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At the end of my first year and the beginning of a new academic year I am
pleased to share this first edition of TSA News. As you will see, it reflects a
great deal of the excitement and energy at the school today. As one means
of communication and outreach, this complements the many forms of en-
gagement we have pursued over the past twelve months. Many of you are
familiar with my TSA e-Newsletters (seven of which were sent in 08-09),
the frequent news features of faculty, student, and alumni accomplishments
on the TSA website, and my “dean’s blog”. I have enjoyed the process of
getting to know the school, the university, and the New Orleans community.
I am also grateful for the warm reception I have received from alumni in
fourteen cities I visited during the first year: New Orleans, Atlanta, Wash-
ington, D.C., New York, Boston, San Juan, Savannah, Los Angeles, Portland,
OR, San Francisco, Miami, and Chicago.
I have several salient impressions from the first year. I am thrilled with
the work of our students and faculty. They are certainly upholding the
tradition of design excellence at TSA while engaging ambitious agendas
of community work and public service. Faculty members have worked to
further refine an already strong curriculum, while we concurrently grow
the graduate program and full-time faculty numbers—there will be five
new faculty members in the fall of 2009! Several of our current faculty
had notable achievements over the past year, and this makes us all proud.
Student self-governance is alive and well, and our student leaders were
highly influential in helping us to move forward with several key initiatives
in the school this past year. Alumni have stepped forward with financial
support even in our challenging economic times. President Cowen, Provost
Bernstein, and many others in the central administration have welcomed my
wife and me into the Tulane community and have supported our ambitions
for the school as we move forward.
I continue to be honored by the opportunity to lead the school at this
important and challenging moment. I feel a real sense of shared commit-
ment about the way we can all work together to make an already wonderful
school even better.
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Kenneth Schwartz, FAIADean
DeAN’S FuND FOR exCeLLeNCe 1
FACuLTY NeWS 2
2009 AIA DeSIGN AWARDS 7
ALuMNI NeWS 8
COMMeNCeMeNT 2009 10
STuDeNT NeWS 12
SChOOL + CITY NeWS 14
Writing + editorial: Maressa PerreaultGraphic Design: Leigh Wilkerson, 10½ Studios
For questions or comments, or to submit materials for our next issue, please contact Natalie Williams at:
Tulane university - School Of ArchitectureRichardson Memorial hall, Rm. 3036823 St. Charles AvenueNew Orleans LA 70118 natalie@tulane.edu504-314-2361
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1 Marcella del Signore and Victor JoneSFabricated Landscape: post-public spaces
A fabricated landscape of cones finds its origins in the ambient sounds of New Orleans. This site specific installation emphasizes the transformation of invisible sound bands and frequencies into an atmosphere landscape made of material and color. The sculptural topography, intricately fabricated from individual pieces, is made of 300 CNC-milled acrylic plates that are folded to create cylindrical cells snapped together with 10,000 rivets. each cell, unique in diameter and height, creates an intriguing visual surface reminiscent of geological or biological surfaces. The work was exhibited at the Ogden Museum from May 7-June 16, 2009.
2 eMilie taylortaylortGod’s Architects
God’s Architects, a film and associated book, focuses on five different self-taught builders and their unique creations. Folk artists of the built environment, these builders have dedicated decades to building colorful spires, Dixie Cup Castles, and paint-covered mountains as a matter of faith and singular vision. These artists create backyard worlds which challenge our ideas of architecture, the effects of training on creativity, and man’s relationship with God. The film, by emilie Taylor and Zachary Godshall, was presented at the Pop Culture Association’s Nation Conference, and was chosen to be showcased in the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent
Filmmakers.
3 Jonathan tatetatetField Investigation of Informal Settlements in Latin America
The project was an investigation of the large-scale incursion of informal settlements in Sao Paulo, Brazil, emblematic of rapidly developing urban areas in Latin American and many other regions of the world. Tate visited multiple favelas, as these incursions are known locally, within Sao Paulo,
conducted discussions with residents, catalogued physical conditions, and reviewed previous and ongoing upgrades, as well as met with local and national officials involved in all phases of improvements within the develop-ments. The work is being developed in a case study format as a catalogue of observations for use in course development and instruction.
4 carey clouSeOn Farming: Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans
For her work On Farming: Rethinking Urbanism in the Shrinking City of New Orleans, Carey Clouse has proposed a series of design interventions dealing with the creative reuse of vacant land in a post-Katrina environment. Meant to address concerns over food security and productive urban landscapes, this work highlights pressing local issues in the rebuilding of New Orleans. These graphic solutions, and her associated research, will be compiled into an article for the upcoming issue of Bracket, and was presented in June 2009 at the Association of Community Design conference in Rochester, NY.Association of Community Design conference in Rochester, NY.Association of Community Design
5 John KlingManNew New Orleans Architecture
John Klingman is compiling a book that will document the best contempo-rary architecture in New Orleans from 1997 until today. The book, New New Orleans Architecture, is a compendium of Klingman’s annual reviews of exemplary projects published in the local monthly New Orleans Magazine. The annual articles documented exceptionally strong work, and brought to the attention of a wider audience thoughtful and sensitive contemporary design responses to the New Orleans situation. Professor Klingman has been working with students Robert Bracken and Garrett Jacobs to organize the text and photography for the new book, which will be the first book about contemporary New Orleans architecture published since the AIA Guide of 1974.
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Dean Schwartz inaugurated the Dean’s Fund for excellence in 2008-2009 to provide funds for faculty research. The first year of the Fund was a resounding success, with a total of $30,000 awarded to six faculty members for five projects. Dean Schwartz plans to continue and expand the fund in the coming years.
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Richard Koch Chair and Director of the Preservation Studies Program
eugene cizek’s book, Destrehan: The Man, The House, The Legacy, co-
authored with John h. Lawrence and Richard Sexton, was published in late
2008. Cizek’s introductory essay traces the history and renovation of the
architecture of the 1780s plantation, which he describes as it evolved over
60 years from the colonial style of its original owner to its renovation to the
Greek Revival style in the 1840s.
AeDS | ammar eloueini, Associate Professor, won second place in the Flip
A Strip competition, with their project un-strip. The project addresses the
problem of parking as a central feature, reorganizing the strip mall in four
phases, increasing the footprint of retail and “green” on the site while re-
ducing the footprint of parking. AeDS also designed the exhibition Tramway
for the Pavilion de l’Arsenal in Paris which opened in December 2008.
dan etheridge and doug harmon, both Adjunct Assistant Professors,
were featured in an article on the CITYbuild consortium of schools in the
September 2008 issue of Metropolis magazine. etheridge and harmon
created CITYbuild to coordinate students’ efforts in community-based
design-build in post-Katrina New Orleans. CITYbuild now has eighteen
participating schools and has completed 20 projects, including constructing
the first building in the Lower Ninth Ward after the hurricane.
