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August 19, 2008, 02:33 PM ET
Rice U. Professor Designs New Building for Temple U. Art School
Carlos Jimenez Studio designed the Tyler School of Art’s new building. (Temple U. image)
Temple University’s Tyler School of Art will abandon its beloved but rundown campus in Philadelphia’s Elkins Park in January, moving instead to a sleek new $75-million building on the university’s main campus in North Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
The new building was designed by Carlos Jimenez, a Rice University architecture professor who also has his own practice, Carlos Jimenez Studio. The building will have 40 percent more space than all of Tyler’s Elkins Park structures combined, offering some 8,000 square feet of exhibition space and 160,000 square feet of space for teaching, studios, and other needs. An interior “street” is intended to help recreate the sense of community that Tyler students and faculty members have enjoyed at the 12-acre Elkins Park campus, a former estate with a mansion at its center and lawns spreading out past various outbuildings.
Pennsylvania is picking up $61.5-million of the new building’s price tag, and Temple is contributing $8-million. But the Inquirer notes that Tyler still has to raise more than $5-million on its own, so plenty of naming opportunities remain — from $7.5-million for the whole building to $25,000 apiece for graduate students’ studios. “I wish I was the law, medical, or business school dean,” said Tyler’s interim dean, Therese Dolan. “Their alumni have deep pockets. Ours are still waitressing.”
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