Frederick "Fred" L. Creager

Associate Professor

Office: SoA 301I

Phone: (808) 956-4911

Fax: (808) 956-7778

E-mail: creager@hawaii.edu

Area of Specialty: design, construction materials and technology

Courses Recently Taught

ARCH 200–Professional Practice of Architecture, ARCH 502-503– Comprehensive Architecture Design Studio A & B.

Educational Background

BS in Architecture, University of Illinois, 1956.

Registration

Alaska, Hawai‘i, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Washington. Qualifications certified by NCARB.

Experience

Fred Creager teaches various levels of design studio and oversees some of the directed studies at the School.  He has taught research methodology, urban architecture, and professional ethics at the graduate level; and intermediate and advanced interior design, and materials and methods of construction at the undergraduate level.  Before joining the faculty in 1983 he was a principal in the firm of Brooks Hensley Creager, Architects, in Spokane, Washington – an award-winning firm with its work published regionally, nationally, and internationally.  He took leave in 1984 and spent a semester as a Visiting Professor at Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.

He has researched architectural technology and energy conservation issues, and has been a recipient of education grants from the Steel Industry of Hawai‘i, the Hawai‘i Interactive Television System, and the UH Instructional Development Fund.  Creager’s present research interest is in the international practice of architecture, and the rapidly changing nature of practice. An active AIA member, he has served as Chair of the AIA National Judicial Board, President of AIA Washington State Council, President of AIA Spokane and Director AIA/Honolulu Chapter. He was also Charter President of the Spokane Chapter CSI and Chair of the National CSI Awards Program

Recent Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

Principal Investigator, research projects related to energy conservation technologies - “Building Integrated Photovoltaics,” 1998-1999; “Comparative Analysis of Residential Roof Ventilation Systems,” 1998-1999; and “Hawai‘i Advanced Building Technologies,” 1997. He serves as a consultant to the UH Environmental Center and the Pacific Business Center.

Current Academic Professional and Public Service

SoA Committee Member - Professional Practice Committee, Scholarship and Awards Committee, State Intern Development Program (IDP) Coordinator, SoA Intern Development Program (IDP) Educator Coordinator, attended IDP Coordinator’s Conference, Washington, 2005. He has a small practice that recently completed the Facilities Master Plan for the College of the Marshall Islands in Majuro, the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Professional Memberships

American Institute of Architects (AIA), Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), and the International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS).