Join us in honoring the accomplishments of Professor Emerita Judith Innes at a symposium of her work at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 52nd Annual Conference in Salt Lake City. The Symposium will feature remarks by Professor Lawrence Susskind of MIT and Professor Charles Hoch of University of Illinois, Chicago.

We hope that you will also join us on the eve of the symposium at a CED alumni reception on Friday, October 14, 7:00-9:00PM, in the Alta and Snowbird Rooms of the Salt Lake City Marriott Hotel.

Victor Pineda ('03, MCP '06) and two other extraordinary alumni honored by the Cal Alumni Association earlier this year for their excellence in careers and service to the University will discuss Berkeley's impact on their lives at this year's Homecoming Weekend Cal Alumni Panel.Seating for the lecture is provided on a first-come, first-serve basis. A hosted reception for attendees will follow the panel.

Currently working toward his Ph.D. in urban planning as a Fulbright Scholar at UCLA, Victor Pineda is the Founder of the Victor Pineda Foundation, which educates and inspires disabled young people to overcome their challenges.

The Cal Alumni: Influencing the Future lecture and many more are part of the 2011 Homecoming events on the UC Berkeley campus October 13-16, 2011.

Join us to celebrate and meet CED's recipients of the 2011 ASLA Student Awards and congratulate your fellow CED alumni who have been recognized with 2011 Profession Awards. Reacquaint yourself with fellow colleagues and classmates, and learn about what's new at Wurster Hall.

You are also invited to attend the ASLA Alumni Reunion after the conclusion of the CED Alumni Reception from 8:00 to 10:00pm in the Sapphire Ballroom, Level 4 of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.More than 6,000 landscape architecture professionals from across the U.S. and around the world will gather in San Diego, October 30 – November 2, to enjoy the fellowship of our profession.

Hosted by: Professor G. Mathias Kondolf, Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning.

Please join Dean Jennifer Wolch for a reception and private viewing of the exhibit California Design, 1930-1965: "Living in a Modern Way" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). A portion of ticket proceeds will help support the restoration of the Weston Havens House, an iconic midcentury Berkeley residence designed by Harwell Hamilton Harris, as a resource for the College of Environmental Design (CED).

The reception will take place at the Director's Roundtable Garden at LACMA, followed by a private viewing of the exhibition at the Resnick Pavilion, including remarks from Bobbye Tigerman, Assistant Curator of LACMA's Decorative Arts & Design Department. Reserve your space at the reception today. Please purchase tickets online.

California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way is on view at LACMA through March 25, 2012.

Photo (L to R): Stahl House (Case Study House #22), Los Angeles, 1960 (J. Paul Getty Trust); Weston Havens House (Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris).

Using Rome as a case study, this Katherine Rinne (M.Arch '81) explores social, cultural, aesthetic, topographic, technological, and political changes that the construction of water infrastructure engenders in the city as it spurs urban development. Rome provides a compelling model for increasing our understanding of how cities function and evolve over time as access to fresh water increases, diminishes, or disappears.

Katherine Rinne teaches advanced level architecture/urban design studios and seminars at California College of the Arts. Author of The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City (2011 Yale University Press), her independent research on water infrastructure has garnered numerous awards and fellowships.

Photo: California College of the Arts.

Ian Griffths, Urban Planner from the SF Office of AECOM is presenting a lecture. His lecture is part of an ongoing series of lectures presented through the Department of City and Regional Planning's "Colloquium" Lecture Series for Fall 2011. He will be presenting his exclusive lecture on Tuesday, October 20th, 2011, from 4:00-5:30PM.

Photo: TakingITGlobal

The Environmental Design Library will be screening Remembering Playland at the Beach, a full length documentary about San Francisco's historic 10-acre seaside amusement park, in celebration of the new exhibit Off Hours: Environments for Entertainment. Go back in time to see Laffing Sal, the Fun House, the Carousel, the Big Dipper, the Diving Bell, Dark Mystery, Limbo, Fun-tier Town, and much, much more, all through the eyes of the people who were there. Packed full of historical photos and footage, this film, the first and only documentary ever made about Playland, is a treat for any amusement park fan. Filmmaker Tom Wyrsch will be on hand to answer questions.

Off Hours: Environments for Entertainment is exhibit curated by Miranda Hambro, Assistant Curator of the Environmental Design Archives, and Jason Miller, Associate Librarian and Director of the Visual Resources Center. The exhibition will be on view in the Raymond Lifchez and Judith Stronach Exhibition Cases of the Environmental Design Library Volkmann Reading Room in 210 Wurster Hall October 20-December 22, 2011.

Gordon Linden will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Asian American Architects
and Engineers 34th Annual Dinner on the 28th of October, 2011 which will be held at
the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Linden, B. Arch ’68, an architect and
urban planner currently working with Parsons on the Ministry of Housing project in
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, will be speaking on the topic of “Mega Projects – From
Olympics and Expos to America’s Cup”.

Linden’s professional career has included a variety of international and U.S. assignments with organizations hosting Olympic Games and International Expositions (“Expos”). He recently has been acting as advisor to the team assisting the Government of Thailand in their bid to host Expo 2020. His book, “The Expo Book: A Guide to the Planning, Organization, Design and Operation of International Expositions” was launched last year at the US Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, the largest and most heavily attended Expo in history registering an attendance of over 70 million. The Expo Book is available at www.theexpobook.com and is currently being translated by King Saud University in Saudi Arabia and for publication this fall in the Arabic-speaking world.

Professors Louise Mozingo (Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design) and Richard Walker (Geography) discuss the social-historical, economic, ecological, and environmental contexts of the 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Fire in the first of several public conversations associated with the exhibition 1991: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath, Photographs by Richard Misrach. The conversation will take place at 3pm Oct. 30 in Gallery 4 of the Berkeley Art Museum (BAM) .

The exhibition features elegiac and dramatic images of the 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Fire by renowned Bay Area photographer Richard Misrach, who for two decades kept the photographs in storage out of respect for the victims of the inferno. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Fire, BAM/PFA and the Oakland Museum of California each present forty photographs from Misrach's collection. 1991: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath is on view at the Berkeley Art Museum October 12, 2011-February 5, 2012.

Photo: Richard Misrach.