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TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE NEWS

C O N T E N T SFACULTY NEWS 2

SCHOOL NEWS 6

STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS 9

TRUDC 10

PRESERVATION PROGRAM 11

MSRED 12

TULANE CITY CENTER 14

URBANBUILD 16

OGDEN 8 17

STUDENT NEWS 18

ALUMNI NEWS 20

IN MEMORIAM 24

AIA NEW ORLEANS AWARDS 25

Writing + Editorial: Jennifer Gaugler, TSA ’11Graphic Design: Leigh Wilkerson, 10½ Studios

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cover image: Fourth floor studio space, Richardson Memorial Hall. Photo by Jill Stoll, June 2011.

2010-2011 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., FAIA, 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, AIA 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

2010-2011 FACULTYCatherine Emily Barrier, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ 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, Research Instructor \\

Eugene Darwin Cizek, Professor and Director of MPS Program \\ Carey Rose Clouse, Adjunct

Assistant Professor \\ Tara Cotterman, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Michael Kent Crosby, Associate

Professor \\ Robert DeCosmo, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Marcella Del Signore, Assistant Professor

\\ Ammar Eloueini, Favrot Associate Professor \\ Abigail Feldman, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Mari-

lyn Lee Feldmeier, Adjunct Assistant Professor \\ Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Favrot Associate

Professor and Associate Dean \\ Jason Gant, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Bruce Merriman Goodwin,

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,

Adjunct Lecturer \\ Carol McMichael Reese, Christovich Associate Professor \\ Cordula

Roser Gray, Professor of Practice \\ Scott Ruff, Associate Professor \\ Keli Rylance, Adjunct

Lecturer \\ Milton George Scheuermann, Jr., Adjunct Professor \\ Kenneth Schwartz, Favrot

Professor and Dean \\ Lloyd “Sonny” Shields, Adjunct Professor \\ Jill Stoll, Adjunct Lecturer

\\ Allison Stouse, Adjunct Lecturer \\ Alexandra Stroud, Adjunct Associate Professor and Di-

rector 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 EMERITUSGeoffrey Howard Baker \\ Ronald Coulter Filson, Dean Emeritus \\ Karen Kingsley \\ Stephen

Jacobs \\ Richard Otis Powell

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 leader-

ship of founding director, Alexandra (Sandi) Stroud, this program will provide another option for graduating archi-

tecture 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 program-

matic 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 Rich-

ardson 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 en-

deavors 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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Harvey Wadsworth Chair and Professor Judith Kinnard, FAIA and Assis-

tant Professor Tiffany Lin have won the New Orleans Sustainable Design

Competition. Participating firms were invited to design a self-sufficient

home out of readily-available materials which could fit into a single cargo

container and be erected quickly after a natural disaster. The home also had

to provide its own water and electricity, resist 160 miles-per-hour winds,

and have a seismic rating of 8.2. Kinnard and Lin won with their proposal

for a Sunshower SSIP House that features several innovative sustainable

strategies while also respecting the New Orleans climate and way of life.

One part of a dual-roof structure channels rainwater into a cistern while

the other supports photovoltaic panels to collect solar energy. The house

is designed to take advantage of natural light, utilizing Sliding SIP panels

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.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Heather A. Knight (TSA ’06) and Laura Ewen

Blokker (TSA ’07) have been awarded a Fitch Foundation Mid-Career Grant

for their joint proposal, “Louisiana’s Bousillage Tradition: Investigation

of Past Techniques for Future Practice.” Bousillage is a Colonial building

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.

Richard Koch Chair of Architecture John Klingman and Visual Resources

Curator Francine Stock, along with Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc (a former stu-

dent at Phillis Wheatley and actress on the television show ”Treme”), were

recently interviewed by Doug MacCash of the Times-Picayune about the

status of the historic Phillis Wheatley Elementary School. A 1950s Modern-

ist building designed by local architect Charles R. Colbert, the school was

closed after Hurricane Katrina despite sustaining little damage. It was el-

evated one story above the ground, which provided a shaded play-space for

children under the building, but also prevented flooding during Katrina. The

building was a valuable example of regional modernism in New Orleans

and was unfortunately demolished in June of 2011. Video of the interview

was posted on April 6, 2011 on www.nola.com.

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

house was to be among the first duplexes built, but the owners opted

instead for a single-family residence with a small artist’s studio. Mouton’s

design, in step with the neighborhood’s contemporary silhouettes, has a

roof line that angles from a single level in front to two stories in the rear.

Byron Mouton was also selected as one of the first four Social Entrepre-

neurship 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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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

Practice,” Laura Blokker and Heather Knight 6 Wendy Redfield. Photo by Jill Stoll.

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Professor Ellen Weiss, Ph.D. will be retiring this fall from a long teaching

career at the Tulane School of Architecture where she taught the history of

architecture from 1987 to 2011. The author of numerous articles, reviews,

chapters, and reports on American architecture and urbanism, her interest

in specialized communities with a utopian edge fuels her current work

on the Tuskegee Institute and its MIT-trained architect Robert R. Taylor.

NewSouth Press will publish Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African

American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington in late 2011. Dr.

Weiss studied at Oberlin College, the University of California at Berkeley,

and the University of Illinois at Urbana. She has taught at colleges and

schools across the country and in Canada. She has served on the boards of

the Society of Architectural Historians, the Vernacular Architecture Forum,

and the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians. Her Tulane courses

focused on European architecture and urbanism from pre-history through

the eighteenth century, American urbanism, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

(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.

Favrot Associate Professor Wendy Redfield joins the School of Architecture

as Associate Dean for Academics this summer from North Carolina State

University where she has taught since 1998, and served as Associate Direc-

tor of the School of Architecture and Director of Graduate Programs from

2005-2008. She received a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University

(1985), and an M.Arch from the University of Virginia (1990). Her teaching

was recognized on a national level in 2004 with the Association of Col-

legiate Schools of Architecture New Faculty Teaching Award, and in 1997

with an honorable mention in the AIA Education Honor Awards Program.

She has lectured widely on pedagogical method, and her teaching and

students’ work have been featured in numerous publications and exhibits.

Her scholarship focuses on site and urban issues as well as the cultural

aspects of architecture. She has delivered papers at conferences nationally

and internationally, and has published writings and mounted exhibits on the

subject of site representation and analysis. She edited Modulus 20: Stew-

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 neighbor-

hood design in Henderson, North Carolina.

