Ted’s practice BAAB focuses on houses and housing. He is interested in form and geometry as instigators of plan and organization. His work on multi-family housing in complex urban contexts looks for inventive ways to use site and zoning limits to challenge current models of living together in cities. He is interested in the ways everyday spaces can be rethought to invent new possibilities of living. He is also interested in the reimagination of existing structures, playing off past building types, structures, and found conditions to prompt new relationships.
Ted also teaches at the Cooper Union, where he teaches housing, and coordinates first-year design studios around techniques of architectural geometry. He previously worked at SO-IL, leading many of the firm's award-winning housing projects.
Ted is a licensed architect, and received his M. Arch with Distinction of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he received the AIA Henry Adams Certificate for academic achievement, and a Penny White Award for independent research. His thesis research with P. Scott Cohen, developed a theory of strangeness in architecture through geometric misuse of vernacular form.
