Green, Keith E

Position

Professor
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MArch, University of Illinois, Chicago; MS, PhD in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania.

Contact

Office: 165 Lee
Office Phone: (864) 656-3887
Email: kegreen@clemson.edu

Bio

More information:

Keith Evan Green is Professor of Architecture and Materials Science & Engineering at Clemson University. He serves as Director of "Intelligent Materials and Systems for Architecture" (IMSA; www.IMSA-Research.org), a Clemson University research unit partnering Architecture, Materials Science & Engineering, and Electrical & Computing Engineering.

Before arriving at Clemson in 1999, Green was a tenured faculty member at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He teaches architectural design, advanced theory, and emerging technologies in Clemson’s Masters of Architecture Program and in its Ph.D. Program in Planning, Design & the Built Environment (PD&BE), in which he coordinates the technology and applied design-research area, "Technology, Materials and Construction Processes" (http://virtual.clemson.edu/caah/pdbe). He is also a faculty member in the Ph.D. Program in Rhetorics, Communication and Information Design (RCID; http://www.clemson.edu/caah/rcid). Over fifteen students have earned Masters or Ph.D. degrees supervised by Green within his "Animated Architecture Lab" (www.AnimatedArchitecture.com).

Green earned a B.A. Psychology, M.S. Architecture and Ph.D. Architecture degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Masters of Architecture degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His doctoral dissertation, later published as a monograph (in English and soon, Japanese) explores how architecture, an “Animated Architecture,” can behave more like living things in response to human needs and opportunities. Furthering this ambition, Green’s research explores how architecture might behave more like living things in an increasingly digital society. Supported by the National Science Foundation, specific research projects aim at developing, prototyping and evaluating “intelligent environments” with embedded robotics. The contexts for these projects include: aging in place, creativity support tools, children’s STEM interest, and computer-supported collaborative work. In addition to his role as researcher, Green serves as peer reviewer for ACM/IEEE conferences and co-hosts, with Mark Gross (CMU), ARCHIBOTS (www.archibots.org), an annual workshop on Architectural Robotics offered at Ubicomp. Green is also a practicing, international award-winning architect.