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2010-2011 TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE BOARD OF ADVISORS Cornelius M. Alig, TSA‘78 \\ Lee H. Askew III, FAIA, TSA‘66 \\ F. MacNaughton Ball, Jr., FAIA \\ Maziar Behrooz, AIA, TSA‘85 \\ Melissa C. Brandrup, AIA, TSA’97, MPS‘98 \\ Thomas C. Brutting, AIA, TSA’77 \\ Mary Louise Mossy Christovich, A&S‘49 \\ Felipe Correa, TSA‘00 \\ Alvin Cox, AIA, TSA‘72 \\ Collette Creppell, AIA \\ Maria Bea de Paz, TSA‘96 \\ Robert P. Dean, Jr., AIA, TSA‘68 \\ Mihnea C. Dobre, TSA‘09 \\ R. Allen Eskew, FAIA \\ S. Stewart Farnet, Sr., AIA, TSA‘55 \\ H. Mortimer Favrot, Jr., FAIA, TSA‘53 \\ Jason Gant, AIA, TSA‘03
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\\ Kathryn D. Greene, TSA‘78 \\ Robert V. M. Harrison, FAIA, TSA’59, MBA’84 \\ Michael R. Howard, AIA, TSA‘74 \\ Robert A. Ivy, Jr., FAIA, TSA‘76 \\ Dan Maginn, AIA LEED AP, TSA‘89 \\ William Raymond Manning, FAIA \\ Irvin Mayfield \\ Brad Meltzer, TSA’90 \\ Saul A. Mintz,
FACULTY NEWS
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SCHOOL NEWS
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STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS
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TRUDC 10 PRESERVATION PROGRAM
TSA‘53 \\ G. Martin Moeller, Jr., TSA‘84 \\ Angela O’Byrne, AIA, TSA‘83 \\ Casius H. Pealer III, TSA‘96 \\ G. Gray Plosser, Jr., FAIA, TSA‘68 \\ Richardson K. Powell, TSA‘77 \\ Wellington J. Reiter, FAIA, TSA‘81 \\ Lloyd N. Shields, AIA, TSA‘74 \\ I. William Sizeler, AIA \\ Albert H. Small, Jr., A&S‘79 \\ Markham H. Smith, AIA, TSA‘79 \\ Lawrence W. Speck, FAIA \\ Robert J. Stumm, Jr., AIA, TSA’75 \\ Robert E. Walker IV, AIA, TSA‘92 \\ Susan Whiting, Parent of TSA‘07 Grad \\ John C. Williams, AIA, TSA’78 \\ Marcel L. Wisznia, AIA, TSA‘73
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2010-2011 FACULTY
TULANE CITY CENTER
Catherine Emily Barrier, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ C. Errol Barron, Favrot Professor
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\\ Scott David Bernhard, Mintz Associate Professor and Director of Tulane City Center \\ Willam B. Bradshaw II, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Richard Campanella, Research Instructor \\
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Eugene Darwin Cizek, Professor and Director of MPS Program \\ Carey Rose Clouse, Adjunct
STUDENT NEWS
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Professor \\ Robert DeCosmo, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Marcella Del Signore, Assistant Professor
ALUMNI NEWS
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\\ Ammar Eloueini, Favrot Associate Professor \\ Abigail Feldman, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Mari-
IN MEMORIAM
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Professor and Associate Dean \\ Jason Gant, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Bruce Merriman Goodwin,
AIA NEW ORLEANS AWARDS
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Assistant Professor \\ Tara Cotterman, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Michael Kent Crosby, Associate
lyn Lee Feldmeier, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Favrot Associate Associate Professor \\ Ken Gowland, Adjunct Lecturer \\ William Douglas Harmon, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Hiroshi Jacobs, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Irene Ursula Adelheid Keil, Professor of Practice \\ Michael Keller, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Judith Kinnard, Professor and Harvey-Wadsworth Chair of Landscape Urbanism \\ John P. Klingman, Favrot Professor and Richard Koch Chair of Architecture \\ Heather Ashlie Knight, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Lee Ledbetter, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Andrew Liles, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Tiffany Lin, Assistant Professor \\ Ann Merritt Masson, Adjunct Associate Professor and Assistant Director of MPS Program \\ Eugene Eean McNaughton, Professor of Practice \\ David Merlin, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Judi Shade Monk, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Byron John Mouton, Professor of Practice and Director of URBANbuild \\ Grover Ernest Mouton, III, Adjunct Associate Professor and Director of Tulane University Regional Urban Design Center \\ Michael David Nius, Professor of Practice \\ Graham Warwick Owen, Favrot Associate Professor \\ Sam Richards,
TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE NEWS
Adjunct Lecturer \\ Carol McMichael Reese, Christovich Associate Professor \\ Cordula
Writing + Editorial: Jennifer Gaugler, TSA ’11 Graphic Design: Leigh Wilkerson, 10½ Studios
Lecturer \\ Milton George Scheuermann, Jr., Adjunct Professor \\ Kenneth Schwartz, Favrot
For inclusion of your news in the annual newsletter, school website, Facebook page, and Twitter, send news items directly to Dave Armentor at darmento@tulane.edu. Please include a description or explanation of the news item; an accompanying image if applicable; your full name, graduation year or affiliation with Tulane; and any titles or associations (ex. AIA). Links to articles published by other sources are also helpful. cover image:
Fourth floor studio space, Richardson Memorial Hall. Photo by Jill Stoll, June 2011.
Roser Gray, Professor of Practice \\ Scott Ruff, Associate Professor \\ Keli Rylance, Adjunct Professor and Dean \\ Lloyd “Sonny” Shields, Adjunct Professor \\ Jill Stoll, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Allison Stouse, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Alexandra Stroud, Adjunct Associate Professor and Director of Sustainable Real Estate Development Program \\ Jonathan Tate, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Emilie Rachel Taylor, Adjunct Instructor and Senior Program Coordinator Tulane City Center \\ Mark Wesley Thomas, III, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Kentaro Tsubaki, Assistant Professor \\ Ellen Barbara Weiss, Favrot Professor \\ Thaddeus Andrew Zarse, Adjunct Assistant Professor
PROFESSORS EMERITUS Geoffrey Howard Baker \\ Ronald Coulter Filson, Dean Emeritus \\ Karen Kingsley \\ Stephen Jacobs \\ Richard Otis Powell
LET T E R F R O M T H E D EA N The theme of transitions seems to be fitting for the third annual Tulane School of Architecture newsletter since my arrival. During the past year, we have set in motion many changes that will bring new direction and vitality to the School while honoring the School’s distinguished history. As dean, I aspire to continue the traditions that have made the School a leader in architectural education, and encourage fresh new ideas, innovations, people, and plans to ensure that our students are well positioned and prepared for a fast-changing profession. This summer, we welcomed the first graduate student class of the Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development program, adding another dimension to the multi-faceted educational environment at the School. Under the leadership of founding director, Alexandra (Sandi) Stroud, this program will provide another option for graduating architecture students and others who wish to add a capstone degree that can prepare them for work in a world where knowledge of sustainability is valuable at many levels. Through a national search, we also recruited a new leader for the venerable Preservation Studies program, John H. Stubbs, as well as a new Associate Dean for Academics, Wendy Redfield. To complete the school’s leadership team, I have promoted Doug Harmon as Associate Dean of Students. These colleagues have displayed true passion for their work and a commitment to education throughout their careers. They will be promoting excellence in our School through their example and leadership. There are also several new adjunct faculty and you will hear more about them in the future. We have selected a strong and experienced design team to lead the renovation of Richardson Memorial Hall. Our wonderful building needs to be upgraded to a facility that can carry us into the future through evolving programmatic improvements, energy-saving updates to all building systems, and technological integration of smart building software. This project is focused on a didactic and sustainable future that recognizes our historic building as one of our strongest assets. We will be working with the design and engineering team to retain the best aspects of Richardson Memorial Hall, while creating new features and spaces that will dramatically reduce our carbon footprint and enhance the use of the building for students, faculty, and staff for its next century of use. We will need significant financial support from alumni and friends to implement the vision for Tulane Sustainable Strategies. The upcoming Capital Campaign will include our plans for the building and related programmatic opportunities for the School. This spirit of revitalization combined with the maintenance of unique traditions is also reflected in our rebuilding work in the City of New Orleans. As the city goes through a period of transition, the Tulane School of Architecture is contributing in many substantial ways. In this continuing process, we are re-positioning ourselves as a school more fully dedicated to sustainability, including cultural sustainability, both within and beyond Richardson Memorial Hall. The forward-thinking spirit of the Tulane School of Architecture is reflected in the many accomplishments and endeavors of our faculty, staff, students, and alumni featured in the following pages. I am proud of these achievements and honored to be serving as dean. I look forward to seeing what the next several years will bring to the already distinguished track record of the school.
Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA Favrot Professor and Dean
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1 Sunshower SSIP House, Judith Kinnard and Tiffany Lin 2 Byron Mouton 3 Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington, Ellen Weiss 4 Phillis Wheatley School 5 “Louisiana’s Bousillage Tradition: Investigation of Past Techniques for Future
FAC ULT Y + S TA F F N EW S Harvey Wadsworth Chair and Professor Judith Kinnard, FAIA and Assis-
Richard Koch Chair of Architecture John Klingman and Visual Resources
tant Professor Tiffany Lin have won the New Orleans Sustainable Design
Curator Francine Stock, along with Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc (a former stu-
Competition. Participating firms were invited to design a self-sufficient
dent at Phillis Wheatley and actress on the television show ”Treme”), were
home out of readily-available materials which could fit into a single cargo
recently interviewed by Doug MacCash of the Times-Picayune about the
container and be erected quickly after a natural disaster. The home also had
status of the historic Phillis Wheatley Elementary School. A 1950s Modern-
to provide its own water and electricity, resist 160 miles-per-hour winds,
ist building designed by local architect Charles R. Colbert, the school was
and have a seismic rating of 8.2. Kinnard and Lin won with their proposal
closed after Hurricane Katrina despite sustaining little damage. It was el-
for a Sunshower SSIP House that features several innovative sustainable
evated one story above the ground, which provided a shaded play-space for
strategies while also respecting the New Orleans climate and way of life.
children under the building, but also prevented flooding during Katrina. The
One part of a dual-roof structure channels rainwater into a cistern while
building was a valuable example of regional modernism in New Orleans
the other supports photovoltaic panels to collect solar energy. The house
and was unfortunately demolished in June of 2011. Video of the interview
is designed to take advantage of natural light, utilizing Sliding SIP panels
was posted on April 6, 2011 on www.nola.com.
for generous cross-ventilation. An outdoor deck and strategic apertures encourage indoor/outdoor living and provide a sense of connection to the environment. The house will be constructed in New Orleans to serve as an exhibition space for the competition as well as a model for disaster relief housing. The sponsor of the competition, REOSE LLC, will also manufacture the house as a kit to be sold online.
