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.
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.
Associate Professor Graham Owen spoke at the second Imagining Business conference in Spain and at the first Business Ethics workshop in Brussels. He was also an invited speaker at the Learning Spaces symposium in Segovia, Spain. He presented his paper on ethical personas at the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture in Newcastle, UK, and spoke on design and disasters at the 4S/EASST conference in Copenhagen. His essay “After the Flood” was the “Most Read” article in Culture and Organization for much of 2012, and his paper “Move your City” was published in the International Journal of the Constructed Environment.
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.
Associate Professor Graham Owen spoke at ETH Zurich on architectural pedagogy, and on New Orleans’ urban recovery at the In/vulnerabilities and Social Change conference at the University of London. He also spoke at the 4S San Diego conference on “Disaster’s Conscience: Technologies, Professions and Elites in Post-Katrina New Orleans”.
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.
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.
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.”
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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