JOURNALS


Published Journal Papers

"Two Projects - A Memorial for Women in the Military and a Bridge in Charlottesville”, co-authored with Ellen Dunham-Jones, Modulus-The Architectural Review at the University of Virginia, Politics and Architecture, Volume 21, 1991. This extended discussion of two design projects focuses on civic possibilities for current architecture.

“Alchemical Transformation: Building into Architecture”, co-authored with Ellen Dunham-Jones, OZ - Journal of the College of Architecture and Design, The Significance of Number, Kansas State University, Volume 13, 1991. This extended discussion of a design project looks to architecture as a formal, poetic and tectonic synthesis.


Conference Presentations with Proceedings

-Wall Housing: Three Prototypes “, Presentation at the ACSA International Conference in Rome, Italy, May 29-June 2, 1999. The general topic of the conference is design in the contemporary city. Wall Housing, a subset of the "I 10-The gulf Coast States" research project addresses urban issues of place and proposes new sites for building and housing.

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, published in Proceedings:

"Two Scupper Houses or The Shotgun and Dogtrot Revisited", in association with Brian D. Andrews, ACSA Annual Meeting, 1997. NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD. -first presented at the ACSA Northeast Regional meeting at Rodger Williams University in Bristol Rhode island where it was voted the best design paper at the conference, 1997.

“Highway/Wall Housing,” in association with Brian D. Andrews, ACSA Annual Meeting, 1995. NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD.

"Two (2) Projects @ Two (2) Scales, (Clothes Hanger and Towards ANOTHER GLASS HOUSE (inverted) (in green)", Annual Meeting, in association with Starling Keene, Charleston, SC, 1993. SPECIAL MENTION.

“Origlio/Vanderbilt, Apartment - The Mirror and the Window”, Architecture Back ... To ... Life, exhibition and lecture, ACSA Annual Meeting, 1991. (National audience)

“Louisiana House—Scupper House”, Architecture Back…To…Life, ACSA Annual Meeting, 1991.

“Free Bridge and the Rivanna River Waterfront”, ACSA Annual Meeting, co-authored with Ellen Dunham-Jones, ACSA Annual Meeting, 1991.

“Story Box - Narrative and Formal Transformation”, Proceedings of the 8th Annual Beginning Student Conferences, Arizona State University, School of Architecture, 1991.

Invited Conference Presentations

Invited moderator for the Design Pedagogy Session, the topic is Formal Manipulation, ACSA International Conference in Rome, Italy, May 29-June 2, 1999.


Other Invited Lectures

"Design and Research-Selected Projects", invited lecture to Ph.D. seminar at the Georgia Tech COA, 5 26 99.

"Current Work", Andrews and LeBlanc, University of New Mexico, fall 1999.

"I 10-The Gulf Coast States", University of Tennessee, 1997.

"Furniture and Other Things Which Move", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, March 10, 1995.

"Dean's Forum", BSA Build Boston, World Trade Center, Boston, MA, 1995. An invited talk to discuss current issues related to architectural education centering on the relation of the academy to the profession. W. Jude LeBlanc represented the Harvard GSD while Fred Cotter (Yale) and Allan Balfour (Renselier) were among the speakers representing other schools.

"Santiago Callotrava’s Alamo Bridge in Seville", Colloquium on International Construction, Harvard Graduate School of Design, April 8-10, 1994. An invited lecture to discuss the implications for architects of infrastructure design related to civic art.

"Projects in Place", selected projects, Ohio State University, January 20, Columbus, OH, 1993.

“Projects in Place”, selected projects, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 1991.

“Freedom within Limits -- The Paintings of Johannes Vermeer and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock”, included in the film and lecture series, Image of the City in Film, sponsored by the Student Planners Association, University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Charlottesville, VA, 1991.

“Recent Work: Dunham-Jones and LeBlanc Architects”, co-presented with Ellen Dunham-Jones, School of Architecture Lecture Series, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA, 1991. Invited lecture to discuss recent work done in collaboration with Ellen-Dunham-Jones, including the Goldstein Studio and the Freebridge project, both sited in Charlottesville, VA.

“Construction: Nature, Art & Architecture”, The Kunstking, The Hague, Holland, 1988.

“Painting & Building: Rauschenberg and Gehry”, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1987. An invited lecture, the topic of which is a comparison and contrast between the work of an artist and an architect.