115 Harris Hall
12pm
Guest presenter: Alan Lewis
Alan Lewis is a registered Architect with nearly 25 years of experience in the design and construction of both public and private projects. He has worked directly with Hargreaves Associates for the last ten years on several large scaled urban design projects such as Boston's City Hall Plaza, riverfront master plans in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the Concept Master Plan for Southern University New Orleans, Tulane University's RiverSphere Campus Concept Plan and the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge. His diverse experience and expertise in practice and academics provides leadership and skill for a wide range of complex projects.
Programs & Projects
As the primary venue for outreach projects at the Tulane School of Architecture , the Tulane City Center, along with our principal collaborator the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research , enjoys a broad range of partnerships with numerous off campus community based and civic organizations. Each of these partnerships provides opportunities for faculty and students to engage real issues in real communities and participate in the life of our city. Projects we have been involved with in the past have ranged in scale from small mobile neighborhood communication devices to urban scale neighborhood planning processes. We work in the realm of both private and public spaces and always recognize the importance of thinking beyond the scale at which a given project is expressed.
Alan Lewis is an inspiration to all young architects with a passion to get involved. His work and dedication after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was touching and powerful. Moved by tears just speaking about the devastation Alan kept our attentions, everyone hung on his words and felt his dedication and care for the city and people of New Orleans. At the end he finished with "I used it before Obama did: Hope" and thats exactly how I felt after his presentation, hope for our future as a profession.
ReplyDeleteThe lecture given by Alan was indeed inspirational. However, the big picture is what can we as a school do to get more involved and why do we have to wait for a disaster like Katrina. The time is now people!
ReplyDeleteAlan certainly gave an inspiring lecture, and his dedication to making a difference in the communities he is a part of is commendable. The Tulane City center is a wonderful model of activism that I hope can challenge other institution to take a more proactive relationship within their communities. It is unfortunate that this kind of creative response seems to require a natural disaster to dissolve boundaries and barriers to this kind of work being done, nevertheless, the work and spirit of the students & community in NOLA really is awe-inspiring, and I hope we can bring a little of that spirit to our community.
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