ABOUT THE TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND TULANE UNIVERSITY
Tulane University’s academic program in design is aligned with the School of Architecture’s many academic programs. Faculty members at Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA) teach coursework and collaborate as appropriate to their expertise across the school’s programs including Architecture (B.Arch, B.S.Arch, M.Arch and M.S.Arch Research and Design), Landscape Architecture and Engineering (M.L.A.-M.S.E.), Real Estate (B.S.R.E., M.S.R.E.D.), Preservation (M.S.H.P.), Design (B.A.Des.), Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (SISE), and the Tulane’s interdisciplinary PhD program City, Culture, and Community (CCC). Other schools, programs and centers at Tulane University provide opportunities for interdisciplinary research and collaboration, including the School of Liberal Arts creative degrees, the School of Science and Engineering, the ByWater Institute, the Murphy Institute, and other Tulane centers and schools.
We are known for our robust community outreach, design-build, and multi-disciplinary research initiatives that involve climate change, coastal and riparian crisis, historic preservation, sustainable real estate development, and the challenges of social and environmental justice. The complex nature of the Gulf region provide ample opportunities for comparative global studies. For this reason, we expect Tulane’s contributions to be of urgent relevance.
Located in New Orleans, Tulane University is a tier-one research university in the United States, member of the selected group of top research universities integrated in the AAU. The School is an innovator in the field of the built environment at multiple scales, from buildings to neighborhoods and from urban landscapes to regional planning. The City of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta are our natural domains of research, with the social and ecological challenges of the region at the forefront of contemporary discourses in global cities. The city is home to a diverse community steeped in a long history of action and exchange. Our 15th President, Mike Fitts, has strong commitments to anti-racism that the Tulane School of Architecture has taken up in multiple ways. The Tulane School of Architecture is committed to climate action and is charting a path for climate change education across each of its representative programs. Social and climate justice are interconnected phenomena that demand a new ethic of the built and unbuilt environments that is reinforced by pioneering research, teaching and service.