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OUR MISSION

The Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment generates and applies knowledge that addresses urgent challenges of humankind.

FEATURED

Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment's T shaped logo without its wordmark.

Honoring our legacy, opening a new chapter

We are now the Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment, an expanded name that reflects the breadth of our academic offerings and the limitless potential of those who learn here. This transformation reflects our community, whose contributions continue to shape the identity and future of our school.

Angle view from above of students working on a row of studio desks in newly renovated Richardson Memorial Hall.

Richardson Memorial Hall reopens after major renovation and expansion

Richardson Memorial Hall, one of the oldest buildings on Tulane University’s uptown campus, has been given a new life – reopening to students, faculty and staff after a four-year renovation and expansion, alongside the school's historic growth in scholarship, teaching, and practice.

Aerial view of New Orleans' downtown skyline.

New Sustainable Urbanism major, minor launches

The school is launching a new Sustainable Urbanism undergraduate program, beginning in Fall 2025. Offering both a major and a minor, the program equips students with the knowledge and skills to analyze and address the environmental, social, and economic challenges shaping cities today.

Two photos: top is side view of the Sugar Roots Farm outdoor classroom pavilion; bottom is an interior gallery space with framed images from the book Drawing Codes.

Faculty, students win two Architectural Education Awards

Work by our faculty and students recently received national recognition from the 2025 Architectural Education Awards, presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The awarded work includes a design-build project and a published book and exhibition.

Three students stand behind a table while holding their first place award placard with their model on the table for design "Restoring Common Ground."

Students win NOMA design competition

Three students won first place in the Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition at the 2024 National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Conference for their team design "Restoring Common Ground."

A cemetery in Louisiana.

Students help build the Louisiana Register of Historic Cemeteries

Students in the Master of Science in Historic Preservation program collaborated with faculty Heather Veneziano and the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation to create a comprehensive GIS-based database designed to document and preserve the state's vast collection of cemeteries.

Screenshot of CBS News video of the exterior of a small home with students in hardhats standing in front.

CBS News features students' URBANbuild home

Before finishing school, students at Tulane University completed one final project: They designed, created and built a tiny 440-square-foot home to benefit someone in their community who hasn't had a place to call home in nearly two decades.

Photo of cover of Dwell Magazine featuring the home of faculty Emilie Taylor Welty.

Dwell features faculty's sustainably built home

Faculty Emilie Taylor Welty is featured on the cover and an inside spread of the March/April 2024 issue of Dwell Magazine for her innovative approach to sustainable living in New Orleans.

Architectural drawings and wood models cover a table in the foreground with students and people standing and sitting while talking in the background under a pavilion with a tropical forest on either side.

$2.9 million gift to start new Center on Climate Change and Urbanism

An anonymous $2.9 million gift will establish a Center on Climate Change and Urbanism, a new research unit that will complement the school’s existing work in New Orleans and around the world.

collage, top showing a New Orleans city map with drainage directional outflow indicated and on the bottom a sectional drawing of underground water management systems next to the Mississippi River.

Landscape Architecture and Engineering dual degree launches at Tulane

As climate change and extreme weather continue to impact communities around the world, the need for professionals skilled in the fields of landscape architecture, architecture, engineering, and planning is growing.

NEWS

John L. Renne, PhD, AICP, will serve as the Henry Shane Professor in Real Estate and the new Program Director of Real Estate Development, bringing a wealth of global experience in sustainable development strategies and a deep personal connection to New Orleans.

Incoming graduate students Aliyah Murph (M.Arch), Karina Roca (MSHP), and Lawanda Jackson (MSRED) seek to serve communities and preserve important histories.

Margarita Jover, Professor of Architecture, and Iñaki Alday, Dean of the school, are recognized by UN Habitat as one of the four global winners in the "Water as Leverage City Champion Challenge."

The National Professional Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) awarded two separate honors for the analysis and planning work by Landscape Architecture faculty Wes Michaels, Associate Professor, and Liz Camuti, Assistant Professor.

Jesse M. Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning, is among dozens of international experts involved in the writing and editing of a new U.N. report on the state of climate of change.

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Dean's Message

Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment is emerging as the place to be — the place for top students and scholars of all backgrounds to practice collective stewardship of the challenges and ideas that shape the planet we inhabit.