Faculty

Gregory W. Hurcomb is an assistant professor in the LSU School of Interior Design. His creative outputs are 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. He 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.

Hurcomb has exhibited nationally in New York City, NY; Portland, OR; Princeton, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; and San Francisco, CA; and internationally in Athens, Greece; Berlin, Germany; and Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has previously taught at the California College of the Arts, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Davis, the University of Pennsylvania, and the International Center of Photography. In addition, he has been a guest critic on fine art, design, and architecture reviews at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, CCA, Academy of Art University, University of Louisiana Lafayette, Woodbury University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a contributor for the Architect’s Newspaper and has written about art for Art Practical, and on architecture for Architizer. His most recent artist in residency was as a guest artist at the Sally and Don Lucas Artist in Residency Program (LAP) at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA.

Research Statement: My research focuses on the intersection of analogue and digital processes, as generated through both traditional methods and techniques, in relationship with contemporary modes of representation, fabrication, and integrated design thinking. These trajectories are specifically aimed at the juncture between making and designing high quality interior environments that have positive benefits and impact to human beings who occupy and utilize these spaces through a systematic understanding of atmosphere and mood as generated through color, lighting, and tonality, which can be produced and realized through form, materiality, furniture, fixtures, and equipment.

Areas of Expertise: Interior and architectural design; Representation and visual communication; Design and experimental media; Digital fabrication; Installation; Speculative narratives and futures; The Avant-Garde

ID1711 and ID1712 Design Foundation I and II
ID2750 Interior Design Studio
ID2751 Interior Design Studio II
ID4720 Seminar in Interior Design
ID4751 Interior Component Design
ID4758 Advanced Studies in Interior Design; Post-Disciplinary Futures

Recent Publications / Conferences:

2023 – Animal, Mineral, Vegetable or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Creative Thinking, AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) – peer reviewed juried International Conference on Teaching Beyond the Curriculum (Online (LSU, The Glasgow School of Art, and Wenzhou Kean University).

2023 – Utilizing the Readymade as an Instrument to Develop an Understanding of the Principles of Art and Design with Students as Related to the Interior, AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) – peer reviewed juried International Conference on Applying Education in a Complex World (Sheridan College, Toronto, Canada).

2022 – On the Archaeological Aesthetics of Found Objects (Waste), or How I Didn’t Want to Pick up Trash on the way to School, AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) – peer reviewed juried International Conference on A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Research in the Modern Academy (Online (Ball State University, USA; Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan; University of Pretoria, South Africa; University of Kassel, Germany).

2021 – Post-Disciplinary Futures: For the Best Way to Predict the Future is to Make it, AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) – peer reviewed juried International Conference on Cities in a Changing World: Questions of Culture, Climate and Design (Online (City Tech, CUNY, USA).

2020 – Post-Disciplinary Futures: For the Best Way to Predict the Future is to Make it, AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) – peer reviewed juried International Conference on Teaching-Learning-Research: Design and Environments. (Online (Manchester School of Architecture, UK).

2019 – Space, Message, Experience: How Artists/Architects/Designers Engage Installation as a Medium for Activating the User/Participant in Multi-Sensory Perceptual Events, AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) – peer reviewed juried International Conference on Experiential Design – Rethinking Relations between People, Objects, and Environments. (Florida State University, USA).