Ted Givens

Miami, United States

Ted's team has won over 30 design competitions in Asia, including two major competitions in South Korea recently won by the newly founded Miami-based studio, and numerous awards, most recently a 2017 Cityscape Dubai Residential Futures Award. Ted has published articles and projects in the South China Morning Post, Evolo magazine, Mark, Boston Globe and AD. His work has also been featured on ABC's Right This Minute, Bloomberg, Weather Channel and Arte-TV's documentary L'arquitecture Climatique.

He has recently presented at 100% Design Shanghai, Archi Fest, Tongji University and at the NUTAU Housing Conference in Brazil. He was a member of the jury for the 2017 Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards. Ted has taught graduate architectural studies at the master's level at the University of Hong Kong and at the University of Miami in 2019. He has been a regular guest critic at CUHK. He was recently interviewed by German Public Radio on how design thinking should be influenced by the probability of disaster. Ted recently taught two roving studios in 2019 at the University of Miami, one at the University of Bahamas and the other at Suez Cap in Kuala Lumpur.

Research, design innovation and collaboration are key drivers of Ted's work. Recent explorations include an air-purifying building envelope, the Atomic Monticello, a collapsible/tornado-proof suburb and a famine resistant house/sustainable community for the homeless. A sustainable housing prototype for the poorest is just beginning construction in rural Philippines.