Faculty & Staff Faculty :: Graham W. Owen

Graham Owen is Associate Professor at the Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans. He has been guest critic and lecturer at a number of North American and overseas schools, and taught from 1988 to 1996 at the University of Toronto School of Architecture, and in 1996-97 at the Illinois Institute of Technology. A licensed architect in Canada and the US, he was in professional practice in Canada for over a decade. Working for several Toronto firms, he was involved in a wide variety of built projects, and his collaborative competition entries have been exhibited internationally. The Whitby Mental Health Centre, for which he was joint Senior Design architect, won design awards from the Boston Society of Architects and, both locally and nationally, from the American Institute of Architects. Editor of the inaugural edition of Architecture Canada: the Governor General’s Awards for Architecture, he has also published articles and projects in numerous North American and European journals, as well as essays in the Contemporary World Architects series (on Office dA) and Practice Practise Praxis. His edition of Inverting the Iceberg: Architecture, Ethics and Globalization is forthcoming. He has served on the editorial advisory boards of Competitions and Harvard Design Magazine, and in 1998, he co-organized, with Donna Robertson, the inaugural Myron Goldsmith Conversations on Technology and Architecture at IIT. In 2005 his work was included in the Canadian digital exhibit at Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. At Tulane, where he has won the Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching, he teaches design, Thesis research, contemporary history and theory, and advanced electives on ethics in architecture.