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Annual Conference Research, Education & Creative Scholarship Presentation Schedule Instructions: For each hour time slot, select one room to attend.
Thursday March 12 1:00pm-2:00pm 2:15pm-3:15pm 3:30pm-4:30pm Rm1 343608-Where Western Interiors Begin: Analyzing Design Regionalism in Texas Interiors Carl Matthews and Caroline Hill The presentation will provide a framework for understanding how the convergence of physical aspects of Texas have merged with cultural, historical, and economic aspects to create a distinctive and identifiable Texas interior. Carl Matthews is Interior Design Department head and professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas. Prior to Arkansas he was at the University of Texas at Austin for nine years and the University of Nebraska- Lincoln for 10 years. Before teaching he practiced in major design firms in New York and Chicago. He has served on the leadership group for the Interior Design Educators Council and on the Board of Directors of the Council of Interior Design
- Accreditation. His research focuses on gender,
identity and the relationship of academia and
- practice. Matthews received a Bachelor of Science
in Interior Design from Oklahoma State University and a Master of Science in Interior Design from the Pratt Institute. 344681- Koolhaas and the Autonomy of the Interior Jim Sullivan This paper examines writings and projects by Rem Koolhaas to illuminate the status and operation of interiors in his work. In sum, Koolhaas’s work proposes that interiors are autonomous from exteriors, and therefore are driven by their own tenets and desires for representation beyond the confines of their bounding structure. Jim Sullivan is Chair of the Louisiana State University’s Department of Interior Design. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Miami University (Ohio) and a Master of Architecture from University of Pennsylvania. He is a registered architect and practiced with Joseph Rykwert and Bernard Tschumi, among others. 344712- Engaged Scholarship and Historic Preservation of Interiors: Sustaining Identity and Facilitating Integrity in Iowa’s Carnegie Libraries Diane Al Shihabi Through Carnegie libraries, this study examines how interdisciplinary methodologies, combined with processes juxtaposing academia with communities, can engender reciprocal collaborations, civic responsibility, and engaged scholarship.
- Dr. Diane Al Shihabi, ASID, IDEC, WRID is a
scholar in Design History, focusing on French academic architectural theory and the École des Beaux-Arts, the American Beaux-Arts design system, and the sustainability of global cultural identities through Historic Preservation and contemporary reinterpretations of historic
- forms. Dr. Shihabi is a co-founder of the