Professor of Practice Byron Mouton (TSA ’89) was featured in a recent article in Architectural Record about Make It Right’s work in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. To date, the non-profit organization has completed nearly 50 homes and brought over 200 people home to the Ninth Ward. Working with Make It Right, Byron Mouton’s firm, bild design, completed a two-story house with the help of students at the Tulane School of Architecture. The
Adjunct Assistant Professor Heather A. Knight (TSA ’06) and Laura Ewen
house was to be among the first duplexes built, but the owners opted
Blokker (TSA ’07) have been awarded a Fitch Foundation Mid-Career Grant
instead for a single-family residence with a small artist’s studio. Mouton’s
for their joint proposal, “Louisiana’s Bousillage Tradition: Investigation
design, in step with the neighborhood’s contemporary silhouettes, has a
of Past Techniques for Future Practice.” Bousillage is a Colonial building
roof line that angles from a single level in front to two stories in the rear.
technique used in Creole and Arcadian Louisiana during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that utilizes a wood frame construction filled with dried clay. Knight and Blokker will produce a report that combines material analysis with oral history, field studies, and mock-ups. They plan to present their findings at conferences and subsequently publish a full report documenting their work.
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Practice,” Laura Blokker and Heather Knight 6 Wendy Redfield. Photo by Jill Stoll.
Byron Mouton was also selected as one of the first four Social Entrepreneurship Professors at Tulane in recognition of his community engagement work with students and non-profit partners. “Byron is committed to critical design and construction assignments that are focused on environmental remediation, and the construction of affordable housing in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast,” said University Provost Michael Bernstein.
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NEWLY APPOINTED ASSOCIATE DEAN OF ACADEMICS 5
WENDY REDFIELD
Professor Ellen Weiss, Ph.D. will be retiring this fall from a long teaching
Favrot Associate Professor Wendy Redfield joins the School of Architecture
career at the Tulane School of Architecture where she taught the history of
as Associate Dean for Academics this summer from North Carolina State
architecture from 1987 to 2011. The author of numerous articles, reviews,
University where she has taught since 1998, and served as Associate Direc-
chapters, and reports on American architecture and urbanism, her interest
tor of the School of Architecture and Director of Graduate Programs from
in specialized communities with a utopian edge fuels her current work
2005-2008. She received a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University
on the Tuskegee Institute and its MIT-trained architect Robert R. Taylor.
(1985), and an M.Arch from the University of Virginia (1990). Her teaching
NewSouth Press will publish Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African
was recognized on a national level in 2004 with the Association of Col-
American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington in late 2011. Dr.
legiate Schools of Architecture New Faculty Teaching Award, and in 1997
Weiss studied at Oberlin College, the University of California at Berkeley,
with an honorable mention in the AIA Education Honor Awards Program.
and the University of Illinois at Urbana. She has taught at colleges and
She has lectured widely on pedagogical method, and her teaching and
schools across the country and in Canada. She has served on the boards of
students’ work have been featured in numerous publications and exhibits.
the Society of Architectural Historians, the Vernacular Architecture Forum,
Her scholarship focuses on site and urban issues as well as the cultural
and the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians. Her Tulane courses
aspects of architecture. She has delivered papers at conferences nationally
focused on European architecture and urbanism from pre-history through
and internationally, and has published writings and mounted exhibits on the
the eighteenth century, American urbanism, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
subject of site representation and analysis. She edited Modulus 20: Stew-
Associate Professor Michael Crosby has published a resource for climate sensitive design titled, Green House Manual; North America; A Bioclimatic Design Analysis. This manual of building typologies and case studies serves as a reference for designers and students interested in the relationship of climate to building form. It focuses on buildings in North America, and is the first of a three-part series Professor Crosby is producing with financial support from the Tulane School of Architecture and the Tulane City Center. Adjunct Associate Professor and MSRED director Alexandra Stroud
ardship of the Land, published in 1991 by Princeton Architectural Press. Her funded research on the sites of some of Le Corbusier’s buildings resulted in the article, “The Suppressed Site: Revealing the Influence of Site on Two Purist Works,” published by Routledge Press in 2005 in Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies. She is a registered architect, and has practiced architecture on both the East and West Coasts. She continues to pursue design projects through University-affiliated community outreach, recently completing a funded project for affordable housing and neighborhood design in Henderson, North Carolina.
(TSA ’91) published an article, “Sportsman’s Paradox,” in the August 2010 issue of Landscape Architecture. The article sheds light on the conflicted relationship to ecology that is shared by the Louisiana fishing and oil drilling industries.
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The Architecture of Drawing, Errol Barron and Jacob Brillhart
Winning design for the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (Holocaust) Architectural Design Competition
Assistant Professor Marcella del Signore was lauded as a “Young Italian
Adjunct Assistant Professor Thaddeus Zarse served on the 2010 AIA Ar-
Talent” in the Architecture and Design Category from the Italian Ministry of
kansas Design Awards jury with Steve Dumez and F. Macnaughton Ball, Jr.,
Development and the National Youth Agency. She has also been selected
and was on a selection jury for the Arts Council of New Orleans and Broad
to exhibit her work at the MAU-01 Exhibition in Perugia, Italy as part of the
Community Connections collaboration to provide iconic signage to local
FESTARCH, an international architecture festival curated by Stefano Boeri.
businesses on Broad Street. Zarse also wrote an architectural review of the
Visual Resources Curator Francine Stock wrote an article titled “Is There a Future for the Recent Past in New Orleans?” for Issue 8 of MAS Context, a quarterly journal on urban issues created by MAS Studio. Stock, who is also
com where he is a regular contributor. He hopes to create an open dialogue to discuss architecture and planning in New Orleans.
president of DOCOMOMO Louisiana, calls to light the plight of mid-century
Adjunct Assistant Professor Carey Clouse and Adjunct Associate Professor
public schools in New Orleans which are mostly demolished or in danger of
and Director of TRUDC Grover Mouton have been awarded Community-
demolition. She also exhibited her artwork in the Favrot Lobby of Richard-
Based Research Grants (CBR) from Tulane’s Center for Public Service for
son Memorial Hall from February 28–March 25, 2011 in a show called,
2011. Their proposals help to link public-service with academic research,
“Francine Stock: Material Language.”
and will employ students within the School of Architecture. Carey Clouse
Favrot Professor Errol Barron (TSA ’64) and Jacob Brillhart (TSA ’99) mounted an exhibition called, “The Architecture of Drawing,” at the Art Center/South Florida in Miami which ran from February 25–April 3, 2011. The exhibition brought together these two architects from two generations in an examination of the role of hand drawing and painting in the digital age. Featured work included sketches, paintings, and models by Errol Barron, who teaches design and drawing at Tulane School of Architecture, and Jacob Brillhart, who does the same at the University of Miami. “The Architecture of Drawing” exhibit was lauded by the Miami Herald. Errol Barron’s sketches have also been included in a new book, Architect’s Sketchbooks, published on March 14 by Thames & Hudson. The book showcases a variety of process sketches from a wide range of notable architects. A total of 85 architects and studios are featured, including Shigeru Ban and Norman Foster, with incorporated commentary by Office dA Editor Will Jones from the architects on how the sketches developed into fully realized designs.
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will use the CBR funds to continue her work on a digital open-source urban farming toolkit. Already underway, this toolkit incorporates the design, planning and logistical support that many farmers need by sharing maps, diagrams, data and resources on one central website. Grover Mouton will expand a current recovery design initiative in St. Bernard Parish. The TRUDC is engaged in administering NEA grant funding for the revitalization of Village Square, a flood-devastated housing site in transition from private to public ownership. Over the next year, the TRUDC will guide the renewed site’s transformation to public open space, integrating playgrounds, park land, festival grounds, and other recreational uses. CBR funding will allow students of architecture to engage the public, report directly to Parish officials, and create detailed design proposals and site improvement recommendations for Village Square.
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Amber Wiley
Visiting faculty member Michael Gruber is part of the winning design
NEW FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
team for the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (Holocaust) to be located in Ferrara, Italy. The design team was a collaboration between Studio Arco of Bologna, Michael Gruber of Los Angeles, -scape Architects of Rome, and Kulapat Yantrasast of Los Angeles. The international competition drew more than fifty submissions, including entries from Peter Eisenman and Daniel Libeskind, and challenged architects to transform an old prison site into a welcoming educational space by modifying existing buildings and adding new buildings needed for the museum program. Construction on the museum is expected to start in 2013.
Amber Wiley joins the School of Architecture faculty in the fall of 2011 from George Washington University where she received her Ph.D. in American Studies specializing in architectural history, urban history, and African American cultural studies. She was the recipient of an AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in education research and a SRI Foundation Research Fellow Scholarship in historic preservation for her dissertation, “Concrete Solutions: Architecture of Public High Schools During the ‘Urban Crisis.’” She received her B.A. in Architecture from Yale University, and her Master’s in Architectural History and Certificate in Historic Preservation from the
Ammar Eloueini has been promoted from Associate Professor to Favrot
University of Virginia School of Architecture. Her areas of focus combine
Professor of Architecture as of July 1, 2011. On January 24, 2011, construc-
architectural theory and history with cultural issues of race, class, collective
tion began on Professor Eloueini’s J-House located in uptown New Orleans.
memory, narratives of power, and urban policy. Her research interests are
The house is sited on a standard New Orleans-sized lot in a flood-prone
centered on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban com-
area, and the design seeks to turn these restrictions into opportunities.
munities. Wiley had a feature article published in the fall 2010 Vernacular
As a new take on the raised shotgun typology, interior spaces are housed
Architecture Newsletter entitled, “LeDroit Park: A Study of Contrasts,”
within two tubes that twist ninety degrees from the front end to the back
which analyzed one neighborhood’s development through major housing
end of the house, generating space underneath the house and a skylight in
trends from romantic suburb to New Deal public housing. It illustrated how
the roof. On May 26, 2011, ArchDaily featured an article on the house along
a low-income neighborhood fought the encroachment of Howard University
with construction-progress photographs.
through preservation. She taught an upper level seminar, “Design, Preserva-
Mintz Associate Professor and Director of the Tulane City Center Scott Bernhard was interviewed for an article in Architect magazine about sustainable design strategies for hot, humid climates. The article, entitled “Sweat the Details,” appeared in the May 2011 issue of Architect. It spot-
tion, and Memory in DC,” while at George Washington and was a faculty member of the Lutheran College Washington Semester program. She also served on the board of the Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.
lights the nonprofit Lime Agency for Sustainable Hot/Humid Design which Bernhard started with his wife, Carrie Bernhard (TSA’02). One of their goals is to create a series of downloadable guides on strategies for designing buildings in tropical and subtropical climates. Dwell magazine highlighted Adjunct Lecturer Abigail Feldman in a story about the Growing Home program in which she helps Lot Next Door property owners to develop landscaping schemes that significantly discount the price of a lot. Feldman taught two studios at the School of Architecture this year, and is a landscape designer and the founder of New Orleans-based firm, Heavy Meadow.
