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In this issue: | 03 December 2008 | CED e-news
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Wrap up your year with a special gift to CED
December 2008 | CED Annual Fund Season’s greetings! As 2008 draws to a close, we hope you will remember the College of Environmental Design's impact on the world and in the lives of its students and make a tax-deductible gift to the CED Fund today. With your support, CED students and professors will continue to design sustainable, state-of-the-art buildings, help revitalize urban areas, explore innovative design technologies, and help reform the way we build locally and worldwide. Right: The Campaign for Berkeley |
LECTURE - Alejandro Zaera-Polo: ARK-FOA
December 3. | . 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm . | .112 Wurster Hall Alejandro Zaera-Polo is founding partner of Foreign Office Architects and is currently the Berlage Chair in the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. He was a visiting professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, Columbia University in New York, Princeton University, the School of Architecture in Madrid, and the Yokohama School of Architecture, He has also written as a critic for various professional magazines worldwide including El Croquis, A+U and Harvard Design Magazine. For more information, visit CED online. Right: Foreign Office Architects |
PANEL - Green Tech: The Global Future of Green Architecture
December 4 . | . 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm . | . 312 Sutter St., Second Floor, San Francisco The Young Professionals International Forum in San Francisco is hosting a panel discussion on green architecture. Speakers include Brian Back, founding editor and publisher of Sustainable Industries, David Johnson (M. Arch '81), west coast director of William McDonough + Partners, Andrea Ramage of Sustainable Solutions CH2M HILL and David Rosenberg, CEO of Hycrete Inc. There is a registration fee for this event, though members of YPIF can attend for free. For more information, visit the World Affairs Council website. Right: World Affairs Council |
COLLOQUIUM - William Lester and James RubinDecember 4 . | . 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm . | . 305 Wurster Hall William Lester and James Rubin are Department of City and Regional Planning Ph.D candidates. All are welcome to attend. Topic details to come. For more information, visit CED online. |
INFO SESSION: Osher Lifelong Learning InstituteDecember 8 & December 10 . | . San Francisco, Redwood City and Lafayette Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkeley Director, Susan Hoffman, and faculty members, sociologist and author Tony Platt, author Tamim Ansary, and scientists Michael Thaler and Bethany Cobb will present the OLLI winter program and answer questions in three regional meetings in December in San Francisco, 10:00 - 11:30 am, San Francisco State University, 835 Market Street, Redwood City, 1:30 - 3:30 pm, UC Berkeley Extension at Redwood City, 1991 Broadway Street, and Lafayette, 10:30 am - noon, New Veterans Memorial Hall, 3780 Mt. Diablo Blvd. To RSVP, e-mail berkeley_olli@berkeley.edu or call (510) 642 - 9934. |
COLLOQUIUM - WRCA Presents The California Colloquium On Water: Lake Tahoe: What will it look like in 2040?
December 9 . | . 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm . | .112 Wurster Hall This popular lecture series continues with S. Geoffrey Schladow, Director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis. The colloquium is designed to increase the understanding and appreciation among students, faculty and the general public on water resources and to contribute to informed decisions about water in California. For more information, visit CED online. Right: UC Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
LECTURE - Community Innovation Lecture: Health Impact Assessment And Urban GovernanceDecember 15 . | . 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall This lecture is part of the Community Innovation Lecture Series in commemoration of the DCRP 60th anniversary. Jason Corburn, assistant professor of City & Regional Planning will present Daniel Iacofano (Ph.D Environmental Planning '86) , founding principal of Moore Iacofano & Goltsman. Iacofano has 25 years of experience in urban planning and community and has expertise in downtowns, transit-oriented development, neighborhoods and urban centers. For more information, visit CED online. |
INSTALLATION - The Line of Questioning: Laurie Polster and Janet Delaney
December 8 - January 17 . | Open 24 hrs. | Addison Street Gallery Windows Janet Delaney, a lecturer in Architecture, and Laurie Polster's installation features mixed-media installations that include large-scale photographs of parks and forests. Sculptural compositions of tree limbs, bark and organic material provide metaphors for ecological and social sustainability. For more info, visit the Addison Street Windows Gallery. |
EXHIBIT - The Golden Gate Express
November 20 - April 19 . | Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park Chip Sullivan, professor of Landscape Architecture, designed this exhibit, The Golden Gate Express, celebrating the city of San Francisco. The exhibit features G-gauge trains that loop past each other on separate tracks. The trains speed through replicas of San Francisco's most famous sights including the Golden Gate Bridge, Mission Dolores, and Chinatown's dragon gate. Surrounding these landmarks are miniature gardens and parks created with living plants. For more info visit the Conservatory of Flowers. Right: Convservatory of Flowers |
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