Byron Mouton, clinical professor at Tulane University School of Architecture, co-
director of Tulane's URBANbuild program and principal of BILD Design Studio,
New Orleans, will speak at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on
Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. His lecture, "URBANbuild," is
sponsored by UPSTATE: A Center for Design, Research and Real Estate and is free
and open to the public.
A graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design, Mouton has more than 20 years'
experience in design-build renovation, restoration and affordable housing/new
construction. In 2007, Mouton, in partnership with TSA URBANbuild, received an
award by the New Orleans Ogden Museum for the exhibition "URBANbuild II."
Tulane URBANbuild is a comprehensive program that provides community design
services to actively support the rehabilitation of neighborhoods subject to damage in
the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Its purpose is to aid in the reconstruction of New
Orleans and to support the provision of quality affordable housing to underserved
communities by furnishing urban planning and neighborhood design services, as
well as by providing designs for low-cost and environmentally responsive housing
prototypes to areas in the city that have historically been dominated by blight and
abandonment.
Faculty and students engaged in URBANbuild studios are deployed to
neighborhoods throughout the city to develop creative and sustainable urban design
strategies, innovative designs for new housing, and proposals for site-specific urban
interventions and large-scale mixed use urban environments. As an integral
component of the URBANbuild program, faculty and students are also designing
four housing prototypes for each of the study neighborhoods and constructing one
prototype house in partnership with community nonprofit agencies that specialize in
affordable housing and neighborhood redevelopment. Over a two-year period, the
program will design 16 single- and multi-family housing prototypes, and construct
four new house prototypes to be built in the city.
Syracuse University School of Architecture is the fourth-oldest program in the United
States and consistently rated among the top architecture schools in the country. In
2008, the school's undergraduate program was ranked third in the nation by
DesignIntelligence.
For more information, visit http://soa.syr.edu.
