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11 April 2008 | CED e-news e-news is a publication of the UC Berkeley |
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SPECIAL EVENT - Cal Day April 12. | . 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.. . | . UC Berkeley Come enjoy UC Berkeley's annual open house event. Alumni are encouraged to attend! CED will offer tours of Blake Garden, an architecture shop open house, tours, exhibits and more throughout the day. For more information about Cal Day, visit the Cal Day Web site. For more information about CED-specific Cal Day events, look for the listings under April 12 on the CED Calendar. |
SPECIAL EVENT - Schindler's Houses: Heinz Emigholz filmApril 15. | . 7:30 p.m.. . | . Pacific Film Archive Theater, UC Berkeley Emigholz depicts 40 buildings by architect Rudolph Schindler, revealing Schindler’s singular vision, his acute attention to spatial relations and to the natural environment, and his captivating and idiosyncratic architectural vocabulary. For more information, visit the theater's Web site. |
ARCH LECTURE - Glen Murcutt, WorkApril 15. | . 7 - 8:30 p.m.. . | . Room 2050, Valley Life Sciences Auditorium, UC Berkeley Glen Murcutt, an Australian architect, is the 2002 recipient of the Pritzker Prize. He will lecture as part of the Architecture Lecture Series. For more information, contact Keith Plymale. |
SPECIAL EVENT - UC Berkeley Sustainability SummitApril 21 . | . 8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. . | . Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union, UC Berkeley Come join us for the 5th Annual Sustainability Summit presented by the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability. This event is aimed to educate and initiate a movement toward sustainability as individuals and as a community. It is also an opportunity to recognize the achievements of people on campus with Sustainability Awards and showcase work done by the large variety of internships and sustainability groups at UC Berkeley. For more information, visit the event's Web site. |
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 - Places25May 3 . | . 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. . | . Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
Join us in celebrating the the 25th anniversary of Places journal! This symposium will include presentations, |
SPECIAL EVENT - Faces and Places: Gala Celebration in Honor of Professor Donlyn LyndonMay 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. This event will include a talk by Donlyn Lyndon, a performance by Gregory Moore, and dinner outside in the Wurster Hall courtyard. The patron sponsor of this event is the ROMA Design Group. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Lawrence Lawler or visit the event Web site. |
SPECIAL EVENT - Berkeley Spring House Tour and ReceptionMay 4 . | . 1-5 p.m. . | . Benvenue and Hillegass avenues, Berkeley Join the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association on its spring tour of Berkeley's "brown-shingle" neighborhood. Visit more than a dozen houses in Willard Park, most of which were built between 1896 and 1914. Tickets are $35 for general admission and $25 for BAHA members. For more information, visit berkeleyheritage.com. |
SPECIAL EVENT - The 4th Annual California Water SymposiumMay 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. |
commentary, and plans for the future and is co-sponsored by the College of Environmental Design and Places. Registration is $35 and includes attendance to the symposium, a box lunch, and a one-year introductory subscription to Places. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit 
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History on tour in Stanford's MacFarland home by Susan Fornoff, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 April 2008 |
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Monument to Lincoln Brigade Unveiled by Cecilia M. Vega and Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 March 2008 |
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The History Channel's "City of the Future" challenge, San Francisco magazine, April 2008 |
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