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15 November 2007 | CED e-news

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College of Environmental Design

Bay Area Alumni Reception Hosted by Braunstein/Quay Gallery

November 29 . | .5-7:30 p.m. . | . 430 Clementina Street, San Francisco

Remarks at 6:30 p.m. by Gyöngy Laky with introduction by Harrison S. Fraker, Jr., Dean and William W. Wurster Professor. Join your fellow alumni for this very special evening. Hors d'ouvres and refreshments will be served.

Please RSVP by November 27 to Lawrence Lawler at lawler@berkeley.edu or call (510) 643-4875.

Gyöngy Laky at the Braunstein/Quay Gallery

November 15 - December 22. | 430 Clementina, San Francisco

Gyöngy Laky (A.B. Design '70/ M.A. Design '71) will show Recent Work: Intersections at the Braunstein/Quay Gallery in San Francisco. Laky, a recent co-president of the CEDA BOD, was inspired while driving past orchards on her way to work at UC Davis for over 30 years. For more information, visit the Braunstein/Quay gallery.

Right: Estuary, 2007 by Gyöngy Laky Photo: Ben Blackwell

EXHIBIT OPENING - The Roving Eye: Design and Travel

November 16. | .6-8 p.m. . | . Environmental Design Library, 210 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Curated by Dori Hsiao and Miranda Hambro of the CED library and archives, respectively, this exhibit of one-of-a-kind materials illustrates the value of travel for education and inspiration and the influence of international cultural exchange. Professor Ananya Roy will speak on Out of Place: The Politics of the Eye at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit CED online.

WIRED magazine's LivingHome tours

November 1 - 18 . | Shuttles depart from the Luxe Hotel on Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles

Join us for tours of the first-ever WIRED Home in Los Angeles. Designed by renowned residential architect Ray Kappe, CED alumni, FAIA, and developed by innovator Steve Glenn of livinghomes, this house combines the elements of high architecture, high-tech and low-impact on the earth. LEED Gold certified, this home is prefab to reduce cost and waste. Its anticipated energy use is 36 percent more efficient than a conventional residence of a similar size. For more information, visit WIRED LivingHome. CED alumni will receive a $5 discount off the $35 ticket price by entering this code when purchasing tickets online: WHGREEN. Tickets can be purchased online at WIRED LivingHome.

Right: Kappe Living Home

ARCH LECTURE SERIES - Andrea Leers, Made to Measure

November 19. | .7:30-9 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Andrea Leers' talk is co-sponsored by the AIA East Bay. For more information, visit CED online.

LAEP LECTURE SERIES - Kristina Hill, Rising Tides: Helping Coastal Cities Adapt to Sea-Level Change

November 26 . | .7-8:30 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Kristina Hill is associate professor and director of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. For more information, visit CED online.

DCRP COLLOQUIUM - Malo Hutson, Building Community and Creating Opportunity for Urban Residents

November 26 . | .5-6:30 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Malo Hutson earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 2006 in the department of urban studies and planning. For more information, visit CED online.

ARCH LECTURE SERIES - Nezar AlSayyad, Cinematic Cities: Historicizing The Modern from Reel to Real

November 28. | .7-8:30 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Nezar AlSayyad is professor of architecture, planning and urban history at UC Berkeley. For more information, visit CED online.

LAEP LECTURE AND EXHIBIT OPENING - Marcia McNally, Sadie Graham and Louise Mozingo, The Legacy of Berkeley Parks: A Century of Planning and Making

November 29. | .7:00 p.m. . | . Berkeley Art Center, 125 Walnut Street, Berkeley (in Live Oak Park)

The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning invites you to a lecture and exhibit opening at the Berkeley Art Center.

SPARK AWARDS - Deadline is March 15, 2008

The Spark Awards is a new design competition -- for designers, art directors, architects, design firms, manufacturers, institutions, ad agencies, students and novices -- and individuals and companies are invited to submit entries in graphics, mobility design, product, transportation and architecture, among others. The phase one deadline is March 15, 2008. For more information, visit Spark Awards.

Right: Spark Awards

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THE TOP U.S. ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLS By James P. Cramer, Architect magazine, 1 November 2007
The UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design is ranked #8 for best architecture graduate program. Department of architecture chair Mary Comerio is quoted, and student Kimberly Suczynski, M.Arch/M.C.P. '09, is profiled.

SALUTING BUILDINGS THAT COMFORT AND CONSERVE By Kathleen Maclay, Berkeleyan, 8 November 2007
To recognize commercial buildings that do more than provide the space and tools for workers to toil away, UC Berkeley's Center for the Built Environment has issued its first-ever Livable Buildings Awards.

FLURRY OF QUESTIONS, SECOND-GUESSING By Elizabeth Weise, Chris Woodyard and John Ritter, USA Today, 28 October 2007
Mary Comerio, chair of CED's department of architecture, is quoted in this story on rebuilding homes destroyed in the Southern California fires last month.

NANOCITY: A 21ST CENTURY METROPOLIS TAKES PLACE By Lisa Tsering, India-West Staff Reporter, 1 November 2007
UC Berkeley is working with Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia to develop Nano City, a green urban setting 16 miles outside Chandigarh, India. The project, on which CED students have worked, will cost over $1 billion.

PLAN FOR BOWLES HALL OVER; WHAT'S NEXT FOR LANDMARK? By Richard Brenneman, The Berkeley Daily Planet, 12 October 2007
Berkeley City Planner Dan Marks, M.C.P. '81, is quoted in this story on plans for the controversial renovation of Bowles Hall, UC Berkeley's all-male student residence hall. According to the story, the university is seeking a designer to help develop a plan for the building, which was named a City of Berkeley landmark in 1988.

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CED Archivist Named Distinguished Librarian

The  2006-2007 Librarians Association of UC Berkeley (LAUC-B) Distinguished Librarian Award Committee has announced that CED's own Waverly Lowell, curator of the Environmental Design Archives, is one of two 2006-2007 awardees. In addition to the distinction and recognition, the award includes a monetary prize.

In a relatively short time, Lowell has transformed the Environmental Design Archives into "the best and most complete picture of California architectural and landscape architecture modernism" while also co-authoring award-winning books that have set standards for archivists nationwide.
 
A reception to celebrate the achievements of the campus' new Distinguished Librarians will take place on December 5 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Morrison Library, 101 Doe (Main) Library.The program is at 5 p.m. Please RSVP by Nov. 16 to jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu or by phone at (510) 642-2511.

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