Stephen Kendall, PhD (MIT’90) Registered Architect
Emeritus Professor of Architecture | Ball State University
http://skendall.iweb.bsu.edu/index.html

President, Infill Systems US LLC
http://www.infillsystemsus.com

SUMMARY
Dr. Stephen Kendall’s career in architectural practice, research and education spans more than 35 years. His work recognizes the increasing size and technical/organizational complexity of projects, and the dynamics of living environments, the workplace and the marketplace where architecture and construction practices must evolve toward production of a building stock with long-term utility value linked to their capacity to accommodate change of function and user preferences. His new company – Infill Systems US LLC – seeks to bring to market products and services for efficient and customized interior fit-out, thus contributing to a sustainable built environment.

INTRODUCTION
Professor Kendall is a registered architect whose academic and research career spans more than 35 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 Schön).

Dr. Kendall practiced architecture for a number of years, designing hospitals, academic facilities, residences, and other building types, after several years as a designer/builder. 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 students at a number of universities in the US and abroad.

His research focuses on both architectural teaching methods, and open building design and construction methods. This focus has its origins in recognition of challenges the professions face guiding the transformation of the ordinary built environment under conditions of change across several levels of intervention (e.g. urban design, building design and interior design). Preparing students – and practitioners – with the attitudes, skills and knowledge needed to enable them to contribute to the improvement of the built field (not only the special buildings), given these forces,
is the goal of his studies of new ways to teach design and construction.

His research in open building design and technology also 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. 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 and complexity of buildings. Second is the dynamics of living environments, the workplace and the marketplace where use is increasingly varied and changing. Third is the availability of, and demand for, an increasing array of catalog-based building systems and mechanical equipment, as well as constantly improving building methods serving both “the commons” (e.g. base buildings) and the inhabitant user.

Dr. Kendall has written more than 40 papers, book chapters and technical reports. He is the coauthor of a book (Residential Open Building, Spon, 2000 – translated into Japanese and Korean) and has conducted many funded research projects, most recently for the US Department of Defense Health Agency on “healthcare facility design for flexibility.” He has guest edited a number of journals and conference proceedings, and is on the editorial board of Open House International and Frontiers of Architectural Research (China). He lectures widely to university and professional audiences in the US and abroad. He was senior joint coordinator of a world-wide network of researchers and practitioners – CIB Commission W104 Open Building Implementation – since its inception in 1996 to 2016 (www.open-building.org).

Dr. Kendall leads a company INFILL SYSTEMS US LLC (www.infillsystemsus.com) dedicated to selling products and providing architectural services that support developers, clients and users in achieving adaptable, long-lived buildings.

Educational Credentials:
B.S. in Architecture, University of Cincinnati, 1970
M.ARCH Architecture & Urban Design, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1976
Ph.D., MIT, 1990 (Design Theory and Methods – Emeritus Professor John Habraken, chair)

Teaching Experience:
Assistant Professor, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, 1982-87 (w/ two year leave for PhD at MIT)
Assistant Professor, Catholic University, 1988-1991
Associate Professor, Marymount University, 1992-1999
Professor, Ball State University, 1999-2013
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (summer 2007+2008)
Tianjin University, 2013
Harbin Institute of Technology, China, March 2012, October 2013, October 2014
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, July 2013, July 2014
Emeritus Professor, Ball State University, 2014-current

Professional Experience:
Associate, Christner Partnership, Architects, St. Louis, 1978-82

Licenses/Registration:
Missouri (inactive)

Selected Publications and Recent Research:
• Healthcare Facility Design for Flexibility – Phase II & III research contracts: National Institute of
Building Sciences / Department of Defense Military Health System; 2013-2015 ($175,000)
• “The Next Wave in Housing Personalization: Customized Residential Fit-out. “ Mass
Customization and Personalization in Architecture and Construction. (editors: Piroozfar and Piller).
Taylor and Francis, 2013.
• Healthcare Facility Design for Flexibility; No-bid research contract: National Institute of Building
Sciences/ Department of Defense Military Health System; January – July 2012 ($125,000)
• Code and Market Analysis of CableStud; Funded by Infill Systems BV; 2011-12 ($42,000)
• “How a Fit-Out Industry will Change Architecture;” (in Chinese). New Architecture;
Vol. 6, no 139, 2011 (Pgs. 30-33)
• “Hospitals on the Time Axis: Trends in the Real World and Implications for Architectural
Education,” HERD (Health Environments Research and Design Journal) 2011 Volume 4, Number 4,
Vendome Group. (Pgs. 130-142)
• “Developments toward a Residential Infill Industry.” Open House International, Vol. 36, no 1, 2011
(Pgs. 86-94)
• “Open Building: Healthcare Architecture on the Time Axis.” 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.” Design Studio Pedagogy –
Horizons for the Future (ed.) Salama and Wilkinson. Urban International Press London, 2007
• Kendall and Teicher; Residential Open Building (originally published by SPON, 2000); (
translated into Japanese – 2006, and Korean – 2012)

Professional Memberships:
International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB)