Congratulations to Director of the MSD-EBD Program and Andrew Gordon Professor of Architecture Bill Braham, on winning the 2025-2026 Tulane Prize for Climate Change Curriculum in the Built Environment: Environmental Building Design.
Bill won the Tulane Prize for his course ARCH 7520 Fundamentals of Bioclimatic Design. This class is grounded in the classic, mid-century practices that emphasize the “passive” properties of the building envelope, of the ability of the walls, windows, and thermal mass of the building to modulate the interior climate. We also enhance and extend those practices by adapting smarter technologies, which can leverage more environmental resources to make buildings comfortable, healthy, and energy efficient. It combines principles of biology, climatology, and building science empowering architects to develop new forms of building that improve habitability. The course begins with structured exercises using analytical tools and techniques which are then developed in case studies of exemplary bioclimatic buildings.
The Tulane Center on Climate Change and Urbanism awards this prize annually to faculty members who demonstrate excellence in the development of core and elective curriculum in climate change and the built environment. The selected awardees and honorees represent benchmark contributions for their work in developing cutting-edge curriculum relating to climate change mitigation and adaptation in the training of future urban planners, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and other allied professions of the built environment.
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