Jazairy, Velikov receive Honorable Achievements from Tulane Prize for Climate Change Curriculum
Two Taubman College faculty members have been recognized by the Tulane Prize for Climate Change Curriculum in the Built Environment with Honorable Achievements for Climate Change Curriculum.
El Hadi Jazairy, director of the Master of Urban Design and professor of architecture, received an Honorable Achievement for Climate Change Curriculum in Urban Design for Post Carbon Necklace: Designing for Climate Change in Boston. The studio focuses on how urban designers can help dismantle spaces of environmental violence and structural inequity brought on by climate change in the northeastern U.S. Through design informed by their own travel experiences, students articulated a concrete set of proposals to decarbonize the city of Boston, amplify public space, and better equip communities for the forthcoming effects of climate change.
Kathy Velikov, FAIA, associate dean for research and creative practice and professor of architecture, received an Honorable Achievement for Climate Change Curriculum in Innovative Studio Pedagogy for Arid Logics: Climate Coexistence in Desert America. The thesis seminar and studio explores architectural and infrastructural development as a territorial and environmental agent in the Las Vegas Valley. This once lush meadowland faces threats of water scarcity and increasing urbanization. Working across territorial, infrastructural, and material design scales, students developed design strategies embedded within ecological paradigms and speculative scenarios to envision future climate-conscious and place-based architectural practices for coexistence with the changing climate and communities in the region. This seminar and studio, including travel to the region, was sponsored by J. Windom Kimsey, B.S.Arch ’83, M.Arch ’85.
The Tulane Center on Climate Change and Urbanism, within Tulane University’s School of Architecture and Built Environment, hosts the Tulane Prize to honor faculty members for significant achievements in teaching climate change. The prize is awarded annually to faculty members who demonstrate excellence in the development of core and elective curriculum in climate change and the built environment.
Among an international roster of nominations, selected awardees and honorees represent benchmark contributions for their work in developing cutting-edge curriculum relating to climate change mitigation and adaptation in the training of future urban planners, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and other allied professions of the built environment.
Read more at the Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment.
