Stephen H. Kendall, PhD
Professor of Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning, Department of Architecture
Ball State University, 2000 West University, Muncie, Indiana, 47306
Tel: 765-***-**** / abqnh2@r.postjobfree.com / http://skendall.iweb.bsu.edu/index.html
I NTRODUCTION
Professor Kendall is a registered architect whose academic and re search career spans more than 30 years.
He has a professional degree from the University of Cincinnati, a Masters of Architecture and Urban
Design from Washington University in St. Louis, and a PhD in Design Theory and Methods from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Professors John Habraken and Donald Sch n).
Dr. Kendall practiced architecture for a number of years, designing hospitals, academic facilities,
residences, and other building types. He has taught architectural design and urban design studios at all
levels of professional curricula in several universities. He also teaches courses in design theory and
building technology. He has experience in guiding professional, post professional and PhD studies at a
number of universities in the US and abroad.
His research focuses on both architectural pedagogy and open building design. The former has its origins
in recognition of challenges the professions face as we guide the transformation of the ordinary built
environment under conditions of change and distributed design responsibility across several levels of
intervention (urban design, building design and interior design). Preparing students with the attitudes,
skills and knowledge needed to enable them to contribute to the improvement of the built field (not only
the special monuments), given these forces, is the goal of his studies of teaching methods.
His research in open building design and technology encompasses studies of new organizational and
design methods, new logistics and business forms, and new technology needed to make buildings
especially large multi-tenant buildings - more adaptable, easier to customize to meet individual
preferences and thus more sustainable. His work focuses primarily on housing and health care
architecture, each facing a convergence of three dominant characteristics of the contemporary urban
environment. First is the increasing size of buildings, sometimes serving thousands of inhabitants.
Second is the dynamics of living environments, the workplace and the marketplace where use is
increasingly varied and changing, matching social and technical trends. Third is the availability of, and
demand for, an increasing array of equipment and facilities serving the inhabitant user.
Dr. Kendall has written more than 40 papers, book chapters and technical reports. He is the co -author of
a book (Residential Open Building) and has conducted many funded research projects. He has guest
edited a number of journals and conference proceedings, and is on the editorial board of Open House
International. He lectures widely to university and professional audiences. He has been joint coordinator
of the CIB Commission W104 Open Building Implementation since its inception in 1996 (www.open-
building.org).
Dr. Kendall has formed a company INFILL SYSTEMS US LLC (www.infillsystemsus.com) dedicated to
selling products and providing architectural services that support developers in achieving adaptable,
long-lived buildings, called open building.
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E ducation
1985-87 Ph.D., Architecture. MIT, Design Theory and Methods; Professor John Habraken,
Chair; Professors Sch n and Dluhosch, committee members; Thesis: "Control of
Parts: Parts Making in the Building Industry". (1990)
1972-74 Masters of Architecture and Urban Design. School of Architecture,
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, (l976)
1964-70 B.S. in Architecture, College of Design, Architecture, Art &, Planning, U. of
Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (co-op program) (1970)
Academic Administr a tive Exper ience
2008 - 2010 Director, Master of Architecture Professional Program, Ball State University
2002 2005 Assistant Chair, Department of Architecture, Ball State University
1999 - 2010 Director, Building Futures Institute
T eaching Exper ience
2012 Visiting Lecturer (one-week workshop on Thematic DesignPlays), Harbin
Institute of Technology, Harbin, PRC
2010 Visiting Lecturer, University of Florence; Thematic DesignPlays
2009 Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Technology Sepulah Nopember, Surabaya,
Indonesia (one week open building workshop, December 2009)
2009 Visiting Lecturer, University of Florence (one-week workshop summer 09)
2008 Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,
Department of Architecture (5-week Summer Semester)
2007 Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,
Department of Architecture (5-week Summer Semester)
2005- Professor of Architecture, Ball State University
1999 - 2005 Associate Professor of Architecture, Ball State University
1992-99 Associate Professor of Interior Design, Marymount University, Arlington, VA.
1991-92 Visiting Assoc. Professor, Cal Poly Dept. of Architecture, San Luis Obispo;
in residence at the Washington/Alexandria Consortium, Alexandria, VA.
1988-91 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Planning, Catholic
University, Washington, DC
1987-88 Assistant Professor, College of Environmental Design, Univ. of Colorado,
Boulder
1985-87 MIT Dept. of Architecture; Assistant to Prof. N. John Habraken, Thematic
Design Theory/Methods; SMArchS Thesis reader
1981-85 Assistant Professor, College of Environmental Design, University of
Colorado, Boulder
F unded Resear ch
2011-2012 Healthcare Facility Design for Flexibility. No-bid Research contract: NIBS/
Military Health System ($125,000).
2010 In-Situ Seed Grant; BSU Department of Architecture: ($1000)
2010-2011 Code and Market Analysis of CableStud. Funded by Infill Systems BV, the
Netherlands: ($36,000).
2006 INO: Systems Separation ; Symposium in Bern, Switzerland, Funded by the
Canton Bern Building and Property Department: ($16,000).
