Gary Wooten Smith, AIA

Associate Dean for Research and Post-Professional Graduate Studies

Associate Professor

CURRICULUM VITA

 

EDUCATION

Master of Architecture—Certificate of Specialization in Historic Preservation, 1993, Texas Tech University.  Master’s Thesis: Sylvan Blum Haynes: The Dean of West Texas Architects.

Bachelor of Architecture—Design, 1973, Texas Tech University.

 

CERTIFICATIONS

Registered Architect, Texas #7986, 1981

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, #41350, 1991

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Tau Sigma Delta, National Architecture Honor Society

American Institute of Architects

Texas Society of Architects

Lubbock Chapter, American Institute of Architects: President, 2006; President-Elect, 2005; Third Year Director, 2003-2005; First Year Director, Board of Directors, 2002;

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards

Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Dean for Research and Post-Professional Graduate Studies, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University (September 2008 to present)

Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University (September 2001 to present)

Facilities Manager, City of Lubbock (January 1996—September 2001)

$21M in Capital Project Management Annually

$2M Annual Operating Budget for Building Maintenance and Custodial Services

Two million square feet of facilities (200+ structures)

Architectural Tour Guide

“The Grand Tour", 1995, Madrid, Sevilla, Barcelona, Sitges, Segovia, Toledo, and El Escorial, Spain

Lecturer, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University (August 1993—December 1995)

Thesis Advisor—Two Semesters

TSA Charrette Advisor—Two Years

Gary W. Smith, AIA, Private Architectural Practice (1991—August 1993)

Principal, McLarty Smith Meyer Architects, AIA/McLarty Smith Architects, AIA, 1919 Broadway, Lubbock, Texas (1984—1991)

Design Architect on over 500 projects

Managed staff of 13 with annual billings of $500K

Lubbock County Architects—1984 to 1989

Architectural Intern, Project Designer-Project Architect, Danny D. McLarty, Architect, 1979—1982

Designer/Draftsman on Commercial and Residential Projects

Architectural Intern, Don L. Kittrell, Architect, 1976-1979

 

AWARDS

2007 Barnie E. Rushing Outstanding Researcher, College of Architecture

2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize for Bis sa’ani, Honorable Mention, given by the Historic American Building Survey, The American Institute of Architects and The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

Excellence Award for Leadership and Service, Lubbock Heritage Society, June 1997

Commercial Renovation Regional Award for Harwell Elementary School Renovation, Ceramic Tile Distributors Association (McLarty Smith Meyer Architects, AIA), 1987

Award for Restoration of United Way Building, Lubbock, Texas, Lubbock Heritage Society (McLarty Smith Meyer Architects, AIA), 1985

 

ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE

COURSES TAUGHT

Lecturer: Fall 1993 to Fall 1995

            Arch 1341—Delineation I

            Arch 4000—Delineation II

            Arch 1402—Design II

            Arch 2401—Design III

            Arch 2401—Design I

            Arch 3351—Construction Drawings

            Arch 4501—Design VII

            Arch 4502—Design VIII

Associate Professor, Fall 2001 to Spring 2009

            Arch 2401—Design I

            Arch 2402—Design II

            Arch 3501—Design III

            Arch 3502—Design IV

            Arch 4601—Design V

            Arch 5325—Conservation Policies

            Arch 5365—Arch Research Methods

            Arch 5395—Master Design Studio I

            Arch 5604--Urban Design Studio

            Arch 5692—Master Design Studio II

            Arch 7000—Research

 

Guest Critic

ARCH 2402—Design II: Spring 2004

ARCH 4605—Advanced Architectural Design Studio: Spring 2004

ARCH 4601—Comprehensive Design Studio V: August 2002

ARCH 5605—Advanced Design Studio: August 2002

ARCH 5604—Urban Design Studio: May 2002

ARCH 5604—Urban Design Studio: April 2006

 

Guest Lecturer

5321—Conservation, Restoration Technology, and Documentation: Lecturer, “Preservation from the Municipal Perspective” March 29, 2005, February 10, 2004, and Sept 10, 2002.  Guest critic at October 29, 2002, student presentations.

5322—Preservation Workshop:  Lecturer, “Preservation in the Public Sector” April 3, 2002.  Guest critic at April 8 student presentations.

1311—Design, Environment and Society: Lecturer, “Regional Architectural Traditions of the Southwest” March 7 and October 22, 2002, October 27, 2005

5324—Architectural Preservation and Conservation: Lecturer, “Municipal Preservation Policies, Programs, and Ordinances” March 4, 2002.

