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8 April 2009 | CED e-news

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LECTURE - Toyo Ito: New Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

April 11 . | . 7 pm - 8 pm . | . Wheeler Auditorium, Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley

Berkeley, a place of playful philosophers and poets, is an ideal environment for Toyo Ito, the architect of the planned new BAM/PFA facility in downtown Berkeley. Ito grapples with modernity and its meaning and struggles with the implications of the ephemeral in architecture and the impact of the unseen spaces of information technology. In this special event, Toyo Ito will engage the audience with his observations on Japanese architecture today and explore the implications of his own most innovative works. For more info, visit CED online.

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CED ALUMNI RECEPTION - At The AIA National Convention in San Francisco

April 30 . | . 6 pm - 8:30 pm . | . St. Regis Hotel San Francisco

Join us for a very special program and to reacquaint yourself with fellow colleagues and classmates. Learn about what is new at Wurster Hall and plans for the upcoming 50th anniversary of CED in 2009 - 10. Program and remarks begin at 7:30 pm. Please RSVP by April 24, 2009.

COLLOQUIUM - Architecture's American Road Trip, or Notes from the Highway

April 8. | . 6 pm - 7 pm . | .305 Wurster Hall

Gabrielle Esperdy is an architectural historian and Associate Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Esperdy is currently working on a project investigating the emergence of critical, architectural, and scholarly interest in the commercial landscape of the United States as it developed during the 20th century and continues into the 21st. For more info, visit CED online.

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LECTURE - Public Sculpture: Models + Paintings + Fabrications

April 8 . | . 7 pm - 8 pm. | . 112 Wurster Hall

Walter Hood is principal of Hood Design Studio and is professor of landscape architecture, environmental Planning & Urban Design. A related exhibition of work is on display from April 8 to 30, 2009, in the Wurster Gallery, 108 Wurster Hall. An opening reception takes place Wednesday, April 8, at 8 p.m. following the lecture. For more info, visit CED online.

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PANEL - Visioning Sustainable Communities

April 14 . | . 5:15 pm - 7:30 pm . | . 305 Wurster Hall

Building and portraying smart-growth scenarios is an important part of the sustainable communities planning process under SB 375. IURD brings together four leaders in the planning and urban design fields who will talk about best practices in building scenarios for sustainable growth and in representing the built form and environmental outcomes. For more info, visit CED online.

LECTURE - Dan Solomon: Round and Round the Block

April 15 . | . 7 pm - 8 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall

Daniel Solomon, FAIA, is an architect and urban designer whose 40-year career combines achievements in professional practice with academic pursuits of teaching and writing. He is the founder of Solomon E.T.C., which merged with WRT in 2001, and the principal author of its many award-winning projects. WRT is a collaborative practice of city & regional planners, urban designers, landscape architects and architects who create vibrant, imaginative, and sustainable places at many scales. For more info, visit CED online.

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LECTURE - Ideas along the Road: Official and Vernacular as Lenses of Analysis

April 20 . | . 7 pm - 8:30 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall

Paul Groth is professor in the Department of Geography and the Department of Architecture and Program in American Studies. This lecture explores the usefulness for designers of two broad, oppositional categories - official and vernacular - that J. B. Jackson used to sum up his lifetime of study of the American scene. For more info, visit CED online.

LECTURE - Vision California 2050: Setting the Land Use Target

April 21 . | . 5 pm - 7 pm . | . Faculty Club, Heyns Room

Featuring Peter Calthorpe, this lecture will address the role of California's High Speed Rail investment in shaping growth in the Central Valley and strategies for improving regional jobs-housing balance within and between California's metropolitan areas. This is the fifth session in IURD's new speaker series, Growing Sustainably in a Low-Carbon World. For more info, visit CED online.

Andrew Shanken, 194X: Architecture, Planning and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front

April 21 . | . 7 pm . | . Black Oak Books, Shattuck and Vine

The term 194X was coined to encapsulate a vision of postwar architecture and urbanism. In the 1930s and 1940s, architects believed that their profession and society itself would undergo a profound shift once the war ended. This new book was published by the University of Minnesota Press. Readings will take place on April 21 at Black Oak Books on Shattuck and Vine in Berkeley, 7 p.m. and April 30 at Builders Booksource, 1817 4th St., Berkeley, 7 p.m. For more info, visit University of Minnesota Press.

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CAL Day

April 18 . |.9 am - 4 pm |. Wurster Hall

Join the College of Environmental Design on CAL Day, April 18. There are tours and exhibits, from a tour about the history of Wurster Hall to an open house of the Architecture Shop, the school will be open for prospective students, parents and visitors. For more info, visit CED online.

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In the News

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Japanese architect Toyo Ito to visit campus, UC Berkeley News, 02 April 2009
Acclaimed Japanese architect Toyo Ito will visit the University of California, Berkeley, campus this month to discuss contemporary Japanese architecture and to attend an open house about the new Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), which he designed.

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Obama Taps S.F. Bridge Housing CEO for HUD post
Carol Galante (M.C.P. '78), a CED Distinguished Alumna, was recently appointed by President Barack Obama to a top HUD post . Galante, a leader in affordable housing, will serve as deputy assistant secretary for the multifamily housing programs. She iscurrently president of Bridge Housing, a nonprofit organization that has built 8,800 units of affordable housing in the past 25 years.

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BAHA Spring House Lecture Tour Gets Under Way
This year's annual Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA) Spring House Tour takes place Sunday, May 3. The tour extends broadly over the architectural spectrum, with homes from the Maybeck era to the Mid-Century Modern period, all concentrated in the North Berkeley hills.

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Spetacular Sea Ranch Rental, Coastal Living, April 2009
A spread in Coastal Living Magazine highlights The Sea Ranch. Founded on the principles of open-space preservation, architectural modesty, and respect for natural and cultural history, The Sea Ranch strikes a balance between isolation and civilization.

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Hidden hands and divided landscapes : a penal history of Singapore's plural society
A book by Anoma Pieres (PhD Arch '03), Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions.

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2009 Architecture and the City Festival
This festival is an opportunity for individuals, design practices, companies and cultural institutions to celebrate San Francisco's unique built environment and their contribution towards it. The 2009 festival theme "Everyday, Design" celebrates the many ways design impacts our daily lives, unveiling the unseen hand of the designer in everything from civic and institutional works to landscaping and residential design. For more information on Home Tours Submission Requirements and Sponsorship Opportunities, go to AIA SF online.

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Awards

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Joe Pang awarded first prize in competition
Joe Pang (M. Arch. '09) and his project on Algae Detoxification selected by Prof. Gutierrez and Prof. Rael
to represent CED. The project probed into internal air decontamination through active building envelopes and was awarded first prize in the competition 2x8:SHIFT 2009 organized by the AIA/LA.

2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
The Open Architecture Network invites students and professors to enter its annual international design competition. This year's challenge focuses on designing classrooms to address unique challenges that a particular school faces in trying to provide smart, safe and sustainable learning spaces. Registration deadline is May 4,2009.

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