Rose Fellowship Awarded to one of City Center’s own

Recent TSA graduate and current Tulane City Center employee, Seth Welty, will be taking his experiences and enthusiasm in community design and equitable housing solutions to the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio in Biloxi, Mississippi as a fellow of the Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship. As a Rose Fellow, Seth will help local leaders plan, design, finance and manage invididual affordable homes as well as major multi-unit construction projects. The Rose Fellowship and GCCDS are committed to promote the value of quality design and sustailable living in affordable housing and encouraging architects to become lifelong leaders in public service and community development.

Over the last several years, Seth has been involved in programs and studios in New Orleans that encourage the notion that quality design enriches everyday life in a fundamental way such that it should be provided to not only those who can afford architects and designers, but should exist in homes and everyday gathering places independent of social hierarchies. Explorations from Urbanbuild studios at TSA, the City Center non-for-profit work, and design principles from Bild Design will continue to fundamentally influence Seth’s work.

“I’ve been involved in post-storm design charettes and well-attended community meetings between area residents and urban planners in which there was much talk of change and hope, but little follow-through or tangible effects. I see the Rose Fellowship as an opportunity to affect real change in these often jaded communities who have lost some hope in their struggle to move home. The chance to engage communities and see projects through stages from conception to reality is unique to the Rose Fellowship, and indispensable to the recovery of the Gulf Coast.”

The Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship was established in 1999 by Enterprise Community Partners, a national non-profit housing and community development organization. The Fellowship creates partnerships between emerging architects and community-based organizations to direct the skills and passions of the architects in the service of low and moderate-income communities. The Fellowship is designed to promote the value of quality design and green building in affordable housing and encourages architects to become lifelong leaders in public service and community development.

Links:
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio
The Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship
Enterprise Community Partners