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2005 Patient-Centered Design Concepts ; subcontract from Purdue University
Regenstreif Center for HealthCare Engineering ($9500)
2004 Health by Design: Interdisciplinary curriculum development. Ball State
University, Discovery Grant. Co-PI with Bruce Frankel, David Gobble and
Charles Jones ($35,000)
2004 Development of a SHELL/FIT-OUT Townhouse: Estridge Companies ($5000)
2001-3 Japanese Ministry of Education: Conversion of Office Buildings to Housing;
a three year comparative study. (Three-year subcontract) ($18,000)
2000 Best Practices in Removing Zoning Ordinance Barriers to Adaptive Reuse in
Kansas City. (Subcontract to Duncan Associates, Inc)
2000 Ball State University Provost s Initiative Fund: Forming a Research Alliance
with the College of Business and the Housing Futures Institute. ($2000)
2000-03 American Institute of Architects Foundation: "Open Building For Health Care
Facilities" ($5500)
1999 Ball State University International Programs Endowment: Getting Reacquainted
with the Commons: A Three Country Study of Housing and Urban Design
($3000)
1999 Ball State University Twenty First Century Fund Grant: "Development of an
Electronic Teaching Library" ($10,000)
1998 Foundation for Interior Design Education and Research (FIDER) "Strategic
Stories" Research Project; 3 year study of leading practitioners and practices
effecting the interior design profession and education.
1996 MITI "House Japan" Study of Aspects of the US Housing Industry: "DIY
Activity in the US"; Housing Performance Indicators for Consumers in The
US". Technical Reports and Lecture in Tokyo.
1996 Joel Polsky - Fixtures Furniture - FIDER Endowment Fund: "Open Systems:
Assessing Compatibility between Access Floors and Systems Furniture".
1995 - 1999 US Member, Jutaku Sogo Kenkyo Zaidan (Housing Policy Study Foundation)
project: "Comparative Study of Rehabilitation of Multifamily Housing in the
Mass Housing Era". (Germany, France, Denmark, Japan and the US.)
1995 Meiji University Department of Architecture; Distinguished Visiting Research
Scholar; "Developments toward Open Building in Japan". (June 1995)
1994 International Society of Interior Designers: "Open Building: A New
Paradigm for Interior Design: Documentation of Projects in Japan and the
Netherlands" (completed summer, 1994)
1989-90 Dept. of Architecture and Planning, Catholic University, Housing Technology
Research: Funding source: The Mark Winkler Co.
1985-87 Dept. of Architecture, MIT; "Development of a Tool to Describe Control in
the Staged Assembly of Buildings"; "Elements and Element Groups of the
2x4 System"; supported by the Grunsfeld Fund; report titled SHELL/INFILL:
A Technical Study of a New Strategy for 2x4 House building.
1975-78 "Wooden Building Technologies - Roofing Research for Developing Countries" -
Washington University Center for Development Technology, and Department of
Architecture, US AID.
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P ublished and Edited Books, Pr oceedings, Paper s and Book Chapter s
2011 How a Fit-Out Industry will Change Architecture; (in Chinese). New
Architecture; vol.6, no 139, 2011 (Pgs. 30-33)
2011 Hospitals on the Time Axis: Trends in the Real World and Implications for
Architectural Education, HERD (Health Environments Research and Design
Journal), Summer 2011, Volume 4, Number 4, Vendome Group. (Pgs. 130-142)
2011 Developments toward a Residential Infill Industry. Open House International,
Vol. 36, no 1, (Pgs. 86-94)
2011 Housing In Crisis: Open Building An Antidote to the Commodification of
Housing; Aldiri Arkitektura eta abar, Bilbao, Spain (in Catalan) (Pgs. 4-8)
2010 Hospitals on the Time Axis: Preparing Hospitals for Inevitable Change. Ball
State University, Lulu Publishers (2010) ISBN 978**********
2009 Proceedings: Changing Roles 09: New Roles/New Challenges, Integrated Design
Solutions: What Does This Mean From An Open Building Perspective? Delft,
2009
2008 Editor. Proceedings: Education for an Open Architecture. Education for an Open
Architecture Conference, Ball State University, October 2008
2008 Editor. Systems Separation: Open Building in the Inselspital Bern INO Project;
Canton Bern Office of Properties and Building, Bern, Switzerland. Staempfli
Verlag AG, SIMOWA, Bern, June 2008. (German and English)
2008 Proceedings: First International Conference on Industrialised, Integrated,
Intelligent Construction (I3CON) Loughborough, UK; Under what conditions
are Industrialization and Integration useful concepts in the building
sector? May 2008
2008 Open Building: Healthcare Architecture on the Time Axis, in Sustainable
Healthcare Architecture, Guenther, Robin and Vittori, Gail. Wiley and Sons, New
York, 2008 (pp 353-359).
Teaching Architecture Students to Work with Distributed Design, in Design
2007
Studio Pedagogy - Horizons for the Future, (editors) Salama, Ashraf, and
Wilkinson, Nicholas. Urban International Press, London, 2007.
2007 Open Building: Designing Change-Ready Hospitals, Healthcare Design, June
2007, pp 27-33.
2006 Kendall and Teicher; Residential Open Building (Japanese translation).
2006 Open Building Patterns: A Decision Support Tool for Hospitals . Proceedings:
American Society of Healthcare Engineers Annual Conference, February 26-28,
2006, San Diego.
2005 An Open Building Strategy for Converting Obsolete Office Buildings to
Housing, American Institute of Architects Pilot Report on University Research,
Washington, DC, April 2005.
