Bruce Goodwin

Associate Professor of Architecture

Bruce Goodwin is an Associate Professor at Tulane, a licensed architect in Louisiana and California, and a LEED-accredited professional. He has taught at Tulane since 1981 and has also taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and at Ohio State University. His built work has been published in Architecture + Urbanism, Fine Homebuilding, and other journals and magazines, and his articles and essays have appeared in local, national, and international periodicals and collections. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Ogden Museum, the New Century Gallery, the Hilson Gallery, the Urban Center in New York, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and elsewhere in the U.S., as well as at galleries in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and Rome. He has lectured at universities, conferences, and AIA meetings in nine states.

He has won the Teaching Award at the School of Architecture and the Service Award from the ACSA. Under his direction thirteen TSA students have been honored in national design competitions. 

Prof. Goodwin graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from Stanford University with a B.A. in Architecture. He received his M.Arch. degree from UCLA, where he won the AIA School Medal, the Alumni Association Award for Academic Distinction, and the Thesis Prize. He was named a Henry Luce Scholar in 1979, providing him a fellowship to Japan. He worked in Japan for a year in the office of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Arata Isozaki. He was the only non-Japanese member of the office, not to mention the tallest person in the country.

In his independent architectural practice, Prof. Goodwin has worked on more than 40 residential and small commercial projects in California, New England, and New Orleans, as well as occasional larger competition projects (in which he has been honored on three occasions). On several projects, he worked as the contractor and one of the carpenters as well as the architect.

He has won the Teaching Award at the School of Architecture and the Service Award from the ACSA. Under his direction thirteen TSA students have been honored in national design competitions. 

Prof. Goodwin has taught and coordinated every semester of every year in the Design Studio sequence, from First Year first semester to Graduate Thesis. He also teaches seminars in Architectural Theory and has taught lecture courses in Structures and Technology and in Design Methodology.