Temple University's recently took home a gold medal and won five awards at the 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from March 2-10. The university's Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Landscape Architecture and Horticulture programs "advance innovation and excellence through hands-on learning and research, incorporating field-based classes facilitated by Temple's 187-acre Ambler Arboretum and Campus.
At the 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show, Temple's exhibit titled Piers, Progress, and Processes: Charting a Course for a More Bountiful Future explored the history of Pennsport and charted a course toward a future designed to reconnect the neighborhood with the waterway that has been so integral to its history.
"We chose the oldest neighborhood in the entire city, drawing attention to the environmental issues — tides and rising river levels — while also recognizing the history of the area. We took the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's theme, United By Flowers, and interpreted it as uniting the neighborhoods back with the river," said Landscape Architecture Associate Professor Michael LoFurno. "The river is why Philadelphia is even here — the city wouldn't exist without the river. I think we achieved what we set out to do — give people food for thought."
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