2004 Open Building: A New Paradigm in Hospital Architecture, AIA Academy of
Health Journal, Oct 27, 2004. http://www.aia.org/aah_journal_20041027
2004 Proceedings CIB W104 Open Building and Sustainable Environment, Editor.
Paris, September 20-22, 2004. (hard copy of the abstracts + CD of full papers)
2004 An Open Building Strategy for Balancing Production Efficiency and Consumer
Choice in Housing. NSF-PATH Housing Research Agenda Workshop
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Proceedings and Recommendations Vol. I, II. Michigan State University, June
2004 (Pgs. 60-71)
2004 An Open Building Strategy for Achieving Dwelling Unit Autonomy in Multi-
unit Housing. Housing and Society. Vol 31, No.1, 2004 (Pgs. 89-99)
Long Term Sustainability of University Facilities. Proceedings: 5th Greening of
2003
the Campus Conference, Ball State University. October 2003. (CD)
2003 Open Building in Health Care Architecture: The Case of the INO Project in Bern,
Switzerland . Proceedings: Dense Living Urban Structures, CIB W104
Conference, Hong King (Pgs. 106-114)
2003 An Open Building Strategy for Converting Obsolete Office Buildings to
Residential Uses. Proceedings: 11th Annual Conference on Lean Construction,
Blacksburg, VA. (Pgs. 207-218)
2003 Making Accommodating Residential Form: International Developments toward
an Open Architecture Proceedings 23rd Annual Conference of the International
Association of Housing Science, Montreal, June 2003. (CD)
2003 Performance on Levels. Measurement and Management of Architectural Value
in Performance - Based Building. CIB Report Publication 283, Proceedings of
CIB W60 /W96, Hong Kong, May 2002 (Pgs. 35-42)
2003 Product Bundling or Kitting: Balancing Efficiency and Variety for the Market .
National Consortium of Housing Research Centers Session at the NAHB Builders
Show, January 2003. Proceedings: Profit and Opportunity Beyond Traditional
Building Practices, Michigan State University Urban Affairs Program (Pgs. 7-21)
2002 An Open Building Industry: Making Agile Buildings that Achieve Performance
for Clients. Proceedings: 10th Annual Symposium Construction Innovation and
Global Competitiveness (Vol. 1 of 2). University of Cincinnati and CIB,
September 2002 (Pgs. 267-284)
2001 Control of Form and Space: A Basis for Comparison of Multifamily Housing in
Japan and the United States. The Study of Japanese-Style Multi-unit Housing;
Professor Kazuo Tatsumi, Emeritus Professor Kyoto University Study Group
Leader. Fukuyama University, March 2001 (Pgs. 60-71)
2001 Notes on Teaching Agile or Open Architecture. Proceedings: Agile Architecture
Conference, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands (Pgs. 123-132)
2001 Infill / Fit-Out Systems: Toward a Residential Infill Industry . (Guest editor)
Open House International, vol. 26, no. 3, (editorial pp 3-4)
2000 Toward Open Building: Practical Developments in Europe . Open House
International Vol. 25 No.4 (Pgs. 84-94)
2000 Residential Open Building. Co-authored with Jonathan Teicher. EF SPON
London, 2000
1999 "Base Building and Fit-out: Principles for 21st Century Building Maintenance
and Management". RE - Building Maintenance and Management (in
Japanese), Tokyo, October 1999 (Pgs. 18-27)
1999 "Open Building: An Approach to Sustainable Architecture". Journal of Urban
Technology, December 1999.
1998 "Beyond Programmatic Functionalism: The Prospects for Open Building;"
Proceedings, International Symposium on Open Building. Taipei, Taiwan.
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1998 "Proceedings: CIB TG26 Open Building Implementation Meeting, Workshop
and Symposium", Washington, DC, National Building Museum, Nov, 1997.
1998 The Encyclopedia of Housing, van Vliet (ed). Sage. 1998 (Pgs. 81-83, 83-86, 192-
193, 264-265, 310-311, 315,316, 361-362, 570-571
1996 "Open Building: A New Multifamily Housing Paradigm". Urban Land,
November 1996.
1996 "Europe's 'Matura Infill System' Quickly Routes Utilities for Custom
Remodeling." Automated Builder, May 1996.
1995 "Rehabilitation of Multifamily Buildings in the United States" (in Japanese)
Glass and Architecture, September 1995.
1995 "Prospects for Open Building in the US Housing Industry." Proceedings: First
International Conference on Open Building and Structure Engineering,
Southeast University, Nanjing, PRC (Pgs. 17-21)
1994 co-author with Karel Dekker, "Open Building for Housing Rehabilitation."
Proceedings Future Visions of Urban Public Housing, University of
Cincinnati (ed Preiser, et.al.)
1994 Book Review, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research; "Housing
without Houses"(Hamdi), and "Participatory Design" (Sanoff), 11:3 (Autumn,
1994).
1994 "The Entangled American House", Blueprints, The National Building
Museum, January 1994 (Pgs. 2-7)
1993 "Open Building for Housing", Progressive Architecture, November, 1993.
1993 "Open Stock" The Construction Specifier, May 1993, Construction Specifications
Institute, Alexandria, Virginia (Pgs. 110-118)
1993 "Marketing and Cost Deferral Benefits of Just-in-Time Units" (co-author David
MacFadyen) Units, National Apartment Assoc., Washington, DC, March.
1991 "The Place of Designing in Production Chains: A Basis for Design Education",
Book chapter in Temes de Disseny, Pedagogy of Design. Barcelona.
