Faculty members listed in alphabetic order.
SHOBHIT BAADKAR, AIA Allied Member
Part time instructor at Cerritos since 2008 teaching Revit Architecture while maintaining his position at CVIS (cvis.com). As CVIS' Director of Technical Development, Shobhit's technical background is comprised of many experiences. He has been working with computers since he was 9. He mastered AutoCAD at the age of 10 and mastered Autodesk Animator at the age of 13. He graduated from University of California, Irvine with a double-major in Economics and Political Science (minored in Computer Science). While at UCI, he was the lead system administrator for the UCI School of the Arts, where he designed and developed an interactive teaching lab and also developed a software standard for UCI's newly founded digital arts minor (which included integrating AutoCAD & 3D Studio Max into their current curriculum). Shobhit joined CVIS as a Sales/Applications Engineer in June 1999 and is Autodesk and HP Certified. He also provides technical support and training development for all of the Autodesk software. He currently heads all technical and training solutions throughout California. In the beginning of 2004, Shobhit created Team TITAN, the consulting division of CVIS. Team TITAN integrates the business and technology aspects of implementing Autodesk design software within the architectural, engineering, and construction industries. Shobhit is responsible for creating the business opportunities within the visualization, structural, and academic market segments.
THOMAS HAUSE
A former part time instructor at Cerritos who decided to come back for a second tenure. Tom primarily teaches the Introduction to Architecture class. Tom's many credentials include: a licensed Architect in the State of California for over 30 years, a former deputy city building inspector, a registered disaster service worker for post earthquake building evaluation and a current member of the Crestmont College advisory board. He was also the past president of a medium-sized Architectural-Engineering company specializing in international commercial industrial and institutional projects. Other projects on Tom's resume include churches, golf courses, rehabilitation centers and retail shopping centers. His education includes an AA degree from Long Beach City College and a BS degree from Cal Polytechnic University at Pomona. Tom has been married for close to 40 years and is the proud papa of two.
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THOMAS MORALES, LEED APPart time instructor at Cerritos since spring 2008 teaching a variety of Computer Aided Drafting And Design, Architectural Design and Architectural Drafting courses. He is married with two children and maintains a full-time job working for an architectural firm specializing in health care projects. He has worked in the architecture and construction field for 23 years as a project manager, CAD manager, and general contractor. Thomas is also a LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional) having met the qualifications outlined by the United States Green Building Council.
As a project manager, he worked for Thrifty Drug Stores, now Rite Aid, for almost nine years building or remodeling over 400 stores. As a CAD manager for an architectural firm, he instructed the staff on the advanced uses of Architectural Desktop (now AutoCAD Architecture) release 2004, 2005, & 2006, reducing the time needed to complete common tasks from days to minutes. As a contractor he oversaw aspects of the interior work completed in the new Galen Center at the University of Southern California. He has attended Autodesk University since 2001 and in 2007 & 2008, was selected as a presenter teaching the advanced uses of the ACA Display System. He has also been a member of the Advisory Committee at Cerritos College since 1999.
DANIEL PAUL
Part time instructor at Cerritos since 2005 teaching architectural history. For more than a decade, Daniel Paul has been an important force in volunteer efforts to preserve Los Angeles’ cultural and architectural heritage. Now that he has graduated from the CSUF MA Program in Art History (2004), Daniel is using that experience to carve out a unique career within the architectural preservation movement.
While he was still an undergraduate at Cal State Fullerton, Daniel became the volunteer Director of Bottle Village, one of California’s most significant folk art environments. He devoted enormous time and energy attempting to protect and preserve Bottle Village, and wrote the successful nomination that placed the site on the National Register of Historic Places. Daniel’s next major volunteer accomplishment was serving as Vice Chair of the Los Angeles Conservancy’s Modern Committee where, in the words of Ken Bernstein, the Conservancy’s Director of Advocacy,” He has played a crucial role in advocating for the preservation of threatened Modernist landmarks”.
