Amily Huang is the Online Coordinator for the Architecture department. As an instructor, she teaches Introductory Design Studio and Materials Methods of Construction. She is a registered architect and a LEED accredited professional. Her professional work ranges from tenant improvement projects and medical facilities to high-end residential construction.

Before starting her own architectural consulting practice, she worked in New York City as a project architect for Gensler and for The Saladino Group. Prior to that, she practiced in Taiwan for C.Y. Lee and Partners, working on mixed-use towers. Ms. Huang is interested in perception and space, and she often draws her inspiration from the works of conceptual artists, land artists, light artists, and scientists. She received her M.Arch degree from Columbia University and a B.A. with Honors in Architecture, from the University of California at Berkeley. Before joining the Academy of Art, Ms. Huang had over ten years of teaching experience, holding faculty positions at U.C. Berkeley, City College of San Francisco, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has received awards and honors in her field, including being chosen as a (WIL) Women in Leadership Fellow in 1997. Recently, Ms. Huang was a speaker at the 2007 West Coast Green conference, presenting her research on "Green Design in Academia."

Anne-Catrin Schultz has been teaching in the field of architecture and design for over 15 years. She has worked on numerous research projects and publications. Her most recent book about the San Francisco International Terminal by SOM was published with Axel Menges editions in 2008. Anne-Catrin Schultz studied architecture and urban planning in Stuttgart, Germany and Florence, Italy, and earned a Ph.D. in architecture at the University of Stuttgart researching the work of the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. Following post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and worked for several years with Turnbull Griffin Haesloop and Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM). At SOM, she was involved in local projects like the St. Regis Hotel in South of Market in San Francisco and a large scale housing project in the Mission Bay area of San Francisco.

Anne-Catrin has taught at different colleges and universities including the University of Stuttgart, Germany and the University of California at Berkeley. She has been teaching at AAU since 2009 and teaches on-site and on-line History and Theory classes.

Anne-Catrin is active in architecture preservation and is a board member of the Landmark Heritage Foundation related to Julia Morgan's City Club building in Berkeley. She is currently working on a monograph of the Jerusalem Supreme Court by the Israeli architects Ram Karmi and Ada Karmi-Melamede.

Jennifer M. Asselstine
Instructor

Monica Tiulescu
Instructor

Monica Tiulescu's work centers on research practice. She is designing work for competitions, exhibitions and publications. Monica is interested in systems thinking methodology as it applies to urban projects that concentrate on density and performance at multiple scales. This incorporates organization of contextual and theoretical information through demographic and behavioral analysis, and testing scenarios and variable patterns through mapping.

The work consists of proposing design speculations that are reactive to context and suggest evolving hybrid territories that interweave the context, program, spatial interaction, and navigation of information. The work is developed through computation models by utilizing a language of reactive patterns that are built from fields, surfaces, and structures.

Monica studied architecture at Sci-Arc for two and a half years and then received her Bachelor of Architecture from the Cooper Union. She then went on to receive a Masters of Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. She has been teaching in numerous architectural programs both on the East and West Coast at the undergraduate and graduate level for the past ten years. Her academic focus is design studio and contemporary theory.

Peter Benoit
Instructor

Peter Benoit is a Senior Designer and Project Manager at Melander Architects, Inc. in San Francisco, working on a mix of residential and commercial projects. Peter received his Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley in May 2005. His thesis work explored the value and qualities of thick architecture. Prior to graduate school, Peter worked for two years in Boston at Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects, followed by three years in New York at Helfand Myerberg Guggenheimer Architects. Peter worked freelance over the Summer of 2004 designing an artist's residency in Kauai, Hawaii. He received his undergraduate B.S. Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1998.

Peter currently teaches Perspective Drawing & a Freehand Drawing Workshop, and has been at the Academy since Summer 2007.

Beverly Choe
Instructor

Beverly Choe is a registered architect in California and principal of BACH Design, which focuses on residential design. Her academic interests lie in urban housing and its effects on the socio-economic dynamics of the city. Prior to establishing BACH Design in San Francisco, Beverly worked at architectural firms in New York City and Berlin, Germany. She was project architect for La Cocina Kitchen and Housing (AIA Merit Award) and a team member for Plaza Apartments in San Francisco (AIA Honor Award 2009, Home of the Year Award from Architecture Magazine). Her personal work has been published by loud paper magazine and Harvard Design School's Studio Works.

Beverly received a Bachelors of Architecture from Cornell University and a Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University. She has served as a teaching assistant at Harvard University and California College of Arts. Beverly has been a guest juror at Cornell University and Boston Architectural Center.

Kenneth Ford
Instructor

Kenneth Ford has over ten years experience as an award-winning designer. Kenneth approaches architecture from the point of view that space is a constantly shifting experience anchored through sets of situationally specific events and problems. Always looking for 'opportunities in the difficulties', for him the most important part of any project is the questions the project can ask.

Kenneth received his Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-arc) in 2003 and his BA in Environmental Design from Texas A&M University in 1996.

