LECTURE

Discover CAL: Ending Poverty: Transforming the Lives of the World’s Bottom Billion

May 26, 2010   |   6:30 - 9:00 pm   |   Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York   |   $20 in advance; $25 at the door

Please join us again in New York for Discover Cal—Ending Poverty: Transforming the Lives of the World’s Bottom Billion by DCRP Professor Ananya Roy. Even as the new millennium brings an extraordinary global conscience to end poverty, a pressing question looms: Can the world’s markets and development institutions transform the lives of the bottom billion, those living on less than $1.25 a day? Debates about microfinance and other means of “bottom billion capitalism” animate the research and teaching of Ananya Roy — one of Berkeley’s most popular professors.

CONFERENCE

2010 UrbanSim Conference

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - Friday, May 28, 2010   |   Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley   |   Registration: $100 - $800

The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley is hosting the 2010 UrbanSim Conference, which will bring together UrbanSim developers and users from planning agencies (COGs and MPOs, cities/counties, transportation agencies), and academia. A two-part event, this conference begins with a two-day intensive UrbanSim Workshop on May 25-26 for new users of the Open Platform for Urban Simulation and UrbanSim. On May 27-28, the program continues with an interactive exchange among the developers and users at the UrbanSim User Conference.

Reception

CED reception at the 2010 AIA National Convention in Miami

June 10, 2010   |   6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.   |   Loews Miami Beach Hotel, New Yorker Room (MAP)

Join us for a very special evening and an opportunity to congratulate the new AIA fellows from the College of Environmental Design. Reacquaint yourself with fellow colleagues and classmates, and learn about what's new at Wurster Hall. Please RSVP via email by June 1, 2010 to Mary Cocoma at mcocoma@berkeley.edu.

CED STUDENT SUPPORT FUND

CED 50th Anniversary Student Support Fund

The CED Gala on Saturday, February 6, 2010, launched the CED 50th Anniversary Student Support Fund. The fund will provide financial support for graduate and undergraduate students across the college. Ensuring that CED students have equal access to the excellence of an environmental design education is imperative. We are halfway to our $100,000 goal, and we hope to reach it by commencement on May 17, 2010. Please support the fund today.

The Ramona's Cafe Charrette a Resounding Success!

Ramona’s Café functions as an important amenity for the Wurster Hall’s occupants and the broader university community. As one of Cal Dining’s seven signature restaurants Ramona’s is dedicated to providing an environmentally friendly dining program. Elegantly designed over twenty years ago by Fernau Hartman for an earlier generation of clientele, the restaurant’s physical layout and conceptual programming does not accommodate environmentally friendly technology and it is limited with respect to its kitchen’s ability to prepare healthy, fresh food. As the first step in remodeling Ramona’s Café, the College of Environmental Design hosted a preliminary Design Charrette on April 29, 2010 to explore the challenges of the project and begin to generate solutions. To view the results of the charrette please visit prezi.com.

Artful selection of architect makes statement, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2010

Landscape Architect Peter Walker (B.S. Land Arch. '55) discusses the role of design competitions in relation to the new designs for the Berkeley Art Museum SFMOMA. Walker says that, in the U.S., the competitions can be used to whip up public enthusiasm, raise money, put a focus on the design where there might be other things going on, but they can produce ideas that wouldn't otherwise emerge. He said with competitions, there's a chance for something remarkable that you wouldn't otherwise see.

IwamotoScott, HydroNet, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

HydroNet designed by IwamotoScott, a firm led by Associate Professor of Architecture Lisa Iwamoto, was featured in Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's National Design Triennial, Why Design Now. HydroNet is a vision of San Francisco for the year 2108. The city forms a super-system that resembles seaweed and chanterelle mushrooms in form, says Cooper-Hewitt, while allowing much of the character of above-ground San Francisco to be preserved and to evolve organically.

Photo: Cooper-Hewitt

Panel should let architect express his vision, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2010

John King argues that San Francisco's Planning Commission should not interfere with a new design by Professor Emeritus of Architecture Stanley Saitowitz (M. Arch. '77) and his firm, Natoma Architects. King writes that when genuinely talented architects find ways to heighten our sense of place, we need to encourage such creativity.

Photo: Natoma Architects

When Design Lost Its Innocence, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 May 2010

Associate Professor of Architecture Greg Castillo was featured in both The Chronicle for Higher Education and the New Books in History podcast for his new book, Cold War on the Homefront: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design. Castillo points out that the West won the Cold War, New Books writes, with a kind of domestic architecture and interior design that has now become so bloated that it is, economically at least, unsustainable.