1991 "Representing Control in the Production of Artifacts" Architectural Research
Centers Consortium Proceedings, Conference on "Reflections on
Representation", SUNY Buffalo
1991 "Ten Buildings: An Anatomy Study of Tenant Adaptability in Ten Base
Building Projects"; Honorable Mention, AIA 1991 Education Honors.
1990 "Three Tools for Design Test Bed Analysis", Proceedings, Material
Engineering Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, Aug., 1990.
1990 "Shell/Infill: A Technical Study of A New Strategy for 2x4
House building." Open House International, Vol. 15, no.1, 1990 (Pgs. 13-19)
1990 "A Base Building Pedagogy", Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 43, no.
2, 1990 (Pgs. 29-41)
1989 "On Design Reasoning: Lessons from Teaching Architectural Technology";
Proceedings, Symposium on Architecture and ACSA Technology Conference
89, Dr. Jason Shih, Editor.
1989 "On Design Reasoning: Lessons from Teaching Architectural Technology";
Design Studies, UK, April 1989 (Pgs. 89-95)
1988 "Management Lessons in Housing Variety; Journal of Property Management,
Chicago, Sept/Oct, 1988 (Pgs. 22-27)
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1987 "Shell/Infill: A Technical Study of a New Strategy for 2x4 Housebuilding;"
Proceedings, Wood Frame Housing '87 International Conference, Oslo,
Norway.
1987 "Changing Patterns in Japanese Housing" with Dr.Seiji Sawada, Special Issue
of Open House International on "Changing Patterns in Japanese Housing";
Vol. 12, No. 2, July, 1987. (Guest Editor)
1987 "A Staged Assembly Process Research Tool - working paper" Proceedings
of the International Congress on Planning and Design Theory, sponsored by
the ASME, August 1987, Boston.
1987 "Notes on Open Systems in Building Technology"; Building and
Environment, UK, Vol. 22, No.2, 1987 (Pgs. 93-99)
1986 "Who's in Charge of Housing Innovation?" and "The Netherlands: Distinguishing
Support and Infill"; ARCHITECTURE 10/1987 (Pgs. 87-94)
1985 "Teaching Housing: Teaching with Supports and Tissues"; Tulane University
Teaching Housing Symposium, September 1985; ACSA Proceedings,
Southwest Region Teaching Housing.
1984 "Teaching with Tissues: Reflections and Observations"; Open House
International, Vol 9, No. 4, l984 (Pgs. 15-22)
1983 "The Grunsfeld Variations", a book review, Open House International, Vol. 8,
No. 1, l983, pp. 47-49
1982 "Teaching with Supports", Open House International, Vol.7, No. 4, l982
1977 "An Intermediate Housing Technology for the U.S." Ekistics 259 June l977
1976 "The Idea of Structures of Agreement: Housing and Resettlement in the
Philippines", Glass and Architecture, Japan, June, l976
1976 "The Barangay as Community in the Philippines." Ekistics 242 January l976
T echnical Repor ts
2006 Homeworks: A New American Townhouse. Trafford Publishing, BC Canada.
2004 An Open Building Approach to the Conversion of Obsolete Office Buildings. A
Building Futures Institute report, produced by the Mansur Real Estate Services,
Indianapolis.
2004 Health by Design: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum; with Tulay Guenes M.Arch
II graduate student at BSU. October 2004. (Funded by Building Futures Institute,
Department of Architecture, and the Department of Urban Planning)
2002 Conversion of Vacant Office Buildings to Housing in the United States. Report
to the research committee of SUMCOB, University of Tokyo. February 2002.
2002 Open Building: A New Paradigm for Health Architecture: The INO Hospital in
Bern, Switzerland. A BFI Report (CD and at the BFI website)
2001 Final Report: A Prototype Electronic Teaching Library College of Architecture
and Planning, Ball State University.
1998 - 2003 "Survey of Best Practices in Multifamily Rehabilitation: US Component of
International Comparative Study"; for Jutaku Sogo Kenkyo Zaidan (Housing
Policy Study Foundation) research project.
1998 Office Building Fit-out in the United States: Developments and Trends. 8000
word report for TNO Building Strategy Consultants, Delft, the Netherlands, and
VTT Building Technology, Finland.
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1997 Developments Toward Open Building: A Study of the Compatibility of
Access Floors and Systems Furniture from Different Manufacturers. funded
by the Joel Polsky Fixtures Furniture FIDER Endowment Fund.
1996 "Benning Park: The Story of a 276 Unit Residential Rehabilitation Project in
Washington DC. "
1995 Developments Toward Open Building in Japan. Report on 25 Open Building
related projects in Japan. Funded by Meiji University, Tokyo.
1994 "Systems Engineering Approaches to Development of Advanced Residential
Buildings." Technology and Economics, Inc. RFP No. RAR-4-14061 National
Renewable Energy Laboratory US DOE.
1994 "Open Building: A New Approach to Multifamily Residential Constructon
Which Reconciles Consumer Preferences and Efficient Production"; funding
source: ISID (International Society of Interior Designers).
1986 "Shell/Infill: A Technical Study of a New Strategy for 2x4 Housebuilding";
MIT Design and Housing Group, Department of Architecture.
T r anslation Suppor t, and Paper /Resear ch Pr oposal Reviewer
2000 - present Reviewer of papers for CIB W104 Open Building Implementation international
conference proceedings.
