NEW FACULTY
MARGARITA JOVER Associate Professor
Research & Teaching Interests: Architecture and socioecological urbanism Education: Master of Architecture, UPC-Barcelona, Spain Margarita Jover co-founded, with Iñaki Alday, the internationally-awarded firm aldayjover architecture and landscape in 1996 in Barcelona, Spain. The multidisciplinary research-based practice focuses on innovation and is particularly renowned for its leadership in a new approach to the relation between cities and rivers, in which the
natural dynamics of flooding become part of the public space. Jover taught at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the University of Navarra, the University of Vic and the University of Virginia, where she was research faculty, a professor of practice and a tenured associate professor.
Jover is co-author, with Alex Wall, of the book “Ecologies of Prosperity” (ORO Editors, 2018), and “The Water Park” (ACTAR, 2008). She has served on juries for honor awards and international competitions such as the FAD Architecture Prize, the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Architecture, the Glories Square Competition in Barcelona, and the Hainan Eco-Island in China. Both in academic research and in practice, Jover promotes a broader
understanding of architecture that aims to contribute to mitigate and reverse socioecological crises. Her academic research line discusses the reform of our model of progress by promoting a specific socioecological urbanism which advocates for the revision of the modernistic archetype of some typologies of architecture and infrastructure. Above: Recovery of the banks of the Rio Gàllego, River Park and Bullring Ampitheater, Zuera, Spain.
ADAM MODESITT
Assistant Professor Research & Teaching Interests: Digital design and fabrication Education: Master of Architecture, Harvard University; Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Wesleyan University Adam Modesitt’s interests focus on adapting, hybridizing and repositioning digital workfl ws to reengage architecture’s traditions and histories. He brings experience teaching at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture,
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Planning and Preservation. Prior to teaching full-time, Modesitt was a project director at SHoP Architects in New York. He also held positions at Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Foster + Partners in London.
At Tulane, Modesitt will teach design/build studios, and technology and fabrication courses. He will also oversee the strategic direction of the school’s digital output and fabrication labs.
Above: The Cenotaph for Richard Feynman is one of a series of speculative projects exploring large assemblies of standardized structural framing. The Cenotaph is organized around a system of interconnected distributed load paths and is composed of more than 10 million discrete members.
