Faculty Bios

Alberto Bertoli

Director
Graduate School of Architecture

Mr. Bertoli has vast experience in different areas of the architectural profession. His work ranges from the planning of shuttle facilities for the space program to the designing of a performing arts center. He most recently designed the InterContinental San Francisco hotel. His work has also been recognized by multiple AIA Chapters, the Architectural Association of France, and at numerous international competitions.

Mr. Bertoli started his formal education at the University of Buenos Aires, and continued at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He has his professional license through the State of California. Before joining the Academy he was a lecturer at Cal Poly SLO, UCLA Graduate School of Architecture, and taught for more than 20 years at SCI-ARC.

Jennifer M. Asselstine

Acting Co-Director
School of Architecture

Jennifer Asselstine has 30 years of experience in architecture and design and 10 years of teaching experience and is a licensed architect and runs her own design office in San Anselmo. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Minnesota, where she was honored with an award from the American Institute of Architects. Ms. Asselstine went on to work for RTKL and CS&D in Baltimore, Maryland. She later moved to the U.K., where she studied at the Architectural Association in London and later worked for WATG Architects.

Ms. Asselstine has worked in the U.S., London, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Sydney, Australia on a broad range of projects, from hotel and resort design and senior housing, to an IMAX theater. Jennifer is a registered architect in the State of Maryland. The Red Cross Headquarters and Blood Processing Center, which was designed by Ms. Asselstine for CS&D Architects in Baltimore, Maryland, won a Design Award from the American Society of Interior Designers. She currently specializes in single-family housing and community design work.

Anne-Catrin Schultz

Assistant Director
School of Architecture

Anne-Catrin Schultz studied architecture in Stuttgart, Germany and Florence, Italy, and earned a Ph.D. in architecture at the University of Stuttgart. Following post-doctoral research at the MIT, she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and worked for several years with Turnbull Griffin Haesloop (TGH) and Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM). She has taught Architecture History and Theory as well as Design Studio at Stuttgart University in Germany, the University of California in Berkeley, the California College of the Arts (CCA) and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has been a board member of the Landmark Heritage Foundation in Berkeley (preserving Julia Morgan’s Berkeley City Club) since 2006 and has acted as their president in 2010.

Anne-Catrin has published "Carlo Scarpa-Layers" and "The International Terminal, San Francisco International Airport" with Axel Menges Editions. In 2010 appeared "Ram Karmi, Ada Karmi-Melamede – Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem" with the same publisher. She is currently exploring architecture in Northern California for a guide book project and finalizing a research publication about "Layering in Architecture".

Eric Lum

Online Coordinator
School of Architecture

Eric Lum, AIA, Ph.D., LEED BD+C, is a licensed architect in the state of California and NCARB certified. Dr. Lum taught previously at Roger Williams University, California College of the Arts, and the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was assistant professor of History and Theory. He has worked in a number of firms nationwide, including Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood Architects in Boston, Arthur Erickson Architects in Los Angeles, and Gensler in San Francisco. He is a founding principal of his firm Architecture 3 (A3). He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he gained his doctorate in architectural history.

Beverly Choe

Undergraduate Program Coordinator
School of Architecture

Beverly Choe is a registered architect in California and principal of Bach Architecture, which focuses on residential and educational design. Her academic interests lie in urban housing and its effects on the socio-economic dynamics of the city. Prior to establishing Bach Architecture in San Francisco, Beverly worked at architectural firms in New York City and Berlin, Germany. She was project architect for La Cocina Kitchen and Housing (AIA Merit Award) and a team captain for Plaza Apartments in San Francisco (AIA Honor Award 2009, Home of the Year Award from Architecture Magazine). Her personal work has been published by loud paper magazine and Harvard Design School's Studio Works.

Beverly received a Bachelors of Architecture from Cornell University and a Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University. She has served as a teaching assistant at Harvard University and California College of Arts. Beverly has been a guest juror at California College of Arts, Cornell University and Boston Architectural Center.