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In this issue: | 27 March 2007 | CED e-news
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LAEP LECTURE – Design for Ecological Democracy, Randy HesterApril 2 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Randy Hester, LAEP Professor and Community Development by Design Partner applies landscape architecture to some of the truly wicked problems of our time. He uses design to encourage informed democracy and shape the political landscape. Community—in the A. Leopold and M.L. King senses—guides his work. He uses and teaches an original and unique design approach crafted from the civil rights movement and his childhood as a farm boy. For a link to this event, please visit: www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. |
DCRP COLLOQUIUM – Inter-port Competition, Corporatization, and Port Ownership, Sanghyun CheonApril 4 . | . 5:00 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall This lecture is part of the DCRP Doctoral Colloquium series. Please visit www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar for a link to the event. |
ARCH LECTURE – 2 Museums in the U.S., Florian IdenburghApril 4 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Florian Idenburg is an architect with SANAA Tokyo/New York. Florian Idenburg is a Dutch architect working in New York and Tokyo. In 1999 he participated in the Japan Prizewinners Program and completed a seven-month internship at Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA. He has worked there since and in 2002 moved to New York to oversee the office's U.S. projects. In 2003, he became an associate. At SANAA, he has been involved in a number of key projects, most notably the Stadstheater in Almere, the Netherlands; the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern in Spain; the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio; and recently the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York. For a link to this event, please visit: www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. |
IURD SYMPOSIUM – Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge: New Ruralism and Other Urban-Rural Sustainability StrategiesApril 5 . | . 8:00 am . | . University of California, Berkeley Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge will bring together researchers, practitioners, producers, and policymakers involved in bridging sustainable agriculture and smart growth. The symposium will explore systems and place-based issues affecting urban-rural interface. Join IURD to discover best practices and identify major research questions on: urban edge land use policy and economics, environmental services and impacts of urban edge architecture, vitality of rural communities in metropolitan-influenced areas, and emerging urban-rural compact. For more information and to register, please visit http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/agmetroedge. |
ARCH LECTURE – Design in Earthquake Country, Mary ComerioApril 8 . | . 6:00 pm . | . Faculty of Engineering Lecture Hall, Cairo University, Egypt This lecture is part of Berkeley in Egypt, a joint program of the College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University in Egypt. Mary Comerio is an internationally recognized expert on disaster recovery. She joined the faculty in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley in 1978. As an architect, she has designed numerous public and private facilities including market rate and affordable housing. In the last two decades, her research has focused on the costs and benefits of seismic rehabilitation for existing buildings (particularly housing), post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, and loss modeling. Professor Comerio was the principal investigator on the pilot study for the Disaster Resistant University Initiative funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and UC Berkeley in 1998. In April 2006, the Applied Technology Council and Engineering News-Record selected the Disaster Resistant University Program as one of its top U.S. seismic projects of the 20th century. For more information on this conference, please visit: www.archcairo.org. |
LAEP LECTURE – Landscape Planning: A History of Influential Ideas, Carl SteinitzApril 9 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall This talk is part of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning's Spring 2007 Lecture Series, sponsored by the Geraldine Knight Scott History Fund. For a link to this event, please visit: www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. |
DCRP COLLOQUIUM – Fixing and Mixing the Public Neighbor, Jane RongerudeApril 11 . | . 5:00 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall The lecture “Fixing and Mixing the Public Neighbor: San Francisco, HOPE VI, and the Redevelopment of Hunters View” is part of the DCRP Doctoral Colloquium series. Please visit www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar for a link to the event. |
