Lecture

Robert J.Fakelmann
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
6:30PM, in Wyly Auditorium

2011-2012 Louisiana Tech University School of Architecture Lecture Series will present our guest, our colleague, our mentor, and our friend, Robert J. Fakelmann, recently retired Professor of Architecture at .

Robert Fakelmann is a Long-Island native and studied architecture at Texas A&M University, earning both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. After several years of practice and earning his architectural license in Texas, he arrived at Louisiana Tech University in 1980. In November 2011, he retired from Louisiana Tech University, completing over thirty-one years of outstanding service to the University, and earning local, state, regional, national, and international acclaim as an architect, a scholar and a teacher. His architectural and research work has been published in venues such as Louisiana Cultural Vistas, ACSA, CRIT Magazine, Competitions, The Residential Architect and Global Architecture. His students’ work has garnered national awards in the ACSA/AICS Steel Design Competition, the AIAS National Competition, and the ACSA Wood Competition. He has earned design awards from the Boston Society of Architects, AIA Cincinnati, and the ACSA Faculty Design Competitions. He has authored grants in excess of $500,000 to support the School’s advanced technology, digital fabrication and rapid prototyping initiatives. He has served on every committee in the School and led the School in preparing the “visiting team room” for the last several National Architectural Accrediting Board visits.

More than any of the merits described above, Robert Fakelmann is an outstanding teacher and mentor. For those of you who are alumni of the School, you are well aware of his passion for architecture, demand for excellence and dedication to the work of his students. He has had a truly exceptional career at Louisiana Tech. He has already begun the next chapter of his life: he has moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where he has started a small design practice with his wife (and former Tech SOA Professor), Alexis Wreden.

The lecture is free and open to the public. This lecture is available for CEUs.

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Lectures are available for CEUs.