SPEAKERS      
       
 

Lloyd Alter practiced as an architect and then as a real estate developer before working with Royal Homes to develop, manufacture and market a new line of modernist designs for prefabricated modular housing. A graduate of the University of Toronto, each of his development projects won Urban Design Awards from the City of Toronto. With Royal Homes, his goal is to promote and encourage the development of good design by good architects, and to open new markets for the company.
www.royalhomestoronto.com

      
         
  Allison Arieff is the Editor-in-Chief of Dwell magazine and the author of the books Prefab and Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America.
www.dwellmag.com www.thedwellhome.com
      
         
  Renee Chow is Assistant Professor at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, principal of studio URBIS and author of Suburban Space, the Fabric of Dwelling (2002).      
         
  Peggy Deamer is the principal of her own firm, deamer. She is the assistant dean at Yale's school of architecture, and teaches studio and theory. A book on her research seminar and studio entitled "The Millennium House" comes out at the end of October 2004.      
         
  Dr. Lynne Dearborn is an Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a member of UIUC’s East St. Louis Action Research Project, teaching design studios and other courses focused on improving conditions in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her research work has focused on immigration and cultural studies of the built environment as well as the economics of real estate development.      
         
 

Dawn Finley is a principal of Interloop A/D in Houston, Texas and is currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University School of Architecture. Recent research and design work includes KlipHouse, a service based housing platform developed for mass production, Plug-On, the first in a series of product prototypes intended for residential structures, and Tending(Blue), a new building collaboration with artist James Turrell, commissioned by the Nasher Foundation in Dallas, Texas. In 2001, Interloop A/D was hired by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, of Genoa, Italy to be on-site Associate Architects for The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas. In 2000, IA/D worked with Droog Design to develop Do Post, a mailbox prototype, exhibited at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam and the Milan Furniture Fair. www.interloopdesign.com

      
         
  Michelle Kaufmann principal of Michelle Kaufmann Designs, specializes in residential projects, health and wellness and restaurants/nightclubs. The Glidehouse is her first architectural design that can be mass-produced for the consumer market. A prototype was built in a plant near Vancouver and displayed at Sunset Magazine’s Celebration Weekend in May 2004, receiving over 30 orders. Prior to founding her firm, Kaufmann was an Associate at Frank O. Gehry & Associates for five years. www.mkarchitecture.com www.glidehouse.com      
         
  Kevin Mattson is design manager and systems designer for MF Technologies and the Masterfit Framing System. He is also a timber frame designer and owner of Bear Design. He received his architectural degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a general contractor in California. He began his timber framing career at Timbercraft Homes, Inc where he became design manager. As design manager he helped lead the company's transition to the use of the Hundegger CNC machine. Since leaving Timbercraft Homes in 1999 he has been a designer and consultant to a number of timber frame, log, and panel manufacturing companies.
www.mftcorp.com		      
         
  John Quale teaches architectural design, building technology and photography at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He was the coordinator and architecture advisor for the 2002 UVA Solar Decathlon Team, a national design/build house competition. Quale founded and directs ecoMOD, a design/build project focused on low-income modular housing, with rigorous standards for assessing environmental impact. Three modular prototype houses will be built over four years and sold to qualified low-income buyers in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has worked for several architecture firms in New York City, including Architecture Research Office (ARO), where he managed a variety of projects. Quale is a LEED Certified Professional.      
         
  Bob Rubin is a Ph. D. candidate in Theory and History of Architecture at Columbia University, and organized and oversaw the reconstruction of Prouvé’s tropical house outside of Paris after recovering it from Brazzaville in 2000.      
         
  Jennifer Siegal, Principal and Founder of Office of Mobile Design + Professor at Woodbury University, editor of Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture. Ms. Siegal’s work, including the well-known prefab projects, Portable House and Swellhouse, was exhibited at the prestigious Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum’s 2003 National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now; and the Walker Art Center’s Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life. www.designmobile.com      
         
  Stephen Kieran, FAIA, and James Timberlake, FAIA, Design Partners of KieranTimberlake Associates LLP, have authored two books, MANUAL, The Architecture of KieranTimberlake (2002) and refabricating ARCHITECTURE (2003). They currently serve as Adjunct Professors at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design where they lead a graduate research laboratory that explores the emerging interface between architecture as high art and the integration of developing technologies in materials science and product engineering.
www.kierantimberlake.com
     
         
  Maia Small is currently a partner in Thurlow Small Atelier, a design research office begun in 2001 that explores the reciprocal relationship between digital technologies and material production. Her previous professional experience includes the New York offices of Bernard Tschumi Architects, Kolatan / Mac Donald Studio and Archi-Tectonics, as well as the San Francisco office of Mark Cavagnero Associates. During the past four years, as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, College of Architecture + Design, she specialized in Digital Imaging through the development of an upper-level seminar, an Introductory CAD course and the co-design of the College website. Maia completed her MArch degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation where she received the Henry J. Adams AIA Medal; she earned her BA in Architecture with highest honors at the University of California, Berkeley.

Andrew Thurlow is currently a partner in Thurlow Small Atelier and an Assistant Professor at Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Art + Historic Preservation, where he specializes in Digital Manufacturing. During the past six years at the University of Tennessee, College of Architecture + Design, he developed three courses that integrated architectural production and digital technologies: IntroCAD, AdvancedCAD, and Digital Manufacturing, a seminar that utilized CAD-CAM, reverse engineering and rapid prototyping technologies. His previous professional work experience includes the offices of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates and Ballinger Architects, in Philadelphia. Andrew completed his MSAAD degree at Columbia University in the City of New York, GSAPP, where he received the CAD Design Honor Award; he earned his BArch degree at Syracuse University, where he received the James Britton Memorial Award for Outstanding Thesis.

They have been published in Metropolis magazine, Arch + (Germany), and a couple other European journals. www.thurlowsmall.com