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RICHARDSON MEMORIAL HALL RENOVATION CHARRETTE
NETHERLANDS VISIT
The Tulane School of Architecture hosted the Richardson Memorial Hall
Dean Kenneth Schwartz visited the Netherlands from November 9-12, 2010
Sustainable Strategies Charrette on March 22-23, 2011 to examine the
as a member of Senator Mary Landrieu’s congressional delegation to study
architecture building’s current state, and generate visions for its future
Dutch coastal restoration and flood control efforts. Senator Landrieu and
renovation. FXFOWLE and el dorado inc. (Dan Maginn, TSA ’89, is a founding
the Royal Netherlands Embassy led the trip for a contingent of Louisiana
partner) were selected as the architects for the project. For the charrette,
state and local officials as well as academic leaders to learn more about
participants were divided into five teams. Each included representatives
the water management systems of a country largely below sea level,
from FXFOWLE, el dorado and their consultants as well as faculty, admin-
similar to New Orleans. The trip also included an oil-spill response compo-
istrators, staff, Board of Advisor members, and students. After hearing
nent. The partnership between New Orleans and the Netherlands is also
presentations of the initial studies performed by the design firms and their
reflected in the Dutch Dialogues, a workshop hosted at the Tulane School
consultants, the teams brainstormed innovative ways to address four
of Architecture with Koch Chair and Professor John Klingman and Adjunct
areas of concern: climate and envelope, systems, interior organization and
Associate Professor Grover Mouton as key participants.
function, and site and campus relationships. At the end of the second day, the teams presented their final conclusions at a town hall meeting open to everyone in the school.
AIA CONFERENCE The American Institute of Architects national conference was held in New
RICHARDSON MEMORIAL HALL’S IBM PILOT PROGRAM
Orleans this May. The theme of the conference was Regional Design REVO-
As part of the Richardson Memorial Hall Sustainable Strategies project,
members were involved in the convention in various ways, including giving
Dean Kenneth Schwartz initiated a collaboration with IBM and Johnson
tours of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Tulane City Center proj-
Controls Inc. on smart building technologies. The aim of this project is to
ects, leading panels and workshops on topics from regional modernism to
meter, monitor, and analyze energy flows for Richardson Memorial Hall.
post-Katrina historic preservation, and giving presentations on sustainable
This system will allow the school and university to monitor improvements
real estate development. Professor Ammar Eloueini served as Exhibition
in new building systems and to optimize performance into the future. Dean
Chair of the National Convention Committee, and Professor Byron Mouton
Schwartz was also invited to participate in the IBM National Conference on
collaborated with Dan Maginn (TSA ’89) who designed and created “The
Smart Building Technology which took place in June of 2011 in New York
Avenue,” a sustainable design installation on the convention expo floor.
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National “Pulse” Conference in
Materials used to construct the installation were provided by conference
February held in Las Vegas. Samuel Palmisano, Chairman and CEO of IBM,
organizer Hanley Woods. After the conference, the materials were donated
has invited Dean Schwartz to deliver a keynote address and to participate
to Tulane University for the construction of the 2012 URBANbuild house.
LUTION: Ecology Matters. School of Architecture faculty and Advisory Board
in panel discussions at the IBM SmarterCities International Conference in Rio di Janero in November of this year. He will be talking about the smarter building systems and initiatives tied to the Richardson Memorial Hall renovation project. Randall Dalia (TSA ‘80) was instrumental in helping to establish this partnership with IBM.
ACCREDITATION REPORTS NAAB’s Architectural Program Report and Visiting Team Report have been posted on the Tulane School of Architecture website under “Degrees and Programs.” The School has full six-year accreditation as determined on NAAB’s last visit in spring of 2008.
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1 Richardson Memorial Hall Renovation Charrette 2 Dean Schwartz in the Netherlands with Senator Mary Landriueu. Photo by Matthew D. R. Lehner 3 “The Avenue” constructed by el dorado in the New Orleans convention center
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SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS ANNUAL MEETING
SKY MAGAZINE
The Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting was held from April
The Tulane City Center was featured in Sky Magazine, the in-flight maga-
13-17, 2011 in New Orleans. Meeting topics included post-disaster historic preservation and the challenges of preserving modernist buildings in a city with a strong vernacular tradition. Professor Emerita Karen Kingsley delivered the introductory address titled, “New Orleans Water Works.” Participating faculty and staff included Director of Preservation Studies Eugene Cizek, John Klingman, Ann Masson, Francine Stock, and head of the Southeastern Architectural Archives Keli Rylance.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CONFERENCE This year’s continuing education conference was held on November 13, 2010 with a theme of “Issues and Case Studies in Sustainable Design.” Koch Chair and Professor John Klingman acted as Conference Chairman, and presenters included Edward Mazria, founder and executive director of Architecture 2030; Ted Flato, FAIA, principal of Lake|Flato Architects; and
zine for Delta Air Lines. The article, “Sustainability Goes to School,” reference’s TCC’s work in areas such as affordable housing with a description of the URBANbuild program, urban cooperative gardens, and an image of the Hollygrove Market & Farm under construction.
ARCHITECTS AS DEVELOPERS PANEL Highlighting a recent trend in the profession, a panel discussion on “Architects as Developers” was held at the Tulane School of Architecture on March 18, 2011. The session was moderated by the new Director of the Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development Program, Alexandra Stroud AIA LEED AP (TSA ‘91). The panelists, who spoke about their experiences straddling the fields of architecture and development, were Marcel Wisznia (TSA ’73), Principal of Wisznia Architecture and Development; Andy Spatz (TSA ’73), Partner at Berry Spatz Architects and Adas Spatz Properties; and
Joan Krevlin, FAIA, partner in BKSK Architects LLP.
Ryan Carley (TSA ’96), Development Manager at JCH Development.
JOB SEARCH POINTERS
MORNING WORKSHOP WITH JAMES CRAMER
The Tulane School of Architecture has put together a list of the top ten tips
Tulane School of Architecture faculty and New Orleans AIA members were
for finding employment in a difficult job market. Job tips run the gamut from the traditional—networking with former professors, joining professional organizations—to the modern—establishing a personal website, taking advantage of online social networking. The presentation is linked on the school website and has played on the digital screen in the lobby of Richardson Memorial Hall.
CHINA CENTRAL TELEVISION Dean Schwartz and Yueqi ‘Jazzy’ Li, expected ’13 and a graduate of Beijing #4 High School in China, were interviewed by China Central Television for the popular program, “Leading Universities of the World.” Filming took
invited to a workshop on February 8, 2011 featuring James Cramer of the Greenway Group and the Design Futures Council. The workshop, arranged by Dean Kenneth Schwartz, focused on trends in architecture, the construction industry, and the design professions.
WAGGONNER & BALL ARCHITECTS COMMIT TO FUND A YEARLY LECTURE David Waggonner, FAIA and F. Macnaughton Ball, Jr., FAIA have been deeply involved with the Tulane School of Architecture for many years. Their firm, Waggonner & Ball Architects, has generously committed to fund a yearly lecture at the school. Mac Ball has also joined the Tulane School of Architecture Board of Advisors.
place at Richardson Memorial Hall and at the Hollygrove Market & Farm, a project of the Tulane City Center.
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school news Career Explorations in Architecture High School Program. Photo by Allison Schiller (expected ‘12).
Thesis Show at the Ogden Museum of Art: Sarah Whiting and Charles Waldheim. Photo by Jill Stoll.
SUMMER CAREER EXPLORATIONS
2010–2011 LECTURE SERIES SPEAKERS
The Career Explorations in Architecture High School Program will run again
James Timberlake, FAIA, Kieran Timberlake Architects
this summer under the leadership of Associate Professor Michael Crosby.
Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Lecture
The three-week course of study is geared toward high school students, but
Ammar Eloueini, International Assoc. AIA
prospective graduate students can also enroll in order to explore a possible career in architecture. Through lectures, design exercises and field trips, the students are immersed in architectural education as well as the culture of New Orleans. The program has been running successfully for over twentyfive years.
Principal, AEDS & Favrot Associate Professor Tulane School of Architecture Stanley Saitowitz, Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc. Walter Wisznia Memorial Lecture Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA / Chris Cooper, AIA TSA ‘91
DOCOMOMO AND TULANE RELEASE IPHONE APP Tulane University and DOCOMOMO US/Louisiana have partnered to release an iPhone app highlighting the significant, threatened, and lost modern ar-
Cooper Joseph Studio Hilary Sample, Principal, MOS llc & Assistant Professor Yale School of Architecture
chitecture of New Orleans. The location-based app allows users to browse
Peter Gluck, Peter Gluck and Partners Architects, New York
modern buildings in New Orleans by architect, neighborhood, category
Francisco Javier Rodriguez, Principal, RSVP Architects & Dean
or status (extant, threatened or razed). Descriptions of buildings were written by DOCOMOMO members, students in Francine Stock’s Regional Modernism class at the Tulane School of Architecture, and Karen Kingsley, author of Modernism in Louisiana. Historical information was provided by Tulane Libraries’ Southeastern Architectural Archive, the Tulane School of
University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture Edward Ford, Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor of Architecture University of Virginia School of Architecture Azby Fund Lecture
Architecture’s New Orleans Virtual Archive, and the New Orleans Public
Thesis Show at the Ogden Museum of Art
Library’s City Archives. The software was designed and is supported by the
Commentators: Charles Waldheim, Professor and Chair, Department
Innovative Learning Center, a division of Tulane Technology Services.
of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design & Sarah Whiting, Dean, Rice University School of Architecture
CITIZEN ARCHITECT
Design Principal, WW Architecture
On February 21, filmmaker Sam Douglas screened his documentary, “Citizen
STUDENT LECTURES
Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio,” at Richard-
Jennifer Gaugler, TSA ‘11
son Memorial Hall. The screening was followed by a question and answer
Class of 1973 Travel Fellowship
session with the audience.
