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6 May 2009
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LECTURE - Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis
May 11 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Margaret Paloma Pavel presents. Pavel founded Earth House Center in 1990 which works with a series of environmental sustainability groups in the Pacific Rim and in the US supporting organizations working on issues of health, justice, education, legal services and metropolitan development. The discussant for this lecture is Victor Rubin (M.C.P. '75), vice president for research at Policylink. Rubin leads knowledge-building, evaluation, and analysis activities to build a strong research base for equitable development strategy, community capacity building, and policy advocacy. For more info, visit CED online.
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State of Housing in the East Bay: Crisis and Solutions -
Affordable Housing Week 209
May 13
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2:00 p.m. - 5:00 pm
| Bancroft Hotel, Great Hall
The deepening foreclosure and financial crisis is disparately impacting low-income families. What are the solutions for the East Bay? A data-driven presentation of East Bay housing conditions by Karen Chapple, professor of City & Regional Planning, will be followed by a panel of experts who will discuss the foreclosure crisis, federal and state funding opportunities, changes in local housing markets, land use policy, and the role of non-profit housing developers.
This symposium is free and open to all. Please RSVP as space is limited. This event is sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Center for Community Innovation, East Bay Housing Organizations, Association of Bay Area Governments, and the East Bay Community Foundation. For more info, visit CED online.
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DOCUMENTARY - Dirt! The Movie: A glimpse into the world beneath your feet
May 11 | 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
Join Director Gene Rosow and Dean J. Keith Gilless for a conversation and a special screening of Dirt! The Movie. The film employs a colorful combination of animation, vignettes, and personal accounts from farmers, physicists, church leaders, children, wine critics, anthropologists, and activists to learn about dirt—where it comes from, how we regard (or disregard) it, how it sustains us, the way it has become endangered, and what we can do about it. For more info, visit the College of Natural Resources.
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CED Annual Fund
May 2009 | CED Annual Fund
With a new Dean and the upcoming 50th anniversary of CED in 2009 - 2010, one way to show your support for the school is by making a tax-deductible gift to the CED Fund. With your help, CED students
and professors will continue to design sustainable, state-of-the-art
buildings, help revitalize urban areas, explore innovative design
technologies, and help reform the way we build locally and worldwide.
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Jennifer Wolch, noted sustainability scholar, named ninth dean of College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley News, 29 April 2009
Jennifer Wolch, a leading scholar of urban analysis and planning, will assume the duties of dean of the University of California, Berkeley's College of Environmental Design beginning July 1, 2009. She will leave her post as professor of geography and urban planning at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles to become the college's ninth dean and UC Berkeley's fourth current woman dean.
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Sudden sight loss drives architect to aid blind, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 May 2009
This article profiles Chris Downey (M. Arch '92) an architect who is blind. Downey is dedicated to planning buildings for blind people, a niche brought about by his sudden loss of sight fifteen months ago. Based in Oakland he is currently working as a contract architect on the design of the Polytrauma and Blind Rehabilitation Center for the Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System.
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Majestic spirits glide in Halprin's grove, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2009
Choreographer Anna Halprin created the dance performance "Spirit of Place" for her husband and landscape architect Lawrence Halprin. The dance piece was performed in Stern Grove, the stunning Greek-inspired amphitheater of rough-hewn granite and towering eucalyptus designed by Lawrence.
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Obituary - Dan Volkmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2009
Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr. (B.A. Arch '50 & M. Arch '51) died peacefully and surrounded by his family on April 27, 2009 in the afternoon at his San Francisco home. He opened his own architecture office in 1952. Sherwood Stockwell became his partner in 1956 and in 1969 they joined Henrik Bull and John Field to form Bull Field Volkmann Stockwell. The firm designed a wide variety of projects winning many design awards.
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Chancellor's Public Service Awards honor faculty, staff, and students, UC Berkeley News, 1 May 2009
Chancellor Birgeneau welcomed awardees and celebrants to the annual presentation of the Chancellor's Public Service Awards. Deborah McKoy, director of Center for Cities & Schools and lecturer in City & Regional Planning, received the Faculty Service-Learning Leadership Award for her ongoing efforts to engage students in public-planning research and action in the Oakland area. On May 6th, 11th grade students will present their design proposals for the Nystrom Village at Harbour Way South and Cutting Boulevard to the Richmond City Council on May 6 at 5:30 p.m. Meanwhile, on May 7, 12th grade students will unveil design proposals for John McLaren Park at Burton High School Auditorium from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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SoMa no longer the other side of the tracks, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 April 2009
Stanley Saitowitz (M. Arch '77) of Natoma Architects is mentioned in this John King column about the recent buildings constructed in the SoMa neighborhood. King points to the Yerba Buena Lofts, "a concrete frame with 200 lofts inserted into bays that are 16 feet wide and 17 feet tall, stacked five high and screened by translucent glass.
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Cass Calder Smith's cutting-edge restaurant design, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 April 2009
Cass Calder Smith (B.A. Arch '83 & M. Arch '92) is featured in this article focusing on his restaurant projects, the most recent La Mar Cebicheria Peruana. The author writes that Smith, who has designed more than 50 restaurants around the country, in addition to a host of other residential and commercial projects, has a signature style that blends contemporary design with historical elements and, ultimately, comfort.
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New Resource Bank Appoints Vincent Siciliano as CEO, Yahoo News, 15 April 2009
The New Resource Bank has appointed Vincent Siciliano (M.L.A. '76), a longtime finance executive who has held the top spot at several California banks, as its new chief executive officer. In 2001, he was hired as the CEO of 1st Pacific Bank of California. Under his management, 1st Pacific was named the best-performing de novo bank in California by Findley Reports, a banking firm. Siciliano also worked for the California Coastal Commission and helped open the office of Coastal Zone Management in Washington, D.C.
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Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper
LA-based architect Scott Johnson (B.A. Arch '72), one of the principals of Johnson Fain, recently published a new book, Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper. The book traces the history of tall buildings and also discusses their impact on popular culture and their role as icons of national pride, particularly today in developing countries. Until 1996, eight of the ten tallest buildings were located in the U.S. By 2010 only one will be located in this country.
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Berkeley's environment-friendly center to open, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 April 2009
This article focuses on the unveiling the Brower Center, "a temple to the environmental movement." The building, a $28 million state-of-the-art office project, is on the site of a former parking lot next to UC Berkeley and will house at least 10 environmental nonprofit groups. Made of 53 percent recycled material, the four-story building has received the highest rating for green construction. Dan Solomon, professor emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design and founder of Solomon E.T.C., is the architect for this building.
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