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It has been an honor to serve as Dean of the Tulane
School of Architecture for the past four years. I
continue to be in awe of the work of our students and
faculty, combining rigorous education in architecture,
preservation and real estate development with a
sense of urgency about the way these fields can and
must engage real challenges in society. As a school,
we are helping shape the next generation of leaders
by developing “the habits of the heart and mind,” as
President Cowen puts it, to make positive contribu-
tions and social change through design. Tulane’s com-
mitment to public service and community engage-
ment are among the attributes that initially drew me
to the university, and the School of Architecture has
worked to further this commitment over the last four
years.
In many ways, the School of Architecture is unique
in the way we have embraced the creative potential
associated with the challenges and opportunities of
rebuilding the social, physical, and economic fabric
of New Orleans. I am constantly amazed at how
fundamental and ingrained community engagement
has become for members of the school community—
students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends. Whenever
students work with a community group, build a struc-
ture in a neighborhood, develop a vision, partner with
a non-profit organization, or design a building that
will serve a noble purpose, they clearly understand
the relevance of connecting their skills with pressing
community and global issues.
In the summer and fall of 2008, I developed a stra-
tegic plan with input from the faculty and our Board
of Advisors. That road map has served us well, and in
many ways we have accomplished the main goals:
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This summer I have been working on a new articula-
tion of our Strategic Plan and I will be bringing this
vision forward to faculty, students, and the Board of
Advisors in the fall. We are in a different situation now
as compared with four years ago, and the way these
issues are framed presents a somewhat different path
ahead for us as a School:
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I hope you will follow the progress of the Tulane
School of Architecture in the many months and years
ahead. We are on an extraordinary journey.
Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA
Favrot Professor and Dean
letter from the Dean
as a school, we are helping to shape the next generation of leaDers by Developing ‘the habits of the heart anD minD,’ as presiDent cowen puts it, to make positive contribu-tions anD social change.”
The pasT Four years have seen significant changes anD milestones within the school of architecture. these accomplish-ments represent substantial progress for the school.
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Kenneth Schwartz
appointed as Dean
Gray Plosser
appointed as Board
of Advisors Chair
Doug Harmon
appointed as
Architecture Graduate
Program Director
Ogden 8
Exhibition
Alumni giving
percentage doubles
IBM Smarter Building
partnership developed
1st Annual Tulane
School of Architecture
Newsletter published
Marcelle Highstreet
appointed as
Development Director
Preservation Matters
Symposium held in
New Orleans
Architect William
McDonough FAIA receives
Honorary Doctorate,
addresses School
graduation
Richardson Memorial
Hall (RMH) Sustainable
Strategies developed
Sandi Stroud appointed as
Founding Director of the Master
of Sustainable Real Estate
Development (MSRED) program
Ogden 8
Exhibition
initiated
Elizabeth Gamard
re-appointed as
Associate Dean of
Students
Tulane school of archiTecTure
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contents 2011-2012�tulanE�SChOOl�Of�aRChItECtuRE�BOaRD�Of�aDvISORSCornelius 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., AIA, TSA‘53 \\ Jason Gant, AIA, TSA‘03 \\ 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, FAIA LEED AP, TSA‘89 \\ William Raymond Manning, FAIA \\ Irvin Mayfield \\ Brad Meltzer,
TSA’90 \\ Saul A. Mintz, 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
2011-2012�faCultyTracie Ashe, Adjunct Lecturer \\ C. Errol Barron, Favrot Professor \\ Scott David Bernhard, Mintz Associate
Professor and Director of Tulane City Center \\ Willam B. Bradshaw II, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Richard Campanella,
Senior Professor of Practice \\ Eugene Darwin Cizek, Professor and Emeritus Director of Preservation Stud-
ies Program \\ Michael Kent Crosby, Associate Professor \\ Marcella Del Signore, Assistant Professor \\ Tatiana
Eck, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Ammar Eloueini, Favrot Professor \\ Abigail Feldman, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Marilyn Lee
Feldmeier, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Favrot Associate Professor \\ Sheena Garcia,
Adjunct Lecturer \\Bruce Merriman Goodwin, Associate Professor \\ William Douglas Harmon, Adjunct Associate
Professor and Associate Dean of Students \\ Thomas Holloman, Adjunct Assisstant Professor \\ Charles Jones,
Adjunct Lecturer \\ Irene Ursula Adelheid Keil, Professor of Practice \\ Joseph Keppel, Adjunct Lecturer \\Judith
Ann Kinnard, Professor and Harvey-Wadsworth Chair of Landscape Urbanism \\ John Philip Klingman, Richard
Koch Chair of Architecture \\ Heather Ashlie Knight, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Andrew Martin Liles, Adjunct
Lecturer \\ Tiffany Lin, Assistant Professor \\ A. Kelton Longwell, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Ann Merritt Masson, Adjunct
Associate Professor \\ Eugene Eean McNaughton, Professor of Practice \\ David Merlin, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Byron
John Mouton, Professor of Practice and Director of URBANbuild \\ Grover Ernest Mouton, III, Adjunct Associ-
ate Professor and Director of Tulane University Regional Urban Design Center \\ Michael David Nius, Professor
of Practice \\ Graham Warwick Owen, Associate Professor \\ Casius Pealer, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Nathan Petty,
Adjunct Lecturer \\ Wendeline Harriet Redfield, Associate Favrot Professor and Associate Dean for Academics\\
Carol McMichael Reese, Christovich Associate Professor \\ Samuel Richards, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Bethany Rogers,
Adjunct Lecturer \\ Cordula Roser Gray, Professor of Practice \\ Scott Ruff, Associate Professor \\ Ommeed Sathe,
Adjunct Lecturer \\ Milton George Scheuermann, Jr., Adjunct Professor \\ Kenneth Schwartz, Favrot Professor and
Dean \\ Lloyd “Sonny” Shields, Adjunct Professor \\ Z. Erol Smith, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Jill Stoll, Adjunct Lecturer \\
Alexandra Stroud, Adjunct Associate Professor and Director of Sustainable Real Estate Development Program \\
John Stubbs, Senior Professor of Practice and Director of Preservation Studies Program \\ Jonathan Tate, Adjunct
Assistant Professor \\ Emilie Rachel Taylor, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Senior Program Coordinator Tulane
City Center \\ Reuben Teague, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Kentaro Tsubaki, Assistant Professor \\ Seth Welty, Adjunct
Lecturer \\ Amber N. Wiley, Visiting Assistant Professor \\ Thaddeus Andrew Zarse, Adjunct Assistant Professor
PROfESSORS�EmERItuSGeoffrey Howard Baker \\ Ronald Coulter Filson, Dean Emeritus \\ Karen Kingsley \\ Stephen Paul Jacobs \\
Richard Otis Powell \\ Ellen Barbara Weiss
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Writing + Editorial: Elizabeth Davis, TSA ’12; Allison Schiller, TSA ’12;
Christy Crosby, Executive Assistant to the Dean
Graphic Design: Leigh Wilkerson, 10½ Studios
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cover image: Grow Dat Youth Farm
photo by Emilie Taylor (TSA ’06)
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2011SummER
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Ogden 8
Exhibition
AIA National
Convention in
New Orleans
MSRED program
begins
Doug Harmon
appointed
Associate Dean of
Students
Wendy Redfield
appointed as
Associate Dean
for Academics
RMH Capital
Campaign Task
Force begins
John Stubbs
appointed as
Director of the
Preservation
program
Alumni giving
percentage nearly
tripled
reVIEW 2009-
2011 published
Rachel
Malkenhorst
appointed as
Development
Director
1st MSRED
class
graduates
Recto Verso
graduate
student
publication
1st printing
Maurice Cox
appointed
Associate
Dean for
Community
Engagement
and Director
of the Tulane
City Center
Jill Stoll
appointed
as Associate
Dean of
Students
President Cowen meets with
Dean Schwartz and commits
RMH project as a “University
Priority”
Megan Weyland
appointed as
Director of Career
Services
RMH Pre-Design Study
Completed, Board of
Advisors commits to
100% supportCareer Services
Workshop series
initiated
Board of Advisors celebration
of Tulane City Center and
Grow Dat Youth Farm
Collaborations
begin with Tongji
University in
Shanghai
RMH Charrette for
students and faculty
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Alvin Cox
appointed
as Board of
Advisors Chair
FXFOWLE & el dorado
architects retained for RMH
Pre-Design Study
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faculty anD staff newsAs a senior sustainable building advisor for the
United States based Affordable Housing Institute,
Adjunct Lecturer Casius Pealer discussed Green
Technology and its scope in the region of Oman in
an interview in the July-September 2011 issue of
Dossier. Additionally, Pealer was selected to serve
as a “Design Expert” for the AAF Sustainable Cities
Design Academy in San Francisco April 11-13, 2012.
Adjunct Lecturer Will Bradshaw was honored
at the White House as part of President Barack
Obama’s “Champions of Change” program, which
recognizes people for outstanding contributions
to their communities. Bradshaw, president and
co-founder of Green Coast Enterprises, along with
four other New Orleanians, was recognized for
his work to strengthen the local economy, create
jobs and help the Gulf Coast recover from the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill. “We could not be more
pleased to be recognized by the White House, and
thank President Obama, his administration and
our colleagues at the Clean Economy Develop-
ment Center for their interest in our work to build a
more energy-efficient and sustainable Gulf Coast,”
Bradshaw said.