Thomas J. Bogan, TSA ‘11 John William Lawrence Travel Fellowship Kevin Muni, TSA ‘11 Moise H. and Lois G. Goldstein Travel Fellowship
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ST UDY A BR O A D P R O G R A M S CHINA SUMMER PROGRAM Professor of Practice Irene Keil and Assistant Professor Tiffany Lin guided a group of architecture students for the summer study abroad program in China. The program was eight weeks of studio and travel based in Beijing with field trips around the vicinity. Research was conducted on rural and urban villages located on the edges of cities, and studio work involved research, mapping, analysis and architectonic explorations. Students were
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given the opportunity to define their own projects under the guidance of their instructors. The program collaborated with B.A.S.E., the Beijing Architecture Studio Enterprise, a laboratory and center for architecture in Beijing founded by Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray in 2006. B.A.S.E. is located in a thriving arts district in Beijing, and the summer program shared their facilities, providing the opportunity for students to work in a stimulating creative environment. On March 28, 2011, B.A.S.E. co-founder Mary-Ann Ray delivered a lecture at the Tulane School of Architecture entitled, “Ruralopolitan Stuff: projects in China and elsewhere.” 2
Dean Schwartz visited the summer program in Beijing in late May. He also visited with the Deans of Tsinghua University of Beijing and Tongji University of Shanghai to explore collaborative opportunities. In Beijing, he was assisted and guided by rising fourth year student Yuequi ‘Jazzy’ Li. Dean Schwartz also had the opportunity to meet with a prominent Tulane alumnus Harry Lu (TSA ‘90) in Shanghai. Mr. Lu has offered to sponsor several Tulane students for internships in his office starting next summer.
ROME PROGRAM
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Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore led a successful Rome Study Abroad Program this past fall with a group of enthusiastic and talented architecture students. The program included a number of field trips to cities such as Tivoli and Venice. The students lived and worked in a former 17th century convent on the Piazza Navona. Tulane collaborated with The Pantheon Institute in Rome which coordinates study abroad programs in architecture and the liberal arts. The curriculum, co-taught by Assistant Professor Tiffany Lin, was equivalent to fourth year and includes design studio, drawing, history of Rome, and structures/technology. Students also studied Italian language and culture. Upon their return, an exhibition of their work was mounted in the lobby of Richardson Memorial Hall. 1 tulaneBASEbeijing 2 Yiru Huang, Deputy Dean, Tongji University; Judith Kinnard; Wu Changfu, Dean, Tongji University; Kenneth Schwartz; Li Xianging, Assistant Dean and Director of International Programs, Tongji University in Shanghai
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1 Grover Mouton sketch of TRUDC’s low-carbon new town, Longpao, China 2 Scenic highway
TRUDC ENGAGES STUDENTS IN CHINA
LAKEFRONT SCENIC HIGHWAY – CHANGXING, CHINA
The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC), directed by Adjunct
A project designed in 2008 by the Tulane Regional Urban Design Center has
Associate Professor Grover Mouton, continues their collaborative relation-
begun construction 100 miles west of Shanghai in the city of Changxing,
ship with the American Planning Association on a new project in Longpao,
China. The one-billion RMB ($150 million USD) urban design and infra-
China. Part of the greater Nanjing metro region, Longpao faces great
structure project was led by TRUDC Director Grover Mouton, and includes
growth potential thanks to construction of the latest Yangtze River bridge.
one of the first scenic highways in China. Professor Mouton presented
The TRUDC has crafted a low-carbon strategic master plan for the 52
designs to Zhejiang Province leaders in Fall 2008, and the project is now
square kilometer site, recommending environmentally sensitive methods of
under construction along Lake Tai, China’s third-largest lake. TRUDC Design
development. Using alternative power sources, applying phytoremediation
Associates Robert Bracken and Nick Jenisch aided Mouton in design,
and other low-impact techniques to its damaged ecosystem, and modern-
collaborating with the American Planning Association and the Changxing
izing existing municipal services, the plan aims to distinguish Longpao as a
Planning Department.
winding along the edge of Lake Tai, China 3 Preservation Matters Symposium 4 John H. Stubbs
model for sustainable design. Accommodating 250,000 new residents, the proposal features a dense, limited development footprint that preserves the existing agricultural villages and landscape, and protects one of the last
POINT CADET – BILOXI, MS
untouched wetland areas along the Lower Yangtze.
The TRUDC designed a new public waterfront park for the city of Biloxi, MS
Following its tradition of student engagement, the TRUDC has directed
representing the last public waterfront green space in East Biloxi, will soon
several students and alumni throughout the design process. Kevin Muni
become the city’s newest park. It will feature fishing piers, public marina,
(TSA’11) conducted on-site analysis in Longpao and collaborated with
event and performance spaces, children’s play areas, recreation paths and
the TRUDC on design development. Muni, TRUDC Project Director Nick
activities, gardens, pavilions, and more. New buildings will host farmers
Jenisch (TSA’03), and recent graduate Robert Bracken (TSA’08) worked with
markets, fishing tournaments, restaurants, and other activities. A new
Mouton to create project design concepts, environmental remediation and
Seafood Industry Museum is planned for the site.
protection strategies, energy efficiency requirements, development density models, transportation plans and specifications, and project renderings. The project also served as an academic exercise in Mouton’s Design Urbanism seminar with students tackling graphic representation and spatial design at
on a 17 acre oceanfront site known as Point Cadet. This prime property,
As part of Professor Grover Mouton’s “Design Urbanism” seminar, a group of sixteen architecture students worked with the TRUDC to help create this new vision for Point Cadet. The students met with Biloxi Mayor A.J. Hol-
the scale of the city.
loway and presented their ideas to the public. The project provided students
The team presented the project design and findings to Party Secretary Li
real-world project adhering to budget and regulatory constraints.
Shigui of Nanjing’s Liuhe District, and will subject the plans to an expert panel review in August 2011.
an opportunity to engage with community members in the creation of a
The TRUDC continued work on the project through Summer 2011, specifying design details and helping the city identify and allocate various funding opportunities. Construction on the park is expected to begin later this year. The design process will be featured in a documentary in Fall 2011.
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PRESERVATION MATTERS 2 SYMPOSIUM
JOHN H. STUBBS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF PRESERVATION STUDIES
On Saturday, April 9, 2011 the Tulane School of Architecture’s Preservation
John H. Stubbs has been appointed Senior Professor of Architectural
Studies program hosted the Preservation Matters 2 symposium. The theme,
Preservation Practice and Director of the Master of Preservation Studies
“Latin America’s Urban Heritage,” was chosen to reflect the geographic and
program in the Tulane School of Architecture. In anticipation of his leader-
cultural proximity of Latin America’s historic cities to New Orleans, and the
ship role at the School, John Stubbs has said, “what an honor it will be to
lessons that could be shared between preservationists from both places.
continue the important work in historic preservation education at Tulane
The symposium was co-sponsored by the Tulane School of Architecture,
developed under Professor Eugene Cizek, FAIA, Ph.D. Gene Cizek and I were
Tulane’s Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and the
both inspired by an earlier notable Tulanian, James Marston Fitch, who
New Orleans chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Invited experts
from the mid-1960’s became known as the father of historic preservation
included Gustavo F. Araoz, AIA, President of the International Council of
education in the United States.” John Stubbs had a particularly close rela-
Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS); Isabel Rigol-Savio, Ph.D., Professor of Ar-
tionship with Fitch, having studied under him at Columbia University and
chitecture and Historic Preservation, Havana, Cuba; Eduardo Rojas, Principal
later as his assistant for a decade in corporate architectural preservation
Urban Development Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB);
practice with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners in New York City.
and John H. Stubbs, Vice President for Field Projects, World Monuments Fund (WMF). In addition to encouraging a mutually beneficial dialogue, the event also honored Gene Cizek, FAIA, Ph.D. upon his retirement as Director of the Master of Preservation Studies program. Dr. Cizek has led preservation studies at the School of Architecture for many years, and he has played a major role in historic preservation in New Orleans.
From 1990 until 2011, John Stubbs served as Vice President for Field Projects at the World Monuments Fund in New York where he directed scores of the organization’s projects across the world. Beginning in 1989, he served for twenty years as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Historic Preservation in Columbia University’s Graduate Program in Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He taught the theory and practice of architectural preservation, and the history of classical architecture. John Stubbs has also taught
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION conference and reception Dean Kenneth Schwartz and Preservation Director Dr. Gene Cizek hosted a reception on October 28, 2010 for Tulane School of Architecture alumni at the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s National Preservation Conference. The conference took place in Austin, Texas and many current Master of Preservation Studies students were in attendance.
preservation documentation and design studios at both Columbia and the School of Architecture at Louisiana State University (LSU). He holds a Master of Science 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. In 1978, John Stubbs worked as a Historical Architect for the Technical Preservation Services Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. administering federal tax incentives for rehabilitating historic buildings. He later went on to serve as Assistant Director of Historic Preservation Projects at Beyer Blinder Belle in New York for ten years, and as a Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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MS RE D P ROG R A M
NEW MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
ALEXANDRA STROUD APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF MSRED PROGRAM
The new Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development (MSRED) program
Alexandra Stroud, AIA LEED AP (TSA ’91) has been appointed as Director
welcomed its first class of students in June of 2011. The program will
of the program. She is an alumna of the Tulane School of Architecture and
prepare graduate students from diverse fields to explore the potential
holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from the Massa-
for regenerative development of cities with a focus on environmental
chusetts Institute of Technology. She has over eighteen years of experi-
responsibility. The entering class of 18 students come from undergraduate
ence as a licensed architect and real estate professional specializing in
programs in architecture, liberal arts and sciences, engineering, business,
financial and feasibility analysis, development implementation and project
and more. Both resident and visiting faculty will teach courses in business,
management. Her company, Urban Focus LLC, provides strategic real estate
architectural design, planning, and related fields, and utilize lessons from
development and consulting services for communities and municipalities.
New Orleans as well as case studies from across the country. The program
Her experience includes affordable housing financing and development as
will assist graduates in finding opportunities to work in both for-profit and
well as mixed income transit oriented development in New Orleans and the
non-profit settings.
surrounding region, Washington DC, Maryland, Northern Virginia, Boston, Massachusetts, Detroit, Michigan, Minneapolis-St Paul and Oklahoma City.
