Rank: Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Design

Qualifications: Master of Design, National Institute of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art Studio, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Initial NSCAD Appointment: 2009

Christopher Kaltenbach has worked in multidisciplinary roles in design and design education in Japan, Australia and the US. He is an Associate with the Tokyo design studio actionfindcopypaste and regular contributor to the Australian design magazines Architecture Review Australia and (inside). He has taught at the National Institute of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and in the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

He jointly holds three provisional patents with the United States Patent Office, two of which are for devices and applications in third generation sustainable design.

As a writer on contemporary design, he has covered designers and projects such as Naoto Fukasawa, Tokujin Yoshioka, Ross Lovegrove, Toyo Ito’s Tama Art University Library, Office dA's Helios House and the architecture competition  “Keitai (mobile phone) City”, sponsored by the Japanese telecom NTT.