persisted with this criteria and was able to create a more equal environment for all future professionals. His vision towards Architecture was to provide women with similar opportunities as men instructing to accept equal applicants of men and women in the early 70s. “Outlaw builder studio” was a significant platform for sim van der ryn to demonstrate his new ecological and solar architecture where his students develop building and social skills. Students created, designed and built accordingly to their need while living in the outdoors for at least three days of the week. Later on, some of the projects were taken down because they didn’t meet building codes and requirements. This was met with some scrutiny in his teaching career from his peers and other professionals. Energy pavilion was a followed project in the early 70s. This project provided the first mainstream booklet on solar architecture. Students were able to construct an early design of solar panels. This energy efficient design was a futuristic outlook in ecological and environmental architecture. At the time of this project the world was witnessing the dilemmas of the oil crisis. Sim encouraged his studio to connect with the surrounding environment and maintain a cohesive approach in design. Projects State of California, Energy Resources and Conservation and Development Building, Sacramento, CA State of California, Department of Justice, Office Building #1, Sacramento, CA 1977-1978. State of California, State Office Building, Sacramento, CA, 1977-1978 State of California, Water Resources Control Board Building, Sacramento, CA State of California, State Office Building, San Jose, CA The Ojai Foundation School Ojai, CA. Green Gulch Zen Center Muir Beach, CA Real Goods Solar Living Center Hopland, California, 1996 Artwork Sim desired to become a painter he believed that design is a gate to understand ourselves through nature. He taught different watercolor classes to his students and found it to be meditative state. Sim also found it to be a starting point for a designer to integrate with nature and begin to collaborate with it. Awards Recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship, 1971. Recipient, American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC), Commendation for Excellence in Technology, 1981. Recipient, AIACC, Nathaniel Owings Award, 1996. Recipient, Rockefeller Scholar in Residence, Bellagio, Italy, 1997 and 2012. Fellowship, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, IL, 1997. President's Award for Planning, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA Colorado Chapter) for the Arbolera de Vida Master Plan,