ABOUT GEORGE ELVIN:
George Elvin, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University, a fellow of the Center for Energy Research, Education and Service, and a Senior Research Associate at the Building Futures Institute. He is also President of Nanosearch, a research and advising firm for nanotechnology in architecture, engineering and construction.

His research on nanotechnology and other emerging design technologies has been published by Princeton Architectural Press, the International Journal of Architectural Computing, the American Institute of Architects, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. His book, “Integrated Practice: Mastering Design-Build, Fast-Track, and Building Information Modeling”, will be published by AIA/Wiley in early 2007. He also authors two popular nanotechnology blogs, nanotechbuzz.com and smallplans.com.

He received his PhD in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998, and owned a design-build firm in Washington DC for twelve years prior to that. In 2005 he held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh working on his current study, “The Design of Nature”.