Tulane School of Architecture Summer 2010 Newsletter

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2009-2010 tSA board of Advisors Cornelius M. Alig, TSA ‘78 \\ Lee H. Askew III, TSA ‘66 \\ Maziar Behrooz, TSA ‘85 \\ Gerald W. Billes, TSA ‘70 \\ Melissa C. Brandrup, TSA ’97, MPS ‘98 \\ Mary Louise Mossy Christovich, A&S ‘49 \\ Felipe Correa, TSA ‘00 \\ Alvin Cox, TSA ‘72 \\ Collette Creppell \\ Arthur Q. Davis, Sr, TSA ‘42 \\ Maria Bea de Paz, TSA ‘96 \\ Robert P. Dean, Jr., TSA ‘68 \\ Mihnea C. Dobre, TSA ‘09 \\ R. Allen Eskew \\ S. Stewart Farnet, Sr., TSA ‘55 \\ H. Mortimer Favrot, Jr., TSA ‘53 \\ Jason Gant, TSA ‘03 \\ Kathryn D. Greene, TSA ‘78 \\ Michael R. Howard, AIA, TSA ‘74 \\ Robert A. Ivy, Jr., TSA ‘76 \\ Dan Maginn, AIA LEED AP, TSA ‘89 \\ William Raymond Manning, AIA \\ Saul A. Mintz, TSA ‘53 \\ G. Martin Moeller, Jr., TSA ‘84 \\ Angela O’Byrne, TSA ‘83 \\ Casius H. Pealer III, TSA ‘96 \\ G. Gray Plosser, Jr., TSA ‘68 \\ Richardson K. Powell, TSA ‘77 \\ Wellington J. Reiter, TSA ‘81 \\ Lloyd N. Shields, TSA ‘74 \\ I. William Sizeler \\ Albert H. Small, Jr., A&S ‘79 \\ Markham H. Smith, TSA ‘79 \\ Lawrence W. Speck \\ Peter M.

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Trapolin, TSA ‘77 \\ Robert E. Walker IV, TSA ‘92 \\ Susan Whiting, Parent of TSA ‘07 Grad \\ John C. Williams, TSA ’78 \\ Marcel L. Wisznia, TSA ‘73

Faculty News

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School news

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preservation Program

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TRUDC

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\\ Ginette Elizabeth Bone, Professor of Practice \\ Willam B. Bradshaw II, Adjunct

Tulane City Center

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Professor, Richard Koch Chair, and Director of MPS Program \\ Carey Rose Clouse,

urbanbuild

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Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Coleman Coker, Professor of Practice \\ Michael Kent

Alumni News

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of Landscape Urbanism \\ Marcella Del Signore, Assistant Professor \\ Tim Duggan,

student News

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Adjunct Lecturer \\ Ammar Eloueini, Associate Professor \\ Marilyn Lee Feldmeier,

AIA New Orleans Awards

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and Associate Dean \\ Jason Gant, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Ed Gaskin, Adjunct Assistant

2009-2010 faculty Catherine Emily Barrier, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ C. Errol Barron, Favrot Professor I \\ Scott David Bernhard, Mintz Professor and Director of Tulane City Center Lecturer \\ Jacob Brillhart, Favrot Visiting Assistant Professor \\ Eugene Darwin Cizek,

Crosby, Associate Professor \\ Julia Czerniak, Harvery-Wadsworth Visiting Professor

Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Favrot Associate Professor IV Professor \\ James Brooks Graham, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Doris Guerrero, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Robert Alexander González, Assistant Professor \\ Bruce Merriman Goodwin, Favrot Associate Professor V \\ William Douglas Harmon, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Hiroshi Jacobs, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Victor Jonathan Jones, Assistant Professor \\ Irene Ursula Adelheid Keil, Professor of Practice \\ Judith Kinnard, Professor \\ John P. Klingman, Favrot Professor II \\ Heather Ashlie Knight, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Tiffany Lin, Assistant Professor \\ Ann Merritt Masson,

tsa news Writing + Editorial: Maressa Perreault Graphic Design: Leigh Wilkerson, 10½ Studios

Adjunct Associate Professor and Assistant Director of MPS Program \\ Eugene Eean McNaughton, Professor of Practice \\ Byron John Mouton, Professor of Practice and Director of URBANbuild \\ Grover Ernest Mouton, III, Adjunct Associate Professor and Director of Tulane University Regional Urban Design Center \\ Michael David Nius, Professor of Practice \\ Graham Warwick Owen, Associate Professor \\ Carol

For questions or comments, or to submit materials for our next issue, please contact Dina Lossi, Executive Assistant to the Dean:

McMichael Reese, Christovich Associate Professor \\ Cordula Roser Gray, Professor of

Tulane University School Of Architecture Richardson Memorial Hall, Rm. 303 6823 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans LA 70118 dina.lossi@tulane.edu // 504-314-2361

Professor \\ Kenneth Schwartz, Dean \\ Lloyd “Sonny” Shields, Adjunct Professor \\

cover image:

Keil | Lin Partnership with Wettermark + Keiffer Architects. New fourth floor review space, Richardson Memorial Hall, Summer 2011.

Practice \\ Scott Ruff, Associate Professor \\ Milton George Scheuermann, Jr., Adjunct Rainier Simoneaux, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Jill Stoll, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Jonathan Tate, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Emilie Rachel Taylor, Adjunct Instructor and Senior Program Coordinator Tulane City Center \\ Mark Wesley Thomas, III, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Kentaro Tsubaki, Assistant Professor \\ Ellen Barbara Weiss, Favrot Professor III \\ Thaddeus Andrew Zarse, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Professors emeritus Geoffrey Howard Baker \\ Ronald Coulter Filson, Dean Emeritus \\ Karen Kingsley \\ James Roger Lamantia, Jr. \\ Stephen Jacobs \\ Richard Otis Powell

let t e r f r o m t h e d ea n I am delighted to present the second Tulane School of Architecture Newsletter since my arrival as Dean. After two extraordinarily active years, I am now in the position to reflect on a number of key elements of our “strategic plan” that are firmly in place. We are in a strong position owing to the creativity and commitment of our students and faculty and through our good fortune as a school and university. We share a passion for community engagement through design. At this point, engagement is in our DNA and we are increasingly recognized as unique in this regard.

We are a place where excellence permeates our ambition in the studios, classrooms, and throughout many activities in the realm of public service.

I would like to share our newly refined Mission Statement. It simultaneously addresses where we are today and where we will be heading in the near future:

The mission of the Tulane School of Architecture is to prepare students for leadership positions in the design professions and in their communities. This school aspires to provide the highest quality professional education in architecture, to develop and conserve knowledge, and to promote excellence and innovation in architecture, landscape urbanism, preservation, and urban and environmental design. The School recognizes the centrality of design as a process of synthesis that incorporates history, theory, technology, behavior, and culture. The School supports diversity and meaningful engagement with urban and community issues, while embracing the creative potential and imperative of sustainable design.

These seem like lofty ambitions, but I am pleased to report that they are playing out on a daily basis in the curriculum and the work of students and faculty at the school. The Strategic Plan that I developed is helping us to position some key institutional steps as we move forward. I am excerpting some fragments from the more detailed document. A number of themes have influenced the development of this plan for the School of Architecture: •

Support excellence in faculty and student work

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Build diversity and mentorship

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Refine the curriculum

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Identify distinctive opportunities

And the plan itself focuses on three goals: 1.

Strengthen the core – building on current strengths in design while expanding our focus where appropriate.

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Raise the profile – communication is key, and we are seeing the results of a much more ambitious agenda for the school in this regard.

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Engage the community – this is fundamental to our unique identity at this point.

I hope you enjoy this newsletter. I look at the work of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and it gives me and all of us a great sense of pride. It is a privilege to be at Tulane and a joy to live and work in New Orleans!

Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA Dean

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fac ult y + S ta f f n ew s Associate Professor Ammar Eloueini, Intl. Assoc. AIA, gave a lecture at

in Jackson Square during the day and an illuminated figure at night, using

Syracuse University and the Architecture Foundation on Venceslas Square

a floating matrix of arches to highlight the laterally looped passage from

in Prague, Czech Republic titled “Digital Recall.” In his lecture, Eloueini

Pirates Alley to the Cabildo museum entrance. Lin was also featured in

highlights the ways that current technologies are changing the perception

an ArtVoices article, “Tiffany Lin: Part of Something Great(er),” written by

of how we deal with architecture and space and the importance of bridging

Alison Popper, TSA ’08, in the 2010 Volume 22. Lin will spend the Fall 2010

these virtual ideas into reality. Professor Eloueini was among the first, over

semester teaching in the Tulane School of Architecture Rome Program.

a decade ago, to experiment with CNC manufacturing processes in his design work. He is among a new generation of architects who are building a repertoire of linked design and fabrication techniques.

