Jules Dingle is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Historic Preservation and co-founding Partner of DIGSAU, a Philadelphia-based architecture practice recognized internationally for thought leadership and design excellence. Collectively they have a broad view of architecture, how it is made, who makes it, and who benefits. Their work is notable for an unwavering optimism that novel design solutions exist for every problem. As a design principal and a critical thought leader, Dingle focuses on how the firm’s work embraces innovation and engages both the practical and the profound. His interest in embodied carbon reduction and overall resourcefulness shapes a vision of preservation as a creative pursuit that engages artifacts of consequence alongside new ideas of adaptive reuse. He believes that questions of equity and the environment encourage a more nuanced way of thinking about preservation that provides continuity with the past, simultaneously recognizing that an important part of that continuity is change. This includes not just physical material and objects, but also questions of use and the cultural, ecological, and economic forces that affect community self-determination.
