Peter Yeadon, AIA RIBA

The product of several international cities, Peter Yeadon is committed to balancing architectural practice and academia. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, AIA New York, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. He has practiced in Canada, Germany, Italy, and the UK, and has established a research-based studio in New York City that is known for its innovative works.
Yeadon is currently an Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where he teaches technology courses that focus on smart materials and nanotechnology in architecture and design. These courses are supported by his pioneering research into the architectural implications of nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology. He began this investigation while teaching at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, and continued his work while teaching at Cornell University’s Department of Architecture. His research follows developments in a number of areas but focuses on molecular manufacturing, nanorobotics, and emergent materials. In 2007, Yeadon was invited to become a member of the Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation at Brown University.
Yeadon has delivered lectures on architecture in the age of nanotechnology in many places, including: New York, London, Budapest, Copenhagen, and Istanbul. His work argues that architecture can no longer ignore the achievements of disciplines that are creating new forms of life and are altering the fundamental properties of matter. It also uses the means of the architect, representation, to submit this argument as a declaration of a new epoch. New beings are being made. New atomic elements are possible. Distinctions between living and inanimate matter are no longer certain. His demonstrable challenge to contemporary architects is to think small, infinitesimally small. Small is Big!