Associate Professor Graham Owen has published “Architecture, Ethics and Globalization” (Routledge, 2009), which brings together architects, philosophers, sociologists, and architectural and literary theorists to address

In February, the member institutions of the Association of Collegiate

the changing ground of ethical judgment in the context of globalization.

Schools of Architecture (ACSA) elected Professor Judith Kinnard, FAIA, as its 2011-2012 president; she officially joined the ACSA board of directors on July 1, 2010. Professor Kinnard was also invited to chair the 2010 INFORM Awards. She enlisted Wayne Troyer (TSA ‘83) and Steve Dumez, FAIA of Eskew+Dumez+Ripple as fellow jurors. They reviewed 185 entries, identified 13 awards of merit and 2 award winners, recognizing firms in INFORM magazine’s primary circulation areas of Virginia, Maryland, Washington, DC,

This book is an outgrowth of a symposium organized by Owen and funded

West Virginia and North Carolina.

The Iberia Parish Library hosted “Photography: A Learning Process,” an exhibition featuring a variety of Digital Imaging Specialist David Armentor’s photographs including “Sugar Mill Sessions,” an architectural body of work that documents the sugar industry in Iberia parish.

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Reese (photo by Jill Stoll)

through the generous support of Robert Harrison (TSA ‘59). Edited by Owen and supported on its inception by the Graham Foundation, the collection features essays and a series of responses and discussions among the participants, with an introduction by the editor. He also delivered the paper “After the Flood,” on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels.

Favrot Professor John Klingman was interviewed by NPR in a story about The Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, designed in 1954 by architect Charles R. Colbert (1921-2007), professor at the Tulane School of Architecture and later Dean of Columbia University. The World Monuments Fund named the Wheatley School in New Orleans in its 2010 Watch. Klingman,

Assistant Professor Tiffany Lin’s interactive installation Lateral Loop was

as a member of DOCOMOMO Louisiana, has participated as a consulting

one of 13 designs chosen to exhibit in DesCours, December 9-13, 2009.

party in the FEMA 106 review and is presenting alternative designs for re-

Fabricated from locally harvested bamboo poles and constructed with the

habilitation of the school. Klingman’s annual Best New Architecture review

help of Michael Green, Nels Erickson and countless other TSA students,

in New Orleans Magazine was published in March, this year entitled “The

Lateral Loop created a contemporary promenade within the Cabildo arcade

Year’s Best Architectre: 6 Projects Worth Examining.”

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Carol McMichael reese, Ph.D.

Designing Pan-America, a publication by Assistant Professor Robert

Through her work in Pontilly (the Pontchartrain Park and Gentilly neighbor-

González, Ph.D., RA, is scheduled to be released in 2011. It presents the

hoods of New Orleans), Christovich Associate Professor of Architecture

first examination of the architectural expressions of Pan-Americanism.

Carol McMichael Reese, Ph. D has focused on revitalizing the tradition-

Concentrating on U.S. architects and their clients, González demonstrates

ally undervalued neighborhood that she believes to hold great cultural

how they proposed designs that reflect U.S. presumptions and projections

and historic importance. Reese began work with her students in these

about the relationship between the United States and Latin America.

neighborhoods in 2003, partnering with seven different organizations

This forgotten chapter of American architecture unfolds over the course

dedicated to preserving and bettering their local communities. Her work

of a number of international expositions ranging from the North, Central,

has strengthened the relationship between Tulane and the Pontilly com-

and South American Exposition of 1885-1886 in New Orleans to Miami’s

munity, and has influenced the people of Pontilly to work toward positive

unrealized Interama fair and San Antonio’s HemisFair ‘68, encompassing

change in their neighborhood. Beyond New Orleans, Reese has focused on

the Pan American Union headquarters building in Washington, D.C., and the

Latin America—the subject of her lecture at Harvard University’s Gradu-

creation of the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse in the Dominican Republic.

ate School of Design in Feburary. Reese engages methodological and

Adjunct Professor Thaddeus Zarse authored two articles in Art Voices: “Khoury Levit Fong: The Big and the Small of it All” in the January, 2010 issue, and “Tulane City Center: Actively Designing for Design Activism”.

In the latter article Zarse focused on the issue of social activism through architecture, interviewing Tulane City Center Director Scott Bernhard and Senior Program Director Emilie Taylor. http://issuu.com/tulanearch/docs/architecture_in_art The American Institute of Certified Planners unveiled the Faubourg Marigny

historical questions concerning her investigation of three highly urbanized Latin American capitals: Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Panama City. In these case studies, she looks at the urban dimensions of architecture and planning as they relate to concepts of “modernism” and “modernity”, and to those of trans-national exchange and discourse, including national selfpromotion in the international marketplace of ideas and capital investment.

Reese is currently working on a book on the history of Panama’s twentieth century urban development, which focuses on the communities built in the U.S. Canal Zone between 1905 and 1965.

“Great Places Plaque” in May. The plaque represents 40 years of an intense and meaningful alliance between the Faubourg Marigny and the Tulane School of Architecture. Professor and Koch Chair Euene Cizek and his students in the 1971 spring semester created the Historic Marigny Zoning, which has been the guideline for many other neighborhoods in New Orleans, across the US and Latin America.

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SCHOO L NEWS

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Richardson Memorial Hall Renovations

tulanecentraleurope

In May 2011, renovations to Richardson Memorial Hall are set to begin.

One of several study abroad programs offered by TSA, tulaneCENTRALeu-

This is the beginning step in a process of updating the School of Archi-

rope is a six-week travel program in Vienna, Prague, and Berlin. Upon

tecture’s facilities using sustainable design strategies and advanced

completion of travels, students return to New Orleans for an intensive four-

technologies. The project, designed by Professor of Practice Irene Keil and

week studio. A new website developed by Byron Mouton, Cordula Roser,

Assistant Professor Tiffany Lin’s firm Keil | Lin partnership with Architect of

and Matt Fox features student photographs and projects:

Record John Wettermark’s (TSA ’84) firm Wettermark + Keiffer, will provide

www.tulanecentraleurope.org

a new computer lab on the fourth floor in the heart of studio life, additional faculty offices, and improved classrooms. The new fourth-floor review space will add visual connection to the fifth floor stair and cross-ventilation in a currently internalized space. This will add to Richardson Memorial Hall’s existing assets, most notably the high ceilings, ‘free-plan’ studios, wonderful natural light and ventilation, and its transparency of spirit.

BBC Interview Scott Bernhard, Mintz Associate Professor, interviewed with reporter Matthew Wells on BBC’s “Outlook” series. Two graduate students, Megan Dire (TSA ‘11) and Alexandra Wirthlin (TSA ‘11), were also interviewed.

Haiti Initiatives

BIM

Tulane University responded immediately to the earthquake in Haiti by

Jason Gant (TSA ’03) and Hiroshi Jacobs (TSA ’03) team-taught the BIM

creating an interdisciplinary committee dedicated to researching best practices, generating funding and developing relationships to help Haitians recover. This group felt that the faculty and students at the Tulane School of Architecture were uniquely situated to assist in this rebuilding effort by offering guidance, resources, and ultimately on-the-ground volunteer labor. As one of the first schools in the nation to respond with relief, TSA created a set of best practices for rebuilding based on our post-Katrina experience in the Gulf South. Since then, alumnus Seth Welty (TSA ’08) and Adjunct Lecturer Tim Duggan have visited Haiti to offer their expertise and assistance, and TSA students have hosted numerous fundraising events. In the coming year, students and professors intend to apply this research and funding to real building projects working with Architecture For Humanity on the ground in Haiti.

class during the 2010 spring semester. They both became experts in BIM practice after graduating from TSA and are now involved in teaching methods in integrated practice. During the course they combined webinar instruction with visits to the classroom (Jason from Los Angeles, and Hiroshi from Cambridge, MA). They were supported by two recent TSA graduates who are interns in New Orleans offices working with BIM on a daily basis: Daren Sadowsky, LEED AP (TSA ‘07) and Maggie Van Dusen, Associate AIA/ LEED AP (TSA ‘07). Jason, a licensed Architect in the State of California, is an Architectural BIM Manager for BIM Solutions. In 2003 he was part of the first successful Revit Architecture BIM project at his firm, and went on to provide internal support and mentoring for his co-workers. He has consulted and trained for several architecture, engineering and construction companies, and co-founded the BIM Users Group in Southern California.

Hiroshi is currently pursuing a Master of Design Studies in Technology at Harvard’s GSD. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a designer with RTKL in Washington, DC. As an undergraduate student at TSA, Hiroshi founded RevitCity.com, the largest online community dedicated to Autodesk Revit, with approximately 100,000 users worldwide.

