Lecture Series
The Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment's Lecture Series bring leading architects, designers, scholars, and practitioners to campus to share their work, research, and perspectives on the built environment. These lectures offer students and the broader community opportunities to engage with diverse ideas, emerging practices, and critical conversations shaping architecture and design today.
Current Lecture Series
Emergency Planning and Adaptation
As architects, planners, designers, and developers confront increasingly urgent environmental, social, and economic challenges, we are bringing together leaders whose work expands our understanding of how cities can adapt while creating vibrant and resilient communities.
Explore recordings from past lecture series below.
COMMON GOOD
Sean Burkholder, Karen M'Closkey, Keith VanDerSys
University of Pennsylvania
Mediating Landscapes
OCTOBER 13, 2025
Diane Thater
ArtCenter College of Design
Inspirations - Five Practices
OCTOBER 25, 2025
Mary McLeod
Colombia University
Inspirations - Five Practices
OCTOBER 25, 2025
Amy Murphy
University of Southern California
Inspirations - Five Practices
OCTOBER 25, 2025
Deborah Burke
Yale University, Tenburke architects
Inspirations - Five Practices
OCTOBER 25, 2025
Joan Ockman
University of Pennsylvania
Inspirations - Five Practices
OCTOBER 25, 2025
Juan Alfonso Garduño Jardón
G3 Arquitectos
In Public Space
November 3, 2025
Jonathan Bell, PhD
Suzanne Deal Booth Institute for Heritage Preservation
Heritage Preservation as a Tool for Change
January 26, 2026
DEBATE, DELETE, REBOOT
Rebecca Elliott, PhD
London School of Economics
Losing Ground: Values at Risk in an American Floodplain
October 18, 2021
Germane Barnes
Studio Barnes, University of Miami
Call Me If You Get Lost
november 1, 2020
Martha Schwartz
Harvard University, Martha Schwartz Partners
Geoengineering Toolkit for Designers
November 8, 2021
Washington Fajardo
Rio de Janeiro City Planning Commissioner
Reshaping Rio
November 15, 2021
Michael Meredith
Princeton University School of Architecture, MOS Architects
Schools, Houses, Housing, Books, Furniture, etc.
November 29, 2021
Hernán Díaz Alonso
SCI-Arc
Incomplete
December 6, 2021
INHABITING THE PLANET
Edson G. Cabalfin, PhD
Tulane School of Architecture and built environment
Human Inhabitation & Equity
October 19, 2020
Jesse M. Keenan, PhD
Tulane School of Architecture and built environment
Climate Core
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Andrés Jaque
Office for Political Innovation/Columbia GSAPP
Human Inhabitation & Politics
February 1, 2021
Daniela Rivero Bryant
Tulane School of Architecture and built environment
Human Inhabitation & Development
February 8, 2021
Sara Jensen Carr, PhD
A ’03, Northeastern University
Human Inhabitation & Wealth
March 1, 2021
Bryan Lee Jr.
Colloqate
Design Justice
march 29, 2021
Albert Pope
Rice Architecture
A Promethean Increment