This fall, we extend a warm welcome to David Baker of David Baker Architects to the AIA Redwood Empire Chapter for our North by North Coast Fall Lecture at the Lavish Experience Center in Healdsburg.
Image Credits (L-R): Bruce Damonte (Bandsaw Building, Birmingham, AL), Bruce Damonte (Blue Oak Landing, Vallejo), Steven Magner (Felix, Santa Rosa), Bruce Damonte (Harmon Guest House, Healdsburg)
Lead Image Credit: Bruce Damonte
Date: Thursday, September 25
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Cost: Members – AIA, Assoc. AIA, Allied and Students: FREE | Non-members: $20 + booking fee
Address: 435 Allan Ct. Healdsburg, CA
Light refreshments will be provided. Register today!
David Baker, FAIA, LEED AP
David Baker Architects Founding Principal
David Baker, FAIA, is the Founding Principal of David Baker Architects and an industry leader in urban affordable housing design, guiding the design of more than 15,000 homes. Under his leadership, the firm earned the 2020 AIA California Firm Award and the 2012 Distinguished Practice nods. He co-authored 9 Ways to Make Housing for People with Amanda Loper and Daniel Simons.
David Baker Architects is a nationally recognized, locally oriented architecture and urban design firm with a focus on sustainable, mixed-use communities that support stability and connection. Founding principal David Baker will talk about how the DBA work seizes opportunities to enact meaningful change—forging strong partnerships to create livable density and resilient, human-centered places that uplift communities at all scales.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Birmingham, Alabama, DBA’s diverse, collaborative team is committed to designing and leading with expertise, curiosity, tenacity, pragmatism, and joy. The New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman has referred to DBA work as an example of the “multiplier effect of good design.”