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board of advisors spotlight

Mary Louise Mossy Christovich, tulane ‘49 Hidden Gems of Architecture Education

Coming from a generations-old Creole family, Mary Louise Mossy Chris-

DesignIntelligence’s 11th Annual America’s Best Architecture and Design

community in New Orleans. Having spent her childhood in New Orleans,

Schools 2010 named Tulane School of Architecture one of five “Hidden

Christovich attended Newcomb College, Tulane University’s coordinate

Gems of Architecture Education,” selecting the School as one of the most

women’s college, to study in the history department. She earned her BA

influential yet under-celebrated programs in the country. The publication

in Journalism and History in 1949. She liked history and writing, but her

also named Dean Kenneth Schwartz one of DesignIntelligence “Most

first love was always architecture. As a student, she spent a great deal of

Admired Educators of 2010,” including Dean Schwartz in a list of those who

time at the architecture school befriending, among others, John Lawrence,

“exemplify excellence in design education leadership”.

who would become Dean of the School in 1960. The School of Architecture

Digital Technology Improvements With money allocated by Dean Schwartz, Architecture Student Government (ASG) was given the opportunity to recommend the purchase of equipment they felt the school most needed. With this gift from a member of the School’s Board of Advisors, the members decided on a 42” wide format scanner, a tool that will be a great asset to all students who wish to convert paper-based imagery into a digital format.

tovich has been a lifelong supporter of architecture and the preservation

was all-male at the time, so Christovich expressed her love of architecture through history and writing. In her first year at Newcomb she founded the Newcomb Page and made herself the editor, generating public press about Newcomb for the first time. After graduation she spent a summer in Europe with a group of academics from Harvard, solidifying her passion for architecture. Since then, she devoted her career to education and the preservation of New Orleans architecture. Her six-volume New Orleans Architecture series, which she wrote in collaboration with Roulhac Toledano and others, became the key reference documents for understanding New Orleans’ his-

The TSA Computer Lab is now outfitted with ESRI’s geographic information

toric neighborhoods and architectural identity. The volumes were a result of

system software, “ArcEditor.” All 26 stations will run this GIS program, a

intensive research at the New Orleans Notarial Archives, where she spent

powerful mapping software that allows users to view, understand, ques-

years amassing and translating documentation for 18th and 19th century

tion, interpret and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships,

buildings in New Orleans. At that time, properties transferred ownership

patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports and charts.

through auction with notarial acts recording the sales and building history

TSA has increased its Autodesk licenses from 25 to 125 concurrent and “perpetual” licenses for use inside the Tulane Network anywhere on campus. This was made available through collaborative efforts by the dean, provost, department heads across Tulane, and the VP for Information Technology for the benefit of the School and the entire Tulane community.

of every property; 75% of the records were in French, the rest written in Spanish and English. Christovich describes her passion for architecture as a means of understanding culture through the details of architecture, and the city as a physical document of its changing culture and people. Her leadership in preservation organizations is unparalleled; she co-founded the Louisiana Council for the Vieux Carrée, the Central Business District Improvement Association, Save Our Cemeteries and the Preservation Resource Center. She has served on the board of the Historic New Orleans Collection and the State Review Committee, which selects properties for the National Register of Historic Places. She was honored with the Tulane Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award in 1992. She and her husband, William Kearney Christovich, funded the Mary Louise Mossy Christovich Professorship, currently held by Associate Professor Carol McMichael Reese.

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school news Ecuadorian rose production facility

Digital fabrication studio - Student work

Options Studios

Ecuador Studio

Dutch Dialogues...Continuation

Tulane School of Architecture and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del

John Klingman, Favrot Professor The fall 2009 upper level studio explored two of the proposals from the 2008 Dutch Dialogues II Workshop: wet canals in uptown streets and water storage in the Hoffman Triangle. The students’ work is featured on the Dutch Dialogues website. www.dutchdialogues.com

Ornament, Digital Fabrication and Architecture Ammar Eloueini, Associate Professor Nearly one hundred years after Adolf Loos connected “Ornament and Crime,” the role of ornament in architecture continues to be questioned.

Loos argued distinctions between ornament as integral to the design and decoration as applied-expression, and the divide between the two was marginalized with the proliferation of Modernism. As form followed function and less became more, Modern architecture became a study of reduction.

Loos’ exception for ornament through material, fabrication and making was blurry compared to the stark philosophy that all ornament was crime.

In one of the richest cities of the United States in relation to historic buildings and ornament, the studio was devoted to the design of a building along the riverfront development in New Orleans. Special attention was placed on the exploration of digital techniques through animation and scripting as part of the design tools currently available to designers, the implication of the use of these techniques in regard to the question of ornament and digital fabrication.

Jonathan Tate, Adjunct Assistant Professor Ecuador partnered with Expoflores to develop sustainable alternatives for rose production greenhouses, and designs for a school of floriculture and research center. The initiative, sponsored by Expoflores, is bringing together architecture students from Tulane School of Architecture and the Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseno y Artes of Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador (FADE-PUCE), in Quito, Ecuador to explore ways of improving the environmental qualities of the greenhouse unit and associated planning of the rose farm in Ecuador. The students from both schools proposed design alternatives for a new school of floriculture meant to educate future rose producers and research center for the industry.

The proposal for student research into Ecuadorean rose production was developed collaboratively by Felipe Correa (TSA ‘00), Principal of Somatic Collaborative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ana Maria Duran, Instructor at FADE-PUCE, and Jonathan Tate, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at TSA. At their respective universities, Duran and Tate taught an architecture studio course to develop the initiatives advanced by the proposal. The studios jointly comprised 22 advanced level students.

As part of the investigation, the studios studied rose production facilities, processes and their relation to the region and world. Design proposals for the greenhouse and school were informed by research into advanced materials, modern fabrication processes, sustainable energy production and water resource protection coupled with an understanding of native regional agricultural techniques.

Faculty and students from TSA traveled to Ecuador in February. Joined by their colleagues from PUCE, students visited rose farms north and south of Quito for a firsthand look at the conditions of flower production. Additionally, Expoflores hosted a series of education seminars on the industry and students exchanged research information developed earlier in the year.

The greenhouse, school and research center proposals developed by the students will be presented to representatives from Expoflores, and faculty and students from FADA-PUCE in New Orleans in late Spring. The work from the studios will be collected in a document for release later this year.

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Past events

fall ‘09 - spring ‘10

Continuing Education Conference The Continuing Education Conference was held on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at the Lavin-Bernick Center. Speakers included John Klingman, Favrot Professor, School of Architecture, Tulane University; Mary Kay Lanzilotta, FAIA, LEED AP, Partner, Harmon-Cox Architects; GZ (Charlie) Brown, FAIA, Professor, Director of Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL), Department of Architecture, University of Oregon; and Kath-

board of advisors spotlight

erine Grove, AIA, LEED AP, Director, William McDonough and Partners.

Tim f avrot, tsa ‘53

En El Aula The Tulane School of Architecture hosted the Second Latin American Architecture Symposium EN EL AULA on April 10 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Organized by Assistant Professor Robert Gonzalez, the symposium and workshop brought together scholars and practitioners who have successfully introduced Latin American architecture and urbanism “in the classroom.”

Spring 2010 Lecture Series Speakers Thomas Phifer, FAIA, Thomas Phifer and Partners, New York, NY David Leatherbarrow, Ph.D., Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania In Design, Ecology is Also Cultural | Azby Fund Lecture Dana Buntrock, TSA ‘81

Architecture has always been a part of Tim Favrot’s heritage. H. Mortimer Favrot, Jr. (Tim), a Tulane School of Architecture alumnus (’53) and a member of the Board of Advisors, was born into a family of architects; his father, H. Mortimer Favrot, Sr. and his grandfather, Charles Favrot, were both architects. Favrot received his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University in 1957 and returned to New Orleans to begin a long and successful career as a leader and philanthropist in the architecture and preservation community. He celebrated the 40-year anniversary of his firm, Favrot and Shane, this year. Favrot believes it was natural to become active at Tulane University and the School of Architecture. He has remained connected to the University and School, serving as a member of the Board of Tulane from 1986-2000 and currently as a member of the Tulane School of Architecture Board of Advisors. He was named Outstanding Alumnus in 1985 and Tulane Alumni Volunteer of the Year in 1997. Favrot is a past President of AIA Louisiana and past President of the Apartment Association

Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

of New Orleans; he is a past Chairman of the New Orleans City Planning

Neolithic Daddy: The Red School in Japan

Commission and past President of the Preservation Resource Center of New

Cameron Sinclair and Eve Blossom, TSA ‘88

Orleans. In 2001, Favrot received the highest award from AIA Louisiana, the

Errol Barron, FAIA, TSA ‘64, Professor of Architecture, Tulane University; Barron & Toups Architects, New Orleans, LA The Architecture of Drawing Javier Sanchez Inhabiting Mexico City

Gold Medal of Honor. He has been involved at Tulane for decades, recently serving on the Dean Search Committee in 2008 during the selection process that led to the recruitment of the new dean. Favrot notes that he knew immediately that Kenneth Schwartz was a great candidate, as a top-notch architect and educator with strong leadership and collaborative abilities.

