Associate Professor,
Dept of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture

Professor Hurley-Kurtz’s expertise includes sustainable community planning, landscape analysis, park design, planting design, graphics, and applications of technology within planning and design. She has been teaching at Temple University since 1990. Professor Hurley-Kurtz teaches the Land Planning Studio, which conducts large-scale natural resource analysis and designs a sustainable mixed-use, mixed-density village community. For a number of years, Buckingham Township has been a study site for this project and students’ work has been displayed in the township building in Bucks County. She has presented this work at a number of conferences and has also lectured on sprawl issues in Buckingham. Students in a senior urban design studio taught by Professor Hurley-Kurtz won a national American Society of Landscape Architects award for their project on regenerating community in the Grey Manor and Bright Hope Baptist Church neighborhoods in Philadelphia. A paper based on the teaching process in this studio entitled “Research, Writing and Community Outreach: A Framework for the Refereed Design Studio” will be published in the fall of 2002 in Landscape Journal. Professor Hurley-Kurtz has coordinated the graphics studios for Horticulture and Landscape Architecture students and fundamental design studios for Landscape Architecture students. Two papers based on this work have been published in the Hortechnology Journal. The Irish Memorial project commemorating “An Gorta Mor” (Ireland’s Great Hunger of 1845-1850) has been a major creative work for Professor Hurley-Kurtz in her role as the design landscape architect for the memorial. In summer 2002, she visited Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, Ireland — a pilgrimage site associated with St. Patrick — to choose a ceremonial stone to be incorporated in the design. The memorial is located at Front and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia and completion is expected in 2003. Professor Hurley-Kurtz is an associated faculty member of the Center for Sustainable Communities (CSC) at Temple University Ambler. She is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a member of the land planning and technology committee of that organization, and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.