Senior Lecturer
(210) 458-2574
James.Lewis@utsa.edu
James R. Lewis is a licensed architecture professional with a varied career involving public service, higher education, and an extensive portfolio of practice. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at UTSA College of Architecture. Mr. Lewis earned his Bachelors of Architecture from Texas Tech University, and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin.
As a complement to his teaching responsibilities, Mr. Lewis maintains an active practice and is licensed in New Mexico and Arizona, in addition to Texas. Having spent much of the past 20 years working to preserve historic buildings and significant cultural settings throughout the American Southwest, he has focused his energies in areas of historic building documentation; building reuse master planning, architectural restoration/adaptation undertakings, as well as new residential and light commercial commissions.
While research and guest lecturing interests are diverse, Mr. Lewis has particular expertise in analyzing and interpreting vernacular structures and historic agricultural industrial complexes, in addition to a particular fascination in the relevance of building forms and spatial orderings conducive to spiritual or religious rites.
As a break from the rigors of teaching and practice Mr. Lewis finds time to travel, collect antiquarian books, and tend his garden in northern New Mexico during summers.