidden Forest

Woodlands are important ecosystems providing environmental benefits and cultural value. The Northeast US supports diverse forests, however extensive areas have been converted to agriculture, housing, industry, infrastructure, and more. Where possible, it is critical to restore woodlands. This studio explores the process of reforesting a decommissioned waste treatment facility in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania. The former grades have been reestablished with clean fill in this real-world scenario on five acres of public land. Students imagined and developed first individual and then group designs. One project (Wave Forest) was selected for planting in fall 2024 following a public presentation and approval from the township Board of Supervisors. Evergreen and deciduous species laid out in serpentine bands create a structure that changes seasonally, vanishing and appearing with cycles of leaf senescence. Wave Forest undulates across the formerly polluted and forgotten site, rippling outwards as it provides essential ecosystem services, habitat for millions of micro- and macro-organisms, and dynamic beauty for visitors. It aims to inspire similar future reforestation initiatives.

Kelsey Fannon

Pierie Korostoff

Will Northington

Jared Schwartz

Celia Winters

Eric Zhang

Forbidden Forest

Re-envisioning Olmsted’s West Ravine

Water flows throughout urban and urbanized landscapes—from rivers, streams, and coastal marshes to drainage ditches, detention ponds, and subsurface piping. These wet lands are visible/hidden, standing/flowing/infiltrating, active/passive, functional, and aesthetic. The myriad forms of urban water have wide reaching and significant implications for public health, civic infrastructure, ecosystem structure and function, and climate change resiliency, however wetlands are often overlooked, and worse, treated as wasteland. This studio explores water-sensitive development and site designs for Cadwalader Park, a historically significant public park in Trenton, NJ. Designed in 1891 by Frederick Law Olmsted, the “father” of American landscape architecture, Cadwalader Park is the only public park in the state of New Jersey designed by Olmsted himself at the very end of his career. At its opening, the West Ravine was an example of artful rainwater management. Over a century later, it has lost its ecological and cultural integrity, warranting a restorative design in keeping with Olmsted vision, ecological principles, and contemporary people’s cultural needs. The studio focused on creating visions for a restored West Ravine of Cadwalader Park, transformative social and environmental futures for this wetland.

Instructor

Kate Benisek

Students

Francisco Batz

Kelsey Fannon

Pierie Korostoff

Will Northington

Isabelle Rocca

Jared Schwartz

Celia Winters

Eric Zhang

Urban Ecologies

Urban

Center and Art Studios

Graduate

Media Intersection Center and Art Studios

The Media Intersection Center is a place for artists using multiple media to interact and engage with each other while simultaneously energizing the neighborhood and the city. The Center includes two distinct elements: a public building element which includes a gallery space, a café, administrative offices, and a private building element which contains artist studios for the Center’s resident artists. The gallery space is flexible to accommodate exhibitions, theatrical events and presentations. It is a center for thought-provoking projects and events. Artists studios support their autonomy, but their presence and work is an essential part of the Center. The site is at 18th and Spruce Streets in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. The projects consider the gallery as a flexible space, designed to accommodate thoughtprovoking exhibitions, projects, theatrical events and presentations.

Sonja Bijelic Students

Nada Aly

Jessica Marrazzo

Alyssa McDaniel

Jordan Slater

Environmental Justice for Surrounding Oil Refinery Communities

Advocating for environmental justice strengthens our communities and raises issues of equity in design. This has come to the forefront with EPA actions to monitor pollution in marginalized communities adjacent to heavy industrial sites. Oil refineries have been affecting the health of our communities for many generations with industrial air pollution contributing to fine particle and greenhouse gas emissions, exposure to benzene and other known carcinogens, high asthma hospitalization rates, and many other health concerns. With the country’s current commitment for carbon neutrality by 2050, oil refineries will become antiquated resulting in closures. Los Angeles has the largest concentration of oil refineries adjacent to residential populations. Envisioning future land uses for these sites supports environmental justice advocacy, while fostering healthy, equitable communities.

