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In this issue: | 31 October 2007 | CED e-news
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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. RSVP today. |
DCRP OPEN HOUSE: Prospective M.C.P. and Ph.D. applicantsNovember 1. | . 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. . | . 228 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley Prospective applicants to the MCP and Ph.D. programs in City and Regional Planning are invited to an all-day departmental open house where you may meet DCRP faculty, students, and alumni, visit classes, and get information on admissions, financial aid, research opportunities, and more. 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 |
Reception honoring Robert Cornish
November 5 . | . 6-8 p.m. . | .College of Environmental Design Library, Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley The Department of City and Regional Planning invites you to celebrate Robert Cornish, one of CED's first M.C.P. graduates who was in the first class to receive the honor of Fellow in the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He taught urban and regional planning at Texas A&M for 20 years. In recognition of the importance of the field of regional planning, Prof. Cornish has given DCRP its largest gift ever, the Robert S. Cornish Endowed Chair, the first chair in the history of the department. Please join us to celebrate his accomplishments and generosity at a reception. Please RSVP to Adrienne Livoni at alivoni@berkeley.edu Right: Robert Cornish |
ARCH COLLOQUIUM - Eran Ben-Joseph, PARKING: Rethinking the LotNovember 5 . | . 7-8:30 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley Eran Ben-Joseph is a professor of landscape architecture and planning at MIT. For more information, visit CED online. |
CED ALUMNI RECEPTION - ChicagoNovember 7 . | . 6-8 p.m. . | . 224 South Michigan, Suite 1000, Chicago, Illinois 60604 Join us in Chicago with to reacquaint yourselves with CED classmates and colleagues and learn what is new at Wurster Hall. Remards at 7:00 by Harrison S. Fraker, Jr., Dean and William W. Wurster Professor. Hosted by: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. For more information, contact Adrienne Livoni at alivoni@berkeley.edu. |
ARCH LECTURE SERIES- Bjarne Mastenbroek and David Gianotten: SeARCH >> To Find a HomeNovember 7 . | .7-8:30 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley Bjarne Mastenbroek and David Gianotten are director/founder and director (respectively) of SeARCH, Amsterdam. |
IURD LECTURE- Annette M. Kim, Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam's Transition EconomyNovember 8 . | .7-8:30 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley Annette M. Kim is the Ford International Career Development professor at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. 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 |
LAEP COLLOQUIUM- Perry L. McCarty, Climate Change Implications of Waste TreatmentNovember 13 . | .5:30-7 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley Perry L. McCarty is Silas H. Palmer Professor Emeritus of, Environmental Engineering and Science at Stanford University. For more information, visit CED online. |
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ECO-CITIES TAKE ROOT By Lara Abrams Melman, GreenBiz.com, 29 October 2007 The home -- and the neighborhood -- of the future is on its way. CED Dean Harrison Fraker comments in this story on differences between China and the United States in terms of designing the home of the future. |
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The newly built $484 million California Academy of Sciences was officially turned over to academy officials on Friday, and the promise of things to come was as palpable in the air of Golden Gate Park as the smell of new paint inside the building itself. |
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Like a house straight out of a fairy tale, the Linden F. Naylor House , a two-story English country manor built in 1927 at 2 Somerset Place in the North Berkeley foothills, is for sale for the first time. It was designed by noted Bay Area architect Walter Ratcliff Jr., who graduated from UC Berkeley in 1903 and worked for two years in the office of UC campus architect John Galen Howard. |
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In a tranquil, light-filled new building at UC Berkeley, East and West came a little closer on Saturday. "It is here that two worlds come together," said architect Billie Tsien, who co-designed UC Berkeley's new C.V. Starr East Asian Library. | |
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STATE LIMITS BUILDING IN FLOODPLAINS By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, 11 October 2007 New construction around the Delta and in other floodplains will be curtailed and flood safety will be beefed up substantially under a historic package of bills signed this month by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. | |
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CED faculty, graduate students win ASLA awards The American Society of Landscape Architects recently presented LAEP department chair and professor Linda Jewell with the Bradford Williams medal for "Spirit of Stone" for her writing in Landscape Architecture magazine. Graduate students Alethea Marie Harper and Leslie Webster also received honor awards in analysis and planning for their theses. | |
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