Assistant Engineer, Kaiser Company, Incorporated, Department of Architecture, Richmond, CA, 1942-1945; Designer, Saarinen, Swanson and Saarinen, Architects, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1946; Draftsman, Franklin and Kump, Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1947-1948; Project Manager, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1948-1949; Draftsman, Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons, Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1949-1951; Principal, Donald E. Olsen, Architect, Berkeley, CA, 1952-present;

Guest Critic, University of Liverpool, School of Architecture, Liverpool, UK, Spring 1953; Design Critic and Lecturer/Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, College of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, 1954-present;

Member, British Society for the Philosophy of Science; Member, Society for Philosophy and Technology; Newsletter for those interested in the philosophy of Karl Popper. In 1962, Olsen was Registered Architect in State of CA;

Elected a Fellow, American Institute of Architects, 1970.

B.Arch., University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 1942; M.Arch., Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1946; post-graduate study, University of Liverpool, Department of Civic Design, Liverpool, UK, 03/1953-06/1953; post-graduate study, the London School of Economics, London, UK, 1962-63 and 1968;

A.W. Wheelwright Fellow, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA; Harvard University Scholarship, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1945-1946; Commacini Award, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 1942; Court of Honor, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 1942; AIA School Award, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 1942;

Married to Helen Olsen.

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