Residential Architect Magazine: more katrina coverage

Reinventing the Crescent: Riverfront Development Plan

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:11:32 EST

New Orleans / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

Miletus Group's Shotgun House Project

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:40:20 EST

The shotgun prototype could help ease New Orleans' housing shortage.

Green Midrise Design Competition

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:55:02 EST

USGBC launches its first multifamily mid-rise design awards.

Rightsizing By Design

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:24:20 EST

For the first time in history more than half the world's people live in cities. Now what?

Lessons to Learn at the AIA Convention in May

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:13:04 EST

After time in New Orleans at the convention, architects will help bring a region's soul back to life.

Casius Pealer Speaks About an Innovative Approach to Preservation and Housing

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:42:09 EST

Digging in sometimes means moving.

AIA 2011 Convention

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:54:28 EST

This May, the nation's architects convene in New Orleans to advance the future of vibrant, place-based design.

Gulf Coast Building Codes Still Need Improvement

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:23:57 EST

According to a recent report, Louisiana has made a good start by adopting a statewide building code, but most of Mississippi and Alabama still lack residential codes that would protect homeowners.

architects discuss lessons from post-katrina rebuilding

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:15:20 EST

On the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, the Make It Right Foundation, founded by actor Brad Pitt, hosted an architectural panel discussion, "Disaster to Opportunity: The Changing Paradigm of Redevelopment." The August 29 event, held at the Contemporary Arts Center, gave architects and representatives of organizations helping to rebuild the city's Lower Ninth Ward an opportunity to share lessons learned throughout the post-disaster rebuilding process.

students design houses for new orleans

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:29:25 EST

the bayou district at park city, new orleans

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:10:15 EST

When Hurricane Katrina roared through New Orleans, it devastated the already deteriorating St. Bernard Housing Development. Fast-track plans to demolish and rebuild the area resulted in this design our judges calle

documentary follows university design/build program

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:43:01 EST

cover story: after the storm

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:48:59 EST

In this report, we've endeavored to illuminate the good and the bad, the true signs of hope and the harsh realities of its absence. Over and over, Gulf Coast architects emphasize that people around the country need to know what's really going on in this still-devastated but still-compelling area.

project: cottage industry

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:10:47 EST

When 170-some New Urbanists convened the Mississippi Renewal Forum in Biloxi, Miss., to brainstorm the Gulf Coast reconstruction, they knew it would be a long row to hoe. Two years and dozens of charrettes later, work is still under way to rewrite planning codes that support thoughtful, mixed-use development, and funding is just starting to trickle in. But while large-scale planned communities remain stuck in the pipeline, there is real progress on a smaller scale. With or without funding, a handful of New Urbanist firms are moving from sketches to sticks and bricks. They're going block by block, getting affordable, high-quality architecture built on infill parcels, and in the process, they're showing cities what good design can accomplish.

project: house mates

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 01:44:42 EST

Design professionals agree that rebuilding in the Gulf Coast region is frustrating. Despite soaring construction costs and insurance premiums, elusive government funding, and inscrutable building codes—or perhaps because of them—the nonprofit Architecture for Humanity (AFH) launched the Biloxi Model Home Program. AFH invited a dozen architects to create affordable, sustainable, and weather-resistant single-family house prototypes and showcased the results at a House Fair in East Biloxi, Miss., last August.

project: upwardly mobile

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:10:56 EST

After working in private practice for nine years, architect Michael A. Berk shifted gears in 1990 to become a professor and researcher. His new pursuit ultimately led him to explore affordable and ecologically based factory-built housing in the rural Southeast and Delta regions, where the dynamics of poverty differ from those seen in urban centers.

profile: marcel wisznia, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:10:53 EST

When people talk about good things happening in downtown New Orleans, the name Marcel Wisznia, AIA, tends to come up. That's because this local architect/developer has completed one of the few projects built there since Hurricane Katrina—The Union Lofts, a mixed-use renovation in the Central Business District. Leasing the ground floor to a bank tenant, Wisznia and his staff converted the second through fourth floors of the former Western Union telegraph operating station into 33 furnished rental apartments with flat-screen TVs, 10-foot to 14-foot ceilings, and a rooftop deck.

profile: wayne troyer, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:08:36 EST

In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans architect Wayne Troyer, AIA, bounced between friends' houses in Alabama and Louisiana. All the while, he frantically awaited the latest news of his home city. “I e-mailed like crazy ... we were all trying to regain our sanity,” he recalls. When he finally made his way back to New Orleans and located his staff, they worked out of his house in the Lower Garden District for six months while their Warehouse District office underwent repairs.

profile: byron mouton, aia

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 04:11:29 EST

Byron Mouton, AIA, never intended to stay in his hometown of New Orleans. He left for graduate school at Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., then worked in Europe for a couple of years. On his way to San Francisco for a job interview in 1997, he stopped to see his family in the Crescent City and stayed for good. He started teaching at the architecture school at Tulane, his undergraduate alma mater, and eventually opened his own small studio, called bildDESIGN.

head above water

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:36:41 EST

I was not planning on evacuating. I never had before. My entire extended family evacuates every time there is a hurricane heading our way and I never do. I actually believed I would attend a construction meeting the next morning—Monday, Aug. 29, 2005—if t