INAUGURAL CLASS (pictured above) Back row (left to right): Andrew Mayronne, Kasey Liedtke, John Moore,
GREEN FINANCE CONFERENCE
Sassan Nikdast, Sam Berman, Danny Monckton, John Eskew
The new Master in Sustainable Real Estate Development program and
Middle row: Tyler Antrup, Vann Joines, Carter Broun, Colin Ferrell, Elizabeth Simpson, Deborah Light, Tanner Stroschien, Christian Brierre Front row: Steven Kennedy, Brinda Sen Gupta, Amy Montgomery
the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Center for Real Estate Analytics jointly hosted a conference entitled, “Strengthening the Green Foundation: Research and Policy Directions for Development and Finance,” in the LavinBernick Center on March 10–11, 2011. The conference brought together top scholars and practitioners to encourage a dialogue about green building and the role that the real estate industry plays in supporting green development. The keynote speakers were Raphael Bostic, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Scott Muldavin, CRE, CMC, the Executive Director of the Green Building Finance Consortium.
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MSRED: NEW FACULTY Under the leadership of director Alexandra Stroud (pictured above), the following faculty members will be teaching as adjunct lecturers in the new Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development program.
1 Will Bradshaw (Case Studies in Real Estate Development) is co-founder
4 Kelly Longwell (Legal Issues in Real Estate Development) is a Director
and president of Green Coast Enterprises, LLC, a New Orleans-based
in the New Orleans Office of Coats Rose where she focuses on real estate,
company which has developed award-winning real estate projects in North
affordable housing and taxation. She has experience in real estate develop-
Carolina, Massachusetts, and Louisiana. Bradshaw was named one of the
ment, corporate and partnership taxation, and tax-exempt organizations.
twenty-five most promising social entrepreneurs in America by Business
She is listed in Woodward/White’s Best Lawyers in America for Real Estate
Week. Bradshaw holds a Ph.D. in City Planning from MIT, Masters Degrees
Law. She has a LL.M degree in Taxation from New York University, a J.D.
in City Planning and Real Estate Development from MIT, and degrees in
from Louisiana State University, and a Bachelor’s degree from Tulane.
Physics and Cross-Cultural Studies from Davidson College.
5 M. Tatiana Eck, LEED AP (Sustainable Design and Development) is a
2 Casius Pealer (Thesis/Applied Practice) is principal of Oystertree Con-
registered architect who started out working in architecture and develop-
sulting, L3C, whose mission is to provide affordable housing and community
ment at William McDonough + Partners. She most recently served as Vice
development advising services with an emphasis on green building. He also
President of Architecture and Development at AIG Global Real Estate
served as the first Director of Affordable Housing at the U.S. Green Building
Investment Corporation where she has directed projects throughout the
Council, and is currently the Chair of the American Institute of Architects
U.S. and around the world. She earned a Bachelor’s in Architecture from
Housing Committee. He received a Master of Architecture degree from
Princeton University, and a Master of Architecture and Master of Urban and
Tulane University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia.
3 Reuben Teague (Legal Issues in Real Estate Development) is co-founder
6 Ommeed Sathe (Public Private Partnerships Seminar) has served as
and principal of Green Coast Enterprises, LLC. He previously worked as a
Director of Real Estate Development for the New Orleans Redevelopment
law clerk, a policy analyst for Public Citizen, and a business strategy consul-
Authority (NORA) since June of 2007. He manages all of the agency’s
tant for the Kalchas Group/CSC. Teague was also named one of the twenty-
acquisition, redevelopment, and disposition programs. He has raised large
five most promising social entrepreneurs in America by Business Week. He
amounts of capital to support both residential and commercial develop-
holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts
ment. He holds a J.D. from Harvard University Law School, a Master of
in Economics from Princeton University.
City Planning from MIT, and Bachelor’s degrees from Columbia University in Urban Planning and Neuroscience.
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TULANE C I T Y C EN TER
Project Ish. Photo by Will Crocker.
FAUBORG DELASSIZE COMMUNITY GARDEN
GROW DAT
The Tulane City Center partnered with Jericho Road and Friends of Fauborg
The Grow Dat Youth Farm program was founded by New Orleans food
Delassize to build a shade and storage structure for the Fauborg Delas-
educator Johanna Gilligan in collaboration with the Tulane City Center and
size Community Garden in the fall of 2010. Adjunct Lecturer Andrew Liles
Tulane’s Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives. The farm’s mission is to intro-
(TSA ’10) led the project as a design seminar for a team of nine students.
duce local youth to the process of growing food. To achieve this goal, paid
The structure provides shade, seating, storage for gardening tools and
interns are recruited from local high schools and youth organizations. The
supplies, and convenient work surfaces. The design team also incorporated
farm will also provide classes in cooking, nutrition, and finance. Two option
solar-powered lighting and a barbecue grill so that community members can
studios at the School worked jointly this spring on the design for the farm.
bring food from garden to plate and share the harvest with the neighbor-
One studio, led by Scott Bernhard, focused on the building elements on
hood. At the project’s recent grand opening, residents of all ages celebrated
site and the other, led by Abigail Feldman, focused on a master landscape
by tasting healthy grilled vegetables.
plan. The building stage is supported by major gifts from Maziar Behrooz (TSA ’85), and John and Anne Mullen. By January 2012, one acre of the farm
PROJECT ISH
is expected to be in production. The Grow Dat Farm was recently featured
The Tulane City Center worked with Hagar’s House, a transitional shelter for
ran a ‘Living’ section cover story on the farm at the end of its first success-
women with children, and the First Grace Community Alliance on a student design-build project called Project Ish. Fifteen students, led by the Tulane City Center’s Senior Program Coordinator Emilie Taylor (TSA ’06), designed and built an addition to the house by enclosing the existing back deck to
in The Gambit, a local New Orleans publication. The Times-Picayune also ful year in June. Program support has been provided by EPNO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, New Orleans Outreach, and ConAgra.
transform it into a playroom and educational space. They collaborated
HOLLYGROVE MARKET AND FARM
closely with the residents and staff of Hagar’s House, and the project was
The Hollygrove Market and Farm has been named one of five Great Places
designed and built over the course of a 13-week studio in the fall of 2010.
in Louisiana by the 2010 Louisiana Smart Growth Summit. The Hollygrove
The design includes a linear storage wall, a loft playspace, and a butterfly
Market and Farm was showcased during a special reception in Baton Rouge
roof which collects rainwater to be used in the adjacent community garden.
as part of the Summit held by the Center for Planning Excellence.
Project Ish is one of several projects that the Tulane City Center initiated in 2010 with the help of Johnson Controls, Inc.
MILLION DOLLAR PLEDGE Johnson Controls, Inc. has made a ten-year pledge to the Tulane City Center for $1,000,000. The money will support community initiatives and publications of the TCC. Johnson Controls, Inc. is also working with IBM on the Richardson Memorial Hall smart building program.
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Grow Dat Youth Farm
Fauborg Delassize Community Garden
GUARDIAN’S INSTITUTE – DONALD HARRISON SR. MUSEUM
URBAN INNOVATIONS
This summer, the Tulane City Center and the Guardian’s Institute will imple-
Tulane City Center Director Scott Bernhard published an article in Innova-
ment Phase 1 of a community center for the Upper Ninth Ward which will
tions Journal entitled, “Engagement, Ecology, and Design Education:
support the Guardian’s Literacy Program and other Institute initiatives. The
Outreach Work of the Tulane City Center.” The theme for the Summer 2010
Guardian’s Institute is dedicated to education and personal development
issue of Innovations was “Urban Innovations: New Orleans Five Years After
through the perpetuation of the Mardi Gras Indians, jazz, brass bands, and
Katrina,” and the issue also featured a lead essay by Tulane University
other cultural traditions. Associate Professor Scott Ruff and his design team
President Scott Cowen and Amanda Cowen on “Innovation Amidst Crisis:
of students have been working with the Guardian’s Institute and Alembic
Tulane University’s Strategic Transformation.”
Development Corporation on the Schematic Design. Phase 1 includes an overall site scheme as well as the design of a multifunctional outdoor covered performance space, and an adjacent room which can be used for performance preparation and indoor events. Groundbreaking for this structure, which will be called the Donald Harrison Sr. Museum, will take place at the end of August. A design build seminar class will construct the
URBAN INNOVATION CHALLENGE Tulane University established a new fellowship this year with the creation of the Urban Innovation Challenge. Four fellows were selected to work on solving problems in urban revitalization, education, health, and economic
museum during the Fall 2011 semester.
development under the mentorship of faculty and staff at various centers
2011-2012 PRO BONO PROJECTS
the Tulane City Center and will be working during the 2011–12 academic
Each year the Tulane City Center sends out a Request for Proposals to the
laborate with community leaders.
and institutes across the university. Candy Chang was named a fellow with year on developing an online platform for neighborhood residents to col-
New Orleans community and a team of jurors decide on which two projects will be selected for pro-bono design services. The projects selected for the 2011-2012 academic year will be the Nowe Miasto Community Center/ Cooperative Housing Project, and the New Orleans Dance Collective Studio. Both projects are in the Mid-City neighborhood and are being developed by non-profit organizations who are making large impacts on the New Orleans community in the areas of low income housing and cultural activities respectively. The TCC is pleased to partner with these non-profits on an exciting new round of projects. The jurors for this year’s selection were Professor Errol Barron (TSA ’64), Nina Feldman of the New Orleans Neighbor-
PRESS FOR TCC PROJECTS Tulane City Center projects were featured in 3 significant publications last year: The Power of Pro Bono, edited by Jon Cary, New York, Metropolis Books: 2010; How to Rebuild a City: Field Guide from a Work in Progress, by Anne Gisleson and Tristan Thompson, New Orleans, LA, Press Street: 2010; and Why Design Now? edited by Ellen Lupton, Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, Cynthia Smith and Andrea Lipps, New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: 2010.
hood Development Collaborative, Dean Kenneth Schwartz, Adjunct Lecturer Allison Stouse (TSA ’97), and Marcel Wisznia (TSA ’73).
