Tyler Architecture launches you into a future-focused professional education, where design education is driven by socio-cultural, environmental and technological innovation.
At Tyler, our graduate programs in Architecture prepare future leaders to transform the built environment through innovation, making, sustainable practices and community engagement. As part of a major urban research institution, we use Philadelphia as a dynamic testbed for ideas explored through both research and hands-on practice.
We are a vibrant community of makers, designers, and researchers from diverse practices, cultures, and backgrounds—united by a shared experience of transformative learning. At our large urban public research institution, you’ll collaborate with faculty to tackle the world’s most pressing and complex challenges.
The Architecture graduate programs at Tyler offer a vibrant studio atmosphere for students to engage in collaborative work and individual pursuits.
We address the breadth of architectural design to prepare you to shape the world. The Architecture programs align with our academic partners in the environmental design disciplines to host lectures and events. Our faculty and students also engage across all Tyler graduate programs – working in glass, ceramics, metals and more – to inform what we make and how we make it.
Our Architecture programs are design-centered, allowing you to pursue the facets of a design education—theory, technology and practice—weaving them into your work as design research. Design studios prepare you for a professional career and offer the opportunity to be guided by innovation derived from faculty experience and expertise.
Here at Tyler, we look forward to the range of interests brought to the fore by you—the students. Students undertake a design thesis that begins with your interests. We guide you to hone your intellectual questions and insights and literally form and shape them.
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.
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.
Professional track (2 years) for those with a BSArch from Tyler or equivalent pre-professional degree from elsewhere
Intensive design track (3 years) for those with bachelor’s degrees in other disciplines
Accelerated 4+1 (5 years) for those who want to earn back-to-back degrees — both BSArch and MArch from Tyler
Designed for post-professional students, Tyler’s 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:
Advanced Technologies and Design
Health and Design
Urban Ecologies and Design
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.
Created via a collaboration between the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and the College of Public Health, this graduate-level certificate addresses the intersection between human health and the built environments where people provide healthcare.
We promote forward-thinking teaching, practice, and research by integrating emerging technologies, materials, and methods—while critically considering their impact on current and future communities and environments.
The Temple University context, focused on access to education, and the urban focus of Tyler Architecture provides a great laboratory for learning about socio-cultural needs and the range of communities we design for.
We address environmentally responsible design in every studio course, and you become familiar with the technical knowledge needed to embed principles to shape environments as you focus on design for the future.
We believe the best way to test ideas is by bringing them to life through making. Explore our individual programs to see how we use hands-on making as an essential tool in both teaching and research.
Research seminar and studio courses include a focus on traditional practices and new materials and methods that draw on the opportunities that come from being in a school of art and architecture: Professor Andrew Wit can guide you through processes in 3D printed ceramics, Professor Laurin Amin borrows from glass mold making to engage you in experimentation with biogenic materials, and Professors Mario Gentile and Tim Barnes connect you with manufacturers and their production processes, thinking about how to reuse materials in novel ways in architecture.
Tyler Architecture’s Professional Mentorship Program pairs graduate students with practicing architects, many who are Tyler alumni, who serve as mentors throughout the academic year.
Students learn through first-hand experiences with their mentors. Conversations offer a glimpse of future pathways in design practice, and lead you to better understand your own design interests.
The future of design practice is discussed through regular roundtable discussions and panel sessions. In the past year, our events included a panel focused on career paths by the multidisciplinary group Professional Women in Construction, and a graduate student-led session on AI in design, featuring Brian Kowalchuk, the Director of Design at HDR Architects.
Students are encouraged to build their portfolio through coursework each semester, allowing you to keep a record of work as you progress.
But a great portfolio comes with careful consideration of the words and images that describe your aspirations. Professor Mauricio Bertet Gonzalez works one on one with Tyler Architecture graduate students to build portfolios that speak volumes about the significance of the individual's work.
Temple University hosts a chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), a student-run organization dedicated to advancing leadership, design, and service among architecture students. You can also get involved through Temple’s chapters of National Organization of Minority Architects Students (NOMAS) and Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society for Architecture & Allied Arts. You are also invited to join the Temple University Facilities Management Association additional opportunities for engagement and professional growth.
Each spring, Tyler Architecture and Environmental Design hosts a dynamic on-campus Career Fair that brings together leading firms and organizations. Students gain exposure to a wide range of career paths in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, construction, government agencies, and NGOs. Tyler’s career services staff work one-on-one with interested students to find internships and jobs.
Tyler’s Master of Architecture Degree program is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture. Learn more about Tyler’s NAAB accreditation at: NAAB Public Information
Tyler Architecture’s graduate curriculum is coordinated with courses at Temple’s campuses in Rome and Japan so graduate students can study abroad and stay on track.
Inside Tyler’s design studio classrooms and technology labs you learn to plan and execute whatever your creative mind imagines. Exhibition, lecture, and studio review spaces allow students to engage with one another and participate in extracurricular professional and learning activities.
You also have access to architecture –focused maker spaces like these and the opportunity to collaborate in spaces across the school.
MArch '20
Oussama Khalfi is a designer whose work explores radical forms of urban growth and speculative architecture. He has contributed to a range of international projects examining dense, vertical urbanism as a response to climate, population, and economic pressures. Oussama was Temple's 2020 recipient of the Henry Adams Medal of the American Institute of Architects, and his work has been featured in Archinect and other design platforms.
Here are some examples of work from Architecture graduate students.
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The Tyler Architecture faculty are makers and researchers. Together we comprise and reflect the full scope of an architectural education – grounded in an intellectual philosophy and balanced through maker-focused design research and professional practice. Our faculty also includes practitioners who bring the most recent issues of design practice into the classroom.
