C. Errol Baron

Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Adjunct Professor

Having spent his fourth year at the Architectural Association in London, in 1964 Errol Barron graduated from the Tulane School of Architecture from which his father, Errol Barron, Sr. had graduated in 1918 before founding Barron, Heinberg, and Brocato in Alexandria, Louisiana. After graduation Errol Barron earned an M. Arch at Yale University, worked for Paul Rudolph in New York City, taught at Kingston Polytechnic in England, designed a house in Greece, and returned to New Orleans where he founded the firm Errol Barron/Michael Toups Architects with his Tulane classmate Michael Toups. He joined the faculty at Tulane in 1976. For more than forty years he taught, primarily design, always sharing the knowledge and skills gained from his experiences beyond the classroom – travel, work with clients, drawing and painting, playing the flute. During his tenure he was Favrot Professor of Architecture and Richard Koch Professor of Architecture. In 2025 he received the School of Architecture and Built Environment inaugural Faculty Luminary Award.

The work of Errol Barron / Michael Toups Architects received over 35 architectural design awards including for the Ogden Museum. He is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architecture and in 2012 was awarded the Gold Medal of the Louisiana Architects Association of the American Institute of Architecture in recognition of his “significant and enduring contribution to the advancement of architecture and his inspiring influence on the architects of Louisiana.”

In 2016 he closed his architecture practice to spend more time painting and drawing. Exhibiting locally, nationally, and internationally since1980 up to the present, he was awarded the Gabriel Prize from the Western European Architecture Foundation in 1995. He released a CD, The Amateur in 2004 and is the author of six books: Observation – the Architecture, Drawings and Paintings of Errol Barron, New Orleans Observed – Drawings and Observations of America’s Most Foreign City, Roma Osservata / Rome Observed, Tulane Observed, A Tradition of Serenity - The Architecture of Ongard Satrabhandhu, and The Architecture of Painting.