Instructor

Fauzia Sadiq Garcia

Students Jared Bazzano

Kathryn Falcone

Will Gupton

Paris Koehler

Anthony Landi

Vinlong Ngorn

Brendan Pooler

Bryce Smith

Alyssa Stanzione

Yostina Yacoub

Environmental Justice for Surrounding Oil Refinery Communities

Addressing Sea Level Rise at Tulpehaking

Public lands are one of America’s greatest treasures. Today some 840 million acres in the United States—more than one third of the country—is public land, under various designations. Although public lands are now considered to be owned collectively by United States citizens, these lands include ancestral homelands, migration routes, ceremonial grounds, and hunting and harvesting places for Indigenous Peoples. In addition, many face threats from climate change and sea level rise. This is the case at Abbott Marshlands in Trenton, New Jersey. The studio addresses the threatened and endangered species of Abbott Marsh in tandem with its cultural significance to diverse peoples. Students engaged with interested parties to understand and integrate multiple perspectives on public lands into their designs. In a public meeting, students shared a variety of projects focused on Tulpehaking Nature Center and Spring Lake, two sites at the cultural heart of the marsh. Their designs aim to build awareness and support for the protection and stewardship of the marshlands, in keeping with the mission of the Friends of Abbott Marshlands, while addressing the vulnerability of the site to sea level rise.

Instructor

Baldev Lamba

Students

Brett Barnes

David Bender

Ryan Byrne

Joyce Chang

Taylor Parchinski

Simone Shemshedini

Stuart Shore

Shannon Wilson

Addressing Sea Level Rise at Tulpehaking

PARK

Comprehensive Design

Temple University School of Music

The studio focused on a new building to house Temple’s Boyer School of Music on the Main (North Philadelphia) Campus of Temple University. The program for the project focuses on public-facing performances by the school’s students and outside professional artists as well as the teaching, learning, practice, and administrative facilities required to support and foster the school’s undergraduate and graduate programs. Projects include a 400-seat concert hall with a full-depth stage and a 120-seat Recital Hall for more intimate performances including jazz recitals, voice, and smaller classical ensembles. The projects consider other aspects of an academic building for a music school: rehearsal facilities, practice rooms, classrooms, a music library, and administrative spaces. With the building located on the northeast corner of Broad and Norris Streets, projects also considered the building's presence and public face, vibrancy, foot traffic flows and campus connections.

Instructors

SECTION 1

Robert Schuman

SECTION 2

Mauricio Bertet

Students

SECTION 1

Olivia Bartholomew

Victoria Betterly

Tasneem Bookbinder

Mike Donahue

Oliver Duffey

Olivia Filaferro

Joseph Guido

Michael Hermann

Margaret How

Kat Oberman

Logan Paulukow

Daniel Vagnoni

Michael Wasicko

SECTION 2

Lindsey Aunkst

Romina Broglia

Keaton Bruce

Kyler Brunner

Carly Browngardt

Breana Haselbarth

Colleen Ivkovich

Mariano Mattei

Kathryn Nocella

Gabriel Santos

Dylan Schrader

Pyae Thien

Temple University School of Music

Temple University

School of Music

Temple University School of Music

Temple University School of Music

Designing for Socio-ecological Complexity

Landscape architects today address complex socio-ecological issues through design and restoration across a range of scales and contexts. The Landscape Architecture Capstone Restoration Studio focuses on year long design research that begins with individual research questions and culminates in design inquiry related to the future of landscape architectural practice. The Capstone Project is an exploration and expression of a thesis developed in this process—a response to the question and the conditions of the site where the project is situated. The Capstone Project at Temple is unique in that all students develop a restoration plan as part of their landscape architectural proposal: foregrounding the need for all landscape architects to design for ecological services. Whether urban or on natural lands, students face the contemporary crises of climate change, biodiversity collapse, and social and environmental injustice. Each brings a significant perspective and responses to contemporary landscape questions using the approach of research through design. The 2023-24 Capstone Projects focused on design for sea level rise on the New Jersey shore; experiential learning on the Ambler campus; urban bat populations in tandem with urban wetlands; basalt quarry restoration; invasive species mitigation on the Pennypack Creek; park infill with biodiversity in Center City Philadelphia; experiences of deep time through the geology of French Creek State Park; and a watershed neighborhood on Schooley’s Mountain, New Jersey.

