Topic: architecture
Cross Country Champ Pursues Architecture
Emmanuel Rotich never set out to be a competitive cross country runner, yet running was a big part of his life. Growing up in the remote village of Rift Valley, Kenya, he would run to school each morning and back home each evening. In between, he’d run home for lunch and then back to school for afternoon classes.
Design for Change
Associate Professor of Architecture Margarita Jover recently won an international design competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for her proposal, “Vertebrando,” a reimagining of the space and use of a 1.3-mile section of elevated highway, which has bisected a historically poor and underserved community for decades.
The Vietnam Conflict and My Path to a Tulane Education
My experience at Tulane was amazingly unique, as I saw both sides of the Vietnam War coin. I had been wounded in combat alongside tough, courageous Marines. Twenty months later, I was at Tulane among America’s elite and privileged youth, witnessing the weekly protests against the war. Looking back, each experience was equally invaluable toward my maturity.
Skate Park Project
The national Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture named the School of Architecture’s Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design one of only four recipients of its Collaborative Practice Award for 2018–19.
The award highlights the Small Center’s 13 years of design-build projects and engagement programs, in particular the Parasite Skatepark project, a New Orleans park that officially opened in 2015 following years of efforts by local skaters to establish a recreation space.
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Architecture Faculty Member Honored
Marianne Desmarais, School of Architecture professor of practice and director of undergraduate architecture programs, has been named an Artist-in-Residence for 2019 at the Joan Mitchell Center in the historic Treme neighborhood in New Orleans. A residency, Desmarais said, changes not only an artist’s work but the artist themselves. “The experience of an art residency feels simultaneously like time sped up and time slowed down.”