 

Graduate Advisor

Spring Semester 2009

MS Thesis Committee Chair for Randy Wallace

 

Fall Semester 2008

Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio I Students Diego Barrera, Kim Gilkerson, and Grace Vergara

MS Thesis Committee Chair for Randy Wallace and Abhilasha Shrivastava.

 

Spring Semester 2008

            Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio I Students Diego Barrera, Kim Gilkerson, and Grace Vergara

            Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio II Student Cole Pittman

MS Thesis Committee Chair for Randy Wallace and Abhilasha Shrivastava

 

Fall Semester 2007

            Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio I Student Cole Pittman

            Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio II Students Mike Jones, Felicia Santiago, Brandon Weinheimer, and Clay Weiland

MS Thesis Committee Chair for Abhilasha Shrivastava

 

Spring Semester 2007

Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio II Students Jessica Vasquez and   Logan West

            Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio I Students Mike Jones, Felicia Santiago, Brandon Weinheimer, and Clay Weiland

 

Fall Semester 2006

Committee Member for Master of Architecture Candidate Rani Chandra

Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio II Students Garrett Biltoft, Carolyn Stojanik, and Nicholas Garza

 

Spring Semester 2006

            Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio I Students Garrett Biltoft and George                    Castro

 

Fall Semester 2005/Spring Semester 2006

            Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio I/II Students Chris Hellstern and Jamie Smith

 

Spring Semester 2005:

            Faculty Advisor for Master Design Studio II student Kevin Pauzer

 

Fall Semester 2004:

            Faculty Advisor for MS Student Kris Key

 

Spring Semester 2004:

            Faculty Advisor for Thesis Research Schematics student George Castro

 

Fall Semester 2003:

Faculty Advisor for Thesis Student Jose Chavez

 

Spring Semester 2003:

Faculty Advisor for Thesis Students Kyle Bodine, Miles Hardaway, Chris Rutledge, and Alejandro Mireles

 

Fall Semester 2002:

Faculty Advisor for Thesis Students Rogelio Hernandez and Chris Osborne

Faculty Advisor for Thesis Research Schematics students Miles Hardaway, Jose Chavez, Chris Rutledge, and Alejandro Mireles

Faculty Sponsor for McNair Scholar, Kylan Sanders

 

Spring Semester 2002:

Faculty Advisor for Thesis Research Schematics student Rogelio Hernandez

Faculty Advisor for Zeke Fortenberry, Honors College Poster Contest

 

RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

CONFERENCES/PAPERS

Steering Committee Member/Curator, SWC Exhibit Committee for the Fall 2008 Texas Medieval Association Meeting, Lubbock.

“The Influence of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares on Two Southwestern American Universities.”  February 17, 2005, Natural History and the Art & Literature of Place, Texas Tech University History Department, Science Spectrum, Lubbock, Texas.

“Historical Documentation and an Analysis of Two Significant Ranch Headquarters in the Texas Panhandle”, October 16, 2005, Living with History—A Community Conversation, Lubbock Lake Landmark.

“Spanish Renaissance Precedent in 20th Century Southwestern American Architecture:

The Influence of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares at Texas Tech University and the University of San Diego,” Annual Congress of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, July 2-5, 2003.

Session Co-Chair, 2002 State Historic Preservation Conference, Abilene, Texas, "Documentation of the 6666 Ranch House, Guthrie, Texas" April 19, 2002, Texas Historical Commission 2002 Historic Preservation Conference, "New Technology in the Documentation of Historic Structures: The 6666 Ranch House, Guthrie, Texas."  Emphasis on the history and architectural description of the 6666 Ranch House.  Co-authored with Elizabeth Louden.

Session Co-Chair, 2002 Mosaic of Texas Culture Conference, Abilene, Texas, "New Technology in the Documentation of Historic Structures: The 6666 Ranch House, Guthrie, Texas" February 16, 2002, Mosaic of Texas Conference, Abilene, "New Technology in the Documentation of Historic Structures: The 6666 Ranch House, Guthrie, Texas."  Emphasis on the Use of the Cyrax Laser Scanner.  Co-authored with Elizabeth Louden.

Session Co-Chair, 1997 Certified Local Government Workshop, Lubbock, Texas, “Management Tools for Preservation Commissions”.

Session Chair, 1994 State Historic Preservation Conference, San Angelo, Texas, "Public Architecture of West Texas From Frontier to Civilization: Courthouses and Schools".

 

PUBLICATIONS

HALS Documentation of the Arneson River Theatre, San Antonio Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas, 2007.

 

Smith, Gary W.  “Spanish Renaissance Precedent in 20th Century Southwestern American Architecture: The Influence of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares at Texas Tech University and the University of San Diego,” (translated into Spanish and Portuguese, translators unknown), in Nº 6: Estudios de Historia Iberoamericana II. XXXVI Reunión anual de la Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Soledad Gómez Navarro, (Coord.), Córdoba, Spain: Área de Historia Moderna, Universidad de Córdoba 2005.