2006, 2010 Reviewer for South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF) in evaluating
the quality of the research proposals and outputs of Dr AOS Osman (Architecture,
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA)
2006 Reviewer: "UPSTREAM PROBLEM-SOLVING UNDER UNCERTAINTY
AND AMBIGUITY: EVIDENCE FROM AIRPORT EXPANSION PROJECTS"
for the Transactions on Engineering Management
2006 Reviewer of Masters of Arts (Architecture) Thesis National University of
Singapore: TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS OF FLEXIBILITY IN SPACE USE:
THE CASE OF MULTISTORY HOUSING IN INDIA.
2006 Paper Reviewer, Adaptables2006, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
2006 Paper Reviewer, International Group for Lean Construction Annual Conference in
Santiago, Chile.
2005 Invited Convener and keynote speaker of Session 10 of SB05 Tokyo: Theories
and Methods in Support of an Adaptable Building Stock, with Professor Masao
Ando, Chair, Department of Architecture, Chiba University, Tokyo. Paper
reviewer.
2004 Paper reviewer, SB04 (Sustainable Building 04 in South East Asia)
2002 Utida, Yositika, The Construction and Culture of Architecture Today: A View
from Japan (bilingual). Ichigaya Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo, 2002
2001 Infill / Fit-Out Systems: Toward a Residential Infill Industry . (Guest editor)
Open House International, vol 26, no. 3,
1987 Guest Editor, June issue (vol.12, no.2), Open House International, special
issue: "Changing Patterns of Housing in Japan".
1982-cont. International Editorial Board, Open House International, international journal
on design, research and practice in the field of housing.
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Selected Citations and Recognition
2008 Boston Globe article: The incredible, flexible, movable house: How we could
save money, time, and the environment by making homes easy to remodel by
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow October 26, 2008.
2007 Writings and essays cited in the website of the Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil - School of Architecture - Morar de Outras Maneiras (MOM) -
"Living in other ways" (www.mom.arq.ufmg.br)
2007 in Open House International, vol 32, no 3, pp 90-91, book review by Michael
Crosbie of Design Studio Pegagogy
2007 CIB Commendation for exceptional work as W104 joint coordinator
2007 Schneider and Till, Flexible Housing, Architectural Press, London.
2006 Hofman, Erwin (et al). Variations in Housing Design: Identifying Customer
Preferences . Housing Studies, vol 21, no 6, pp 929-943, (November)
2006 in Fine Homebuilding: The Future of Homebuilding .
2005 Habraken, N.J. Palladio s Children. (Taylor and Francis, 2005)
2004 C.C.A.M. van den Thillart. Customized Industrialization in the Residential Sector:
Mass Customization Modeling as a Tool for Benchmarking, Variation and
Selection. Sun Publishers, Amsterdam (Invited quotation on book cover)
2003 Environmental Building News: Future Proofing Your Building, Vol. 12, no. 2,
February 2003.
2002 Tandogan, Elif. An Analytical Tool for the Evaluation of Open Building Projects
MA Thesis, Bilkent University, Turkey, May 2002.
2002 Buntrock, Dana. Japanese Architecture as a Collaborative Process Spon, 2002
2001 Bensonwood Homes Home page: Open Building History and Theory
http://www.bensonwood.com/openbuilt/index.html
2000 Faoro, Daniel (ed). A Renewal of Community: Highland Park, Detroit . The
Detroit Studio, Lawrence Institute of Technology, 2001
2000 Tarpio and Tiuri. Infill Systems for Residential Open Building: Comparison and
Status Report of Developments in Four Countries. Helsinki University of
Technology 2000.
2000 PhD Dissertation of Dieter Ehlting, University of Dortmund Building
Systematics
2000 Boosma, Koos. Housing for the Millions. John Habraken and the SAR (1960-
2000). NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, 2000
1998 Habraken, N.J., The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built
Environment. MIT Press, 1998 (Pgs xx and xxi)
C onfer ence Coor dination
2011 Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 Conference: Architecture in the Fourth Dimension,
in conjunction with Build Boston/Boston Society of Architects, November
2010 Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 Conference: Open and Sustainable Building,
Bilbao, Spain
2008 Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 Conference: Education for an Open
Architecture, Ball State University
Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 10th international conference, Cape Town; May.
2007
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2006 Initiator and co-organizer of a symposium on Building Information Modeling,
hosted by the Indiana Construction Roundtable (November)
2006 INO Systems Separation Symposium, Canton Bern, Switzerland.
2006 Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 annual meeting at Adaptables2006, Eindhoven, the
Netherlands, July 2006
2005 SB05 Tokyo; Invited Convener of Session #10: Theories and Methods in
Support of Adaptable Building
2005 Health by Design Symposium, Ball State University, March 2005
Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 10th international conference, Paris
2004
2003 Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 meeting, Hong Kong
2003 Indiana Construction Roundtable Symposium: Making the Business Case for
Building Green, October 2003, Indianapolis.
2002 Indiana Construction Roundtable Symposium: Open Building for Health Care:
The case of the INO Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. December 2002.
2002 Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 meeting, Mexico City, Mexico
2001 Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 meeting, Delft, the Netherlands
2000 Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 meeting, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Joint Coordinator, CIB TG26 meeting, Brighton, UK
1998 Joint Coordinator, CIB TG26 meetings, Helsinki, Finland and Taipei, Taiwan.
1997 Joint Coordinator and organizer of the CIB TG26 meeting and Open Building
Symposium, National Building Museum, Washington, DC. co-organized by
CIB; Washington Building Congress; Washington DC Chapter, AIA;
CADRE Corporation, University of Maryland School of Architecture and
financially supported by 15 companies and firms.
