School releases The ReView, 4rd Edition: Emergency
September 28, 2026
BY Rawad nahhas
The ReView, 4rd Edition: Emergency, Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment's annual publication featuring the work of students and faculty from the 2024-25 academic year, was released in September. To celebrate the book launch, programming included an invited lecture by noted architect and alumna Jing Liu, AIA (M.Arch '04), followed by a discussion with faculty book contributors Assia Crawford, Sonsoles Vela Navarro, and Shawna Meyer.
Through its focus on the Emergency, the fourth edition of The ReView shares studio descriptions, faculty and student research projects, and compelling faculty essays that explore the relationship between planning and adaptation in a world shaped by overlapping environmental, social, technological, and political crises. The volume examines how the built environment can respond to uncertainty through creativity, resilience, and innovation.
Organized around six thematic chapters—Emergency; Uncertainty as a Driver of Innovation; Planning: Systems Thinking in Education and Practice; Spontaneous Order in Deliberate Planning; Adaptation: Stability and Change; and Mitigation or Adaptation? Adaptation or Reaction?—the publication explores topics ranging from public space and community preparedness to living biomaterials, architectural elasticity, climate justice, urban governance, and the future of professional education. Situated within the ecological realities of the Gulf South yet addressing challenges of global significance, The ReView 4 contributes to contemporary architectural discourse by proposing that emergency should not only be understood as a threat demanding urgent reaction, but also as an opportunity to rethink permanence, embrace uncertainty, and imagine more equitable and adaptive futures.
In a world shaped by emergency, planning means preparing the ground for the unexpected, and adaptation means designing with uncertainty as an ally.
Patricia Fraile Garrido, The ReView #4 Editor
With Contributions of
Iñaki Alday, Richard Campanella, Rubén García Rubio, Cristóbal Molina Baeza, Sonsoles Vela Navarro, John Renne, Cordula Roser Gray, Patricia Fraile Garrido, Emilie Taylor Welty, Patti Dunn, Daniela Rivero Bryant, Andrew Liles, Assia Crawford, Rebecca Choi, Jesse M. Keenan, Tyler Antrup, and featuring selected academic work produced by students from the Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment during the 2024–2025 academic year.
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