Originally getting his professional start in small firms in Dallas, TX, Kenneth has amassed experience in a variety of project types ranging from smaller scale detail-oriented residences and commercial interiors to large scale corporate headquarters (Sprint HQ, Toronto) and transportation projects (Dallas Area Rapid Transit). He has collaborated with such architects as Thom Mayne of Morphosis, Hodgetts + Fung, and the Hillier Group.

Francisco Castillo
Instructor

Francisco Castillo is a licensed Civil Engineer in California. He is presently working as a Senior Engineer at Biggs Cardosa Inc. in Oakland, CA and has been teaching the structural design classes for the AAU Graduate Architecture Program since 2006. In addition, he serves as an advisor in structural issues to graduate architecture students working in their studio and thesis projects.

Francisco has spent the last 11 years as a practicing Structural Engineering in the Bay Area. He is experienced in the design of wood, masonry, concrete and steel structures and some of the projects he has worked on include: housing projects, office buildings, hospitals, theaters, police facilities, university dorms, community centers, convention centers, parking structures, car dealerships and train stations. Some of Francisco's most prominent projects include the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, the new Berryessa Station for the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) and the retrofit of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

In addition, to his Engineering work, Francisco has been extensively involved in working with minority students within the Bay Area. His work has been directed to motivate and guide minority students who are interested in mathematics, science and engineering as possible careers. Most of his work with minority students has been done through programs funded by the University of California at Berkeley. Some of the programs he has been involved with include the Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP), Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement Program (MESA), Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP), Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP), etc. Francisco uses both his professional experience and his work with minority students in his work with the graduate architecture students. His overall experience permits him to put himself in the position of the student and to find new ways to help them.

Kory Bieg
Instructor

Kory Bieg received his Master in Architecture from Columbia University in New York City and his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Washington University in Saint Louis.

In 2005 Kory formed K Bieg Design; a cross-disciplinary design firm that specializes in building design, fabrication and interiors. K Bieg Design has received awards for their design work, been published widely and exhibited projects at the SFMOMA, the Architectural League of New York and the Storefront for Art and Architecture.

Neil Henk
Instructor

Neil Henk's work is heavily focused on process and content and has been published in Interiors Magazine, A + U, and the New York Times. Neil believes that 'work generates content and content generates work'. In essence, design reveals itself through the process of working and the awareness of what surrounds a project.

During his education at Parsons School of Design, the Bartlett School of Architecture and SCI-Arc, Neil amassed comprehensive experience in residential and commercial projects working with award winning architects, Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis Architects (NYC), Laidlaw Schultz Architects (Los Angeles), and Ed Mills and Associates (NYC). His work has been exhibited at the University of Kansas Fine Arts Gallery as a recipient of the largest first year scholarship for artists (1997) and at the 'Bartfest' in London 2000.

David Kesler
Instructor

David Kesler is an architect and industrial designer who has over 25 years of experience in the profession. He has exhibited his industrial designs in a number of museums throughout the country and was published most recently in the May 2008 issue of Architectural Digest for a modernist pool house in Orinda.

He holds a Masters Degree in Architecture from Columbia University in The City of New York, and a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He was an Editor of Columbia University's Journal of the Graduate School of Architecture.

Elizabeth A. Tippin
Instructor

Elizabeth Tippin is an adjunct professor teaching Architectural Professional Practice. She is an attorney specializing in legal and business counsel to several architectural firms and other design professionals. Her experience includes general counsel services such advising on business organization, contract drafting, real estate issues, employment issues, quality assurance, and business development. Her litigation experience includes mediation, arbitration and trials, and she is often selected as an arbitrator and/or mediator for construction cases. Some of the cases she has handled include:

• Design and construction: design error and omission, construction defect, surveys, delay and acceleration claims, professional fee dispute claims. Projects include convention centers and infrastructure issues of large development projects, commercial buildings including offices, schools, mixed-use projects, multi-unit residential complexes and single family homes.
• Business and insurance disputes: breach of contract, partnership formation and dissolution agreements, copyright disputes, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation.
• Real Property: land use, real estate broker liability, non-disclosure relating to buy-sell agreements, flood and landslide cases, landlord-tenant.
• Environmental disputes: hazardous waste, toxic torts, site assessment.
• Employment disputes: wrongful termination, discrimination and whistle blowing.
• Products liability and personal injury: construction products, automobile/motorcycle/ATV cases, punch and printing presses.

Victoria Fong is a licensed architect with over 25 years of professional experience in design, architecture, and planning. She has been teaching at AAU since 1998 and teaches an on-site Programming and Space Planning course as well as other graduate level on-line and directed study courses in both the graduate architecture and interior architecture programs.

Victoria obtained both her undergraduate degree in interior design and her master's degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. In her early career, she worked in Hong Kong as an architect/planner on hotel and mass transit projects. After returning to the U.S, she gained valuable multi-disciplinary experience in architecture, planning and interior design in Boston and San Francisco. She was principal of her own architectural consulting practice for over ten years. Victoria specializes in higher education facilities, medical research, health care, and commercial/office building tenant improvement projects.

Victoria is a recipient of the John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship from the UC Berkeley Department of Architecture. She served on a number of advocacy, housing and education boards to reinforce her commitment to good planning and design. She was also a member of the San Francisco Board of Examiners, a public agency that reviews interpretations of local codes for alternative materials, means and methods of construction.