Anthony
Mission Statement
The works in this portfolio focus primarily on shared spaces for learning and cultural exchange. As part of Temple’s curriculum, these projects are grounded in realism and are developed first-and-foremost with tectonics in mind. My passion for rendering and neatly constructed linework is highlighted here, along with my desire to design spaces where memories are forged and communities strengthened.
Cultural Nexus: A Blueprint for Socially
Inclusive Urban Insitutions
Class Title: Thesis
Term: Spring 2024
Professor: Sally Harrison
The unveiling of a new sports arena for the 76ers in downtown Philadelphia set off an uproar in early 2023. The proposed site in the city’s historical core exists along a stretch of Market Street and is particularly blighted, with little in the way of useful development since the 1960s.
There has been significant pushback from residents of the neighboring Chinatown as well as Philadelphia’s design professionals who fear gentrification, gridlock traffic and the construction of yet another inert project in downtown Philadelphia.
My goal was to plan the site to satisfy the need for redevelompent while addressing the programmatic elements requested by the community in Chinatown. This design balances cultural spaces with a renewed transit, community spaces and housing to provide an activated node in Center City.
The site is incredibly ideal from a development perspective on paper. It sits in the heart of Center City between 10th and 11th streets from Market Street to Arch Street. The site is singular in its connectivity to other points around the city – it has direct access to the Market Frankford line, regional rails at Jefferson station and numerous bus lines that converge at this location.
Not only does the site have access to public transit, it is also near several large points of interest. City Hall lies four blocks to the west. The Philadelphia Convention Center and Reading Terminal Market lie one block to the northwest. Chinatown abuts the site to the north at Arch Street, while the Fashion District Mall (part of which is slated to be demolished for the arena) sits to the east.
Chinatown in Philadelphia is enclosed by four modernist projects - the Vine Street Expressway, the Philadelphia Police Department Headquarters, the Fashion District Mall and the Philadelphia Convention Center.
My first goal with the project was to reconnect Chinatown with the rest of Center City both physically through the destruction of a portion of the Fashion District Mall and figuratively through the inclusion of programming that responds to the Chinatown design survey.
While studying Sanborn Maps of Philadelphia in the 19th century, I had encountered a discovery - the site was bifurcated by a since-destroyed roadway called Hunter Street. This road housed the workshops of salespeople and artisans who catered to the original High Street Market.
My second goal was to ‘re-establish’ Hunter Street by creating a pedestrianized pathway that would connect Market Street to Chinatown. This street would be designed to contain green space, public art and programming in order to keep the space attractive to pedestrians and activated throughout the day.
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Budding Along Broad Street
Class Title: ARCH 8013
Term: Spring 2023
Professor: Robert Z. Shuman
Partner: Alyssa Stanzione
The objective for this project was to create a new landscape architecture and horticultural studies school, and to integrate it within the existing arts and architecture campus within Temple’s main campus.
The current landscape architecture + horticulture school is located in Temple’s arboretum in Ambler, PA and given its remote location, feels disonnected from the Temple community at large.
Site Plan
Site Plan (Courtyard)
Our goal from the onset was to foster cooperation and shared learning experiences. We designed a building would physically tie into the existing arts and architecture schools by linking the buildings via sky bridges and developing a new quadrangle between the buildings.
The western-facade was designed as a double-skin spillover from the rooftop greenhouse. With this design choice, each classroom has an allocated semi-private space for year-round gardening, seed germination and experimentation.
Ground Floor Plan
West Elevation
North Elevation
Classroom Section (Indoor/Outdoor)
Regenerative Loop
Class Title: ARCH 8012
Term: Fall 2023
Professor: Fauzia Sadiq Garcia
Students were tasked to masterplan the sites of the oil refineries in Carson and Wilmington, California. As California begins to transition away from fossil fuel production and consumption, architects and urban planners have begun work on reconfiguring these multi-hundred acre plots of heavily polluted land.
The Carson and Wilmington refineries were first established in the late 19th century as Southern California in its early stages of devleopment. Both refineries were originally developed in remote areas, though they’ve since been surrounded by low-income communities of color who are actively harmed by air, soil and water pollution.
My partner and I were assigned the entirety of the Wilmington refinery, which was to be developed into a sustainability-focused college campus with a small wind farm on-premise.
