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10 October 2007
| CED e-news
e-news is a publication of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design |
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Memorial Tribute and Exhibition: Jack P. Hillmer, 1917 - 2007
October 11-12, 2007 . | . Photographic exhibit
. | . 1865 Mar West, Tiburon
A commemoritive exhibit will be held at the historic architectural offices of Warren Callister at the Ludekens house, an influential modern Bay Area house. This display, which was created by Jack Hillmer himself in 1952 from photos by Roy Flamm, has been exhibited at museums and universities throughout the country. A reception will be held October 11 from 5-8 p.m. and the exhibit continues on October 12 from 1-6 p.m. For more information, contact Richard Ehrenberger at (510) 655-9887 or Charles Sholten at (415) 717-8461. The San Francisco Chronicle has reported on the event.
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Homecoming Lecture - Jazz and Blues Landscapes
October 12, 2007 . | . 2-3 p.m.
. | . Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
A lecture with Walter Hood, LAEP and urban design professor. For more information, visit CED online. |
Homecoming CED Reunion Tent
October 13, 2007 . | .9-11 a.m.
. | . Upper Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
CED will host an alumni tent at 1868 Cal Avenue Homecoming fair. For more information, visit CED online. |
ARCH Lecture Series: Cameron Sinclair - Design Like You Give a Damn
October 17, 2007 . | . 7-8:30 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
Cameron Sinclair is executive director of Architecture for Humanity in Sausalito. For more information, visit CED online.
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Hammer Conversations with Ray Kappe and Shigeru Ban
October 18, 2007 . | . 7:00 pm
. | .Billy WilderTheater at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
The conversation, moderated by Frances Anderton, celebrates Kappe’s new project, Wired magazine's LivingHome, and his 80th year. For more information, visit Wired magazine.
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CED Central California Alumni Reception
October 19 . | . 7-9 p.m.
. | . Scripts Meeting Room, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California
A CED alumni reception at the Monterey Design Conference. For more information, visit CED online.
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ARCH Lecture: Paffard Keatinge-Clay/PKC Arquitecto
October 22, 2007 . | .7:30-9 p.m.
. | . Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco
Paffard Keatinge-Clay studied architecture in London and engineering in
Zurich. His mentor was Sigfried Giedion, and he worked in the office of
Le Corbusier in Paris. He migrated to the United States as an
apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright and became a design architect for
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in Chicago, where he came to know Mies van
der Rohe. He practiced in San Francisco for 15 years. His work of this
period (including the 1969 San Francisco Art Institute Extension)
reflects the lessons of his mentors but is also strong and innovative. For more information, visit CED online. |
ARCH Lecture: Marianne Weems - Architecture in Performance
October 24, 2007 . | . 7-8:30 p.m.
. | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
Marianne Weems is founder of The Builders Association of New York. For more information, visit CED online. |
LAEP Lecture: Richard T.T. Forman - Urban Regions: Ecology/Planning Boston Suburb, Barcelona Region, and Worldwide Patterns
October 29, 2007 . | . 7-8:30 pm
. | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
Richard T.T. Forman is PAES professor of landscape ecology at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research and writing elucidate landscape ecology, road ecology, land-use planning/nature conservation, urban regions and, more broadly, promising spatial arrangements for nature and people on the land. For more information, visit CED online. |
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design New York Lecture Series -
Hot White Orange, And Other Stories Of Architecture In The Making
November 1, 2007 . | . 6-9 p.m. . | . Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place in New York City
A lecture with Professor Mark Anderson. For more information, visit CED online. |
Zinc Details Reception
November 8, 2007 | 6-9 p.m.
| Zinc Details, 1905 Fillmore Street, San Francisco
Zinc Details, the San Francisco furniture and accessories design boutique, now boasts a complete Design House Stockholm “store within a store.” An opening reception to introduce the newly designed section of the store is scheduled and DHS founder Anders Färdig will make an appearance. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES Promoting Green Space, One Parking Meter at a Time by Lisa Boone, 20 September 2007.
Lehrer Architects created an installation to visualize the carbon footprint of Los Angeles' primary mode of transportation, the SUV, for Park(ing) Day, an annual event held on Sept. 21, 2007, to challenge lack of parks and open space in urban areas. The Los Angeles Times writes about Lehrer Architects' installation. |
ECO-STRUCTURE MAGAZINE Circle of Life by Jenny McChesney, September 2007
The work of CED alumni Steve Thompson, B.A. '73, and Lynette Pollari, M.Arch. '94, who recently completed work on the Navajo Preparatory School in Farmington, New Mexico, was featured in the September 2007 issue of Eco-Structure magazine. |
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SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE Unpolished is the New Glam by Bill Picture, October 2007
CED alum Alfredo Botello, who owns two Oakland nightclubs, Ruby Room and Radio, is featured in the October 2007 issue of San Francisco magazine as owner of two of the brightest spots in Oakland.
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CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE Patching a Broken City by Sara Catania, September/October 2007
Former DCRP Chair and Professor Edward J. Blakely brings order to New Orleans’ hodgepodge bureaucracy and urgency to its laissez-faire citizenry in the September/October 2007 issue of California magazine. |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE UC Berkeley Goes Face to Facebook in'Continuous City Workshops by Robert Hurwitt, 2 October 2007
Marianne Weems, artistic director of New York's cutting-edge Builders Association, presents "Continuous City" -- her latest large-scale, high-tech creation –- during her semesterlong residency at Berkeley. The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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COMPANY: Pugh + Scarpa, pugh-scarpa.com
JOB TITLE: Junior designers, senior architects, model shop/materials researcher, part-time student work
LOCATION: Santa Monica, CA
REQUIREMENTS: Junior Designers - highly skilled designers with exceptional computer
modeling skills. Need advanced skills with Rhino, Autocadd, Photoshop,
illustrator, parametric modeling and ability to use 3-d printer.
Senior Architects - at least 7 years of experience, ability to manage a small
project team for public and private clients. Model Shop/Materials Researcher - junior level with model-building skills
and ability to research and develops various prototypes for building
components. Will also need to manage materials library and archives. Will
also need 3-d computer skills.
Students - We will also consider some part-time work for currently enrolled students. Students should e-mail a resume and low-resolution samples of their work to Casey Carruth-Hinchey at casey@pugh-scarpa.com.
CONTACT: jobs@pugh-scarpa.com |
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COMPANY: GGLO, gglo.com
JOB TITLE: entry level personnel in architecture and landscape architecture
LOCATION: Seattle, WA
REQUIREMENTS:
good CAD proficiency; someone with 3 to 10 years of experience; and someone with 15 to 20 years of experience
CONTACT:
Anne-Emilie Gold, agold@gglo.com
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