Stephen Bender Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, Fl, Us

Orlando, Florida, United States

Orlando, Florida, United States

Orlando, Florida, United States

Orlando, Florida Area

At UF’s Citylab- Orlando, I am responsible for teaching foundational and advanced architectural design, technical and theoretical support courses, and facilitate Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) seminars. Specifically, I teach graduate architecture with a focus on revitalizing neighborhoods through design. To be a successful program with an emphasis on urbanism, especially concerning Florida cities, Citylab must be connected to neighborhoods in the Orlando region through direct engagement with citizens and community organizations. In this context, my teaching and research spans the design of buildings, policy, education, and strategic planning and community design.My research and practice areas are material upcycling and prefabrication applied to affordable housing and urban activation. This specific area of research involves design-build as a form of practice and form of project delivery, especially related to prefabrication and modular construction. This follows from my design-build construction experience, transformations in construction methods, and my ongoing shipping container architecture projects and proposals. The overall goal of my research is to develop, test, and implement material use strategies and processes that reduce the cost of construction and use of material to affect the social and environmental impact of buildings.I serve as a Lectures Committee Member with other AIA members and staff, YAF representatives, and UCF representatives. I am in regular contact with the community of architects related to the governance and promotion of CityLab-Orlando, and actively collaborate with colleagues at UF main campus in Gainesville.

Orlando, Florida Area

Gainesville, Florida

bndr, llc, is a design firm providing professional architecture services for a variety of project types but specializing in shipping container upcycling.

Gainesville, Florida Area

In fall semester 2014 I began teaching at CityLab-Orlando, a University of Florida Graduate School of Architecture Program at the Center for Emerging Media in Orlando. I teach graduate Advanced Design Studio (G3, G6, G7, G8) and technical courses including Advanced Materials and Methods of Construction and Advanced Topics in Digital Architecture. Previously, I taught lower and upper division architectural design at the University of Florida School of Architecture; Design 3, 4, 5, 6 & 8. These are five and six credit hour classes. My student evaluations are above the department mean: https://evaluations.ufl.edu/results/instructor.aspx?ik=609086673 I began using a blog as a teaching tool in fall 2009 and I have continued with every subsequent studio; seven total. Blogs create a reflective learning environment, a history of project process and an electronic studio community allowing students and professors to extend teaching and learning beyond the moment and beyond the studio. The blog activity creates a informative structure (a catalog of sorts) within which I reflect on my assignments and outcomes. This is at a basic level a study of the relationship between the message originator and the message receiver. It is a reflection on the way I teach and how students learn. This is useful to me in a very practical way every day. An added benefit of the blog teaching method is that it reduces the need for plotted output. This saves tons of paper and ink, wear and tear on school equipment and time. It is a sustainable practice that benefits the School.*Software used and taught in studio courses: Autodesk AutoCad & AutoCAD Architecture, Revit, Vasari, Rhinocerus, V-Ray, SketchUp, SU Podium, Green Building Studio, EIS VE-Ware, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop & InDesign), MS Office (Excel), blogger/wordpress.

Gainesville, Florida Area

At MWBa Stephen performs professional design services for residential and commercial projects. We promote alternative design using whole building method, site driven solutions with local identity, experiential space design using light, volume and material. We include top UF student interns on our staff. Stephen and MWBa have gained notoriety for expertise in shipping container design and construction.

Stephen provided services as Preconstruction Manager, Project Manager and Design-Build Coordinator. He was in charge of qualification, bidding, and subcontractor relationships for construction projects. He managed the schedule, cost and scope for Construction Management projects. He coordinated Owner, A/E team, estimating and permitting for design-build projects.

Meta- is a prefix that means beyond or about, transcending, transformed, more highly organized or specialized. Stephen performed work including residential, commercial, and institutional projects. He pursued projects and managed operation of firm, performed feasibility studies, programming, site planning (as owner's agent),design phase services, construction documents and construction administration.

Cambridge Ma And Gainesville, Fl

Production of architecture related video documentaries."A Question of Scale" a analytical piece about projects designed by OMA (Rem Koolhaas) filmed on location in Paris, Lille and Rotterdam."Seattle Landscape DNA" about Landscape Architect, Richard Haag."Allegheny Riverfront Park", about the collaboration between installation artist Ann Hamilton and Landscape Architect, Michael Van Valkenburgh. "Dan Kiley and the Miller Garden" about Landscape Architect, Dan Kiley and his design which surrounds a home by Eero Saarinen in Columbus, Indiana. A short version of the video was incorporated into an exhibition of Kiley's work at the Chicago Botanic Gardens in 2006.

Master Of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture

Bachelor Of Design, Architecture