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Assistant Professor Marcella del Signore was lauded as a “Young Italian

Talent” in the Architecture and Design Category from the Italian Ministry of

Development and the National Youth Agency. She has also been selected

to exhibit her work at the MAU-01 Exhibition in Perugia, Italy as part of the

FESTARCH, an international architecture festival curated by Stefano Boeri.

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

president of DOCOMOMO Louisiana, calls to light the plight of mid-century

public schools in New Orleans which are mostly demolished or in danger of

demolition. She also exhibited her artwork in the Favrot Lobby of Richard-

son Memorial Hall from February 28–March 25, 2011 in a show called,

“Francine Stock: Material Language.”

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 show-

cases 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.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Thaddeus Zarse served on the 2010 AIA Ar-

kansas Design Awards jury with Steve Dumez and F. Macnaughton Ball, Jr.,

and was on a selection jury for the Arts Council of New Orleans and Broad

Community Connections collaboration to provide iconic signage to local

businesses on Broad Street. Zarse also wrote an architectural review of the

930 Poydras apartments by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple which appeared on nola.

com where he is a regular contributor. He hopes to create an open dialogue

to discuss architecture and planning in New Orleans.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Carey Clouse and Adjunct Associate Professor

and Director of TRUDC Grover Mouton have been awarded Community-

Based Research Grants (CBR) from Tulane’s Center for Public Service for

2011. Their proposals help to link public-service with academic research,

and will employ students within the School of Architecture. Carey Clouse

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 recom-

mendations for Village Square.

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

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Visiting faculty member Michael Gruber is part of the winning design

team for the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (Holo-

caust) to be located in Ferrara, Italy. The design team was a collaboration

between Studio Arco of Bologna, Michael Gruber of Los Angeles, -scape Ar-

chitects 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 exist-

ing buildings and adding new buildings needed for the museum program.

Construction on the museum is expected to start in 2013.

Ammar Eloueini has been promoted from Associate Professor to Favrot

Professor of Architecture as of July 1, 2011. On January 24, 2011, construc-

tion began on Professor Eloueini’s J-House located in uptown New Orleans.

The house is sited on a standard New Orleans-sized lot in a flood-prone

area, and the design seeks to turn these restrictions into opportunities.

As a new take on the raised shotgun typology, interior spaces are housed

within two tubes that twist ninety degrees from the front end to the back

end of the house, generating space underneath the house and a skylight in

the roof. On May 26, 2011, ArchDaily featured an article on the house along

with construction-progress photographs.

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-

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 prop-

erty 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.

NEW FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Amber Wiley joins the School of Architecture faculty in the fall of 2011

from George Washington University where she received her Ph.D. in Ameri-

can Studies specializing in architectural history, urban history, and African

American cultural studies. She was the recipient of an AERA Minority Dis-

sertation 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

University of Virginia School of Architecture. Her areas of focus combine

architectural theory and history with cultural issues of race, class, collective

memory, narratives of power, and urban policy. Her research interests are

centered on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban com-

munities. Wiley had a feature article published in the fall 2010 Vernacular

Architecture Newsletter entitled, “LeDroit Park: A Study of Contrasts,”

which analyzed one neighborhood’s development through major housing

trends from romantic suburb to New Deal public housing. It illustrated how

a low-income neighborhood fought the encroachment of Howard University

through preservation. She taught an upper level seminar, “Design, Preserva-

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.

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RICHARDSON MEMORIAL HALL RENOVATION CHARRETTEThe Tulane School of Architecture hosted the Richardson Memorial Hall

Sustainable Strategies Charrette on March 22-23, 2011 to examine the

architecture building’s current state, and generate visions for its future

renovation. FXFOWLE and el dorado inc. (Dan Maginn, TSA ’89, is a founding

partner) were selected as the architects for the project. For the charrette,

participants were divided into five teams. Each included representatives

from FXFOWLE, el dorado and their consultants as well as faculty, admin-

istrators, staff, Board of Advisor members, and students. After hearing

presentations of the initial studies performed by the design firms and their

consultants, the teams brainstormed innovative ways to address four

areas of concern: climate and envelope, systems, interior organization and

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.

RICHARDSON MEMORIAL HALL’S IBM PILOT PROGRAM As part of the Richardson Memorial Hall Sustainable Strategies project,

Dean Kenneth Schwartz initiated a collaboration with IBM and Johnson

Controls Inc. on smart building technologies. The aim of this project is to

meter, monitor, and analyze energy flows for Richardson Memorial Hall.

This system will allow the school and university to monitor improvements

in new building systems and to optimize performance into the future. Dean

Schwartz was also invited to participate in the IBM National Conference on

Smart Building Technology which took place in June of 2011 in New York

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National “Pulse” Conference in

February held in Las Vegas. Samuel Palmisano, Chairman and CEO of IBM,

has invited Dean Schwartz to deliver a keynote address and to participate

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.

NETHERLANDS VISITDean Kenneth Schwartz visited the Netherlands from November 9-12, 2010

as a member of Senator Mary Landrieu’s congressional delegation to study

Dutch coastal restoration and flood control efforts. Senator Landrieu and

the Royal Netherlands Embassy led the trip for a contingent of Louisiana

state and local officials as well as academic leaders to learn more about

the water management systems of a country largely below sea level,

similar to New Orleans. The trip also included an oil-spill response compo-

nent. The partnership between New Orleans and the Netherlands is also

reflected in the Dutch Dialogues, a workshop hosted at the Tulane School

of Architecture with Koch Chair and Professor John Klingman and Adjunct

Associate Professor Grover Mouton as key participants.

AIA CONFERENCEThe American Institute of Architects national conference was held in New

Orleans this May. The theme of the conference was Regional Design REVO-

LUTION: Ecology Matters. School of Architecture faculty and Advisory Board

members were involved in the convention in various ways, including giving

tours of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Tulane City Center proj-

ects, leading panels and workshops on topics from regional modernism to

post-Katrina historic preservation, and giving presentations on sustainable

real estate development. Professor Ammar Eloueini served as Exhibition

Chair of the National Convention Committee, and Professor Byron Mouton

collaborated with Dan Maginn (TSA ’89) who designed and created “The

Avenue,” a sustainable design installation on the convention expo floor.

Materials used to construct the installation were provided by conference

organizer Hanley Woods. After the conference, the materials were donated

to Tulane University for the construction of the 2012 URBANbuild house.

ACCREDITATION REPORTSNAAB’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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SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS ANNUAL MEETINGThe Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting was held from April

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 CONFERENCEThis 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

Joan Krevlin, FAIA, partner in BKSK Architects LLP.

