Common Good
Fall 2025 - Spring 2026
Invited Lectures held Mondays at 5:15pm, unless otherwise noted
Thomson Hall (Room 202), Richardson Memorial Hall
Tulane University's Uptown Campus, New Orleans LA
You're invited to the Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment's 2025-2026 Lecture Series “Common Good.”
This lecture series and programming – in parallel with the school's next issue of The ReView book to be launched January 2026 – explores the values around what Michael Sandel defines as “practical wisdom” and “civic virtue,” about building long-term relationships, about a sense of agency, shared responsibility and ownership, and about a strategic and holistic vision that embraces all the disciplines of the built environment. A built environment that is alive and meaningful only when it works for the common good.
What is the ethical, social and intellectual commitment of the built environment education around the common good? What does it mean to learn and practice for the common good? How can the education – in architecture, design, real estate, urbanism, preservation or landscape architecture – be formulated to this end?
The Fall 2025 Invited Guests and Speakers include:
Garnette Cadogan
Monday, September 29, 2025 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT
Invited lecture by Garnette Cadogan, Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism, MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
Mary W. and Arthur Q. Davis Lecture
Sean Burkholder, Karen M'Closkey, Keith VanDerSys
Monday, October 13, 2025 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT
Invited lecture by University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design's Sean Burkholder, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture; Karen M'Closkey, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture; and Keith VanDerSys, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture.
NASEM-GRP Grant for the Gulf Coast Climate Futures Project and Tulane Center on Climate Change and Urbanism
Carlos González, Santiago Luján, GOMA
Monday, October 20, 2025 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT
Invited lecture by Carlos González, Udo Muchow, Santiago Luján, Principal Architects, GOMA.
Allen Eskew Endowed Fund Lecture
Inspirations - Five Practices
Saturday, October 25, 2025 | 11am CT
A symposium, organized by Carol McMichael Reese, Emerita Professor, Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment.
Invited presenters:
Deborah Berke, FAIA
Edward P. Bass Dean and J.M. Hoppin Professor, Yale University School of Architecture, and Founder, TenBerke Architects
Mary McLeod
Professor of Architecture, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Amy Murphy, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, University of Southern California School of Architecture
Joan Ockman
Adjunct Professor, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Diana Thater
Artist/Curator/Writer/Educator and Chair of Art, ArtCenter College of Design
Juan Alfonso Garduño Jardón
Monday, November 3, 2025 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT
Invited lecture by Juan Alfonso Garduño Jardón, Co-founder and Pincipal, G3 Arquitectos.
Walter Wisznia Memorial Lecture
Questions? Please reach out to Ben Neal bneal1@tulane.edu.
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