Faculty

Bezaleel Benjamin Ph.D.
Professor

Research Interests:

"Space Structures for Low-Stress Environments". His student Amy Stecklein received a GSRP award from NASA for 2003-2004, and it was renewed for 2004-2005. His student Elizabeth Barreto received an UGRA from KU for the Summer, 2005.

Current Activities:

"The Architectural Case for Direction-Controlled Artificial Gravity", Paper has been accepted for presentation at the 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, Jan.9-12, 2006.

"Human Movement in Space Environments" Paper presented to 36th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Vancouver, Canada, April 27-May 1, 2005.

"Space Structures for Low-Stress Environments", International Journal of Space Structures, Vol 20, No 3, England, UK, 2005.

BOOKS, Author of:

THE ANALYSIS OF BRACED DOMES, Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1963.

STRUCTURAL DESIGN WITH PLASTICS, Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing Co., New York, 2nd Ed., 1982.

STRUCTURES FOR ARCHITECTS, Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing Co., New York, 2nd Ed., 1984.

STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, A.B.Literary House, Lawrence, Kansas, 1990.

Teaching Awards

H. Bernerd Fink Award, University of Kansas, 1980

HOPE Award Finalist and Runner-Up, University of Kansas, 1980

Fulbright Teaching Award to Technion, Israel, 1987-88.

Jack and Nancy Bradley Teaching Award, School of Architecture, 1993.

• Architecture

• Architecture in Space Applications
• Architectural Applications of Direction-Controlled Artificial Gravity
• Electromagnetic Joints 

• ARCH 620, Statics for Architects
• ARCH 621, Strength of Materials for Architects
• ARCH 624, Structural Systems for Architects
• ARCH 625, Analysis & Design of Structures for Architects
• ARCH 628, Structure in Nature and Architecture
  
  

• B.E., Bombay, 1957
  
• M.Sc, Ph.D., London Univ., 1959, 1965