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Jonathan Bean

Jonathan Bean

· Associate Professor of Architecture, Sustainable Built Environments and Marketing

University of Arizona · School of Architecture

Active 1994–2026

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Citations1.0k
Papers10819 last 5y
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Jonathan Bean is an Associate Professor of Architecture, Sustainable Built Environments, and Marketing at the University of Arizona's College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA). He holds a PhD and MS from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA from the same institution. His expertise encompasses building science, market transformation in the building industry, and high-performance building processes. Bean's research includes understanding the potential of high-performance building to reduce carbon emissions, as exemplified by his TEDx talk Demand Less. He has served as the faculty lead for a finalist team in the 2018 Race to Zero Student Design Challenge and led three finalist teams in the 2019 Solar Decathlon Design Competition, contributing to the development of innovative energy systems. Bean is a PHIUS Certified Passive House Consultant and serves on the board of the Passive House Alliance US. His work also spans consumer research, human-computer interaction, architecture, and design, with a focus on taste and consumption. He has received grants from various research councils and is a columnist for ACM Interactions magazine. His research on taste regimes, developed in collaboration with Zeynep Arsel, has significantly contributed to Consumer Culture Theory, and he has co-edited a book on taste, consumption, and markets.

Research topics

  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Business
  • Social Science
  • Marketing
  • Aesthetics
  • Art
  • Law
  • Chemistry
  • Food science

Selected publications

Frequent coauthors

  • Daniela K. Rosner

    University of Washington

    19 shared

  • Zeynep Arsel

    Concordia University

    7 shared

  • Hanne Pico Larsen

    5 shared

  • Bernardo Figueiredo

    RMIT University

    4 shared

  • Hakan Demirtaş

    2 shared

  • David Ng

    University of Illinois Chicago

    2 shared

  • Patrick Guinan

    Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

    2 shared

  • Stephen P. Clipperton

    New South Wales Department of Primary Industries

    2 shared

Awards & honors

  • U.S. Department of Energy Zero Energy Design Designation (ZE…
  • PHIUS Certified Passive House Consultant
  • Society of Building Science Educators Scholarship Chair

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