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, 6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
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 Spring 2026 Invited Guests and Speakers include:
The ReView: Common Good
Monday, Jan. 12, 2026 | 5:15pm - 6:30pm CT
Invited lecture by Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, Principal and Founder, Marlon Blackwell Architects. The lecture will be followed a discussion with faculty book contributors Margarita Jover and Tiffany Lin and previous faculty book editor Andrea Bardón de Tena. Current book editor Patricia Fraile will begin the event with a book introduction.
Pre-lecture reception bites and drinks and book sales begin at 4:30pm in the Favrot Lobby (2nd Floor) in Richardson Memorial Hall. The main event begins at 5:15pm in Thomson Hall (Room 202) in Richardson Memorial Hall.
Multiplied Displacements: The Climate-Housing Nexus
January 15-17, 2026
This conference seeks to discuss research, policy, and practice at the nexus of climate change, housing, and human mobility in cities around the globe.
Jointly hosted by the University of Toronto School of Cities, Boston University Initiative on Cities, and Tulane University Center on Climate Change and Urbanism.
Jonathan Bell, PhD
Monday, January 26, 2026 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT
"Heritage Preservation as a Tool for Change"
Invited lecture by Jonathan S. Bell, PhD, Senior Vice President for Global Preservation Strategy and Founding Director, Suzanne Deal Booth Institute for Heritage Preservation.
Laura and Sonny Shields Preservation Lecture
Brenna Walraven
Monday, February 9, 2026 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT
"Sustainability in Commercial Real Estate: At the Intersection of the Business Case and the Common Good"
Invited lecture by Brenna Walraven, BOMA Fellow, BOMI-HP, CPM, RPA, Executive Strategic Advisor, RE Tech Advisors.
Mary W. and Arthur Q. Davis Lecture
"Across the Aisle: Infrastructure and the Common Good"
Monday, February 23, 2026 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT
Moderated discussion with Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment faculty John Renne, Liz Camuti, and Josh Lewis, featuring guest panelists:
- Sen. Patrick Connick (R-Marrero) Chair, Louisiana State Senate Transportation, Highways and Public Works
- Sen. Gary M. Carter, Jr., (D-New Orleans) Vice Chair, Louisiana State Senate Transportation, Highways and Public Works
Miquel Adrià
Monday, March 2, 2026 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT
Invited lecture by Dr. Miquel Adrià, Director, Arquine.
Allen Eskew Endowed Lecture
Garnette Cadogan
Monday, March 16 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT (NOTE: This lecture was originally scheduled Sept. 29, 2025)
Invited lecture by Garnette Cadogan, Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism, MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
Mary W. and Arthur Q. Davis Lecture
Dan Etheridge
Monday, March 30 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT
"Climate Disaster and Reconstruction in Australia: the Living Lab Northern Rivers mode"
Invited lecture by Dan Etheridge, Engagement Director, Living Lab Northern Rivers.
Sponsored by the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design
8 Minutes, 20 Seconds: Housing After Banking Encrypting the Sun
Monday, April 6
Panel conversation with Jesse M. Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning at Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment, and Director of the Tulane Center on Climate Change and Urbanism, and featuring:
- Michael Bell, Professor, Columbia University; Bell-Seong Architecture
- Eunjeong Seong, Adjunct Associate Professor, CCE, Pratt Institute; Bell-Seong Architecture
Sponsored by the Tulane Center on Climate Change and Urbanism
“Water Paradoxes” Atacama Desert Project Symposium
Saturday, April 11
Featuring:
- Cecilia Puga and Pilar Alliende, Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
- Maritza Jadrijevic, Chile National Climate Change Adaptation Plan
- Carlos Foxley, Chilean Desalination Association (ACADES)
- Mariana Concha, Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (CODELCO)
- Pedro Alonso, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Sponsored by the Tulane's Center on Climate Change and Urbanism and the Saul A. Mintz Global Research Studios
The Fall 2025 Invited Guests and Speakers include:
POSTPONED: Garnette Cadogan
Monday, September 29, 2025 | 5:15pm - 7pm CT (UPDATE: This lecture has been rescheduled to March 16, 2026)
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
CES credits are available, thanks to support from AIA New Orleans.
Questions? Please reach out to Ben Neal bneal1@tulane.edu.
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