JOB SEARCH POINTERSThe Tulane School of Architecture has put together a list of the top ten tips

for finding employment in a difficult job market. Job tips run the gamut

from the traditional—networking with former professors, joining profes-

sional 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 TELEVISIONDean 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

place at Richardson Memorial Hall and at the Hollygrove Market & Farm, a

project of the Tulane City Center.

SKY MAGAZINEThe Tulane City Center was featured in Sky Magazine, the in-flight maga-

zine for Delta Air Lines. The article, “Sustainability Goes to School,” refer-

ence’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 PANELHighlighting 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

Ryan Carley (TSA ’96), Development Manager at JCH Development.

MORNING WORKSHOP WITH JAMES CRAMERTulane School of Architecture faculty and New Orleans AIA members were

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 construc-

tion industry, and the design professions.

WAGGONNER & BALL ARCHITECTS COMMIT TO FUND A YEARLY LECTUREDavid 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.

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2010–2011 LECTURE SERIES SPEAKERSJames Timberlake, FAIA, Kieran Timberlake Architects

Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Lecture

Ammar Eloueini, International Assoc. AIA

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

Cooper Joseph Studio

Hilary Sample, Principal, MOS llc & Assistant Professor

Yale School of Architecture

Peter Gluck, Peter Gluck and Partners Architects, New York

Francisco Javier Rodriguez, Principal, RSVP Architects & Dean

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

Thesis Show at the Ogden Museum of Art

Commentators: Charles Waldheim, Professor and Chair, Department

of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design & Sarah

Whiting, Dean, Rice University School of Architecture

Design Principal, WW Architecture

STUDENT LECTURESJennifer Gaugler, TSA ‘11

Class of 1973 Travel Fellowship

Thomas J. Bogan, TSA ‘11

John William Lawrence Travel Fellowship

Kevin Muni, TSA ‘11

Moise H. and Lois G. Goldstein Travel Fellowship

SUMMER CAREER EXPLORATIONS The Career Explorations in Architecture High School Program will run again

this summer under the leadership of Associate Professor Michael Crosby.

The three-week course of study is geared toward high school students, but

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 twenty-

five years.

DOCOMOMO AND TULANE RELEASE IPHONE APPTulane University and DOCOMOMO US/Louisiana have partnered to release

an iPhone app highlighting the significant, threatened, and lost modern ar-

chitecture of New Orleans. The location-based app allows users to browse

modern buildings in New Orleans by architect, neighborhood, category

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

Architecture’s New Orleans Virtual Archive, and the New Orleans Public

Library’s City Archives. The software was designed and is supported by the

Innovative Learning Center, a division of Tulane Technology Services.

CITIZEN ARCHITECTOn February 21, filmmaker Sam Douglas screened his documentary, “Citizen

Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio,” at Richard-

son Memorial Hall. The screening was followed by a question and answer

session with the audience.

Thesis Show at the Ogden Museum of Art: Sarah Whiting and Charles Waldheim. Photo by Jill

Stoll.

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CHINA SUMMER PROGRAMProfessor 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

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 stimulat-

ing 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.”

Dean Schwartz visited the summer program in Beijing in late May. He also

visited with the Deans of Tsinghua University of Beijing and Tongji Univer-

sity 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 alum-

nus Harry Lu (TSA ‘90) in Shanghai. Mr. Lu has offered to sponsor several

Tulane students for internships in his office starting next summer.

ROME PROGRAMAssistant 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 Pro-

fessor 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.

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TRUDC ENGAGES STUDENTS IN CHINAThe Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC), directed by Adjunct

Associate Professor Grover Mouton, continues their collaborative relation-

ship with the American Planning Association on a new project in Longpao,

China. Part of the greater Nanjing metro region, Longpao faces great

growth potential thanks to construction of the latest Yangtze River bridge.

The TRUDC has crafted a low-carbon strategic master plan for the 52

square kilometer site, recommending environmentally sensitive methods of

development. Using alternative power sources, applying phytoremediation

and other low-impact techniques to its damaged ecosystem, and modern-

izing existing municipal services, the plan aims to distinguish Longpao as a

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

untouched wetland areas along the Lower Yangtze.

Following its tradition of student engagement, the TRUDC has directed

several students and alumni throughout the design process. Kevin Muni

(TSA’11) conducted on-site analysis in Longpao and collaborated with

the TRUDC on design development. Muni, TRUDC Project Director Nick

Jenisch (TSA’03), and recent graduate Robert Bracken (TSA’08) worked with

Mouton to create project design concepts, environmental remediation and

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

the scale of the city.

The team presented the project design and findings to Party Secretary Li

Shigui of Nanjing’s Liuhe District, and will subject the plans to an expert

panel review in August 2011.

LAKEFRONT SCENIC HIGHWAY – CHANGXING, CHINA A project designed in 2008 by the Tulane Regional Urban Design Center has

begun construction 100 miles west of Shanghai in the city of Changxing,

China. The one-billion RMB ($150 million USD) urban design and infra-

structure project was led by TRUDC Director Grover Mouton, and includes

one of the first scenic highways in China. Professor Mouton presented

designs to Zhejiang Province leaders in Fall 2008, and the project is now

under construction along Lake Tai, China’s third-largest lake. TRUDC Design

Associates Robert Bracken and Nick Jenisch aided Mouton in design,

collaborating with the American Planning Association and the Changxing

Planning Department.

POINT CADET – BILOXI, MSThe TRUDC designed a new public waterfront park for the city of Biloxi, MS

on a 17 acre oceanfront site known as Point Cadet. This prime property,

representing the last public waterfront green space in East Biloxi, will soon

become the city’s newest park. It will feature fishing piers, public marina,

event and performance spaces, children’s play areas, recreation paths and

activities, gardens, pavilions, and more. New buildings will host farmers

markets, fishing tournaments, restaurants, and other activities. A new

Seafood Industry Museum is planned for the site.

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-

loway and presented their ideas to the public. The project provided students

an opportunity to engage with community members in the creation of a

real-world project adhering to budget and regulatory constraints.

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 SYMPOSIUMOn Saturday, April 9, 2011 the Tulane School of Architecture’s Preservation

Studies program hosted the Preservation Matters 2 symposium. The theme,

“Latin America’s Urban Heritage,” was chosen to reflect the geographic and

cultural proximity of Latin America’s historic cities to New Orleans, and the

lessons that could be shared between preservationists from both places.

