A quarterly publication of the Autism Research Institute
Orfield Laboratories, Minneapolis, MN
Steven J. Orfield, founder of Orfield Laboratories, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been involved with architectural and product consulting for more than four decades. He began his career by taking a human factors approach to architecture, with an emphasis on acoustics and lighting in relation to their impact on users’ experience.
Within 10 years, Orfield Laboratories became the first independent multi-sensory building performance consulting lab in the U.S. Orfield has authored or been featured in more than 350 national and international articles, has written two commissioned white papers for ASID, has organized more than 100 international conferences, and is the founder of the Open Plan Working Group, the Sound Quality Working Group, and the Architectural Research Consortium. He can be reached at [email protected] or at Orfield Labs (612-721-2455).
