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Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce the publication of New in New Orleans Architecture by Professor John P. Klingman. The volume features reviews of eighty outstanding works of architecture in New Orleans completed in the past fifteen years. Along with project commentary and over three hundred professional photographs, the book emphasizes the importance of contemporary architecture integrating with the acclaimed historic architecture of the city.
 
Professor Klingman holds the Richard Koch Chair at the Tulane School of Architecture. He has been engaged in architectural education since his arrival in New Orleans in 1983. A registered architect, he serves as the chair of the Architectural Review Committee of New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission.

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Architect Errol Barron, FAIA, was awarded the prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA) Louisiana Medal of Honor, the highest award given by AIA LA, at its annual Design Conference in Lafayette on September 28.
 
Barron is a principal of Barron/Toups Architects, an award-winning firm entering its fifth decade of business. He is widely recognized as a designer, painter, educator, preservationist, musician, photographer, critic, lecturer, author and civic leader.
 
The Medal of Honor is given by AIA LA to architects who have sustained a lifetime affecting the profession of architecture, and who have significantly advanced the profession and/or provided strong influence on fellow practitioners.
 
Barron/Toups Architects is recognized for its artful blend of modern sensibilities with historic vernacular, as in St. Peter’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Gulfport, Mississippi; and the use of natural light in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. His designs are found both throughout the US and abroad. He has also served as the president of AIA New Orleans and board member of AIA Louisiana, and was elected to AIA Fellowship in 1996.
 
Barron is also a semi-professional (accomplished amateur) flutist, having performed and recorded classical works. His sketches, photographs and watercolors have been exhibited nationally and also published. He has taught architecture for more than 35 years and is currently the Favrot Professor of Architecture at Tulane University.
 
He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tulane, and his master’s in architecture from Yale University, and has studied and practiced in London and New York.
 
“Errol is unwavering in his dedication to producing work of the highest design quality, no matter the challenges and obstacles,” noted architect Douglas Ashe, FAIA. Colleague William Brockway, FAIA, noted, “Errol has published insightful and scholarly essays in widely disseminated journals… has been a consistent winner of design awards… and his work has been featured in many design publications.”
Architect Allan Eskew, FAIA, noted, “Errol has been a motivating force at the Tulane School of Architecture… regarded by graduating students as one of their most stimulating and motivational instructors.”

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The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center continues its work in the design education of public officials both in the US and abroad.  After a visit to New Orleans to better understand its urban character, planning and government officials from Jintang, Chengdu, China, have asked the TRUDC to create a master plan for their new town.  Accommodating approximately 150,000 new residents, TRUDC Director Grover Mouton and Project Director Nick Jenisch are working closely with several government agencies to aid in the implementation of the plan, including green infrastructure retrofitting of existing streets, design of all new roadways, siting and design for new civic buildings such as a stadium, library, and cultural center, and application of design guidelines to define and control the urban character of each new-town district.  As in each of its projects, the TRUDC has engaged School of Architecture students, who have contributed critical design and research work to the project.  The plan has been presented onsite to Jintang government leadership and is currently moving from design to engineering and implementation.

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Maurice Cox, a nationally respected community designer and leader of the public interest design movement, has been named director of the Tulane City Center as well as the new Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans. In his new roles, Cox will oversee a wide range of initiatives with Tulane architecture faculty and students throughout the New Orleans community. “I’m arriving at Tulane during a fascinating time in the history of the school of architecture and this city,” said Cox. “New Orleans is in the process of realizing its aspiration to lead the nation in democratic practices of design.”

At Tulane, Cox will be working with the highly successful programs of the Tulane City Center, URBANbuild, the Tulane Regional Urban Design Center, the preservation program and the school’s new Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development program, all which are community outreach design initiatives of the university.

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Judith Kinnard, Harvey-Wadsworth Chair of Landscape Urbanism and Professor of Architecture was named as one of the DesignIntelligence 25 Most Admired Educators of 2012. Professor Kinnard’s commitment to architectural education spans 28 years, having taught at Syracuse University, Princeton University, and the University of Virginia. In her studio teaching, she focuses on institutional programs and their creative engagement of physical and cultural context. Her current research and teaching also involves the development of innovative approaches to low-rise/high-density housing for American cities. She maintains an active practice.

Favrot Professor and Dean Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA delivered a plenary address at the IBM Smarter Cities Conference in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in November, discussing the strategies and initiatives that Tulane School of Architecture and Tulane University have taken in the recovery of New Orleans.  He participated in this event with Ginni Rometty, the new President and CEO of IBM.  He also gave a talk at the same conference on the Richardson Memorial Hall Sustainable Strategies project that he has undertaken for the school’s 100 year-old building. The pre-design phase has been completed by FXFOWLE and el dorado architects with a strong team of sustainable engineering and landscape consultants.

Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to be the recipient of the 2011 NCARB Grant. This grant supports the creation and implementation of new methods to integrate practice and education in the academy. The funded proposal authored by adjunct assistant professor Z Smith and assistant professor Kentaro Tsubaki aims to integrate the post-building performance survey/analysis into pre-building design practice in the educational setting. The funds will be used to equip our students with the latest, most advanced technologies to collect and analyze building performance data in the newly developed technology course slated to be offered in the 2012-13 academic year.