Professor Eugene Cizek FAIA received the
prestigious James Marston Fitch Award from the
National Council of Preservation Educators. The
award was presented at a dinner in his honor on
October 21, 2012 at the National Trust for Historic
Preservation annual conference in Buffalo, New
York.
Cizek has practiced historic preservation since the
mid-1970’s, beginning with his pioneering advo-
cacy work and restoration projects in the Faubourg
Marigny, located adjacent to the Vieux Carré in
New Orleans. In 1997 Cizek founded the Master
of Preservation Studies graduate program within
the Tulane School of Architecture. The Master of
Preservation Studies program has since served
as a principal training opportunity in architec-
tural preservation in the state of Louisiana. This
award recognizes Cizek’s keen eye for worthwhile
architectural preservation projects, his wide range
of accomplishments as a teacher, his unmatched
enthusiasm and skills as an advocate and preser-
vation planner, and his role as a mainstay of the
preservation scene in New Orleans and the nation.
In July 2011, Favrot Professor and Dean Kenneth
Schwartz FAIA was included in Fortune online in
a feature of “Green Leaders in Red States.” In the
feature, Schwartz brings attention to New Orleans’
identity through the “holy trinity” of great food,
great music, and great architecture. With an IBM
partnership and Richardson Memorial Hall renova-
tions in the works, Dean Schwartz hopes to use
architecture as a jumping off point to launch other
green initiatives within the city.
Dean Schwartz also delivered a plenary address
at the IBM Smarter Cities Conference in Rio de Ja-
neiro, Brazil in November, discussing the strategies
and initiatives that Tulane School of Architecture
and Tulane University have taken in the recovery
of New Orleans. He participated in this event with
Ginni Rometty, the new president and CEO of IBM.
He also gave a talk at the same conference on the
Richardson Memorial Hall Sustainable Strategies
project for the school’s 100 year-old building.
The pre-design phase has been completed by
FXFOWLE and el dorado architects with a strong
team of sustainable engineering and landscape
consultants. The proposed renovation would be
the one of the first of its kind in the United States—
a 21st century update of an important historic
structure on a university campus, with serious and
far-reaching sustainable design goals.
The Arts Council of New Orleans announced
Professor Milton G. Scheuermann, Jr. as a 2011
Community Arts Awards recipient. Since 1977, the
Community Arts Awards have recognized living
individuals, organizations and corporations that
have made outstanding contributions to the arts
in New Orleans. The 2011 award recipients mark
the 35th year of the Arts Council Community Arts
Awards celebration. Recipients are selected for
their artistic excellence, sustained contributions,
unique achievements, perseverance, and deep
commitment to the arts and local community.
Digital Imaging Specialist David Armentor’s
photography was selected to be a part of the
PhotoNOLA exhibition this past fall. His work was
on exhibition at the Cole Pratt Gallery on Magazine
Street and featured his ongoing documentation of
regional sugar mills.
Assistant Professor Kentaro Tsubaki’s article,
“Tumbling Units: Tectonics of Indeterminate Exten-
sion,” is in the new book, Matter: Material Pro-
cesses in Architectural Production, edited by Gail
Peter Borden and Michael Meredith and published
by Rutledge Press. The article explores the nature
of extension and aims to raise a fundamental ques-
tion about the way current architectural practice
engages matter and the act of making.
The award winning energy-efficient, two-bedroom
home designed by Harvey Wadsworth Chair in
Landscape Urbanism and Professor of Architec-
ture Judith Kinnard FAIA and Assistant Professor
Tiffany Lin was under construction in Lakeview
through the 2011-2012 school year. The SunShower
house, a response to the 2010 REOSE Sustainable
Design Competition, was collaboratively built by
New Orleans companies Oceansafe, manufacturer
of SSIP; The ReGen Group, sustainable design
consultants; C&G Construction, the contractor;
and Woodward Design + Build. This first-edition
is meant to be a prototype for future SunShower
homes. Building materials for future houses of this
design can fit into a single shipping container that
can be sent anywhere in the world. The house is
not only hurricane-proof but also will not collapse
in a 7.2 Richter scale earthquake.
Professor Judith Kinnard FAIA was also selected
by DesignIntelligence as one of the 25 Most
Admired Educators of 2012. The education role
models were selected by DesignIntelligence staff
with extensive input from thousands of design
professionals, academic department heads, and
students. Educators and administrators from
the disciplines of architecture, industrial design,
interior design, and landscape architecture were
considered for inclusion.
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faculty profile: Errol Barron FAIAProfessor Errol Barron’s book, New Orleans
Observed: Drawings and Observations of
America’s Most Foreign City, was on exhibit
at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
last October as part of the university’s 2011
Fall Symposium and Exhibition, Speculative
Propositions: Heightened Acuity. Barron was
featured along with Richard Ferrier, George
Loli, Tom Seacrest, and Greg Watson.
Through written observations and over 124
drawings, Barron reflects on the physical
nature of New Orleans and how it may offer
alternatives to urban design found in so
many American cities. The drawings and
accompanying text celebrate the sensuous-
ness and strangeness of America’s most for-
eign city. A reception was held at the School
in February to celebrate this substantial
faculty achievement.
from top/ bottom, left/ right
will braDshaw Honored at White house
eugene cizek James Marston Fitch Award
errol barron New Orleans Observed
DaviD armentor Bagasse Storage
byron mouton Soniat House
marcella Del signoreiLounge
ammar eloueini ‘Moments’
Professor Kinnard completed her term as Presi-
dent of the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture (2011-2012). ACSA President Kinnard’s
closing essay addressed the theme of change in
the profession of architecture and in architectural
education. She remarked, “I believe that schools
and faculty need to be more open to evolving and
responsive curricula, degree programs and re-
search centers, while expanding our commitment
to career mentorship and lifelong learning.”
Professor of Practice Byron Mouton AIA was
named one of the Most Creative Teachers in the
South by Oxford American Magazine in 2011. The
esteemed magazine searched for “influential edu-
cators admired by their students and colleagues,
whose classrooms serve as forums for social
change, whose homes become their classrooms,
and, in some cases [such as professor Mouton’s],
whose assignments become homes.”
Professor Mouton was also featured in the Times-
Picayune this October for his design of the Soniat
Home. In the article, the homeowners discussed
their satisfaction with the home’s modern design,
efficient daylighting, and economy of space. The
design was contracted through his firm, BILD de-
sign, LLC, and was a collaboration between Byron
Mouton and William Soniat, the nephew of the
homeowner and an employee of BILD design.
Visiting Assistant Professor Amber Wiley, Ph.D.
was featured in the September 2011 issue of
Preservation in Print magazine. The article, “Brain
Gain,” highlights smart, driven teachers who have
recently moved to the city and are inspiring New
Orleans students.
Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore exhibited
her project “Device for Urban Desire” at the BMW
Guggenheim Lab in New York during the Urban
Design Week (Sept 15-20, 2011). The project has
been published in By the City / For the City: The
Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York ,
edited by the Institute for Urban Design. Through
this research, Del Signore has been invited to the
Italian National Institute of Architecture (www.in-
arch.it) to lecture and direct a 10-day workshop in
digital architecture, technology and urban forms.
Another independent research and design project
of Del Signore’s, iLounge, was selected to receive
a grant to support its full construction and imple-
mentation of the digital media component. The
project has since been exhibited at Northern Spark
Event in Minneapolis in June 2012 and will also
be exhibited at the 2012 ZERO1 Art & Technol-
ogy Biennial in San Jose, CA in September 2012.
iLounge was designed in collaboration with Mona
El Khafif (Associate Professor at California College
of the Arts).
Favrot Professor Ammar Eloueini AIA was
selected as a finalist for the MoMA PS1 Young Ar-
chitects Program. Established in 2000, the Young
Architects Program was designed to solidify the
affiliation between The Museum of Modern Art and
MoMA PS1 and seeks to identify emerging talent
while giving back to the community surrounding
the facility in Long Island City, Queens, New York.
Eloueini’s proposal, “Moments,” was developed
through his office, Digit-all Studio.
Professor Eloueini is also currently in the construc-
tion phase of the J-House in New Orleans. The
house was featured on the ABC-WGNO television
show, News With A Twist, in March 2012. Photo
and text updates of the construction process can
be found on the firm’s blog at: www.digit-all.net/
AEDSBLOG.
Rodolfo Aguilar, Ph.D., MSRED faculty member
and Professor of Practice of Real Estate Finance,
and Entrepreneurial Management in the A.B. Free-
man School of Business, was the 2011 inductee to
the Louisiana State University Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering Hall of Distinction.
Initiated in 2001, the Hall of Distinction recognizes
individuals who have made stalwart contribu-
tions to the profession of civil and environmental
engineering.
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faculty profile: John Klingman Professor and Richard Koch Chair of Architecture
Philadelphia native John Klingman joined the
faculty of the Tulane School of Architecture in
1983—the same year he registered as an architect
in Louisiana. Since that time, he has been an
influential and involved member of the School’s
faculty. A ceremony on March 23, 2012 celebrated
Professor Klingman’s multi-faceted contribution
to the School as a respected instructor, an archi-
tect and as a published writer.
