Daisy Dodge

Adjunct Lecturer in Design

Daisy Dodge left home to attend the University of Virginia, where she pursued an interdisciplinary range of coursework in creative writing, studio art, and environmental studies and graduated with a BA in English; she also holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and a Master of Architecture from Tulane.  

Daisy is an architect, writer, and entrepreneur based in her native New Orleans.

In her final year at Tulane, she completed the URBANbuild program, the year-long design/build practicum led by Professor Byron Mouton in which students design a home in the fall semester that they construct from the ground up in the spring, from digging foundation trenches to finishing details. After architecture school, she worked on numerous residential and commercial design projects with Nick Marshall of Chase Marshall in New Orleans, as well as with Byron Mouton in his firm, bild design, before founding Union Studios in 2017.  

Before pursuing a lifelong interest in architecture, Daisy began her career as a writer and educator. Since 1999, she has taught creative writing and English at several universities and independent secondary schools on the east and west coasts of the US and in New Orleans and Japan; most recently, she has taught architecture and design at Tulane.