Dealing With Design Instructors

When designing something in a design studio, its tough to gauge exactly what style instructors appreciate.

The best way to understand is, I think, by taking a look at their website or checking out past work that they've done, to get a feel for who they are and what their style. It's important to do this because that way a student knows how to frame their argument when talking to their instructors.

I would imagine that this is an important skill to develop for designing in the real world - architects need to understand their clients and their needs before they can even think about designing. If the designer's product doesn't identify with the client in some way, then the designer is shit out of luck for any future work with that client or with any possible clients that client could have referred the architect to.


This semester at UC Berkeley, in 100b, there were 5 instructors - 4 male - 1 female - and being the forward school that Cal is, the female was the head instructor.


Listed below are the instructors, their websites + contact info.



Raveevarn Choksombatchai - http://veevdesign.com/ - rloom@berkeley.edu

Eric Olsen - http://ericolsenarchitect.com/ - http://sitemaker.umich.edu/olsene/files/olsenecv506.pdf -
eric_olsen@post.harvard.edu
t (303) 913 - 0423

Kory Bieg - http://kbieg.com/

Robert Shepherd

Maximiliano Spina - maxispina@berkeley.edu