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After Katrina, Tulane’s Architecture School turns into a community center

United States Architecture News - Aug 10, 2015 - 09:17   3522 views

After Katrina, Tulane’s Architecture School turns into a community center

The Tulane City Center helped design and build New Orleans' Grow Dat Youth Farm, which employs local, disadvantaged high school students and teaches them about urban agriculture. Will Crocker/Courtesy of Tulane University

It's blazingly hot outside and five summer fellows from the Tulane City Center are standing in a playground at a youth center in New Orleans. The architecture students diplomatically describe the playground's design as "unintentional": There's no grass, trees or even much shade, and it's surrounded by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. The students, both graduate and undergraduate, are there to make the playground a little nicer. "Right now, it feels like a prison," says Maggie Hansen, the center's interim director........Continue Reading

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