Since 1997, Klingman has authored the annual
“Best New Architecture” series for New Orleans
Magazine. These reviews form the basis of his
2012 book, New in New Orleans Architecture,
which looks at 80 local projects from the past 15
years and the ways in which new ideas can be
brought to light in this historic city through its
architecture.
At the ceremony in March, Klingman was invest-
ed as the Richard Koch Chair of Architecture.
This chair was established through the bequest
of the first Tulane undergraduate to receive a
degree in architecture. Richard Koch graduated
from Tulane in 1910 and became a prominent
preservationist and architect, designing dor-
mitories such as Paterson House and leading a
team that documented endangered buildings in
Louisiana during the Great Depression.
Klingman has also participated in the design
of several structures on the Tulane campus as
a member of key campus committees. These
structures include the West Garage Wall in
1996, the facade of Monroe Hall in 2004 and the
Gibson Hall Canopy.
This past year, Klingman collaborated with re-
cent graduate Garret Jacobs (TSA ‘11) to design
a new streetcar shelter at the terminus of the
St. Charles line at the corner of South Carrollton
and South Claiborne. This shelter will provide
protection under a 48 ft. long and 9 ft. wide
structure. The design of the shelter is simple
enough to complement the historic streetcars.
The project is ready for public bidding and is
expected to begin construction in 2012.
Professor Klingman continues to be involved
with the “Dutch Dialogues” project in collabora-
tion with Waggoner and Ball Architects and
others. He will be teaching in the School’s Rome
study abroad program in the fall.
aia awarDs from top/bottom, left/right
errol barron V House
John williams Weatherhead Hall
s. bernharD + e. taylor Grow Dat Youth Farm
ammar eloueini Gutenmacher Apartment
faculty anD staff news [continued]
Adjunct Lecturer Abigail Feldman’s work, “Re-
greening New Orleans,” was highlighted in the July
2011 issue of Garden Design. The article discusses
Feldman’s influential work with the Growing Home
program. Through the Growing Home Incentive
Program, a division of the New Orleans Redevel-
opment Authority, current residents can buy a
qualifying Lot Next Door for up to $10,000 off the
purchase price, if they green it up—with a veg-
etable garden, flowers and trees, or even a perme-
able driveway. As of July, Feldman had about 800
participants, with 150 projects completed.
Professor Grover Mouton is featured in the popular
documentary film URBANIZED. Released in the
fall of 2011, award-winning filmmaker Gary Hustwit
analyzes the current and projected state of cities
and their subsequent effect on communities. In the
film, Mouton discussed the post-Katrina rebuild-
ing processes in different neighborhoods of New
Orleans. Mouton says he stressed the need for sus-
tainable development and urban-design recovery
plans developed with input from the community.
Hustwit also interviewed Mouton about a Biloxi,
MS project, where Tulane architecture students
from his “Design Urbanism” course have been
working with the community to design the public
waterfront park ‘Point Cadet.’
Adjunct Assistant Professor Thaddeus Zarse is
currently serving as staff architecture writer for
the arts magazine ArtVoices. His column, entitled
“Art in Architecture,” can be found in the nationally
distributed print publication or online at: artvoic-
esmagazine.com/category/architecture. Articles
thus far have included reviews of Marcel Wisznia,
SOFTlab and Servo Los Angeles.
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nick marshall St. Bernhard Firehouse
wayne troyer Rice Mills Lofts
Maurice Cox This fall, Tulane School of Architecture will wel-
come Maurice Cox to the faculty as the School’s
first Associate Dean for Community Engagement.
Maurice Cox is an urban designer, architectural
educator and former mayor of Charlottesville,
Virginia. He recently served as Director of Design
for the National Endowment for the Arts where
he presided over the largest expansion to date
of direct grants to design fields, oversaw the
Governors’ Institute on Community Design, the
Your Town Rural Institute, and the Mayors’ Institute
on City Design. The School is excited to fill this
new position with such an esteemed professional.
Through this position, Cox will have oversight of
the Tulane City Center, the URBANbuild program
and outreach programs of preservation and sus-
tainable real estate development.Cox is a national
leader in the field of design and community em-
powerment. His varied experience will enable him
to build upon the rich community base established
by Professor Scott Bernhard over the past five
years as Director of the Tulane City Center.
Jill StollThis summer, Jill Stoll was appointed Associate
Dean of Students for the School of Architecture.
Stoll recieved a MFA with Distinction from Cran-
brook Academy of Art and has been an exhibit-
ing artist and teacher for over thirteen years. At
Tulane, she has instructed first year students in
drawing, watercolor painting and collage. Stoll has
worked closely with faculty and students on edit-
ing the reVIEW, a publication that highlights top
student work biennially. Additionally, she had been
responsible for curating online galleries of student
and faculty work as well as the exhibition spaces in
Richardson Memorial Hall. Ms. Stoll will be joining
the Dean’s Office leadership team which includes:
> Wendy Redfield, Associate Dean for Academics
> Maurice Cox, Associate Dean for Community
Engagement
> Jill Stoll, Associate Dean of Students
> Wendy Sack, Assistant Dean
> Rachel Malkenhorst, Development Director
> Kathy Branley, Budget Manager
Rachel MalkenhorstRachel Malkenhorst joined the development
team at Tulane University this year as the new
Director of Development for the Tulane School of
Architecture. Malkenhorst received her Bachelor
of Science degree in business administration from
Woodbury University, as well as architectural pres-
ervation training from the University of Southern
California. At Woodbury University she served as
Director of Development in the School of Media,
Culture & Design and Director of Annual Giving
and Development Communications. Her experi-
ence spans all areas of advancement including
corporate, foundation and one-on-one relationship
management, annual fund drives and development
marketing and communications. While at Wood-
bury University, she succeeded in helping to close
a $24M Building Initiative and was a member of
the team that strategically rolled out a new $70M
Capital Campaign. Now that she has joined the
advancement team in New Orleans, Malkenhorst is
looking forward helping support Tulane’s mission
and the goals of the School of Architecture.
new faculty appointments
Our faculty, alumni, and students were once again
honored by AIA New Orleans, receiving six out
of the twelve honors given at the 2012 Design
Awards. Awards of honor and merit were given,
recognizing the superb work of the Tulane School
of Architecture community. AIA New Orleans chal-
lenged architects to consider what it means to go
further in sustainable building practice with this
year’s theme: Design Beyond Sustainability.
Professor Ammar Eloueini, International Assoc.
AIA; Jana Masset (TSA ‘09, MPS ‘10)
Merit Award Interior Architecture
Gutenmacher Apartment, Paris
AEDS
Wayne Troyer (TSA ‘83)
Merit Award Adaptive Reuse
Rice Mill Lofts, New Orleans
Wayne Troyer Architects
Adjunct Assistant Professor Emilie Taylor (TSA ‘06)
Associate Professor Scott Bernhard
Honor Award Unbuilt Architecture
Grow Dat Youth Farm
A Project of the Tulane City Center
Professor Errol Barron, FAIA (TSA ‘64)
Merit Award Residential Architecture
V House
Errol Barron/Michael Toups Architects
Nick Marshall (TSA ‘92)
Merit Award Architecture
St. Bernard Fire Station No.6
Chase Marshall Architects
John C. Williams (TSA ‘78)
Merit Award Architecture
Weatherhead Hall
Hanbury Evan Wright Vlattas + Co
in assoc. with John C. Williams Architects, LLC
aia new oRleans 2012 design awaRds
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school news
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DAYLIGHT DIMMING
RAIN GARDENSTORM RETENTION
RAINWATERIRRIGATION
CHILLED BEAMS
PHOTOVOLTAIC &SOLAR THERMALPANELS
GREENROOF
CEILING FANS
DAYLIGHTHARVESTING
INTERIORSHADING
RAINWATERHARVESTING
TRIPLE-GLAZEDWINDOWS
PERMEABLEPAVING
BICYCLESTORAGE GREEN WALL
INDOOR AIR QUALITY
WATER
HUMANWELL BEING
SITE
ENERGY
MATERIALS & RESOURCES
BUILDING REUSE
RAINWATER STORAGE
ULTRA-LOWFLOW FIXTURES
RAINWATER TOILET FLUSHING
LOW-VOC MATERIALS
career Development program launcheD at school of architectureThis year, the School made major advancements in
helping students and graduates with their profes-
sional careers. Director of Career Development
Megan Weyland (TSA ’11) is leading this initiative.
While Weyland is a recent graduate of Tulane, she
practiced in the field for five years after receiv-
ing her B.Arch. from Mississippi State University
in 2005. Dean Kenneth Schwartz stated that “her
experience in various Chicago practices as well as
her scholastic leadership made her an excellent
choice for this role.”
The Career Development Program is intended to
provide architecture students with the guidance
and opportunities to develop contacts within the
profession and to practice the skills necessary to
initiate and build a successful career. The program
utilizes workshops and one-on-one meetings to
give students an understanding of situations they
might encounter in their job search and in the
profession. The Career Development program also
connects students with a network of profession-
als, including alumni and firms interested in the
talented designers from the Tulane program.
