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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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Tulane School of Architecture welcomes the following new non-tenure track faculty for the 2011-12 academic year.  The following adjunct faculty has been appointed as part of the school’s new Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development program. 

M. Tatiana Eck, most recently Vice President of Architecture and Development at AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp. and a registered architect and LEED AP at William McDonough + Partners before that. Her BA in Architecture, cum laude, is from Princeton University and she holds two master’s degrees, in Architecture and in Urban and Environmental Planning, from the University of Virginia. 

Kelly Longwell, Director in the New Orleans office of Coats Rose, where she concentrates in the areas of real estate, affordable housing and taxation. She holds a LL.M degree in Taxation from New York University, a JD from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor’s degree from Tulane University.

Casius Pealer, is Principal of Oyster Tree Consulting L3C, a mission-driven limited liability corporation that provides affordable housing and community development advising services. He served as the first Director of Affordable Housing at the U.S. Green Building Council and is a Senior Sustainable Building Advisor for the Affordable Housing Institute in Boston, MA, and he is 2011 Chair of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Housing Committee.  He holds a Masters in Architecture degree from Tulane University’s School of Architecture and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Ommeed Sathe, has served as Director of Real Estate Development for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (“NORA”) since June 2007. He received his JD from Harvard University Law School, a Master in City Planning from MIT and a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in Urban Planning and Neuroscience.

Z Smith, AIA received his bachelor’s degree in Physics from MIT, master of architecture degree from UC Berkley, his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University.  He is director of Sustainable Design at Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Architects.

Reuben Teague, is co-founder and principal of Green Coast Enterprises. He has been named an Echoing Green fellow for 2008-10, one of Gambit Magazine’s “40 under 40” for 2009, one of Fast Company’s “10 Coolest Innovators Rebuilding New Orleans,” and one of “America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs” by Business Week. He holds a JD from New York University School of Law and an AB in Economics from Princeton University.

Seth Welty, LEED AP received his Master of Architecture degree from Tulane University and won a prestigious Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship under whose support he worked for the last three years on rebuilding efforts in Biloxi, Mississippi with the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio. Welty’s primary area of interest is finding venues and methods of practicing a socially responsible architecture that takes a more inclusive, active role in shaping equitable and sustainable environments. 

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Director of Tulane Regional Urban Design Center and Adjunct Associate Professor Grover Mouton has been been selected as this year’s recipient of the Gulf-South Summit Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Service-Learning Instruction in Higher Education. This is a wonderful recognition of Professor Mouton’s contributions. The Gulf-South Summit is an annual conference aimed to promote networking among practitioners, research, ethical practices, reciprocal campus-community partnerships, sustainable programs, and a culture of engagement and public awareness through service-learning and other forms of civic engagement. Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Service-Learning Instruction will be given to a member of the teaching faculty who has demonstrated excellence incorporating service-learning pedagogy in the college/university classroom.

Adjunct Lecturer Will Bradshaw, co-founder and president of Green Coast Enterprises, LLC (GCE) recently published an article, “Creative Construction,” in the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate. The article investigates the capacity for environmental innovation in real estate development firms and argues that the Green development adopters change firm structure in ways to make adoption of environmental innovation easier, taking greater control of the projects, seeking more patient capital and creating longer-term relationships with design and construction talent.

Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce the publication of New Orleans Observed; Drawings and Observations of America’s Most Foreign City by Favrot Professor Errol Barron FAIA. This book uses drawings and written observations to reflect on the physical nature of New Orleans and how it may offer alternatives to urban design as found in many American cities. What qualities are found here that contradict the world of strip malls and McMansions? The unique character of the city is explored in over 124 drawings and accompanying text that celebrate the physically sensuous and strangeness of America’s most foreign city.

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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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The Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce that the Tulane City Center, in conjunction with Grow Dat Youth Farm and New Orleans City Park is the recipient of a 2012 SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design.

The Grow Dat Youth Farm received one of six awards of excellence, representing the very best examples of the mission and principles of social, economic, environmental design, offering tangible evidence of how design is effectively playing a role in addressing the most critical issues around the globe, addressing the biggest social and economic challenges. Grow Dat is a four acre farm where high school students from diverse backgrounds become young leaders through the meaningful work of growing healthy food. High school students work as “crew members” learning to plant, harvest, and cook while participating in leadership training classes. In its second growing season, the program is host to 25 young leaders working with dedicated staff in a new non-profit organization created by the Tulane City Center and Tulane University to serve vital needs in the New Orleans community. Tulane faculty members Scott Bernhard, Emilie Taylor and Abigail Feldman and TCC Associate Director Dan Etheridge led teams of architecture students in the design and construction of the farm infrastructure and facilities in a 6000 square foot compound on the four-acre farm site. More than 45 students of architecture have worked on the design and construction of the project and more than a dozen departments of Tulane University have been involved in establishing the Grow Dat program. The facility features: bio-filtration, composting toilets, on-site water sequestration, soil remediation, passive cooling and extensive material recycling and repurposing. Project completion is scheduled for May of 2012.