He sees a bright future for the School under Dean Schwartz’s leadership

Thesis Show at the Ogden Museum of Art

working with the School’s programs, while bringing greater public attention

Commentators: Adele Santos, FAIA, Dean, MIT School of Architecture

to the School’s accomplishments and providing opportunities to help restore

Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, ARO, New York, NY

the city. Favrot is proud of the School’s historic and recent ability to attract

Student Lectures Travis Bost, TSA ‘10

aspiring architects. He has watched with joy as students have helped in the rebuilding efforts through design, development, construction, renovation, and historic preservation. Favrot’s philanthropy includes founding the

Multiplying Metropolis: Housing and Infrastructure Typologies in Dakar

Favrot Visiting Chair in Architecture, made possible by the generous gifts of

and Bamako | Goldstein Travel Fellowship Exhibition

Favrot and his wife Kathleen Gibbons Favrot. Favrot’s recent generous gift

Colm Kennedy, TSA ‘10

of $500,000 continues his decades of philanthropy and has added renewed

“Lessons from the Netherlands: Strategies for Living with Water”

energy to the School of Architecture’s goals. The gift will be split between

Lawrence Travel Fellowship Lecture

the renovation planning and design of Richardson Memorial Hall using sus-

Suzanna Monaco, TSA ‘10 Lawrence Travel Fellowship Lecture

tainable design strategies and the Tulane City Center’s plans to strengthen and expand its work within the city of New Orleans.

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p re s e rvat i o n p r o g r a m Three articles written by MPS students were featured in the May issue of Preservation in Print: “St. Mary’s Reaches Out to Community to Help Renovate 150-Year-Old Landmark,” by Danielle Del Sol (TSA, MPS ‘11), (pg 17-18); “Pete and RePete,” by Danielle Del Sol, (pg 20-21); and “A Step Toward Becoming a Preservation Professional,” by Paige Largue (TSA, MPS ‘11), (pg 38). Danielle Del Sol’s article “Last of 13 Sisters to Debut Soon,” will be published in the Summer 2010 issue of Preservation in Print.

2009 Preservation Studies Field School Adjunct Assistant Professor Heather Knight (TSA, MPS ‘06, SLA BA ‘98) led the three week field school, “Cities of the Dead: Above-Ground Cemetery Preservation, Conservation, Documentation, Methodology and History,” during the summer of 2009. A program that combined classroom work with 1

hands-on conservation field work and field studies, the program’s field work focused on the Taylor Tomb in the Lafayette Cemetery No.1, which experienced significant damage during Hurricane Katrina.

2010 Field Studies in Historic Preservation As part of their spring Field Studies in Historic Preservation course, Professor Eugene Cizek and Adjunct Assistant Professor Mark Thomas led their students to Morocco. The group learned about traditional adobe construction and the difficulties involved in its preservation, gaining exposure to non-western architectural traditions and cultural landscapes.

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As part of the Studio in Building Preservation, an integral component of the MPS program, students focused this year on St. Roch Cemetery No.1. The students used Historical American Buildings Survey (HABS) methodology to document the cemetery and prepared measured drawings in accordance with HABS standards. Professional quality documentation drawings and reports have been developed for each structure surveyed in the Spring 2010 Studio in Building Preservation. This data along with the extensive HABS collection created over the past 40 years by students of Professor Gene Cizek will be developed into a website as part of the Summer-Fall 2010 Practicum of Anthony Del Rosario (TSA, MPS ‘11).

STUDIOS 1 Volubilis, Morocco World Heritage site 2 Morocco Studio, 2009-2010 3 Mosque at Marrakech 4 St. Roch Cemetery elevation

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TRUDC tulane regional urban design center

GIVING MAKES A DIFFERENCE We encourage all Tulane School of Architecture alumni to make a gift to the School of Architecture. The support of our alumni and friends is critical to our ability to provide the best educational opportunities for our students

Mayors Institute on City Design

southern regional , spring 2010

Grover E. Mouton, III (TSA ‘71), Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC), was recently awarded a $50,000 grant to host the Southern Regional Session of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD). From April 21-23, 2010, Mouton and the TRUDC welcomed eight mayors from cities across ten Southeastern states. The session convened mayors and nationally recognized design professionals to address the planning and urban design issues within each city. The attending expert design panel included architects, developers, engineers, preservationists, landscape architects, and others.

The keynote speaker was The Honorable Victor Ashe, former mayor of Knoxville, TN and former Ambassador to Poland. Mayors from across the South attended the conference, including the mayors of Fayetteville & Pine Bluff, AR, Edmond, OK, Sunrise & North Miami, FL, Decatur, AL, Monroe, LA, and Chapel Hill, NC. Design and development experts from across the country analyzed each mayor’s presented project and provided immediate feedback and potential design solutions.

Professor Mouton has a long history with the MICD, a forum funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the US Conference of Mayors, and the

and to continue the School’s upward trajectory. Moreover, alumni support provides the School with leverage when negotiating with external funders who are most interested in knowing that those closest to an institution are also providing support. Gifts to the Tulane Fund, designated to the School of Architecture, can be made online: http://www.tulane.edu/~giving/ You may also mail your check (note on the memo line that the gift is for the School of Architecture for the Annual Fund) to the following address:

Tulane University P.O. Box 61075 New Orleans, LA 70161-9986 To learn about other funding priorities at the School of Architecture in the areas of Sustainable Strategies, student fellowships, research, programs, and other needs at the School of Architecture, please contact Marcelle C. Highstreet, the School’s Director of Development at 504.314.2494 or mhighstr@tulane.edu

Your gift is an investment in our school, faculty, students, and the community. Thank you for your support!

American Architectural Foundation. He worked with the NEA in the early 1990’s to create the Regional MICD sessions, allowing the program to focus not only on large cities, but on those small and mid-sized regional cities which typically have less resources to fund planning and design. The regional approach also allows Mouton and other conference hosts to pinpoint design and planning issues relevant to their specific areas of study. With the establishment of the regional session, he was awarded a 3-year contract to host the Southern Regional sessions. Since that time, he has hosted several additional sessions, including two recovery-themed institutes focusing on hard-hit communities in both Louisiana and Mississippi. More than 50 mayors have attended MICD sessions hosted by the TRUDC.

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Tulane C i t y C en ter

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Ogden Exhibition

Design in the 7th Ward

The work of the Tulane City Center was exhibited at the Ogden Museum of

Tulane City Center’s Senior Program Director Emilie Taylor (TSA ‘06) devel-

Southern Art, featuring twenty-two of fifty-eight projects completed since

oped her fall 2009 option studio as a lesson in community activism through

Hurricane Katrina. The exhibit coincided with ACSA’s Annual Meeting and

design. Focusing on the 7th Ward, the studio developed projects within

conference held in New Orleans, providing national academic exposure for

the neighborhood and held discussions about how design—and design/

TCC’s work.

build, in this case—can engage a community. The studio worked on two projects over the course of the semester, Circle Food Store and Storypod.

Skate Park at City Park 2 After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’ City Park, one of the nation’s oldest and largest urban parks, required extensive renovations. As part of the redevelopment, City Park has allotted a generous portion of the open space to a new skate park facility. Tulane City Center, in a project led by Assistant Professor Victor Jones and Adjunct Assistant Professor Thaddeus Zarse, has partnered with City Park and New Orleans skateboarding and roller derby communities to provide imaging and ideas for the proposal. The team aims to create an authentic and versatile facility, with space for skateboarding, roller skating and roller derby. The new skate park has the potential

The team engaged Dwayne Boudreaux, owner of the Circle Food Store, to develop a proposal for bringing the store back, and address issues of food justice, health, recovery and job creation. They worked with the Neighborhood Story Project to design and build an interview space that doubles as a community library for young writers, addressing issues of literacy and cultural identity. The studio initially worked in small teams to develop ideas for Storypod, eventually pairing the designs down to two, from which the Neighborhood Story Project chose the one they most wanted to see built. http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/031610_storypod.cfm

to be one of the premier parks in the nation, addressing the local skating

$1 Million Gift for the school’s Community Work

community’s need and desire for a leading skating facility.

