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ARCHITECTURE LECTURE
David J. Lewis - LTL Architecture
February 8, 2012 | 6:30PM | 112 Wurster Hall
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David J. Lewis holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, a Master of Arts in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College. David is an Associate Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, where he directs the Design Workshop program, and has also taught at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, University of Limerick, and Ohio State University. He serves as a founding member of the Advisory Board of the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
The complete schedule for the Spring 2012 Lecture Series is posted on the CED website.
Photo: Michael Moran Studio
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CED CAREER FAIR
- FEB. 22, 2012
Employers: Register Now for the CED Spring 2012 Career & Internship Fair
The UC Berkeley Career Center invites you to register for the Spring 2012
career fairs. The Spring career fair season provides an opportunity to interact with Cal
students early in the Spring semester for entry-level career positions,
along with summer and internship opportunities. Over attracts 1200 graduate and undergraduate students attend.
The CED Career Fair will feature employers, who are invited to recruit Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Planning, Urban Design and City & Regional Planning students.
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SPECIAL EVENT
The 2012 Berkeley Circus Soirée
March 2, 2012 | 6:15-9:30PM | de Young Museum, San Francisco | Tickets are $75 - Purchase Today
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The much-anticipated Berkeley Circus returns in 2012 to celebrate the work of CED's students and faculty, as well as the accomplishments of the greater CED community.
Berkeley Circus Soirée will be held at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The evening will begin with the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award Ceremony, followed by a talk by Van Jones, an award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy. A reception in celebration of the achievements of CED students, faculty and alumni will conclude the evening. We hope to see you there! |
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SYMPOSIUM
Studio 1 Symposium: Flows Systems Atoms - Architecture in the Expanded Field
February 10-11, 2012 | 6:30PM | 112 Wurster Hall | Register Now
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The inaugural Studio One Symposium focuses on the studio's themes of architectural agency at an ecological and infrastructural scale, and brings together a global roster of influential designers and thinkers for two days of design, discussion, and debate.
For information regarding the schedule and speakers, please visit here.
CED's Studio One program is a one-year, post-professional design studio intended for those who have a professional (accredited Bachelor of Architecture) degree, and wish to continue to explore current design issues in a stimulating, rigorous, and experimental studio setting. The year-long studio is at the core of the program, integrated with seminars and lectures in design theory, history, urbanism, digital applications, and building technology. The studio director is joined by a team of several other faculty from the department and the college.
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SYMPOSIUM
Natural Discourse Symposium: Artists, Architects, Scientists and Poets in the Garden
February 10, 2012 | 9AM-4PM | Botanical Garden, Conference Center | Register Online, Students: $30, General: $60
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Join the discussion with Natural Discourse: Culture and Ecology. This is an exciting opportunity to interact with a diverse group speakers who will address questions about how man's invention and interpretation of nature has influenced their practice. Registration required; $65 general , $30 students. Ticket price includes lunch and refreshments.
Speakers Include:
Chris Carmichael – Associate Director of Collections and Horticulture, UC Botanical Garden
Hazel White- Poet and author of ‘Perils As Architectural Enrichment’, Kelsey Street Press 2011
William L. Fox – Poet, Author, Editor, and Director of the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art
Gail Wight – Artist, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Dale Clifford – Architect, Assistant professor Carnegie Mellon University |
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SPECIAL EVENT
Louise Mozingo - Reading and Discussion of Pastoral Capitalism
February 16, 2012 | 6-7:30PM| UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS, 2430 Bancroft Way (between Telegraph & Dana)
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Louise A. Mozingo will participate in a reading and discussion of her new book, Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes, winner of the 2011 PROSE Award for Architecture and Urban Planning, which looks at the end of the twentieth century America, when at the height of suburban idealism, the number of suburban corporate landscapes outnumbered their metropolitan counterparts. Greenness, writes Mozingo, was associated with goodness, and pastoral capitalism appropriated the suburb’s aesthetics and moral code. Like the lawn-proud suburban homeowner, corporations understood a pastoral landscape’s capacity to communicate identity, status, and right-mindedness.
Louise A. Mozingo is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Photo: MIT Press
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INTERNATIONAL HOUSE SPEAKER SERIES
Peter Calthorpe - Generating "Green" Globally
February 16, 2012; | 7:30-9PM | International House | Buy Tickets Online Here
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Named one of the top "25 Innovators on the Cutting Edge," by "Newsweek Magazine"", Peter Calthorpe is an architect and leader in sustainable design, planning, and development. He received the Urban Land Institute’s Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development for pioneering walkable communities and regional design. Discussing his latest book, "Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change" (2011), Mr. Calthorpe will share new insights linking patterns of development to energy and carbon consumption, and related environmental, social and economic impacts. A book signing follows his presentation.
Photo: UC Berkeley
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Spring 2012 Professional Development Workshops
This spring, CED will continue offering its Professional Development Workshops, which offer applied skills training to professionals and students. These workshops will help meet the demands of the ever-expanding interdisciplinary field of environmental design through topical and focused investigations of new theory and methods, the introduction of new computer technologies and software, the development of leadership and presentation skills, and the explanation of new professional standards, regulations, and policies. The upcoming workshops are:
- 3D Forms Using the Laser Cutter | Friday, Februrary 10 | 214 Wurster Hall |
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Palmer
- Intermediate Adobe Suite | Saturday,
February 11 | 214 Wurster Hall |
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. |
Suczynski M.Arch., M.C.P.