When questioned about the current architectural
job market, Weyland projects optimism stating,
“There is a positive movement in firms in a variety
of locations and a range of scale and types of proj-
ect. I think people should maintain an open mind
when investigating the current market.” Weyland
consistently connects students with jobs that are
not posted on firms’ websites. By working one-
one-one with the students, she is able to make
recommendations to students and firms as oppor-
tunities present themselves. While many students
choose to stay in New Orleans’ thriving climate,
Weyland has also had success finding placements
throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Many Tulane School of Architecture students are
expanding their career options and choosing to
follow non-traditional career paths, taking work
at firms that are not involved in typical architec-
ture. This could be in part because of the unique
environment cultivated by the Tulane School of
Architecture in which students are encouraged
to work with various mediums and participate in
design+build and other entrepreneureal projects.
Working closely with students at various stages
of their architectural education, Weyland has had
the opportunity to recognize the unique qualities
of Tulane School of Architecture students. The em-
phasis on community-based projects, sustainable
design, and the opportunity for design/build expe-
rience give the School’s students remarkable skills
and distinctive qualities that are well respected
in the professional world. Weyland notes, “The
majority of these students have a great deal of
confidence in not only their ability but also in what
they want to focus on post-graduation. Whether
the student is an undergraduate or graduate, there
is a commitment and perseverance in finding a
career path that will allow them to enhance their
innate skills.”
Throughout the 2011-2012 academic year Dean
Schwartz and Ms. Weyland offered a series of
The Tulane School of Architecture has seen
unprecedented levels of support over the last four
years from the Board of Advisors, alumni, parents,
friends, foundations and corporations. The Board
has led the way in an upward trend of giving,
and their unanimous support of the vision of the
School has been integral to the success of many
of the School’s endeavors. The following are just a
few of the highlights of recent successes.
100% Board ParticipationIn October 2011, the 42-person Tulane School of
Architecture Board of Advisors committed to 100%
participation in a “nucleus campaign” to jumpstart
the full Richardson Memorial Hall Sustainable
Strategies initiative. This commitment resulted in
a total of $1.4 million in gifts and pledges to the
Richardson Memorial Hall fund by March 2012.
Based on this success of the nucleus campaign
as well as the Board’s full commitment, Tulane
University President Scott Cowen designated the
Richardson Memorial Hall Project as a “University
priority.” This strong vote of support from the pres-
ident’s office allows the School to proceed with the
full professional services and contracts necessary
to begin the work on the building, and to seek
private support for the full funding of this project.
In addition to their commitment to the renovation
of Richardson Memorial Hall, each Board member
also committed to contributing an average of
$2,500 per year (and in many cases more) to sup-
port the ongoing work of the School. Regarding
the Board, Dean Schwartz said, “Our Board mem-
bers contribute in a multitude of valuable ways. In
addition to their monetary contributions, they have
been active and vocal advocates for the school
within their professional communities. Along with
our students and faculty, they are among our very
best ambassadors in communicating the qualities
that make Tulane School of Architecture such a
special place.”
GivingAlumni-giving overall has increased since 2008
from 5% to 14% of approximately 2,600 alumni.
Alumni participation in the Annual Fund is critical
in determining the health of an institution as it de-
scribes the satisfaction alumni feel with their educa-
tion. Participation is also an element used in official
school rankings. Rachel Malkenhorst, Director of
Development for the School of Architecture, com-
mented, “Every gift is a profound demonstration of
someone’s belief in what we do. Alumni participa-
tion in the Annual Fund is a critical measure of the
school’s success. It is exhilarating to be on a winning
team like the School of Architecture.”
Development giving is essential to the advance-
ment of the School, and the University has taken
note of our achievements in this area:
The members of the School of Architecture com-
munity are grateful to all who support the School
financially and with their time and dedication.
Building this kind of support has already made a
major impact on attaining the School’s goals. Ev-
ery contribution, no matter the size, shows support
for the School’s mission. Giving is easy, 100% of the
money donated is tax deductible, and 100% of this
money comes to the School.
Please join us in supporting the School! www.tulane.edu/giving or you may mail a check to
‘Tulane School of Architecture’, ATTN: Rachel Malkenhorst,
Director of Development, Tulane School of Architecture,
Richardson Memorial Hall #308, 6823 St. Charles Ave.,
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
Development successes
Total gifts in FY12 $2,367,089 609 donors
Total gifts in FY08 $305,861 270 donors
Total gifts from FY09-12 $5,477,086
Average over four years $1,369,272
Annual giving FY12 $216,814
Annual giving FY11 $187,645
Annual giving FY08 $134,628
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workshops with a variety of topics that gave
insight into the profession. These workshops cul-
minated in an end-of-the-semester “boot camp”
workshop in which topics and experiences that
might present themselves in an office environment
were discussed in depth. The boot camp organized
mock interviews, site and office visits, and offered
a variety of topics ranging from IDP and LEED to
Specifications. The week was extremely successful
and the students expressed that it was a not only
beneficial but certainly worth repeating.
The School of Architecture will continue its com-
mitment to positioning students for success during
and after their time at Tulane. The significance
of career development is being recognized as an
integral part of the University’s offerings by both
faculty and practitioners. Dean Schwartz notes,
“We have made great strides with Career Develop-
ment already, but with Megan Weyland’s leader-
ship and dedication and with engaged students,
we can really excel in this area.”
Raphael Moneo Lectures at Tulane
In January 2012, Tulane School of Architecture
proudly welcomed esteemed Spanish architect
José Raphael Moneo as the 2011-2012 Eskew + Du-
mez + Ripple lecturer. Co-sponsored by and host-
ed at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), the
lecture entitled “What is it We Demand of an Ar-
chitect” was enjoyed by a full auditorium of com-
munity members with additional attendees filling
an accessory room. Highlighted in his discussion
were his more recent works, including the Museum
of the Roman Theater of Cartagena, Columbia Uni-
versity’s Northwest Corner Building, the Cathedral
of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, and the
Loyola Church in San Sebastián.
NCARB Award
Through a proposal authored by Assistant
Professor Kentaro Tsubaki and Adjunct Assistant
Professor Z Smith, Tulane School of Architec-
ture has received a $13,000 National Council of
Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) grant.
This grant will support the creation and implemen-
tation of several new methods which integrate
practice and education in the academic world. The
proposal was developed to integrate post-building
performance surveys and analyses into pre-
building design practice in the educational setting.
The funds will be used to equip students with the
latest, most advanced technologies to collect and
analyze building performance data in a newly
developed technology course slated to be offered
in the 2012-13 academic year. The course will use
New Orleans as a living laboratory to collect data
from traditional and post-Katrina structures.
Johnson Controls Visit
In February 2012, leaders from Johnson Controls
visited the Tulane uptown and downtown cam-
puses, as well as the Tulane City Center Grow Dat
site, to see the improvements their philanthropic
contributions to various design and construction
projects have brought about at Tulane.
Johnson Controls supervised the expansion and
efficiency overhaul of the Central Plant and is col-
laborating with IBM and the School of Architecture
on a smarter building pilot program for Richardson
Memorial Hall. Johnson Controls has partnered
with Tulane on many community projects, includ-
ing Grow Dat Youth Farm, an urban farm where
high school students grow fresh produce to sell
and share with others in the city.
Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Last fall, the School partnered with the Murphy
Institute in hosting an “Urban Innovations” lecture
series looking at common problems found in inner
cities from a design and policy standpoint. The lec-
tures were thought-provoking and well-attended
by students and faculty alike.
Continuing with the theme of “Urban Innova-
tions,” Tulane University, with the support of
the Rockefeller Foundation, created the Urban
Innovation Challenge. The Challenge is a program
that will help to identify and support local social
entrepreneurs through fellowships. The program
was the recipient of a 2012 Ashoka U Cordes In-
novation Award, which was presented at an annual
event that included over 400 university and social
entrepreneurial leaders. Tulane was recognized as
a leader in addressing pressing problems including
poverty, pollution and public education.
Johanna Gilligan was one of four Urban Innovator
Fellows selected through the Urban Innovation
Challenge for the 2011-12 year. Gilligan used her
fellowship to work with the Tulane City Center on
the Grow Dat Youth Farm, a food education and
empowerment program.
