Alumni Newsletter 2-3-09

EVENTS GALORE!

The spring semester at Tulane is off to a strong start.  We have already experienced our first evening lecture by JEANNE GANG FAIA.  We have also enjoyed two lectures by students, Scott Burroughs and Ali Popper, who presented their research as part of their summer traveling fellowships.  We have two more of these student lectures and many other exciting events lined up for the spring. 

ALUMNI RECEPTIONS

We really hope that alumni will turn out for these events, as you did so enthusiastically during our five such events in the fall (DC, Savannah, Atlanta, New York, Boston).  We have our first of the semester THIS WEEK!

I want to thank all of the alumni who have generously offered to host these events.  These wouldn’t happen without the financial support and enthusiasm that our alumni hosts bring to these gatherings.  It was a real pleasure to meet so many of you during my first semester at TSA, and I am excited about the next several months ahead.

LOS ANGELES
Wednesday February 4
6:00 – 7:30 PM
Hosted by Bob Hale TSA ‘77
Rios Clementi Hale Studios
639 N. Larchmont Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90004

SAN JUAN
Thursday, February 12
6:00 – 8:30 PM
Hosted by José R. Marchand Sifre TSA ‘79
Sede del Colegio de Arquitectos Y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico
225 Calle del Parque
San Juan, Puerto Rico

NEW ORLEANS
Friday, April 17
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Hosted by Dean Kenneth Schwartz and the TSA Board of Advisors    
#2 Audubon, The Residence of President and Mrs. Cowen

SAN FRANCISCO - during the AIA National Convention
Thursday, April 30
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Hosted by Kathy and Graham Greene TSA ‘78 & ‘79
and John and Laura Williams TSA ‘79
The City Club of San Francisco, Library Room*
155 Sansome Street
San Francisco, California
*Located in the original Stock Exchange Tower designed by Timothy Pfluger and is considered among the best Art Deco interiors in California.

CHICAGO
Thursday, June 18
TBA

Please RSVP for all alumni events to Wendy Sack
504.314.2355 or wdsack@tulane.edu

SPRING LECTURES AND EVENTS

Monday, January 26
JEANNE GANG FAIA, LEED AP, STUDIO/GANG/ARCHITECTS, Chicago, IL
Project Ecologies

Saturday, Jan 31 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
PRESERVATION MATTERS SYMPOSIUM    
Keynote Speaker
Robert Ivy FAIA

Presenters and Panelists
Erica Avrami
Daniel Bluestone, Ph.D.
Ned Kaufman, Ph.D.
Stanley Lowe
Jorge Rigau FAIA
Eugene Cizek FAIA, Ph.D.
Organized and moderated by Kenneth Schwartz FAIA, Dean

Monday, February 9
MEEJIN YOON | Associate Professor MIT | MY Studio - Höweler+Yoon Architecture | Cambridge, MA
Tactical Innovations: Forms of Performance

Monday, March 9 Lecture
ARCHITECT’S WEEK     
Monday March 9 – Friday March 13
el dorado architects, Kansas City, Missouri
xPlorations in prototypical furniture design

Monday, March 30
JUDITH KINNARD FAIA
Professor of Architecture, Tulane University
Ground Rules

April 9, 2008 – 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
BRUNER-LOEB FORUM
Urban Adaptability: Sustaining Place in a Dynamic Environment

Monday, April 20
BARRY BERGDOLL
The Philip Johnson Chief Curator
Department of Architecture and Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Delivered Home: Reflections on prefabrication and digital architecture
AZBY FUND LECTURE

Alumni Noon Lectures

Wednesday, February 11 - noon
JESSYCA HENDERSON, AIA TSA '98
Resource Architect / American Institute of Architects
Sustainability + Integrated Project Delivery = Opportunity

Wednesday, March 4 - noon
NORA GORDON TSA ‘00
Project Architect RAC DESIGN BUILD

Student Traveling Fellowship Noon Lectures

Wednesday, January 21 @ noon
SCOTT BURROUGHS, TSA ‘10 GRAD
The Future of the Past: Negotiating Modernism in Peter's Modern City

Wednesday, January 28 @ noon
ALISON POPPER, TSA ‘09
(re)building in context: case studies for disaster response in new york and berlin

Wednesday, April 1 @ noon
GREG BARTON TSA ‘09
Topographies of Water: Stepwells & Ghats in India

Wednesday April 15 @ noon
MICHAEL KELLER TSA ‘09
Infrastructural Landscapes: Recent Urban Transformations in Vienna


Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA
Dean