1997 CIB Task Group 26 Open Building Implementation; Delft.
1996 CIB Task Group 26 Open Building Implementation; Tokyo.
1994 National Open Building Workshop, hosted by Armstrong World Industries,
Innovation Center, Lancaster, Pa. (co-directed with David MacFadyen)
1994 National Open Building Workshop, hosted by FannieMae Office of Housing
Research, Washington, DC. (co-directed with David MacFadyen)
1986 Workshop Coordinator, Third Biennial Shelter Workshop on Developing
Countries, sponsored by the MIT Department of Architecture, Design and
Housing Program, summer, l986 (Hamdi and Goethert, Directors)
L ectur es and Pr esentations
2012 Lectures, Harbin Institute of Technology Department of Architecture, PRD
2012 Lectures, Tianjin University School of Architecture, Tianjin, PRC
2012 Lectures, Southeast University School of Architecture, Nanjing, PRC
2012 Invited lecture, New York City AIA Technology Committee: Open Building as a
Strategic Design Necessity. February
Welcome lecture, Architecture in the Fourth Dimension, 17th Annual International
2011
Conference CIB W104; Boston. November
2011 Invited lecture at Kieran Timberlake Architects, Philadelphia, October
2011 Invited Keynote Speaker, University of Montreal conference on building systems
industrialization (shared keynote with Stephen Kieran); September
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Invited panelist at the 9th Collaborative Session of the Rice University Building
2010
Institute: Flexibility: Designing for Uncertainty and Change in Healthcare and
Facilities, Washington DC, November 3-4.
2010 Invited panelist at the Festival della Creativit of Florence promoted by Regione
Toscana and by Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Florence, Italy: Social Housing:
Sustainable and Temporary?
2010 Invited lectures at Tamkang University, National Taiwan University of Science
and Technology in Taipei, and The National Kaohsiung First University of
Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2010 Invited lecture May 25: Balancing Stability and Change: Open Building in
Practice Internationally at ETSAB Barcelona Master Laboratory de la vivienda del
siglo XXI
2010 Invited Seminar participant: Fields of Interaction, May 20, EPS Universidad
CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain
2010 Keynote lecture, CIB W104 Open and Sustainable Building Conference, Bilbao,
Spain.
2010 Invited participant at seminar on Healthcare Estate Planning Strategies for Long
term Asset life. May. Medical Architecture Research Unit, London South Bank
University
2009 Lecture to students and faculty at ITS, Surabaya, Indonesia, December 2009
2009 Jury of student work at the Bern University of Applied Sciences Department of
Architecture, June 2009
2009 Paper presentation at the College of Architecture and Planning Faculty
Symposium: How I Approach Interdisciplinary Education
2009 Invited public lecture at the Bern Kornhaus Forum, June 2009 International
Developments Toward Open Building
2009 Invited Open Building Workshop and Lecture ( Hospitals on the Time Axis ),
University of Florence, Department of Architecture, June 2009
2009 Lectures and workshops with PhD students, University of Hong Kong School of
Architecture.
2009 University of Tennessee, College of Architecture and Design: Workshop with
students and public lecture: Open Building for the Health Care Sector. (October
2009)
2008 Teaching Architecture Students to work with Distributed Design . CAP Faculty
Symposium, April 2, 2008
2008 Homeworks: Getting what you want behind your front door ; HERA National
Conference (Housing Educators Research Association), Indianapolis, October.
2008 Roundtable: Change-Ready Hospitals: Why We Don t Get What We Say We
Want ; Healthcare Design 08, Washington DC.
2008 Introductory lecture: Education for an Open Architecture conference, Ball State
University, October 20, 2008.
2008 Invited lecture: Residential Open Building ; Long Life Housing Research
Center, Korean National Housing Corporation, Seoul, South Korea, June
2008 Invited lecture to students -Harvard GSD: Residential Open Building April
2007 International Symposium: Building Stock Activation, Tokyo, November
2007 National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, July
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2007 International Symposium on Housing Sustainability and Industrialization, Beijing,
China, (June)
2007 Lecture at BIAD (Beijing Institute of Architectural Design) (June)
2007 University of Pretoria, School of Architecture, South Africa. (May)
2007 CIB World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa (May)
2006 Symposium on Change-Ready Hospitals ; Ministry of Health, Lisbon, Portugal
(December)
2006 INO Symposium Introductory Lecture, Bern, Switzerland (July)
2006 Korean National Housing Authority, Seoul, Korea (June)
2006 Ewha University, Seoul, Korea (June)
2006 Korean Institute of Construction Technology, Seoul, Korea (June)
2005 CIB W96 Architectural Management, Copenhagen (October)
2005 Technical University Berlin: Laboratory for Integrative Architecture, Department
of Architecture
2005 Moscow Architectural Institute, Russia
2005 Sustainable Building 05 Tokyo; co-convener Session #10: Theory and
Methods in Support of Adaptable Buildings; keynote paper. (Sept. 05)
2004 Tokyo Metropolitan University, Meta-Technology Center for Metropolitan
Metamorphosis Methods, Tokyo, Japan. International Workshop on Activation
and Renewal of the Building Stock (panel moderator)
2003 Greening of the Campus Conference, Ball State University
2003 Kyoto University, Department of Architecture, Kyoto, Japan
2003 Tokyo Metropolitan University, Meta-Technology Center for Metropolitan
Metamorphosis Methods, Tokyo, Japan
2003 University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture, Tokyo, Japan
2003 International Lean Construction Institute Conference, Blacksburg, VA.
2003 International Association of Housing Science Keynote Speaker, Montreal.
2003 National Association of Home Builders 2003 International Builders Show;
National Consortium of Housing Research Centers educational session Profit and
Opportunity beyond Traditional Building Practices: Product Bundling or
Kitting . January 22, 2003.
