John P. Klingman currently holds a Favrot Professorship in Architecture at Tulane University where he has been a faculty member since 1983. He has long been interested in issues of infrastructure in relation to architecture. In conjunction with the post-katrina international Dutch Dialogues initiative spearheaded by the New Orleans architectural firm Waggonner and Ball Architects, his current upper level design studio focus relates architectural design to issues of water engagement in the city, from individual buildings to urban design proposals.