Jefferson College of Architecture, Design and Engineering

10/05/2026

Join us for “What is Experience Design? Graphic Design + Interior Design + Beyond” on Monday, 5 October, at 6:00PM, during the DesignPhiladelphia festival, The Village of Industry and Art located at 320 S. Broad Street. ⁠
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Faculty and students from Thomas Jefferson University’s Graphic Design and Interior Design programs come together, organized by Renée Walker and Grace Ong Yan, featuring special guest, practicing Experience Design Sara Schmidt, to discuss how graphic and spatial design intersect in this growing field. The panel offers current and prospective students a firsthand look at the collaborative, cross-disciplinary work possible within Jefferson’s new College of Architecture, Design & Engineering (CADE). ⁠
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Slides 3-5: Sara Schmidt | Artist & Designer
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The event is free with registration, and available in the link in our bio: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/J2DpU8j1gi

10/05/2026

Join us for “Taste and the Future of Design,” on Monday, 5 October, at 6:15PM, at DEC Forum - DEC Building - Thomas Jefferson University East Falls Campus with Allison Dailey, Design Director, Martha Schwartz Partners.

All lectures are free and open to the public with registration, visit the link 🔗 in our bio or visit: www.jefferson.edu/cabeevents

AI offers tantalizingly polished, idealized aesthetic responses to the problems we ask it to solve, and we are falling for the TASTE this tool embodies. Is our aesthetic future TASTE-driven? What is TASTE? We explore commentaries about TASTE in MSP’s work, and others, as we write our aesthetic future.

Allison Dailey is a landscape architect and artist whose work integrates landscape and art into urban environments. She collaborates with design teams to generate culturally productive landscapes, integrating climate research to help cities thrive. She has a diverse portfolio of projects which include site-specific public art installations, parks, and large-scale urban developments.

Allison believes that the integration of art and design to implement bold, innovative climate resilient solutions can shape the future of urban landscapes, making public spaces more engaging and reflective of the community’s identity. By fusing an artistic approach with environmental research to solve problems in landscape design, she creates spaces that are functional, visually stimulating, and thought-provoking.

Martha Schwartz Partners

10/03/2026

See you soon!

09/30/2026

October 1-11 | EXHIBITION: Bionic Intersections - From Living Cells to Bio-Inspired Structures

Presented by the College of Architecture, Design & Engineering Design Studio D9; Professor Edgar Stach, PhD

This exhibition explores structural morphology and self-organization as methods for transforming natural processes into architectural form. Through six physical experiments, students investigate how form, force, material, and geometry interact to generate complex structural systems. Using folded paper, wire, 3D printing, and other fabrication techniques, each model becomes a study in form-finding and structural optimization, testing how simple rules of organization can produce efficient and expressive morphologies.

OPEN DURING FULL LENGTH OF FESTIVAL

October 9 | RECEPTION 5:00PM-7:00PM
📍Thomas Jefferson University - CENTER CITY
901 Walnut Street

09/28/2026

This year, DesignPhiladelphia is stepping the 2026 theme: DESIGN REVOLUTION.

Revolution: What must change
Creativity: What could exist instead
Beauty: Why it matters, and what keeps us human

This is not just a theme. It is an invitation. To challenge assumptions. To rethink systems. To design events that move people and shift perspective.

Our present the following events during

OCT 5 | 6-8PM 🔵 What is Experience Design? Graphic Design + Interior Design + Beyond

Faculty and students from Thomas Jefferson University’s Graphic Design and Interior Design programs come together with practicing Experience Design professionals to discuss how graphic and spatial design intersect in this growing field. The panel offers current and prospective students a firsthand look at the collaborative, cross-disciplinary work possible within Jefferson’s new College of Architecture, Design & Engineering (CADE).
📍 Village of Industry and the Arts , 320 S. Broad Street
REGISTER HERE: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/J2DpU8j1gi

