Marilyn Jordan Taylor

Ms. Taylor, a distinguished and much-admired practitioner, is Dean of The University of Pennsylvania’s PennDesign, one of the country’s leading schools of design. With over 35 years at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, she is recognized worldwide as a thought leader in urban design using public space and infrastructure in the design of large-scale urban projects and civic initiatives and a woman pioneer in the fields of architecture, planning, and construction. Ms. Taylor led her former firm in a variety of Urban Design & Planning projects such as New York’s East River Waterfront Master Plan and Columbia University’s Manhattanville Master Plan. Taylor also founded her firm’s Airports and Transportation Practice with airport projects such as SkyCity at Hong Kong International Airport and the transformation of New York’s Farley Post Office to Moynihan Station. Taylor has served as a member of The Partnership for New York City, President of the American Institute of Architects (NYC Chapter), visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is currently on the Advisory Board of the Penn Institute for Urban Research.