Faculty & Staff Faculty :: Carol McMichael Reese, Ph. D

Teaching

History and Theory of Art, Architecture, and Urban Design; Urban Studies

Administration

• Founding Executive Committee, Tulane Center for Public Service, 2006-2008
• Founding Director, International Village, a Tulane Living Learning Community, 2000-2001
• Director, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Rudolf Schindler House, Los Angeles, 1996-1998

Additional Teaching

• Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997-1998
• Lecturer, Southern California School of Architecture, 1995-1997
• Visiting Professor, University of Maryland, 1985-1986

Publications (selected)

• [in progress] Cara a Cara: Urban Development in Panama and the Canal Zone, 1905-1965
• [editor] “Frank Gehry in Conversation with Ernest Fleischmann,” in Late Thoughts, eds, Thomas Crow and Karen Painter, 2006
• “Nationalism, Progress, and Modernity in the Architectural Culture of Mexico City c. 1900,” in La amplitud del modernismo y la modernidad, 1861-1920, vol. 2 Hacia ortra historia del arte en Mexico, ed. Stacie G. Widdifield, 2004.
• “All Shiny and New, Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Rehabilitation of
  Downtown Los Angeles,” in Symphony, Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, ed. Gloria Gerace, 2003.
• “Urbio + Gehry in Panama’s New Canal Zone: Architecture, Economic Development, and Cultural Heritage Tourism,” AULA, Architecture and Urbanism Latin America 2, Spring 2002
• “The Urban Development of Mexico City, 1850-1930,” in Planning
  Latin America’s Capital Cities, 1850-1950, ed. Arturo Almandoz, 2002 (winner of the 2004 prize for the best book in Latin American urban history, awarded by the International Planning History Society)
• [with Thomas F. Reese] “Richard Meier, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, 1984-1997,” in Museums for a New Millenium: Concepts, Projects, Buildings, eds. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Angeli Sachs, 1999
• [with Thomas F. Reese] “Centennial Euphoria and the Future of the Metropolis, Celebrations and Exhibitions,” in Buenos Aires 1910: Memoria del Porvenir, ed. Margarita Gutman, 1999
• “Architecture for Performance,” in The Hollywood Bowl, Tales of Summer Nights, eds. Michael Buckland and John Henken, 1996
• [with Thomas F. Reese] “Revolutionary Urban Legacies: Porfirio Diaz’s Celebrations of the Centennial of Mexican Independence in 1910,” in Arte, Historia e Identidad en America: Visiones Comparativas, vol. 2, eds. Gustavo Curiel, Renato Gonzalez Mello, and Juan Gutierrez Haces, 1994
• The Architect’s Sketchbook, Current Practice, Canadian Center for Architecture, 1992
• [with Elizabeth Bakewell, William O. Beeman, Marilyn Schmitt] Object, Image, Inquiry: The Art Historian at Work, The J. Paul Getty Trust, 1988
• Paul Cret at Texas: Architectural Drawing and the Image of the University in the 1930s, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, 1983 (winner of the Mitchell A. Wilder Award of the Texas Association of Museums)

Awards and Honors (selected)

• Katrina Fund of the Zemurray Foundation, for Project New Orleans, $15,000, 2007, and $36,000, 2006
• Tulane Research Enhancement Fund for Project New Orleans $38,000, 2007
• Center for Public Service, Tulane University, for “Revitalization of Post-Katrina Pontchartrain Park, a historic African-American Neighborhood”, $6000, 2007
• Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University, 2005
• Summer Research Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, $1,500, 2005
• Summer Faculty Research Grant, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, for research in Panama, $2,500, 2005
• Dean’s Research Grant, School of Architecture, $6,000, 2005
• Harvey-Wadsworth Professor of Urban Affairs, 2002
• Malcolm Heard Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Architecture, Tulane University, 2002
• Principal Investigator, Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, “Ecology, Community Planning, and Social Challenges in Panama,” $56,000, 2002
• Chester Dale Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 1984-1985

Exhibitions (selected)

• “Project New Orleans,” African American Museum, New Orleans, 2006
• “Buenos Aires 1910: Memoria del Porvenir,” Abasto of Buenos Aires, and World Bank, Washington, D. C. 1999; World Financial Center, New York City, 2000
• “Diana Thater, the Best Animals are the Flat Animals,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 1998
• “Martin Kippenberger, The Last Stop West,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 1998
• “Anarchitecture, Works by Gordon Matta-Clark,” MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 1997
• “The Architect’s Sketchbook: Current Practice,” Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 1992
• “Paul Cret at Texas: Architectural Drawing and the Image of the University in the 1930s,” Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, 1983

Lectures and Symposia (selected)

• Invited participant, “New Orleans Now,” panel discussion organized by the AIA New York Chapter at the Architecture Center, NYC, 2007
• “Panama’s Modernism,” paper presented in Fall lecture series at the School of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
• Organizer and moderator, “Regrounding New Orleans, “a symposium presented by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, NYC, 2006
• “Cara a cara, Panama City and the Canal Zone, 1904-1999,” paper presented in Princeton University’s Latin American Studies fall lecture series, Princeton, 2005
• [with Thomas F. Reese] “Panama City and the Canal Zone, 1904-1999,” Society of Architectural Historians, 58th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia (April 2005)
• Respondent, 2003 Dissertation Symposium, The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, NYC, 2003
• Organizer and moderator, panel on Frank O. Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, 2002
• Co-organizer, “Building the Future of New Orleans: Cultural Resources, Institutions, and Economic Development,” Panel Discussion, Tulane School of Architecture, 2001
• “Buenos Aires 1910, Memories of the World to Come,” gallery talk in the exhibition of the same title, World Financial Center, NYC, 2000
• “The Architectural Culture of Independence, Mexico City 1900” in the conference “Architecture Culture around 1900,” Buenos Aires, 1999
• [with Thomas F. Reese] “Frames of Representation, the Architecture of Exhibitions” in the symposium “Diffused Spaces, on the Futures of the Museum,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 1996