In December, TSA received a major gift from an anonymous donor. The pledge of $1 million, payable at the rate of $100,000 per year, supports the

Hope Haven In a project led by Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore, Tulane City Center partnered with Catholic Charities to develop a programmatic strategy to integrate three community-based programs on the Hope Haven Campus of the old Madonna Manor orphanage in Marreo. Jefferson Parish Care Center, Café Hope and Hope Haven Farm will reinvigorate the Campus, offering shelter, teaching and training programs. The Care Center will provide temporary housing and programs to help reintegrate homeless families into the community. The Café will offer job training to at-risk youth, while using the Farm as a source of local produce and model for urban farming. The Café and Farm are intended to act as a collaborative platform for the community to help revitalize the Madonna Manor, a Spanish Colonial Revival building established in 1932. The City Center was involved in the schematic design of Café Hope, and is working with all of the project’s partners to devise a site strategy and strategic goals to make the project a reality.

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Tulane City Center’s sustainable design and planning work in the community. The yearly installments will support one design/build project and one visioning document each year. The visioning documents, booklets of imagery for large, multi-phase projects, will serve to help community members and potential donors envision the ultimate goals of the project. Dean Kenneth Schwartz, along with Jean and Saul Mintz Professor of Architecture and Director of the Tulane City Center Scott Bernhard have developed a strategy for implementing this gift over the next ten years. Each year the TCC will issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for community-based non-profit organizations who are interested in partnering with TCC, TSA faculty and students on a project. Following the selection of each project, a Request for Qualifications will be issued to faculty. TSA’s success in connecting architectural education with community needs has distinguished the school since Hurricane Katrina, and this gift builds on earlier gifts and grants the School received immediately following the storm.

partner spotlight

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Pam Broom deputy director, new orleans food and farm network Upon her return to New Orleans post-Katrina in 2006, Pam Broom set out to re-build community through agriculture. Armed with a background that includes a rural upbringing in Raceland, Louisiana where she acquired her passion for farming and gardening from her father, a

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degree in applied urban anthropology and a background as a community organizer, Broom is a founding member of the New Orleans Food and Farm Network (NOFFN). Started in 2002, NOFFN was originally a venue for individuals who were interested in backyard gardening, and a place for discussions about the issue of food security. After Katrina it was clear that in order for neighborhoods to re-build, communities needed access to fresh, healthy, affordable food. NOFFN partnered with the CarrolltonHollygrove Community Development Corporation (CHCDC) to focus on the Hollygrove neighborhood which Broom described as a ‘food desert,’ and proposed the Hollygrove Market & Farm—a retail and growing operation that would bring locally-grown, affordable produce to the Hollygrove community. The team secured various grants from sources including the Blue Moon Fund, RosaMary Foundation, Organic Gardening Magazine and Aveeno to enlist the aid of Tulane City Center to design and build the

4 PROJECTS 1 Hope Haven 2 Hollygrove Farm 3 Circle Food Store 4 Growers’ Pavilion 5 Skate Park

Hollygrove Farmers’ Market, Growers’ Pavilion, and most recently, Shade Units. Tulane City Center provided NOFFN and CHCDC with masterplanning, design and presentation support without which, according to Broom, the projects would not have been able to achieve the success that has befallen them.

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urba nb u i l d

Student rendering of URBANbuild 05

“Architecture School” Documentary Winner

to participate in URBANbuild’s next project following the progress of work

The film was named winner of the International Documentary Association’s

turn, will find inspiration in her enthusiasm and sincere interest in helping

2009 Award for Best Limited Series. The IDA Documentary Awards were

both the university and the city.

held December 4, 2009 at Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. Ira Glass, host and producer of This American Life, was host.

from inception to completion. Tulane’s students and community partners, in

The School of Architecture generates momentum for URBANbuild through the support and dedication of alumni and friends like Michelle and Allison

CREDITS:

Diener. Please help us to continue to provide the very best educational op-

Director/Executive Producer/Original Concept: Michael Selditch, Original

portunities like these for students while improving the lives of New Orleans

Concept: Stan Bertheaud, Senior Producer: Rob Tate, Producer: Rachel Clift,

citizens. You can make a donation to the School of Architecture by calling

Executive Producers: Lynne Kirby, Laura Michalchyshyn, Sundance Channel

Marcelle C. Highstreet, Director of Development, Tulane School of Architec-

URBANbuild Receives Generous Gift Tulane alumna Michelle Diener believes in the value of teaching philan-

ture at 504 314-2494 (mhighstr@tulane.edu). You can also give online at: http://www.tulane.edu/~giving/#gift.

thropy to her children. When she asked her daughter, ninth grader Allison

URBANbuild local global

Diener, which cause she wanted to support at Tulane, her answer came

URBANbuild local global was published in 2009 and documents the work

immediately—rebuilding New Orleans! Allison, who is possibly interested in becoming an architect, hopes to be involved in the process of building a house from start to finish. Realizing that giving to Tulane also means making a difference for New Orleans, the Robert and Michelle Diener Foundation has given a gift to the School of Architecture in her name.

This generous gift, made just before the New Year, allows URBANbuild to begin their process of designing and constructing a new house as soon as August 2010 in a collaboration between Tulane School of Architecture faculty, students, and the community in which the house will be constructed.

URBANbuild, a design/build studio composed of teams of 12 students, began designing and constructing prototypical houses for New Orleans neighborhoods just six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

Dean Kenneth Schwartz and URBANbuild Director and Professor of Practice, Byron Mouton AIA (TSA ‘89), will structure a unique opportunity for Allison

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URBANbuild local global

of URBANbuild—a comprehensive two-year program at Tulane University School of Architecture. URBANbuild was co-directed by Tulane faculty members Byron Mouton and Ila Berman as a unique multi-scaled laboratory for city research and a vehicle to generate innovative architectural strategies to actively support the rehabilitation of New Orleans following the devastating destruction of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Authored by former Associate Professor IIa Berman and former Adjunct Assistant Professor Mona El Khafif, URBANbuild local global is a double-sided book that reconnects local research, analysis and design for New Orleans with a broader framework that embraces knowledge and experience drawn from comparable world cities. The book may be purchased for $65.00 shipped.

URBANbuild 04

Mobile Goat unit

URBAN build 04

URBANbuild05

In June the USGBC certified URBANbuild 04 “LEED Silver” through the

This year URBANbuild partnered with the Make It Right Foundation to com-

LEED for Homes program, URBANbuild’s first LEED certification. The project

plete two projects in the Lower Ninth Ward. During the fall 2009 semester,

explores the relationship of public and private spaces in connection to

Make It Right asked students to design and build a means to house and de-

the streetscape and takes advantage of its corner lot through screened

ploy the herd of goats that will graze among the neighborhood’s abandoned,

fenestration and porches to engage the house with the neighborhood

overgrown lots. Responding with a wealth of elevational, construction and

while simultaneously providing privacy for the homeowner. The screening

mechanical strategies, students designed and built the Mobile Goat Unit,

system allows the homeowner to adjust the transparency of the façade in

mounted atop a 48-foot trailer, providing a mobile landmark and invaluable

relation to light and desired visual connection to the street. Constructed

service to the community.

using traditional wood framing, the 1,200 sf house features three bedrooms and two baths as well as a living room and kitchen area that celebrates a direct connection to the rear garden. The project includes a number of green features, including advanced insulation, low-emissivity windows, Energy-Star electrical fixtures and an energy saving air conditioner, as well as sustainably harvested and manufactured materials like bamboo flooring and zero-VOC interior paint. The project also takes advantage of its location on an infill site in a historic neighborhood with close access to public transportation and community services.

During the spring semester URBANbuild partnered with bildDESIGN, Professor of Practice Byron Mouton’s professional office, John Williams Architects, TKO Construction and Make It Right to continue the development and to construct a dwelling scheme initiated by bildDESIGN. In comparison to previous URBANbuild research activities, Prototype 05 offered students the opportunity to work on a project of increased scale and technical complexity. The project was required to abide by ‘Cradle to Cradle’ construction philosophies, demonstrated through the use of environmentally friendly products and systems. The scheme aims to be LEED certified at Platinum

The project was featured in the November issue of The Atlantic, in an

level. Additionally, students were provided the opportunity to work with a

article entitled “Houses of the Future,” which featured re-building work in

number of local service providers and professional practitioners. The house

New Orleans, including the Global Green houses, Make It Right Foundation

was realized amidst the ongoing construction of nearly 20 units located on

houses and TSA’s own URBANbuild Prototype 04. It was also featured in

adjacent lots.

the December/January 2010 issue of Dwell magazine. The article, “Not So Big. Not So Easy,” was written by Dan Maginn, (TSA ’89), a partner in the Kansas City firm el dorado, inc. The project was featured in the September issue of Azure, in an article entitled “Making It (Kinda) Right in New Orleans.”