The symposium was co-sponsored by the Tulane School of Architecture,

Tulane’s Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and the

New Orleans chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Invited experts

included Gustavo F. Araoz, AIA, President of the International Council of

Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS); Isabel Rigol-Savio, Ph.D., Professor of Ar-

chitecture and Historic Preservation, Havana, Cuba; Eduardo Rojas, Principal

Urban Development Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB);

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 preserva-

tion studies at the School of Architecture for many years, and he has played

a major role in historic preservation in New Orleans.

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 Confer-

ence. The conference took place in Austin, Texas and many current Master

of Preservation Studies students were in attendance.

JOHN H. STUBBS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF PRESERVATION STUDIES John H. Stubbs has been appointed Senior Professor of Architectural

Preservation Practice and Director of the Master of Preservation Studies

program in the Tulane School of Architecture. In anticipation of his leader-

ship role at the School, John Stubbs has said, “what an honor it will be to

continue the important work in historic preservation education at Tulane

developed under Professor Eugene Cizek, FAIA, Ph.D. Gene Cizek and I were

both inspired by an earlier notable Tulanian, James Marston Fitch, who

from the mid-1960’s became known as the father of historic preservation

education in the United States.” John Stubbs had a particularly close rela-

tionship with Fitch, having studied under him at Columbia University and

later as his assistant for a decade in corporate architectural preservation

practice with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners in New York City.

From 1990 until 2011, John Stubbs served as Vice President for Field Proj-

ects 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 preserva-

tion, and the history of classical architecture. John Stubbs has also taught

preservation documentation and design studios at both Columbia and the

School of Architecture at Louisiana State University (LSU). He holds a Mas-

ter 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 Conserva-

tion 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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NEW MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMThe new Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development (MSRED) program

welcomed its first class of students in June of 2011. The program will

prepare graduate students from diverse fields to explore the potential

for regenerative development of cities with a focus on environmental

responsibility. The entering class of 18 students come from undergraduate

programs in architecture, liberal arts and sciences, engineering, business,

and more. Both resident and visiting faculty will teach courses in business,

architectural design, planning, and related fields, and utilize lessons from

New Orleans as well as case studies from across the country. The program

will assist graduates in finding opportunities to work in both for-profit and

non-profit settings.

INAUGURAL CLASS (pictured above)

Back row (left to right): Andrew Mayronne, Kasey Liedtke, John Moore,

Sassan Nikdast, Sam Berman, Danny Monckton, John Eskew

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

ALEXANDRA STROUD APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF MSRED PROGRAMAlexandra Stroud, AIA LEED AP (TSA ’91) has been appointed as Director

of the program. She is an alumna of the Tulane School of Architecture and

holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from the Massa-

chusetts Institute of Technology. She has over eighteen years of experi-

ence as a licensed architect and real estate professional specializing in

financial and feasibility analysis, development implementation and project

management. Her company, Urban Focus LLC, provides strategic real estate

development and consulting services for communities and municipalities.

Her experience includes affordable housing financing and development as

well as mixed income transit oriented development in New Orleans and the

surrounding region, Washington DC, Maryland, Northern Virginia, Boston,

Massachusetts, Detroit, Michigan, Minneapolis-St Paul and Oklahoma City.

GREEN FINANCE CONFERENCEThe new Master in Sustainable Real Estate Development program and

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 Lavin-

Bernick 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 develop-

ment. 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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1 Will Bradshaw (Case Studies in Real Estate Development) is co-founder

and president of Green Coast Enterprises, LLC, a New Orleans-based

company which has developed award-winning real estate projects in North

Carolina, Massachusetts, and Louisiana. Bradshaw was named one of the

twenty-five most promising social entrepreneurs in America by Business

Week. Bradshaw holds a Ph.D. in City Planning from MIT, Masters Degrees

in City Planning and Real Estate Development from MIT, and degrees in

Physics and Cross-Cultural Studies from Davidson College.

2 Casius Pealer (Thesis/Applied Practice) is principal of Oystertree Con-

sulting, L3C, whose mission is to provide affordable housing and community

development advising services with an emphasis on green building. He also

served as the first Director of Affordable Housing at the U.S. Green Building

Council, and is currently the Chair of the American Institute of Architects

Housing Committee. He received a Master of Architecture degree from

Tulane University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

3 Reuben Teague (Legal Issues in Real Estate Development) is co-founder

and principal of Green Coast Enterprises, LLC. He previously worked as a

law clerk, a policy analyst for Public Citizen, and a business strategy consul-

tant for the Kalchas Group/CSC. Teague was also named one of the twenty-

five most promising social entrepreneurs in America by Business Week. He

holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts

in Economics from Princeton University.

4 Kelly Longwell (Legal Issues in Real Estate Development) is a Director

in the New Orleans Office of Coats Rose where she focuses on real estate,

affordable housing and taxation. She has experience in real estate develop-

ment, corporate and partnership taxation, and tax-exempt organizations.

She is listed in Woodward/White’s Best Lawyers in America for Real Estate

Law. She has a LL.M degree in Taxation from New York University, a J.D.

from Louisiana State University, and a Bachelor’s degree from Tulane.

5 M. Tatiana Eck, LEED AP (Sustainable Design and Development) is a

registered architect who started out working in architecture and develop-

ment at William McDonough + Partners. She most recently served as Vice

President of Architecture and Development at AIG Global Real Estate

Investment Corporation where she has directed projects throughout the

U.S. and around the world. She earned a Bachelor’s in Architecture from

Princeton University, and a Master of Architecture and Master of Urban and

Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia.

6 Ommeed Sathe (Public Private Partnerships Seminar) has served as

Director of Real Estate Development for the New Orleans Redevelopment

Authority (NORA) since June of 2007. He manages all of the agency’s

acquisition, redevelopment, and disposition programs. He has raised large

amounts of capital to support both residential and commercial develop-

ment. He holds a J.D. from Harvard University Law School, a Master of

City Planning from MIT, and Bachelor’s degrees from Columbia University in

Urban Planning and Neuroscience.

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T U L A N E C I T Y C E N T E R

FAUBORG DELASSIZE COMMUNITY GARDENThe Tulane City Center partnered with Jericho Road and Friends of Fauborg

Delassize to build a shade and storage structure for the Fauborg Delas-

size Community Garden in the fall of 2010. Adjunct Lecturer Andrew Liles

(TSA ’10) led the project as a design seminar for a team of nine students.

The structure provides shade, seating, storage for gardening tools and

supplies, and convenient work surfaces. The design team also incorporated

solar-powered lighting and a barbecue grill so that community members can

bring food from garden to plate and share the harvest with the neighbor-

hood. At the project’s recent grand opening, residents of all ages celebrated

by tasting healthy grilled vegetables.

