SPECIAL EVENT

Book Talk: Catilin Lempres Brostrom and Richard C. Peters - The Houses of William Wurster

December 11, 2011  |  2PM  | Oakland Museum 1000 Oak St, Oakland

Meet authors Caitlin Lempres Bostrom, AIA, and Richard C. Peters, FAIA, on the launch of their new book The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living from Princeton Architectural Press. For the book, the authors draw upon extensive historical research as well as personal relationships with Wurster to tell the story of his career.

CED LECTURE SERIES

Peter Walker Opens the CED Spring 2012 Lecture Series

January 23, 2012  |  6:30PM  | 112 Wurster Hall

Save-the-Date! Peter Walker, founder of PWP Landscape Architecture, will kick-off our CED Lecture Series for the Spring 2012 season.   With a career spanning five decades, Peter Walker continues to have a profound international influence on the field of environmental design. PWP Landscape Architecture is a Berkeley-based landscape architecture firm with a commitment to dynamic and sustainable solutions for constructed systems and environments. Over the years, PWPLA has created numerous prize winning and iconic designs, ranging from small gardens to complete master plans. Walker served as co-designer with Michael Arad to the National September 11th Memorial, unveiled this past September.   The complete schedule for the Spring 2012 Lecture Series is posted on the CED website.

HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS

The Perfect Holiday Gift: CED 50th Anniversary Poster and Design on the Edge

Design on the Edge: A Century of Teaching Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, 1903-2003, Edited by Waverly Lowell, Elizabeth Byrne and Betsy Frederick-Rothwell, is a well-received book which contains 320 pages of essays, recollections, interviews, drawings, and photographs. The book would make an excellent holiday gift for a designer in your life, or for anyone you know who is interested in the history of architecture or part of the extended Cal community. Please see the CED Archives website to order the book. CED 50th Anniversary Posters and Fine Art Prints are also available this holiday season. Designed by renowned Bay Area graphic artist Michael Schwab, these posters and fine art prints capture the energy and enthusiasm that fills Wurster Hall, home of the College of Environmental Design. Posters are $72.49 each (price includes tax, ground shipping, and processing fees). Buy Now! Prints are $324.49 each (price includes tax, shipping, and processing fees). Buy Now!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Consider making a gift to the College of Environmental Design

We hope you will consider making a tax-deductible gift to the College of Environmental Design this holiday season. Your gift is needed to help sustain the excellence in education CED has come to represent. Throughout its history, CED has remained an innovative leader in the education of architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, and urban design. With your help, 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.

CED Professor Raveevarn Mixes Life and Work in a Vibrant Display of Artistic Deisgn in SF Homes - November 30th New York Times

Associate Professor of Architecture Raveevarn has deftly blended art and urban Design at her tiny, yet artistically robust 107 building in SoMa area of San Francisco. The previous owner, the painter Vladimir Nemkoff, who died in 1998, had opened the interior vertically to create a double-height painting area that is now VeeV’s studio. Raveevarn retained this and other spatial interventions he made, but “reinterpreted” the place, repainting yellowish walls and brown moldings that she said made it “feel darker and smaller.” To create a legible sequence of spatial volumes, she gave the walls and ceiling in each room a single color: vermilion for the vestibule, lime-green for the bedroom and deep orange for the kitchen.

Over the years, the scheme has evolved. Raveevarn still hopes to proceed with construction one day, but for now, her experiments roll on.

Photo: Matthew Millman for The New York Times

To Rethink Sprawl, Start With Offices: The Latest Article by LAEP Professor Louise A. Mozingo - November 25th The New York Times

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Professor Louise A. Mozingo writes a fascinating article regarding the nature of the "other archetype of sprawl, the suburban office."

She describes the function of location and proper use of space in the context of a metropolitan areas across America, finding commonality across the country. Mozingo argues that "these workplaces embody a new form of segregation, where civic space connecting work to the shops, housing, recreation and transportation that cities used to provide is entirely absent. Corporations have cut themselves off from participation in a larger public realm" and that "rethinking pastoral capitalism is integral to creating a connected, compact metropolitan landscape that tackles rather than sidesteps a post-peak-oil future. Existing infrastructure needs maintenance and renewal, not expansion."

Photo: Victor Kerlow

Ira Michael Heyman, former UC Berkeley Chancellor, dies at 81 - November 21st UC Berkeley NewsCenter

Ira Michael Heyman, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1980-1990 and a professor emeritus of law and of city and regional planning, has died at age 81 after a long battle with emphysema. Connected to UC Berkeley for 52 years, he was a champion of diversity and civil rights and recognized for his political courage.

Heyman worked on several issues related to the protection of the environment and treasured spaces in his position from 1993-1994 as counselor to the secretary and deputy assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Interior. He established the methodology for land-use planning for ecosystems that has been used across America.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the I. Michael Heyman Project at Berkeley Law or the Ira Michael Heyman Memorial Scholarship Fund, University Relations, 2080 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94720-4200. Those wishing to donate online may do so by going to the Give to Cal website and searching under “Heyman.”  

A memorial service will be held on campus on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. at Boalt Hall in the reading room.

CED Alum Sweep 2011 American Institute of Architects East Bay Chapter Honors!

Oakland, CA—November 16, 2011—The American Institute of Architects, East Bay, awarded eleven architectural design awards with jury honors in the 2011 AIA East Bay Design Awards. The buildings range from exquisitely detailed residential buildings to town halls and outdoor theaters. Common themes among selected projects are historic renovation, adaptive reuse, and restrained simplicity.

Ten out of the eleven buildings awarded top honors at AIAEB were designed by CED Alum, an incredible achievement. Honor & Merit Awards were awarded to several CED Alum including Ratcliff Architects, Mark Cavagnero, ELS Architecture and Urban Design, Swatt | Miers Architects, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, Siegel & Strain Architects, and Shah Kawasaki Architects.

Photo: Tim Griffith. School of Law Library “South Addition” UC Berkeley by Ratcliff Architect

Maria-Paz Gutierrez Honored with ECPA Senior Fellows

Maria-Paz Gutierrez, was recently honored with the prestigious ECPA Senior Fellows. The Senior ECPA Fellows represent a diverse set of experts in the areas of energy and climate change.

Gutierrez, a University of California, Berkeley assistant professor of architecture, has been named to the 2011-2012 Fulbright Regional Network for Applied Research (NEXUS) Scholar Program as part of a 20-member team working to promote best practices in fighting poverty and inequality in the Western Hemisphere.