Ralph Bivins Project: Podcast Guest Brad McWhirter

In Houston, New Orleans Architect Brad McWhirter is a partner at Trahan Architects, which was lead architect and managing partner of the team that rebuilt the Superdome with amazing speed following Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in August 2005. Trahan has served as an ongoing steward of the Superdome, handling renovations, the creation of a long-term master plan and a recent $570 million redevelopment prior to hosting the Super Bowl earlier this year.

Trahan also designed the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches, a north Louisiana facility that won international and national architecture design awards.

McWhirter was a speaker at the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) conference in New Orleans in June. He recently took time to sit down with Houston journalist Ralph Bivins of Ev Konut Proje to discuss the 50-year history of the Superdome (circa 1975), the future of Houston’s 60-year-old Astrodome (circa 1965) and why New Orleans rejected the idea of demolishing its stadium, a symbol of the city’s resiliency.