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URBANbuild 04, Photo by Will Crocker
URBANbuild06
URBANbuild04 RECEIVES LEED CERTIFICATION
This year, URBANbuild students under the direction of Professor of Practice
The URBANbuild 4 house at 2036 Seventh St. in New Orleans, designed
Byron Mouton returned to work in the established, yet still struggling, urban
and built by Tulane architecture professors and students, has been certified
context of New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood. This is the sixth home
LEED Silver by the U.S. Green Building Council. It is the first LEED-certified
constructed by the program, and the fifth developed in collaboration with
project for the School and collaborator Neighborhood Housing Services of
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans and grant support from the
New Orleans. On December 10, 2010, first-time homeowner Tami Hills was
Diener Family Foundation.
presented with her LEED certificate by Director of URBANbuild Byron Mou-
Prototype UB6 is designed for placement on a common infill lot of the city, anticipating positioning between two adjacent homes. The scheme responds to the dense urban fabric of the neighborhood through continued investment in the development of a generous front porch and a rear porch as seen in other URBANbuild homes. However, the UB6 strategy also intro-
ton, Dean Kenneth Schwartz and CEO of Neighborhood Housing Services Lauren Anderson. The green features of the house include energy-saving insulation, low-emissivity windows, sustainable materials such as bamboo flooring and zero-VOC paint, and Energy-Star fixtures and appliances
duces a side yard garden, inviting natural light into the home and providing
FAST COMPANY RECOGNITION
immediate access to ‘contained’ green space. Living, eating, and sleep-
The May issue of Fast Company Magazine included the URBANbuild pro-
ing spaces are divided into three distinct volumes clustered around this
gram in its listing of 51 “bold ideas and brilliant urbanites” from every state
garden. The front and rear covered porches act as extensions of the interior
in America. The list recognizes both for-profit and non-profit ventures that
space, and cross ventilation is abundant when the intermediate doors and
take innovative approaches to benefiting their community.
windows are opened throughout the scheme. As with past URBANbuild homes, passive cooling is provided with attention paid to solar orientation, the provision of covered outdoor space, and reliance upon developing insulation systems combined with the specification of energy efficient mechanical systems. In addition, the UB6 scheme collects water and carefully deposits it in three specific locations for use with garden maintenance while also decreasing impact on the already problematic groundwater conditions of the environment. Students have once again provided a successful dwelling strategy to an underprivileged New Orleans neighborhood. More information may be found at www.URBANbuild.tulane.edu.
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TULANE EMPOWERS Tulane University President Scott Cowen has chosen to highlight the Tulane School of Architecture’s URBANbuild program in his most recent “Tulane Empowers” video newsletter. The video features local resident Tami Hills, the proud owner of a house built by Tulane architecture students as part of the URBANbuild program. In addition to being Tami’s first house, the URBANbuild 4 house is the first URBANbuild house to receive LEED certification. Located in Central City, the house makes a significant step toward revitalizing a recovering neighborhood.
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Graduate Colloquium 2011
“Passive Extrusion” by Scott Heath, Allison Powell, and Alex Ratliff
STUDENT NOTES
THREE SUKKAHS, THREE SITES
Kevin Michniok (expected ‘13) and John Nelson (expected ‘13) appeared
Twenty architecture students divided into three teams built three sukkahs
on a college-themed episode of CNBC’s, “Mad Money,” hosted by Jim Cramer. The students made reference to Tulane and the Tulane School of
on campus this fall. In cooperation with Rabbi Yonah Schiller, the Excecutive Director of Hillel, faculty members Scott Ruff and Judi Shade Monk guided
Architecture while on the program.
the teams through the process of designing and erecting their structures in
Alexandra Bojarski-Stauffer (expected ‘13) has been awarded a Gordon
Commons. The respective teams for these sites were team leader Michael
Summer Fellowship for research and design to be completed in the sum-
Greene (TSA’11) with T.J. Bogan (TSA’11), David Campanella, Laura
mer of 2011. The title of her proposal is “New Urban Housing in Shanghai,”
Casaccio (TSA’11), Audrey Flynn, and Jason Liu (TSA’11); team leader
and she will be working under the advisement of Harvey-Wadsworth Chair
Garrett Jacobs (TSA’11) with Tyler Guidroz, Michael Kirschner, Tessie
of Landscape Urbanism Judith Kinnard, FAIA. The highly competitive Gordon
Murphy (expected ’14), Allie Seiersen, and Frank Xiong; and team leader
Fellowship is awarded to one male and one female student of Newcomb-
Nels Erickson (TSA’11) with Xiaoyun Li, Ian Rosenfield (expected ’15),
Tulane College each year. Alexandra will study the urban living conditions
Nora Schwaller, Alexander Shporer, and Josh Ungar. All students
of young working women in Shanghai and propose a new urban housing
expected ’13 except as noted.
front of the Lavin-Bernick Center, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, and Bruff
prototype that is better suited to their needs. Each year, AIA Louisiana offers an international travel fellowship open to
SOUNDECOLOGIES
all third and fourth year architecture majors in the state. Michael Kahn
SoundEcologies is an installation designed and fabricated by students led
(expected ‘13), a rising fourth year M. Arch undergrad and B.A. History
by Assistant Professors Marcella del Signore and Victor Jones during the
candidate, was selected as one of this year’s recipients and was presented
spring 2009 Digital Fabrication Seminar. The installation was recently ex-
with a grant. Michael’s proposal is to study the making and defining of
hibited at the Nous Gallery in London as part of the 2010 London Festival of
urban place and how it is affected by transportation—specifically the role
Architecture’s Spontaneous Schooling Exhibition showcasing the outcomes
of the London Underground Tube station on the urban fabric of London.
of 86 architectural workshops around the world.
Ultimately, he hopes to learn about the impact of transit nodes on the development of neighborhood and public space. The goal is to be able to apply the lessons of London’s infrastructure-based growth to other cities, such as
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GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
New Orleans, to spur development within pre-existing urban centers.
The graduate student body organized the second annual Graduate Student
Jennifer Gaugler (TSA‘11) and Kevin Muni (TSA‘11) were selected to
um was transformative and emerging voices in the design field as students
receive the Tulane 34 Award in honor of their exemplary leadership, service
were interested in diverse career paths, and how the changing social and
and academic excellence. The Tulane 34 Award is presented to 34 outstand-
economic landscape has affected the roles of contemporary design profes-
ing undergraduate and graduate/professional school students throughout
sionals. Five panelists were invited to New Orleans from around the country
Tulane University who have distinguished themselves during their collegiate
for two days of lectures, roundtable discussions, and interactions with
life at Tulane. Named for the year in which the university was founded,
students. Participating speakers were Ben Bischoff of MADE, Alan Ricks
1834, Tulane 34 is among the most coveted university-wide honors be-
of MASS Design Group, Gina Reichert (TSA’97) of Design_99, Dan Maginn
stowed upon students.
(TSA’89) of el dorado, and Guy Martin Wenzel of Guy Martin Design.
Colloquium which was held on April 1–2, 2011. The theme of the colloqui-
COMMENCEMENT 2011
A-week winning project,Strawblurry Fields, by Jazzy Li and Eric Baumgartner. Photo by Jill Stoll.
AWARDS
HONORS
American Institute of Architects
Summa cum laude
Medal
Kevin Levi Muni
Kevin Levi Muni undergraduate
university honors
Jennifer Anne Gaugler graduate
Kevin Wayne Franklin
American Institute of Architects
departmental honors
Certificates of Merit
Cum laude
Kevin Wayne Franklin undergraduate
Scott Isaac Berger
William Joseph Rosenthal graduate
Adrián Reifer
AIA MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP
Alpha Chi Rho Medal
Rising second-year student Zareth Pineda (expected ’15) has been award-
Thomas J. Lupo Award
ed an AIA Minority Scholarship. The scholarship is given to five students in
Adrian Reifer
the nation who are pursuing a NAAB-accredited degree in architecture.
Anne Morgan Peyton
Ronald F. Katz Memorial Award
Anne Morgan Peyton Garrett Loren Jacobs Zachery Kyle Bishop Mollie Margaret Burke Frances Andrea Guevara Tau Sigma Delta
PASSIVE HOUSE DESIGN COMPETITION
Alexandra Michelle Wirthlin John William Lawrence
Mollie Margaret Burke
Online design community, DesignByMany, hosted a Passive House competi-
Memorial Medal
Kevin Wayne Franklin
tion in which two teams of Tulane students were selected as finalists. The
Kevin Wayne Franklin
Garrett Loren Jacobs
two finalist teams were “Passive Extrusion” by expected ‘12 students Scott Heath, Allison Powell, and Alex Ratliff, and “GreeNola” by expected ‘13 students Hannah Ambrose, Rianna Bennett, and Marcus Allen. Participants were asked to design a low-cost, low-energy house for the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
Outstanding Thesis Award Anne Morgan Peyton William Joseph Rosenthal Malcolm J. Heard Award for Excellence in Teaching
A-WEEK Each year students at the Tulane School of Architecture participate in a one week design-build collaboration known as A-Week. This year, students were asked to design an installation that involved sensory interaction and
Elizabeth Burns Gamard Tulane 34 Kevin Levi Muni Jennifer Anne Gaugler
Scott Isaac Berger
Kevin Levi Muni Anne Morgan Peyton Thesis Commendations Kevin Wayne Franklin Jennifer Anne Gaugler Terrill Matthew Hewett Garrett Loren Jacobs Kevin Levi Muni Devin Nicole Oatman Anne Morgan Peyton
also considered sustainability. Over one hundred students divided into eight
Lawrence Travel Fellowships
William Joseph Rosenthal
teams participated, and as per A-Week tradition, Jing Liu (TSA‘04) of SO–IL
Lee Berman
Simcha Ze’ev Ward
was the practicing architect who acted as advisor for all the teams. The
Josh Mings
Alexandra Michelle Wirthlin
winning project, created by a team led by Jazzy Li (expected ’13) and Eric
Class of 1973 Travel Fellowship
Baumgartner (expected ‘13), consisted of a curtain of straws which could
J. Cameron Ringness
act as a projection screen and create sounds when blown in the wind.
DANAUS Danaus was a polymorphic installation designed by Tulane architecture
Goldstein Travel Fellowship Allison Schiller Graduation Address Furman Ezekiel Jordan III
students in Ammar Eloueini’s Digital Fabrication class and installed in Richardson Memorial Hall last spring. The students began with an exploration of anamorphic projection, creating the illusion of a complete perspective of a cube when standing at the entrance to the lobby, although the shape is actually fragmented onto several different surfaces. The entire piece is made of foam that was routed on a CNC machine.
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Andrew Trivers FAIA (TSA’69)
Nathan B. Cherry FAIA, AICP, LEED AP (TSA’86)
left to right: Raymond C. Breaux and T. Sellers Meric (TSA’52)
ALUMNI NE W S TWO ALUMNI ELEVATED TO AIA COLLEGE OF FELLOWS
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Andrew Trivers, FAIA (TSA’69) has been President and Principal of his own
T. Sellers Meric (TSA’52) and Raymond C. Breaux won the gold medal in
firm since 1975, guiding its growth and developing a national reputation
Men’s Doubles Tennis at the Summer National Senior Games held in Hous-
in urban redevelopment, adaptive re-use and historic rehabilitation. He is
ton, Texas, the week of June 27, 2011. Meric and Breaux, both 83 years old,
noted for his work in rebuilding communities and has worked on projects
have been tennis partners for 18 years, participating in various local and
throughout the United States. Andrew is also extremely active in his com-
national tournaments. They have participated in four NSGA Summer Games
munity, lending an advisory role to numerous civic, cultural and educational
and hope to continue their winning streak in the years to come. Besides
organizations. Andrew received his Master of Architecture in 1969 from
their accomplishments in the Senior Olympics, Meric and Breaux have been
the Tulane School of Architecture, and a Master of Architecture and Urban
ranked nationally by the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) as high as #2, and
Design in 1973 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
previously have been ranked co-#1 in doubles in the South. In 2001, Meric
Nathan B. Cherry, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP (TSA‘86) is the Director of the Planning and Urban Design Group of RTKL Associates Inc. based in Los Angeles, CA. With 25 years of experience as an architect and planner, he specializes in Urban Redevelopment, Transit Oriented Development, Sports
received the Distinguished Alumnus Architecture Award from Tulane School of Architecture.