The main spatial organzation of our campus was designed to unite the two halves of the community that were divided by the presence of the 400+ acre refinery. We had devised a looping campus quad that would tie the eastern and western neighborhoods together while providing walkable, bikeable infrastructure where it never existed before. The new site would contain ‘complete streets’ with a tram system, bikeable and walkable roads with wide sidewalks to encourage outdoor seating and engagement with the community.
The portions that were the most heavily polluted were precluded from residential development - as a result, this is where the majority of our campus buildings +mixed-use development was placed. The portions that were not involved directly in refining were developed into mixed income housing to accomodate both students and the California housing crisis. The highest peak of the ridge was designed to hold our wind turbines to provide the campus and surrounding area with sustainable energy, confronting the history of pollution on the site
Aerial Perspective
Wilmington Refinery
Vision Renders Early Sketches
Combined Class Masterplan
North Elevation
South Elevation
Following the group masterplanning exercise, each student chose a building within their masterplan to flesh out as a conceptual design.
I had developed a futuristic library, which would have a stronger focus on collaborative flexspace and technological integration over traditional book stacks.
To emphasize its prominence on the campus, I’d chosen the northwestern portion of the site and utilized a curving curtain wall to prioritize views over the surrounding valley. A lightshaft and an upper-floor veranda integrate the sunny California climate, while utilizing sun-driven facade decisions to minimize eastern and western exposures
Site Plan
Longitudinal Section
Latitudinal Section
Building Location On Grade
Ceramics
I’ve been making ceramics as an extracurricular hobby since early 2020. After taking a few introductory courses, I began to find my voice as a potter and created the self-directed work found below.
My pieces are largely functional, spanning from vases to planters and dinnerware. Most are curvilinear forms and that feature distinct glazing techniques, either embracing subtle gradients of color or outright divorce.
Photography
The following photographs were taken on 35 mm film while travleing Sicily, Japan and Quebec.
Despite the disparate locations, each photograph highlights the push and pull of modernity - there’s the represetnation of what once and how it has been subsumed by industrialization and increasingly extractive forms of development, whether in the name of tourism, science or international business.
Anthony Landi
914 S. Darien Street, Philadelphia PA, 19147
Cell: (+1) 516 - 708 - 3777
Email: alandi92@gmail.com
Experience
Designer I, Core States Group
Tyler School of Art and Archtiecture Temple University, Philadelphia PA
Master of Architecture 2021 - 2024
• Temple University Class of 2024 Salutatorian
• Architectural Research Centers Consortium King Student Medal
• Tau Sigma Delta Honors Society
• AIA Philadelphia Emerging Architects Board Member
Loyola University Maryland Baltimore, MD
Bachelor of Arts 2010 - 2014
• Cum Laude, Presidential Scholarship,
• Loyola University Honors Program
Skills Education
• Revit
• AutoCAD
• Rhino
• Sketchup
• V-Ray
• Enscape
• Midjourney AI
• Fologram AR
• Unreal Engine + Meta VR
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Microsoft Office
• Ceramics
• C-1 Fluency Spanish
1315 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA (November 2024 - Present)
Architectural Intern, Core States Group
201 S. Maple Avenue, Ambler, PA (January 2022 - November 2024)
• Collaborating with Core States architects and MEP engineers on commercial clients ranging from Chase to Primark
• Designing interior and exterior elevations, including both front and back of house spaces
• Drafting floor plans (construction, finish, furniture/equipment, RCP)
• Client management and communication
• Editing redlines and responding to client feedback
• Construction site documentation
• Sustainability coordination with MEP, PMs, subcontractors
• Drawing set management (printing, collating, shipping)
Senior Media Manager, Hero Digital
10 Shurs Lane, Philadelphia, PA (April 2018 - March 2021)
• Daily reporting and optimization across programmatic and social ad campaigns
• Hosting client performance + insight calls
• Media planning
• Billing reconciliation
• Pitching new buisness and identifying opportunities for strategic growth
Data and Inventory Partnerships, YouConnex
12 E. 49th Street, New York, New York (March 2017 - April 2018)
• Managing data and inventory integration for targeted ad buys
• Vetting technology of third-party targeting partners
• Developing campaign strategy and curating customized audiences for programmatic ad campaigns
• Media insertion order generation
• Leading New York City-based internship program
