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Hayes, Richard

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Biography

Dr. Richard L. Hayes has over 44 years’ experience in all facets of research, system theory, personnel management, building technology, architecture and the construction industry. For the American Institute of Architects in Washington DC he was Director of Knowledge Resources where he developed, directed, and identified emerging topics in the profession of architecture. For 14 years Dr. Hayes ran the AIA's Research for Practice Program that included the Upjohn Research Initiative. Major projects included The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice 15th edition (the industry standard for firm management), Architectural Graphic Standards 12th edition as well as overseeing the AIA’s Architect’s Knowledge Resource Program.

His past professional work experience also includes being with the Center for Public Buildings of The Georgia Institute of Technology on assignment to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Headquarters serving as their Chief Historic Architect. He has also been the Director of an Architecture Department for a private sector firm and a Research Architect for the US Army Corp of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory of Champaign, Illinois.

Dr. Hayes' professional registration includes architectural licenses in Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia and an NCARB Certificate. The Georgia Institute of Technology awarded his Ph.D. focusing on architectural theory in 1995. In 2014 he became a Project Management Professional (PMP). From 2005 until 2016 he was a Certified Association Manager (CAE) but let the credential lapse since he was no longer in association management.

Since 2003 he has taught for CMU’s Global Campus and joined the main campus faculty from 2016 through Spring of 2020. Class assignments include but are not limited to MSA core classes (research methods, strategic planning, multiculturalism, and capstone), IND, IET, and EGR courses.

Recently in 2021, Dr. Hayes was the Interim Executive Director of the Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI). APT’s Mission is to advance appropriate traditional and new technologies to care for, protect, and promote the longevity of the built environment and to cultivate the exchange of knowledge throughout the international community.

Currently Dr. Hayes is owner of Nth Degree Environments LLC, a firm specializing in architectural research and providing assistance to small architectural firms with their business operations.

More about Richard Hayes

Book-Length Publications Projects

Architectural Graphic Standards, 12th Edition AIA, AIA, Wiley & Sons, (Content Editing/Advisory Board), 2016

The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice (HPP), 15th ed. AIA, AIA, Wiley & Sons, (Editor-in-Chief), November 2013

Houses for all Regions: CRAN Residential Collection (Editor-in-Chief) June 2014

AIA 2010-2012 Designs For the New Decade, Design Media Publishing Limited, (content direction/editing), 2012

Residential Graphic Standards, 2nd Edition, Wiley & Sons (editorial oversight), 2010

Design Informed; Driving Innovation with Evidence-Based Design, Wiley & Sons, (content direction/editing), 2010

The Architect’s Guide to Small Firm Management; Making Chaos Work for Your Small Firm, Wiley & Sons, (content direction/editing), 2010 

The American Institute of Architects Official Guide to the 2007 Contract Documents, AIA, Wiley & Sons, (content direction), 2009

The AIA Student Guide to Architecture Practice, AIA, Wiley & Sons (editorial oversight), 2009

Publications/Disseminations (greater than 500 words, less than book-length)

The Children of Mine Youth Center Strategic Plan, Executive Editor, December 2021 (Plan conducted as service-learning portion of an MSA 603 course)

Five Year Strategic Plan, Executive Editor, The Association for Preservation Technology International October 2021 (Included review and development of metrics by students as service-learning portion of an MSA 603 course)

Reclamation of the Lost Tamarack Trail Strategic Plan, Executive Editor, February 2019 (Plan conducted as service-learning portion of an MSA 603 course)

Presentations

Center for Dispute Resolution of Environmental Impacts to Communities – Project Concept, (Invited Speaker) Presentation to Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force, Saint Louis, MI 02/19/2025

The Evolving City:  One architect's vision about the health, safety, and welfare of individuals' impact on the evolving city (Invited Speaker), Texas A&M University Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, 03/20/2024

From Antiquity to the Modern World, an Architectural Retrospective of Monuments and Tombs (Invited Speaker) 2023 George Washington Birthday Symposium An Architectural History of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, Alexandria VA 02/22/2023

Metrics Model for Strategic Priorities Association for Preservation Technology International 07/21/2022

The Children of Mine Youth Center Strategic Plan (Invited Speaker) The Children of Mine Youth Center Community Meeting 01/12/2022

Business Report (Invited Speaker) Association for Preservation Technology International, Annual Conference 10/26/2021

Turning Your Class into a Super Course via a Nomadic Approach (Invited Speaker) CMU Curriculum & Instructional Support 09/10/21

Architecture and Systems Thinking (invited speaker) Speaker Series Fifth Year Architecture Studio & Critique Session North Carolina State University 01/29/2021

Navigating Change in Unprecedented Times (Invited Speaker) Webinar 05/28/2020

Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia

Architectural Theory, History, Criticism and Technology

M.Arch. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Illinois

Historic Preservation, History and Theory of Architecture

B.S. Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Business Administration, Mathematics

Supplemental Coursework

1986–87 Administration, Parkland Community College

1984 Art History, Lawrence Institute of Technology

1980 Art History, Aquinas College

1977 Sociology/Psychology/General Studies, Grand Rapids Junior College

Systems Theory 

Systems theory is a scientific framework that studies how systems work. This is a transdisciplinary field that can be applied to many different areas, including engineering, management/administration, sociology, and psychology. 

Areas of Interest:

  • Systems theory studies how systems adapt to change while maintaining their structure. 
  • How each part of a system affects and is affected by the whole system. 
  • Developing strategies to improve relationships and outcomes. 
  • Helping  people be more effective communicators by expanding their view of the inner workings of a challenge/problem. 

Habitability Theory

The design of environments that are habitable so that they support their occupants physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually. 

Areas of Interest:

  • Challenges for space architecture
  • Space architecture theory and practice of designing and building environments for humans in outer space.
  • Combining architecture, engineering, aesthetics, knowledge of space environments, spaceflight engineering, space system engineering.
  • The psychology of isolated and confined environments.
  • Volumetric limitations, activity envelopes, layouts, adjacencies, portals/doors, viewports/windows, and decor.

Service

Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force, developed concepts for an Educational Center and a Center for Dispute Resolution of Environmental Impacts to Communities in response to the Michigan PBB Disaster. Projects were done in conjunction with students in the Spring 2025 offering of IND 332WI Human Shelter and the Environment.

Director of Study Abroad Open Forums – Candidate Evaluation, participated in three forums and submitted forms for all candidates, 27 January – 3 February 2025

CMU Honors College, “2025 Centralis Essay Competition Prompts,” Reviewer Spring 2025 & Fall 2024

CMU CIS, Peer Reviewer revised “MSA 607 Program Management in Complex Organizations” course shell and teaching materials, 11/18/2024 to 11/26/2024 .

MSA 50-year Anniversary tasks:

  1. Check on Video/Ted possibilities (emailed Friday 09/27/2024 12:32 PM)
  2. Draft of the 50 on 50 call for submissions (emailed Saturday 09/21/2024 11:34 AM)
  3. Poster Template - four examples (emailed Wednesday 10/09/2024 ~ 8:15 AM)

CMU Board of Trustees, Drop-in Event, provided feedback on a historic CMU building, 09/25/2024

Leadership Safari, Pizza with the Professionals, Conversationalist with new CMU students, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024

Honor Society Memberships

Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gargoyle Honor Society, University of Illinois School of Architecture
Sigma Iota Epsilon, the National Honorary and Professional Management Fraternity, CMU

Professional Affiliations

Mars Society
Project Management Institute
Society of Architectural Historians