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In this issue: | 17 October 2007 | CED e-news
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DCRP COLLOQUIUM - Arts, Neighborhoods and Social Practice, Part 1 of 3October 17 . | . 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. . | . 1000 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley The Department of City and Regional Planning is partnering with the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and the Center for Community Innovation to present this three-part, free colloquium. Tonight's presentation is titled Informal Arts Districts and Neighborhood Change: Two Oakland Case Studies. For more information, visit the theatre department online or the Center for Community Innovation online. |
ARCH Lecture Series: Cameron Sinclair - Design Like You Give a DamnOctober 17. | . 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. |
Hammer Conversations with Ray Kappe and Shigeru Ban
October 18. | . 7 p.m. . | .Billy Wilder Theater 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. Right: Kappe Living Home |
CED Central California Alumni ReceptionOctober 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. |
ARCH Lecture: Paffard Keatinge-Clay/PKC ArquitectoOctober 22. | .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 PerformanceOctober 24. | . 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. |
Jean-Paul Bourdier discusses Bodyscapes
October 25 . | . 7 p.m. . | .Black Oak Books, 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709 The photography of Berkeley professor Jean-Paul Bourdier makes ingenious use of the two-dimensional nature of images, as his lens captures painted bodies and desert landscapes as they appear to transform and respond to one another. The photos in Bodyscapes combine primal forms and materials with diverse textures to create exciting new interpretations of timeless nature and temporal body. RSVP to jbboudier@berkeley.edu. Right: (c) 2007 Jean-Paul Bourdier |
LAEP Lecture: Richard T.T. Forman - Urban Regions: Ecology/Planning Boston Suburb, Barcelona Region, and Worldwide PatternsOctober 29. | . 7-8:30 p.m. . | . 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 MakingNovember 1. | . 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 . | .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. Right: Zinc Details |
DCRP COLLOQUIUM - Arts, Neighborhoods and Social Practice, Part 2 of 3November 14. | . 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. . | . 30 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley The Department of City and Regional Planning is partnering with the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and the Center for Community Innovation to present this three-part, free colloquium. Tonight's presentations are titled Easy Intimacy: The Politics and Aesthetics of Social Welfare and Social Anxiety: Contexts of Cultural Efficacy in British Live Art . For more information, visit the theatre department online or the Center for Community Innovation online. |
DCRP COLLOQUIUM - Arts, Neighborhoods and Social Practice, Part 3 of 3December 12 . | . 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. . | . Location to be announced The Department of City and Regional Planning is partnering with the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and the Center for Community Innovation to present this three-part, free colloquium. Tonight's presentation titles are to be announced . For more information, visit the theatre department online or the Center for Community Innovation online. |
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ARCSPACE.com, United States Federal Building, 14 October 2007 Built in part by CED alumni, the San Francisco Federal Building is a reflection of the GSA's commitment to design excellence and sustainable architecture, incorporating state-of-the art technology and performance driven innovation. | |
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ARCHITYPE REVIEW, Notable Projects: Religious Institutions, October 2007 CED alumni comprise part of the firm that is working to build the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. In this review, it says the cathedral will serve as a place of worship and spirituality and will be a sanctuary in many forms. | |
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DCRP Graduate Receives Gill-Chin Lim Award Michael Donovan, a 2007 Ph.D. graduate of the Department of City and Regional Planning, has won the Gill-Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation on International Planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. For more information, visit CED online. | |
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CED Faculty Win 2007 ACSP Davidoff Awards Two faculty of the College of Environmental Design, Randolph T. Hester of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Jason Corburn of the Department of City and Regional Planning, have won 2007 Paul Davidoff awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. For more information, visit CED online. | |
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