2002 Kansas State University Department of Architecture: Making Accommodating
Form
10th Annual Symposium: Construction Innovation and Global Competitiveness,
2002
University of Cincinnati
2002 Lawrence Institute of Technology Department of Architecture
2001 TU Delft Agile Architecture Conference
2001 Shenzhen University, Department of Architecture, PR China
2001 University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture
2001 Muncie Rotary International
2000 Lawrence Institute of Technology Department of Architecture
2000 University of Colorado, College of Environmental Design
1999 Two lectures in Korea: 10th Annual Korean Housing Association, Kwanju;
Culture and Housing Seminar, Yongsei Univesity, Seoul, Korea.
1999 "The Role of Non-Profit Organizations in Rehabilitation of Multiunit Residential
Buildings" Conference on Modernization and Renovation of Existing Multifamily
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Buildings of the Mass-Housing Era, Jutaku Sogo Kenkyu Zaidan (Housing Policy
Study Foundation), Tokyo, Japan.
1998 "Beyond Programmatic Functionalism: The Prospects for Open Building";
Proceedings, International Symposium on Open Building, Taipei, Taiwan.
1998 Paper: "Open Building: An Approach to Sustainable Construction" Proceedings,
CIB World Congress, G vle Sweden
1998 Paper: "Basic Principles of Open Building", International Open Building
Conference, Helsinki, Finland
1998 Design Forum Roundtable: Haworth Inc, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1998 Paper: "Open Building: Opportunities for Manufacturers". Georgia Institute
of Technology, School of Architecture, Industry Roundtable. April, 1998
1997 Paper: "Housing Prepared for Adaptable Permanence"; International
Sociological Association Research Committee 43 - Housing and the Built
Environment International Conference, Alexandria, Virginia; June, 1997.
1997 Paper: "Assessing Access Floor and Systems Furniture Interfaces"; Interior
Design Educators Council International Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1996 Panel Organization and Presentation, Build Boston / AIA Changing
Workplace Symposium, Boston, November 1996; with Jack Beckering,
Steelcase North America, and Professor John Habraken, MIT.
1996 Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo: House Japan Project
presentations on DIY Activity in the US and Housing Performance Indicators
for Consumers in the US.
1996 Paper presentation, IDEC International Conference, Denver.
1995 Paper presentation "Prospects for Open Building in the United States Housing
Industry", Nanjing, PRC.
1995 Meiji University, Chiba University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Takenaka
Corporation, The Architectural Institute of Japan; seven lectures on building
systems, open building, and "The Entangled American House".
1995 Tainan, ROC (National Cheng-Kung University), and Taipei, ROC;
Workshops on Open Building in the Asia-Pacific Region: "Prospects for Open
Building in the United States".
1994 International Congress on Design and Decision Support Systems, Vaals, The
Netherlands; "Control of Parts: Parts Making in the Building Industry".
1994 Latrobe Society Washington Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians,
"Beyond the Mall"; National Building Museum; paper: "Greenbelt, Maryland:
Continuity and Change".
1994 MIT Department of Architecture, Department of Architecture, visiting lecturer
for Professor Eric Dluhosch
1993 Steelcase North America Workshop "Revaluing Buildings: Investing Inside
Buildings to Support Organizational and Technical Change", Grand Rapids.
1992 MIT Department of Architecture Building Technology Program seminar:
"The Entangled American House".
1992 10th Annual ACSA Technology Conference, U C San Diego; paper:" Building
Capacity: Preparing Residential Buildings for a Sustainable Future."
1991 Architectural Research Centers Consortium Conference: "Reflections on
Representation", SUNY Buffalo (paper presented)
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1991 Living Amenity Association of the Center for Better Living (MOC);
Architectural Institute of Japan, Subcommittee on Wooden Construction.
1991 9th ACSA Technology Conference, Harvard University; "Teaching About
Making Buildings: A Way to Understand Relations of Designing to Making".
1990 "Recent Dutch Experience in Combining Production and Custom Housing";
report on emerging housing practices to the AIA Housing Committee.
1989 Building Virginia 89 Sponsored by the Virginia Society of the American
Institute of Architects, Task Force on Social Responsibility, Oct, "A New
Paradigm for Affordable Housing".
1989 Seminar presentation to the National Association of Homebuilders National
Research Center, "Infill Systems in the US Market"
1989 7th Annual ACSA Technology Symposium, Baton Rouge. La., Paper title:
"On Design Reasoning: Lessons from Teaching Architectural Technology".
1989 MIT Department of Architecture Workshop on "Open Building Research and
Practice"; session moderator on "Implications of Open Building for the US"
1988 CIB Working Commission 89, Building Research and Education, London,
"Can Building Research Make Good Pedagogy?"
1987 Invited Paper presentation; Wood Frame Housing '87 International
Conference, Oslo, Norway, Sept. 1987: Session 3 Production and Economy:
"Shell/Infill: A Technical Study of a New Strategy for 2x4 Housebuilding".
