TEACHING

Dr. Kendall is an internationally recognized speaker, educator and scholar in the field of open building. He has published more than 40 refereed papers, co-authored several books, authored book chapters and technical reports, and has taught in the United States, Taiwan, Italy, and Indonesia, South Africa, Japan and China.

He has taught architectural design and urban design studios and workshops at all levels of professional curricula as well as courses in design theory and building technology. He has experience in guiding professional, post professional and PhD students at a number of universities in the US and abroad.

Dr. Kendall offers short, two to four week workshops. These workshops are appropriate for upper-level undergraduate or graduate students in architecture and urban design. He has offered these workshops at the following universities:

  • University of Florence (Italy)
  • The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
  • Institute of Technology Sepulah Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia
  • University of Johannesburg, South Africa
  • University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo
  • Tianjin University, China
  • Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  • Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China

TWO WORKSHOPS

  1. How to Make Open Buildings

This workshop, which can vary in length from two to four weeks, offers step-by-step instruction in how to design an open building. The workshop consists of lectures, discussions and design exercises. Using real world examples, enrollees learn both the theory underlying open building, and the design and building methods available to implement an open building project. Issues of finance, regulation and decision-making are discussed and dealt with in the lectures and design exercises.

Lecture topics include:

  1. Theory of Open Building
  2. Open Building projects from around the world
  3. How to design an open building – Capacity analysis
  4. How to build a base building – exemplary technical solutions
  5. How to devise, deliver and install fit-out – exemplary technical solutions
  6. Issues of finance, regulation, logistics, work cells, and design practice
  7. Issues for the education of architects and engineers

Design exercises may include:

  1. How to adjust an existing building to make it more “open”
  2. How to think about the placement of common utility shafts
  3. How to design façades for an open building
  1. Thematic Design: New Directions for Architectural Pedagogy

DESIGNPLAY – the subject of this workshop– represents an effort to cultivate new attitudes and skills needed for the cultivation of the quality of everyday built environment. DESIGNPLAY is the subject of CONVERSATIONS WITH FORM: a Workbook for Students of Architecture, by world-renowned architect, author, educator and researcher John HABRAKEN and his co-authors Andres MIGNUCCI and Jonathan TEICHER.

Workshop objectives

“For hundreds of years, architects, architectural educators and students have focused with passion and dedication on special buildings –museums, courthouses, luxury residences, sports facilities, airports and so on. Meanwhile, the making and transformation of ordinary everyday environment – places of work, living, healing and education – have continued to provide the everyday work of practice. The gap between the methods and design principles we teach in schools and how our students will subsequently work in practice has widened. This gap has not benefitted the built environment, schools, students or the profession of architecture. Participants will take away new ways of seeing the built environment, new approaches to designing neighborhoods and buildings and new ways of learning, teaching and practicing everyday architecture in the 21st century.” (From the book by Habraken, Mignucci and Teicher: Conversations with Form, Routledge, 2014) (http://designplaybook.org)

Structure of the Workshops

The workshop is a unique opportunity for teachers and/or students of architecture to use DESIGNPLAYS in an intensive hands-on seminar. Depending on the mix of participants, the workshop can be divided into morning and afternoon sessions.  The morning sessions can be for teachers only, focusing on the underlying pedagogy, theory and design and teaching methodology. During the afternoon sessions – which can be for both teachers and students – educator participants will teach DESIGNPLAYs (some of the plays in CONVERSATIONS WITH FORM) to groups of students and lead structured discussion and group review of the student plays. This hands-on training, demonstration and instruction is central to the pedagogical principles of DESIGNPLAY.