Cordula Roser Gray was a Professor of Practice at the Tulane School of Architecture. She was an architect/designer and the principal of crgarchitecture, a multidisciplinary, collaborative design firm based in New Orleans. crgarchitecture, often in conjunction with other practitioners and organizations, investigated multi-scalar responses to immediate contextual conditions, merging urban analysis, urban prototyping, planning, and academic research with the challenges of identifying and connecting local and extended communal opportunities. With experience both abroad and nationally, the firm focused on developing proposals that addressed economic, ecological, and cultural aspects at the community scale, from residential to urban master planning frameworks.
Roser Gray was actively engaged in numerous projects that encouraged social entrepreneurship, environmental responsibility, and communal start-up scenarios—goals aligned with human-centered thinking and innovation. As a Social Entrepreneurship professor, she sought to identify opportunities to connect academia with entrepreneurship and to develop interdisciplinary concepts for urban place-making through citizen-focused prototyping and master planning.
Roser Gray received her diploma in Architecture from the Technische Fachhochschule in Berlin, Germany, and was a registered architect in New York and Louisiana.
Cordula Roser Gray held the Kylene and Brad Beers Professorship II of Social Entrepreneurship and the Cole Fellowship from 2018 to 2021.