Center / Architecture + Design

Are you an architect or design professional who has been thinking about giving back to the community? Join us on Wednesday, April 19th at 12:30 pm to learn more about ADE. Our Architecture and Design Education program connects schools and design professionals in order to expand access to design thinking skills in the classroom across Philadelphia. Register here to learn more about how you can get involved

Volunteer Discovery Meeting The Architecture and Design Education (ADE) team is inviting you to our Discovery Meeting for our Fall 2023 Semester!  ADE plans to ensure an enriching and productive class so that students are inspired and empowered through creative learning. We are looking for professional designers to be par...

The deadline for the Edmund N. Bacon Urban Student Design is quickly approaching and we cannot wait to see all of your hard work. To submit your entry, click the link here

Center for Architecture and Design - 2023 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Student Competition $5,000 First Prize Upload your PDF Presentation Board (.PDF) and PowerPoint Slide Show (.PPT or .PPTX) to this site by 11:59 pm EDT on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 (03:59 am GMT, Wednesday, February 01, 2023). *This international urban design competition is open ONLY to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students cur...

One week until our exhibit "Designing Futures: Celebrating, Championing, Connecting Children through Design Education". The Center for Architecture + Design's Architecture and Design Education program is looking forward to sharing more about our goals and our volunteers/teachers/students' successes this past year. Stop by between 4 pm and 6 pm on Wednesday, December 14th to learn more and celebrate with us!

Designing Futures: Celebrating, Championing, Connecting Children through Design Education Join us to celebrate the student/teacher/volunteer professionals’ work and vision with examples of projects from the ADE classes in the Spring and Fall 2022 semesters.   Most importantly, we want to emphasize the impact we are striving to achieve through these projects and the program. We need de...