1960 s
and Entertainment Districts, and Campus Planning. He has extensive project
Chris Theis, AIA (TSA’68) has been awarded a 2010 ACSA Distinguished
experience in North America, China, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Austra-
Professor Award which recognizes four educators each year for sustained
lia. He has also written and lectured extensively. His books include Jane
creative achievement in the advancement of architectural education through
Jacobs Reconsidered to be published in 2011, and Grid / Street / Place:
teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service. Theis has been a profes-
Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts published in 2009 (APA
sor in the Louisiana State University School of Architecture since 1988, and
Planners Press).
served as director from 1988-1994. He is a LEED-accredited professional with years of experience in the private sector as well as in academia. As an educator, he has focused attention on sustainable design.
GOOD MUSIC. GOOD FOOD. GOOD ARCHITECTURE A Tulane School of Architecture alumni reception timed to coincide with the national AIA convention was held at Latrobe’s on Royal on May 11, 2011. Musical entertainment was provided by Board of Advisor member Irvin Mayfield and the Jazz Playhouse Revue. The reception was hosted and supported by Suzanne and Brad Meltzer (TSA’90), Laura and John Williams (Newcomb’74, TSA’79), Kathryn and Graham Greene (TSA’78 and ’79), and Coleman Adler.
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1970 s Marcel Wisznia (TSA’73) was featured in the May 2011 issue of Preservation in Print in an article titled, “AIA New Orleans President Uses Historic Tax Credits to Redefine Downtown Living.” The article discusses his work as both architect and developer, and features several of Wisznia’s projects including the Union Lofts, the Maritime, and the Saratoga.
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Robert Ivy FAIA (TSA’76)
Angela O’Byrne (TSA’83)
courtesy of Oglesby Greene, Inc.
Robert Ivy, FAIA (TSA’76) has been appointed as the new Executive Vice
The “Half-There House,” designed by Maziar Behrooz (TSA’85) was fea-
President/Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects,
tured in the Wall Street Journal in June 2011 as well as the online version
effective February 1, 2011. Ivy was the Editor in Chief of Architectural
of Wallpaper* Magazine, and the online version of Architectural Record.
Record since 1996 as well as the Vice President and Editorial Director of
Behrooz designed the house in East Hampton, NY to nestle into a grassy
McGraw-Hill Construction. He was a principal with Ivy Architects and a
slope so that the back half of the house is actually underground, while the
managing partner with Dean/Dale, Dean and Ivy for nearly fourteen years
front part of the house is covered by a distinctive curved metal roof.
before moving to corporate executive positions. He was a recipient of the Crane Award in 2009, the American Business Media’s top award for lifetime contributions to business media. In 2010, he was recognized as a Master Architect by Alpha Rho Chi, an architectural fraternity, for communicating the value of design to a new generation. In his new position with the AIA, Ivy will lead the national organization in Washington, D.C. Tim Culvahouse, FAIA (TSA’79), a principal at Culvahouse Consulting and Editor of arcCA (Architecture California), has written a series of essays on New Orleans architecture and urbanism in Design Observer. He began with an article titled, “Stoop, Balcony, Pilot House: Making it Right in the Lower Ninth Ward,” followed by “The New Orleans Corner Store” and “Black in Back: Mardi Gras and the Racial Geography of New Orleans.” Graham Greene (TSA’79) and his associates at Oglesby Greene, Inc., won a 2010 AIA Dallas Design Award for Interior Architecture for their work on
Founding Directors Thomas Phifer and Stephen Dayton have announced Gabriel Smith (TSA‘88) as Director at Thomas Phifer and Partners. Smith earned a B.Arch at Tulane University, an M.Arch II from Harvard University and is a LEED-accredited professional. He is currently working on museum and gallery projects, and a net-zero Federal Building. Eve Blossom (TSA’88) has published a book titled, Material Change: Design Thinking and the Social Entrepreneurship Movement, which has been announced as a finalist for the INDEX: Award 2011 in the WORK category. Blossom is the founder and CEO of Lulan Artisans, an international for-profit social venture which produces hand-made natural textiles through collaboration between U.S. designers and artisans in Southeast Asia.
1990s
a house located along a wooded bluff above White Rock Creek in Dallas,
Chengzhi (Harry) Lu (TSA’90) is the Managing Principal of WWCOT’s
Texas. Greene’s firm won the Texas AIA Firm of the Year Award several
Shanghai Office, one of the most prominent U.S. design firms in China.
years ago.
Under his leadership, the firm has won several international design and planning competitions. During a trip to China this spring, Dean Kenneth
1980 s Angela O’Byrne (TSA’83) is CEO of Perez, APC, which was recently awarded the Inner City 100 Award, ranking number 5 on this year’s list. The award is given by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and by Fortune Magazine to successful, fast-growing inner city companies serving as role models for urban entrepreneurship and innovative business practices. The Inner City 100 Awards seek to demonstrate the potential for businesses to anchor and succeed in inner city neighborhoods.
Schwartz visited Lu in Shanghai. Daniel T. Hubbell, AIA LEED AP (TSA‘91) recently published The New Orleans Cultural Travel Sketch Series featuring five hand-drawn, signed and numbered fine-art prints of historic New Orleans landmarks. The artwork is intended to promote New Orleans tourism by illustrating why New Orleans vernacular and culture is worthy of being preserved and protected. Hubbell is donating 25% of the proceeds to benefit the Friends of the Fishermen under the auspices of the Louisiana Seafood Board.
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alumni news “Flockr” pavilion. Image courtesy of SO-IL
Kevin Frank (TSA‘05) wins the Arcadis “Imagine” ideas competion with his project “Venturi Effect Turbine Lattice: Harvesting Urban Wind Energy Between Buildings”.
Casius Pealer (TSA’96) was profiled in AIArchitect for his work in moving 70 historic homes that were slated for demolition in New Orleans. Pealer is
2000 s
the former Director of Builders of Hope, which at the time was working with
Felipe Corréa (TSA‘00) has been appointed as Director of the Master in
a non-profit housing developer to create infill housing in neighborhoods that
Urban Design Degree Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design,
were flooded by Hurricane Katrina. Seeing a connection between the desire
effective October 2010. He has been a Professor of Urban Design at the
to preserve the threatened vernacular houses and the need to infill empty
GSD since 2008. His most recent research focuses on diverse models of
lots in other parts of the city, Pealer and Builders of Hope moved the 70
urbanization created by resource extraction within the South American
homes in a period of four months. The homes will be rehabbed so families
continent. Other recent research initiatives have focused on Andean topog-
can move into them. Pealer sees the effort as a way to allow for both his-
raphy and its imprint on the Latin American city as well as on New Orleans,
toric preservation and large scale economic development in a deep-rooted
and its forms of exchange with the material forces of the Mississippi River.
but still living city. Pealer is now a Senior Sustainable Building Advisor for the Affordable Housing Institute, and the Chair of the AIA Housing Committee. Pealer spoke at the Affordable Housing Development Summit in Muscat, Oman. This annual event focuses on increasing private sector involvement in low cost housing programs in countries throughout the Middle East. He represented the Affordable Housing Institute, and spoke on “Affordable Green Building Techniques in Hot and Dry Climates.” Tiffany Melancon (TSA’96) is the chair of this year’s AIA Europe International Conference and Chapter Meeting. The conference will take place in
Ramiro Diaz (TSA‘00) of Waggonner & Ball Architects was recently highlighted in an article published by Bloomberg for his work with the Dutch Dialogues. Waggonner & Ball and the Dutch Dialogues, with mention of Tulane as host, were also featured in Harry Shearer’s film, “The Big Easy.” SO-IL, the firm founded by Jing Liu (TSA’04) and Florian Idenburg, has been prolific in their exhibition of design work this year. SO-IL was commissioned to design the main pavilion for Get It Louder, a biannual media and arts festival in Beijing. The “Flockr” pavilion served as a hub for the event and
Basel, Switzerland on October 14-16, 2011, and will focus on a theme of “Art, Industry, and Crossing Borders.” Registration opens in July. Melancon is also the 2011 Co-Director of AIA Europe – Swiss chapter.
NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE BEST OF 2011
Kenneth Bryant (TSA’98) was featured in The Tulanian, the quarterly
The March 2011 issue of New Orleans Magazine featured five new projects
magazine of Tulane University, in a story about how he saved a historic New
in the yearly “best of” New Orleans architecture series by Professor John
Orleans house from demolition. The S.W. Green house, located in Lower
Klingman. Congratulations to all of the following Tulane alumni and Advi-
Mid-City, was built in 1928 by Weiss, Dreyfous & Seiferth Architects for
sory Board Members who were involved in these projects:
Smith Wendell Green who was born a slave, but later became the wealthi-
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est African-American man in the city. Bryant’s advocacy for the house led
Errol Barron, TSA‘64
Nicholas Marshall, TSA‘92
Mayor Mitch Landrieu to set aside funds for it to be moved off the site of
Jared Bowers, TSA‘08
Charles Montgomery, TSA‘74
the future Veterans Administration Hospital.