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SPRAY FOAMINSULATION
EXTERIOR SHADING
NATURAL VENTILATION
DAYLIGHT DIMMING
RAIN GARDENSTORM RETENTION
RAINWATERIRRIGATION
CHILLED BEAMS
PHOTOVOLTAIC &SOLAR THERMALPANELS
GREENROOF
CEILING FANS
DAYLIGHTHARVESTING
INTERIORSHADING
RAINWATERHARVESTING
TRIPLE-GLAZEDWINDOWS
PERMEABLEPAVING
BICYCLESTORAGE GREEN WALL
INDOOR AIR QUALITY
WATER
HUMANWELL BEING
SITE
ENERGY
MATERIALS & RESOURCES
BUILDING REUSE
RAINWATER STORAGE
ULTRA-LOWFLOW FIXTURES
RAINWATER TOILET FLUSHING
LOW-VOC MATERIALS
from top/bottom, left/right richarDson memorial renovations Section, facing North
raphael moneo Lecture at NOMA Photo by Judy Cooper, NOMA
megan weylanD Director of Career Development
Johnson controls Grow Dat Visit
Johanna gilligan Urban Innovator fellow with Grow Dat farmers
Total gifts in FY12 $2,367,089 609 donors
Total gifts in FY08 $305,861 270 donors
Total gifts from FY09-12 $5,477,086
Average over four years $1,369,272
Annual giving FY12 $216,814
Annual giving FY11 $187,645
Annual giving FY08 $134,628
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programstruDcMayors’ Institute on City Design The TRUDC has been selected to host the
South Regional session of the Mayors’ Insti-
tute on City Design (MICD), to be held in the
fall of 2012. The Mayors’ Institute is a National
Endowment for the Arts leadership initiative
in partnership with the American Archi-
tectural Foundation and the United States
Conference of Mayors. It is considered to be
the country’s premier educational initiative
for public officials.
In collaboration with the Mayors’ Institute
founders, TRUDC Director Grover Mouton
helped form the regional session format in
1991, allowing each conference to focus on
the unique planning and design issues facing
a particular region. Since that time, he has
hosted more than 50 mayors at numerous
MICD conferences in New Orleans.
Eight mayors from across the Southeastern
US will be invited to the upcoming forum,
where they will be advised by planning, de-
sign, development, and preservation experts
from across the country. Professor Mouton
and TRUDC staff will visit each participat-
ing city, and guide the mayors in selecting
and presenting design challenges from their
respective cities, ensuring that each project
presented is met with appropriate design
and policy solutions from the assembled
expert panel.
Grover Mouton Receives Award for Service-Learning Instruction Grover Mouton, director of the Tulane
Regional Urban Design Center, received the
Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Ser-
vice-Learning Instruction in Higher Education
award on March 23, 2012 in Hattiesburg, Mis-
sissippi at the Gulf-South Summit on Service-
Learning and Civic Engagement through
Higher Education. The award recognizes
a faculty member who has demonstrated
excellence in incorporating service-learning
into the university curriculum.
The award honors Mouton for his work with
the TRUDC, which he founded 25 years ago.
The center provides architecture students
with hands-on training in urban planning,
matching them with city and town leaders
throughout the region who are grappling
with growth and renewal issues. Mouton said,
“I was honored that the Gulf-South Summit
was so interested in our students and their
work in urban planning with communities.
The TRUDC teaches students that design is a
powerful political tool.”
The hands-on opportunities with community
development and politics in urban design
is a unique draw for students. According to
Mouton, “We build cities. We give students
the chance to experience what it means to
work in an urban agenda.”
tulane regional urban Design center
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Grow DatThe Grow Dat Youth Farm continues to earn
recognition for the School of Architecture.
Members of the Grow Dat team traveled
to Austin, Texas in March to accept a 2012
SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest
Design. The youth farm project received a
$1,000 cash prize and all-expense-paid trips
to present at the 12th Annual Structures for
Inclusion conference at the University of
Texas at Austin campus.
On March 15, the AIA honored Grow Dat
with the Unbuilt Architecture Award. The
annual Design Awards program celebrates
the best of the region’s architecture and
informs the public of the broad reach and
value of architectural practice. This year’s
theme was Design Beyond Sustainabil-
ity, and the Grow Dat campus, built from
donated shipping containers, displays many
examples of quality, sustainable design.
On March 29, the Grow Dat Youth Farm
hosted the NCAA “Growing Opportunity,” an
event that brought together students and
athletes to plant trees on the farm. Middle
school students from Langston Hughes
Academy joined Tulane University athletes
to plant citrus trees on the four-acre site.
The newly planted fruit orchard can become
a source of revenue for the youth farm.
In six years, the citrus trees can produce
around 5,000 pounds of fruit worth ap-
proximately $10,000.
Circle Food StoreNOLA’s The Lens highlighted Emilie Taylor
and the Tulane City Center in an article that
announced plans to resurrect the 7th Ward’s
iconic Circle Food Store. The TCC is working
with the owner of the grocery, Dwayne Bou-
dreaux, and with Tulane’s Freeman School
of Business students to bring the grocery
store back to the neighborhood – incorpo-
rating local jobs, health education for the
community, and support for local growers.
The 7th Ward in New Orleans is a neighbor-
hood that has a serious lack of fresh food
options for residents, and the community
would love to see the returned access to
healthy eating opportunities.
Guardians InstituteThe Guardians of the Flame Institute—the
Donald Harrison, Sr. Museum and Cultural
Arts Center—opened in time for Mardi Gras
this year. Students worked through the fall
and spring to bring a space dedicated to
Mardi Gras Indian performances, cooking
demonstrations, and classes on reading
and health to the community. There are two
main components to the building: an indoor
classroom and an outdoor performance
space. Guidance and funds for the project
were provided by the Tulane City Center,
Tulane School of Architecture, Johnson
Controls, the Wisner Foundation, and the
Alembic Development Company.
tulane city center
Nantong Delegation
The Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
(TRUDC) hosted a delegation of govern-
ment officials from Nantong, China in
October 2011. The visiting engineers and
politicians used the visit to learn about New
Orleans’ flood protection systems in order
to protect Nantong from flood threats. The
city of Nantong, similar to New Orleans, is
influenced by rising ocean levels and the
Yangtze River. The TRUDC also presented
its most recent work from Longpao, China,
upriver from Nantong. The relationship
with Nantong began when TRUDC Director,
Grover Mouton, and Project Director, Nick
Jenisch created a regional strategic plan for
Nantong. The visiting officials, in a continu-
ation of the relationship, have invited the
TRUDC to lecture in Nantong in the fall.
tulane city center Students at work on Guardians Institute.
truDc Nantong delegation tours Gulf South. Photo by Jeff Soule.
from top/bottom, left/right
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stuDy abroaD
Rome ProgramThis fall, the School of Architecture sent a
large group of 4th year undergraduate and
2nd year graduate students to participate
in the semester long Rome study abroad
program under the instruction of professors
Errol Barron, Tiffany Lin, Kentaro Tsubaki,
Marcella del Signore, and Jill Stoll. In this 16
week program, students lived and worked in
a former 17th century convent that is part of
Borromini’s St. Agnese church on the Piazza
Navona. In addition to the cultural and
geographic studies traditionally undertaken,
students were introduced to various forms
of photography as a means of documen-
tation. Using a traditional, 35 mm Holga
camera, students moved outside of their
digital comfort zone to create intimate, vi-
sual story boards of their travel explorations.
These analog studies resulted in a beauti-
ful collection of photographs that helped
inspire design work later in the semester. As
a compliment to architectural studies, each
student undertakes an Italian language and
culture course.
The Preservation Studies program continues
to excel both as an independent program
and as a valuable supplement to other
programs within the School of Architecture.
In addition to a wealth of cross-disciplinary
classes open to the University, the Preser-
vation Studies program sponsored lecture
series brought an enlightening line-up of
leading professionals from across the globe
to Richardson Memorial Hall. Additionally,
the program teamed with local profession-
als to promote community-wide discussions
and film screenings at the local AIA design
center.
In October 2011, the Master of Preserva-
tion Studies students joined 2,500 other
preservationists in Buffalo, New York for the
Annual Conference of the National Trust for
Historic Preservation. The conference was
held in the developing downtown area at
an icon of preservationist work: The Statler.
When asked about the experience at the
conference, Program Director John Stubbs
claimed the conference far exceeded his
expectations and was quoted in the lo-
cal Buffalo paper as saying, “the mayor’s
speech was brilliant, the keynote address
was brilliant, the architecture was brilliant.”
MPS student Alex Pacheco was particularly
taken by the built environment of Buffalo
and appreciated the opportunity to admire
the work of Louis Sullivan first hand.
mps master of preservation stuDies program
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urbanbuilDUnder the direction of Byron Mouton,
students in the URBANbuild program take
three courses to develop an understand-
ing of the design and construction pro-
cess, including a six-credit design course,
an advanced technology course, and a
professional concerns course. Following this
rigorous coursework, a team of 15 students
enhance their understanding of this process
during the spring semester through building
on-site for approximately 50 hours/week.
URBANbuild 7Over the 2011-2012 school year, Tulane
School of Architecture students successfully
designed and built the seventh URBANbuild
home. This year’s design resulted in a 3
bedroom, 2 bath, 1200 square foot single
family home in the economically develop-
ing neighborhood of Central City. Combin-
ing two substandard lots to form a 65’ x
62’ property, wider than the traditionally
narrow New Orleans lots, this unusual lot
size provided the opportunity for interesting
explorations that are not normally done in a
New Orleans residential design setting. “In
this case we have a west-facing façade that
is louvered with a pretty inventive screening
system,” says Mouton. “Behind that screen is
an outdoor living space.”
In May 2012, UB7 passed final inspections
and received its Certificate of Occupancy.
Inspector Gary Graham of Safety and
Permits was impressed with the students’
hard work, maintenance of the schedule and
quality of execution.