Jason gant (TSA ‘03) and hiroshi Jacobs (TSA ‘03) will be teaching a
multi-part BIM course starting in the spring of 2010. Gant is currently BIM
Manager at BIM Solutions in Los Angeles while Jacobs will start at harvard
university GSD as a Master of Design Studies candidate in the fall after
working for RTKL in Washington, DC. Jacobs is the founder of RevitCity.
com, an online community dedicated to AutoDesk Revit.
Professor Judith Kinnard was awarded a 2008 Virginia State AIA Award
for Design excellence for Fifeville hybrid housing. The mixed-use/mixed-
income project proposes a new housing typology for emerging urban cor-
ridors in small American cities, addressing the integration of higher density
development in existing neighborhoods. The design addresses two different
street conditions, breaking open the typical double-loaded residential apart-
ment house and creates an open air passage that gives each dwelling an
identifiable exterior address while bringing light and air deep into the block
and creating new kings of front “porches.”
Mary Louise Mossy Christovich Professor carol reese has been named a
finalist for the prestigious Thomas ehrlich Civically engaged Faculty Award,
the highest national honor given to a faculty member involved in public
service. Reese also won the Louisiana Women’s Caucus Foundation’s 2009
Women of excellence Award for Volunteerism and Civic Involvement, and is
a 2009 Distinguished Faculty Fellow.
Professors eean Mcnaughton, grover Mouton and carol reese taught
a fourth year Pontilly Disaster Collaborative Studio in the spring 2008,
partnering with students from Tulane university A.B. Freeman School of
Business. The project was a Pontilly Senior Village to be located in Ponchar-
train Park, a 1950s development of mostly single-family homes occupied
by African-Americans in a section of New Orleans devastated by hurricane
Katrina. The students competed with other teams from other prestigious
universities throughout the united States in the JP Morgan Chase Commu-
nity Development Competition, where their design won third place.
Adjunct Associate Professor grover Mouton was named to the Board of
uS/ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites. The board
advises and assists ICOMOS in the conservation of the world’s historic site
and monuments, disseminating information on conservation principles,
techniques and policies, cooperates with national and international bodies
to help establish conservation-oriented documentation centers, and works
towards the adoption of international conventions on the conservation and
enhancement of architectural heritage.
Oak Floor Chair, a laminated chair made of salvaged materials designed and
built by Adjunct Instructor and Senior Program Coordinator at the Tulane
City Center emilie taylor (TSA ’06), Seth Welty (TSA ’08) and Joe dorty,
came in second in a national competition held by Fine Woodworking Maga-
zine. The competition, held in May 2009, focused on furniture design using
recycled wood. Oak Floor Chair was also awarded First Place at the Green
Project’s Salvations Furniture Competition 2008.
The Gulf State Region of the AIA awarded eskew+Dumez+Ripple the award
of honor for the Prospect, a hefler Warehouse Welcome Center, for which
Adjunct Assistant Professor thaddeus Zarse was the lead designer. Zarse
utilized digital drawing techniques to assist in creating fabrication draw-
ings for the construction team. The project, chosen from 117 entries from
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, uses a single material to
create a programmatically embedded single surface while exposing the
tectonic details that create the framework for the space.
Faculty members thaddeus Zarse and carey clouse were asked to
participate by the Cooper-hewitt, National Design Museum as guest design
critics for the museum’s K12 Design Fair. The fair enables educational
outreach programs from the Cooper-hewitt to work with local New Orleans
high schools with an interest in design and design education. The session
began with a lecture by Cooper-hewitt’s Kim Robledo-Diga about ‘What is
Design?’. The students then attended the design fair featuring several local
designers and organizations, including Carey Clouse representing the Tulane
School of Architecture and emilie Taylor for the Tulane City Center. The day
ended with students presenting their art and architecture projects while
receiving feedback from Professors Zarse and Clouse.
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2 Changxing Scenic highway and Tourism Master Plan, Grover Mouton
3 Fifeville hybrid housing, Judith Kinnard
4 Oak Floor Chair, emilie Taylor, Seth Welty, and Joe Dorty
5 Flip A Strip Competition, Ammar eloueini
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Judith Kinnard | ProfessorA native of Boston and a graduate of Cornell university, Judith Kinnard has had a long-standing commitment to architectural education. She has taught at Syracuse university, Princeton university and most recently at the univer-sity of Virginia. As Chair of the Department of Architecture from 1998-2003 she worked to strengthen uVA School of Architecture’s traditional emphasis on building design while engaging cross disciplinary directions essential to the expanded field of architectural practice. her current research and teach-ing involves the development of innovative approaches to low rise/ high density housing for American cities. Throughout her career she has main-tained an active commitment to practice and has developed an approach characterized by sensitive and innovative solutions to issues of site and program. her work has included numerous small-scale built commissions and more than a dozen national competitions dealing with larger scale issues of urban design, urban institutions, and housing. She has received many awards for this work including a Virginia Society Award for Design excellence in 2008. In 2004 she was awarded Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects for leadership in architectural education.
Marcella del Signore | Assistant Professor Marcella Del Signore is an architect who holds a Master in Architecture from university La Sapienza in Rome and a M.S. in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia university Graduate School of Architecture. She has practiced in Rome, Madrid, New Orleans and New York. In New York she worked for eisenman Architects and Richard Meier & Partners. She taught at Barnard + Columbia Architecture program, LSu School of Architecture, Architectural Association and now she is Assistant Professor at Tulane uni-versity . She is the principal of Neyron Studio and the co-founder of AAS, The Automatic Architecture School, research group, currently investigating the production of strategic Architectural Design. her research interests and areas of expertise are focused on the role of digital media in the design process and the impact of technology on public space. She has been a registered architect in Italy and eu since 2005.
tiffany lin | Assistant ProfessorOriginally from Taipei, Taiwan, Tiffany Lin joins the School of Architecture faculty in the Fall of 2009. having taught at the Boston Architectural Col-lege, the harvard Design School summer program and the Cornell university Rome Program, Lin most recently served as coordinator of the undergradu-ate urban housing Studios and Graduate Thesis Studios at Northeastern university, where she has been an Assistant Professor since 2007. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell university and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from harvard university Graduate School of Design, where she was the recipient of the Faculty Design Award and the Clifford Wong Prize for housing Design. Lin and partner Mark Oldham established LinOldhamOffice in 2003, an emerging design collaborative engaged in professional and speculative projects. Their first project, the 8 Container Farmhouse, was awarded a 2005 Progressive Architecture Citation, and selected by the Architectural League of New York for inclusion in the 2005 Young Architects Forum. Prior to founding LinOldhamOffice, Lin worked for the offices of Michael Graves Associates, Machado and Silvetti Associates and Leers Weinzapfel Associates. She is a fellow of the National Association of university Women and the National Alliance for excellence.