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Bi-lingual monograph of the work of Luis Flores, FAIA Albert Charles Ledner, AIA Emeritus, TSA ‘48 with Eean McNaughton, TSA ‘55

a lum n i n e w s 1940 s Albert Charles Ledner, AIA Emeritus, TSA ’48 Albert Charles Ledner, AIA Emeritus received the 2009 Medal of Honor from the Louisiana chapter of the American Institute of Architects given at the Design Conference Honors Luncheon in San Destin, FL, on August 4. The prestigious award is given by AIA Louisiana in recognition of outstanding service in the field of architecture and to the community. Ledner’s many

Two alumni elevated to AIA College of Fellows

accomplishments include over 100 projects in the New Orleans area and

Creed Walker Brierre, FAIA (TSA ’74, A&S ’68) of Mathes Brierre

taught at Tulane and chaired the 1974 publication, “A Guide for New

Architects, APC, in New Orleans, and Jeffrey Rosenblum, FAIA

Orleans,” for AIA New Orleans.

(TSA ‘67) of Rosenblum Coe Architects, Inc. in Charleston, were elevated to the prestigious AIA College of Fellows. Brierre has been a leader of AIA for over 25 years at the local and state levels.

beyond, including the National Maritime Union in New York City. Ledner

1950 s

His accomplishments include establishing a nationwide electronic

S. Stewart Farnet (TSA ‘55) received a 2010 Community Arts Award. The

plan of distribution systems to benefit the architects and AIA state

award, given by the Arts Council of New Orleans, recognizes “individuals,

components across the country, attaining the first architectural fee

organizations and corporations that have made outstanding contributions

increase on the Louisiana State projects since 1975, and improving

to the arts in New Orleans.” Farnet is a member of the Tulane University

public perception of architects through the Institute’s Public Aware-

President’s Council and Tulane School of Architecture Dean’s Advisory

ness initiative. He currently serves on the Architectural Registra-

Board. He has been a trustee of the New Orleans Museum of Art since

tion Examination subcommittee of the NCARB and on the State

2001 and is a member of the Vieux Carré Commission, Vice President of

Licensing Board. Rosenblum was the recipient of the 2009 Medal of

the Azby Fund, and a member of the Board of Directors of the River Road

Distinction, the highest honor given by the South Carolina Chapter

Historical Society/Destrehan Plantation, Hermitage Plantation, and the City

of the AIA. As a 2009 member of the Board Community Committee,

Park Improvement Association.

he was appointed Chair of the AIA’s new Small Firm Task Force

by President Marvin Malecha, FAIA. He was elected as the South Atlantic Regional Director of the AIA’s Board in 2003. Rosenblum’s

1960 s

years of commitment to small firms has helped forge the Institute’s

Luis Flores, FAIA, TSA ‘65

current and future policies, and influenced the profession by estab-

A bi-lingual monograph of the work of Luis Flores, FAIA entitled “Luis Flores

lishing small firm initiatives that benefit all architectural practices.

Arquiecto/Architect” was published in October by Collección Catálogos de Arquitectura. A distinguished architect practicing in Puerto Rico, Flores presented his work at the Center for Architecture in New York, NY, in October at “Puerto Rico Now: Recent Architecture and History.”

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Benjamin Vargas, FAIA, TSA ‘80 with President Cowen

Special No. 9 House, John Williams AIA, TSA ‘78, Executive Architect

1970s

1980s

Architect and developer Marcel Wisznia’s (TSA ‘73) renovation of New Or-

Benjamin Vargas, FAIA (TSA ’80) was honored with the 2010 Whitney

leans’ historic Maritime building is slated for completion in the fall of 2010.

M. Young, Jr. Award by the AIA Board of Directors. A native of Puerto

The project will convert New Orleans’ oldest skyscraper into apartments,

Rico, Vargas has championed efforts to instill the values of diversity and

offices and retail spaces after having been vacant since Hurricane Katrina.

inclusiveness into the AIA and has worked to promote and gain recognition

Robert Ivy (TSA ’76) was named Master Architect by the national architecture fraternity Alpha Rho Chi. Only seven others have been given the designation: Nathan Ricker, Cass Gilbert, Eliel Saarinen, John Welborn

of Hispanic and Latino architects and their work. The Whitney Young Award is given annually to the architect or organization that best exemplifies the profession’s social responsibility to be a positive force of social change.

Root, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Buckminster Fuller, I.M. Pei. Ivy is

Dana Buntrock (TSA ’81), Associate Professor at University of California,

the Editor in Chief of Architectural Record, the world’s largest professional

Berkeley, gave a lecture at Tulane in March entitled “Neolithic Daddy: The

architecture publication, and was named Vice President and Editorial Direc-

Red School in Japan.” Her research and teaching address how architects

tor of McGraw-Hill Construction Publications in 2003.

engage the construction industry, with a special interest in architectural

Sizeler Thompson Brown Architects (STBA), the firm of alumni Brian Faucheux (TSA ‘77) Thomas Brown (TSA ‘80) and Billy Sizeler, TSA Board of Advisors, was one of two firms whose projects were featured at the AIA Sustainable Design Series and the AIA New Orleans Center for Design in April. AIA New Orleans partnered with Global Green and the USGBC-LA to spotlight two new buildings at Dillard University—the Professional Schools building, designed by STBA and the Student Union Building, designed by John T. Campo & Associates. The 130,000 SF Professional Schools Building, which will house a variety of academic disciplines, will achieve LEED Gold certification for new buildings and for building operations and performance.

practices in Japan.

Angela O’Byrne, TSA ‘83 “New Orleans City Business” featured Angela O’Byrne, AIA in their 2009 Women of the Year issue. President and CEO of Perez APC, O’Byrne has been featured in their Women of the Year issue three times in the last ten years, and as a result has been inducted into their Hall of Fame. Perez APC was also named as one of the Top 500 Woman Businesses in the US listing generated by DiversityBusiness.com.

New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles featured a residence designed by Wayne

John Williams (TSA`78, A&S`74) received AIA’s Committee on the Environ-

Troyer, AIA (TSA ’83) in their Spring/Summer 2010 issue. The project was

ment (COTE) Award for his work with the “Special No. 9” House. The Spe-

awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2009 AIA Louisiana Design Confer-

cial No. 9 House was designed with KieranTimberlake for the Make It Right

ence Awards; his Arthur Roger Gallery was given an Award of Merit.

Foundation to provide storm-resistant, affordable, and sustainable housing options for the residents of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward displaced

by Hurricane Katrina. The project was honored at the AIA 2010 National Convention and Design Exposition in Miami as one of the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment.

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alumni news G. Martin Moeller, Jr (TSA ’84)

Nathan Cherry (TSA ’86)

G. Martin Moeller, Jr. (TSA ’84), Senior Vice President and Curator of the National Building Museum, received the Glenn Brown Award for 2009 from

Brian Andrews (TSA ‘84)

1990s

AIA DC and Washington Architectural Foundation. The award, named for

Adam Newman (TSA ’90) and his firm Zande+Newman exhibited in the

Glenn Brown, architect, historian and founder of AIA DC, “honors an individ-

American Institute of Graphic Arts’ 2009 Design Awards and Exhibition

ual who has raised the public awareness of architecture and its benefits to

focused on the state of design in New Orleans and Gulf Region. Their

society, and has improved the quality of life in Washington, DC.” Moeller,

projects in branding and design for Woodward Design + Build, Wisznia

also a member of the TSA Board of Advisors, was a Visiting Scholar at the

Architecture and Wisznia Development, Tulane City Center, The Tulane

American Academy in Rome during the spring of 2010. He studied changing

School of Architecture, and the City of New Orleans’ Growing Home project

attitudes about the relationship between modern and historic architecture

were chosen for inclusion.

in Rome, with a focus on the work of emerging local practices.

Carol Swedlow (TSA ’94) and Bill Peterson (TSA ’95) collaborated on an

Maziar Behrooz (TSA ’85) and his firm MB Architecture PC in East Hamp-

innovative design-build project in Manhattan that was featured in New York

ton, NY received two AIA Peconic Chapter 2009 Honor Awards – the Honor

Magazine. The team renovated an 1869 brownstone, formerly abandoned

Award in Architecture for ‘Container Art Studio’ and the Honor Award in

but for a check-cashing business on the ground floor, turning the building

Projects for ‘Hangar House’. Both explore alternative materials and methods

into four condominium units with a unique movable plane that tilts inward

of construction to achieve more sustainable and efficient building solutions.

to completely open the second floor façade. New York City Brownstone Project was also featured in an 8-page article in the June 2010 issue of Elle

Brian Andrews (TSA ’85) was awarded the Hyde Chair of Excellence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture for 2009-2010.

