Tyler School of Art and Architecture

Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Former names
Stella Elkins Tyler School of Fine Arts
Tyler School of Art
TypeArt and architecture school
Established1935
(as Stella Elkins Tyler School of Fine Arts)
Parent institution
Temple University
DeanSusan E. Cahan
Students1,550
Location
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
,
United States
CampusUrban
Websitetyler.temple.edu

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture is based at Temple University, a large, urban, public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Tyler currently enrolls about 1,350 undergraduate students and about 200 graduate students in a wide variety of academic degree programs, including architecture, art education, art history, art therapy, ceramics, city and regional planning, community arts practices, community development, facilities management, fibers and material studies, glass, graphic and interactive design, historic preservation, horticulture, landscape architecture, metals/jewelry/CAD-CAM, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and visual studies.[2]

Founded in 1935 by Stella Elkins Tyler and sculptor Boris Blai in nearby Elkins Park, Pennsylvania,[3] Tyler moved to a new, 255,000-square-foot facility at Temple's Main Campus in 2009 with the cornerstone financial support of an allocation of $61.5 million from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[4] In 2012, Tyler's Architecture programs moved into a new facility connected to the main Tyler building.[5] Temple's programs in Landscape Architecture and Horticulture (based primarily at Temple's suburban Ambler Campus) and its programs in Main Campus-based City & Regional Planning and Community Development programs joined Tyler in 2016, unifying all of the university's architecture and environmental design disciplines in one school for the first time.[3]

In 2017, arts administrator, art historian and curator Susan E. Cahan, formerly associate dean and dean for the arts at Yale College at Yale University, was appointed dean of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture by Temple President Richard M. Englert.[6]

In 2018, Temple University's board of trustees approved changes to Tyler's structure and identity in order to unify the school, integrate disciplines in architecture and environmental design, support cross-disciplinary studies and reflect current understanding of creative practice and research. On July 1, 2019, the school's name officially expanded from the Tyler School of Art to the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Schools and Colleges | Temple University". www.temple.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  2. ^ "Academic Programs". Tyler School of Art. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  3. ^ a b "Mission, Vision and Values". Tyler School of Art. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  4. ^ "Tyler move creates Temple arts hot spot". Temple Now | news.temple.edu. 2009-02-05. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  5. ^ "Architecture moves into dedicated building". Temple Now | news.temple.edu. 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  6. ^ "Susan E. Cahan appointed dean of Tyler School of Art". Temple Now | news.temple.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  7. ^ "Trustees approve Tyler changes". Tyler School of Art. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  8. ^ "New era, expanded name for Tyler". Tyler School of Art. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-01.