Scott ruff | Associate ProfessorScott Ruff joins the School of Architecture faculty in the Fall of 2009 from Syracuse university, where he was an Assistant Professor. he has previ-ously taught at hampton university, State university of New York at Buffalo and Cornell university. Ruff received his Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture from Cornell university, where he was the recipient of the Alpha Chi Rho Medal for leadership and service. Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003, specializing in research and design, having previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates in Buffalo, New York. One main focus of Ruff Works Studio is the research and cultiva-tion of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff’s publications include articles in Thresholds, “Signifiyin’: An African-American language to landscape,” “Spatial ‘wRapping’: A Speculation on Men’s hip-hop Fashion,” and a book review in the Journal of Architectural education, “White Papers, Black Marks.” Ruff has lectured throughout the united States; selected presentations include: The Dresser Trunk Project, “Secrets of the Cloth,” “education of an Architect: Through African-American Constructs,” “Diver-sity in Architecture,” and “Working Neighborhoods: Working the Spirit”.
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Kentaro tsubaki | Assistant ProfessorKentaro Tsubaki joins the School of Architecture faculty in the Fall of 2009 from Texas Tech university, where he was an Assistant Professor. Tsubaki holds a B.S. in Physics from Kyoto university, a First Professional Master of Architecture from university of Colorado in Denver, and a Post-Professional Master of Architecture from Cranbook Academy of Art. Tsubaki’s back-ground in experimental physics and phenomenology-based education at Cranbrook laid the groundwork for his empirical approach to architectural education, the subject of his numerous papers and presentations. Prior to pursuing his academic career, Tsubaki honed his architectural practice as an Associate at Pasanella + Klein, Stolzman + Berg Architects, P.C. Tsubaki’s primary area of interest is the subject of materiality and logic of construc-tion. he is currently developing a notational drawing system specifically invented to document the complex folded surfaces of formwork unpractical to represent with traditional pictorial drawings or computer modeling. As a design educator, his primary concern is to raise the spatial and material awareness of students in the early stages of design education. his research explores theories and methods to encourage hands-on, trial and error expe-rience through phenomenological explorations and to consciously integrate them into the decision-making process.
coleman coker | Professor of Practice Coleman Coker is the founder of buildingstudio, a collaborative firm he es-tablished in 1999 after a thirteen-year partnership with Samuel Mockbee as Mockbee/Coker Architects. he holds a Master of Fine Arts and an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Memphis College of Art. A former director of the Memphis Center for Architecture, he has been the visiting Favrot Chair at Tulane and has held the e.Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at the university of Arkansas. buildingstudio is a collaborative firm focusing on inventive and imaginative work, regularly acknowledged for its design excellence. The firm has earned numerous honors, including a P/A Design Award for low-cost housing, “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty,” emerging Voices from the Architectural League of New York, numerous Architectural Record “Record houses” awards and National AIA honor awards. buildingstudio’s work has been highlighted at MoMA, SF MoMA, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Cooper-hewitt National Design Museum and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Coker is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a Loeb Fellow in Advanced environmental Studies at harvard university Graduate School of Design.
cordula roser gray | Professor of PracticeCordula Roser Gray is an established architect and the owner of crgarchi-tecture. Gray received a Diplom-Ingenieur Architekt from Technische Fach-hochschule Berlin. She has been practicing architecture in the united States since she moved from her native Germany to New York, where she worked as a designer and project architect for various large and small scale firms with experience in a range of nationally- and internationally-recognized commercial and residential projects. Since relocating to New Orleans Gray’s practice, often in collaboration with other local practitioners, investigates responses to immediate contextual conditions, merging explorations or prototypical design concepts with the implementation of local and extended cultural and social realities. As an Adjunct faculty member of the Tulane School of Architecture, one of Gray’s primary interests lies in connecting academic research with practical knowledge strongly influenced by her background, whether as an instructor of design studios and design-build courses or as a co-coordinator of the central europe semester abroad program.
irene Keil | Professor of PracticeIrene Keil is a practicing architect working in New Orleans and Berlin. She received a Diplom-Ingenieur Architekt from Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech-nische hochschule Aachen and a Master of Architecture from the university of California at Los Angeles. Keil initially worked in both countries on a range of civic and commercial projects with firms such as O.M. ungers, JuergenSawade and Studio Works. In 1989 she opened her own firm in Berlin and New Orleans where she has worked on projects ranging from urban design proposals and competitions to large-scale building projects and small-scale interiors. For her work she was awarded the German Rome Prize in 1993. At Tulane School of Architecture Keil co-coordinated the MAKING exhibition Project ion, a model-building workshop for 2nd-year stu-dents with Michael Gruber, an architect with Richard Meier and Partners.
continuing Professors of Practice 2009-2010
Ginette Bone, Professor of Practiceeean McNaughton, Professor of PracticeByron Mouton, Professor of PracticeMichael Nius, Professor of Practice
newly Promoted Professors of Practice 2009-2010
KeNTARO TSuBAKI COLeMAN COKeR CORDuLA ROSeR GRAY IReNe KeIL
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marcella del signoreAssistant Professor
In this historical moment that the modes of economic production, cultural
traditions, and urbanism are rapidly changing, the sense of public space is
affected by temporal effects that change the sense of space. New strate-
gies of interventions are explored to involve parallel parameters within
design methodologies. For many designers across a range of disciplines
and scales, the study of public space has emerged as a model for thinking
about contemporary forms of urbanism. This research aims to test modes
of imagining and occupying new urban forms relative to the use of public
spaces. In particular, Del Signore’s research aims to connect forms of public
use with digital fabrication techniques. In investigating this contemporary
condition, this research tests new scenarios of imagining and designing
urban artifacts as a way of occupying urban landscape form.
Del Signore’s two installations for DesCours 2007 and 2008 provide a
context to understand the confluence of public and private urban spaces
within the spatial and temporal matrix of an existing urban fabric. DesCours
is an annual five-day contemporary arts and architecture event that trans-
forms urban spaces in New Orleans’ French Quarter and downtown with
installations by artists and architects working with contemporary materials
and methods. Del Signore’s installations, “x-Fibra” in 2007 and “INFields”
in 2008, designed in traditional New Orleans courtyards, deal with the
continuity between urban public and private spaces, providing a provisional
occupation of space that suggests other uses and possible ways to reinte-
grate urban life in unused or misused spaces.
INFields, with Frank Stevens, is an artificial topography that redefines the
traditional boundaries of public and private space. A system of programmed
clusters compresses and expands the traditional thresholds associated with
the urban courtyard condition, resulting in a reinterpretation of conventional
urban components into an integrated spatial network.
John KlingmanFavrot Professor
Klingman’s interest in issues of sustainability and infrastructure came in
part from the design ethos at the university of Oregon, where he received
his Master of Architecture. Of design in New Orleans, he believes that we
must always be thinking of both new and old working simultaneously, as
we are always working within an existing condition. The ‘old’ has sustain-
able qualities that we can learn from and still respect, such as houses that
are designed for natural ventilation through the use of high ceilings and
operable windows and screens.