Photo: New Books in History

High Museum Selected to Present American Pavilion at 2010 Venice Biennale, ArtDaily.org, 7 May 2010

Hood Design, a firm run by Professor of Landscape Architecture Walter Hood (M. Arch./ M. Land. Arch. '89), will be one of seven groups to be featured at the exhibition Workshopping: An American Model of Architectural Practice at the U.S. pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia in Vienna. Hood was selected for proactively seeking projects for the chance to create spaces that serve newly evolving public uses and opportunities that help knit together diverse communities through new thinking about open public spaces.

Photo: ArtDaily.org

AIA SF 2010 Design Awards Includes Many from CED

Congratulations to the firms who won 2010 Design Awards from the AIA San Francisco chapter. Most of the winning firms included alumni and/or faculty from the College of Environmental Design. For the complete list of winners, please visit the AIA website.

Photo: AIASF

Tea Houses by Swatt | Miers Architects win Numerous Awards

The Tea Houses in Silicon Valley, designed by Robert Swatt (B.A. Arch ’70) of Swatt | Miers Architects, have now won several awards. The project has now won a 2009 AIACC design award, a 2010 AIASF Design Award, a Grand Award from Custom Home magazine, and, most recently, Project of Year from Residential Architect magazine.

Photo: Swatt | Miers

UC Berkeley Team wins Bank of America Low-Income Housing Challenge

CED student Cathleen Sullivan (MCP ’10), along with Jamie Choy, Peter Dugo, and Kavitha Pendyala, all from the Haas School of Business, took first place in the Bank of America Low-Income Housing Challenge with their proposal, the MissionGreen. The team conceptualized a green housing development in San Francisco's Mission District. See the winning proposal here.

COMPANY: UC Berkeley Extension
JOB TITLE: Public Education Specialist 2 – Landscape Architecture/Sustainable Design/Visual Arts
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
REQUIREMENTS: Bachelors degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. Continuing education in related field required. Thorough knowledge of functional area and understanding of how work may impact other areas. Must be knowledgeable of current issues in the national and international sustainable design community. Please visithttp://jobs.berkeley.edu for list of requirements.
APPLY: For a full position description, please visithttp://jobs.berkeley.edu. Referencing Job #10786

UC Berkeley Extension is the continuing education branch of the University of California, Berkeley. It is self-supporting and offers about 2000 courses a year to an enrollment of approximately 50,000 students

This position involves designing, conducting, promoting, and supporting various public educational programs, corporate training programs, and UC Berkeley Extension related events (including conferences). Researches and assesses educational needs and interests for targeted public segments, and develops programs, materials, technology and learning approaches accordingly.

COMPANY: Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and Denver Botanic Gardens
JOB TITLE: Designer for Signature Pavilion Project
LOCATION: Denver, CO
REQUIREMENTS: Propose and design a pavilion which is intended to be a functional, site-specific installation that provides an appealing respite with shade, rain protection and visual interest throughout the year.
CONTACT: rudi.cerri@denvergov.org

The budget for this commission is approximately $100,000 USD which will be allocated to the design team selected by the selection panel. This contract amount is inclusive of all costs associated with the project. The purpose of this Signature Pavilion would be to provide shade, rain protection, circulation and visual interest while maintaining an outdoor environment. The entire terrace will be approximately 4,400 square feet in size, while the footprint of the proposed design need only cover a portion of this area; a minimum of 36 x 76 feet. Specific consideration for Colorado’s extreme climate and temperature fluctuations must be considered for all pavilion components. For more information, please visit this website.

Applicant(s) may apply as a single artist or multi-person collaboration (design team). Applicants must apply online at via the CaFE website. Please include digital images (or a video/DVD of no more than five minutes to: Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, Public Art Program–Denver Botanic Gardens, 201 W. Colfax Ave., Dept. 1007, Denver, CO 80202); Statement of Interest briefly outlining your interest in this unique project and experience working on projects of this kind (500 word maximum); and a one- to two-page current Resume.

COMPANY: BlakeDrucker Architecture
JOB TITLE: Office Person
LOCATION: Oakland, CA
CONTACT: Name: jobs@bdarch.com

BlakeDrucker Architects will be hiring a summer intern until September to help pack up and move, and to do brochures, etc. He or she be organized and to have fabulous InDesign, Photoshop skills. It will pay very little and it will be a "seasonal position" or a stipend, and we will expose them to a practice but I don't expect them to know Revit Architecture, or be skilled in AutoCad and we may not have them draw. If interested, you are encouraged to check out the firm's website, and then send cover letter stating your interest and samples of your graphic skills tojobs@bdarch.com.