Barry Ballinger, PhD

Dr. Ballinger earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Oklahoma State and both a Master of Arts and a PhD from the University of Kansas. His research earned him a Fulbright Research Grant for fieldwork in Ankara, Turkey’s informal settlements, where he studied the confluence of architecture, social movement, and contentious politics. He has presented on informal settlements, politics of space, and knowledge management at international conferences in the USA, Turkey, Portugal, and Austria. In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Dr. Ballinger has over a decade of wide-ranging design experience on diverse building types including healthcare, hospitality, K-12, multifamily residential, and higher-ed. He has worked on all phases of project delivery in firms in California, Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas. Barry uses his research and professional experience to guide his studio and seminar courses – using theory and professional experience to help students integrate their values with their vocation.