Instructor

Rob Kuper

Students

Brett Barnes

David Bender

Ryan Byrne

Joyce Chang

Taylor Parchinski

Simone Shemshedini

Stuart Shore

Shannon Wilson

In the Making

Making

ARCH 8133

Futurecraft

Spring 24

Special Topics in Technology

ARCH 8012 + ARCH 8133

SEA Market

Elective Design Studio and DesignBuild Seminar

Spring 24 + Summer 24

Futurecraft

This course investigates, speculates on, and designs for the integration of emerging architectural tools and materials for making and representation through research, discussions, tool/material/method specific projects and representational studies. The course examines cutting edge design tools explored and tested through and within the discourses of architectural design. Investigations were carried out through production of 3D printed ceramics as exemplars for discussion about other emerging design tools and processes: large scale 3D/4D printing, robotics, AR/MR/VR and AI. Speculative projects focused on the role of design and representation and the development of a graphic language. This paralleled the use of emerging tools in the development of design processes for making—from small scale artifacts to large scale architectural facade systems.

Instructor

Andrew John Wit

Students

Matthew Gatta

Kathryn Falcone

Lindsey Aunkst

Keaton Bruce

Noah Colon

Oliver Duffey

Dylan Schrader

Henry Adams

Will Gupton

Michael Wasicko

Kat Oberman

Gabriel Santos

Alyssa Stanzione

Vin Ngorn

Elective Design Studio and Design-Build Seminar

Spring 24 + Summer 24

SEA Market

Philadelphia is faced with the existential threat that global climate change poses to all urban centers. The challenge of response to this threat has transformed the nature of urban infrastructure. In addition, global migration patterns have continued to transform the people who make the city their home. The studio focused on the investigation of ways in which architecture, at once temporary and permanent, can erode the constructed boundaries between natural systems and the built environment, to imagine new civic space in the age of climate change. The Southeast Asian Market in FDR Park is a community of refugees and immigrant members who have called the Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Park in South Philadelphia their home since the 1980s. For 35+ years they have cultivated an open community space all their own, providing a cultural hub for social gatherings, sharing of ethnic cuisines and business opportunities through vending. Working with the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia (CAGP), the studio focused on design of a permanent home for the Southeast Asian Market. The studio work ran in parallel with the development of the Fairmount Park Conservancy's ecologically resilient, community supported vision for the future entitled, FDR Park Plan: A Resilient Vision for a Historic Park. The studio was implemented as a community engaged collaborative design process with CAGP. A second phase focused on making through a design/build process that resulted in kiosk prototypes installed at Temple University's Ambler Campus.

Instructors

Jeff Richards

Mario Gentile

Tim Barnes Students

Matt Celeste

Kathryn Falcone

Dante Formosa

Matthew Gatta

Justin Kemmerer

Paris Koehler

James Koel

Jake Kropf

Ken Le

Dylan Leik

Jared Lista

Jesenni Maisterrena

Vin Ngorn

Brendan Pooler

Franco Reyna

Britney Sciarillo

Bryce Smith

Payton Sucharski

Alyssa Stanzione

William Webb

Weijie Wei

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Temple University

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GRADUATE PROGRAM HEADS

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Andrew Wit

GRADUATE CATALOGUE

COORDINATOR

Mauricio Bertet

CATALOG DESIGN

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