Rate My Professor Kevin Klinger

Kevin R. Klinger is an Associate Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture at Ball State University’s R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning. He earned a Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996, including participation in the Versailles Program at the Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles, France from 1993 to 1994. Klinger holds a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Economics from DePauw University in 1990 and studied engineering at Purdue University from 1985 to 1987. His career at Ball State University includes serving as Founding Director of the Institute for Digital Fabrication (iMADE) from 2006 to 2016, a Center for Media Design project funded by a Lilly Endowment grant. He has also held positions as CAP Recruitment Faculty Liaison in 2018, March Thesis Final Project Coordinator in Spring 2018, Summer Research Fellow at the Center for Media Design in 2005 focusing on digital fabrication research, and Summer Research Fellow at CERES in 2003 for the Enkei Project visualization team. Earlier roles encompass directing Architect.org from 2000 to 2003 and digital consulting for TEN Arquitectos in 1996.

Klinger’s research specializations encompass digitally-driven design and techniques of digital fabrication, promoting an ethic to “connect globally, and make locally” through project-based collaborations with students, industry partners, and communities at the nexus of emerging technologies and architectural production. He was a two-term President of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) from 2003 to 2005, Vice-President from 2006 to 2007, and Conference Chair for ACADIA 2003. His influence in the field is evident in awards such as the Best Published Conference Paper Award at SIGraDi 2005 for “Visualizing Revisions: Representation Implications of Digital Fabrication,” TechPoint Mira Awards Finalist in 2009 for Education Contribution to Technology via iMADE, and Finalist in the Van Alen Institute Paris Prize in Public Architecture in 1997. Key publications include co-editing Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture (Routledge, 2008) with Branko Kolarevic, “Design-through-Production Formulations” in Nexus Journal (2012), “Synchronizing Decisions: Design-through-Production Methodology” at SIGraDi 2013, and “Visualizing the Operative and Analytic: Representing the Digital Fabrication Feedback Loop and Managing the Digital Exchange” in the International Journal of Architectural Computing (2006). Through these contributions, Klinger advances design-through-production processes bridging digital and physical realms in architecture.