OCT 5 | 6:15-7:30PM 🔵 Taste and the Future of Design
AI offers tantalizingly polished, idealized aesthetic responses to the problems we ask it to solve, and we are falling for the TASTE this tool embodies. Is our aesthetic future TASTE-driven? What is TASTE? We explore commentaries about TASTE in MSP’s work, and others, as we write our aesthetic future.
🎙️ Speakers: Ceylan Belek Ombregt & Allison Dailey, Martha Schwartz Partners
📍 DEC Forum - DEC Building Thomas Jefferson University - East Falls Campus, 4201 Henry Avenue
MORE INFO: https://www.jefferson.edu/cadeevents

09/25/2026

As cities confront the accelerating impacts of climate change, carbon has become a fundamental framework for evaluatingthe environmental performance and long-term sustainability of the built environment. Under the theme “Rethinking Cities Through Carbon,” the 2026 Future Cities Forum convenes leading scholars and practitioners to examine how carbon-informed approachesare transforming urban development, architectural design, and decision-making across multiple scales The program features akeynote lecture by Rutger Huiberts, New York Office Director at MVRDV, on the firm’s research and practice related to embodiedcarbon, followed by a multidisciplinary panel discussion exploring emerging strategies, challenges, and opportunities foradvancing low-carbon, resilient, and regenerative urban futures. Hosted by Thomas Jefferson University in partnership with the Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU) Philadelphia Chapter, the forum concludes with a networking reception that fostersdialogue and collaboration among professionals, faculty, and students.

Join us for the Future Cities Forum on Monday, 28 Septmeber, at 6:15PM, at DEC Forum - DEC Building - Thomas Jefferson University East Falls Campus, followed by a reception at 7:45PM.

All lectures are free and open to the public. Online participation available with registration, visit: www.jefferson.edu/CADEevents

09/25/2026

Meet Henry Snyder in our MS in Real Estate Development!

👋 Meet Jefferson College of Architecture, Design and Engineering student Henry Snyder. He’s pursuing an MS in Real Estate Development.

Why did you choose Jefferson?
🌆 I had just moved to Philadelphia and had been working as a planner in New Jersey for the past year. I wanted to learn more about the private side of development to become more well-rounded in the field. Jefferson offered an extraordinary opportunity to learn the logistics of real estate development, and it has introduced me to countless knowledgeable experts along the way.

↪️ Read more: https://bit.ly/4dkRQxG

09/21/2026

On September 21, 2026, thePhD Program in Architecture and Design Research at Thomas Jefferson University will host its 5th interdisciplinary doctoral colloquium,bringing together researchers from the College of Architecture, Design,and Engineering to share emergingdoctoral work. Sense, System, Space explores how human experience, environmental performance, governance, technology, and cultureshape the design of buildings,cities, and everyday environments. Presentations address topics rangingfrom healthcare, neurodiversity,learning environments, and climate responsive design to computational modeling, urban transformation,and AI-enabled systems. Through open dialogue and interdisciplinaryexchange, the colloquium examineshow people, systems, and space interact across scales, generating new ways of understanding architecturaldesign, spatial performance, and thefuture of the built environment

09/21/2026

when did you graduate? What was the college/school called then? It is HOMECOMING! Join Barbara Klinkhammer, Dean of the College of Architecture, Design, and Engineering, along with College leadership and faculty, for an anniversary celebration honoring the 🎉 30th anniversary of the first graduating class of the Bachelor of Architecture and the 🪅 40th anniversary of the BS in Interior Design programs, while also toasting the launch of the new College. Together, we will commemorate the rich legacies of innovation, creativity, and impact across all programs as we look ahead to the College’s bright future. Hors d’oeuvres, b**r, and w**e will be served.

College of Architecture, Design, and Engineering Alumni Reception
East Falls Campus, A&D Center
Friday, September 25, 2026
5:30-8:30pm

Your registration also includes access to the Homecoming Welcome Reception.

Register, here:

09/20/2026

Did you see on 6abc Action News’s feature of the Park In A Truck initiative led by Kim Douglas, director of our Landscape Architecture program?