William Riehm, Interim Director

William Riehm joined the faculty of the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette 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’s service roles are varied in the community and university, and he currently chairs the South Region of the Interior Design Educators Council.

Selected Publications:

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

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

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

---. “Inland Gambian Preservation: A Case Study and Travel Narrative.” Proceedings of the 2014 Environmental Design Research Association’s Annual Conference (2014): 176-180.

Riehm, William and Robin Anita White. “Literature as Design History: A Study of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.” Abstract. Proceedings of the 2016 Interior Design Educators Councils National Conference (2016):559-565.

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

Riehm, William. “The Architects Room: Cultural Hybridity on Display and ‘In-between’ at the Winterthur Museum.” Abstract. Proceedings of the 2015 Interior Design Educators Councils National Conference (2015): 426-432.

———. “The Ways We See the Slave Quarter Interior.” Abstract. Proceedings of the 2014 Interior Design Educators Councils National Conference (2014): 555-560.

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