Sally Harrison is Associate Professor of Architecture in the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and a registered architect. She is former chair of the Department of Architecture and the director of the Urban Workshop, a university-based practice that seeks to address community design issues through a participatory research and design process in collaboration with other place-making disciplines including landscape architecture, public art, planning and geography. Professor Harrison has professional and teaching expertise in urban design, urban theory, and sustainable design.

Professor Harrison’s design, pedagogic and scholarly work on sustainable neighborhoods for the postindustrial city has been published in ARCC Journal, Places: A Forum of Environmental Design, Architecture Magazine, the Journal of Urban Design, and in the popular press. She has delivered papers at national and international conferences of the ACSA, the ARRC/EAAE, EDRA, and at other scholarly symposia. The North Philadelphia Urban Initiatives Project funded by the US Department of Education won the Award for Architectural Research from Architecture Magazine and the Research Committee of the national American Institute of Architects. Professor Harrison has served on the board of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Chapters of the AIA, and was a founding member of the Community Design Collaborative. She is an Associated Faculty at the Temple University Center for Sustainable Communities.