URBANbuild 6 Since being featured in last year’s newslet-
ter, URBANbuild 6 passed final building in-
spection in September 2011. This step made
it available for sale.
from top/bottom, left/right rome program Tyler Guidroz, Interior Columns with Long Exposure, AVSM 3310
urbanbuilD 7 Photo by Emilie Taylor
mps Students in Havana, Cuba for study, March 2012.
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Tulane’s Master of Sustainable Real Estate De-velopment (MSRED) program completed its first year with 17 graduates and a blog that tracks program developments.
tulanemsred.tumblr.com
Sustainability and Globalization Lecture SeriesThe Sustainability and Globalization Lecture
Series in the fall of 2011 and spring of 2012
brought an impressive group of speakers
to Tulane, including Phil Thompson, Rob
Verchick, Nancy Montoya, Cliff Kenwood,
and Rosanne Haggerty, and was sponsored
by the School of Architecture’s MSRED
program, the World Trade Center of New
Orleans, and the University of New Orleans.
Green BuildingMichelle Stanard from Historic Green spoke
with MSRED students in July 2011 about
two approaches to sustainable develop-
ment: preservation and new construction.
Historic Green was founded after Hurricane
Katrina in order to educate the community
on ‘greener’ methods to better their existing
homes, and methods to create energy sav-
ings using small and cost-efficient materials.
At the completion of spring thesis reviews, the
School of Architecture curated the fourth annual
Ogden 8 exhibition at the Ogden Museum of
Southern Art recognizing 8 student thesis projects.
The event consisted of an open house within
the gallery as well as an intimate discussion of
the work as it relates to the current architectural
climate led by guests Carol Burns AIA (Principal
at Taylor & Burns Architects; Adjunct Professor at
Wentworth Institute and Dalhousie Universities)
and William Sherman (Associate Vice President for
Research, University of Virginia; Founding Director,
OpenGrounds; Associate Professor of Architecture,
University of Virginia).
This year’s Ogden 8 consisted of the following
students: Hee Cho, Matt DeCotiis, Patrick Franke,
Jade Jiambutr, Sean McGuire, Josh Mings, Cam-
eron Ringness, and William Trakas. The projects
were displayed in the Circle Gallery of the Ogden
Museum from May 11-20, 2012.
These 8 projects were chosen from 16 projects
which the thesis advisors awarded distinction.
The additional 8 students receiving distinction
were: Leland Berman, Elizabeth Davis, Andrew
Graham, Michael Landry, Derek Magee, Katherine
Peaden, Justin Siragusa, and Cory Squire.
msreD
ogDen 8 from top/bottom, left/right patrick franke Flux Capacity: Asymmetrical Activ-ity on Boston’s City Hall Plaza
william trakas Sietch Architecture; Urban Strategies for Suburban Expansion in Tucson, AZ
hee cho Rebuilding Traditions: A New Cemetery for Seoul, South Korea
ogDen 8
master of sustainable real estate Development program
Proposal chapel 7
view of the exterior of the chapel
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Photo: MSRED Class of 2012 atop NY Times building
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Urban Land Institute ConferenceThe 4th Annual ULI Louisiana Conference
was held in January at the Westin Canal
Place in New Orleans. The conference,
entitled Best Practices in Commercial Cor-
ridor Redevelopment in the New Orleans
Region, addressed questions of commercial
real estate development 5 local parishes: St.
Charles, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson
and Orleans.
TravelThis year, the MSRED students travelled to
Washington, DC and New York City to learn
about the scale of development and ap-
proaches to sustainability in these cities. The
trip was made possible by an impressive list
of presenters and supporters including the
Forest City Ratner Companies, the General
Services Administration, Living City Block,
JBG Companies, the DC Office of Planning,
the DC Department of the Environment,
Canal Park Development Association, Bank
of America Community Development
Financing, FXFOWLE Architects, Alloy
Development, NeighborWorks, Busboys
and Poets, the National Building Museum,
SORG Architects, Wiebenson and Dorman
Architects, Bowman Consulting, PlaNYC,
Silverstein Properties, the World Trade
Center Organization, MDF Development, En-
nead Architects, NYU Schack Institute, HR&A
Advisors, Cooper Joseph Studio, Enterprise
Community Partners, and the New York and
DC Housing Authorities.
Joshua mings Praiseworthy Competition with One’s Ancestors
JaDe Jiambutr Infrastructural Amenity; Recharging Bangkok Aquifers
sean mcguire Chaotic Territoriality: Mediating Spa-cial Conflict in Barrio Bravo, Mexico
cameron ringness EthnoCity: Layers of Urban Alterity: The Unrelenting Paseo
matt Decotiis Saint Roch #3: Reinventing the New Orleans Cemetery
MARKET NEAR PASEO REFORMA. TIME: 7:30 PM ON FRIDAY
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a-weekThe theme of this year’s A-Week was
“soapbox” and was based on the concept of
creating space to facilitate public expres-
sion. The only constraint, other than budget,
was that the “soapboxes” must have enough
mobility to be deployed into a public space.
Additionally, each project’s performance
and use had to be documented. The final
presentation of each project had to include
a 60-second video showing the projects
in action. Each team took a unique ap-
proach to interpreting the idea of “soap-
box,” focusing on vocal and written speech,
performance, art, and more topical subjects.
The winning team, led by Casey Bemis and
Zarith Pineda, created the “Do-Nut,” which
was a human-scale wheel constructed of
plywood. Guest architects were Nataly Gat-
tegno and Jason Kelly of Future Cities Lab.
stuDent news
student notesThe American Institute of Architects (AIA) has
selected five students to receive the AIA/AAF
Minority Disadvantaged Scholarship. Since 1970
through a joint effort with the American Archi-
tectural Foundation (AAF), the scholarship has
been awarded to high school graduates, college
freshmen, and community college students from
a minority and/or financially disadvantaged back-
ground who intend to pursue a NAAB-accredited
professional degree in architecture. This year Za-
rith Pineda (expected ‘14) was awarded this presti-
gious scholarship. Her passion for architecture was
apparent to her first year design professor who
describes Pineda’s skills as “well above average”
and “exceptional.”
Through an open competition hosted by the
School and Voodoo Music Experience produc-
ers RE:BE Design, a design by Matthew DeCotiis
(TSA ‘12), Michael Landry (TSA ‘12) and Emile
Lejeune (expected ‘13) was selected and funded
for construction for the 2011 Voodoo Music Experi-
ence. “Ephemeral Ambiance” created a pro-
vocative passage between the festival’s “field of
dreams” and the main stage. The interactive instal-
lation combined dramatic black lighting with wood
framed towers woven together with nylon rope.
MEDITATIVE_nodes, designed by architecture
thesis student Jason Levy (TSA ‘12), was also
selected for installation at the 2011 Voodoo Music
Experience. The design featured a unique light
show as well as a space away from the crowded
stages where people could sit and enjoy the music
comfortably.
Each year, AIA Louisiana offers an international
travel fellowship that is open to all third and fourth
year architecture majors in the state of Louisiana.
Michael Kahn (expected ‘13) was selected as one
of this year’s recipients. He was be presented with
a grant at the Celebrate Architecture Symposium
in Baton Rouge on April 1, 2012. Kahn’s proposal
is to study the defining of urban place and how it
is affected by transportation, specifically the role
of the London Underground Tube Station on the
urban fabric of London. Ultimately, Michael hopes
to learn much of the impact of transit nodes on
the development of neighborhoods and public
spaces. The goal is to be able to apply the lessons
of London’s infrastructure-based growth to other
cities, such as New Orleans, to spur development
within pre-existing urban centers.
Lindsey Kiefer (TSA ’12) & Kathryn Callander
(expected ‘15) were selected to exhibit works in the
“Undergraduate Juried Exhibition,” at the Carroll
Gallery of Tulane. This exhibition was curated by
Amy Mackie, Director of Visual Arts, Contemporary
Arts Center, New Orleans and ran from January
17-27, 2012.
The reVIEW is a faculty-curated publication of stu-
dent architectural work, featuring first, second, and
third year studio work, option platform studios,
as well as final year thesis projects and examples
from various courses in the years 2009-2011. The
bi-annual review was distributed to architecture
schools throughout the country and is available for
sale through the School’s website.
theCharrette, an architecture and design publica-
tion written and produced by students at the
Tulane School of Architecture, focuses on the
power of journalism to expose and investigate
themes, trends, and subtleties in an interdisciplin-
ary context both within the city of New Orleans
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Decotiis anD lanDry Voodoo Fest installation
christopher gassam Live Parametrics
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and at a larger international scale. A digital version
of the Fall 2011 + Spring 2012 issues can be viewed
at: issu.com/thecharrette.
In their final year, Sean Fisher (TSA ‘12), Allison
Schiller (TSA ‘12), and Mike Landry (TSA ‘12) won
Honorable Mention in the Un-Competition, a proj-
ect created by the Chicago Architectural Club and
Black Spectacles. The brief asked for a 2-minute
film that identified a design problem in the com-
munity, proposed a solution, and articulated a plan
to make the solution a reality. The student film
Grow Dat Youth Farm-New Orleans highlights the
strengths of this City Center project bringing to-
gether student design teams with a real non-profit
client within the community.
