Robert Brooks
Assistant Professor

EMAIL
mbrooks@latech.edu

EDUCATION
2005 [Master of Architecture] Cranbrook Academy of Art
2001 [Bachelor of Architecture] Cum Laude, Auburn University School of Architecture
ACEDEMIC EXPERIENCE
2006-Present [Assistant Professor] Louisiana Tech University School of Architecture
2005-2006 [Acting Visiting Assistant Professor] Louisiana Tech University School of Architecture
2005 [Lead Instructor] Cranbrook Academy of Art Summer Institute
2004-2005 [Graduate Teaching Assistant] Cranbrook Academy of Art
1999-2000 [Teaching Assistant] Auburn University School of Architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005-Present [Designer] ALB Studios, Ruston, Louisiana
2003-2005 [Sculptors Apprentice] Terry Lee Dill Art, Pontiac, Michigan
1999-2003 [Senior Intern Architect] Cummings Architecture, Hall Baumhauer Tharp McCormick and B+R Architecture and Interior Design

APPOINTMENTS
2007 [Co-Curator] The Things We Want; Hale Gallery, Louisiana Tech University School of Architecture (scheduled)
2007 [Faculty Representative] American Institute of Architecture Students; School of Architecture, Louisiana Tech University
2006 [Member] School of Architecture Development & Human Resources Committee; Louisiana Tech University
2006 [Co-Curator] The Things We Make; Lyons Share Gallery, Fairhope, Alabama
2006 [Co-Curator] Annual Student Show; Hale Gallery, Louisiana Tech University School of Architecture
2005 [Co-Curator] Holy Sit! Fourth Annual Cranbrook Chair Show; Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan.
2005 [Student Representative] Cranbrook Academy of Art Faculty Search Committee
2003 [Secretary] Mobile Chapter American Institute of Architects, Mobile, Alabama
2003 [Publisher and Editor] AIA Mobile Newsletter, Mobile, Alabama

EXHIBITIONS
2006 [The Things We Make] Faculty Art Exhibition; Lyons Share Gallery, Fairhope, Alabama
2005 [Graduate Degree Show] Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2005 [Holy Sit!] Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit; Detroit, Michigan
2005 [Create Hamtramck!] Hamtramck Beautification Commission, Hamtramck, Michigan
2004 [The Myth of Site Specificity] Cranbrook Academy of Art Forum Gallery
2003 [When Things Go Terribly Wrong] Cranbrook Academy of Art Forum Gallery
2003 [Seating Arrangements] Gallery 4731, Detroit, Michigan
2002 [Still Life] Camera South Photography Exhibition; Mobile, Alabama
2001 [Residue: A Gallery Exhibit] Auburn School of Architecture; Auburn, Alabama
2001 [Thesis Exhibit: In Search of Art in Architecture] Auburn School of Architecture
2001 [Alternative Art in Alternative Spaces] Selected Work; Fairhope, Alabama
2000 [Selected Work] Maralyn Wilson Gallery Birmingham, Alabama

PRESENTATIONS/CRITIQUES/LECTURES
2007 [Presenter] Symposium on Architecture for the 21st Century LSU School of Architecture Baton Rouge, Louisiana (scheduled)
2007 [Invited Critic] Master of Landscape Architecture Thesis Reviews; Auburn University School of Architecture (scheduled)
2006 [Presenter] University of Louisiana System Service Learning Conference; Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2006 [Invited Critic] Annual Wood Competition; Auburn University School of Architecture and Tuskegee University
2005 [Invited Critic] Thesis Reviews; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Lafayette, Louisiana
2005 [Invited Critic] Annual Wood Competition; Auburn University School of Architecture
2004 [Lecture] Current Work; Daimler Chrysler World Headquarters, Rochester Hills, Michigan
2004 [Invited Critic] First Year Final Review; University of Detroit-Mercy; Detroit, Michigan
2004 [Invited Critic] Third Year Final Review; Lawrence Technological University; Detroit, Michigan
2004 [Lecture] Deep Space: Seeing Architecture in Art; University of Detroit-Mercy; Detroit, Michigan (with adjunct professor Michelle Mahaney)

REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES
2007 [Crit ] Issue 62; Project 530 (article written by alumnus Justin Roark)
2006 [Architectural Record] September 2006 (article about Project 530)
2005 [The Detroiter.com] 4th annual Cranbrook Chair Show: Holy Sit! (review)
2005 [Metro Times Detroit] 4th annual Cranbrook Chair Show: Holy Sit! (review)
2004 [Oakland County Press] Cranbrook Academy of Art Summer Institute (article)
2004 [Metro Times Detroit] 3rd annual Cranbrook Chair Show: Seating Arrangements (review)
2001 [The Mobile Press Register] The Architects of Change (feature article)