Decoration.

His work and background was featured in the University’s 2009 “College of

Krystyan Keck (TSA ’94) and her husband Robert Choeff designed a

Architecture News”

modern addition to their Venice, CA cottage that was featured in the “Los Angeles Times.” The addition doubled their living space, contrasting a

Nathan Cherry’s (TSA ’86) new book Grid / Street / Place: Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts was published in 2009. The book ex-

translucent box that visually floats above the existing 1913 cottage.

amines how urban design sensibilities can create a more flexible, sustain-

The work of Patricia Heyda (TSA ’95) was featured in March and April

able urbanism through scientific, empirical research. Cherry is the Director

2010 at Art St. Louis North Gallery, in an exhibit entitled Window_Zoom/

of the Planning and Urban Design Group of RTKL Associates Inc, using his

Capture: Landscapes through the Digital Lens. Heyda’s work is focused

20+ years of experienceas an architect and urban designer specializing in

on the visual apparatus of seeing and the techniques of painting. She

large urban infill and brownfield redevelopments, transit oriented develop-

says, “What interests me is not the static or framed views of the land,

ment, campus planning, and sports and entertainment districts.

but landscape as a constantly changing and dynamic field.” Heyda is an architectural and urban designer practicing in St. Louis, and Lecturer in

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Builder/Architect magazine named Paul Misfud’s (TSA ’88) firm Agnew +

Urban Design and Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual

Misfud Architects of Santa Fe, NM Architectural Firm of the Month in their

Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a member of the School’s

November 2008 issue.

Board of Advisors.

Melissa Borrero Brandup (TSA ‘97, MPS ‘98) - Wooster and Mercer Lofts

Melissa (Borrero) Brandrup (TSA ’97, MPS ’98) has been named President-Elect of the AIA chapter in El Paso, TX. In 2008 she founded the non-profit organization Eco El Paso which focuses on design in the hot-arid climate. In January the Design Arlington ’09 Awards Program gave an Award of Merit to the Wooster and the Mercer Lofts, which Melissa developed while working as Senior Project Architect for Cunningham Quill Architects in Washington, DC.

2000 s Felipe Correa (TSA ’00) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

He recently published “Invention/Transformation: Strategies for the Qattara/Jimi Oases in Al Ain,” highlighting his research with Harvard Professor Jorge Silvetti and graduate students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. The book, published jointly by the Harvard GSD and the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH), documents the

SO-IL’s winning urban landscape Pole Dance

Jimmy Stamp, TSA ‘04 Jimmy Stamp is currently a graduate student in the Master of Environmental Design program at the Yale School of Architecture. His thesis, “the spatial implications of digital media,” has recently focused on the work of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown; Venturi/Scott Brown’s work was honored in a symposium and exhibition during the spring 2010 semester.

Stamp was asked to write a review of the exhibition for “Constructs,” the School’s newspaper, as well as to organize and moderate a student discussion with Venturi and Scott Brown. He is the student editor for the School’s forthcoming publication about the symposium.

Jennifer Pelc, AIA (TSA ’05) of EDR studio in New Orleans was named to the NCARB 2010 Supplemental Experience Task Force, established to evaluate non-traditional means of satisfying IDP requirements. She, along with Firm Director Allen Eskew, FAIA, wrote the firm’s licensure program in 2008, which earned the firm the AIA’s IDP Outstanding Firm Award for 2008-2011.

students’ investigations and proposals for design and developments in Abu

Erin Keith (TSA ’05) received an Honorable Mention in the TOGS (Tempo-

Dhabi. He is a member of the School’s Board of Advisors.

rary Outdoor Gallery Space) Competition in Austin. Her team was selected as one of the top 15 entries out of 177 entries representing 20 countries.

Jing Liu, TSA ‘04 Jing Liu and her husband and partner Florian Idenburg’s Brooklyn-based firm Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) was chosen as the winner of the 2010 MoMA/ MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. The program, in its eleventh year, “continues its commitment to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects.” SO-IL’s

David Demsey (TSA ’06) was elected Associate Director of the AIA New Orleans chapter. As a member of the EDR studio, Demsey has contributed to several large-scale projects, most recently focusing his attention on the redevelopment of New Orleans’ famed Dixie Brewery into a laboratory facility for the new replacement Veterans Affairs Hospital.

winning urban landscape attempts to capture the cloud of human and

Heather Knight (TSA, MPS ‘06) and Laura Ewen Blokker (TSA, MPS ‘07)

environmental turmoil into P.S. 1’s walled-off little triangle of Long Island

received James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Grant from the James Marston

City. Throughout the courtyard an interconnected system of poles and

Fitch Charitable Foundation to continue their research entitled “Louisiana’s

bungees creates a steady ripple, their equilibrium open to human action and

Bousillage Tradition: Investigation of Past Techniques for Future Practice.”

environmental factors. Pole Dance is on view in P.S. 1’s courtyard from June 25, 2010 until September 6, 2010. Liu will be leading Architects Week with Tulane students in the spring of 2011.

Newt Lynn (TSA, MPS ’09) published an article in the March issue of New Orleans Magazine entitled, “Jackson Barracks: A Tale of the Historic Encampment That is Home to the Louisiana National Guard.” Lynn participated in the Historic American Buildings Survey project and grant at the Barracks funded by the State Historic Preservation Office.

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s tude nt ne w s

Commencement 2010 Awards

HONORS

American Institute of Architects

Summa cum laude

Medal

Christian Evan Rodriguez

Christian Evan Rodriguez

Magna cum laude

Karla Estela Valdivia American Institute of Architects

Meaghan Elizabeth Hartney

Certificates of Merit

Whitney Elise Huver

Ana Maria Borja

Chelsey Grace Morar

Matthew Ryan Hostetler

Chelsea Lee Williams

Alpha Chi Rho Medal

Cum laude

Graduate Colloquium

Peter John Kilgust

Travis Kyle Bost

Thomas J. Lupo Award

Chad Ralph Cramer

Dean Schwartz provided funding for the inaugural Graduate Colloquium

John Paul Pacelli

held March 19-20, 2010—a program the students titled “New Ecological

Matthew Ryan Hostetler

Graduate Colloquium featuring presenters Tim Duggan, ASLA, Ryan Duke, Mitchell Joachim, PhD, Kirsten R. Murray, AIA, and Jerome Ringo

Strategies.” Students had the opportunity to engage designers, fabricators and policy professionals for a two-day discourse on how environmental issues are being realized in today’s professional world. Presenters included

Ronald F. Katz Memorial Award Colin James Van Wingen

Emily Lynne Handley Joseph Frederick Keppel III Radha Mistry Kristian Otis Jeremy Mizes Emily Lobur Sperber

Tim Duggan, ASLA, director, Sustainable Landscapes Program, Make It Right

John William Lawrence Memorial

Foundation; Ryan Duke, San Francisco Chapter Leader, Project H Design;

Award

Mitchell Joachim, PhD, co-founder, Terreform ONE; Kirsten R. Murray, AIA,

Joseph Frederick Keppel III

principal, Olson Kundig Architects; and Jerome Ringo, The Apollo Alliance.

Malcolm J. Heard Award for

Emily Lynne Handley

Excellence in Teaching

Meaghan Elizabeth Hartney

William Douglas Harmon

Whitney Elise Hartney

Dean Schwartz has provided generous funding for student development, al-

Thaddeus Andrew Zarse

Joseph Frederick Keppel III

lowing students the opportunity to further their education through symposia

Lawrence Travel Fellowships

Chelsey Grace Morar

and technology improvements, including:

Thomas Joseph Bogan ‘11

Emily Lobur Sperber

Funding to sponsor nine AIAS members to attend the 2009 AIAS Forum

Garrett Loren Jacobs ‘11

Thesis Commendations

in Minneapolis

Class of 1973 Travel Fellowship

Ana Maria Borja

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Funding for the student-run Graduate Colloquium, held in March

Jennifer Anne Gaugler ‘11

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Funding for major technology purchases as decided by students

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Support for ASG, AIAS and ARC in their ongoing work on behalf of the

Student Funding

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Goldstein Travel Fellowship Kevin Levi Muni ‘11

Tau Sigma Delta Ana Maria Borja Chad Ralph Cramer

Travis Kyle Bost Scott Patrick Burroughs Susan Naef Danielson Carlos Augusto Garcia III

Funding for Preservation Matters 2 conference to be run by the Preser-

Mac Heard Travel Fellowship

Meaghan Elizabeth Hartney

vation students ($10,000)

