Trained as an architect and a practicing architect until 2016, Errol Barron now works primarily as a painter. For many years he has taught at the Tulane University School of Architecture and is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. In 2012, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Louisiana Architects Association and in 1995 was awarded the prestigious Gabriel Prize from the Western European Architecture Foundation. He is the author of five books: Observation, New Orleans Observed, Roma Osservata, Tulane Observed, and A Tradition of Serenity: The Tropical Houses of Ong-ard Satrabhandhu. Errol Barron is a graduate of Tulane and Yale Universities, and his work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally since 1980.
