Save the date: 11/20/2009We will be gathering at the School of Architecture on Friday, November 20th to celebrate Barry Baker’s commitment to the University of Hawaii and the School of Architecture. Special guest and renowned architect, Charles Davis, FAIA, will be the keynote speaker for the event. More details will be posted soon.
Join the School of Architecture as we honor Professor Barry John Baker
upon his retirement on
Friday, November 20, 2009
Reception – 5 p.m.
Lecture – 6:30 p.m.
School of Architecture
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Retirement party highlights:
Recognition of Professor Barry John Baker
Keynote address by Chuck Davis, FAIA, EHDD, San Francisco
Reception with pupus and refreshments
For more information, email: archdean@hawaii.edu or call (808) 956-3469.
Barry John BakerCurriculum Vitae / 28 May 2009
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 and prior to teaching in Hawai‘i 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, a national AIA honor award winning building.
During 30 years on the faculty of the School of Architecture at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa he has served as undergraduate chair, graduate chair, associate dean and interim dean of the School. He 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, materials and methods of construction and architecture systems, 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 and construction management. An active participant in faculty affairs, he has served as School of Architecture senator on the Manoa Faculty Senate (MFS) for more than a decade, and in that capacity also served as a member of the senate executive committee and as senate chair. During his many years with the school he has served on a variety of school and university committees including several Mānoa committees related to graduate program review, faculty and executive promotion and tenure review, university accreditation and budget, and executive search.
His 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). AIA offices in Hawai‘i 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.
Baker is a registered architect in Hawai‘i and California in the United States; New South Wales and Tasmania in Australia and he is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.
Barry John Baker ScholarshipClick here to make a gift online for the Barry John Baker Scholarship.
The Barry John Baker Scholarship was established in 2009 on the retirement of Professor Barry John Baker after thirty years of service in the School of Architecture at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. The scholarship is to support a student based on need who has completed the School of Architecture four year baccalaureate program during the first year of the doctoral program. The recipient should be a Hawai‘i citizen or resident, or a foreign student with at least five semesters of coursework in the School of Architecture and have a minimum cumulative grade point ratio of 3.40 in architectural coursework. Students are expected to apply for the scholarship during Fall Semester in the last year of the student’s baccalaureate program. Student applications will be reviewed by the Faculty Senate of the School of Architecture acting as a scholarship selection committee together with retired faculty member (or Professor Emeritus) Barry John Baker during the following Spring Semester. Scholarship deadlines and calendar will be established by the school and additional scholarship requirements may from time to time be required after consideration by the senate.
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