Nolen & Swinburne

Peabody Hall, Temple

Johnson Hall, Temple

Hardwick Hall, Temple

Barton Hall, Temple

Beury Hall, Temple

Beury Hall, Temple

Temple Development Plan

Model of Temple

Speakman Hall, Temple

Curtis Hall, Temple

Pearson Hall, Temple

McGonigle Hall, Temple

Ritter Hall, Temple

Wachman Hall, Temple

Weiss Hall, Temple

Presser Hall, Temple

Tomlinson Theater, Temple

Paley Library, Temple

Biology-Life Sciences, Temple

Mitten Hall Annex, Temple

Temple Development Plan

Drexel Development Plan

The firm of Nolen & Swinburne was associated from at least 1949-1974 and served as the visioneers for the Temple campus in the postwar period.  James Nolen was a graduate of the architecture program at Notre Dame and his father was a developer in North Philadelphia and a member of the Temple Board of Trustees.  With this one firm you can trace the post war ideas about what an urban campus should look like.  Their designs phased planning were noted and held as models for urban campus design in publications such as Architectural Record.  The work of Nolen & Swinburne is one body where you can see the influence of funding on the final product.  Their