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• UPCOMING EVENTS
• JOB OPPORTUNITIES

5 March 2008 | CED e-news

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DCRP Colloquium- Judith Innes , Blending Many Knowledges for Robust Planning

March 5 . | . 5-6:30 p.m. . | . 106 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Join Judith Innes, a UC Berkeley city and regional planning professor, for this event, which is part of the spring 2008 DCRP Ph.D. Colloquium. It is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Alex Schafran.

SPECIAL EVENT - "Warped Architecture" by artist Verda Alexander at Zinc Details

March 5 - April 30 . | . 2410 California St., San Francisco

San Francisco artist Verda Alexander transforms maps, urban grids, and architectural models into extreme and implausible views of urban environments in “Warped Architecture,” an exhibition of her latest work at the Zinc Details California Street location March 5 through April 30. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, March 6 from 6-8 p.m. at the store. Vasilios Kiniris, B.Arch. '89, and Wendy Nishimura, B.Arch. '89, are co-founders of Zinc Details.

STUDENT-ALUMNI EVENT- Cal BUSSA

March 6 . | . 7 p.m. . | . First floor lobby, Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

The Berkeley Urban Studies Student Association (BUSSA) is having its first-ever student-alumni mixer. Refreshments and snacks will be provided, so please attend and help unify CED students, alumni and faculty. For more information or to RSVP, contact BUSSA student co-presidents Esmeralda Jardines or Caroline Teng at calbussa@gmail.com.

ARCH Reception - Gallery Talk and Opening Reception, David Leary , Graphics, Spatial Techtonics, Transformation...

March 7 . | . 7-9 p.m. . | . 108 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Come to an opening reception for this exhibit, which examines architectural precedent probed through physical model and interpretive analytical drawing. It will be open from March 7 until April 5, Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 108 Wurster Hall. David Leary is an art professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the College of Du Page. For more information, contact Keith Plymale.

LAEP Colloquium - Barton H. Thompson Jr. , Protecting Watershed Services

March 11 . | . 5:30-7 p.m. . | . Room 250, Goldman School of Public Policy

Barton H. Thompson Jr. is the Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. This event is part of the California Colloquium on Water, associated with LD ARCH 258, California Water: An Interdisciplinary Seminar (lecturer Phil Williams). For more information, including lecture abstracts, please visit the Colloquium web site or contact Katy Ferris.

DCRP Colloquium - CED Ph.D. students Alex Schafran and Alvaro Huerta

March 12. | . 5-6:30 p.m. . | . 106 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

CED Ph.D. student Alex Schafran will present "Thinking About Industrial Land Planning" and Ph.D. student Alvaro Huerta will present "Social Networks of Informality: A Case Study of Mexican Immigrant Gardeners in Los Angeles’ Informal Economy." For more information, contact Alex Schafran.

ARCH Lecture Series - Steven Holl, Urbanism: Working with Doubt

March 14. | . 7-8:30 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Steven Holl, founding principal of Steven Holl Architects in New York City and associate professor of architecture at Columbia University, will give a presentation on urbanism. This event is expected to be popular, so arrive early! There will be live video feeds of Holl's talk in 102 Wurster Hall and in the Wurster Hall lobby. For more information, contact Keith Plymale.

SPECIAL EVENT - A Water Framework for California: Insights from Innovative Approaches in Europe

April 10 . | . 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. . | . Faculty Club, UC Berkeley

Mark your calendar and register for this upcoming event! This conference includes presentations on water management in California and Europe by leading scholars, practitioners, and agency officials and presentations of results of a workshop in which interdisciplinary teams of graduate students from UC Berkeley and the Technical University of Lisbon worked on comparative water management in California and Portugal. Visit this site for more information over the coming weeks.

SPECIAL EVENT - Faces and Places: Gala Celebration in Honor of Professor Donlyn Lyndon

May 3 . | . 5-10 p.m. . | . Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Mark your calendar! Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, CED's Eva Li Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design, is retiring at the end of the 2007-2008 academic year.

Join us in celebrating his career on May 3. Save the date, and look for an invitation in the mail soon! For more information, contact Adrienne Livoni.

SPECIAL EVENT - The 4th Annual California Water Symposium

May 10 . | . 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. . | . 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

This symposium presents results from graduate student research in hydrology applied to environmental restoration and conservation in California. It includes a panel discussion by experienced professionals, who will comment on the student research papers and the broader themes raised by their results. The symposium begins with a talk by a well-known authority on water issues. This year, B.J. Miller presents “ Science and Activism: Fish Protection in the Bay-Delta of California”. Program and abstracts will be posted online here.

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