In 2001 Daniel entered the department’s MA Program in Art History and completed his degree by writing a groundbreaking thesis: “The Aesthetics of Efficiency: The Early Development of Late-Modern Glass Skin Architecture”. Here Daniel argues for the value of an important architectural style still “too recent” to warrant notice by historians and preservationists. His master’s thesis really defines Daniel’s cause—to create appreciation for Los Angeles’ Modernist heritage BEFORE most of the great buildings are gone. So far, an article (in online journal LA Forum for Architecture) and a panel presentation at the California Preservation Foundation Conference have resulted from Daniel’s thesis, and he plans to bring out more publications on his thesis topic in the future.
Since graduating, Daniel has been building a career in the field of architectural preservation. He currently is a Cultural Resources Consultant for the California Archives and TBA West. Working for TBA West, he served as Research Associate for the Preservation Design Guidelines project for Samoa, a turn of the century lumber town located in Humboldt County. In addition he is teaching architectural history and beginning to take on work as a consultant to private clients. All the while Daniel continues his active volunteer work on the Modern Committee at the LA Conservancy.
PETER PHINNEY, A.I.A. LEED APPart time instructor at Cerritos since 2006 teaches Arch 111, ARCH 112 and Arch 121. Peter began his career in architecture at the age of 15 when he worked as a summer employee for his father’s architectural firm in Boston. He now is Principal of a 35-person firm in the South Bay of Los Angeles, designing projects ranging from small-scale, single family home renovations, to large-scale retail & entertainment complexes, public and private marinas and private school campuses throughout the Western United States.
Peter earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut in 1977 and a Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1986, where his thesis dealt with preservation and adaptive re-use of masonry residential structures in Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood. The focus of his studies was primarily on the history of architecture and historic preservation, with a particular emphasis on cities, including relatively recent changes and movements such as the development of Streetcar Suburbs, Suburban Flight, Urban Utopias, The Decline of Industrial Urban Centers, Gentrification and Urban In-fill, and Mid-Century Modernism’s Response to Affordable Housing. Peter has studied architecture and design in Europe at the Barbieri Center in Rome and at Ithaca College London. He has traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, North America, Central America, China, Hong Kong, French Polynesia and Southeast Asia.
Peter is the current President of the local South Bay Long Beach Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He also serves the County of Los Angeles as a Commissioner, sitting on the Design Control Board for Marina del Rey, where he oversees architectural and planning aspects of all development projects in the largest public marina in the United States. Peter is also a LEED Accredited Design Professional, having met the qualifications outlined by the United States Green Building Council. He is currently designing the first fully-sustainable, LEED-certified, private school campus in California, to be located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern LA County.
DR. EDWARD ROTHER
Full time instructor at Cerritos since 1989. Teaches all classes though his specialties are practical application classes such as ARCH 111, ARCH 113, ARCH 121, and ARCH 211 and the computer classes ARCH 123, ARCH 213, and ARCH 221. He is married with one daughter and maintains an Architectural consulting business which specializes in commercial and industrial projects - and a touch of residential - and has worked in the field since 1978. Dr. Rother is licensed as a California Registered Architect, a California Real Estate Broker, and holds a N.C.A.R.B. certificate.
Dr. Rother's interest in Architecture began when he was taking a fifth grade class in wood shop. He was required to prepare a sketch of a project he was working on and discovered that he enjoyed the drawing more than the woodworking. After that it was the fast track to Architecture receiving his license at the age of 25, which is as quickly as possible. His introduction to teaching began when he was a Teaching Assistant during his graduate studies. While working with a Cerritos College student who noted that there was an opening at Cerritos College and that he would be the perfect candidate, the rest is history. Dr. Rother has received a B.S. in Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois, a Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois, a M.B.A. from California State University at Fullerton, and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Southern California. He is a recipient of an "Outstanding Faculty Award" for the 1994 - 1995 Academic year.
