Evan Rose, professor of practice in urban design at Penn, died after a long illness on July 13 at his home in Brooklyn, New York. He was 50 years old.

Mr. Rose grew up in New Jersey. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1986 and his master’s degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. He began his career in San Francisco’s planning department. As senior urban designer, he authored the award-winning San Francisco Waterfront Urban Design and Access Plan and initiated, authored and implemented San Francisco’s acclaimed Downtown Streetscape Plan.

In 1997, Mr. Rose joined the San Francisco firm SMWM, where he led the urban practice for 11 years and built the New York office. In 2007, he was diagnosed with ossifying fibromyxoid tumor, a rare form of cancer, and in 2008 he moved to New York for treatment. That year, he launched Urban Design+. In 2012, he launched SITELAB Urban Studio with Laura Crescimano.

Mr. Rose joined the Penn faculty in 2011 as a full-time professor of practice in the School of Design. He taught the Public Realm studio for second-year urban design students. In May of 2015, as part of the School’s graduation activities, PennDesign students awarded him with the G. Holmes Perkins Award for Outstanding Teaching, a citation given in recognition of distinguished teaching and innovation in the methods of instruction in the classroom, seminar or studio (Almanac May 26, 2015).

Mr. Rose was also an adjunct associate professor of architecture at Columbia University, where he taught in the graduate urban design program. He served as a board member for the San Francisco AIA and the California Council of the AIA, was a past president of the Architecture and Design Forum at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he also sat on the board of directors, and was a regular critic for architecture and urban design studios at MIT, SCI-ARC, UCLA, CCA, Stanford and UC Berkeley.

Mr. Rose is survived by his wife, Josslyn Shapiro, and their son, Ryder. An event to remember Mr. Rose and his work will be held by SPUR in San Francisco on September 25 (http://www.spur.org/blog/2015-07-20/memoriam-evan-rose); a memorial service in New York City is being planned for the fall. In lieu of flowers, his family requests donations be made in his honor to Team Evan at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Cycle for Survival (http://mskcc.convio.net/site/TR?team_id=50300&fr_id=2490&pg=team).