Greg Baker

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Coach Greg hails from Chicago, Illinois, a place he often credits for his interest in architecture. After high school, where his band "Vilius" won battle of the bands two years in a row, and he was able to complete a course in architecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he went on to college at University of California at Berkeley.

His architectural studies were briefly sidelined while working in real estate and studying architecture at Laney College. Ultimately, after forming his own band called "Active Crime Transplant" in the Bay Area, he went on to finish college and attend graduate school at California College of the Arts. After joining another band ("Cartoon Justice"), his graduate studies in architecture took him to study abroad program in Brazil at the Escola da Cidade where he completed an installation piece along a pedestrian overpass in one month with interior designer Beth Bloom.

Greg ultimately did his master's thesis on the architecture of sound walls, and worked for CSDA Design Group as an acoustical designer and technician. Most recently, he has worked for The Shalleck Collaborative in Berkeley doing theater and stage architecture. He has taught at many architecture camps, including Project Pipeline, Fam1st Family Foundation camp, and Youth Art Summer Program (YASP). He is an expert (and experienced teacher) at architecture software such as SketchUp and Revit, and looks forward to a class that deals with architecture and music as ways of looking at the world. His architecture class at the West Oakland Youth Center (under the Fam1st Family Foundation) has had success with topics such as Architecture of Music, Architecture of Games, and Architecture of Food alongside its traditional curriculum in drafting and modeling. Through all his teaching endeavors, Coach Greg has successfully taught architecture to young kids of all ages (K-8), and looks to expand this success to high school students.