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In this issue: | 24 April 2007 | CED e-news
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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. |
RECEPTION - 2007 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition CelebrationApril 26 . | . 6:00 pm . | . San Francisco Design Center: 1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 100, San Francisco 94111 Join Metropolis magazine as they celebrate the winners of the 2007 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition. CED students Anton Willis and Kate Lyndon will be honored as winners of the competition. |
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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ALUMNI RECEPTION - AIA Convention of San Antonio, TX Alumni ReceptionMay 3 . | . 6:00 pm . | . Marriot Riverwalk Hotel, Salon E: 711 East Riverwalk Join CED to reacquaint yourself with what is new at Wurster Hall and reconnect with your colleagues and classmates. Please RSVP by April 20 to Lawrence Lawler at lawler@berkeley.edu or 510/643-4875. |
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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ALUMNI RECEPTION – CED Alumni Reception Hosted by Lehrer ArchitectsMay 23 . | . 6:00 pm . | . 2140 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027 Join CED to reacquaint yourself with what is new at Wurster Hall and reconnect with your colleagues and classmates. There will be remarks by Harrison S. Fraker, Jr. and Mark Anderson. Please RSVP by May 16 to Lawrence Lawler at lawler@berkeley.edu or 510/643-4875. |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE A Quiet Spectator By Zahid Sardar, April 14. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/14/HOGHFP5N2J1.DTL&hw=Quiet+Spectator+Jaimi+Baer UC Berkeley alumnus and architect Jaimi Baer circled around building design for 20 years before putting her stamp on architecture. For her first fully designed house -- a weekend home in Sea Ranch for Mike and Kulvinder Webb, a couple from Great Britain who live in Petaluma and work in Silicon Valley -- she has created a graceful composition of vernacular shapes borrowed from agricultural buildings, pared down to a Zen simplicity. Right: Architect Jaimi Baer at her home office in San Rafael, presents her model for the Webb house. | |
VANITY FAIR GREEN ISSUE UC Berkeley's Tree of Wisdom www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/04/10_vf.shtml Vanity Fair was on campus for the packed "Discover Cal" event on January 20, 2007, where six of Berkeley's seven living Nobel laureates gave their perspectives about global warming and energy sustainability. The Vanity Fair photo spread features Nobel laureates Yuan T. Lee, Donald Glaser, Daniel McFadden, George Smoot, Charles Townes and Steven Chu, joined by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau as part of the May issue on newsstands on April 10, 2007. Right: Vanity Fair photo spread features Berkeley Nobel laureates joined by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau (Photo by Todd Eberle) | |
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NEW YORK TIMES Steering New Orleans' Recovery With a Clinical Eye By Adam Nossiter, April 10. www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/us/10orleans.html In a city fond of its own self-portrait, Edward J. Blakely's opinions are a shot of cold water. Dr. Blakely is the former head of CED DCRP and New Orleans's belatedly appointed Hurricane Katrina recovery chief. | |
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE S.F. Hopes to Set Example With New Green Tower By John King, April 13. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/13/MNGVFP852Q1.DTL San Francisco's Civic Center is the proposed home of a government tower that city officials say will be more energy-efficient than any large office building in the United States. The headquarters of the city's Public Utilities Commission would include design features rarely seen in comparable buildings, such as wind turbines on the roof and a water recycling system in the basement. Solar panels would be embedded in outer walls, and a ventilation system using "thermal chimneys" on each floor would pull hot air out of the building. Designed by Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz Architects and the engineering firm Arup. Right: Wind turbines stacked behind glass panels would generate energy for the 12-story PUC building. | |
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Architecture Student Wins 2x8 Award from Los Angles AIA www.aialosangeles.org/students/twobyeight.html M. Arch. student Mark Pembroke's project Filling the Void: Addressing Under-representation of Minorities in Architecture" was chosen to receive the $2,000 scholarship from the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles. The project is part of the 2x8: Vert Exhibit, March 19 until April 26, 2007 at The Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The 2x8 is an annual exhibition sponsored by the AIALA, showcasing exemplary student work from architecture and design institutions throughout California . Through this exhibition, AIALA hopes to forge an invaluable link between this emerging talent and the professional world, giving rise to significant collaborations and alliances vital to the improvement of our built environment. | |
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First-year Ph.D. student Alvaro Huerta is the first-ever winner of the Thomas Yamashita Prize from the Institute for the Study of Social Change. Alvaro was recognized for his exceptional contributions in bridging scholarship and community work. http://issc.berkeley.edu/yamashita_prize.html | |
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Wendy Tao, part of the concurrent MCP-Transportation Engineering program, received first-prize in the student paper competition from the Transportation Planning Division of APA. Wendy attended the National APA Conference in Philadelphia to receive the award for her paper: "Structured and Spontaneous: Informal and Formal Influences on Traffic Safety in Ha Noi, Viet Nam". | |
Professor Frederick Collignon, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and CRP professor, was one of four recipients for the 2007 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence. Professor Susan Schweik of the English department was his joint recipient. The Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence acknowledges meritorious achievement by faculty in pursuit of the University's mission to create an inclusive environment that serves the needs of our increasingly diverse state. Collignon and Schweik received a $30,000.00 grant to continue their work. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2007/04/12_award.shtml Right: Recipients of the 2007 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence | |
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At the APA Conference, Professors Elizabeth Macdonald and Allan Jacobs were honored for their path-breaking design work on the Octavia Boulevard in San Francisco. | |
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