 

Book, Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington by Professor Emerita Ellen Weiss, has been reviewed in numerous venues, including New York Times article, Pioneering Architect and The Mobile Times-Register article, Southern Bound: Tuskegee architect finally gets his due.  Professor Weiss has also been on multiple radio interviews including NPR Morning Edition. The 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.

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iLounge { instant / interim / interactive } designed by Tulane School of Architecture (TSA) Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore in collaboration with Mona El Khafif, Associate Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA) is selected for the full construction and implementation, co-commissioned by Northern Spark and ZERO1. Its installation is scheduled for Northern Spark 2012 in June in Minneapolis and the 2012 ZERO1 Art & Technology Biennial in September in San Jose. The funding is partially supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and is currently under construction by TSA and CCA team. http://www.zero1biennial.org/content/Marcella-del-Signore-and-Mona-El-Khafif

The Tulane City Center (TCC) is collaborating with the Tulane Master of Real Estate Program (MSRED) to develop affordable housing options for the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative (JPNSI). Faculty members Casius Pealer and Cordula Roser Gray in conjunction with Dan Etheridge (Associate Director TCC) are in the process of developing conversion strategies for 2 multi-unit housing projects in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans that aim at advancing equitable housing patterns, neighborhood stability and community driven land-use planning. With the help of a community land trust (CLT) model of land stewardship and shared equity, JPNSI hopes to offer affordable housing options to local residents by encouraging resident controlled development and promoting community building initiatives. The project is funded through a grant from the Surdna Foundation.

The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC) has been selected to host the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD), South Regional session, to be held this fall. The Mayors’ Institute is a National Endowment for the Arts leadership initiative in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and the United States Conference of Mayors. It is considered the country’s premier educational initiative for public officials.

In collaboration with the Mayors’ Institute founders, TRUDC Director Grover Mouton helped form the regional session format in 1991, allowing each conference to focus on the unique planning and design issues facing a particular region. Since that time, he has hosted more than 50 mayors at numerous MICD conferences in New Orleans. Eight mayors from across the Southeastern US will be invited to the upcoming forum, where they will be advised by planning, design, development, and preservation experts from across the country. Professor Mouton and TRUDC staff will visit each participating city, and guide the mayors in selecting and presenting design challenges from their respective cities, ensuring that each project presented is met with appropriate design and policy solutions from the assembled expert panel. The MICD South Regional session will be held in the fall of 2012.

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Assistant Professor Marcella del Signore has completed two projects for the Urban Prototyping Festival in San Francisco . The projects are developed in collaboration with Mona El Khafif, Cesar Lopez, Anesta Iwan, Jessica Wolkoff, Jacob Alexandere ( California College of the Arts ) and Geatano De Francesco. Both projects focus on building community through civic engagement and participation, reimagining modes of production of public space. 10 Mile Garden is a is a catalyst project in which fire hydrant sites of the neighborhood are activated on a temporary basis. In order to support community participation, the TMG pilot project creates a framework for bottom-up programming: a series of injected programs, open community programs, and sponsored gardens. INSTANT [ play]GROUND is a portable game to activate forgotten sites. By subverting pre-established urban functions, the users /players open up to new scenarios where the normative use of public space is transformed in a (play)scape in flux.

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The Tulane School of Architecture is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher Calott, AIA as the Director of the Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development Program. Professor Calott will guide the program as it enters its third year, following its highly successful launch under the direction of Alexandra (Sandi) Stroud, AIA. He brings an unusual combination of excellence in his creative work as an architect and urban designer, dedication as a teacher at a number of institutions, and success as a real estate developer and entrepreneur. We are delighted that he is joining an already strong faculty at the Tulane School of Architecture teaching in the exciting area of “regenerative development.” The values associated with sustainability are central to the program’s mission, and Calott will add significant expertise in a number of areas as we develop the skills of the next generation of leaders in this dynamic and growing field.