Smith, Gary W.  “Spanish Renaissance Precedent in 20th Century Southwestern American Architecture: The Influence of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares at Texas Tech University and the University of San Diego,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Bulletin, Vol. XXVIII, n. 1-2, Spring/Fall 2003, edited by Geoffrey Jensen, 58-59.

“Mallet Ranch Headquarters”, Historic American Buildings Survey Documentation, 2005.

“Bis sa’ani Pueblo”, Historic American Buildings Survey Documentation, Library of Congress, 2004.

“Kin yazhi Pueblito”, Historic American Buildings Survey Documentation, Library of Congress, 2004.

Smith, Gary W. and Sally Abbe.  “Lubbock Opens the Buddy Holly Center.” Texas Architect, January 2000, p. 15.

Smith, Gary W. and Dennis Wilson.  Design Standards for the Central Business District.  Lubbock, Texas: City of Lubbock, June 1999.

“City of Lubbock Zoning Ordinances” CB-1, CB-2, CB-3, and CB-4 Districts, 2000, Co-author with others.

Smith, Gary W. "Lubbock’s Quiet Man.” Texas Architect, November 1994, p. 50-53.

Smith, Gary W.  A Guide to Lubbock's Architectural Heritage.  Lubbock, Texas: City of Lubbock, 1993.

 

HISTORIC PRESERVATION RESEARCH

2006/2007 NCPTT Grant on Pilot Project for the Documentation of a Portion of the San Antonio Riverwalk, Arneson Theatre, San Antonio, Texas.  $40,000 grant awarded July 2006.  Completed 2007.

Author of 2006 National Register Nomination on the Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Texas.  $3,279.

Author of 2006 Historic Structures Report on the Virginia City Hotel, Muleshoe, Texas.  $2,500.

Grant Writer for 2006 Historic Structures Reports and Additional Facility Design for The Gillespie County Country Schools.  $135,000.  Determination as to funding in December 2006.

Grant Writer for 2006-07 NCPTT Grant on a “Pilot Project for the Documentation of a Portion of the San Antonio Riverwalk”, San Antonio, Texas.  $40,000.  Funded July 2006.

Organization and Establishment of a National Ranching Heritage Center Document Archive, Lubbock, Texas, Jan. 2004--Dec. 2006, Inter-departmental project between the College of Architecture, the Southwest Collection, and the National Ranching Heritage Center. Grant from the Helen Jones Foundation awarded and funded on January 1, 2004 in the amount of $15,000. 

Budget Preparation for a grant from the American Embassy in Ethiopia, “Ethiopian Heritage Preservation Phases I and II” with Tibor Nagy and Glenn Hill, Summer 2005, Unfunded.

3D Laser Scanning of Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park, June 2005.

Historic Structures Report, Mallet Ranch Headquarters, Summer 2005.

Documentation of Bis sa’ani Pueblo (900 year-old Anasazi ruin) for the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management   2002-2003.

Documentation of Kin yazhi Pueblito (300 year-old Pueblo defensive ruin) for the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management.  2002-2003.

Historic Structures Report on the 1887 Charles Goodnight Ranch House.  Grant from the Helen Jones Foundation, $9,000.  Article in the “Houston Chronicle”, January 25, 2004, cited the report and included quotes.  2003.

Grant writer on the Documentation and Historic Structures Report for the Harold Dow Bugbee Ranch House near Clarendon, Texas.  Co-principal investigator (Gary W. Smith: Historic Structures Report, completed Summer 2004) with John P. White (documentation), and Elizabeth Louden (photography).   2003-2004.

Mallet Ranch Documentation, Sundown, Texas—Spring 2003 to Summer 2004. 

Sabine Pass Lighthouse, Johnson's Bayou, Louisiana--Spring 2002.

Daniels Ranch, Big Bend National Park--Fall 2001

6666 Ranch House, Guthrie, Texas--Fall 2001

 

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

Teaching Survival Skills and Ethics, Snowmass, CO.  University of Pittsburgh.  2008

AIA Grassroots, February, 2005, Washington, D.C.

International Building Code Fundamentals and Accessibility, July 2002

Cyra Laser Scanner Training, San Ramon, California, June 2-7th, 2002.

Developing and Automating Effective Facilities Management Operations, August 1999, University of Wisconsin

Integrated Emergency Management Course, FEMA, Emmitsburg, MD, 1998

 

RECENT INDEPENDENT DESIGN WORK

Guadalupe Community Center Renovation, City of Lubbock, Co-Designer with Ben K. Shacklette

Residence Renovation and Addition, Diane Perl Residence, 2005.

