Paul has been an instructor at the Academy of Art University School of Architecture for more than 10 years. He built and taught the undergraduate Professional Practice course, and currently leads the fourth year undergraduate integrated design studio, focused on multi-family housing. He has been an invited juror at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, CCA and Cal poly San Luis Obispo, and has lectured at UC Berkeley, CCA, Columbia University and the University of Texas, Austin. He co-curated the exhibit, A Modernist Legacy 2: Building the California Dream -The Eichler Homes, with UT Austin Architecture Professor Kevin Alter. The exhibit was staged at university schools of architecture across the US and Canada. Below are the courses Paul is currently teaching or has taught previously.
ARH 450 02: Studio 8: Housing and Integrated Design
ARH 475: Professional Practice for Architects
In support of his housing design studio, Paul as developed case studies of built projects as object lessons and design resources. Successful multi-family residential design can be measured by three principles: planning rigor, construction logic, and spatial quality, more simply, legibility, build-ability, and livability. The individual dwelling is the fundamental building block of our cities, and better dwellings make for better buildings, and better buildings make for better cities. Unit-to-whole is a method of formal analysis useful for understanding multi-family housing design and an effective strategy for teaching the discipline. The case studies shown here illustrate this methodology in practice.
