Past Papers and Projects

Older projects and papers include the following, some of which can be downloaded.  

Papers that appeared in either OAA Perspectives or The Right Angle Journal can be accessed here:  More papers

· Pictorial or Written (or something else): It's all about two-way communications,  June 2, 2018. Ian Ellingham, Gordon Grice and John Soules:  Presentation and discussions at the national conference of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in Saint John, New Brunswick.

· Assessing Appearance:  November 30, 2017, IIDEX conference Architecture and construction trade show, Toronto.

· Of Architects and Architecture,  July 10, 2017.  Ian Ellingham.  Globe and Mail.  Opinion section

·  Why Aren't (all) Buildings Beautiful? June 2017.  Ian Ellingham and Gordon Grice:  Three hour workshop conducted at the national conference of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in Ottawa.

· Why Aren't (all) Buildings Beautiful? March 2017, Workshop delivered to the Association of Ontario Land Economists.   Link to paper

· Managing Uncertainty and Flexibility for Sustainability in the Built Environment, July 2016, Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett, Paper delivered at the conference of the International Association of People-Environment Studies in Lund, Sweden.

·  Designed for Touring: Niagara Falls, Canada,  Ian Ellingham and Helen Mulligan, disP -The Planning Review. Vol 51, No 3. 2015.   Link to Video  

· Whole-Life Sustainability - The Book,  Ian Ellingham: Cambridge University Land Society Magazine, Summer 2015. p.51.  Link to publication

· Dodging decline: the post-industrial landscape of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Ian Ellingham and Helen Mulligan, Paper given at the 2015 conference of The Association of European Schools of Planning, Prague, 13-16 July, 2015.  Published in book of proceedings: Definite Space-Fuzzy Responsibility (2015), Prague: AESOP, pp.1127-1142.  www.aesop2015.eu

· Building Component Replacements Under Uncertainty, Ian Ellingham, Martin Hughes and William Fawcett.  Published on ResearchGate, 2015.   Link to article

·  Creative Non-Fiction: 20 years with OAA Perspectives, Ian Ellingham: Cambridge University Land Society Magazine, Summer 2014, p.54.  Link to Publication

· Whole Life Sustainability, Ian Ellingham, Conference session on material derived from recent book and EU-Cileccta project, given to the American Institute of Architects (North-West) and the Architects Institute of British Columbia, October, 2013

· Time Preference and Risk Aversion among Development and Construction Professionals, and Managers, Ian Ellingham and Peter Wallstrom (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden), Paper delivered at the June 2013 conference of the International Association of People-Environment Studies in A Coruna, Spain.

. Quantifying the Benefits of Open Building (2013) William Fawcett, Martin Hughes and Ian Ellingham.  Chapter in book 'Long Lasting Buildings in Urban Transformation', Rotterdam:  The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.  ISBN 9789627757092.  Original paper on real options and flexibility presented at the November 2012 Open Building Conference in Beijing.  Also available on ResearchGate.  Link to Paper

· Whole-Life Sustainability, Lecture given at the Royal Institute of British Architects conference ‘Guerilla Architecture’, 7 November, 2012

· Real Options for Decision-Making, Workshop session presented at the 2010 Conference of the Ontario Association of Architects.

·  Bridging the Divide, Cambridge University Land Society Magazine, Summer 2011, pp.18-19. Link to Publication

· Local Government Finance in England, Lecture at the Department of Planning, University of Waterloo, 5 December, 2009.

· When Life gets Complicated, Building (UK), 23 October, 2009. Article on Life Cycle Costing. Link to Article

· Reconciling the Architectural Preferences of Architects and the Public: The Ordered Preference Model, William Fawcett, Ian Ellingham & Stephen Platt, Environment and Behavior, Vol.40, No. 5.  2008.

· A Case Study in Micro-Conservation, Showroom presentation at Cambridge Architectural Research, 23 July, 2008

· Real Options and Robustness in Master Planning, Lecture for the Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment MSt course, University of Cambridge, 15 July, 2008.

· Real Options Approaches, Lecture at the Center for Real Estate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3 April, 2008.