ARCH LECTURE – Verify in Field, Eric HöwelerApril 11 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Eric Höweler is partner of Höweler + Yoon Architecture/My Studio in Boston. Please visit http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/lectures for more information. |
LAEP EXHIBIT – Watercolors of Professor Emeritus Burt LittonApril 13 . | . 108 Wurster Hall Professor Emeritus Burt Litton will showcase his work in watercolors in an exhibit from April 13-24th. |
OPEN HOUSE – Architecture and Technology for Intelligent LivingApril 14 – July 1 . | . South Campus Wind Tunnel, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena At the invitation of Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, fifteen architects and designers address the question: What potential do the new technologies and materials of today hold for domestic living and residential architecture of tomorrow? For more information on this event, please visit:www.design-museum.de/museum/ausstellungen/open_house. |
CEDR COLLOQUIUM – Can You Say… 2007?, Doug Aitken
April 16 . | . 7:30 pm . | . 105 North Gate Hall Doug Aitken is an American multimedia artist. Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions to sound, single- and multichannel video works, and installations. He has said that his global travel and contemporary nomadic existence informs his work—that he aims to fuse travel and the idea of movements into daily experience. Aitken’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This event is part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media. For more information, please visit: http://atc.berkeley.edu/bio/Doug_Aitken. Right: “Sleepwalkers” projected on MoMA |
IURD VISITING SCHOLARS ROUNDTABLE – Public Transportation in Post-BureaucraticApril 18 . | . 11:00 am . | . 316 Wurster Hall David Booher is the Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Collaborative Policy at California State University Sacramento. Many scholars have explored the changing nature of planning bureaucracy where the goals of efficiency, control, and central direction are increasing being superseded by the need to deal with uncertainty, rapid change, and fragmentation. This evolution has potentially profound implications for public participation and civil society. Booher will discuss some of the lessons from his research and experiences in assisting public agencies in the midst of dealing with this change. For more information on this event, please visit: www-iurd.ced.berkeley.edu/events. |
LAEP COLLOQUIUM – Planning for Urban Wildlife, Shannah Anderson + Kathryn Gaffney
April 18 . | . 1:00 pm . | . 315A Wurster Hall Shannah Anderson is an Associate Research Specialist for the Center for Environmental Design Research at UC Berkeley, where she manages the California node's collaboration in the National River Restoration Science Synthesis and lectures for the Environmental Sciences Dept. She is also a Commissioner on the Contra Costa County Fish and Wildlife Committee. Kathryn Gaffney is an environmental specialist and program manager with Jones & Stokes' Water Resources Team. Kathryn's work in permitting has included developing permit application packages for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, California Department of Fish and Game, and the California Regional Water Quality Control Board. This talk is part of the Spring 2007 Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Colloquium. Please visit: http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/events/colloquium for more details on the event. Right: Taken from Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland. Image courtesy of Shannah Anderson |
ARCH LECTURE – Osservatorio Nomade: Walking Process and the Beyond-city, Francesco Careri + Lorenzo RomitoApril 18 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Francesco Careri and Lorenzo Romito are architects at Stalker Lab in Rome. For more events like this one, please visit: http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/lectures. |
TRAVEL STUDY TOUR – Explore the Spirit of Brazilian Landscapes: A 12-Day UCLA Extension Travel Study Tour, Patricia Akinaga
April 21 . | . This tour will explore the incredible beauty that is Brazil, an exciting land of historical richness and contemporary design, distinctive landscape architecture and enchanting gardens and landscapes. Join award-winning Brazilian landscape architect Patricia Akinaga (MLA, UC Berkeley) for an exciting 12-day/10-night study tour to experience the wonders of Brazilian landscape architecture as the group visits the urban gardens, churches, and cultural treasures of Brazil. For more information about this event, please visit: http://uclaextension.edu or call the Landscape Architecture Program at 310/825-9414.
