Urban design, landscape, community design, and history comprise Professor Masters’ areas of interest in architecture. She is also concerned with public policy as it relates to shaping the landscape, urban revitalization, and making community.

Professor Masters has taught at the University of Maryland, Drexel, Philadelphia University, and at Temple at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. In addition to architecture and urban design studios, she teaches Architectural History Survey: Baroque to 20th Century and Modern Movements. She has also taught courses such as Order in the Landscape: Architecture and the Garden, COO1, and Introduction to the Built Environment. She directed the UMD Summer Program in Paris and the Temple University Chicago Study Tour.

Ms. Masters practices architecture in her own firm, Elizabeth C. Masters Architects, Ltd., and has worked with several Philadelphia firms. Her design entries have placed in several international competitions, including, the Leesburg Town Hall Competition and the Roebling Gateway Park Competition. Prior to opening her firm, she was the Project Manager for Cope Linder Associates on the CCD Streetscape Project in Center City, an 80-block streetscape design project. There, she managed a stage of renovations of the Reading Terminal Headhouse that included core and shell for the Hard Rock Café. She was Project Administrator at Andropogon Associates, a firm with a long track record in cutting edge ecological landscape architecture and planning.

Ms. Masters has pursued her community interests by serving on AIA committees, on her neighborhood community association board of directors where she was the president for two terms, and as an elected committeewoman now in her third term. She was awarded a Rome prize jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the National Institute for Architectural Education.