Barry John Baker

Professor

Office: SoA 301L

Phone: (808) 956-4900

Fax: (808) 956-7778

E-mail: bbaker@hawaii.edu

Area of Specialty: Construction management

Courses Recently Taught

ARCH 200: Professional Practice of Architecture; ARCH 218: Introduction to Architecture Systems; ARCH 302: Advanced Architecture Studio; ARCH 400: Project Management; ARCH 401: Asia-Pacific Urban Design Studio; ARCH 432: Construction Management; ARCH 506: Asia-Pacific Topical Architecture Studio; ARCH 534: Forms and Frames of Practice; ARCH 507: Architecture Doctorate Studio A; ARCH 508: Architecture Doctorate Studios B

Educational Background

Diploma in Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1963.

Registration

Hawai‘i and California in the United States; New South Wales and Tasmania in Australia; National Council of Architectural Registration Boards certified.

Experience

Former Undergraduate Chair, Graduate Chair, Associate Dean and Interim Dean of the School, Barry John Baker has taught a full range of courses since joining the faculty in 1979, including architectural design studio at all levels, and courses in design drawing, technical aids to practice, history of Western Architecture, architecture systems, materials and structures, project and construction management, architectural acoustics and professional practice.  He has also taught at the University of New South Wales (where he occupied one of two chairs in Architecture)and the New South Wales Institute of Technology in Sydney, Australia, and the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco.  His scholarly interests are mainly in the design studio, health care architecture, building pathology and architectural diagnostics.  An active participant in faculty affairs, he has served as School of Architecture senator on the Manoa Faculty Senate (MFS) from 1997 to the present, and in that capacity also served as a member of the MFS Executive Committee and as the Chair of the MFS.  During his 27 years with the school he has served on a variety of university committees including several Manoa committees related to graduate program review, faculty and executive promotion and tenure review, budget, accreditation and executive search.  His other community service activities have included serving as a member of the Education Committee of the the Hawai‘i General Contractors Association, and as Regional Education Commissioner of the North West and Pacific Region of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).  Other AIA offices he has held are Director, Vice-President/President-Elect and President of the Honolulu Chapter of the AIA, and Director, Vice President/President-Elect and President of the AIA Hawai‘i State Council.  Prior to teaching, he was an associate of the distinguished San Francisco firm of Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis, now known as EHDD Architecture, where he was the project architect for a variety of buildings, including exhibits at the San Francisco Zoo, and the Garfield Elementary School in San Francisco, an AIA honor award winner.