Kathleen Audrey Peaden

Matthew Ryan Hostetler

Ogden 8 Thesis Exhibition, Lecture, and Reception

Graduate Address

Joseph Frederick Keppel III

Christian Even Rodriguez ‘10

Student Leadership ASG Lindsay Kiefer, President Oren Gregory Mitzner, Vice President Leland Bailey Berman, Treasurer Christopher J. Steinberg, Secretary AIAS Mira Asher, President

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Ana Maria Borja

Peter John Kilgust Andrew Martin Liles Chelsey Grace Morar

Alpha Rho Chi Alexandra Borjoraski-Stauffer, President

John Paul Pacelli

APX Peter John Kilgust, President

Karla Estela Valdivia

theCharrette (student newsletter) Kevin Michniok, Editor

Luis Alexis Quinones Christian Evan Rodriguez Chelsea Lee Williams

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Dean Schwartz presented “Provocations: Tulane School of Architecture Thesis Projects 2010” on Friday, May 7 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Calling themselves “The Ogden 8,” their theses were presented at a public exhibition highlighted with a reception and commentary by Adèle Naudé Santos, FAIA, Dean and Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, MIT and Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, Principal, Architecture Research Office (ARO), New York; Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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student news Foreign Architects Rome Exhibition

Garrett Jacobs, Michael Greene, Ayo Alao and Nels Erickson finishing the sukkah

FAR: Foreign Architects Rome Exhibition tsa rome program 2009

Student Notes

June 2010 is the month of the “Festa dell’Architettura di Roma”—the

Former Vice President of Tulane University’s chapter of the American

Roman Architectural Festival, an important cultural event involving the most outstanding personalities on the international architectural scene. All of the Rome based Architecture Foreign Study Programs, including Tulane University and several Foreign Academies, were invited to participate in an exhibit called “FAR - Foreign Architects in Rome” which opened on June 8 and lasted until June 14, in the Tempio di Adriano (Hadrian’s Temple) in Piazza di Pietra.

Tulane University Rome Program exhibited the work developed during the fall 2009 semester by Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore, Favrot Associate Professor Bruce Goodwin, and fifteen TSA Students, focusing primarily on the study of urban forms and public spaces in the city of Rome.

The exhibited work was part of the analytical and design process developed in parallel between Studio and Drawing / History of the City / Materials and Methods seminars, as well as from the ten-day Sicily Lab Workshop with

Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), Cassandra J. Howard (TSA ’09, MPS ‘11), was chosen to serve as the AIAS team representative for the re-accreditation process of the University of California at Los Angeles in April. Currently pursuing her Master of Preservation Studies and working for Mathes Brierre Architects in New Orleans, Howard began her involvement with AIAS while attending The Catholic University of America, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture.

Nicholas Cecchi, (TSA ’10) published Architect’s Week 2009: eXplorations in (prototypical) architecture, a catalog of the process and products of the 2009 annual spring design-build event held at Tulane School of Architecture. The retrospective looks at the week-long design-build exercise which focused on outdoor furniture design, producing beautiful and functional prototypes for outdoor campus seating.

Professor Antonio Saggio from University La Sapienza- Roma. Critical ana-

Six students—Lee Berman, Natalia Hidalgo, Jade Jiambutr, Josh

lytical tools were introduced as a first approach to reading and re-writing

Mings, Will Rosenthal and Jen Wickham—were selected to present

the city. In particular, students were introduced to analytical concepts such

their Comprehensive Design Studio projects to members of the OC Haley

as Spatial Data, Social Practices and Urban Temporal Narratives to be able

Community, including board members of the Louisiana Civil Rights Institute,

to engage Urban Forms through generative tools. Learning from historic

the OC Haley Mainstreet Association, and other community stakeholders.

public sites, the second part of the semester focused on Piazzas in inter-

The projects selected represent a broad spectrum of ideas and creative

stitial areas to engage critically urban forms critically through design. The

approaches to the design challenges, including site and context, organiza-

students worked on four different piazzas and transportation hubs [Piazzale

tion of program, and consideration of cultural/historical context, building

Flaminio, Trastevere, Ostiense and Tuscolana] located between the historic

form and materiality. The projects offer substantial ideas as the community

center and recently developed areas.

begins the discussion and pre-design of the Louisiana Civil Rights Institute.

The students’ work is published on Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/product/

Garret Jacobs (TSA ‘11) and Michael Greene (TSA ‘11) used skills

paperback/tsa-rome_sicily-lab-2009/11385944

learned in the classroom to design a sukkah—a temporary structure used to celebrate Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival—that they, with the help of other students, built outside of the Lavin-Bernick Center. Sponsored by Tulane Hillel, Jacobs and Green designed the wood structure in consultation with Rabbi Yonah Schiller, executive director of Hillel.

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American Institute of Architects New OrleanS CHAPTER

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Tulane School of Architecture alumni, faculty and students were once again honored by AIA New Orleans, receiving six out of the nine honors given at the 2010 Design Awards.

Awards of honor and merit were given, recognizing the superb work of the TSA community. This year’s awards theme Recovery & Progress demonstrated AIA New Orleans’ continued aim at raising awareness of the importance of great design in the rebuilding of the city.

1 URBANbuild 04, Tulane University’s URBANbuild Program with Byran Mouton 2 TLSUHSC Library Commons, studioWTA I Wayne Troyer Architects 3 Le Tramway Pavillon de l’Arsenal, AEDS 4 Residence at 6329 Milne Blvd, bildDESIGN 5 Gravier Street Residence, Wisznia I Architecture + Development 6 New Orleans East Louisiana Com-

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munity Health Center, TZCO in association with the Tulane City Center

Ammar Eloueini, Intl. Assoc. AIA, TSA Assoc. Professor of Architecture

Thaddeus Zarse, TSA Adjunct Assistant Professor

Award of Merit Divine Detail

Award of Merit Projects

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New Orleans East Louisiana Community Health Center

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TZCO in association with the Tulane City Center

Award of Merit Divine Detail Le Tramway Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris

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Award of Honor Residential URBANbuild, designBUILD Prototype #4, New Orleans, LA

Byron Mouton, AIA, TSA Professor of Practice, TSA ‘89

Tulane University’s URBANbuild program, represented by Byron Mouton

Award of Merit Residential

Project Leads: Byron Mouton, Program Director & Architect of Record;

bildDESIGN, Byron Mouton, AIA

Sam Richards, Construction Co-Director; Doris Guerrero, Adjunct Faculty;

Residence at 6329 Milne Blvd

Emilie Taylor, Senior Program Coordinator; Anthony Christiana Construction, General Contractor

Wayne Troyer, AIA, TSA ‘83

Students: Robert Baddour, Amanda Brendle, Ben Flatau, Monica Breziner,

Award of Merit Interior Architecture

Nicholas Cecchi, Katie Champagne, Nick Chan, Chad Cramer, Susan N.

LSUHSC Library Commons

Danielson, Shannon Farrell, Matt Fox, Kevin Garfield, Lauren Goetz, Royce

studioWTA I Wayne Troyer Architects

Evan Gracey, Corey Green, Chris Halbrooks, Meaghan Hartney, Matthew Hostetler, Colm M. Kennedy, Joseph Keppel, Peter Kilgust, Nicolas Mallet,

Marcel Wisznia, TSA ‘73

Lauren Martino, Suzanne Monaco, Emily Orgeron, JP Pacelli, Marian Prado,

Award of Honor Adaptive Reuse

Marie Richard, Gregor Schuller, Kevin Tully, Karla Valdivia, Colin VanWin-

Gravier Street Residence

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Wisznia I Architecture + Development

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TULANE Richardson Memorial Hall #303, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118

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September 13 James Timberlake FAIA KieranTimberlake Philadelphia, PA Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Lecture

January 10 Hilary Sample Assistant Professor, Yale School of Architecture Principal, MOS, LLC New York, NY

September 27 AMmar Eloueini, International Assoc. AIA Principal, AEDS Favrot Associate Professor Tulane School of Architecture

January 24 David Adjaye, International Hon. FAIA Adjaye Associates London, England

October 25 Stanley Saitowitz Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects San Francisco, CA Walter Wisznia Memorial Lecture November 8 Wendy Evans Joseph FAIA Chris Cooper AIA (TSA ‘91) Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture New York, NY

January 31 Peter Gluck Peter Gluck and Partners Architects New York, NY February 7 Francisco Javier Rodriguez AIA Dean, University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture Principal, RSVP Architects San Juan, Puerto Rico

March 21 Edward Ford AIA Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Azby Fund Lecture May 4 - May 15 THeSIS SHOW Commentators: CHARLES WALDHEIM Sarah Whiting Reception held Friday, May 7 Ogden Museum of Southern Art

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