Jack T. Sidener FAIA
He taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong beginning in 1995, partnering with Dean Tunney Lee to create "Designing Hong Kong," an annual public participatory charrette event, and a primer on density prototypes published by MIT. In 1997 he helped found the AIA Hong Kong Chapter, serving on its Board in 2000. In 2004 he won fourth prize in a competition to redesign the Hong Kong waterfront.
He taught at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, and briefly at the University of Washington, prior to his work as Professor of Architecture and Campus Planner at the University of Hawaii 2000-2008.
His planning consultancy included work with the City of San Jose (1986-88), the Port of Seattle (1986-87), and Bechtel Corporation (1989-1997).
In Seattle, Jack worked with the Puget Sound Council of Governments preparing "Vision 2020" in 1993 with Bill Isley, and wrote several articles for ARCADE. A former student of Louis Kahn, Jack contributed a chapter in Jack Williamson's 2015 book Kahn at Penn, discussing Kahn's influence on his career and teaching.
Posted 9/2015; updated 2/2020
The productive and wide-ranging career of John Tyler "Jack" Sidener FAIA (1937 - 2/14/2020) (BArch UC Berkeley 1959, MArch/MCP U Pennsylvania 1963, PhD Environmental Planning UC Berkeley 1977) combines teaching and campus planning, with parallel work as an urban design and environmental planning consultant.In California, Jack worked as an architect with Vernon DeMar and Lawrence Halprin on new towns, BART stations, and academic buildings. He then moved to Hawaii as Director of Architecture for Oceanic Properties, the builders of Sea Ranch in California and Mililani Town in Hawaii. He won Progressive Architecture P/A Awards for his ecological plan of Lanai Island and a pamphlet on neighborhood planning. Later he served on a P/A-awarded project team with IM Pei and others, designing San Francisco's Mission Bay.