2011 / 2012


2010 / 2011
Liane Hancock has joined the Faculty at Louisiana Tech University School of Architecture as full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor. Liane will be teaching foundation level studios and history/theory courses. Liane has recently curated the exhibit Material Landscapes at the Sheldon Art Gallery in St. Louis which features the work of STOSS Landscape+Urbanism, D.I.R.T. Studio, dlandstudio, Eskyiu, KBAS, LeggeLewisLegge, PEG and Wanted Landscape. It remains open to the public until mid January.

The School of Architecture welcomes back Ian Macaskill, RIBA, to the School of Architecture to serve as an adjunct professor. Macaskill practiced architecture in South Africa for over a decade before serving as a member of the Louisiana Tech University faculty from 1984-1989. From 1989 until 2008, he served as head of the Design Department in the Louisiana architecture office of Architecture+.

Professional-In-Residence Walter Green was invited this summer to join the stable of artists represented by The Michael McCormick Gallery in Taos, New Mexico. He currently exhibits twelve original oil paintings at the gallery, covering his work from the past three decades


New work of Assistant Professors Troy Malmstrom and Michael Williams was featured at Louisiana Tech University's Enterprise Center Gallery from 16 September through 13 October. The exhibition of work displayed objects and installations exploring digital and analog fabrications and methods of production.

Professor Guy Carwile received a grant from the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation for the documentation to HABS standards of the Municipal Memorial Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana. His continuing research on the former Jack Tar Hotel addition in Galveston was featured in the Society for Commercial Archeology Journal (Spring 2011).


Assistant Professors Stephanie Carwile and Troy Malmstrom and a group of Interior Design students are working with the OMSA (Ouachita Medical Society Alliance) and the Northeast Louisiana Children's Museum this fall to design, fabricate and install a new exhibit. The 12'x16' space will be a permanent part of the museum's "Health Hall" and will provide a medical related educational and imaginative play environment to include an operating room, neonatal unit and pharmacy. All funding for this project is provided by OMSA and donations from regional medical centers and physicians. The Children's Museum provides educational play and entertainment for northeast Louisiana pre-k through grade school systems as well as member families.


Assistant Professor Pasquale De Paola spent five weeks in Italy this summer researching, documenting and finishing up his doctoral work: A Question of Method: Architettura Razionale and the XV Milan Triennale of 1973, which he will be defending at the beginning of October at Texas A&M University. During those five weeks, Professor De Paola also attended several workshops/conferences in Rome and Naples. At the MAXXI in Rome, Pasquale participated to the event Architecture Visions/Erratic language in architectural narrative: Playing the Scene; this happening was highlighted by documentary followed by a critical debate which analyzed the formal interaction existing between the architectural object and its urban background. Pasquale also attended the informal Workshop of Architecture and Urban Photography, a meeting organized by the International Society of Biourbanism, which involved the study or Rome's dynamical transformations of its urban fabric through photography and cartographic mapping. While in Naples, and Avellino, De Paola's home town, he participated as a guest speaker to two public debates that addressed the necessity for a new comprehensive regional and urban plan that deals with issues related to the planning of new solid waste management collector points in the Campania.


Introduction to Ruston's newest park:
Huckleberry Trails Park and Nature Area
You are all invited to the "Introduction" of Huckleberry Trails Park & Nature Area this Thursday (September 29) at 5:00 - Flyer. The creation of the park was a truly collaborative effort by the School of Architecture. Alexis Wreden, Landscape Architect, created the master plan for the park several years ago. Robert Brooks (Assistant Professor) oversaw Michael McCune and Cassidy Keim's outdoor classroom (Graduate Program 2007-08). Michael Williams (Assistant Professor) and Troy Malstrom (Assistant Professor) spring 2010 studio designed proposals for the park. The winning /selected team of David Guzman, Iroha Ito, Daniel Mitchell, and Cameron Treme designed, fabricated and installed the park's sign, stepping stones, and kiosk over the last school year. I hope you can make it out on Thursday evening.


Tim Hayes, associate professor of architecture, will be exhibiting paintings in an upcoming show at Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles, Ca. Tim will be showing two paintings entitled, "No Snow" and The Downhill Ride." Tim uses primarily acrylic paint on panel with applications of fabric and paper on many of his works. Tim's Website . http://hayestim.com/

The show entitled Music in Art will run from December 4, 2010 to January 8, 2011 with an artists' reception Sat. Dec 4, 6-8pm.
Couturier Gallery website: http://www.couturiergallery.com/



Pasquale DePaolo and Troy Malmstrom have both joined the Faculty at Louisiana Tech University School of Architecture as full-time tenure-track Assistant Professors. Pasquale DePaolo will be teaching foundation level studios and history/theory courses. Troy Malmstrom will, in addition to teaching second and third year studios, focus on the development of the Schools digital technologies.

Assistant Professor Michael Williams has received tenure and William T. Willoughby has been promoted to Professor and continues to serve as the Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

Assistant Professor Robert Brooks was appointed to Graduate Program Coordinator for the School of Architecture.

Professor Guy W. Carwile has received a grant from the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation to perform HABS documentation on the Old Bank of Minden building in Webster Parish. Assistant Professor

Pasquale DePaola is currently completing a paper on the "Continuity of Rational Methodology in Architecture" which deals with the historical positioning of the Enlightenment, the Proto-Razionalismo of early 20th Century, and the architecture of the Neo Rationalists of La Tendenza. In its Italian version, the paper has been accepted for presentation in January of 2011 at the Universita' Federico II in Naples.

Assistant Professors Stephanie Carwile and Damon Caldwell have an upcoming exhibition at the Louisiana Tech Enterprise Center entitled "That Which Remains" which will feature recent paintings and quilted textiles. In addition to the show, They will also be conducting an "Artists Meet" with local area school children and presenting as a part the Art and Entrepreneurship Lecture Series.

Assistant Professor Robert Brooks exhibited work at the invited juried exhibition "Art with a View" in Monroe Louisiana. Mr. Brooks won Overall Honorable Mention with his mixed media collage entitled "until proven"; Third Place with his acrylic and mixed media collage entitled "aeneous lucana" and First Place with his mixed media assemblage entitled "bitch".

The School of Architecture and the Department of History collaborated to offer Tech Berlin, a five-week study abroad program in June/July 2011. This program will continue to be offered to all university students in alternating summers with Tech Florence, another study abroad collaboration with the University's School of Architecture and Department of History.