We Improve Lives – Designing & Building a Better World
The mission of the College of Architecture and the Built Environment at Jefferson is to educate the next generation of design and construction professionals to create an equitable and sustainable future. Our curricula emphasize specialized knowledge unique to each discipline, paired with interdisciplinary collaboration that prepare students for practice in the global market.
With its thriving design and construction industries, Philadelphia serves as our urban lab, furnishing students with professional experiences in a vibrant metropolitan area. Our college partners with major corporations, local communities and nonprofit organizations, supplying a broad range of real-world projects and networking opportunities. Our dynamic approach to education and emphasis on social equity, sustainability and design excellence equip our graduates with a competitive edge, poised to become innovative leaders in sustainable practice.
Create Value. Improve Lives.
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Summer Academy at Jefferson
Architecture and the Built Environment Academy brings together faculty and industry professionals to offer a virtual summer design pre-college course for high school students to explore the architectural fields including: architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and construction management. Sign up!
Accelerated Dual Degree Programs
Our one-of-a-kind Accelerated Dual Degree Programs allow students to customize their education, breaking outmoded disciplinary silos and expanding professional opportunities for our graduates.
Earn a Graduate Certificate
The twelve-credit graduate certificates offered by the College of Architecture and the Built Environment afford students the opportunity to layer an additional area of expertise onto their primary area of study.
Scholarships & Assistantships
The College of Architecture and the Built Environment is proud to offer a variety of ways for our graduate students to earn scholarships and assistantships. The opportunities are available to all new domestic and international applicants.
Student Work | Interior Design
Catalyst: ACSA Steel Competition - University First Place
Catalyst - Breeze Between Borders is an Architecture and Interior Design Collaboration with my design partner, Jakob Passernig for the 2014 ACSA - AISC Student Design Competition. This project placed 1st in the Internal CABE Architecture and Interior Design Collaboration and was entered for the national competition for ACSA-AISC. The ACSA-AISC Student Design Competition was to feature steel in a border crossing between two countries, which was up to us to choose from. Catalyst - Breeze Between Borders is a border crossing between Singapore and Malaysia.
Student Work | Sustainable Design
Student: Sally Azer '10
Professor: Rob Fleming
Course: Thesis
Living Building
Sally Azer ’10 completed this Living Building Challenge Project for her Thesis in the MSSD Program. She compared a LEED Platinum rating versus a Living Building Challenge rating as a means to be understand the impact of qualitative factors on sustainability.
Student Work | Architecture
Student: Matthew Zepp '18
Course: Design 9 Evolo Competition
Osseous
Osseous is a proposed one kilometer high-rise located in Hong Kong, China. By 2050, the city will be so overpopulated that extremely tall skyscrapers will become the only mode of new development.
By breaking the tower up into a series of heterotopic neighborhoods, each section has its own feel and identity, similar to neighborhoods of a city. The void spaces serve as parks represented by one of Earth's climatic biomes ranging from humid subtropical to tundra.
The hope is that this tower will serve as a precedent for future high-rise environments which also function as air filtration towers.
Student Work | Interior Design
Students: Hunter Faddis '18 & Maria Rosario Echeverria '18
Professor: Lauren Baumbach
Course: IIDA Competition
IIDA Competition
Hunter Faddis '18 & Rosie Seiji '18 created this project and submitted it to the 2018 IIDA competition.
Student Work | Interior Architecture
Student: Tony Tu '14
Professor: Scott Ageloff
Course: Capstone
Capstone Project
Student Work | Landscape Architecture
Students:
Vanessa Miller '14 - portfolio
Tim Linehan '14 - portfolio
Darpan Patel '14- portfolio
Professors: Kim Douglas, Jim Querry, Richard Newton, James Burnett
Course: LARCH 599
Germantown Cultural Corridor
The RAIL PARK is the anchor development to Germantown’s Cultural corridor in the Town Center. It creates a safe, livable, walkable, vibrant, and sustainable space the neighborhood and the region can use and enjoy. Being able to live, learn, work, & play in a localized space in the neighborhood is not only an amenity to Germantown, but also acts as a unique defining element that is a defining jewel for the community.
Research & Outreach
Lab for Urban & Social Innovation
The Lab for Urban and Social Innovation (LUSI) unites communities, students, faculty and stakeholders in collective action through real-world design, construction and environmental projects.
Center for the Preservation of Modernism
The Center for the Preservation of Modernism and Jefferson are at the forefront in preserving our modern heritage, nationally and internationally.
Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities
Jefferson’s Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities was created to support the research, innovation and education that is happening across the university focusing on transforming urban environments into smart and healthy cities.
Synesthetic Research & Design Lab
The Synesthetic Research and Design Lab serves as collaborative research and prototyping platform where interactive design and emergent health sciences meet.
Academic Programs | Undergraduate
Academic Programs | Graduate
Academic Programs | Graduate Certificates
Academic Program | PhD Program
Minor Degree Options
By layering a secondary area onto a primary field of study, minors indicate versatility and flexibility to a prospective employer, increasing a student’s marketability and expanding prospects for internships and future employment.