PROJECT ISH The Tulane City Center worked with Hagar’s House, a transitional shelter for

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

transform it into a playroom and educational space. They collaborated

closely with the residents and staff of Hagar’s House, and the project was

designed and built over the course of a 13-week studio in the fall of 2010.

The design includes a linear storage wall, a loft playspace, and a butterfly

roof which collects rainwater to be used in the adjacent community garden.

Project Ish is one of several projects that the Tulane City Center initiated in

2010 with the help of Johnson Controls, Inc.

GROW DAT The Grow Dat Youth Farm program was founded by New Orleans food

educator Johanna Gilligan in collaboration with the Tulane City Center and

Tulane’s Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives. The farm’s mission is to intro-

duce local youth to the process of growing food. To achieve this goal, paid

interns are recruited from local high schools and youth organizations. The

farm will also provide classes in cooking, nutrition, and finance. Two option

studios at the School worked jointly this spring on the design for the farm.

One studio, led by Scott Bernhard, focused on the building elements on

site and the other, led by Abigail Feldman, focused on a master landscape

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

is expected to be in production. The Grow Dat Farm was recently featured

in The Gambit, a local New Orleans publication. The Times-Picayune also

ran a ‘Living’ section cover story on the farm at the end of its first success-

ful year in June. Program support has been provided by EPNO, Blue Cross

Blue Shield of Louisiana, New Orleans Outreach, and ConAgra.

HOLLYGROVE MARKET AND FARM The Hollygrove Market and Farm has been named one of five Great Places

in Louisiana by the 2010 Louisiana Smart Growth Summit. The Hollygrove

Market and Farm was showcased during a special reception in Baton Rouge

as part of the Summit held by the Center for Planning Excellence.

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 publica-

tions of the TCC. Johnson Controls, Inc. is also working with IBM on the

Richardson Memorial Hall smart building program.

Project Ish. Photo by Will Crocker.

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GUARDIAN’S INSTITUTE – DONALD HARRISON SR. MUSEUMThis summer, the Tulane City Center and the Guardian’s Institute will imple-

ment Phase 1 of a community center for the Upper Ninth Ward which will

support the Guardian’s Literacy Program and other Institute initiatives. The

Guardian’s Institute is dedicated to education and personal development

through the perpetuation of the Mardi Gras Indians, jazz, brass bands, and

other cultural traditions. Associate Professor Scott Ruff and his design team

of students have been working with the Guardian’s Institute and Alembic

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

museum during the Fall 2011 semester.

2011-2012 PRO BONO PROJECTSEach year the Tulane City Center sends out a Request for Proposals to the

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 Pro-

fessor Errol Barron (TSA ’64), Nina Feldman of the New Orleans Neighbor-

hood Development Collaborative, Dean Kenneth Schwartz, Adjunct Lecturer

Allison Stouse (TSA ’97), and Marcel Wisznia (TSA ’73).

URBAN INNOVATIONS Tulane City Center Director Scott Bernhard published an article in Innova-

tions Journal entitled, “Engagement, Ecology, and Design Education:

Outreach Work of the Tulane City Center.” The theme for the Summer 2010

issue of Innovations was “Urban Innovations: New Orleans Five Years After

Katrina,” and the issue also featured a lead essay by Tulane University

President Scott Cowen and Amanda Cowen on “Innovation Amidst Crisis:

Tulane University’s Strategic Transformation.”

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

development under the mentorship of faculty and staff at various centers

and institutes across the university. Candy Chang was named a fellow with

the Tulane City Center and will be working during the 2011–12 academic

year on developing an online platform for neighborhood residents to col-

laborate with community leaders.

PRESS FOR TCC PROJECTSTulane 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 Mc-

Quaid, Cynthia Smith and Andrea Lipps, New York, Cooper-Hewitt National

Design Museum: 2010.

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URBANbuild06This year, URBANbuild students under the direction of Professor of Practice

Byron Mouton returned to work in the established, yet still struggling, urban

context of New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood. This is the sixth home

constructed by the program, and the fifth developed in collaboration with

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans and grant support from the

Diener Family Foundation.

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-

duces a side yard garden, inviting natural light into the home and providing

immediate access to ‘contained’ green space. Living, eating, and sleep-

ing spaces are divided into three distinct volumes clustered around this

garden. The front and rear covered porches act as extensions of the interior

space, and cross ventilation is abundant when the intermediate doors and

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 reli-

ance 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 gar-

den 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 un-

derprivileged New Orleans neighborhood. More information may be found

at www.URBANbuild.tulane.edu.

URBANbuild04 RECEIVES LEED CERTIFICATIONThe URBANbuild 4 house at 2036 Seventh St. in New Orleans, designed

and built by Tulane architecture professors and students, has been certified

LEED Silver by the U.S. Green Building Council. It is the first LEED-certified

project for the School and collaborator Neighborhood Housing Services of

New Orleans. On December 10, 2010, first-time homeowner Tami Hills was

presented with her LEED certificate by Director of URBANbuild Byron Mou-

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

FAST COMPANY RECOGNITION The May issue of Fast Company Magazine included the URBANbuild pro-

gram in its listing of 51 “bold ideas and brilliant urbanites” from every state

in America. The list recognizes both for-profit and non-profit ventures that

take innovative approaches to benefiting their community.

TULANE EMPOWERSTulane 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 certifi-

cation. Located in Central City, the house makes a significant step toward

revitalizing a recovering neighborhood.

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Dean Schwartz presented “Provocations: Tulane School of Architecture Thesis

Projects 2011” on Friday, May 6 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Calling

themselves “The Ogden 8,” their theses were presented at a public exhibition

highlighted with a reception and commentary by Charles Waldheim, Professor

and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Gradu-

ate School of Design, and Sarah Whiting, Dean of Rice University School of

Architecture and Design Principal of WW Architecture.

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1 Kevin Wayne Franklin

2 Jennifer Anne Gaugler

3 Garrett Loren Jacobs

4 Kevin Levi Muni

5 Devin Nicole Oatman

6 William Joseph Rosenthal

7 Simcha Ze’ev Ward

8 Alexandra Michelle Wirthlin

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STUDENT NOTESKevin Michniok (expected ‘13) and John Nelson (expected ‘13) appeared

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

Architecture while on the program.

