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Research & Facilities

Makerspaces

Facilities & Makerspaces 

The Tyler experience is defined in part by access to exceptional facilities. Graduate students have the space, the technology and the tools they need to go wherever their creative vision takes them, including 

  • dedicated practice studio spaces for architecture, environmental design, and graphic and interactive design graduate students; and  
  • individual practice studios for MFA students. 

Tyler's 255,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility on Temple’s Main Campus is home to makerspaces of all shapes and sizes to support graduate students in their studies. These include 

  • an acid room for copper etching; 
  • an 18-station wheel throwing room;  
  • computer studios; 
  • digital fabrication labs; 
  • high-ceilinged, light-drenched painting studios;  
  • hot and cold glass shops; 
  • a media output center; 
  • two large wet labs and darkrooms; and 
  • wood and metal fabrication shops. 

Spaces also include an outdoor classroom, study nooks, café, spacious green courtyard with natural dye garden, exhibition galleries and Temple Contemporary—Tyler's visionary center for exhibitions and public programming.  

Printmaking Studios

Printmaking students have nearly 10,000 square feet of dedicated space with three large rooms for lithography, etching/relief/mono printing and screen printing. The area contains an acid room for copper etching, spray booth, eight printing presses, a separate graduate printing room, large graduate studios, stone preparation room, washout room, critique room, an exhibition area and a 12-station computer lab with large format printing capability. There is ample rack storage for screens and lithography stones as well as large flat files for student work. Additionally, graduate students have private and semi-private studios with 24-hour access. 

Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio

Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio

The Loretta C. Duckworth Scholar’s Studio at Temple’s Charles Library provides a space for collaborative work and individual research, offering technology for textual analysis, mining big data, working in and creating 3D spaces, geospatial technology, gaming, visualizations, and more. Its makerspace, VR Lab, Specialized Computing Lab and Tech Sandbox provide students with tools to stretch their creativity.