In October 2008 Klingman participated in “Dutch Dialogues: Transforming
the Way Louisiana Relates to Water,” a workshop that brought together
Dutch and American designers, professionals and educators in an effort
to bring the Dutch way of thinking about the relationship between the city
and its water to New Orleans. Klingman worked with the hoffman Triangle
Group, focusing on a new urban water management strategy for a neighbor-
hood that is vulnerable for flooding from rainfall as well as for social and
economic decay. he plans to base his fall studio on the issues brought up
during this workshop; the findings from the Dutch Dialogues workshop have
been published as Dutch Dialogues: New Orleans – Netherlands.
Klingman is ever involved with programs both within Tulane School of
Architecture and in the larger New Orleans community. This year he served
as the thesis coordinator for the two-semester culminating design sequence
and chaired the School executive Committee and the university Senate
Committee on Physical Facilities. he was an invited participant in the first
New Orleans Pecha Kucha night where he presented his wood sculptures,
and participated in two DOCOMOMO/LA New Orleans events. Klingman
was also an invited speaker on New Orleans mid-century modernist plan-
ning at the Louisiana historical Association Annual Meeting, and gave a
presentation on sustainable architecture at this year’s Tulane engineering
Forum, using Tulane’s Lavin Burnick Center as a case study. he has served
as the Chair of the Architectural Review Committee for the New Orleans
historic District Landmarks Commission since 1995.
INFields
DesCours, 2008,
Marcella Del Signore
Wood Sculpture #4,
John Klingman
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ammar eloueini, Intl. Assoc. AIA, TSA Assoc. Professor of Architecture
Award of Merit Divine Detail
The Orange Couch Coffee Shop, New Orleans, LA
AeDS, Ammar eloueini
Award of Merit Project Category
J-house, New Orleans, LA
AeDS, Ammar eloueini
allen eskew, FAIA, TSA Board of Advisors
Award of Merit Architecture
Bienville State Office Building, Baton Rouge, LA
eskew+Dumez+Ripple and Washer hill Lipscomb, a joint venture
Award of Merit Architecture
Bozeman Fish Technology Center, Bozeman, MT
eskew+Dumez+Ripple and Guidry Beazley Architects, a joint venture
Byron Mouton, AIA, TSA Professor of Practice, TSA M.Arch 1989
Award of Merit Interiors
Kenneth’s hair with Style, New Orleans, LA
bildDeSIGN, Byron Mouton, AIA
Award of Merit Historic Preservation Adaptive Reuse Rehabilitation
Swan Street Residence, New Orleans, LA
bildDeSIGN, Byron Mouton, AIA
Peter trapolin, AIA, NCARB, TSA M.Arch 1977
Award of Merit Residential
Private Residence, Metairie, LA
Trapolin Architects, Peter Trapolin
Wayne troyer, AIA, TSA Alumnus 1983
Award of Merit Interiors
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Wayne Troyer Architects
Byron Mouton and urBanbuild
Award of Merit Residential
uRBANbuild, designBuILD Prototype #3, New Orleans, LA
Tulane university’s uRBANbuild program, represented by Byron Mouton
Students: Robert Baddour, Amanda Brendle, Ben Flatau, Monica Breziner,
Nicholas Cecchi, Katie Champagne, Nick Chan, Chad Cramer, Susan N.
Danielson, Shannon Farrell, Matt Fox, Kevin Garfield, Lauren Goetz, Royce
evan Gracey, Corey Green, Meaghan hartney, Matthew hostetler, Colm M.
Kennedy, Joseph Keppel, Peter Kilgust, Nicolas Mallet, Lauren Martino,
Suzanne Monaco, emily Orgeron, JP Pacelli, Marian Prado, Marie Richard,
Gregor Schuller, Kevin Tully, Karla Valdivia, Colin VanWingen, Bliss Young
2 0 0 9 d e S I G n a w a r d S american institute of architects new orleans chaPter
New Orleans Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
announced the recipients of the 2009 Design Awards in February,
recognizing projects that reflected this year’s award theme,
“Responsive, Responsible, Timeless.” eight of the twelve award
winning projects were designed by Tulane School of Architecture
faculty, alumni and students. The awards were presented on
Friday, February 13 by Jeffrey Smith, AIA, AIA New Orleans 2009
President; Michael Piazza, AIA, 2009 Design Awards Chair; and
members of the 2009 Design Jury: Jim evans, AIA; Andrew Vrana,
AIA; and Kimberly hickson, AIA.
1 Arthur Roger Gallery, Wayne Troyer Architects, 2 The Orange Couch Coffee Shop, AeDS,
3 Private Residence, Trapolin Architects, 4 designBuILD Prototype #3, uRBANbuild and
Byron Mouton, 5 Bienville State Office Building, eskew Dumez Ripple and Washer hill
Lipscomb, 6 Swan Street Residence, Byron Mouton
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1 Shea Murdock (TSA ’92) and robert young young y (TSA ’92), of Murdock
Young Architects in New York, NY, were presented with two Archi Awards
by the AIA Long Island Chapter. In the Residential Category the jury
honored a modern house in the woods of east hampton, and in the Small
Projects Category the jury recognized a modern bathroom MYA inserted into
a 1912 manor house. MYA took home two of the eight Archi Awards, which
recognize excellence in architectural design, this year.
2 Bruce levin (TSA ’82) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to do
research and teach in Japan for the 2009-2010 academic year. Levin’s proj-
ect, “Japanese Small urban Dwellings: A Model for the American Context,”
proposes engaging Japanese architecture and design students in the re-
search of the use of space in small urban dwellings in Japan. he will teach
and conduct the research at Kogakuin university in Tokyo in association
with architect and professor Yoko Kinoshita. Levin is an adjunct professor
in the Graduate Program in Design and Interior Design program at California
College of the Arts, and also teaches at KIDI Parsons in Kanazawa, Japan.
In addition to receiving an M.Arch from TSA he holds an MFA in product
design from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
3 leslie gage (TSA ’06) joined the GReeNGuARD environmental Institute
as a Sustainability Program Developer in Marietta, GA. GReeNGuARD is a
non-profit organization that certifies certain sustainable attributes of build-
ing products through scientific testing held against ISO standards.
4 dan Maginn (TSA ’89) and his firm el Dorado Inc were featured as the
cover story in the June 2009 issue of Architect magazine. The 12-person
practice in Kansas City, MO was started in 1996 when Maginn and two
partners began el Dorado as a gallery where they and other architects could
craft and exhibit furniture and other fabrications. The office has trans-
formed the Crossroads neighborhood, where they are located, with projects
including the TWA Corporate headquarters, restaurants and coffee shops
and a spec office building that includes a light installation designed in col-
laboration with artist James Woodfill.
