Creative-thinkers and change-makers assemble! Prepare for dynamic, sustainable careers bigger than you even imagine.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia centers your curriculum in architecture, historic preservation or facilities management on both design studios and collaborative workshops.
Our goal? Teaching you to use your creativity and skills to address current and future challenges in the world and within your chosen profession.
Tyler offers master’s degrees in Architecture and in Facilities Planning. Learn more about furthering your education here.
As you consider your academic and career options, consider this. The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University is renowned for a reason.
Tyler offers several degrees across allied disciplines. This creates a robust learning environment and a rich context for studying architecture, preservation or facilities management. On top of that, you build connections with artists, designers and creatives inside and outside of the architecture field.
Within this cluster of academic programs — architecture, historic preservation and facilities management — you share many core courses with classmates from allied disciplines.
Tyler’s setup also allows bachelor’s degree students and master’s degree students to collaborate and share ideas. Together, you gain perspectives and brainstorm possible solutions to important topics, including advocacy and civic engagement, technology, healthy and sustainable futures, and the global context of architectural design.
People and places, near and far, need you. Tyler prepares you for the work ahead.
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.
If you value learning, take initiative, and already glimpse your leadership potential, then these degrees in architecture, historic preservation, and facilities management will make you even better. Our faculty, with active professional practices, turn up your motivation to high.
“The interdisciplinary nature of these programs is quite special. It not only prepares students for the realities of practicing architecture, it also offers the opportunity to develop a more complex understanding of architecture. This interdisciplinary exposure can open a broad range of career, graduate, or postgraduate trajectories for a student's next chapter.”
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“I think what makes Tyler unique is that students are encouraged to do and not just to sit and learn. Everywhere you look you can see the active doing and making of the students at Tyler. … Everywhere you turn you see active creation.”
Look through Tyler’s programs in architecture, historic preservation and facilities management . See which one sparks in your mind the most.
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.
Tyler strategically inserts career exploration into its BS in architecture academic plan. In this pre-professional program, you spend time learning about traditional and newly emerging career pathways. We want you to understand all the ways you can use your interests and skills as a change-maker.
That’s why this bachelor’s degree program begins with a 2-year Architecture Foundations program.
Then, your required architecture coursework focuses on design thinking and making, architectural history and theory, and building technology.
As you learn and prepare for professional practice inside Tyler’s spacious studios, classrooms and labs, you learn drawing, model making and digital processes that mirror real work done in real firms.
Tyler’s challenging curriculum sharpens your critical thinking skills. You also gain fresh perspectives from our diverse community of students. Together, you elevate everyone’s success via peer-to-peer learning.
In addition, Tyler is proud to offer you opportunities for studying abroad at our campuses in Rome and Japan!
The BS Architecture and Master of Architecture comprise a NAAB accredited professional degree in architecture. And Tyler offers an accelerated 4+1 professional degree option for qualified students. This plan lets you take up to 12 semester credit hours of graduate coursework as an undergraduate. Then, once you earn your BS in Architecture degree, you move seamlessly into the Master of Architecture professional degree, allowing you to finish your professional degree in just 5 years.
Consider the fast-growing profession of facilities management where your leadership can shine. Learn to integrate the management of spaces with the people, systems and technology inside those spaces. Make the most of the opportunity to take classes with faculty from both the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and across Temple University.
This BS in facilities management degree prepares you for a leadership role. Your job? To manage and execute plans that ensure functionality of the built environment — while also integrating the people, places, processes and technology that come with each facility.
Inside Tyler’s Facilities Management Lab (FM Lab), you will complete facilities-planning projects, simulate real-world interdisciplinary collaboration and see live demonstrations of what you learn.
The FM Lab also hosts facilities management professionals from the Philadelphia region. These leaders in the community bring real-world insights. Think of them as the start to your professional network.
This degree is accredited by the ABET Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission (ABET-ANSAC), and the degree accelerates your eligibility to obtain professional International Facility Management Association (IFMA) credentials.
As you consider your educational and career options, remember that Tyler also offers a 3-year master’s degree in architecture and a 1-year master’s degree in facilities planning.
Also, Tyler is proud to offer you opportunities for studying abroad at our campuses in Rome or Japan!
What better place to study historic preservation than in the legendary city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? Learn applied historical research that encompasses both architecture and the sites.
Tyler’s BS in historic preservation provides an ideal pathway, if you bring a passion and keen interest in applied historical research about architecture, buildings and sites.
