Here Rykwert continued his influential master's programme, taught with the architectural critic Dalibor Vesely. In 1988 Rykwert was appointed as the Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, a post he held until 1998; he is now Emeritus Professor.
Rykwert completed his master's degree under the guidance of architectural critic Dalibor Vesely and was appointed as the Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988, a position he held until 1998; he is now an Emeritus Professor.