Barry John Baker Scholarship

Professor Emeritus Barry John Baker is a 1963 graduate and holds a diploma in architecture from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He moved to the United States in 1967. Prior to teaching in Hawaiʻi he was an associate of the distinguished San Francisco firm of Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis, now known as EHDD Architecture. During his 30 years on the faculty of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Architecture, he has served as undergraduate chair, graduate chair, associate dean and interim dean of the school. An active participant in faculty affairs, he served as a School of Architecture senator on the Mānoa Faculty Senate for more than a decade, and in that capacity he also served as a member of the senate executive committee and as senate chair. He retired in August 2009. His community activities have included serving as president of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honolulu chapter and president of AIA Hawaiʻi State Council. The purpose of this fund is to provide scholarship support to students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Architecture.