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LAEP LECTURE – Landscape: The New Architecture, Gary StrangApril 23 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Gary Strang has proposed that “in the future, buildings will dissolve into the landscape and nature will be constructed.” He is the founder of GLS, an eight-person, multi-disciplinary office in San Francisco whose mission is to integrate landscape with infrastructure and urban architecture. GLS has received ASLA National Honor Awards for the recently completed Units 1 & 2 Residence Halls at UC Berkeley and the Beth Israel Chapel and Cemetery in Houston. This talk is part of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning's Spring 2007 Lecture Series, sponsored by the Geraldine Knight Scott History Fund. Please visit: http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar for more information. |
ARCH REVIEW – ARCH 160 Final Project Reviews, Mallas + KirkpatrickApril 24 . | . 2:00 pm . | . First Floor Lobby, Wurster Hall
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DCRP COLLOQUIUM – Costs of Suburbanization in Shanghai, China, Jennie DayApril 25 . | . 5:00 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall This lecture is part of the DCRP Doctoral Colloquium series. Please visit www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar for a link to the event. |
ARCH LECTURE – Recent Work, Sean Godsell
April 25 . | . 5:30 pm . | . AIA: San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600 Sean Godsell (of SGA/Sean Godsell Architects) is based in Melbourne, Australia. This lecture is in conjunction with the AIA San Francisco exhibition “Out from Under; Contemporary Australian Architecture. Please RSVP to rsvp@aiasf.org. For more information, please call (415) 362-7397 or visit: http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/lectures. Right: St. Andrew’s Beach House in Australia. Photo by Earl Carter. |
ARCH REVIEW – Arch 202A M.Arch Thesis Reviews, Anderson, Choksombatchai, and StonerApril 27 . | . 9:00 am . | . Wurster Hall: First Floor Lobby, Second Floor Lobby, 104, 108, 170, 172 For a link to the event, please visit www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. |
ARCH REVIEW – Arch 202A M.Arch Thesis Reviews (cont.), Anderson, Choksombatchai, and StonerApril 28 . | . 9:00 am . | . Wurster Hall: First Floor Lobby, Second Floor Lobby, 104, 108, 170, 172 For a link to the event, please visit www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. |
ARCHIVES EVENT – Blake Garden Walking Tour + DiscussionApril 28 . | . 10:00 am . | . Blake Garden, Kensington, CA Please join CED and the Environmental Design Archives for a morning at Blake Garden, CED's teaching garden located a few miles north of the UC Berkeley campus. The day will include a walking tour, reception, and a lecture by a CED Professor. The day will cost $35 for Friends of the Archives and $50 for non-Friends of the Archives. For a link to the event, please visit www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. |
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ARCHITECT MAGAZINE: 0.2% By Hannah Mccann, March 1. www.architectmagazine.com/industry-news.asp The article features Allison Williams, ’76 and describes the minute population of Black female licensed architects. “The number of black women architects has quadrupled in 15 years but four times a fraction of a percent doesn't amount to much.” Right: Allison Williams, Design Principal of Perkins + Will in San Francisco | |
ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER: Emerging Voices 2007 March 7. www.archpaper.com/features/2007_04_emerge.htm Lisa Iwamoto, Assistant Professor of Architecture, and Craig Scott of IwamotoScott Architecture were honored by the Architecture League as Emerging Voices. The partners are also finalists for the eighth annual Young Architects Program selected by P.S.1 and the Museum of Modern Art. Right: IN-OUT Curtain (2005) by Lisa Iwamoto was based on the Origami principle and made up of cut, perforated, folded, and interlocked lasercut sheets. | |
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CONTRA COSTA TIMES: UC Group Urges Freeze on Delta Development By Mike Taugher, March 16. www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/community. Matt Kondolf, Environmental Planning Professor, along with a team of UC Berkeley researchers are calling for a temporary halt on construction in most of the Delta, “saying rapid urbanization is threatening water supplies and restricting the ability of state officials to solve a water supply and environmental crisis.” | |
NEW YORK TIMES: Big Changes at Del Sur By Finn-Olaf Jones, March 16. www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/realestate/greathomes/16bigsur.html A high-end building boom is underway in this pristine community on the California coast. Can Big Sur sidestep the pitfalls of its own popularity? The article features the Treadwell House, the product of Design Architect Mary Ann Schicketanz and the team at Carver & Schicketanz. The article also features comments from Robert Carver on the Del Sur region. Right: Like anyone who builds in Big Sur, Zachary and Langka Treadwell had to satisfy a lot of California and local environmental regulations. Their hillside home, a cube of glass and rock, has a sod roof. Photo by Noah Berger. | |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: More Than Merely 'Regional' By Joanne Furio, March 21. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file Author seeks to give the Bay Area's modern architects their rightful place in the movement's pantheon. The article mentions Weston Havens house, a Berkeley Hills home donated to UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. | |
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: Creativity Marks Plan for Octavia By John King, March 22. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi Stanley Saitowitz, M.Arch ‘77, and AkS Development are one of three teams of architects and builders selected to fill sites along the new Octavia Boulevard roadway, and the one thing the winners have in common is that they aren't just trotting out slick designs. Each team's plan is stylish but serious, with fresh twists on how to add distinctive housing to a well-established neighborhood. Right: The design for the corner of Octavia Boulevard and Market, by Saitowitz and Natoma Architects. | |
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