5 derek hoeferlin (TSA ’97) was featured in an article on the CITYbuild
consortium in Metropolis magazine’s September 2008 issue. As an adjunct
lecturer at Washington university in St. Louis, etheridge’s studio designed
and built a prefab chicken coop for the Lower Garden District, which was
featured in the article.
6 Morris adjmi’s (TSA ’83) high Line Building at 450 West 14th Street,
currently under construction, will be one of the primary architectural fea-
tures of the first phase of the development of the high Line. The building,
a new glass and steel volume atop a five-story Art Deco masonry former
meatpacking facility, takes advantage of the 103 feet stretch of the high
Line park to give its office and retail tenants direct access to the park, as
well as ground-floor retail space with unique access to the high Line’s main
entrance.
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dana BuntrocKTSA B.Arch 1981, M.Arch university of Michigan
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, university of California,
Berkeley
Dana Buntrock has been named the Frederic Lindley Morgan Chair of Archi-
tectural Design for 2010 at the university of Louisville. The Morgan Chair,
established in 1975 as part of the Morgan Program, is an endowed visiting
professorship meant to enrich architectural offerings at the Allen R. hite Art
Institute at the university of Louisville by bringing distinguished architects
and historians to the faculty. Past recipients of the Morgan Chair include
Alice Friedman, Max Bond, Leonard K. eaton, and Clay Lancaster.
Buntrock’s research and teaching focus on the intersection between
architects and the construction industry. She has a special interest in
architectural practice in Japan, where she worked before teaching at
uC Berkeley. her new book, Materials and Meaning in Contemporary
Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today, will be published by Routledge
in January, 2010. Buntrock writes the book “looks closely at the work of a
handful of architects who could be from nowhere else, their provenance
indisputably reflected in their architecture: Kengo Kuma, Terunobu Fujimori,
Fumihiko Maki, Jun Aoki, and Ryoji Suzuki. Their work here rots and inclines
to ruin; it is made of rust, rammed earth, red brick, random rock rubble or
recycled rubbish. In this book…I introduce a number of wonderful works
barely known in the West and I explain why these architects embraced
aging in their unusual architecture.” Buntrock wrote an exploratory essay
entitled “The Amazing Mr Ito” that is included in the monograph on Toyo
Ito published by Phaidon in February 2009. Buntrock holds a Bachelor of
Architecture from TSA and a Master of Architecture with high Distinction
from the university of Michgan, Ann Arbor.
roBert haleTSA B.Arch 1977, uCLA M.Arch II 1981
Principal, Rios Clementi hale Studios
Robert hale describes his firm Rios Clementi hale Studios as a “non-tra-
ditional practice” in a feature article in the May 2005 issue of ArcCa. The
firm, which he joined in 2001, focuses on an interdisciplinary, collaborative
design process led by the four principals who all have expertise in addition
to being registered architects: as urban designers, landscape architects,
interior designers, or graphic and product designers. Their projects, in turn,
range from urban design at the city scale, to large-scale institutional and
commercial projects, to urban landscapes and streetscapes, to schools,
housing, hospitals and childcare centers, to object and houseware design
and graphics. The firm owns their own retail business, notNeutral, through
which they design, manufacture and sell their own products.
hale’s own work has focused on larger scale urban design and master
planning. he held several positions at universal Studios hollywood from
1994 until 2001, most recently as the Vice-President of Design and Planning
for the universal Studios Recreation Group. There, he led the development
of a master plan, directed universal’s work with Rem Koolhaas and led the
development of corporate and infrastructural projects. With Rios Clementi
hale Studios, hale led the redevelopment of the Westfeld Century City
Shopping Center with a 39-story residential tower and the renovation of
the Mark Taper Theater at the Music Center in Los Angeles. A Fellow of the
American Institute of Architects, hale has taught at uSC and uCLA and has
lectured widely on his work. he is a past president of AIA Los Angeles and
has served on the editorial Board of LA Architect Magazine.
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Have you ever seen magic? A slim �gure stands on a vast, empty stage, the surrounding space underscoring that he works alone, implying there is no tricky paraphernalia. An assistant rolls in something heavy like a huge Humvee and the conjurer levitates it into the air, o�ers a so� smile and then, with the wave of a white handkerchief, makes it disappear. Or perhaps the conjurer invites someone from the audience to join him up on stage – and the unwitting recruit is suddenly staring across that big space at her own feet, clearly cleaved from her body, wiggling her toes with a look of more-than-mild surprise on her face.
It is interesting how o�en photographers isolate Toyo Ito’s slender frame against something like an ample expanse of unadorned concrete or a wide white plaster wall, as if emphasizing he, too, is apparently alone. Ito works magic. He once wrote that he was attempting to achieve ‘a house as light as cloth, �uttering in the air … a town where clothes, furniture, paos, and houses are all �uttering in the wind like sinuous clothes … �e entire town, swaying and glowing …’3 He spent years perfecting his ability to make a building �oat, fabric-like. He started by suspending a perforated aluminium (unfortunately uninhabitable) ‘electronic tent’, the Pao II, at an exhibition in Brussels in 1989, then ulti- mately succeeded with substantial slabs of steel at the airy, open interiors of his 2001 Sendai Mediatheque. You might think he worked that magic alone, but the remarkable latticed tubes and beam-free �oor at Mediatheque resulted from an at-the-time unusually rich collaboration with the esteemed engineer Mutsuro Sasaki. �e photographer Naoya Hatakeyama froze this moment on �lm as a crucial turning point in Ito’s career, a lush drape of white welding curtains fringed in rust wrapping one of Ito’s audacious tubes like theatre curtains poised before the play.
Remember when structural engineers seemed dull and earthbound, cluttering up architects’ e�orts at an idealized open space with annoying K-braces? No more. Another who achieves equally exciting results when working with Ito, UK-based Cecil Balmond, enjoys the challenge, too. He contended that the Japanese architect’s work today ‘does not seem to sit on the ground … it slides and �ows, and the eye is engaged always by the movements, slow or fast, angled or undulating’.4 �e architect could not achieve his e�ects without someone like this Arup engineer, two professionals together coming up with increasingly outrageous, seemingly implausible tricks.
Having mastered the illusion of lightness, Toyo Ito proceeded to make his pavilion at Bruges in 2002 disappear.
(Or nearly so – the aluminium has been beefed up a bit, because otherwise the whole thing would have been too imperceptible to enjoy.) Working with still another skilful structural engineer, Tokyo’s Masato Araya, he sti�ened the sides of this tunnel-like slice of space with playful planar polka-dots most people might easily overlook as simple, ornamental embellishments. But without those dots, the honeycomb that makes up the pavilion drooped alarmingly. �e most interesting photographs of the pavilion’s early stages portray Ito’s youthful sta� standing in the garage beneath his o�ce, an outrageous de�ection in the half-scale section they are shoring up with their hands. �e kids are laughing at the absurdity – this sagging structure is going to be a building? Who will hold it up, when it is erected on the other side of the world? �ey surely did not yet expect the ethereal end result of their e�orts.
