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19 March 2008 | CED e-news

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DCRP Colloquium - Public Health and the Built Environment: What Are Cities Doing?

March 19 . | . 5 - 6:30 p.m. . | . 106 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Join William Riggs, Miriam Zuk, Beth Altshuler and guests at this event, part of the spring 2008 DCRP Ph.D. Colloquium. It is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Alex Schafran at schafran@gmail.com.

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

Through 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.

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.

ONLINE - Vote for CED professor in online architecture competition!

Through April 28 . | . Online only

CED associate architecture professor Lisa Iwamoto won the History Channel's City of the Future contest in January for her design of what San Francisco should look like in 100 years. Now, Iwamoto's design is going up against other regional winners from Washington, D.C. and Atlanta to determine which design is the best in the country! Cast your vote for Iwamoto's design online today here. Hurry - voting ends April 28! By casting your vote, you will automatically be entered to win a home theater set complete with a 50-inch flat-screen TV and Sony Blu-Ray player. Don't forget to tune in to the season finale of "Cities of the Underworld" on May 5 at 9 p.m. EST to find out who wins!

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 Lawrence Lawler.

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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Architect waxes poetic with Presidio museum by John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 March 2008 Read about the challenges one architect faces on the job designing a museum in San Francisco, as reported by the Chronicle's urban design writer.
Asian library is among best new buildings by John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 March 2008 UC Berkeley's new C.V. Starr East Asian Library is one of the Bay Area's best new buildings -- despite the fact it looks uncomfortable in its skin and in its location across from the stately grandeur of Doe Library. The Chronicle's urban design writer reports on the new building's architecture.
Cal's East Asian library's gold is on shelves by Charles Burress, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 March 2008 UC Berkeley's new $46.4 million C.V. Starr East Asian Library highlights the building's Asian-influenced architecture and especially its airy spaciousness. Much is made of it being the first freestanding library devoted to East Asia at any American university. Read about what's inside the library here.
UC Berkeley fights to retain professors by Brian K. Sullivan and Matthew Keenan, The Boston Globe, 15 March 2008 Read about UC Berkeley's struggle to recruit and retain the best faculty, despite being the number-one-ranked public university (and number 21 overall) by the 2008 U.S. News and World Report.
Reviving Oakland's Jazz and Blues Scene, Virtually by Laura Sydell, NPR All Things Considered, 4 March 2008 With the creation of a historical video game, a group of journalism and architecture students at the UC Berkeley is hoping to revive some of 7th Street's faded glory — at least in the virtual world. The students are enrolled in a class made possible though a partnership between CED and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Spanish war soldiers honored by Will Reisman, The Examiner, 29 February 2008 CED landscape architecture professor Walter Hood was the architect of a monument that honors American troops who served in the Spanish war. The monument is in Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco.

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