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August 2011 At two recent architectural events — one academic, the other professional — sustainability met with both skepticism and criticism in ways I hadn’t anticipated. It suggests we have reached a point where sustainable architecture needs to be addressed more rigorously. Photography: © Prakash Patel The Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis, Maryland, by SmithGroup (2000) is the subject of a lawsuit. The academic event was a conference at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in April that focused on the place of history in architecture school curricula. Most explicit was Ellen Grimes, a

Santiago de Compostela, Spain Trisca Sociocultural Center Photo © Alan Karchmer Trisca Sociocultural Center, John Hejduk, Santiago de Compostela, Spain The late John Hejduk carved out a reputation as an influential educator when he was dean of Cooper Union’s School of Architecture in New York (1975 to 2000) and as a visionary artist in a practice-bound discipline. He built relatively little in his lifetime. Ironically, now two of Hejduk’s projects have been realized in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, both finished after his death in 2000. The first is already well known: the John Hejduk Memorial Towers, twin, 82-foot-high steel-frame structures,

Evoking the creations of a brilliant, futuristic insect, architect Michael Hansmeyer’s fantastical extrapolation of classical columns leaves no smooth surface untouched.

Twirl, an installation by Zaha Hadid Architects on display for two weeks during the 50th anniversary of the Milan Furniture Fair in April, was intended to be a contemporary interpretation of the State University of Milan’s 18th-century courtyard.

Allen Eskew / Photo courtesy Allen Eskew Tulane LavinBernick Center / Photo ' Paul Crosby Patrick F. Taylor Library / Photo ' Richard Sexton Louisiana Music Factory / Photo ' Linda Abbott Tipitinas / Photo ' Jenny Bagert Allen Eskew, FAIA, is a founding partner of the Eskew+Dumez+Ripple architectural and planning studio. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his Bachelor of Architecture from Louisiana State University. He is widely recognized as a leader in riverfront revitalization planning and the firm noted as a design leader in environmental education, cultural, and civic

Ammar Eloueini/Photo courtesy Ammar Eloueini 930 Poydras Residential Tower/Photo courtesy Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Lewis-Baus House Courtyard / Photo ' David Paul Ohmer Arthur Roger Gallery / Courtesy Arthur Roger Gallery Jonathan Ferrara Gallery / Courtesy Jonathon Ferrara Gallery Stella / Courtesy Stella Beirut-born, Ammar Eloueini is a registered architect who established AEDS (Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio) in 1997, an award-winning design practice in architecture, product design and digital media with offices in the United States and Europe. Eloueini is an associate professor of architecture at Tulane University. Best New Architecture “Under construction, the J-House is a house designed by my firm AEDS.

Carey Clouse/Photo © Harry Connelly St. Joseph Rebuild Center Detroit Collaborative Design Center / Photo courtesy St. Joseph Rebuild Center Phillis Wheatley Elementary School / Courtesy World Monuments Fund Special House No. 9 / Courtesy Make It Right Cochon / Courtesy Tulane School of Architecture Carey Clouse, AIA, holds a BArch from the University of Oregon and a post-professional degree in architecture and urbanism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SMArchS). She is currently an adjunct assistant professor of Architecture at Tulane University, as well as a practicing architect and co-partner of CrookedWorks Architecture in New Orleans. Clouse currently serves

John P. Klingman / Photo courtesy John P. Klingman The French Quarter / Photo ' Jan Kronsell Houses on Esplanade Avenue / Courtesy Wikipedia Doullet Houses in Holy Cross / Courtesy Wikipedia John P. Klingman holds the Richard Koch Chair in Architecture at Tulane University. For the past 15 years he has authored the annual "Best New Architecture" series for New Orleans Magazine, now being published as a book, New in New Orleans Architecture. He coordinates the thesis design studio at the Tulane School of Architecture. Best New Architecture"The Best New Architecture is subversive and emerging in surprising places, like

Judith Kinnard, FAIA / Photo courtesy Judith Kinnard, FAIA Columns Hotel / Courtesy Columns Hotel US Customs House, 1892 / Courtesy Wittemann + Albertype NOMA Sculpture Garden / Courtesy NOMA Judith Kinnard, FAIA, is an architect with a dual commitment to practice and teaching. She received her degree from Cornell University and has taught at Princeton University and Syracuse University. Her work has included numerous small-scale projects and more than a dozen national competitions dealing with larger scale issues. In 2010, she was elected president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Best New Architecture 930 Poydras “Eskew Dumez

Pamela Bryan / Photo courtesy Pamela Bryan Longue Vue House / Courtesy Louisiana Travel 5200 Dauphine / Courtesy Ryan Schmidt, UTSA. Carlos Zervigon glass sculptures / Courtesy Cole Pratt Gallery Dooky Chase Restaurant / Courtesy gwen Pamela Bryan is the director of The New Orleans Preservation Resource Center's Operation Comeback, which seeks to preserve the architecture and culture of New Orleans neighborhoods. Pamela is also owner and director of Octavia Art Gallery. Octavia Art Gallery's mission is to bring contemporary artists to New Orleans and also to showcase the cultural wealth the city has to offer. Best New Architecture 930