where architecture and ecology meet
The City Center provides guidance and administrative support for Faculty/Student/Community collaborations generating and implementing innovative approaches to contemporary issues in the built environment. With such an approach, we are able to produce a body of work well beyond the capacity of the core staff that runs the TCC on a day-to-day basis. This core staff consists of:
Our People
Scott Bernhard
Architect and Associate Professor Scott Bernhard is the Director of the Tulane City Center and responsible for all aspects of the Center’s operation. He works with program directors, project coordinators, co-lateral organizations and institutional partners to create the context for successful outreach and research efforts. Educated at Rice University (M.Arch) and Miami University (B.E.D.), Scott is also an award-winning architect in private practice, an author focusing on New Orleans housing and urban morphology, and a tenured member of the Tulane School of Architecture Faculty. He has lectured widely about the old and new architecture of New Orleans and is pleased to present the TCC’s work to interested groups.
Dan Etheridge
As Associate Director of the TCC, Dan Etheridge takes on multiple roles from project management, to supervising students and interns, to raising grant and contract funds, and administration. Dan has a degree in Applied Environmental Management from Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia, is a Fellow of the Institute for Environmental Communications at Loyola University New Orleans, and has worked for the last five years at the intersection of regional coastal restoration strategies and urban design and policy. Dan has been published in environmental science and management journals, design publications and community advocacy forums and continues to work across these disciplines in research and practice.
Emilie Taylor
As Senior Program Coordinator at the TCC Emilie Taylor works to coordinate and assist with projects and publications of the City Center, manage the URBANbuild houses, provide graphic design, and foster relationships with the community. Emilie’s education includes a technical building background at the University of Southern Mississippi followed by a Masters Degree in Architecture at Tulane, and work with Bild design in New Orleans. She is actively involved in university design|build and advocates for the engagement of such programs with the local community. Emilie is currently teaching a course on how buildings are assembled, and is involved with a documentary project on divinely inspired self-taught builders.