A. Spencer Leineweber, FAIA

Professor

Office: SoA 301C

Phone: (808) 956-4704

Fax: (808) 956-7778

E-mail: aspencer@hawaii.edu

Area of Specialty: design, history of architecture, historic preservation

Courses Currently Taught

ARCH 301, ARCH 302, ARCH 303, ARCH 405, ARCH 573, ARCH 691, ARCH 692

Educational Background

Cornell University BARCH 1970

University of Hawaii MA (American Studies) 1997

Top Rank Ikebana Sensei, Sogetsu School, Awarded by Sofu Sensei, 1976

Registration

Hawaii #4269 Active

Experience

Director Heritage Center, SOA 1998-Current

President Spencer Limited 1978-1984

President Spencer Mason Architects 1984-1998

President Spencer Architects, Inc 1998-present

Recent Research, Scholarship, and creative activity

Grants through ORS to UHM for Heritage Center 2000-2006

Mission Houses Historic Structure Report

Hawaii State Historic Bridge Study

Lyman House Historic Structure Report

Wailupe Coast Guard Facility Report

Hale Alii Preservation Plan

Hospital Point Historic Preservation Plan

Kula Hospital Historic Historic Structure Report and Preservation Plan

Uchida Coffee Farm Historic Structure Report and Preservation Plan

Private Practice 2005-2006

Kalaupapa National Landmark Restoration of Buildings

Curation Facilty Construction Completed; Value $2.8 Million construction

KALA 211, Construction Completed; Value $2.2 Million

KALA 212, Drawings Completed; Value $3.4 Million

David Pietsch Residence, Construction Completed; Value $2.6 Million

Mike Pietsch Residence, Construction Completed; Value $3.1 Million

Recent Publications

Book

The USS Arizona Memorial Administrative History, National Park Service Western Regional Office. c2006

(under review by the NPS.)

Leading Residential Architects, Sandow Publishing, 2005 Hawaii Selection

Book Chapter

Regional Architecture of Hawaii, in Pacific Regional Art and Architecture, Greenwood Press, 2004.

Vladmir Ossipoff, Hawaiian Modernist 2006 (under review by Yale University Press)

Refereed Journal Articles

Exiles in Paradise, the Kalaupapa Hansen’s Disease Settlement, Historic Environments, ICOMOS Australia, 2003

“Ewa Plantation, A Model for Building Community,” Speaker CIAV Conference, Ehime Japan, October 2004.

“USS Arizona Memorial” Interpreting Memory,” Loving It to Death Conference, Australia, November 2004

“Exiles in Paradise,” Keynote Speaker and Paper on Kalauapapa Leprosy Settlement, Islands of Vanishment Conference, Australia, June 2002

Design Guidelines as a Vehicle for Preservation, Shanghai, 2005, East West Symposium

Invited Presentations

“Nineteenth Century Hilo and the Mission Station,” Lyman House Distinguished Lecture Series, April 2005

“Japanese Influence in Hawaiian Architecture,” Asia Society, Hawaii Chapter, February 2002

“Cultural Heritage Training” funded by the World Bank, July 2000.

Awards

National

National Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Award 2000

Uchida Coffee Farm

Kapolei Outstanding Achievement; Historic Homes of Ewa Villages 2002

KOA Award for the Environment to Historic Ewa

Governor’s Commendation to Historic Homes of Ewa Villages 2002

Commendation Award to Historic Ewa

Award of Merit: Mayor’s Commendation 2002

Community Organization Award to Historic Ewa

Hawaii/AIA

Christ United Methodist Church, Honor Award of Merit 2003

Student Award Recognition

VISION Competition, MOSAIC Foundation, Honorable Mention, Chad Henderson 2005

ACSA Student Design Competition, Center for the Study of Japan and China, 3rd Prize, Ruoyun Sun, 2002

Current Academic, Professional, and Public Service

National Architectural Accrediting Board

Team Chair: 2006: University of New Mexico

Team Member 2005: California College of Art

Team Member 2004: University of Pennsylvania

Team Member 2002: University of Southern California

Team Member 2000: University of Oklahoma

University

Chair, Hawaiian Asia Pacific Board (UH General Education System)

School

Chair: Curriculum Committee

Vice Chair: Faculty Senate

Member: Faculty Personnel Committee

Director: Heritage Center

Fund 3 full time graduate assistants

Community

Elected Director Hawaii State Council AIA 2006-2009

Elected President, Jean Charlot Foundation 2005-2008

AIA Design Honor Awards Juror, July 2005

UNESCO Awards Juror, Bangkok, August 2005, July 2006

President of Historic Ewa, affordable housing non-profit construction company

Finished 212th home, 20 within this academic year; we are now finished 1996-2006

National Board Member, US/ICOMOS 2005-2009

Secretary, Historic Gardens Committee, US/ICOMOS 2005

Member CIAV International Committee 2005- present

Professional Memberships

Elected Fellow in American Institute of Architects (1996)

Elected Honorary Member Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society April 2006