And our bodies? Long before most understood we would be chatting with friends across sea and space via tiny phones carried in our pockets, Ito was exploring the social implications of severing our bodies into two, one visceral and sensual, the other inhabiting the ether. Almost everyone puzzled over his musings, his cryptic comments that we were Tarzans in a media forest. We thought ourselves sophisti- cates, when we were about to become unaware pioneers in an uncharted and unchartable place. Ito understood the implications of the emerging tiny technologies in our hands, saw that they both challenged and enriched our social networks with virtual ones.
On the stages of nineteenth-century Europe, magic was an art of mathematics, too. Ito and Cecil Balmond engage in these intellectually elegant tricks: at the Serpentine Pavilion in London, they spun squares into smaller squares, concealing their geometry in a complicated pattern that reveals itself only upon inspection. Balmond is inclined to mathematic riddles, but Ito drew out of the engineer an unusual exquisiteness by insisting this rigour yield random- ness. Elsewhere, Ito explores other algorithms: spiralling Bezier curves shelter an uncluttered open space at the Relax- ation Park in Torrevieja, Spain; towers twist at Barcelona’s Gran Via Trade Fair campus; and his Taichung, Taiwan, Opera House, as yet unbuilt and seemingly unbuildable, is based on a mind-bending torus-based set of cells. Ito proposed that idea initially in 2004 for a competition, the Ghent Forum for Music, Dance and Visual Culture, in an intense collabo- ration with Araya and the Milanese architect Andrea Branzi. �e team was enormously emboldened by a juror’s exhor- tations for proposals that would turn theatre on it head – but became aware too late that these comments were, as they too o�en are in architecture, more rhetoric than reality.
All that emptiness, that airy ethereality in Ito’s architec- ture, is far from easy. It requires elaborate preparation. A magician does not work unaided; the stage is o�en wrapped in a wizardry of apparatus, the irrational in front of our eyes resulting from a very up-to-date understanding of technology and science. Nineteenth-century conjurers used
The Amazing Mr Ito
DANA BUNTROCK
Like ice �ows the solid is at risk. Cecil Balmond1
Ito seemed to continually be saying ‘pow’. Ray Ryan2
Above image: Mark Taper Forum, Rios Clementi hale Studios. Photo courtesy of Tom Bonner.
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C o m m e n C e m e n t 2 0 0 9 Commencement was held on May 16, 2009, with a unified Commencement Ceremony highlighted by speaker ellen DeGeneres and the awarding of an honorary Doctor of humane Letters to architect William McDonough. TSA graduated 81 students, including 51 with a Master of Architecture, 12 with a Master of Architecture I and 18 with a Master of Preservation Studies.
uniVersity graduation awards
tulane 34The Tulane 34 Award is a university-wide honor presented to 34 graduates from Tulane’s 10 schools and colleges who have distinguished themselves through their exemplary leadership, service and academic achievement. The award, named for the year in which the university was founded, 1834, is considered to be one of the most coveted university-wide honors bestowed upon students. This years award is presented to:> Mihnea Catalin Dobre
newcomb ScholarsNewcomb Scholars are students from Tulane’s 10 schools and colleges who have gone above and beyond normal expectations academic achieve-ment. Senior and fifth-year undergraduate women are nominated by their professors during the spring semester and are chosen by a committee of Newcomb Fellows for this prestigious honor from the h. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute. This years awards are presented to:> Adriana Sophia Camacho> Allison Nicole Popper> Casey Ann Roccanova
latin high honorsMihnea Catalin Dobre \\ Michael Peter Keller \\ Jana Marie Masset \\Nicholas Alexander Vann
cum laudeerin Michelle Brush \\ Adriana Sophia Camacho \\ Amarit Dulyapaibul \\ Phillip Scott Goldberg \\ Julia Catherine Guy \\ Matthew William Lee \\ Jamie Lynn Lookabaugh \\ Marcos Salcedo Moore \\ Culum Roy William Osborne \\ Alison Nicole Popper \\ Carter Robinson Scott \\ Gianne Sultana
william mcdonough awarded honorary doctor of humane lettersArchitect and sustainable design leader William McDonough, FAIA, Int. FRIBA was awarded an honorary Doctor of humane Letters from Tulane university at the unified Commencement Cer-emony on May 16, 2009. McDonough was joined
by an impressive group of honorary Doctors which included harry Connick Jr., co-discoverer and Nobel Prize winner Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and healthcare advocate Jessie Gruman. President Cowan’s acceptance of Dean Schwartz’s nomination represents a university-level promotion of issues of civic responsibility and sustainability.
McDonough is one of the three leading partners in creating and supporting the Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans, providing all of his work pro bono. he is the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the u.S. and abroad. he is the co-author with Michael Braungart of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, the trademarked principles of which he aspires to follow in his work from product development to individual buildings to the design of sustainable cities. McDonough served for five years as dean and edward e. elson Professor of Architecture at the university of Virginia School of Architecture and holds faculty appointments at uVA’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Stanford university and Cornell College. he serves as u.S. Chairman and member of the Board of Councilors of the China-u.S. Center for Sustainable Development. his awards include the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development given by President Clinton, the u.S. ePA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and was recognized by Time magazine as a ‘hero for the Planet’ in 1999 and, with Braungart, ‘heroes of the environment’ in 2003. McDonough is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Visiting critics [final reviews + thesis reviews - spring 2009]Brian andrews university of Nevada Las Vegas, Los Angeles, TSA ‘85craig Barton university of VirginiaKristi M. dykema Louisiana State universitydeborah gans Pratt InstituteMargaret griffin SCI-ARC and Griffin-enright Architects, Los AngelesPatricia heyda Washington university in St. Louis, TSA ‘95Patricia Kucker university of CincinnatiBen ledbetter Architect, New havenWendy redfield North Carolina State universityMark robbins Syracuse universityPeter Waldman university of VirginiaMabel Wilson Columbia universityadrienne yancone university of Pennsylvaniaadam yarinsky ARO Architects, NYC
graduation PlacementJames (Jimmy) Stamp, TSA ’04 \\ Yale university, Master of environmental Design (M.e.D.)
Sarah Cloonan, TSA ’09 \\ Columbia university, M.S. Critical, Curatorial, & Conceptual Practices in Architecture
Nick Gervase, TSA ‘01 \\ Columbia university
Jakob Rosenberg, TSA ‘06 \\ Princeton university
Jamie Lookabaugh, TSA ‘09 \\ Columbia university
Robert Bracken, TSA ‘08 \\ harvard university GSD, Master of Architecture in urban Design (MAuD)
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TSA presented “Provocations: Tulane School of Architecture Thesis Projects 2009” on Friday, May 8 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Calling themselves “The Ogden 8,” their theses were presented at a public exhibition highlighted with a recep-tion and commentary by Billie Tsien of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York and Mack Scogin of Mack Scogin Merrill elam Architects in Atlanta.
