14. Stephen Kendall is a registered architect and educator whose career has been marked by consistent efforts to renew the ways we design and build, and the way we educate the next generations of architects. These efforts center on the widespread recognition that the built environment is subject to change, that this change happens on certain environmental levels and that design is distributed. Professor Kendall has a professional degree in architecture, a Masters degree in urban design and a PhD in Design Theory and Methods, the latter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published many papers and technical reports, is co-author of Residential Open Building (Spon, 1999) and is the joint coordinator of an international commission focused on open building www.open-building.org He lectures widely to academic and professional audiences. 15.