Ryan Smith, Assoc. AIA

Ryan E. Smith, PhD, Assoc. AIA, is a professor and director of the School of Architecture at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He has been teaching, researching and consulting with respect to offsite construction and housing for two decades. He is the author of numerous housing papers and books. He is the founding past chair and current board member of the National Institute of Building Sciences, Offsite Construction Council. He serves on the advisory board of Ivory Innovations for Housing Affordability. He is also a fellow of the Modular Building Institute and was a senior research fellow in the Centre for Offsite Construction + Innovative Structures, Institute for Sustainable Construction at Edinburgh Napier University in the UK for the past decade. Ryan is founding partner of MOD X, an offsite construction knowledge management advisory group located in Arizona, New York, Boston, and Switzerland.