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Professor Ellen Weiss, Ph.D. spoke about Robert R. Taylor, the first academically trained African American architect at a symposium honoring the new Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University. Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s senior advisor and Taylor’s great granddaughter, was the keynote speaker. Professor Weiss’ book, “Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee, An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington,” will be published by New South Press in fall 2011.

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Favrot Professor of Architecture Ammar Eloueini, Intl. Assoc. AIA and principal of Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio is one of the five finalist for the prestigious 2012 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. He is competing for the opportunity to design and construct an installation within MoMA PS1’s courtyard in Long Island City, Queens. The winners will be announced in February 2012.


Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce the publication of Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington by Professor Emerita Ellen Weiss from Newsouth Books with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This text interweaves the life of the first academically trained African American architect with his life’s work—the campus of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Professor Weiss has taught architectural and planning history at many prestigious universities for nearly half a century. She has served on the boards of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Vernacular Architecture Forum, and the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians.

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Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce the appointment of John H. Stubbs as Senior Professor of Architectural Preservation Practice and Director of the Master of Preservation Studies program in the Tulane School of Architecture.

Stubbs served as Vice President for Field Projects at the World Monuments Fund in New York where he directed scores of projects across the world and was instrumental in the establishing WMF’s famed Watch List of endangered sites program. He holds a Master of Science degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, a Bachelor of Science in Construction Technology from LSU, and attained post-graduate training as a UNESCO Fellow at the International Centre for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome.

John Stubbs began his career as a Historical Architect for the Technical Preservation Services Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. 1978. He later served as Assistant Director of Historic Preservation Projects at Beyer Blinder Belle in New York, and as a Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America. He is a founding board member of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation to which he was also named its chairman in 2008. He has lectured widely throughout his career and published Time Honored; A Global View of Architectural Conservation; Parameters, Theory and Evolution of an Ethos in 2009. It was followed in 2011 by a sequel (co-authored by Emily G. MakaÅ¡) entitled Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas; National Experiences and Practice. A final volume documenting best practices in architectural conservation in the remaining continents of the world is planned for 2014. A native of Louisiana, John Stubbs’ field experiences began in the 1970’s working as a surveyor on archaeological excavations in Italy and Egypt.

Nathan Petty and Sheena A. Garcia have been appointed Lecturers at the Tulane University School of Architecture starting in Fall 2011. Petty will be joining the faculty from the office of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects and Garcia will be joining the faculty from the office of Bernard Tschumi Architects. Petty and Garcia collaborate on design projects under the name NPSAG, co-founded in 2008 after receiving their Master of Architecture degrees with distinction from Princeton University. NPSAG actively seeks new design opportunities in the integration of radical architectural form and program with emerging technology and cultural speculation.

The Tulane School of Architecture is proud to announce the successful launch of a new Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development Program. It has been in session with the first class of 18 enthusiastic students since July 2011. The program emphasizes “regenerative” real estate development.  It is built on a foundation rooted in the value of design excellence and the ethic of preserving cultural resources, while empowering students to participate in the development and design fields with the skills needed to address contemporary challenges and opportunities in cities.

Professor Ellen Weiss, Ph.D. delivered a lecture on Robert R. Taylor, the first academically trained African American architect at a symposium honoring the new Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University. Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s senior advisor and Taylor’s great granddaughter, was the keynote speaker. Professor Weiss’ book, Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee, An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington, will be published by New South Press in fall 2011.

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The Sustainable Real Estate program had a booth in the Expo of the Urban Land Institute Fall meeting in Los Angeles in October.  Several students joined Director Alexandra Stroud to talk to interested students and promote the program.  Director Stroud participated on a panel at the ULI Fall Meeting entitled Post-Catastrophe Reconstruction: Case Studies of  Japan, Chile, Haiti, and New Orleans.   She spoke on a panel with representatives of these other disasters about the recovery effort in New Orleans.

 

Faculty members Alexandra Stroud, Tatiana Eck, Casius Pealer and Reuben Teague all participated in the Green Build conference in Toronto in early October.  Professor Stroud and Professor Pealer were included in the Greenbuild NEXT VIP interview series .  Professor Eck is an integral part of the Green Build conference planning committee.  Professor Pealer participated in the Affordable Housing Forum.  Professor Teague presented at the conference in a presentation entitled, 100 Sustainable Homes; Lessons Learned in New Orleans’ Project Home Again with Tulane School of Architecture alumni, John Williams.

 

The Sustainability and Globalization lecture series is underway.  The September lecturer was Allison Plyer with Greater New Orleans Community Data Center presenting the Index at Six, a report summarizing the progress of New Orleans since Katrina.  The October lecture was given by Terry Henry, of Global Perpetual Energy.  His company is developing a device that produces enough wind, water and solar power to power a small city post disaster.  

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TEN MILE GARDEN  and INSTANT  [play]GROUND  designed by Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore in collaboration with Mona El Khafif, Cesar Lopez and Anesta Iwam have been selected to receive a grant to support the full construction for the URBAN PROTOTYPING Festival in San Francisco in October 2012. Over 100 projects were submitted and 18 were selected to be displayed at the UP Event. Both projects focus on building a community through civic engagement and participation, reimagining modes of production of public space. 

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