Elected Student Leaders
Shanghai Internship
2012 Commencement Awards
The Tulane School of Architecture student organi-
Through a new connection with the esteemed
master of architecture
zations have elected the following student leaders
Tongji University College of Architecture and
Alpha Chi Rho Medal
for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year:
Planning, Tulane School of Architecture is hoping
Andrew Eliot Michael Graham
to provide several opportunities for students to
AIAS Co-Presidents: Austin Frankel, Jack Waterman; Vice President: Aubrey Keady-Molanphy.; Treasurer: Logan Leggett; Secretary: Kayleigh Bruentrup; Director of Programming: Noah Conlay; Director of Fundraising: Beau Braddock; Director of Sustainability: Eric Bethany; 2nd Year Representative: Eric Lynn; 4th Year Representative and International Ambassador: John Coyle SAGG President: Evan Amato; Vice President: Michelle Carroll; Treasurer: Georgia Berbert; Secretary: Mary Catherine Bullock; Year 2 Senator: Natan DiaconFurtado; Year 3 Senator: Julia Fishman; Year 2 Senator: Jordan Matthews
study in Shanghai. These opportunities include: a fall semester full-time program in Tongji, a summer study program located inTongji for four weeks with
American Institute of Architects Medal Patrick James Franke undergraduate Elizabeth Marie Davis graduate
the remainder of the summer semester back in
American Institute of Architects
New Orleans, and a dual degree program in which
Certificates of Merit
a graduate student would enroll simultaneously in
Kathleen Audrey Peaden undergraduate
our two accredited graduate programs with the
Matthew Allen DeCotiis graduate
first and third years spent at the home institution,
Thomas J. Lupo Award
and the middle year spent abroad.
Leland Bailey Berman
Working with Tongji University and living in Shang-
Ronald F. Katz Memorial Award
hai, students would be able to experience the
Kathleen Audrey Peaden
historical and cultural influences of the region as well as to discover the Bauhaus traditions present in the area. There are also many major U.S. firms
John William Lawrence Memorial Medal Jade Jiambutr
with offices in Shanghai and the additional op-
Outstanding Thesis Award
theCharrette:
portunity for students to obtain internships while
Sean William McGuire
Editor in Chief: Kevin Michniok; Editor: Cameron
in the program further enhances the appeal of the
Joshua Adam Mings
Conklin
study abroad program as an intercultural exchange
Jill Cameron Ringness
both educationally and professionally.
Malcolm J. Heard Award for Excellence in Teaching Irene Keil Tulane 34 Award Mira Ansel Asher Graduate Leadership Award Lindsay Karis McCook Senior Scholar Award Leland Bailey Berman MASTER OF PRESERVATION STUDIES Outstanding Thesis Award Charles Ian Crawford Service to the Program Award Beth Ann Jacob MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT Selected Research Projects Tyler James Antrup Samuel Berman Christian Jonassen Brierre John Louis Eskew Brinda Sen Gupta Stephen Tanner Strohschein Academic Distinction Award Stephen Tanner Strohschein Leadership Award Christian Jonassen Brierre Service to the Program Award John Louis Eskew
Travel Fellowships michael Kahn
Un-competition
London Underground
Grow Dat New Orleans Film
The School successfully increased the quantity of summer travel fellowships awarded to students this year. During the 2012-2013, each
and at a larger international scale. A digital version
This year the School of Architecture Graduate
fellowship recipient will present the findings of
of the Fall 2011 + Spring 2012 issues can be viewed
Student Government (SAGG) helped to fund
their research in a one hour public lecture.
at: issu.com/thecharrette.
the inaugural year of Recto Verso. This full color
Moise H. & Lois G. Goldstein Travel Fellowship
publication highlights graduate student work and
Brinda Sen Gupta (TSA ‘11, MSRED ‘12), The Nine
includes both architectural work and individual
Stories of Stepwells: The Temples of Rajasthan,
passions such as poetry, drawing + sketch, carpen-
Gujarat and Delhi
In their final year, Sean Fisher (TSA ‘12), Allison Schiller (TSA ‘12), and Mike Landry (TSA ‘12) won Honorable Mention in the Un-Competition, a project created by the Chicago Architectural Club and Black Spectacles. The brief asked for a 2-minute
try, photography and sewing. The annual publication is slated to continue next year.
Class of 1973 Travel Fellowship Matthew Kevin Michniok (M.Arch ’13), Transfor-
film that identified a design problem in the com-
Ventures with strong connections to Tulane Uni-
mative Architecture: The Iconic and the Modern
munity, proposed a solution, and articulated a plan
versity and the A. B. Freeman School of Business
Stadium
to make the solution a reality. The student film
were big winners at the 2012 New Orleans En-
Grow Dat Youth Farm-New Orleans highlights the
trepreneur Week, an event highlighting the city’s
strengths of this City Center project bringing to-
thriving startup community. SOLarchitect Studio
gether student design teams with a real non-profit
won The Big Idea Challenge. Co-founded by ar-
client within the community.
chitecture alumnus Alex Landau, the firm provides
In 1991, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands decided to promote national architecture
a free, web-based tool to assess the feasibility of installing solar panels on homes.
John William Lawrence Research Fellowship Jordan L. Matthews (M.Arch ’13), Piloting the Great River Road: A Spatial Navigation of the Mississippi River; Nicholas Christopher Sackos (M.Arch ‘13), Mexico City: Understanding Megacity through Transportation and Architecture; Neena Verma (MArch ’14), The Architecture of
abroad. All over the world new embassies were
Christopher Gassam (expected ‘13) received a
realized by prominent Dutch architects. The film
Newcomb-Tulane Dean’s Grant to do an interdis-
Mission Statements tells the story of four of the
ciplinary project for a semester. The grant project,
most outspoken new embassies, showing the
entitled Live Parametrics, is an Arduino open-
background of the buildings and presenting a view
source lighting installation that uses digital data
behind the curtains of daily life in the embassies.
mapping techniques to explore conceptions of the
Samuel Stanhope Labouisse Memorial Prize
Studio work created by several 4th & 5th year op-
interface between humans and built environments.
Christopher Lawrence Cox (M.Arch ’14), Cypress
tion studios was highlighted in this film.
Slums in India Malcolm Heard Travel Fellowship Michael Shea Trahan (MArch ‘13), Acoustics and Light: Precedents and Implications
Management & Louisiana Architecture
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