Architecture Program Report Tulane University New Orleans ...

Autodesk Maya 2008
Microsoft Office 2007
Rhino version 4 with Flamingo
ArcGIS ver 9
Sketchup
Network, internet: Wireless network 802.11b available throughout the
building. Additionally, Studios have Ethernet jacks at each student
station.
Network Storage: 1Terrabyte Shared Public folder accessed via FTP.
EXTERNAL INFORMATION RESOURCES
As stated in the Undergraduate Catalog, ‘Tulane students find that the
City of New Orleans is a source of learning and intellectual challenge.
“The test of a first-rate intelligence,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, “is the
ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain
the ability to function.” New Orleans can offer such a test, for in few
American cities today do the past and the future unite so intensely’.
For architecture students, the City of New Orleans is an extended field
laboratory in which speculative ventures, real world experiences,
infrastructural feats, historic landmarks, vernacular traditions, the
physical issues associated with social and economic stratification, and
building aesthetics can all be entertained. Moreover, the City and its
Environs house unique and accessible archives and collections. During
the course of their educational careers, students become acquainted
with a number of these ‘information sources’, some of which are detailed
below.
On Tulane’s campus there are a number of information resources pertinent
to architecture. The aforementioned Southeastern Architectural Archives
is joined by the Latin American Library (housed in Howard-Tilton
Memorial Library), the Maxwell Music Library (housing the Hogan Jazz
Archives),* and the Tulane Manuscripts Collections (the city’s most
comprehensive collection archives on New Orleans history), all of which
provide valuable on-campus sources of information on architecture.
Students are encouraged to experience the wealth of information
provided by other organizations, some of the most prominent of which
are cited below. In addition, the University of New Orleans, home of a
strong urban planning department, also has field research materials, as
well as an adequate library housing information on architecture and
urban design.
*(While it may be difficult at first to understand why the Hogan Jazz
Archives would contain information on architecture, it should be noted
that architecture and urbanism provided the venues in which jazz as a
music form and cultural condition evolved.)
TULANE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SYSTEM