· Real Options and Urban Transformations, Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett, Paper presented at International Federation of Housing and Planning ‘Futures of Cities’ Conference, September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.  IFHP Library at www.ifhp.org/content/view/138/167/

· A Nicholson and Macbeth Gate, Ian Ellingham: Lecture for the Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment MSt course, University of Cambridge, 20 September, 2006. Also given to the St.Catharines Historical Society, 24 January, 2008.

· Green Building Value and Life-Cycle Costing, Ian Ellingham and Stephen Pope. Teaching session (3 hour session, presented twice) developed in conjunction with Natural Resources Canada, presented at the Conference of the Ontario Association of Architects, Toronto, 12-13 May, 2005.

· The Modern and the Perceptions of the Wider Populace, Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett, Paper presented at the ‘Conserving the Modern in Canada’ conference at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, 6-8 May, 2005. Conference Proceedings:  p.55-66

· Investigations into Design, Value and Time, Cambridge Land Society Magazine, Spring 2004.

· Exploring Risk and Value: Systematic and Unique Risk as Influences on Design, Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment course lecture, University of Cambridge, 16 June, 2003.

·  House Prices as an Indicator of Changing Consumer Preferences, Paper presented at EPUK02, ‘Environmental Psychology in the U.K.’ conference, University of Surrey, 25-27 March, 2002.

·  Choices and Differences:  Consumer Design Preferences, Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment course, University of Cambridge, 18 March, 2002.

.  Consumer Influences on the Life-Cycle of Housing with Particular Reference to the East of England.  Ian Ellingham, PhD Dissertation, University of Cambridge, January 2002.   Link to dissertation

·  New Ways of Quantifying Design Decisions, Paper presented at ‘Value through design’:  Joint CIB W096 Architectural Management and The Design Research Society Conference,  University of Reading, 14-15 September, 2001.  Proceedings, p.29-34.

· Options-Based Evaluation of Facade Refurbishment Alternatives, William Fawcett and Ian Ellingham, Paper presented at the conference ‘Whole Life Costing of Facades’, Centre for Window and Cladding Technology, University of Bath, 18-19 April, 2001.

· Building and Evaluating Real Options,  (i) Presentation to Interdisciplinary Design for the Build Environment M.St. course, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, 5 December 2000. (ii)  Presentation to graduate and continuing education students in Quantity Surveying, Sheffield Hallam University, 14 March 2001.

· Consideration of Options in Property Decisions, Martin Centre Research Society Lecture, University of Cambridge, 25 October, 2000.

· Nose to Nose with the Consumer: The Future of Consumer Research in Architecture, ‘Showroom Presentation’ at Cambridge Architectural Research, 29 March 2000.

·  Urban Conservation, Ian Ellingham, Cambridge Architecture, 43, February 2000.

· Issues of Life Tenure Housing in Ontario, John MacLennan and Ian Ellingham, Real Property Reports, Vol.27 Part 2, December 1999, pp 269-287.

· Consumer Attitudes and Housing, St.Edmund’s College Cambridge Conversazione, 7 December 1999.

· Evolving Consumer Attitudes in a Residential Conservation Area, Departmental Seminar, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, November 1999.

· Canadian Lifelease Experiences:  Suomi-Koti,  Ian Ellingham, Proceedings, Lifelease Housing for Seniors:  Fad or Future?  Symposium of the Ontario Residential Care Association,  Mississauga,  October 24-25, 1996.

·  Building Aging, Design and the Use of Resources, Ian Ellingham, Ontario Eco-Architecture 2, Toronto, 1996.

·Authorized Property Unit Trusts and the Canadian Experience, Ian Ellingham, The Journal of Property Finance, Vol 6, No 1, June 1995.

· Development of Innovative Financial and Tenure Approaches for Seniors Retirement Housing Projects,  Richard Groh, Ian Ellingham and Elizabeth Kuglin-Aylea, Elfield Development Strategies, C.M.H.C, Ottawa, 1991.  Based on ‘Partners in Housing’-funded research project.

· Seniors Housing - Private Non-Profit Futures, Ian Ellingham, Choices in Seniors Housing, Ministry of Housing of Ontario, 1987, pp.81-86.

· Coping with Cyclicality:  Variability of demand for design services, Ian Ellingham, Talk given to the London (Canada) Society of Architects, 28 November, 1979.