1 Shannon david French Extroverting Architecture: De-stratifying Use
2 adriana Sophia camacho Interrelationism (Port of Spain, Trinidad)
3 Marcos Salcedo Moore Liminal Landscapes: Hybridized Strategies for an Urban Epicenter
4 culum roy William osborne Vastness [Re]encountered: Unearthing an Urban Wilderness
5 nicholas alexander Vann Voronoi Communities: Deformal-izing Space for Social Interaction
6 Michael Peter Keller Synthetic Urbanism: Porous Boundar-ies – An Urban Transformation
7 Jill godfrey “As We May Think”: Two Prototypes for a Digital Environment
8 gregory Wallace Barton Automated Bloom: Biofarming in the Atchafalaya
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S t u d e n t n e w S Suzanne Monaco, M.Arch ’10, will be traveling to Tanzania as the recipi-ent of the 2009 Gordon Summer Fellowship. established in 1991 by the Gorden Family Fund, the competitive fellowship offers two university-wide grants for students pursuing innovative summer projects. Monaco, whose passion for social justice was propelled by hurricane Katrina and its after-math, her travels and the global economy, will study housing in Tanzania, in an effort to understand the dialogue between architecture and the people it serves.
tsa traVel fellowshiPs 2009
lawrence travel FellowshipsSuzanne Monaco’10Transitions – An Urban Housing StudyAmsterdam and Istanbul
Colm M. Kennedy’10Lessons from the Netherlands, Strategies for living below sea level
class of 1973 travel FellowshipMatthew hostetler’10The Architect, the Randstad and the Crescent City: Roles for Redevelopment Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Netherlands
goldstein travel FellowshipTravis Kyle Bost’10Explosive Urbanism in Western AfricaDakar, Senegal + Bamako, Mali
Malcolm W. heard/andrea Palladio travel FellowshipSarah Marie Cloonan’09Andrea Palladio: The Godfather of Pre-fabParis and Veneto Region
iMageS FroM Scott Bernhard’S third year Studiofrom left to right: Scott Berger, Annie Peyton, Jason Liu, Adrian Reifer, from left to right: Scott Berger, Annie Peyton, Jason Liu, Adrian Reifer, from left to rightAdrian Reifer, Jason Lui
voids as inserted programvoids as inserted program
GROUND LEVEL VIEW‘MARKET STREET’
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sustainaBle classroomStudents from Tulane School of Architecture have teamed up with high school students from the Priestley School of Architecture and Construction and modular manufacturer Morgan Buildings to design a modular class-room. The spring 2009 classroom design collaboration is part of the Open Architecture Networks Classroom Competition. using Priestley’s school yard as a site, the design team of high school and university students are working to develop not just a classroom design but a business proposal for Morgan Buildings. The team is working with design and engineering staff at MBS to develop a proposal that fits with the requirements of their produc-tion facilities and that they hope can be incorporated into their production line at the end of the process. MBS is specifically focused on exploring ways to develop a green classroom building utilizing the company’s existing manufacturing processes. Partners from the uS Green Building Council, the Freeman School of Business, and the Tulane School of Public health and Tropical Medicine are collaborating with the design team on their multidis-ciplinary approach to creating better learning spaces. The Open Architec-ture Network is reviewing the 900 entries over the summer and will make announcements in the fall of 2009. The design project is part of an ongoing outreach program that the Tulane City Center has with Priestley.
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tulane city centerPrograms of the Tulane City Center, home of TSA’s applied urban research
and outreach programs, share a focus on improving cities through fostering
global urban research, the development of flexible and innovative urban
strategies, and the provision of environmentally and culturally informed
principles to guide the design and revitalization of the contemporary
metropolis.
TCC partners with various organizations to engage students and faculty in
projects dealing with real issues in real communities and to participate in
the life of the city. This year one of the projects taken on by GReeNBuild,
a TCC research and design program, was eco Pavilion, a collaboration
between TCC and City Park New Orleans that showcases environmentally
sensitive building strategies and technologies. under the guidance of Cole-
man Coker the TCC team built the pavilion for the Fall home and Garden
Show 2008. City Park’s Botanical Garden will use the Green Pavilion to
provide the public with a full scale educational model of how sustainable
technologies can employed.
The Pavilion includes a rainwater-catching roof, indigenous plants, salvaged
materials, and rainwater filtration systems. The intention of this approach-
able and informative exhibition is to make these alternative building
methods accessible to the public in the hope that individuals might choose
to rebuild their homes and gardens in a more sustainable way. The eco
Pavilion is one project in a larger ongoing partnership between City Park
and the TCC.
Project team Coleman Coker, Dan etheridge, Seth Welty, Tom holloman, Zach
Lamb, David Dieckhoff, and emilie Taylor
urBanBuilduRBANbuild has gained recognition as far away as Ireland, where it was featured in the RIAI journal Architecture Ireland, in an article entitled “Who is Re-Building New Orleans?” by Killian Doherty, RIBA, RIAI. Doherty praised the uRBANbuild program for providing student the opportunity to develop designs for affordable housing and collaborate with faculty and local contractors to construct them.
This year’s uRBANbuild house has just finished construction in New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood. This fourth uRBANbuild built proto-type has involved a class of 25 design students in the fall and 18 student builders in the spring semester. This house is a study in sustainable building practices and is on schedule to achieve LeeD silver certification.
The 1200 s.f. scheme is one story with a footprint of 24’ by 71’ and is situated on a corner lot in the Central City neighborhood. exterior walls are activated with an operable impact resistant screened panel system. The overall form of the house is simple so that the screen system becomes the defining aspect of the project. In response to New Orleans shutter systems, typically used for shading and hurricane protection, the sliding panels can cover the interior public areas of the home or be moved to provide shading for the exterior porch spaces.
Partners Tulane City Center, Neighborhood housing Services
Project lead Byron Mouton, Program Director & Architect of Record
Sam Richards, Construction Co-Director, Doris Guerrero, Adjunct Faculty
emilie Taylor, Senior Program Coordinator, Anthony Christiana Construction, General
Contractor
Project team Robert Baddour, Amanda Brendle, Ben Flatau, Monica Breziner,
Nicholas Cecchi, Katie Champagne, Nick Chan, Chad Cramer, Susan N. Danielson,
Shannon Farrell, Matt Fox, Kevin Garfield, Lauren Goetz, Royce evan Gracey, Corey
Green, Chris halbrooks, Meaghan hartney, Matthew hostetler, Colm M. Kennedy,
Joseph Keppel, Peter Kilgust, Nicolas Mallet, Lauren Martino, Suzanne Monaco,
emily Orgeron, JP Pacelli, Marian Prado, Marie Richard, Gregor Schuller, Kevin Tully,
Karla Valdivia, Colin VanWingen, Bliss Young
Tulane City Center - eco Pavilion Student raising walls of uRBANbuild #4
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tulane regional urBan design centerThe Tulane Regional urban Design Center, directed by Grover Mouton,
served as host to the 2009 uS/ICOMOS (International Council on Monu-
ments and Sites) national conference. Mouton organized and hosted a tour
to the historic evergreen Plantation while TRuDC associated Nick Jenisch
and Robert Bracken hosted the Young Professionals evening. Conference
keynote speaker Tong Mingkang, Director of ICOMOS China, previously met
with Mouton in Beijing in the interest of setting up a collaborative center
for preservation in partnership with the American Planning Association
(APA), which whom TRuDC has worked on more than ten major urban
design projects across China.