(Sponsored by Weyerhaeuser Company)
1987 Panelist, "Future Technologies and Methods for the Housing Industry;
National Association of Homebuilders Convention.
1986 Round Table Participant; Swedish Housing Technology Colloquium,
Mississippi State University School of Architecture, 1985 Department of
Architecture, State University of New York at Buffalo; seminar and teaching
results on Support Housing.
1984 Departments of Architecture, University of Tokyo; Kyoto University; Osaka
University; Chiba University.
1982 Environmental Design Research Association EDRA 13, workshop
participation: "The Design Professions: Research on the Design Professions:
Implications for Professional Education and Practice".
Ar chitectur al Competitions
1985 Architect of Record with Paul Lukez, Designer; INFILLHOUSING
Competition for Harlem; Honorable Mention.
1975 Initiator and Coordinator of entry to the INTERNATIONAL DESIGN
COMPETITION IN MANILA (in preparation for Habitat/ Vancouver); work
at the SAR in Holland with international team of architects.
1974 STEEDMAN COMPETITION IN ARCHITECTURE, sponsored by Washington
University School of Architecture. Winner: Neighborhood Revitalization/
Rehabilitation (Project). ($5000 prize for international travel in the Netherlands,
Japan, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico)
P r ofessional Consulting
2011-12 Sunty Development Company, Taipei, Taiwan
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1996-1997 Bensonwood Homes Company, Inc., New Hampshire (Timber Frame Builder
implementing Open Building in design and construction)
1996 Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo (technical reports)
1994 Armstrong World Industries (advising)
1990 Matura International, Delft, The Netherlands (advising and technical services)
1990 General Electric Living Environments (consulting on building systems)
1989 Infill Systems, Inc, Netherlands, representing the company at the opening of
the GE Living Environments Prototype House.
1988 USG, Technology Planning Group, Research Center, Report on Infill Systems
development in the Netherlands and Japan.
1988 G.E. Advanced Design and Development Group, Pittsfield, Mass. Presentation of
Infill Systems concepts.
1987 Workgroup KOKON, Architects, Rotterdam, developed team of architects,
contractors and development professionals for Battery Park City Authority
Affordable Family Housing Project, NYC. SOM, Architects; Turner
Construction, Ballast Nedam; short listed
1987 Weyerhaeuser Company: report on Dutch developments on Infill Systems for
housing, and Wood Frame Housing '87 Conf. in Oslo.
Academic and Pr ofessional Ser vice
Consultant to the research group PRAXIS, Department of Projects of the School of Architecture
- Universidade Federal de Minas, Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Search Committee, Rinker Center for International Programs, for a Director of International
Student Recruiting Spring 2009
Department of Architecture Department Leadership Council
Reviewed PhD students Department of Architecture, Univ. of Hong Kong, 2009 + 2010
Director, Masters of Architecture Professional Program, 2008 - 2010
Reviewer: Masters of Architecture Thesis National University of Singapore
Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Review Panel: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom. Invited
reviewer of a proposal for a Health and Care Infrastructure Research Innovation Center.
November 2005
Department of Architecture Merit Salary Committee (2004-2006; 2011-2012)
Department of Architecture Promotion and Tenure Committee (2007-2009)
Department of Architecture search committees (2002-2009)
Department of Architecture Curriculum committees (2000-2005; 2007-2008)
Assistant Chair, Department of Architecture (2001-2003)
College of Architecture and Planning representative University Graduate Education
Committee; chair, subcommittee on Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (2002-2003)
College of Architecture and Planning representative University Academic Policies
Committee (2004 - 2006)
Joint Coordinator, CIB Commission W104 Open Building Implementation (1996-present)
Editorial Board, Open House International (a peer reviewed journal) (1985-present)
Vice-Chair for Research, National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (2003-2005)
Education Committee, Indiana Construction Roundtable (2003-2005; 2006-2007)
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P r ofessional Pr actice a nd Business
2011 Started INFILL SYSTEMS US LLC
1978-81 The Christner Partnership, St. Louis, MO. Associate. (Design principal for
schools, hospitals, renovation, private residences, medical office buildings - work
ranging from $300,000 to $40 million)
1975-81 Private projects (residential design, projects built in Missouri, Illinois, and Puerto
Rico; design/build in Illinois and Puerto Rico
1971-72 The Hillier Partnership, Princeton, NJ. (Architectural schematics and CD s)
P r ofessional Registr ation, Member ships
Architectural Registration Missouri (1979) Number A-3796 (inactive)
Member, CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and
Construction) (1996 present)
Joint Coordinator, CIB W104 Open Building Implementation
President, Infill Systems US LLC
C ivic Roles
Vice President, Kenmore Neighborhood Association; Convener Tillotson Corridor
Subcommittee, Muncie, Indiana
R EFERENCES:
Professor Jon Coddington, Head Department of Architecture, Drexel University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania abqnh2@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Jia Beisi, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, Polfulum Road, Hong Kong
abqnh2@r.postjobfree.com
John Habraken, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Former Head, Department of Architecture,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology abqnh2@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Kazunobu Minami, Professor of Architecture, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo k-
abqnh2@r.postjobfree.com
Dr. Shao Yu, Professor of Architecture, Vice-Dean, Department of Architecture, Harbin
Institute of Technology, China. abqnh2@r.postjobfree.com