The Architecture and Environmental Design Programs at Tyler welcome career-focused students from many backgrounds and life experiences.
Here, you can prepare for a dynamic, sustainable career in a variety of built and natural environments, including architecture, community development, city and regional planning, horticulture, and landscape architecture — whether you’re just starting out or already working in a related role.
Tyler offers multiple programs in Architecture and Environmental Design, providing a range of opportunities for students at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
We offer a whole ecosystem of programs that shape how we live and move through space. Tyler’s depth of degrees and disciplines widens your academic and career perspectives. It also mirrors the relationships you need with allied disciplines. Many of your future projects will require these professional collaborations.
Through shared core courses, you also make important connections with classmates on Tyler’s two campuses.
At Tyler, undergraduates and graduate students have opportunities to learn from each other. Some core courses include both bachelor’s degree and master’s degree students in the same or allied fields — allowing for more advanced students with a variety of experiences to mentor and model professional skills.
Tyler makes these academic choices to build your degree cohort and professional network in all directions. We simply believe it’s a better way for you to learn and prepare for professional careers.
Design is everywhere in Philly—from its historic buildings to its forward-thinking public spaces. The city’s deep-rooted commitment to sustainability, innovation, and community makes it an inspiring place to study and create.
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The Tyler School of Art and Architecture degree programs hold accreditations from the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB), the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB), ABET- Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission (ABET-ANSAC) and the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB).
When choosing where to earn your degree in architecture, community development, city and regional planning, horticulture or landscape architecture, look at not only what you’ll learn but how you’ll learn it.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture features its own admissions team, who can provide you with the information you need to make the best decision for your educational and career goals.
From our broad range of undergraduate programs in architecture, community development, facilities management, historic preservation, horticulture and landscape architecture, see which one best matches your talents, interests and career goals. Majors offer capstone courses and projects that enable you to demonstrate your best work and growth.
Start your green-collar career with an associate of science degree in horticulture from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University’s Ambler Campus near Philadelphia. Explore methods of plant cultivation for food production, landscaping, ornamental display, growth, health and aesthetics. Experience hands-on opportunities to study the art and science of cultivating plants for food and beauty and learn the business of horticulture along the way.
Architecture careers begin with building healthy, safe, livable and sustainable communities that honor the natural environment. From there, architecture professionals continuously pursue innovation and address emerging issues. Study what’s important at the crossroads of culture and creativity and what’s possible through technology. Also consider Tyler’s accelerated 4+1 option to earn your bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in just 5 years.
Put your heart into a profession that imagines and implements solutions to challenges different communities face. As a community development student, learn to address the vital social, environmental and economic needs of people and places you serve. You can also take advantage of Tyler’s 4+1 option to complete your bachelor’s in community development and a master’s in city and regional planning in only five years.
Consider working in the fast-growing profession of facilities management where your leadership shines. Learn to integrate the management of spaces with the people, systems and technology inside those spaces. Take classes with faculty from both Tyler and from across Temple University.
Step into the fast-growing world of green-collar jobs as a horticulture professional. Immerse yourself in the beautiful and historic horticulture facilities on our Ambler Campus, including a greenhouse and research complex and a 187-acre arboretum. Study a broad array of horticultural areas, including plant science and identification, food and nursery production, public horticulture and more.
What better place to study historic preservation than in the legendary city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? Learn applied historical research that encompasses architecture as well as the buildings and the sites upon which they sit.
Learn to design outdoor spaces that balance ecological systems, cultural needs, and community well-being. Develop the skills to restore damaged or degraded landscapes, create new greenways, and shape environments that are both sustainable and beautiful. Landscape architects improve ecosystems and make the world more livable, functional, and delightful.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture also offers several undergraduate minors and certificate programs in key allied disciplines.
Consider the difference it makes to your graduate degree goals by connecting with Tyler’s forward-looking faculty of working professionals and researchers. Through both instruction and mentoring, they challenge and support your professional growth and talents.
In some cases, Tyler offers flexible, part-time study options for those with outside responsibilities like work and family.
Tyler’s NAAB-accredited Master of Architecture degree delivers the fundamental and emerging knowledge required for a career as a licensed architect.
Designed for post-professional students, Tyler’s NAAB-accredited MS in architecture teaches the skills needed to advance your existing career and keep pace with emerging tech and trends. You can complete your degree full time or part time. In addition, consider adding a concentration / certificate:
Designed for post-professional students, Tyler’s MS in facilities planning lets you study full time or part time. Also consider adding a concentration in Health Facilities thanks to a cross-discipline collaborative between the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and Temple University’s College of Public Health.
Accredited by the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board, this degree offers both full-time and part-time study. Tyler offers two tracks to better serve students’ needs.
Accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board, this degree prepares you to address complex challenges facing communities of all sizes — with a focus on sustainability. You learn to navigate policy-making challenges and to build communication and engagement skills, giving stakeholders with diverse interests input for planning and decision making.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture also offers certificate programs in several allied disciplines.
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Tyler offers purposely designed spaces, including expansive design studios, collaboration labs, classrooms and exhibition spaces. You also get access to both the Architecture Woodshop and Architecture Digital Fabrication Lab — staffed with technical service pros to help you. Our Ambler Campus boasts a 187-acre arboretum and 5,600-square-feet of greenhouse space.
Founded in 2003, the Urban Workshop serves underserved communities and community organizations by creating beautiful, just and sustainable places . Funded by Temple University’s Office of Research and several other grants, the workshop features collaborations with local architecture firms and other academics.
Connect with your classmates at Tyler and with working professionals in the community through student chapters of several professional organizations.
Tyler's architecture and landscape architecture programs require all students to have a laptop that meets certain specs that best run the latest software used in the professional environment.
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