Bob and Shery Goodwin Residence Addition and Renovation, Lubbock, 2004—2005.

Tim and Rosa Keho Residence Addition and Renovation, Lubbock, 2004.  

William Curry Holden/Constance Goodwin Residence, Lubbock.  Preservation, Restoration and Addition, 2003-2004.

Lynn and Mary Hatfield Residence Renovation, Lubbock, 2003.

Lothringer Residence Addition and Renovation, Lubbock, renovation and addition, completed Summer 2002.

Residence Addition for Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bertram, Lake Ransom Canyon, Texas, completed.

 

SERVICE

TTU

Upward Bound Instructor/Advisor, Spring 2005.

Book Reviewer for Nominee for the TTU President’s Book Award, Provost’s Office, 2004.

 

STATE Committee

Texas Society of Architects, Historic Resources Committee, 2003-2005.

Texas Sacred Places Project Implementation Committee, 2007-present

 

TTU COMMITTEES

Chair, Task Force on Institutional Ethics, Quality Enhancement Plan, Summer 2005—Spring 2009

Texas Tech University Quality Enhancement Plan Steering Committee, Spring 2005—Spring 2009

Texas Tech University Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Quality Enhancement Plan Implementation Committee, Spring 2005—Spring 2009.

Texas Tech University Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Quality Enhancement Plan Committee, Spring 2003-Spring 2005.

 

COA Committees

Architecture Research and Design Center Committee, Spring 2005-Spring 2006.  Chair, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.

Chair: Post-Professional Graduate Council, 2008-2009.

Awards Committee, 2006-2009.

College of Architecture Historic Preservation Program, Spring 2005—Spring 2006.

College of Architecture Grade Appeals Committee, Spring 2005.

College of Architecture International Studies Committee Member, Spring 2003—Spring 2005. 

College of Architecture Research Committee Chair, Fall 2003—Fall 2004.

College of Architecture ARC Committee Member, Fall2003—Fall 2004.

College of Architecture Historic Preservation Ad Hoc Committee Member, Fall 2002—Spring 2005.

College of Architecture Scholarship Committee, Spring 2003.

College of Architecture Library Advisory Committee, Spring 2003.

Chair, Facilities Task Force, 2001—Summer 2002.

State Employee Charitable Campaign, College of Architecture Chair of 2003 Campaign with Stan Robertson, Co-Chair, Fall 2003.  Award for “Highest Percentage Increase in Participation” for 2002 Campaign as Co-Chair with Professor Jimmy Davis.

SECC Co-Chairman of College of Architecture 2002 Campaign, Fall 2002

 

San Antonio Conservation Society

Juror, 2006 Historic Preservation Awards for the Built Environment, San Antonio, Texas, January 13, 2006.

 

CITY OF LUBBOCK

City of Lubbock Urban Design and Historic Preservation Commission Member, Fall 2003—Summer 2007, Chair (Fall 2004—Spring 2006).

 

LUBBOCK COUNTY

Lubbock County Historical Commission, Spring 2005—Fall 2009: Chair, Spring 2007 through Fall 2008.

 

nON-pROFIT oRGANIZATIONS

American Institute of Architects, Lubbock Chapter President, 2006.

Lubbock Heritage Society Heritage House Relocation and Preservation Plan.  Assistance with the plan, renovation, and cost estimate for the move of a small house in Overton North to a new site in Overton South.

Lubbock Heritage Society Board of Directors, 1992—1997 (President, ‘94-’96).

Co-Chairman, WTMA Kite Fest, West Texas Museum Association, 1986 and 1987.

 

City Staff Liaison:

Millennium Advisory Committee, 2000

Sports and Venue Advisory Committee, 2000

Auditorium/Coliseum Advisory Committee, 1997

 

TRAVEL

USA: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, New York City, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington State, Washington, DC, West Virginia

Canada, England, France, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland

 

SIGNIFICANT ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS

2001—2007

New Construction and Restoration

·        Renovations to the Guadalupe Community Center, City of Lubbock, Co-Designer with Ben K. Shacklette, 2007

·        Addition and Renovations, Diane Perl Residence, Lubbock, 2005

·        Addition and Renovations, Shery and Bob Goodwin Residence, Lubbock, 2005

·        Addition and Renovations, Tim and Rosa Keho Residence, Lubbock, 2004

·        Restoration of and Additions to "Casa Grande" (Curry Holden's adobe home), 3009 20th Street, Lubbock, TX, 2002-2006

·        Renovation of the Lynn and Mary Hatfield Resident, Lubbock, 2003-2004

·        Addition to the James Bertram Residence, Lake Ransom Canyon, Texas