Stephen Kendall on Residential Open Building (Tues. 4/8, 4 PM, Gund 518)
Jesse Mintz-Roth
Join us Tuesday, April 8th, 4 PM in Room 518, for a talk and
presentation by Stephen Kendall, an international expert in Open
Building, with Q+A afterwards. The event poster is attached.
Refreshments will be served.
Stephen Kendall (PhD, MIT '87) is professor of architecture and
director of the Building Futures Institute at Ball State University.
Open Building is rooted in the concept that buildings and the
neighborhoods they occupy are not static artifacts even during periods
of stability; and during times of social and technological upheaval,
are in need of adjustment in some measure to retain value. Open
Building advocates an approach to design and development that
facilitates individual choice for new development and ease of change
for subsequent owners over the lifecycle of a building.
Specifically, Residential Open Building is a new multi-disciplinary
approach to the design, financing, construction, fit-out and long-term
management processes of residential buildings, including mixed-use
structures. Its goals include creating a varied, fine-grained,
sustainable environment, and increasing individual choice and
responsibility within it. Residential Open Building proposes a
combination of technical tools with a deliberate social stance toward
environmental intervention.
Co-Sponsored by: GSD Real Estate and Development Club and HousingGSD
More information can be found by following the link below:
http://www.bsu.edu/web/capweb/bfi/
Biography for Prof. Kendall:
Stephen Kendall, PhD
Professor of Architecture
Director, Master of Architecture Professional Program
Director, Building Futures Institute (www.bsu.edu/bfi)
Department of Architecture, College of Architecture and Planning
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA
sken...@bsu.edu
Dr. Kendall is a registered architect, architectural educator and
researcher. His PhD is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Design Theory and Methods, with John Habraken and Donald Schön. He
is currently Director of the Master of Architecture Program and
directs Ball State University's Building Futures Institute
(www.bsu.edu/bfi) and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses. He
conducts research in adaptable or "open building" design, focusing on
residential buildings and "change-ready" hospitals. He has conducted a
number of funded research projects in both subject areas. He lectures
to academic and professional audiences internationally, has published
more than 30 journal papers, authored a number of technical reports
and book chapters (most recently a chapter in Sustainable Healthcare
Architecture – published by Wiley), is co-editing a book titled Design
Strategies for Open-Ended Health Care Architecture to be published by
Blackwell/Wiley, and co-authored a book on adaptable architecture
Residential Open Building (Spon, 2000) that has been translated into
Japanese. He serves on the editorial board of an international peer
reviewed journal Open House International and is joint coordinator of
the CIB W104 Open Building Implementation (www.open-building.org).