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In this issue: | 10 April 2007 | CED e-news
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ARCH EXHIBIT - Territorial Tactics, Jeannette KuoApril 2 – April 16 . | . Second Floor Lobby, Wurster Hall Please visit www.ced.berkeley.edu/departments--programs/arch/exhibitions for a link to the event. |
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 HowelerApril 11 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Eric Howeler is partner of Howeler + 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. |
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE - Spark Awards Submissions DeadlineApril 15 . | . The Spark Awards celebrates design in all disciplines from experimental to mainstream, from product to print. For complete details and entry information, please visit: www.sparkawards.com or call 866.846.6715. |
CEDR COLLOQUIUM - Can You Say 2007?, Doug Aitken
April 16 . | . 7:30 pm . | . 105 North Gate Hall Doug Aitken is an American multimedia artist. His 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 and 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 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. |
CAL DAY - Interdisciplinary Perspectives Tackle Global Problems, Dean Harrison Fraker
April 21 . | . 10:00 am . | . 112 Wurster Hall Faculty and students traveled to China to study issues facing this rapidly developing country. Learn how working collaboratively, on-site and in the classroom, and hear benefits of approaching problems from an interdisciplinary perspective. Cal Day events also include tours of the ED Library, architecture shop, and exhibits. For more information on this event and other Cal Day events, please visit: www.berkeley.edu/calday/2007/dept/envdesign.shtml.
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CAL DAY - Tour Blake GardenApril 21 . | . 1:00 pm . | . 70 Rincon Road, Kensington Picnic or stroll while taking in the rich variety of plants and garden spaces in this 10.5-acre site, a teaching facility at the home of the president of the University of California in nearby Kensington. Take home a seedling with "how-to-grow" instructions. For more information on this event and other Cal Day events, please visit: www.berkeley.edu/calday/2007/dept/envdesign.shtml. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
IURD VISITING SCHOLARS ROUNDTABLE - Curitiba, Brazil: A Continuum Experience in Bus Rapid Transit and Urban Planning Solutions, Evandro Cardoso Dos SantosMay 2 . | . 11:00 am . | . 316 Wurster Hall Evandro Cardoso dos Santos is a Professor of Urban Planning at the Catholic University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil. Cardoso dos Santos discusses how Curitiba, Brazil became a global model for development due to major changes in the last 40 years. These changes include adopting successive urban planning and priorizing transit with metropolitan integration, seeking a new pattern of urban growth emphasizing the relations between roadnet work, land-use and transportation as the pillar for a sustainable way of high standards on urban life quality. For more information on this event, please visit: www-iurd.ced.berkeley.edu. |
LAEP COLLOQUIUM - Visioning UC Berkeley's Southeast Campus, David Rubin
May 2 . | . 1:00 pm . | . 315A Wurster Hall In conjunction with the design of the Student Athlete High Performance Center and the Law and Business Schools' Connection Building, the University of California at Berkeley has undertaken a master plan for the area bounded by the east edge of California Memorial Stadium, Bancroft Street, The Haas School of Business and College Way. Undertaking a broader, more comprehensive vision that extends beyond any one particular capital project is a new venture for the UCB administration and Olin Partnership was charged with developing a framework into which these two specific projects and several others might be developed. This presentation will review the methodology and results of this effort for an integrated and holistic future campus. To read more about this event, please visit: http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/events/colloquium.
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DCRP COLLOQUIUM - The Proposed California High-Speed Rail Network, Greg NewmarkMay 9 . | . 5:00 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall This lecture is part of the DCRP Doctoral Colloquium series. For a link to this event, please visit: www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. |
CED COMMENCEMENTMay 21 . | . 2:00 pm . | . Greek Theatre
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READYMADE BLOG: Ideas from the SF Garden Show March 25. http://readymademag.com/blog/2007/03/25/ideas-from-the-sf-garden-show Students from Berkeley 's Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning presented "Wine Re-Defined," a demonstration garden built entirely of materials from the wine industry. The team (consisting of: Sutter Wehmeir, Leslie McKenna, Mike Herrin, Mandy Leung, Caleb Clark, Ingrid Stromberg, and John Martin) won the Gold Medal from the guest judges (Mario Schjetnan, Fergus Garret, Steve Martino). The garden, displayed at the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, drew raves from the ReadyMade Blog. Right: The lights were made from recycled wine bottles and hung on what appears to be a simple cord. The bottom of each bottle was cleanly removed, and the glass was polished. | |
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PRNEWSWIRE-USNEWSWIRE: University of California Berkeley Team Wins 2007 ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition By Marge Fahey, April 2. www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories On March 30, a team of UC Berkeley students were announced winners of the fifth annual ULI (Urban Land Institute) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. This was a two-step competition that stretched over several months. In the first phase, the UC Berkeley team was one of four selected out of 100 entries. The first site was a stretch of downtown Los Angeles along the LA River. In the second phase, they were asked to zero in on several blocks close to the Japanese American National Museum and MOCA. They beat out two Harvard teams and a team from the University of Illinois to win, and according to one team member, "had way more fun than any other team in the process." The winning team's school will receive $5,000, and the team members will split $45,000 amongst themselves. The winning team includes: Andrea Gaffney (MLA/MCP), Chris Lollini (MCP/Civil Engineering), Robert McCracken (MCP), Aditi Rao (MCP/Arch), Brooke Ray Smith (MLA/MCP). | |
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