In 1991, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Neth-
erlands decided to promote national architecture
abroad. All over the world new embassies were
realized by prominent Dutch architects. The film
Mission Statements tells the story of four of the
most outspoken new embassies, showing the
background of the buildings and presenting a view
behind the curtains of daily life in the embassies.
Studio work created by several 4th & 5th year op-
tion studios was highlighted in this film.
This year the School of Architecture Graduate
Student Government (SAGG) helped to fund
the inaugural year of Recto Verso. This full color
publication highlights graduate student work and
includes both architectural work and individual
passions such as poetry, drawing + sketch, carpen-
try, photography and sewing. The annual publica-
tion is slated to continue next year.
Ventures with strong connections to Tulane Uni-
versity and the A. B. Freeman School of Business
were big winners at the 2012 New Orleans En-
trepreneur Week, an event highlighting the city’s
thriving startup community. SOLarchitect Studio
won The Big Idea Challenge. Co-founded by ar-
chitecture alumnus Alex Landau, the firm provides
a free, web-based tool to assess the feasibility of
installing solar panels on homes.
Christopher Gassam (expected ‘13) received a
Newcomb-Tulane Dean’s Grant to do an interdis-
ciplinary project for a semester. The grant project,
entitled Live Parametrics, is an Arduino open-
source lighting installation that uses digital data
mapping techniques to explore conceptions of the
interface between humans and built environments.
elected student leadersThe Tulane School of Architecture student organi-
zations have elected the following student leaders
for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year:
AIAS
Co-Presidents: Austin Frankel, Jack Waterman;
Vice President: Aubrey Keady-Molanphy.; Treasur-
er: Logan Leggett; Secretary: Kayleigh Bruentrup;
Director of Programming: Noah Conlay; Director of
Fundraising: Beau Braddock; Director of Sustain-
ability: Eric Bethany; 2nd Year Representative: Eric
Lynn; 4th Year Representative and International
Ambassador: John Coyle
SAGG
President: Evan Amato; Vice President: Michelle
Carroll; Treasurer: Georgia Berbert; Secretary: Mary
Catherine Bullock; Year 2 Senator: Natan Diacon-
Furtado; Year 3 Senator: Julia Fishman; Year 2
Senator: Jordan Matthews
theCharrette:
Editor in Chief: Kevin Michniok; Editor: Cameron
Conklin
shanghai internshipThrough a new connection with the esteemed
Tongji University College of Architecture and
Planning, Tulane School of Architecture is hoping
to provide several opportunities for students to
study in Shanghai. These opportunities include: a
fall semester full-time program in Tongji, a summer
study program located inTongji for four weeks with
the remainder of the summer semester back in
New Orleans, and a dual degree program in which
a graduate student would enroll simultaneously in
our two accredited graduate programs with the
first and third years spent at the home institution,
and the middle year spent abroad.
Working with Tongji University and living in Shang-
hai, students would be able to experience the
historical and cultural influences of the region as
well as to discover the Bauhaus traditions present
in the area. There are also many major U.S. firms
with offices in Shanghai and the additional op-
portunity for students to obtain internships while
in the program further enhances the appeal of the
study abroad program as an intercultural exchange
both educationally and professionally.
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un-competition Grow Dat New Orleans Film
2012 commencement awardsMASTER oF ARChITECTURE
Alpha Chi Rho Medal
Andrew Eliot Michael Graham
American Institute of Architects Medal
Patrick James Franke undergraduate
Elizabeth Marie Davis graduate
American Institute of Architects
Certificates of Merit
Kathleen Audrey Peaden undergraduate
Matthew Allen DeCotiis graduate
Thomas J. Lupo Award
Leland Bailey Berman
Ronald F. Katz Memorial Award
Kathleen Audrey Peaden
John William Lawrence Memorial Medal
Jade Jiambutr
Outstanding Thesis Award
Sean William McGuire
Joshua Adam Mings
Jill Cameron Ringness
Malcolm J. Heard Award for
Excellence in Teaching
Irene Keil
Tulane 34 Award
Mira Ansel Asher
Graduate Leadership Award
Lindsay Karis McCook
Senior Scholar Award
Leland Bailey Berman
MASTER oF PRESERVATIoN STUDIES
Outstanding Thesis Award
Charles Ian Crawford
Service to the Program Award
Beth Ann Jacob
MASTER oF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELoPMENT
Selected Research Projects
Tyler James Antrup
Samuel Berman
Christian Jonassen Brierre
John Louis Eskew
Brinda Sen Gupta
Stephen Tanner Strohschein
Academic Distinction Award
Stephen Tanner Strohschein
Leadership Award
Christian Jonassen Brierre
Service to the Program Award
John Louis Eskew
travel fellowshipsThe School successfully increased the quantity
of summer travel fellowships awarded to
students this year. During the 2012-2013, each
fellowship recipient will present the findings of
their research in a one hour public lecture.
Moise H. & Lois G. Goldstein Travel Fellowship
Brinda Sen Gupta (TSA ‘11, MSRED ‘12), The Nine
Stories of Stepwells: The Temples of Rajasthan,
Gujarat and Delhi
Class of 1973 Travel Fellowship
Matthew Kevin Michniok (M.Arch ’13), Transfor-
mative Architecture: The Iconic and the Modern
Stadium
John William Lawrence Research Fellowship
Jordan L. Matthews (M.Arch ’13), Piloting the
Great River Road: A Spatial Navigation of the
Mississippi River; Nicholas Christopher Sackos
(M.Arch ‘13), Mexico City: Understanding Mega-
city through Transportation and Architecture;
Neena Verma (MArch ’14), The Architecture of
Slums in India
Malcolm Heard Travel Fellowship
Michael Shea Trahan (MArch ‘13), Acoustics and
Light: Precedents and Implications
Samuel Stanhope Labouisse Memorial Prize
Christopher Lawrence Cox (M.Arch ’14), Cypress
Management & Louisiana Architecture
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1980sAngela O’Byrne (TSA ‘83) and her firm, Perez, re-
ceived an AIA Louisiana Design Award for Merit for
The Mission Family Center. The Initiative for a Com-
petitive Inner City and Fortune Magazine released
the 2011 Inner City 100, a list of the fastest-growing
inner city companies in the nation, in which Perez
ranked fifth. The Inner City 100 recognizes success-
ful companies and their CEOs as role models for
entrepreneurship, innovative business practices
and job creation in America’s urban communities.
Wayne Troyer (TSA ’83) and the Rice Mill Lofts
Project was recently highlighted in the New York
Times article, “Where the Walls Do Talk.” Rice Mill
Lofts, an 1892 structure in New Orleans that was
once home to a rice processor, has been converted
into housing with an unusual amenity: graffiti left
over from its derelict days.
Martin Moeller (TSA ‘84) published a new edition
of the AIA Guide to the Architecture of DC. The
release of the publication coincided with 2012 AIA
National Convention in Washington, D.C. Moeller,
the National Building Museum curator, was inter-
viewed by Architect magazine regarding the AIA
Guide. Moeller also serves on the Tulane Schoo of
Architecture’s Board of Advisors as Chair of the
Industry Partnerships committee.
Eve Blossom (TSA ‘88) received the 2011 INDEX
Award for her book Material Change: Design Think-
ing and the Social Entrepreneurship Movement.
Additionally, she gave a TEDtalk in India about
using design for social change.
Dan Maginn (TSA ‘89) was featured in Architect
magazine’s What’s Next video series, talking about
his experience in architecture school. He also de-
scribed the future outreach of Tulane in “Architec-
ture Schools and Their Communities.”
1990sTiffany Melancon (TSA ‘96) organized the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects European Chapter four
day International Conference in Basel, Switzerland
in October 2011.
Melissa Brandrup (TSA ‘96) received the 2011 Texas
Society of Architecture Honor Award for Young
Professional Achievement (in honor of William
W. Caudill, FAIA). This is the first time an El Paso
architect was given this award, which recognizes
the leadership efforts of a younger member who
serves her profession, influences improvements in
the field, and encourages participation of others.
Gina Reichert (TSA ‘97) of Design 99 was featured
in The Atlantic Cities article, “Affordable Housing
that Doesn’t Scream ‘Affordable,’” by Allison Arieff
on October 21, 2011.
Cynthia Dubberley (TSA ’98) and Shavon Charlot
(TSA ’04) were both selected in Building Design +
Construction’s “40 UNDER 40” competition. The
40 young AEC professionals represent the Class of
2012, and were chosen from among 223 applicants
to join the 240 previous recipients of this honor,
dating to 2006. 17 of this year’s honorees are
women, a high for the program.
Ashley King Morton (TSA ’98). See Peter M. Trapo-
lin (TSA ’77).
1960sRob Dean (TSA ’68) and his company, Building
Systems Design, Inc., developed and is spon-
soring a continuing education opportunity in
Architectural Record.
1970sMarcel Wisznia (TSA ‘73) was featured in the
AIA magazine article, “Think Like an Architect,
Build Like a Developer.” Since Hurricane Katrina,
Wisznia’s firm has focused on designing and
developing mixed-use apartments in historic
New Orleans buildings. These projects include:
the Garage, a converted Buick dealership; Union
Lofts, which was a Western Union building; the
Saratoga, an office building from 1953; and the
Maritime, New Orleans’ first skyscraper built in
1893. The firm preserves the historic buildings
and integrates new development. Wisznia’s
Saratoga project was also featured in April’s
Multi-Family Housing News.