Alexandra Bojarski-Stauffer (expected ‘13) has been awarded a Gordon

Summer Fellowship for research and design to be completed in the sum-

mer of 2011. The title of her proposal is “New Urban Housing in Shanghai,”

and she will be working under the advisement of Harvey-Wadsworth Chair

of Landscape Urbanism Judith Kinnard, FAIA. The highly competitive Gordon

Fellowship is awarded to one male and one female student of Newcomb-

Tulane College each year. Alexandra will study the urban living conditions

of young working women in Shanghai and propose a new urban housing

prototype that is better suited to their needs.

Each year, AIA Louisiana offers an international travel fellowship open to

all third and fourth year architecture majors in the state. Michael Kahn

(expected ‘13), a rising fourth year M. Arch undergrad and B.A. History

candidate, was selected as one of this year’s recipients and was presented

with a grant. Michael’s proposal is to study the making and 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, he hopes to learn about the impact of transit nodes on the de-

velopment 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

New Orleans, to spur development within pre-existing urban centers.

Jennifer Gaugler (TSA‘11) and Kevin Muni (TSA‘11) were selected to

receive the Tulane 34 Award in honor of their exemplary leadership, service

and academic excellence. The Tulane 34 Award is presented to 34 outstand-

ing undergraduate and graduate/professional school students throughout

Tulane University who have distinguished themselves during their collegiate

life at Tulane. Named for the year in which the university was founded,

1834, Tulane 34 is among the most coveted university-wide honors be-

stowed upon students.

THREE SUKKAHS, THREE SITESTwenty architecture students divided into three teams built three sukkahs

on campus this fall. In cooperation with Rabbi Yonah Schiller, the Excecutive

Director of Hillel, faculty members Scott Ruff and Judi Shade Monk guided

the teams through the process of designing and erecting their structures in

front of the Lavin-Bernick Center, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, and Bruff

Commons. The respective teams for these sites were team leader Michael

Greene (TSA’11) with T.J. Bogan (TSA’11), David Campanella, Laura

Casaccio (TSA’11), Audrey Flynn, and Jason Liu (TSA’11); team leader

Garrett Jacobs (TSA’11) with Tyler Guidroz, Michael Kirschner, Tessie

Murphy (expected ’14), Allie Seiersen, and Frank Xiong; and team leader

Nels Erickson (TSA’11) with Xiaoyun Li, Ian Rosenfield (expected ’15),

Nora Schwaller, Alexander Shporer, and Josh Ungar. All students

expected ’13 except as noted.

SOUNDECOLOGIESSoundEcologies is an installation designed and fabricated by students led

by Assistant Professors Marcella del Signore and Victor Jones during the

spring 2009 Digital Fabrication Seminar. The installation was recently ex-

hibited at the Nous Gallery in London as part of the 2010 London Festival of

Architecture’s Spontaneous Schooling Exhibition showcasing the outcomes

of 86 architectural workshops around the world.

GRADUATE COLLOQUIUMThe graduate student body organized the second annual Graduate Student

Colloquium which was held on April 1–2, 2011. The theme of the colloqui-

um was transformative and emerging voices in the design field as students

were interested in diverse career paths, and how the changing social and

economic landscape has affected the roles of contemporary design profes-

sionals. Five panelists were invited to New Orleans from around the country

for two days of lectures, roundtable discussions, and interactions with

students. Participating speakers were Ben Bischoff of MADE, Alan Ricks

of MASS Design Group, Gina Reichert (TSA’97) of Design_99, Dan Maginn

(TSA’89) of el dorado, and Guy Martin Wenzel of Guy Martin Design.

S T U D E N T N E W S

“Passive Extrusion” by Scott Heath, Allison Powell, and Alex RatliffGraduate Colloquium 2011

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AIA MINORITY SCHOLARSHIPRising second-year student Zareth Pineda (expected ’15) has been award-

ed an AIA Minority Scholarship. The scholarship is given to five students in

the nation who are pursuing a NAAB-accredited degree in architecture.

PASSIVE HOUSE DESIGN COMPETITIONOnline design community, DesignByMany, hosted a Passive House competi-

tion in which two teams of Tulane students were selected as finalists. The

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. Par-

ticipants were asked to design a low-cost, low-energy house for the Lower

Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

A-WEEKEach 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

also considered sustainability. Over one hundred students divided into eight

teams participated, and as per A-Week tradition, Jing Liu (TSA‘04) of SO–IL

was the practicing architect who acted as advisor for all the teams. The

winning project, created by a team led by Jazzy Li (expected ’13) and Eric

Baumgartner (expected ‘13), consisted of a curtain of straws which could

act as a projection screen and create sounds when blown in the wind.

DANAUSDanaus was a polymorphic installation designed by Tulane architecture

students in Ammar Eloueini’s Digital Fabrication class and installed in Rich-

ardson 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.

AWARDS

American Institute of Architects

Medal

Kevin Levi Muni undergraduate

Jennifer Anne Gaugler graduate

American Institute of Architects

Certificates of Merit

Kevin Wayne Franklin undergraduate

William Joseph Rosenthal graduate

Alpha Chi Rho Medal

Anne Morgan Peyton

Thomas J. Lupo Award

Adrian Reifer

Ronald F. Katz Memorial Award

Alexandra Michelle Wirthlin

John William Lawrence

Memorial Medal

Kevin Wayne Franklin

Outstanding Thesis Award

Anne Morgan Peyton

William Joseph Rosenthal

Malcolm J. Heard Award for

Excellence in Teaching

Elizabeth Burns Gamard

Tulane 34

Kevin Levi Muni

Jennifer Anne Gaugler

Lawrence Travel Fellowships

Lee Berman

Josh Mings

Class of 1973 Travel Fellowship

J. Cameron Ringness

Goldstein Travel Fellowship

Allison Schiller

Graduation Address

Furman Ezekiel Jordan III

HONORS

Summa cum laude

Kevin Levi Muni university honors

Kevin Wayne Franklin departmental honors

Cum laude

Scott Isaac Berger

Adrián Reifer

Anne Morgan Peyton

Garrett Loren Jacobs

Zachery Kyle Bishop

Mollie Margaret Burke

Frances Andrea Guevara

Tau Sigma Delta

Scott Isaac Berger

Mollie Margaret Burke

Kevin Wayne Franklin

Garrett Loren Jacobs

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

William Joseph Rosenthal

Simcha Ze’ev Ward

Alexandra Michelle Wirthlin

A-week winning project,Strawblurry Fields, by Jazzy Li and Eric Baumgartner. Photo by Jill Stoll.

