- Sustainable Urban Development and Building Services -

 

 Welcome to

 Tectics
 

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     Home page for the urban development consultancy of

Michael W. Mehaffy CNU-A, MICTP

Structura Naturalis Inc.

 

 

   

Services Offered

 

      - International expertise in low-carbon urban       

                 development, TOD and mixed-use projects       

     - Planning and development consultation            

 - Entitlement, approvals, team management    

         - Expertise in Pattern Languages, collaborative          

   design processes and LEED-ND              

                  - Planning and design at all scales                                     

                 - Lectures and written works on these and other topics        

                                      

 

 

 

Summary of background:

 

Former Project Manager,

Orenco Station

Multiple award-winning and groundbreaking

transit-oriented project in Portland, Oregon

"Perhaps the most interesting experiment in New Urbanist

planning anywhere in the country" - New York Times op-ed

 

 Former Director of Education

The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment

Founder of its respected professional education program in sustainable

 urbanism, in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects,

the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and leading UK and

international universities, agencies and professional organizations

"Highly intelligent inquiries into key urban issues." - Architects' Journal, UK

"The Deputy Prime Minister's office is proud to be associated with them." 

- Keith Hill, UK Minister for Housing, ODPM

 

Co-Founder and Research Associate

The Centre for Environmental Structure - Europe

Legendary architect/planner Christopher Alexander's practice-based

research centre affiliated with the University of Cambridge

"Alexander may be the closest thing design has to a Zen master."

-The New York Times

 

CNU Planning Team member, Mississippi Gulf Coast 

UNOP Planning Team member, District 6, New Orleans

Planner and consultant on other industry-leading projects

in sustainable urban design, LEED-ND and related tools 

 

Co-recipient of  the  Ahwahnee Award for Smart Growth,  the Arthur Ross Award for

Community Planning (for work to rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane

Katrina), US DOT Livable Communities Transit Design Award, et al.

 

Noted author and lecturer (in the US, UK, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Asia, the Middle East) on pattern languages,

generative design processes, new research into sustainable design and construction, and related topics

 

Chair, USA chapter of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU)

Chair, Academic Committee of the Council for European Urbanism (CEU) * Executive Director, Sustasis Foundation

Editorial boards,  Urban Design International, Journal of Urbanism, Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Nuevo Urbanismo

Coordinator, Environmental Structure Research Group * Advisory boards, several research projects and CDCs

  

 

SUMMARY OF REFERENCES

 

INFORMATION ABOUT CONSULTING SERVICES

 

INFORMATION ABOUT LECTURING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING

 

NEW: INFORMATION ABOUT WRITING SERVICES

 

WHY WE OFFER AN INTEGRATED "SYSTEMS APPROACH"

 

NEW:  Recent Media Coverage

Smart City Public Radio * Atlantic Monthly * Traditional Building * etc

 

NEW:  Archive of papers       NEW:  Work Samples

 

 

 

More about:              Work                      Ideas                      Background  

 

Contact us at "michael-dot-mehaffy" at gmail.com, or in the US at (503) 756-1595