Mike Howard (TSA ‘74) and Julie Ford (TSA ‘05)
of Howard Performance Architecture, were
recently recognized for several awards. Howard
Performance Architecture received an Award Ci-
tation from the AIA Gulf States for their work on
the Forbes center at James Madison University.
Howard Performance Architecture’s design work
was also showcased on ArchDaily’s website.
Peter M. Trapolin (TSA ’77) and Ashley King
Morton (TSA ’98) completed the historic reha-
bilitation of the Audubon Building, originally
constructed in 1912. Rechristened as the Saint
Hotel, the building is located in New Orleans’
French Quarter at 931 Canal Street. The project
involved an extensive restoration of the exterior
facade, including the reconstruction of the hard
canopies and portions of the ground floor. The
interior is now a 174-room boutique hotel, which
is a part of the Marriott Autograph Collection.
The Saint Hotel was recently named one of the
World’s Best New Hotels of 2012 by Condè Nast
Traveler Magazine.
Thomas C. Brutting (TSA ‘77) turned a historic
church in San Francisco into low-income senior
housing. The century-old church was abandoned
for nearly a decade, but retained its neo-Roman-
esque Italianate style with original stained glass
windows. The architects preserved the facade
and reconfigured the interior to accommodate
seven one-bedroom units and 33 studio units.
The vintage building also had to be brought up
to current seismic code requirements.
John Williams (TSA ‘78) headed a project that
introduced a Rouses Market into the heart of the
Central Business District of New Orleans. The
historic building was a car dealership built in 1955
and abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. The
building was carefully restored in order to receive
the historic tax credits and to save a modern-era
structure. In addition to his work with his archi-
tectural practice, John Williams joined the Board
of Tulane on July 1, 2012. The Board of Tulane is
the University’s governing body.
alumni news
wayne troyer Rice Mill Lofts. Photo by Sara Essex Bradley.
angela o’byrne AIA Louisiana Design Award for Merit
hiroshi Jacobs Flatlands
from top / bottom, left / right
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2000sSomatic Collaborative, the design practice of
Felipe Correa (TSA ’00) and Anthony Acciavatti,
unveiled a proposal for Plaza Republica in Quito,
Ecuador. The project, described as “a new fine
grain open space,” proposes to transform a derelict
urban surface into a new cultural landscape to
provide the city with a new open space, compli-
mentary to the adjacent Alameda Park. This new
urban piece can act as a catalyzer for future urban
transformations in the Alameda district.
Archinect highlighted “Flatland,” a recent installa-
tion by Casey Hughes and Hiroshi Jacobs (TSA ‘03)
in September 2011. The design, selected through
a school-wide competition, features red and blue
bungee cords spanning between pairs of metal
cables, creating a geometry that varies from a pure
hyperbolic paraboloid through the force of gravity
acting on the elastic cords and relatively inelastic
cables. A related installation, “Vector Knot,” was
selected for the 2012 DesCours AIA presentation.
Julie Ford (TSA ‘05). See Mike Howard (TSA ‘74).
Tod Mostero (TSA ‘04) is an architect-turned-
winemaker with a winery in Yountville, California.
The Dominus Estate is not open to the public for
tastin, however, architectural tours of the building,
designed by Herzog & DeMeuron, are offered.
Shavon Charlot (TSA ’04). See Cynthia Dubberley
(TSA ’98).
Jing Liu (TSA ‘04) and her Brooklyn firm, Solid
Objectives–Idenburg Liu (SO–IL), designed a
temporary structure to house exhibition booths for
180 galleries offering work to collectors during the
Frieze Art Fair’s four-day run in May 2012 on the
East River in New York. The volume is six tents in
place of the usual one. Principals Florian Idenburg
and Jing Liu acquired the largest tents they could
find from a New Jersey-based rental company. The
designers angled the pieces away from one an-
other at the corners to create an s-curve along the
riverbank instead of placing them in a straight line.
Stephen Ortego (TSA ‘07) was recently elected to
the Louisiana State Legislature.
2010sLuis Quinones (TSA ‘10) was shortlisted for a light-
ing design competition. The project, RELUXED, is
a lighting concept using state of the art materials
and technology. The lamp assumes a charge cycle
pose during the day, and a discharge cycle pose
at night. As a result, no electricity is required to
power the desk light.
Jennifer Gaugler (TSA ‘11) helped MASS Design
Group win 2012 Designer of the Year from Contract
Magazine for their ability to improve lives through
design and setting an example for how designers
can choose how they impact an increasingly global
community. MASS’s 140-bed Butaro Hospital in
Rwanda was also featured in Contract’s October
issue when it won the Acute Healthcare Facility
of the Year category. Gaugler is a Design Fellow
at MASS Design and is currently with MASS in
Rwanda working on the expansion of an eighty-
year-old hospital in Nyanza.
2011 Descours festiva1The 2011 DesCours Festival in New Orleans
included works by several Tulane School of Ar-
chitecture alumni. The installation ‘Rendezvous’
was presented by Scott Berger (TSA ‘10), Kevin
Muni (TSA ‘10), and Rebecca Miller (TSA ’12).
Igor Siddiqui (TSA ‘98) brought ‘Bayou-
luminescence’ together with Matt Hutchinson.
‘HYDROFIELD’ was presented by Travis Bost
(TSA ’10), ‘Flight Attentive’ by Tony Vanky
(TSA ’07), and ‘Vector Knot’ was presented by
hiroshi Jacobs (TSA ‘03) and Casey hughes.
three alumni elected to fellowship in the american institute of architectsStacy Bourne (TSA ‘90), Dan Maginn (TSA ‘89)
and Ione R. Stiegler (TSA ’83) were elected Fel-
lowship in the American Institute of Architects.
The AIA College of Fellows elected only 105
architects from 120 schools of architecture
across the country for this honor in 2012. The
School celebrated their election to Fellowship
during the Tulane Alumni Reception at the AIA
National Convention in D.C. on May 17, 2012.
peter trapolin anD ashley king morton Saint Hotel. Photo by Will Crocker.
mike howarD anD Julie forD Forbes center at JMU
luis Quinones RELUXED desk light
igor siDDiQui Bayou-luminescence DesCours Photo by Allison Schiller
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Professor of Architecture, Tulane University
New Orleans architect Arthur Q. Davis passed
away on Wednesday, November 30, 2011. A
World War II veteran, Davis studied with Walter
Gropius and apprenticed in Eero Saarinen’s
Michigan office. In 1947, Davis joined another
Tulane alumnus—Nathaniel C. Curtis, Jr. (1917-
1997)—in practice in New Orleans. The Curtis and
Davis partnership lasted nearly thirty years, and
its buildings include: the Thomy Lafon Elemen-
tary School (razed 2011), the Rivergate Conven-
tion Center (razed 1995) and the Superdome.
Journals such as Progressive Architecture, Ar-
chitectural Forum and Architecture d’aujourd’hui
highlighted the firm’s notable buildings. In 1978,
the firm was acquired by the West Coast engi-
neering and architecture office of Daniel, Mann,
Johnson, and Mendenhall (DMJM). Davis worked
with DMJM for twenty years, and then estab-
lished his own firm, Arthur Q. Davis FAIA and
Associates, in 1998. In 2009, Mr. Davis published
a memoir, titled It Happened by Design: The Life
and Work of Arthur Q. Davis, which summarizes
his career and his reflections on the profession.
He was working on a history of the Berlin Medi-
cal Center at the time of his death.
arthur Q. Davis (tsa ‘42)
arthur Q. Davis Frank Lotz Miller, photographer. © Southeastern Architectural Archive, Special Collec-tions Division, Tulane University Libraries.
superDome unDer construction Arthur Q. Davis, 1975
paul murff o’neal Jr (tsa ‘52) Paul Murff O’Neal Jr. passed away on August 11,
2011. Murff, from Shreveport, Louisiana, met his
wife, Arey Moss, after the war when they were
both working for an architect. They enrolled
together in the architecture program at Tulane,
where he graduated first in his class. Murff re-
turned to the same firm, with Bill Wiener, Sr, and
the firm later became Wiener, Morgan & O’Neal.
Murff designed the LSU Medical Center, and
received the distinction of AIA Fellow in 1974.
John niklaus John Niklaus, civil engineer and longtime Tulane
professor, passed away on January 18, 2012. Dr.
Niklaus earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees
from Tulane, and he joined the faculty in 1963.
Winning several teaching awards over his 43 years
of teaching at Tulane, Dr. Niklaus was also the direc-
tor of the Chamber of Commerce’s Canal Street
improvement project. He was a former president of
the Society of Tulane Engineers, designed bridges in
New Orleans, and received a Lifetime Achievement
Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
suzanne monaco (tsa ‘10)Suzanne Monaco passed away on May 6, 2012 at
the age of 25. Monaco was working as a designer at
450 Architects and was the Managing Director of
Architecture for Humanity in San Francisco, CA. She
had just completed the design for a playground for
the San Francisco Unified School District, her first
professional project.
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