COMMENCEMENT 2011

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T. Sellers Meric (TSA’52) and Raymond C. Breaux won the gold medal in

Men’s Doubles Tennis at the Summer National Senior Games held in Hous-

ton, Texas, the week of June 27, 2011. Meric and Breaux, both 83 years old,

have been tennis partners for 18 years, participating in various local and

national tournaments. They have participated in four NSGA Summer Games

and hope to continue their winning streak in the years to come. Besides

their accomplishments in the Senior Olympics, Meric and Breaux have been

ranked nationally by the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) as high as #2, and

previously have been ranked co-#1 in doubles in the South. In 2001, Meric

received the Distinguished Alumnus Architecture Award from Tulane School

of Architecture.

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Chris Theis, AIA (TSA’68) has been awarded a 2010 ACSA Distinguished

Professor Award which recognizes four educators each year for sustained

creative achievement in the advancement of architectural education through

teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service. Theis has been a profes-

sor in the Louisiana State University School of Architecture since 1988, and

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.

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Marcel Wisznia (TSA’73) was featured in the May 2011 issue of Preserva-

tion 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.

left to right: Raymond C. Breaux and T. Sellers Meric (TSA’52)

GOOD MUSIC. GOOD FOOD. GOOD ARCHITECTUREA 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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TWO ALUMNI ELEVATED TO AIA COLLEGE OF FELLOWSAndrew Trivers, FAIA (TSA’69) has been President and Principal of his own

firm since 1975, guiding its growth and developing a national reputation

in urban redevelopment, adaptive re-use and historic rehabilitation. He is

noted for his work in rebuilding communities and has worked on projects

throughout the United States. Andrew is also extremely active in his com-

munity, lending an advisory role to numerous civic, cultural and educational

organizations. Andrew received his Master of Architecture in 1969 from

the Tulane School of Architecture, and a Master of Architecture and Urban

Design in 1973 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

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

and Entertainment Districts, and Campus Planning. He has extensive project

experience in North America, China, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Austra-

lia. He has also written and lectured extensively. His books include Jane

Jacobs Reconsidered to be published in 2011, and Grid / Street / Place:

Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts published in 2009 (APA

Planners Press).

Andrew Trivers FAIA (TSA’69) Nathan B. Cherry FAIA, AICP, LEED AP (TSA’86)

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Robert Ivy, FAIA (TSA’76) has been appointed as the new Executive Vice

President/Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects,

effective February 1, 2011. Ivy was the Editor in Chief of Architectural

Record since 1996 as well as the Vice President and Editorial Director of

McGraw-Hill Construction. He was a principal with Ivy Architects and a

managing partner with Dean/Dale, Dean and Ivy for nearly fourteen years

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

a house located along a wooded bluff above White Rock Creek in Dallas,

Texas. Greene’s firm won the Texas AIA Firm of the Year Award several

years ago.

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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.

The “Half-There House,” designed by Maziar Behrooz (TSA’85) was fea-

tured in the Wall Street Journal in June 2011 as well as the online version

of Wallpaper* Magazine, and the online version of Architectural Record.

Behrooz designed the house in East Hampton, NY to nestle into a grassy

slope so that the back half of the house is actually underground, while the

front part of the house is covered by a distinctive curved metal roof.

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: De-

sign 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 collabo-

ration between U.S. designers and artisans in Southeast Asia.

1 9 9 0 sChengzhi (Harry) Lu (TSA’90) is the Managing Principal of WWCOT’s

Shanghai Office, one of the most prominent U.S. design firms in China.

Under his leadership, the firm has won several international design and

planning competitions. During a trip to China this spring, Dean Kenneth

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.

40 Braewood: Winner of the 2010 AIA Dallas Design Award for Interior Architecture. Image

courtesy of Oglesby Greene, Inc.

Robert Ivy FAIA (TSA’76) Angela O’Byrne (TSA’83)

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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

the former Director of Builders of Hope, which at the time was working with

a non-profit housing developer to create infill housing in neighborhoods that

were flooded by Hurricane Katrina. Seeing a connection between the desire

to preserve the threatened vernacular houses and the need to infill empty

lots in other parts of the city, Pealer and Builders of Hope moved the 70

homes in a period of four months. The homes will be rehabbed so families

can move into them. Pealer sees the effort as a way to allow for both his-

toric preservation and large scale economic development in a deep-rooted

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 Interna-

tional Conference and Chapter Meeting. The conference will take place in

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.

Kenneth Bryant (TSA’98) was featured in The Tulanian, the quarterly

magazine of Tulane University, in a story about how he saved a historic New

Orleans house from demolition. The S.W. Green house, located in Lower

Mid-City, was built in 1928 by Weiss, Dreyfous & Seiferth Architects for

Smith Wendell Green who was born a slave, but later became the wealthi-

est African-American man in the city. Bryant’s advocacy for the house led

Mayor Mitch Landrieu to set aside funds for it to be moved off the site of

the future Veterans Administration Hospital.

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Felipe Corréa (TSA‘00) has been appointed as Director of the Master in

Urban Design Degree Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design,

effective October 2010. He has been a Professor of Urban Design at the

GSD since 2008. His most recent research focuses on diverse models of

urbanization created by resource extraction within the South American

continent. Other recent research initiatives have focused on Andean topog-

raphy and its imprint on the Latin American city as well as on New Orleans,

and its forms of exchange with the material forces of the Mississippi River.

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

Kevin Frank (TSA‘05) wins the Arcadis “Imagine” ideas competion with his project “Venturi Effect

Turbine Lattice: Harvesting Urban Wind Energy Between Buildings”.

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“Flockr” pavilion. Image courtesy of SO-IL

NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE BEST OF 2011The March 2011 issue of New Orleans Magazine featured five new projects

in the yearly “best of” New Orleans architecture series by Professor John

Klingman. Congratulations to all of the following Tulane alumni and Advi-

sory Board Members who were involved in these projects:

Errol Barron, TSA‘64

Jared Bowers, TSA‘08

Cynthia Dubberley, TSA‘98

Randy Hutchison, TSA‘97

Wendy Kerrigan, TSA‘03

Nicholas Marshall, TSA‘92

Charles Montgomery, TSA‘74

Jennifer Pelc, TSA‘05

Captain James G. Rogers Ret., TSA‘70

William P. Sealy, TSA‘73

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930 Poydras Residential Tower, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple. Photo by Jill Stoll Robert Bracken’s team competition entry: “Quality and Efficiency: A New Corporate Icon Embody-

ing Company Legacy”. Shanghai, China, 2011.

housed many of the festival’s activities. SO-IL also had a winning design,

“In Tension,” in the Sukkah City competition held in New York City, as one

of twelve entries that were selected to be built from over six hundred en-

trants. The materials for “In Tension” can be transported by a single person,

and the structure was constructed of materials recycled from “Pole Dance,”

SO-IL’s winning entry for last year’s MOMA/P.S.1 Young Architect’s Program.

