Stephen Demos

Senior Architect
617-695-1225, x228
sdemos@HumanCenteredDesign.org

Steve Demos has 30 years of architectural practice specifically addressing universal design and design for people with special needs. For the last ten years, Mr. Demos has been/is responsible for Title II design review of pedestrian facilities, including accessibility, for the entire Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project – over 65 design contracts covering buildings, transit stations, parking garages, commercial spaces, water ferry docks, sidewalks, parks, streetscapes and the park at Spectacle Island. Also, Mr. Demos is currently the Universal Design Consultant for the Boston Exhibition and Convention Center. Other recent consulting work has included docking facility projects for the Haborside Performance Pavilion, Logan Airport and the Cites of Hull and Salem.

Mr. Demos has been on the faculty of Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston Architectural Center, Phillips Academy, and Phillips Exeter Academy as well as presenting lectures and workshops, both in the U.S. and abroad. For five years, he taught a continuing education course in barrier-free design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

He was formerly Chief Architect for the Executive Office of Communities and Development and before that, Chief Architect for the Boston Housing Authority. In these capacities, among other things, he developed design criteria based on behavioral design and sociological research. One of his books on behavioral based design criteria won a Progressive Architecture Award for Applied Research, and many housing projects on which he collaborated have won state and national awards.