TRuDC has obtained Preserve America designations for Slidell and
Mandeville, LA, along with Natchez, MS and east hampton, NY. The Center
will host the first Preserve American Mayors’ Conference on heritage Tour-
ism.
career exPlorations in architectureLed by Michael Crosby, the Career explorations in Architecture summer
program at TSA was established to offer high school students a significant
first experience in architectural education. The program gives students an
opportunity to participate in the process of design and to develop the basic
tools of imagination and expression. Students spend their three weeks
in the School of Architecture exploring ideas, methods, and issues of
architecture through lectures, field trips, discussions and critiques. TSA has
enforced the belief that all students have the opportunity to participate, and
have established funding to allow low-income students from New Orleans
and other cities to take part.
PreserVation mattersDean Schwartz and TSA hosted the Preservation Matters symposium on
January 31, 2009, at Tulane’s Lavin Bernick Center Kendall Cram Lecture
hall. Featuring Keynote Speaker Robert Ivy, FAIA (TSA ’76) and present-
ers and panelists erica Avrami, Daniel Bluestone, Ph.D., Ned Kaufman,
Ph.D., Stanley Lowe, and Jorge Rigau, FAIA, the event honored the long
and distinguished career of eugene Cizek, FAIA, Ph.D. Professor Cizek has
led preservation studies at TSA for many years, and he has been a major
presence within the preservation community. The event aimed to stimulate
thinking about the contemporary role of preservation and the way that
contemporary issues of New Orleans and beyond may influence strategic
directions for the Tulane School of Architecture.
TRuDC is directing an NeA-funded effort to interpret the Forks of the Road in Natchez, MS, former site of
the second largest slave market in the deep south. The new open-air facility was designed in collaboration
with community members, the City of Natchez, and the National Park Service.
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PreserVation studies ProgramAnn Masson has been appointed Assistant Director of the Preservation
Studies Program at TSA. Masson is a local art historian who writes,
teaches and consults in the areas of architecture, antiques and historic
preservation. A graduate of Newcomb College, she also holds a Master’s
degree in the history of Art from Tulane university. her interest in New
Orleans architecture led to a career in local museums and historic preserva-
tion organizations. Masson has been honored with awards from the Friends
of the Cabildo, the Louisiana Association of Museums, New Orleans
Magazine, the American Council of Career Women, and the Vieux Carré
Commission.
TSA’s Preservation Studies Program, in conjunction with Preservation Trades
Network, held the Preservation Studies Summer Field School in July, co-
led by Adjunct Assistant Professor heather Knight. The program, entitled
“City of the Dead: Above-Ground Cemetery Preservation, Conservation,
Documentation Methodology and history” consists of two courses. One
gives students hands-on experience in historically appropriated treatments
for 19th Century above-ground tombs, while the other is a seminar with
topics that include architectural history, preservation technology, landscape
architecture, funerary iconography and history of New Orleans cemeteries.
maKing 2nd year model Building worKshoPMichael Gruber, an architect with Richard Meier and Partners in Los
Angeles, visited the school during the week of January 26 to conduct a
model building workshop for 2nd year students as part of their design
studio curriculum. he introduced students to tools and various methods
of wood model construction, and in subsequent shop sessions students,
under his guidance, practiced cutting, joinery and assembly techniques. On
Friday Feburary 6, Irene Keil and Marcella Del Signore presented a one-day
projection of a looped sequence of photos and films from the workshop
sessions and a repetitive series of fabricated wood objects, in an exhibition
in Richardson Memorial hall entitled MAKING.
rose fellowshiPsTwo members of the TSA community are currently recipients of the pres-
tigious Rose Architectural Fellowship. Seth Welty (TSA ’08) was named a
fellow for 2008-2011 and Adjunct Assistant Professor Carey Clouse a fellow
from 2007-2010. The Rose Fellowships sponsors its fellows for three years
of work with host organizations dedicated to creating sustainable communi-
ties for people of all income levels. Clouse is working with Providence Com-
munity housing in New Orleans, where her work includes housing design,
project management, education, community outreach and grant writing.
Welty is working in Biloxi, MS, with the Gulf Cost Community Design Studio
on projects that range in scale from the individual homes to multi-unit
projects to urban planning and mapping.
MAKING - modeling building workshop
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admissions
Interest in Tulane has remained very strong. Indeed, record numbers of high school seniors and prospective graduate students applied this year. Tulane university received nearly 40,000 applications for 1,500 places in its fall 2009 freshman class, surpassing last year’s record number of 34,125, and representing nearing double the number of applications typically received before hurricane Katrina. TSA reviewed 1200 applications for the under-graduate program in architecture. At the graduate level, 109 applications were received for the MArch I program, more than doubling the number from the year before. The Master of Preservation Studies program saw an increase of 35% in applications to 27.
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8.31Scott Bernhard, aIaJean and Saul A. Mintz Associate Professor of Architecture“Tulane City Center Projects & Progress”
9.14MIchael Maltzan, FaIaMichael Maltzan Architecture“Shimmer Shift”Eskew + Dumez + Ripple Lecture
9.25Sarah cloonan, TSA ‘09“Transitions: An Urban Housing Study”Malcolm W. Heard/Andrea Palladio Travel Fellowship Lecture
10.5archItectS WeekFriday, October 2 – Friday, October 9Robert Hale, FAIA, TSA ‘77Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Los Angeles, CA
10.23 – 10.24conFerence: neW orleanS Under reconStrUctIonOrganizers: Carol Reese, Michael Sorkin, Anthony FontenotContributors: Christine Boyer, Mike Davis
10.12errol Barron, FaIaFavrot Professor of Architecture“The Architecture Of Drawing”
11.2JUlIe eIzenBerg, FaIaKoning Eizenberg Architecture, Santa Monica, CA“Informal”Walter Wisznia Memorial Lecture
11.13MattheW hoStetler, TSA ‘10“The Architect, the Randstad and the Crescent City” Class of 1973 Travel Fellowship Lecture
11.16trey trahan, FaIaTrahan Architecture, Baton Rouge, LA“Defining Local”AIAS Lecture
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