In this special section dedicated to design in New Orleans, we explore the past, present, and future of the city's singular built environment.

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RECORD has asked a group of notable  figures in the New Orleans design community to recommend must-visit new and  historic architecture, as well as their favorite places to eat, drink, and  shop in the city.

• Allen Eskew
• Ammar Eloueini
• Carey Clouse
• John P. Klingman
• Judith Kinnard
• Pamela Bryan
• Patricia Gay
• Wayne Troyer

Pictured: French Quarter Courtyard / Photo © David Paul Ohmer (top) and 930 Poydras Residential Tower / Photo courtesy Eskew+Dumez+Ripple (bottom)

Reports and observations from New Orleans posted by Architectural Record editors during the American Institute of Architects’ 2011 annual conference.

• AIA Contract News: Cloud-Based Service, Green Guide, and a Landmark Birthday
• Record's Sketchy AIA Booth
• From Wailing Tones of Janelle Monae to the Beautiful/Ugly Realities of Make it Right: New Orleans Offers Surprises at Every Turn
• Mark Dytham: Moving Forward in Japan
• Thomas Friedman: Green Is the New Red, White & Blue
• With School Groups and a Design Competition, Architect Barbie Makes Her Debut
• Young Architect Award Winner Ages Quickly at AIA Show
• Hot, Flat, but Not that Crowded: New Orleans Welcomes AIA Convention Goers, but Attendee Numbers Seem Thin
• Making Engineering Cool to Kids

Pictured: Thomas Friedman’s Keynote, Architect Barbie, A Make It Right House

The Shotgun House: New Orleans' Ubiquitous Building Type
Patty Gay, executive director of the Preservation Resource Center, takes us to the Irish Channel (a historically working-class neighborhood between the Mississippi River and the tawny Garden District) to explain this simple but adaptable, practical but occasionally flamboyant style of house.

Photo © Kevin R. Roberts

Make It Right Update
The ambitious operation initiated by Brad Pitt continues to move forward with more houses in construction.

Read Make It Right coverage from our archives…

• Hope Floats in New Orleans
• Gehry and Tannen Design Shotgun House for New Orleans
• Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" Unveils New Designs
• Brad Pitt Selects More Architects for "Make It Right" Project
• Make it Right
• In New Orleans, Pitt's First "Make It Right" Homes Complete
• Pitt Unveils Sustainable Designs for New Orleans
• NOLA Gets Boost from Brad Pitt's Housing Group

Photos courtesy Make It Right

The American Institute of Architects' annual conference brings many of our readers to New Orleans, May 12th - 14th. To celebrate the host city's built environment, the editors of Architectural Record invite architects and other visitors to share their images the city's best buildings, and we encourage local firms to submit examples of their own work.

Browse and Submit Images

Photo by Jenna M. McKnight

At the American Institute of Architects annual conference Architectural Record spoke with a diverse group of designers—including James Timberlake, Brad Cloepfil, Lawrence Scarpa, and many other important architects.

Brad Cloepfil

James Timberlake

Lawrence Scarpa

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi

Steve Dumez and Allen Eskew

Clifford Curry

Mark Dytham

John Ronan

David Miller

Steve McDowell

Frank Harmon

Robert Snyder and Jan Carl Willemse

Nadav Malin

Bob Murray: Design Economy Outlook

Joshua Prince-Ramus

Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architects, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi of Weiss/Manfredi, Steve Dumez and Allen Eskew of Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture

From the catastrophic flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina and the city’s first rebuilding plans to contemporary debates about preservation and progress, we look back at key New Orleans stories from the last six years.

2011

• Saving Modern New Orleans

2010

• Hope Floats in New Orleans

2009

• Lawsuit Aims to Prevent Razing of New Orleans Historic District
• What Will Happen to Charity Hospital and Other Endangered Projects?
• Despite Popularity, New Orleans Architecture High School Still Challenged

2008

• Tulane Nears Completion on Third New Orleans House
• Mid-Century Architecture at Risk in New Orleans

2007

• New Orleans Waterfront Plan Takes Shape
• Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
• URBANbuild students bring hope to New Orleans
• New Orleans Musicians Get Sound New Housing

2006

• Starchitects Invited to New Orleans Waterfront
• New Orleans Introduces First Master Plan for Rebuilding

2005

• New Orleans Architecture Firms Set Up Shop... Elsewhere
• Architects Weigh In On Rebuilding
• Elegy for a Dream Queen
• Corps Scrambling to Plug New Orleans Floodwall Breaches

Photos (from top): courtesy World Monuments Fund; Image courtesy TEN Arquitectos; Photo © Neil Alexander; Photo courtesy Bell Architects

A brief survey of notable New Orleans projects from our archives...

• Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
  L.B. Landry High School
• VJAA
  The Lavin-Bernick Center for Student Life, Tulane University
• Concordia Architects + Errol Barron / Michael Toups Architects
  Ogden Museum of Southern Art
• Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
  Kate and Laurance Eustis Chapel
• William Wilson Associated Architects
  Israel Environmental Sciences Building, Tulane University

Photos © Timothy Hursley (top); Paul Crosby (bottom)

After the Hurricanes
In the months after Hurricanes Katrina, Architectural Record launched a series of articles and design competitions to assess and analyze the disaster and to push the recovery effort forward.

View the After the Hurricanes section in our archives.

Photo © Neil Alexander

Read architecture guides to other cities from Architectural Record and GreenSource.

Record Reveals: Miami
Record Reveals: San Francisco
Record Reveals: Boston

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