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

design industry magazines with “an alternative that is smart, relevant, criti-

cal, and, of course, fun.” ARCHILEPSY is free and can be accessed online at

www.archilepsymagazine.com.

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 urban-

scale matrix of wind turbines that are placed between buildings to take

advantage of the high wind speeds created by the Venturi Effect. Frank’s

project is now in research and development, and the next step will be site-

specific field testing which will begin in the city of Chicago.

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.

Rodney Dionisio (TSA‘98) also worked on the project and Perez, APC,

whose CEO is Angela Byrne (TSA‘83), served as the architect of record.

Tony P. Vanky (TSA’07) has been elected to the National Architectural

Accrediting Board (NAAB). His term began in October 2010 after the NAAB

Board of Directors Annual Meeting. He previously served as National Vice-

President of the AIAS, and on the Board of the Association of Collegiate

Schools of Architecture and National Associates Committee of the AIA.

The 930 Poydras Residential Tower by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple has won a

national 2011 Housing Award from the AIA. The project was one of seven

selected nationwide in the Multifamily Housing category on the basis of

sustainability, affordability, innovation and design excellence. EDR Principal

Allen Eskew FAIA, is on the Tulane School of Architecture’s Board of Advi-

sors, and Jose Alvarez (TSA’07) served as Project Architect. Thanks to

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.

Robert Bracken (TSA’08) participated in an invited design competition

for the new headquarters of a major Chinese corporation as part of a

three-person team of Harvard students, and won second place. The program

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.

Cassandra J. Howard (MArch’09, MPS’10) has been elected to the AIA

New Orleans Executive Board as the 2011 Associate Director. Cassandra

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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Radha Mistry (TSA‘10) and Colin VanWingen (TSA‘10) formed a partner-

ship called GOATstudio in order to enter a New Orleans design competition.

They were recently featured on ArchDaily for their submittal to DesignBy-

Many’s Passive House competition in which they placed second.

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I N M E M O R I A MDrew Brislen (TSA ’93), a lifelong resident of the South Coast of California,

drowned while free diving off Laguna Beach on May 26, 2011. After earning

his master’s degree, he moved to San Clemente where he worked in archi-

tectural design and contracting in Laguna Beach for the last 15 years. Drew

is survived by his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Sage and Addie. A paddle

out memorial was held at San Clemente’s North Beach on June 2, 2011.

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

the city’s historic architecture, and designed prominent buildings such as

the Gallery Apartments on St. Charles Avenue and the now-gone PDQ Car

Wash near Metairie Road. He earned three degrees from Tulane: a Bach-

elor’s in Engineering and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture.

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 Febru-

ary 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 renova-

tions 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 Preserva-

tion and his partner of 34 years, restored two historic houses in Faubourg

Marigny. Sensat earned a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Southwest-

ern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) and, after serv-

ing in the Air Force, a Master’s degree at LSU. Together, Sensat and Cizek

established the Education Through Historic Preservation Program to teach

students about the art and architecture of historic sites. They received the

Honor Award in 1981 from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Robert Harrison, FAIA (TSA ‘59, MBA ‘84)

announced his support of the new Master

in Sustainable Real Estate Development

Program in the form of a $25,000 gift for

scholarship support. Harrison is a graduate

of the School of Architecture, and earned an

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.

Saul Mintz (TSA ‘53) and his wife, Jean, have

pledged $25,000 to provide for the continued

improvement of the School of Architecture’s

computer resources. This gift adds to Mr. and

Mrs. Mintz’s significant generosity in this vital

area of student and faculty work over a num-

ber 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.

G I V I N G M A K E S A D I F F E R E N C E

The support of our alumni and friends is critical to our ability to provide the best

opportunities for our students and to continue the School’s upward trajectory.

Gifts to the Tulane Fund, designated to the School of Architecture, can be made

online at: www.tulane.edu/~giving/

To learn about other funding priorities at the School, contact Ron Cropper, Direc-

tor of Development at rcropper@tulane.edu or 504.314.2494.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor Emilie Taylor (TSA ’06) with

Associate Professor Scott Bernhard, AIA

Award of Merit Interior Architecture

Storypod, The Neighborhood Story Project

A Project of the Tulane City Center

Professor Errol Barron, FAIA (TSA ’64)

Award of Merit Interior Architecture

Yoga Studio, Sylvi Beaumont

Errol Barron/Michael Toups Architects

Professor Ammar Eloueini, International Assoc. AIA

Award of Merit Divine Detail

Gutenmacher Apartment, Paris

AEDS

Professor Judith Kinnard, FAIA with Assistant Professor Tiffany Lin

Award of Merit Project

Sunshow SSIP House

Judith Kinnard LLC

Professor of Practice Cordula Rosor Gray, AIA

Award of Merit Master Planning

A.L. Davis Park

Award of Merit Master Planning

Hollygrove Market & Farm

Award of Honor Architecture

Hollygrove Pavilion

Projects of the Tulane City Center

CRG Architecture

Adjunct Professor Carey Clouse, AIA and Zachary Lamb

Award of Honor Adaptive Reuse

Award of Merit Juror Favorite

Cart Coop

Crookedworks

2 0 1 1 D E S I G N A W A R D S AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER

Our alumni, faculty and students were once again honored by AIA 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.

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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Richardson Memorial Hall #303, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118

F A L L 2 0 1 1September 12 JULIA CZERNIAKDirector of UPSTATE Associate Professor of Architecture Syracuse School of Architecture

September 19DAVID SMITH*

October 3SHARON ZUKIN, PH.D*Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College CUNY

October 17RON SHIFFMAN, FAICP*Professor, Graduate Center for PlanningPratt School of Architecture

November 14 JOHN KLINGMAN*Richard Koch Chair and Professor of ArchitectureTulane School of Architecture

S P R I N G 2 0 1 2January 27RAFAEL MONEO, HON. FAIA Josep Lluis Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of DesignLecture co-sponsored and held at New Orleans Museum of Art

February 6ADAM YARINSKY, FAIA LEED APPrincipal, Architecture Research Office (ARO) New York, NY

February 27BILLIE TSIEN, AIAPrincipal, Tod Williams Billie Tsien ArchitectsNew York, NY

May 4 - May 14 THESIS SHOWOgden Museum of Southern Art 925 Camp St., New Orleans LA

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*Urban Innovation Series. Co-sponsored by The Murphy Institute