Faculty & Staff Faculty :: Eugene D. Cizek, Ph.D., FAIA

Teaching

Building preservation studio, environmental conservation studio, heritage education, thesis director for MPS students, dissertation Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Historic Preservation, Summer in South America Program -2007

Education

• Ph.D. Environmental Social Psychology, Tulane University, 1978
• D.Sc. City Building, Delft Institute of Technology, 1967
• Master in Urban Design, Mass. Institute of Technology, 1966
• Master in City Planning, Mass. Institute of Technology, 1966
• Bachelor of Architecture, Louisiana State University, 1964

Administration

• Director, Preservation Studies Program, 1997-2007
• Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Historic Preservation, 2000-2007
• Blue Roof Project, NCPTT
• Priestly School of Architecture and Construction, chair, education curriculum, and Board of Directors
• Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association, Board of Directors
• Riverfront Coalition, Board of Directors
• Historic Bourbon Street Foundation, Board of Directors

Publications (selected)

• Destrehan Plantation, Introduction, HNOC Press, 2007
• Capturing Oak Alley, Visions of a Great River Road Plantation,
• Introduction, Oak Alley Foundation, 2002
• Vestiges of Grandeur, Introduction, Chronicle Books, 1999
• Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940: The Historic American Buildings
• Survey, contributing author, LSU Press, 1997

Awards and Honors (selected)

• Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism,
• Div. of Historic Preservation, Main Street Award, 2006
• Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, Panama, 2003
• Historic District Landmarks Commission Honor Award, 2002
• Historic District Landmarks Commission Honor Award, 2001
• Vieux Carre Commission Honor Award, 1997
• Historic Natchez Foundation Honor Award, 1999
• AIA Honor Award, 1997
• Freedom Foundation Award, 1996
• Louisiana Landmarks Society Honor Award, 1996
• Louisiana Preservation Alliance Honor Award, 1988
• Foundation for Historic Louisiana Honor Award, 1985
• National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award, 1981
• Vieux Carre Commission Honor Award, 1970
• Fulbright-Hayes Scholar, Delft, Holland, 1966
• MIT Foundation Scholar, 1964
• Sears Roebuck Foundation Scholar, 1964

Lectures and Symposia (selected)

• National Main Street Conference, “The Mississippi River as
• America’s Main Street”, New Orleans, 2006
• Centro Nacional de Conservacion, Restauracion, y Museologia, Havana, “La Habana y Nueva Orleans,” 1998
• Historic New Orleans Collection Symposium, “Havana and New Orleans,” 1998
• Universidad de la Habana, Cuba, “Symposium on Education through Historic Preservation”, 1997
• Tulane School of Architecture, Richard Koch Lecture, “Koch as Preservationist”, 1997
• Louisiana Preservation Alliance, The Restoration of Destrehan Plantation, 1983
• Foundation for Historic Louisiana, Education through Historic Preservation, 1982
• National Trust for Historic Preservation, Education through
• Historic Preservation, Washington, DC,1981
• Louisiana Landmarks Society, Martha Robinson Memorial Lecture, New Orleans,1980

Professional Projects (selected)

• Bennettville House and Store Restoration,
• Englewood Plantation, LA, 2007
• Laura Plantation reconstruction and restoration,
• Vacherie, LA, 2005
• Sun Oak Foundation restoration and addition, New Orleans, LA, 1976-2005
• Belle Alliance Plantation restoration, Donaldsonville, LA, 1998
• Lakefront Creole Cottage restoration, Mandeville, LA, 1998
• Gaudet Residence, Natchez, MS, 1997
• Woodland Plantation restoration, Myrtle Grove, LA, 1996
• 1025 St. Louis St. restoration, New Orleans, 1996
• 823 Orleans St. restoration, New Orleans, 1994
• Francis Ford Coppola residence, New Orleans, 1993
• Lombard Plantation restoration, New Orleans, LA, 1991-1997
• Destrehan Plantation