This keynote presentation, by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Director of Design Steve Dumez, FAIA, outlined our firm's practice model, our internal strategies, and our design philosophy for members of the AIA Alabama Chapter at their 2012 State Conference.

1. BUILDING COMMUNITY
ESKEW + DUMEZ + RIPPLE
ALABAMA COUNCIL AIA
AUBURN KEYNOTE ADDRESS
13 JULY 2012

5. The function of the imagination is not to
make strange things settled, so much as
to make settled things strange.
G. K. Chesterton

8. “Incoherence, or more precisely, randomness, is the underlying structure of
all architects’ careers: they are confronted with an arbitrary sequence of demands,
with parameters they did not establish, in countries they hardly know, about issues
they are only dimly aware of, expected to deal with problems that have proved
intractable to brains vastly superior to their own. Architecture is by definition a
chaotic adventure.”

9. S , M , L , XL
KATE AND LAURENCE EUSTIS CHAPEL AT OCHSNER CLINIC PROSPECT.1 WELCOME CENTER
New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana

10. S , M , L , XL
ROSA F. KELLER LIBRARY & COMMUNITY CENTER ST. MARTHA CATHOLIC CHURCH
New Orleans, Louisiana Harvey, Louisiana

11. S , M , L , XL
ESTUARINE HABITATS & COASTAL FISHERIES RESEARCH CENTER LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM
Lafayette, Louisiana Baton Rouge, Louisiana

12. S , M , L , XL
REINVENTING THE CRESCENT: NEW ORLEANS RIVERFRONT PLAN VETERANS AFFAIRS REPLACEMENT MEDICAL CENTER
New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana

13. Lightning Field Sun Tunnels
Walter De Maria Nancy Holt
1977 1976

15. LIGO/Caltech Education Outreach Center
Livingston Observatory, Louisiana

21. LIGO Kinetic Pendulum Wall
122 aluminum tubes arrayed over 100 feet of building façade
Each pendulum is 27 feet long, counterbalanced and magnetically
coupled with its adjacent neighbor to demonstrate the transfer of
wind energy across the facade
Maximum displacement - 7 feet, with a natural period of ~ 9s.

22. University Art Museum
UL Lafayette, Louisiana

23. ULL University Art Museum
A. Hays Town
1967

24. Heaven and Earth
Bill Viola
1992

30. Lamar Advertising Headquarters
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

32. New Headquarters Existing Headquarters

34. Strategy of Voids

35. Strategy of Voids

36. Garden Courtyard

37. Bleacher Stair

38. Bleacher Stair

39. Boardroom / Conference

40. Lunch Terrace

41. 930 Poydras Apartments
New Orleans, Louisiana

43. BUILDING SECTION LOOKING NORTH

44. PARKING
PARKING

45. 40%
35%
45%
GLASS
30%
=
GLASS
10%
0%
GLASS
10%

46. POYDRAS ELEVATION

50. Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
New Orleans, Louisiana

56. CORE VALUES

57. U.S. RECESSIONS

58. EDR STUDIO STAFFING

59. EDR STUDIO STAFFING

60. PROJECT FEE SCHEDULE

61. PROJECT FEE SCHEDULE
Weighted Overhead Factor

62. PROFITIBILITY MATRIX
Weighted Overhead Factor
Project Profitability

63. FIRMWIDE PERFORMANCE

64. LEADERSHIP GUIDE

65. WHAT WE SEEK
collaboration work ethic talent

66. WHAT WE (also) SEEK

67. WHAT WE EXPECT

68. PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE PROGRAM
VISION To provide an optimal environment in which
aspiring professionals achieve appropriate
licensing/certification in their core competency
MISSION To foster opportunities specific to the emerging
professional within a nationally competitive studio environment
that pushes the boundaries on projects of design, technology
and social significance

69. CANDIDATE COMMITMENT

70. POST-LICENSURE COMMENDATION
2009 2010 2011

71. WHAT WE D0

72. EDR FELLOWSHIP
VISION To give back to the profession by providing unique
opportunities that elevate the role of emerging young
professionals
MISSION To provide meaningful and unique professional
experience within a studio-based research environment
OUTCOME To perform quantitative research, documentation,
and analysis related to environmental controls and building
performance on built works within the firm's portfolio and in
the greater collection of works in the New Orleans region
http://www.eskewdumezripple.com/#/news/edr-announces-new-fellowship-program/

73. BENCHMARKING PERFORMANCE

78. WHY IT MATTERS