Cynthia Dubberley, TSA‘98
Jennifer Pelc, TSA‘05
Randy Hutchison, TSA‘97
Captain James G. Rogers Ret., TSA‘70
Wendy Kerrigan, TSA‘03
William P. Sealy, TSA‘73
930 Poydras Residential Tower, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple. Photo by Jill Stoll
Robert Bracken’s team competition entry: “Quality and Efficiency: A New Corporate Icon Embodying Company Legacy”. Shanghai, China, 2011.
housed many of the festival’s activities. SO-IL also had a winning design,
The 930 Poydras Residential Tower by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple has won a
“In Tension,” in the Sukkah City competition held in New York City, as one
national 2011 Housing Award from the AIA. The project was one of seven
of twelve entries that were selected to be built from over six hundred en-
selected nationwide in the Multifamily Housing category on the basis of
trants. The materials for “In Tension” can be transported by a single person,
sustainability, affordability, innovation and design excellence. EDR Principal
and the structure was constructed of materials recycled from “Pole Dance,”
Allen Eskew FAIA, is on the Tulane School of Architecture’s Board of Advi-
SO-IL’s winning entry for last year’s MOMA/P.S.1 Young Architect’s Program.
sors, and Jose Alvarez (TSA’07) served as Project Architect. Thanks to
Kevin Frank (TSA’05), Jenny Pelc (TSA’05), and Breeze Glazer (TSA’06) have launched a new online magazine called ARCHILEPSY. Describing it as “a webzine for savvy designers,” the editors intend to replace the standard
the generosity of Project Developer Brian Gibbs (MFIN‘95), Dean Kenneth Schwartz hosted a reception for graduating students and faculty in the Sky Lobby of the 930 Poydras Tower in January.
design industry magazines with “an alternative that is smart, relevant, criti-
Robert Bracken (TSA’08) participated in an invited design competition
cal, and, of course, fun.” ARCHILEPSY is free and can be accessed online at
for the new headquarters of a major Chinese corporation as part of a
www.archilepsymagazine.com.
three-person team of Harvard students, and won second place. The program
Kevin Frank (TSA ’05) won the annual “Imagine” ideas competition which is open to all 15,000 employees of Arcadis. Frank’s team proposed an urbanscale matrix of wind turbines that are placed between buildings to take advantage of the high wind speeds created by the Venturi Effect. Frank’s
called for both office space and retail on a prominent riverfront site in downtown Shanghai. Bracken’s team won a $15,000 prize and may compete in another round of competition if the company chooses to develop the finalists’ concepts further.
project is now in research and development, and the next step will be site-
Cassandra J. Howard (MArch’09, MPS’10) has been elected to the AIA
specific field testing which will begin in the city of Chicago.
New Orleans Executive Board as the 2011 Associate Director. Cassandra
The New Orleans Mission Family Center, which developed out of a studio project at the School, recently received LEED Silver certification. In the spring of 2004, Steven Verderber led a studio to design a transitional homeless shelter for the New Orleans Mission. The plan to build the shelter with Habitat for Humanity was derailed by Hurricane Katrina, but Verderber and Breeze Glazer (TSA’06) continued to work on the project until it was completed in 2008. It is one of the only LEED-certified shelters in the nation.
has been a member and leader of the AIAS since 2001 and the AIA since 2005. She believes it is vital to bridge the gap between students and young professionals to encourage cross disciplinary communication. She currently works on large-scale projects focused on post-Katrina redevelopment at the New Orleans firm of Mathes Brierre Architects.
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Rodney Dionisio (TSA‘98) also worked on the project and Perez, APC,
Radha Mistry (TSA‘10) and Colin VanWingen (TSA‘10) formed a partner-
whose CEO is Angela Byrne (TSA‘83), served as the architect of record.
ship called GOATstudio in order to enter a New Orleans design competition.
Tony P. Vanky (TSA’07) has been elected to the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). His term began in October 2010 after the NAAB
They were recently featured on ArchDaily for their submittal to DesignByMany’s Passive House competition in which they placed second.
Board of Directors Annual Meeting. He previously served as National VicePresident of the AIAS, and on the Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and National Associates Committee of the AIA.
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G I V I NG MAK E S A D IFFER EN C E
I N MEMORI AM
Robert Harrison, FAIA (TSA ‘59, MBA ‘84)
Drew Brislen (TSA ’93), a lifelong resident of the South Coast of California,
announced his support of the new Master
drowned while free diving off Laguna Beach on May 26, 2011. After earning
in Sustainable Real Estate Development
his master’s degree, he moved to San Clemente where he worked in archi-
Program in the form of a $25,000 gift for
tectural design and contracting in Laguna Beach for the last 15 years. Drew
scholarship support. Harrison is a graduate
is survived by his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Sage and Addie. A paddle
of the School of Architecture, and earned an
out memorial was held at San Clemente’s North Beach on June 2, 2011.
MBA in Business from the A.B. Freeman School of Business. He has recently returned to the School of Architecture’s Board of Advisors where he served for many years. Harrison’s gift will prepare students to explore the regenerative development of cities.
Victor Bruno (TSA ’43 and M.Arch ’47) was a modernist architect who designed many homes and businesses in New Orleans. He passed away on June 5, 2011, leaving behind a legacy of architecture throughout the city. Bruno made an effort to balance modernist materials with the language of
Saul Mintz (TSA ‘53) and his wife, Jean, have
the city’s historic architecture, and designed prominent buildings such as
pledged $25,000 to provide for the continued
the Gallery Apartments on St. Charles Avenue and the now-gone PDQ Car
improvement of the School of Architecture’s
Wash near Metairie Road. He earned three degrees from Tulane: a Bach-
computer resources. This gift adds to Mr. and
elor’s in Engineering and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture.
Mrs. Mintz’s significant generosity in this vital area of student and faculty work over a number of years. Saul Mintz is a graduate of the School of Architecture and the Chairman of the Board for Strauss Interests in Monroe, Louisiana. He also serves on the School’s Board of Advisors. Marcel Wisznia (TSA ’73), a distinguished architect, developer and dedicated member of the Tulane School of Architecture Board of Advisors, has announced a gift to fund an endowment for a yearly lecture in memory of his father. His $100,000 gift is the latest in a long history of generous support for the School of Architecture by Wisznia and his wife, Elizabeth. The yearly lecture series is named in honor of his father Walter Wisznia, one of the most influential modern architects in southern Texas during the second half of the 20th century. William and Jane Sizeler have provided a $25,000 gift for the Public Service Fellowship Program. Their gift will provide students the opportunity to work under the supervision of a faculty member in paid summer internships with non-profit organizations in the greater New Orleans area. One fellowship will be funded each summer over the next five years. Jane is a graduate of the Tulane School of Social Work, and William attended the School of Architecture (where he serves on the Advisory Board), before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania where he completed his degree.
Jeffrey Hugh Goldman (TSA ’75) passed away on September 4, 2010 from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Goldman received a Master of Architecture from Tulane University in 1975 and become an accomplished architect, designer, artist, photographer, and writer. He contributed generously to numerous institutions in New Orleans including the Tulane School of Architecture. Emeritus Professor of Architecture James R. Lamantia, Jr., died on February 20, 2011 after a long illness. His association with Tulane University spanned over 55 years as alumnus, full professor, Director of the Tulane Graduate Program in Architecture and, in 1993, first recipient of the Richard Koch Chair in Architecture at Tulane University. He earned international recognition when he received the Prix de Rome and a Fulbright Fellowship. In 1964, he ventured to form James R. Lamantia, Architect, and moved his practice to New York City where he was responsible for several renovations in Central Park, the World Trade Center, and Lincoln Center. His design work reaped a multitude of honors and awards. An accomplished painter, Lamantia exhibited his work in museums across the country. Linda Lawlor (TSA ’80) passed away on September 27, 2010 after a brief battle with lung cancer. After graduating from the School of Architecture, she moved to San Francisco and became a principal in the architecture firm of DGA San Francisco, designing interior commercial spaces. Lloyd Sensat passed away on February 18, 2011. Imbued with a passion for historic architecture and preservation, Sensat was a high school art teacher for 30 years, and more recently, gave walking tours of historic neighborhoods and cemeteries. He and Eugene Cizek, Director of Preservation and his partner of 34 years, restored two historic houses in Faubourg Marigny. Sensat earned a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Southwest-
The support of our alumni and friends is critical to our ability to provide the best
ern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) and, after serv-
opportunities for our students and to continue the School’s upward trajectory.
ing in the Air Force, a Master’s degree at LSU. Together, Sensat and Cizek
Gifts to the Tulane Fund, designated to the School of Architecture, can be made
established the Education Through Historic Preservation Program to teach
online at: www.tulane.edu/~giving/ To learn about other funding priorities at the School, contact Ron Cropper, Director of Development at rcropper@tulane.edu or 504.314.2494.
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students about the art and architecture of historic sites. They received the Honor Award in 1981 from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Associate Professor Scott Bernhard, AIA
Award of Merit Master Planning
Award of Merit Interior Architecture
A.L. Davis Park
Storypod, The Neighborhood Story Project
Award of Merit Master Planning
A Project of the Tulane City Center Professor Errol Barron, FAIA (TSA ’64) Award of Merit Interior Architecture
New Orleans, receiving eight out of the twelve honors given at the 2011 Design Awards. Awards of honor and merit were given, recognizing the superb work of the Tulane School of Architecture community. AIA New Orleans celebrated their centennial anniversary with this year’s awards theme, 100 Years of Excellence in Design.
Hollygrove Market & Farm Award of Honor Architecture Hollygrove Pavilion
Yoga Studio, Sylvi Beaumont
Projects of the Tulane City Center
Errol Barron/Michael Toups Architects
CRG Architecture
Professor Ammar Eloueini, International Assoc. AIA
Adjunct Professor Carey Clouse, AIA and Zachary Lamb
Award of Merit Divine Detail
Award of Honor Adaptive Reuse
Gutenmacher Apartment, Paris
Award of Merit Juror Favorite
AEDS
Cart Coop Crookedworks
Professor Judith Kinnard, FAIA with Assistant Professor Tiffany Lin Award of Merit Project Sunshow SSIP House Judith Kinnard LLC
1 Hollygrove Pavilion, Photo by Will Crocker 2 Storypod, Photo by Will Crocker 3 Sunshow SSIP House 4 Guntenmacher Apartment, Paris 5 Yoga Studio, Sylvi Beaumont 6 Holly Grove Market and Farm 7 A.L. Davis Park 8 Cart Coop
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January 27 RAFAEL MONEO, HON. FAIA Josep Lluis Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design Lecture co-sponsored and held at New Orleans Museum of Art
September 19 DAVID SMITH* October 3 SHARON ZUKIN, PH.D* Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College CUNY October 17 RON SHIFFMAN, FAICP* Professor, Graduate Center for Planning Pratt School of Architecture November 14 JOHN KLINGMAN* Richard Koch Chair and Professor of Architecture Tulane School of Architecture *Urban Innovation Series. Co-sponsored by The Murphy Institute
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February 6 ADAM YARINSKY, FAIA LEED AP Principal, Architecture Research Office (ARO) New York, NY February 27 BILLIE TSIEN, AIA Principal, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects New York, NY May 4 - May 14 THESIS SHOW Ogden Museum of Southern Art 925 Camp St., New Orleans LA