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In this issue: | 22 April 2009 | CED e-news
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CED ALUMNI RECEPTION - At The AIA National Convention in San FranciscoApril 30 . | . 6 pm - 8:30 pm . | . St. Regis Hotel San Francisco Join us for a very special program and to meet the new Dean of the College of Environmental Design. 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. Remarks will be made by Design Partner at Skidmore Owings and Merrill Craig W. Hartman, FAIA and CED Interim Dean Sam Davis at 7:30 p.m. Please RSVP by April 24, 2009. Right: www.aiaconvention.com |
COLLOQUIUM - Tiago CastelaApril 22 . | . 6 pm - 7 pm. | . 305 Wurster Hall Tiago Castela is a Ph.D candidate in History of Architecture and Urbanism. This talk is part of the Architecture Research Colloquium, organized by students for faculty, staff, and students. For more info, visit CED online. |
COLLOQUIUM - Carrie Makarewicz and Allie ThomasApril 23 . | . 5 pm - 6:30 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall This talk is part of the DCRP Ph.D. Colloquium series. Refreshments are provided. More dates may be added as the semester unfolds. For more info, visit CED online. |
THE BROWER SYMPOSIUM - Architecture Greenness, Contextualism
April 23 . | . 6:30 pm . | .The David Brower Center A conversation celebrating the opening of Berkeley’s David Brower Center. What does ‘green building’ mean to the profession of architecture and architectural education? Are collaboration and multi-disciplinarily teachable? What is the architect’s role in a big, green collaboration? What can we say about greenness, urbanism, contextuality and the legacy of modern architecture. Daniel Solomon, of Solomon E.T.C, A WRT Company, is among the speakers. Solomon has focused on residential architecture and the interaction between housing and urban design. For more info, visit CED online. Right: www.solomonetc-wrt.com |
LECTURE - Paul Chan's Unfederated Theatre: Waiting In Post-Katrina New Orleans
April 27 . | . 6 pm - 8 pm. | . 106 Wurster Hall Paul Chan is a visual artist and a political activist noted for his statements about the necessity of separating rather than integrating aesthetics and politics. This essay uses Chan's decision to site a production of Waiting for Godot in Post-Katrina New Orleans, framing this project both as a conversation across the domain of visual and theatrical arts and as an opportunity to reflect on what it means to take an aesthetic stance on community engagement. Presenter is Shannon Jackson, department chair of theater, dance and performance studies, and discussants are Joshua Simon (B.A. Arch '83) from the Northern California Community Loan Fund and Marcia McNally, professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning. For more info, visit CED online. Right: Shannon Jackson, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies |
PANEL - Integrated Transportation And Land Use ModelingApril 28 . | . 5:15 pm - 7 pm . | . 305 Wurster Hall SB 375 calls for improved modeling capacity for testing sustainable community strategies and charges the California Transportation Commission with developing and enforcing modeling guidelines among the state's 17 MPOs. In this panel, best-practices and modeling challenges in forecasting urban growth, travel, and VMT will be explored. The panel will also address and explore alternative approaches (both modeling and on-going data collection) to measure future compliance with AB 32 green house gas targets. For more info, visit CED online. |
LECTURE - BAHA Spring House Tour Lecture Series
April 29 . | . 7:30 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Waverly Lowell, curator of the Environmental Design Archives will give a lecture on Greenwod Common: Living Modern. The story of William Wurster and his iconic development of mid-century houses surrounding a landscaped common overlooking the Golden Gate. The talk is part of the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association Spring House Tour. Tickets are $15 per lecture, $40 for the series. For more info, visit BAHA. Right: CED Online |
Andrew Shanken, 194X: Architecture, Planning and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
April 30 . | 7 pm. | . Builders Booksource, 1817 4th St., Berkeley 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. Right: University of Minnesota Press |
LECTURE - Charles Renfro / Diller Scofidio + Renfro
May 1 . | . 7 pm - 8 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Charles Renfro joined Diller Scofidio in 1997.DS + R recentely completed Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The firm is also working on High Line, an urban park in New York's Chelsea district as well as the new home for the Instiute of Contemporary Art on Boston Harbor. This lecture is part of the Spring 2009 Architecture Lecture Series. Please see the lecture series webpage for other lectures in the series. For more info, visit CED online. Right: www.dillerscofidio.com |
PANEL - Local and Regional Planning Challenge
May 5 . | . 5:15 pm - 7 pm. | . 305 Wurster Hall Steve Heminger, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Commission; Paul Fassinger, Research Director, Association of Bay Area Governments; Gordon Garry, Director of Research and Analysis, Sacramento Council of Governments; moderated by Michael Teitz, Emeritus Professor, UC Berkeley, and Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California. IURD brings together three respected leaders to discuss opportunities and barriers facing successful implementation. For more info, visit CED online. Right: Steve Heminger, www.mtc.ca.gov |
EXHIBIT - 10 x 10 Cities: Green Facts, Challenges, Futures
April 17 - May 15 . | 3A Gallery, San Francisco A fact-filled, fascinating and imaginative look at 10 cities and their performance on 10 sustainable aspects including transit, water use, density and pollution. 10 x10 Cities: Green Facts, Challenges, Futures bookends the AIA 2009 National Convention and Exposition to be held for the first time since 1998 in San Francisco at Moscone Center from April 30 – May 2, 2009. For more info, visit 3A Gallery. Right: www.mh-a.com/studio/gallery |
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At Cal, global poverty minor's hot, humane, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 April 2009 Right: UC Berkeley News | |
Gallery House selected for AIA National Convention South of Market Residential Home Tours Right: www.oparch.net | |
The Story of Sprawl, Project for Public Spaces Blog, 17 April 2009 Right: Blog.pps.org | |
As new home of the Tampa Museum of Art rises, inside peek shows promise, St. Petersburg Times, 19 April 2009 Right: St. Petersburg Times | |
Campus staffers honored for 'going beyond' daily responsibilities, UC Berkeley News, 16 April 2009 Right: UC Berkeley News | |
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