Christopher Calott is an architect, urban designer, and real estate developer, most recently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His architectural firm, CALOTT + GIFFORD Architecture / Urban Design and his closely connected real estate development firm, INFILL SOLUTIONS: Innovative Urban Design and Development, have produced numerous projects that create urban design solutions and employ dense urban-building typologies using modern forms in mixed-use urban infill developments, and affordable housing in the Southwest. He has pursued significant research in the areas of urbanism, housing, and community-based design practices through published investigations tied to teaching appointments at numerous universities throughout the United States, Mexico, and Latin America. 

 In 2011, Fast Company magazine recognized CALOTT + GIFFORD’s award-winning design practice as one of the “50 brilliant urbanites helping to build the cities of American’s future.” By working as both the architect and developer, his practice has challenged conventional zoning, financing strategies, and modes of development. His innovative work has involved the introduction of new housing types, dense “infill” subdivisions, transit-oriented development, community supported agriculture, vibrant public plazas, and public art to his projects. Calott’s longstanding work and research on informal urbanization patterns and his commitment to design excellence has influenced non-profit affordable housing and publicly financed urban design projects involved with local populations in the Southwest. 

In 2011-2012, Calott received the prestigious Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He spent the year in residence investigating affordable housing delivery mechanisms, urban design theories, Landscape Urbanism, and Green Infrastructure design strategies, topics that coincided with the work he has pursued throughout his professional and academic career.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (with Honors) in Urban Theory and Design from Brown University, and also studied at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. 

In coming to Tulane and the MSRED program, Calott notes that, “Tulane’s MSRED Program is well integrated within the School of Architecture with significant recognition of the critical role that design plays in the development process of a sustainable urban future. The opportunity of living, learning and working on innovative development practices within the vibrant, resilient community of New Orleans at this powerful time is truly unique, an extraordinary experience I am looking forward to with students and faculty colleagues at Tulane.” Calott is uniquely qualified to join the Tulane School of Architecture faculty and students in connecting architecture, real estate development, and preservation in addressing issues of crucial importance to the future development of our nation’s cities. He believes, “that cities are our most sustainable resource, and hold the key to our social, economic, and culturally equitable future, as well as our planet’s environmental protection. Cities also sustain our cultures, as they are our most beautiful and important works of art.” Calott will begin his work with the MSRED program in July.

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The Guardians Institute, a design build project of the Tulane City Center, has been awarded a SEED merit award. SEED provides a common standard to guide, evaluate and measure the Social, Economic and Environmental impact of Design projects. Tulane faculty members Scott Ruff, Seth Welty, and Emilie Taylor led the design and construction of the project. 

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Professor Eugene Cizek will receive the prestigious James Marston Fitch Award from the National Council of Preservation Educators at a dinner in his honor on October 21st at the National Trust for Historic Preservation annual national conference in Buffalo, New York. Gene has practiced historic preservation since the mid-1970’s beginning with his pioneering advocacy work and restoration projects in Faubourg Marigny located adjacent to the Vieux Carree. In 1997 Gene founded the Masters in Preservation Studies graduate program within the Tulane School of Architecture that has since served as a principal training opportunity in architectural preservation in the state of Louisiana. Gene’s keen eye for worthwhile architectural preservation projects, his wide range of accomplishments as a teacher, and his unmatched enthusiasm and skills as an advocate and preservation planner have made him a mainstay of the preservation scene in New Orleans and the nation. Tulane University congratulates him heartily on this award of distinction.

Tulane University is pleased to announce the establishment of USGBC Students – Tulane Group, initiated by the members of the new MSRED program. USGBC Students is a national initiative to recruit, connect and equip the next generation of green building leaders by empowering them to transform their campuses, communities and careers. Over 50 charter class members have been recruited, ranging in disciplines from real estate development, architecture, biology, and business. The activities for the fall includes lectures with local professionals focused on sustainable practices in the fields of business, ecological studies, and historic renovation and various community service initiatives. The group also intends to provide tools for members to become LEED accredited, as well as help connect them to the national USGBC community. 

Favrot Professor of Architecture Errol Barron’s visionary architectural work is featured in the Symposium and Exhibition, Speculative Propositions: Heightened Acuity, hosted by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s School of Architecture and Design.

Assistant Professor of Architecture Kentaro Tsubaki’s article Tumbling Units: Tectonics of Indeterminate Extension is in the new book, Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production, edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith, published by Rutledge Press. The article explores the nature of extension and aims to raise a fundamental question about the way current architectural practice engages the matter and the act of making.

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