William Riehm

William Riehm, Interim Director
  • Faculty
  • Interim Director
  • Professor

Biography

William Riehm joined the faculty of the School of Architecture and Design at the 天美传媒安卓破解版 in 2017. He is currently an associate professor. William began teaching in 2004 and has held positions at Mississippi State University and Louisiana State University. He teaches design studios, construction, design history, and drawing.

William holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of New Orleans, and a Master of Science in architecture with a specialization in interior design from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. His is a licensed architect (1998), Certified Interior Designer (2006) and began working in design practice in 1991 focusing on adaptive reuse of historic structures and more recently on furniture design.

His research interests include design history, theory, preservation, and historical material culture, specifically as they relate to furniture as well as design pedagogy as it relates to these topics. William鈥檚 service roles are varied in the community and university, and he currently chairs the South Region of the Interior Design Educators Council.

Publications

Riehm, William and Robin Anita White. 鈥淩econstructing a Material Culture through the Language of an Acadian Planter: An Examination of the 1848-1851 Plantation Journal, Elie Landry Estate Record Book.鈥 Louisiana History (Louisiana Historical Association) 58, no. 1 (Winter 2017): 40-59.

White, Robin Anita and William Riehm. 鈥淟aurel Valley Plantation: a Quiet Museum.鈥 Interdisciplinary Humanities: Sacred Sites, Secular Spaces (Humanities Education Research Association) 31, no. 2 (Summer 2014): 96-111.

Riehm, William. 鈥淢aterial Culture of an Acadian Plantation 1848-1851: Person, Place, Object.鈥 Louisiana Folklife Journal (Louisiana Folklife Center Publications) 33, no. 2009 (2011): 24-43.

---. 鈥淚nland Gambian Preservation: A Case Study and Travel Narrative.鈥 Proceedings of the 2014 Environmental Design Research Association鈥檚 Annual Conference (2014): 176-180.

Riehm, William and Robin Anita White. 鈥淟iterature as Design History: A Study of Kate Chopin鈥檚 The Awakening.鈥 Abstract. Proceedings of the 2016 Interior Design Educators Councils National Conference (2016):559-565.

Riehm, William, Robin Carroll, and Lauren Black. 鈥淧rinting Luminaires: A Study of the Light Filtering Characteristics of 3-D Translucent Printing Materials.鈥 Abstract. Proceedings of the 2015 Interior Design Educators Councils National Conference (2015): 606-611.

Riehm, William. 鈥淭he Architects Room: Cultural Hybridity on Display and 鈥業n-between鈥 at the Winterthur Museum.鈥 Abstract. Proceedings of the 2015 Interior Design Educators Councils National Conference (2015): 426-432.

鈥斺斺. 鈥淭he Ways We See the Slave Quarter Interior.鈥 Abstract. Proceedings of the 2014 Interior Design Educators Councils National Conference (2014): 555-560.

Riehm, William and Annie Coggan Crawford. 鈥淎 Bar Stool, Ernst Haeckel, and Rhinoceros: Learning Object Modeling Technology through Design Problem Solving.鈥 Abstract. Proceedings of the 2012 Interior Design Educators Councils National Conference (2012): 408-414.