Scott Bernhard

Associate Dean for Academics

Associate Professor of Architecture

Scott Bernhard has been a member of the faculty since 1990. He has served as both Associate Dean and Interim Dean of the School and was Director of the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design (formerly Tulane City Center) from 2007 to 2012.

Bernhard is the recipient of numerous teaching awards at the school and across Tulane University.

His teaching awards include the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching, the Inspirational Teacher Award, and the Excellence in Teaching Award, university-wide honors bestowed by Tulane. He was the 1995 Tulane School of Architecture Professor of the Year, and won the Malcolm Heard Teaching Award in 2001, in 2007 and again in 2012. He was made an honorary alumnus of Tulane University in 2017. He is a licensed Architect and principal of a small, collaborative, research and design practice focused on building in the climate and context of New Orleans. He has built more than a dozen residential additions and minor buildings in New Orleans and the surrounding region, winning three AIA Honor Awards and other local and national awards for his work. Since 2001, he has taught studio and seminar courses investigating the subject of multi-family housing. His current research and publications includes work on the complexities of the urban fabric in New Orleans, on the relationship between architecture and social entrepreneurship and on the nature of community in raised dwellings.