American architect
Steve (Steven Paul) Badanes
is widely known for his practice and teaching of
design/build
. He is a founding member of the Jersey Devil design/build practice, and is currently a Professor in the
University of Washington
Department of Architecture, where he holds the Howard S. Wright Endowed Chair of the
University of Washington College of Built Environments
.
Badanes received his Bachelor of Arts from
Wesleyan University
in 1967, and his Master of Architecture (
M.Arch.
) from
Princeton University
in 1971. Seeking an alternative to conventional practice, Badanes and his partners
Jim Adamson
(who now also teaches a design/build course at the University of Miami) and
John Ringel
founded the Jersey Devil design/build firm in 1972. The firm has designed and built a wide variety of projects over the ensuing three decades. Their work has been the subject of three books,
Jersey Devil Design/Build Book
(1985),
Devil's Workshop: 25 Years of Jersey Devil Architecture
(1997) and 'Design/Build With Jersey Devil: A Handbook for Education and Practice'. Their work has also been featured in numerous articles in various professional and popular media.
Badanes has taught at various architecture and art schools since the 1980s. He has been on the board of directors of the
Yestermorrow Design/Build School
in Waitsfield, Vermont, since 1983, and regularly teaches there in the summer. He first taught at the
University of Washington
in 1988. In 1996, he accepted an appointment as a permanent member of the UW faculty and is the first to hold the Howard S. Wright Endowed Chair. He typically teaches a design/build studio every year in the spring.
Badanes has conducted design/build workshops at the University of Technology in Helsinki, Auroville, India, the University of Oregon, the University of Miami, Atlantic Center for the Arts, McGill University, UNCC, Ball State University, the University of California at San Diego, Florida A&M University, Miami University in Ohio, North Dakota State University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin. He is a frequent speaker at architecture schools across the United States and internationally.
He is also a consultant and frequent visiting critic at the
Rural Studio
of
Auburn University
[1]
The
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
(ACSA) honored Badanes with the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award in 2001?2.
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See also
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References
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- Crosbie, Michael J.,
The Jersey Devil Design/Build Book
, Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City 1985,
ISBN
0-87905-190-6
- Piedmont-Palladino, Susan, and Branch, Mark Alden,
Devil's Workshop: 25 years of Jersey Devil Architecture
,
Princeton Architectural Press
, New York 1997,
ISBN
1-56898-113-9
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