Jan Wampler received his BS in Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1963 and a M.A.U.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1964. He is a Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture.He teaches an Architectural Design Studio and a "International Workshop" each semester. In addition to teaching, Jan Wampler runs an architectural office. Jan Wampler's articles and buildings have been published in a number of architectural magazines. These include: "La Puntilla," Progressive Architecture; "Boston Architecture", Andrea Leers and Alex Krieger, A&U, V. 222, March, 1989; "Thinking the City" Exhibition; "Designing for Special Populations," Architecture, January, 1987; "A Village in a House," Space and Society, June 1984. He also authored a book, All Their Own, People and the Places They Build. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and awarded the Distinguished Professor honor from the ASCA. He recently exhibited his work for the last twenty-five years at MIT entitled "Open Strings for e - Search on the Journey". In a review of the exhibition by Robert Campbell he was referred to as "The Walt Whitman of Architects". Presently his design work includes projects in Turkey, Zambia, Cuba, India and Pakistan. This work is illustrated in a publication entitled ˇ°Open Notes for Harmonyˇ±. In addition he has projects in this country including designs for housing, education and civic uses. He has recently produced a film, ˇ°Designing the Architectˇ± a journey through one of his design Studios.
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