New Faculty Spotlight

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.

Recovery of the banks of the Rio Gàllego, River Park and Bullring, Zuera, Spain.

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.

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 workflows to reengage architecture’s traditions and histories.

The Cenotaph for Richard Feynman.

He brings experience teaching at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, 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.

CARRIE NORMAN

Assistant Professor

Research & Teaching Interests: Design theory and representation

Education: Master of Architecture, Princeton University; Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Virginia

Carrie Norman is co-founder of the New York and Chicago-based design collaborative Norman Kelley. The practice’s professional and theoretical work, which includes building additions, interior renovations, site-specific drawings and furniture, explores reproduction and copy in architecture, and their roles as conceptual, cultural and perceptual instruments.

"Wrong Chairs"

Photo courtesy Volume Gallery.

Norman has taught design studios and representation seminars at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Barnard College and the University of Pennsylvania. At Tulane, she will teach design studios and representation-focused digital media courses.

Above: “Wrong Chairs” - Adapted from expert craftsman Dr. John Kassay’s drawings of 18th- and 19thcentury Windsor chairs, the collection purposefully disrupts the notion of “correctness.” The Wrong Chairs comment on the ability for an object to be, at once, wrong and right. Photo courtesy of Volume Gallery.

ANN YOACHIM

Director, Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design

Professor of Practice

Research & Teaching Interests: Health, ecology, design, collaborative and engaged learning

Education: Master of Public Health, Tulane University; Bachelor of Environmental Studies and Political Science, Dickinson College

Ann Yoachim stepped into the dual role of Small Center director and professor of practice in April 2018. She brings 15 years of experience building partnerships across campus-community boundaries to amplify community voice and support meaningful change.

An educator, scholar and administrator, Yoachim is focused on facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and shaping built, natural and social environments that positively impact health and wellness.

"Wetland Urbanism"

Above: “Wetland Urbanism”- A paradoxical struggle — to maintain an association with the natural while the landscape and economy continue to bend to the resource extraction industry — defines contemporary southeast Louisiana.

The goal of this project (book & traveling exhibit) was to represent these potentials and advocate for a reframed debate that engaged with definitions of rural and urban and considered permanence and impermanence in the context of a changing climate.

Editors: Jonathan Tate, Rebecca Fitzgerald, Ann Yoachim. Research Team: Natan Diacon-Furtado, Rebecca Fitzgerald, Jessica O’Dell, Antonio Pacheco, Jonathan Tate, Neena Verma, Ann Yoachim