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John Klingman is a Favrot Professor in the School of Architecture at Tulane University. He has been a Tulane faculty member since coming to New Orleans in 1983. A graduate of Tufts in Civil Engineering and the University of Oregon in Architecture, he has long been interested in issues of infrastructure in relation to architecture. His upper level design studios at Tulane have ranged from sustainable design of individual buildings to urban design proposals within New Orleans. In 2001 he received the President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching, Tulane’s highest teaching honor.
As an architect, he has been engaged in consulting on projects in the city, notably at the U.S. Customhouse, with Waggonner and Ball Architects, and on Tulane’s Uptown Campus. His most recent campus project is the 2004-5 redesign of the facades of Monroe Hall, Tulane’s modernist dormitory; KDK were Architects of Record. Since 1995 he has volunteered as a member and now chair of an Architectural Review Committee of the New Orleans Historic Districts Landmarks Commission. He also is the sole regular architecture critic in the city, writing an annual “Best of New New Orleans Architecture” since 1997 for New Orleans Magazine. |