David Baker
Illustration — Curran House affordable family housing in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco David Baker, FAIA LEED AP (born December 20, 1949), is an American architect based in San Francisco, California. He and his firm, David Baker Architects (with principals Daniel Simons and Amanda Loper), are known primarily for designing affordable housing projects, hotels, and condominium lofts, often in converted old industrial buildings.
David Baker
Brian Rose · David Baker + Partners, Architects · CC BY 3.0
- Born
- 1949 · Grand Rapids.
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- United States
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- architect
- Education
- University of Michigan · University of California and Berkeley College of Environmental Design · Phillips Exeter Academy
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Illustration — Curran House affordable family housing in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco David Baker, FAIA LEED AP (born December 20, 1949), is an American architect based in San Francisco, California. He and his firm, David Baker Architects (with principals Daniel Simons and Amanda Loper), are known primarily for designing affordable housing projects, hotels, and condominium lofts, often in converted old industrial buildings.
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David Baker (born 1949) is an architect, of American nationality. The architect was born in Grand Rapids. David Baker was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design and University of Michigan.
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Baker was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on December 20, 1949. He grew up in Michigan and in Tucson, Arizona, in a house designed by his self-educated father, Bernard Baker. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Thomas Jefferson College, University of Michigan, and University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a master's degree in architecture. Baker says that he decided to become an architect as a child, when his father gave him a book on famous architects. • Illustration — Tassafaronga Village LEED Platinum affordable housing in Oakland, California • Illustration — La Valentina Station affordable family housing at a light rail station in Sacramento
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After college in the 1970s Baker formed Sol-Arc, an energy consulting firm. His present firm, David Baker Architects, was formed in 1982. Baker was elevated to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1996. In 2008, Baker was one of three architects selected for induction in the Builder Magazine's "Hall of Fame". One of Baker's projects, Soma Studios, was named one of the ten best new projects of the decade by a local critic.
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David Baker was born on 20 December 1949.
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- 1.John King. David Baker + Partners serve society, environment. San Francisco Chronicle. 2010-07-21.
- 2.Contact Us. David Baker Architects.
- 3.The Noble Architect Foundation.
- 4.The Noble Architect. Meet David Baker, FAIA.
- 5.John Caulfield. Environments for Life. Builder Magazine. 2008-10-01.
- 6.John King. Decade in Review: Top 10 in S.F. Architecture. San Francisco Chronicle. 2009-12-30.
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David Baker studied at University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design and Phillips Exeter Academy.
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