Space is limited for the Professional Development Workshops, so please register now. |
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EXHIBITION
R. Burton Litton, Jr.: California Landscapes
January 9-March 6, 2012 | Volkmann Reading Room, Environmental Design Library (210 Wurster Hall)
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This is an exhibit of watercolor sketches by CED Professor R. Burton Litton, Jr., who was a pioneer in the field of visual landscape assessment and is remembered for his abilities as a teacher, author, photographer and watercolor painter. Spanning the years 1982–98, Litton painted these watercolors while teaching his favorite class, Landscape Architecture 223: Introduction to California Landscape Regions.
Exhibit prepared by T. Mollette-Parks, J. McBride, K. Cahill, and Mirando Hambro. Sketches scanned by C. Becker. |
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EXHIBITION
Caroline Lavoie: Landscapes of the American West
January 22-Feb. 24, 2012 | Mon.–Fri. 10 a.m.–2 p.m.| Wurster Hall Main Gallery
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The themes in the exhibit are interrelated: from desert landscapes to landscapes of water/rivers, to winter and mountain landscapes; from very quick sketches to longer ones; and from the large-scale to smaller details in the landscape. Drawing in the landscape creates an awareness of place that is a distinct form of information-gathering and of understanding the landscape.
Caroline Lavoie is a landscape architect/conceptual artist who investigates landscape representation and perception as part of the design process in landscape architecture. She is interested in theoretical frameworks that influence the design of urban spaces and urban cultural landscapes as well as in the ideas that attempt to address some of the limitations in the design process. One part of this creative investigation explores the metaphorical forces of movement as a process for the creation of spaces in landscape architecture. Her work on drawing has been published in the prestigious Landscape Journal — a special edition on representation — Sketching the Landscape: Exploring a Sense of Place.
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Quakes pose severe threat to S.F. housing stock - SF Chronicle, February 6, 2012
The public-policy group SPUR has issued an eye-opening report (co-authored by Mary Comerio, Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley) about the vulnerability of San Francisco's housing stock to a major earthquake. It projected that nearly a quarter of the city's population -85,000 households- would require interim housing "for several months" after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on the San Andreas Fault along the Peninsula. The report is available online and is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Safe Enough to Stay (at the SPUR Urban Center Gallery until April 18, 2012).
Photo: Vince Maggiora / The Chronicle
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Berkeley Architect Wraps Up William Wurster Book - SF Chronicle, February 5, 2012
When Lempres Brostrom, 49, finished graduate school at Wurster Hall, her faculty adviser, Richard Peters, directed her to a book project on which he'd been working for 20 years. Another 20 years and "The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living" finally has been released by the Princeton Architectural Press.
On the topic of Wurster's appeal, Brostom writes: "What made him unique and distinctive to me was that he came from California. Most architects of fame in the '30, '40s and '50s were not from California to begin with. They were from Philadelphia or New York or Europe and came west. Wurster didn't romanticize what it was to be in California."
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1223 Upper Happy Valley Road boasts spectacular vistas - SF Chronicle, February 5, 2012
The property at 1223 Upper Happy Valley Road is on the market and, "I expect a big draw is going to be that it's a Swatt home," said listing agent Dana Green. She is referring to Robert Swatt (B.Arch., 1970), the Bay Area architect renowned as an innovator in the California Modern architectural movement. Swatt is known for his stunning new single- and multifamily projects, which continue to rise in popularity even in these lean times for
new construction. The architect also has a reputation for building on the past in ambitious redesigns, such as the extensive addition to the Bella Vista residence.
Photo: Thomas Grubba Photography
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A New Lower Sproul is Taking Shape - NewsCenter, January 30th, 2012
Berkeley has 35,000 students, but you’d never know it from wandering through the stark, gray emptiness of Lower Sproul Plaza on a typical evening.
The planned overhaul of Lower Sproul — long desired and now moving forward — intends to change all that.
The redesigned complex is envisioned as the true and beating heart of student life on campus, a hub, a central meeting place where students can congregate, socialize, study, work, discuss, debate and cross-pollinate. Architects’ renderings for the $223 million renovation show a light-filled area that’s open, inviting and bustling with activity 24/7. Eshleman Hall, currently closed off with walls of concrete, will be replaced by a lower building veiled in glass to expose the busy hive inside — students meeting, studying, dancing, eating, meditating and just hanging out. The transparency and permeability will carry through to the design of an addition to the plaza side of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, where walls of glass will put a new campus living room, café and multicultural center on full view. Spaces in Cesar Chavez that frame the north edge of the plaza would be enlivened by visible study centers available to students late into the night.
Photo: Renderings by Moore Ruble Yudell, UC Berkeley
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Emeritus Professor Lyndon to Participate in Mayor's Institute Conference
The Mayors’ Institute on City Design is a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and the United States Conference of Mayors. Since 1986, the Mayors’ Institute has helped transform communities through design by preparing mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities.
Mayors from across the western United States converged on the city of Houston to learn how they can become active participants in the design of their respective cities. The University of Houston’s Community Design Resource Center hosted the Mayors’ Institute on City Design: West (MICD) Feb. 1 – 3. The event connects American mayors with noted design professionals to address the challenges faced by cities, as well as strategies for revitalization. “The fundamental goal of this three-day conference is to educate city leaders and get them to care about design,” said Susan Rogers, director of UH’s Community Design Resource Center and CED Alumni (1998). “It’s an opportunity for them to learn how design can play a role in transforming and reinvigorating their cities.” | |
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