Here, you study the fundamentals of historic and cultural preservation practice in the United States. You also gain a comprehensive introduction to the range of approaches and methods used for historic preservation around the world. Tyler is proud to offer you an opportunity to study abroad at our campuses in Rome or Japan!
Thanks to both individual and group projects, you get the opportunity to do original research under the guidance of architects, historians and preservationists. The research process includes conducting archival and on-site investigations into the material and cultural fabric of the built environment. The historic Philadelphia region hums with the prospects of places to examine and understand.
Coursework for this historic preservation degree covers everything from design and visualization, history and theory to building technology and research methods.
Preservation students have access to all resources and amenities at Tyler. As you tackle your assignments and look for solutions to challenges, you study alongside your peers in the architecture and facilities management programs — sharing classrooms, labs and workshops while you learn research, drawing, model making and digital skills.
Keep in mind that Tyler gives you the option to continue your education with any of our master’s degree programs.
This undergraduate certificate gives you a strong background in the traditions of historic preservation as well as the current challenges and contexts relevant to communities with varied demographics and histories. It can be added to other degree programs from Tyler or Temple University.
It’s a great opportunity to add an extra credential that helps you stand out when competing for jobs various professions.
As a premier school on Temple University’s campus in Philadelphia, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture offers exceptional spaces designed to support your work. Its design studios, digital labs, maker-spaces and workshops provide everything you need to bring the art and science of your creative mind to life.
As an architecture, historic preservation or facilities management student at Tyler, you have access to purposefully designed spaces, including expansive design studios, collaboration labs, classrooms and exhibition spaces.
Play with ideas. Build test models. Bring your creations to life, using the tools and labs Tyler provides. Use our fabrication tools; a variety of printers, including 3D printers; CNC routers; laser cutters; AR/VR design stations; and plotters.
Tyler’s Architecture Woodshop comes with a team of full-time technical service staff to help you use the equipment safely and effectively.
To support your educational goals, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University is happy to share information about the scholarships available to students in these three disciplines. The eligibility requirements often overlap the various disciplines, so explore all the options.
Tyler's architecture programs require all students to have a laptop that meets certain specs that best run the latest software used in the professional environment.
When you join one of these meaningful professions, you help imagine and reimagine the world in ways that change lives and communities for the better. Your work may last for generations. Learn more about the unique opportunities Tyler provides to you throughout Philadelphia and the whole northeast region.
From the first year of study, our programs focus on making and crafting in the studio and workshop setting. Upper level students have opportunities to join in Design-Build focused courses: the Architecture Design Build Institute at Ambler campus and the European Cultural Council's installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Tyler’s faculty and students participate in Design Philadelphia activities like the annual Design Philadelphia festival events and design in education opportunities. You can also join professionals to teach in the K-12 design learning and in the Justice Alliance in Design Education (JADE) initiatives.
Tyler maintains strong relationships with community partners around Philadelphia and throughout the region, including with the American Institute of Architects Philadelphia, National Organization of Minority Architects, the Preservation Alliance, Green Building United, the International Facilities Management Association and other organizations. These connections, along with our active alumni, provide internships and job opportunities.
Hear from the creative minds of our alumni and current students. Let them share how Tyler helped them succeed and grow. Experience their gratitude for earning their degrees here.
What I value most from my time at Temple is the incredible faculty. My professors took special care to ensure that they not only taught course material, but also the skills to learn on our own. They always encouraged us to follow our individual interests which led to exciting and successful projects. I am eternally grateful for the personal and professional relationships I’ve built with members of the faculty. Without their unwavering support, I would not be as professionally prepared as I am today.
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Connect with your classmates at Tyler and with working pros in the community through student chapters of several professional organizations.
Learn more about Tyler’s architecture, historic preservation and facilities management faculty. In addition to guiding you through challenging coursework, your professors maintain their own professional practices and bring timely insights into what’s happening in the profession.
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In addition to Tyler’s in-house admissions team, you can reach out to our architecture, historic preservation and facilities management and planning program leaders.
Associate Professor and Chair, Architecture and Environmental Design Department
eisenman@temple.edu
Associate Professor and Program Head of Architecture
clifton.fordham@temple.edu
Curriculum Coordinator of Facilities Management and Architecture Majors + Associate Professor
fauzia.sadiqgarcia@temple.edu
Curricular Curriculum HeadCoordinator of Architecture Foundations Assistant Associate Professor
jeremy.voorhees@temple.edu
