Teaching Beyond the Curriculum

Fabio Capra-Ribeiro is an assistant professor in the LSU School of Architecture. His research is focused on social, spatial and environmental justice, with emphasis in boundary conditions and residual spaces. His explorations also include kinetic works, mostly done as digital drawings and fused glass pieces that have been presented in several individual and group exhibitions. Following this line of research, he finished a PhD in urbanism in 2019 at the Università IUAV di Venezia (Italy) with a study about the urban regions on the Global South. An adaptation of this research has been published by Routledge as his book Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela. Government, Infrastructure and Environment. He graduated second in his class in a five-year bachelor program in architecture allowing him to participate in a four-year Master of Science in Architectural Design, both at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He started to teach in the same institution in 2009, becoming assistant professor in 2013 and associate professor in 2019. During these years, he acted as coordinator of the master of urban design and then as Director of the School of Architecture Carlos Raúl Villanueva. During this decade, Fabio taught a wide array of architectural and urban design studios, as well as research methodology and representation courses.

Luisa Restrepo Pérez was born and raised between Bogota and Medellin, Colombia, Luisa Restrepo Pérez earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Colombia from La Colegiatura Colombiana de Diseño in 2010. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from LSU in 2013. She is teaches in the area of graphic design at the LSU College of Art & Design, and serves as the Creative Director for the Graphic Design Student Office (GDSO). The GDSO office operates as a professional design studio that provides services to in school and out of school clients. Luisa has received several awards and honors for her work with the Graphic Design Student Office and hopes to continue motivating students to do great and fun work together. She is a member of AIGA and American Advertising Federation, and serves as a board member at the Baton Rouge Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art.

Gregory Hurcomb, assistant professor of interior design at LSU, earned a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, a certificate of general studies in photography from the International Center of Photography, and a Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in English Literature & Letters, with a minor in Chemistry, from Rutgers University. His creative work is driven by a certain curiosity in the meeting point of the fine arts (including but not limited to installation, sculpture, photography, film, drawing, and painting), and architectural and interior design. He is inspired and motivated to explore the hybrid processes that are located within the physical and perceptual transformation of space by the mediums of air, light, sound, and structure, all amalgamated into new forms, and potential energies.