ARCH LECTURE SERIES

Lars Lerup

Wednesday, March 7, 2012  |   6:30 pm   |   112 Wurster Hall

Lars Lerup, designer and writer, is a professor of architecture at Rice School of Architecture. He was dean at Rice and William Ward Watkin Professor from 1993 to 2009. Previously, he taught for many years at UC Berkeley, where he is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Architecture.   Lerup's work focuses on the intersection of nature and culture in the contemporary American metropolis, and on Houston in particular. He is currently finishing up work on a new book, entitled Toxic Ecology: At the Limit of the Entrepreneurial City, which examines the consequences that relentless growth and expansion has had on various natural systems and how those consequences will affect the future of the city.

CONCERT

Ellipsis-Reprise at the Berkeley Art Museum

March 9, 2012   |   6:30 pm   |   Berkeley Art Museum (2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94720)

Assoc. Professor in Architecture Raveevarn Choksombatchai has collaborated with music composer Edmund Campion in producing Ellipsis-Reprise:

This evening Ellpisis-Reprise consists of a continual algorithmic toccato performed at the piano. The slowly evolving harmonies feed the Cardew Choir their material for singing. Other voices throughout the museum respond to the choir's voices and join in the singing. The piece ends with a fantasy postlude that features Edmund Campion interacting with computer music software he has designed over the last decade. The installation of Raveeavarn Choksombatchai has involved a large scale effort to reveal the richness of the interior of the Berkeley Art Museum.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING

Screening of "The Professor" featuring Professor Charles Sullivan

Friday, March 9, 2012 | 7:00 pm | The Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007

In the film directed by two time Emmy Award winner and USC adjunct professor Allan Holzman, and produced by USC School of Cinematic Arts student Nejat Merey titled "The Professor" viewers are propelled into the "visual relationship between nature and man, visualizing how we see, how we dream and how we invent." The documentary explores the life, art and philosophy of Charles "Chip" Sullivan (Professor of Landscape Architecture at the College of Environmental Design) with a focus on his exciting and invigorating teaching style which incorporates animation, art, and imagination. This screening is free of charge and open to the general public. Please make a reservation online at http://cinema.usc.edu/events/reservation.cfm?id=12519 and bring a photo ID or print out of your reservation confirmation.

LAEP LECTURE SERIES

Chris Reed

Monday, March 12, 2012   |   6:30 - 7:30 pm   |   112 Wurster Hall

Chris Reed is the principal and founder of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, a Boston-based strategic design and planning practice and Adjunct Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Reed holds an AB in Urban Studies from Harvard College and an MLA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Reed's research interests include infrastructure-based urbanism-manifest most robustly in North America in the Los Angeles metropolitan region and in innovative applications of ecological processes and mechanics. His infrastructural interests are being developed in a series of research seminars and design studios around the topic of Recalibrating Infrastructure; he also organized and hosted a colloquium at the GSD last spring titled "Critical Ecologies" which is being expanded into a book of the same name to be co-edited with Nina-Marie Lister. Reed's publications include public Works Practices" in Charles Waldheim's The landscape Urbanism Reader, published by Princeton Architectural Press.

CED LECTURE SERIES

Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado

Monday, March 19, 2012   |  6:30 - 7:30 pm   |   112 Wurster Hall

Although Machado and Silvetti Associates was not incorporated until 1985, co-founders and principals Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado have been in association since 1974. Working together on a variety of diverse projects, the unifying theme in Machado and Silvetti’s work is not a signature aesthetic, but a commitment to expressing the unique and important aspects of each individual project, integrating these characteristics harmoniously with the client’s aspirations and into the environment as a whole. The firm has developed special expertise in Art Museums, educational institutions and urban design and planning worldwide. Some of the firm’s notable projects include the Getty Villa in Southern California, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine, the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and One Western Avenue at Harvard University.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, both Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado studied architecture at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, before becoming associates, and later partners.

ANNOUNCEMENT

CED Summer [IN]STITUTE - Summer 2012

April 13, 2012   |  Deadline to Applyl

The College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, is offering three summer programs that introduce the study of architecture – [IN]ARCH, landscape architecture – [IN]LAND, and sustainable city planning – [IN]CITY. The Summer [IN]STITUTE gives students the opportunity to explore the methods and theories of the fields, experience the culture of the design and planning studios, connect to top faculty and professionals, and build a portfolio for graduate school application.

[IN]ARCH, [IN]LAND, and [IN]CITY are six week summer programs that begin on Monday, July 2, 2012 and end on Friday, August 10, 2012. The program fee is $3,400. Each program consists of a lecture series, a design or planning studio, and either a seminar or media course. Faculty from the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and City and Regional Planning serve as the lead instructors. All classes are held in Wurster Hall, home of the College of Environmental Design, on the UC Berkeley campus.

WHO SHOULD APPLY: If you are a post-baccalaureate student and exceptional student who has just finished their junior year of college and who have majors in other fields but are interested in testing their enthusiasm for the material and culture of environmental design.

For more information visit: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/college/academics/summer-institutes

EXHIBITION

2011 Branner Traveling Fellows

February 27 - March 10, 2012  |   1:00 - 6:00 pm   |   108 Wurster Hall

This exhibition highlights the work of 2011 Branner Fellows Bryan Allen and Justin Short.   Bryan Allen is an Option 2 M.Arch. student whose research focuses on exploring Post Industrial Latent Spaces through an Urbex methodology with a specific interest in their embedded contextual connection, ecological opportunity, palimpsest qualities, and spatial potential. Post Industrial Latent Spaces exhibit architectural dreams and fears, at once inspiring architecture’s promise and aware of its ultimate entropy. Here spatial distinctions between solid/void, building/landscape, and inside/outside become ambiguous yet paradoxically present. Visit Bryan's Post Industrial Latent Spaces blog.   Justin Short is an Option 3 M.Arch. student whose research examines the physical implications — collateral architecture, urbanism, and infrastructure — of varied postures in material practice. Visit Justin's Material Practice and Provenance blog.

EXHIBITION

Perry Kulper

March 19 - April 27, 2012   |   1:00 - 6:00 pm   |   108 Wurster Hall

Perry Kulper is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan, he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 16 years as well as in visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. Subsequent to his studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (B.S. Arch.) and Columbia University (M.Arch), he worked in the offices of Eisenman/ Robertson, Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown before moving to Los Angeles. His interests include the roles of representation and methodologies in the production of architecture and in broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to our cultural imagination.   The reception will be held March 19, 2012 at 5:30pm in Room 108, Wurster Hall.

EXHIBITION

Plants, Books and Drawings: The Work of Beatrix Farrand

March 12 - June 8, 2012   |   9:00am - 9:00 pm on weekdays   |   210 Wurster Hall, Environmental Design Library

Beatrix Jones Farrand practiced landscape design from the 1890s through the 1940s. In 1899, she was a founding member, along with Frederick Law Olmsted, of the American Society of Landscape Architects. During her fifty-year career, Farrand designed more than 200 gardens for educational institutions, universities, communities, museums, and wealthy private clients. She is recognized for her work at Dumbarton Oaks, Dartington Hall, for various projects for the Rockefellers, for her projects at Yale and Princeton, and particularly for her Reef Point, Maine, Estate. This exhibit re-examines Reef Point, through a selection of the prints and books held there, the Reef Point Bulletin, plants from its garden and the archival collections. Also on display will be plans, drawings, and other material from the Environmental Design Archives and Visual Resources Collection that showcase some of her well-known projects. Exhibit Team: Emma Keefe, Miranda Hambro, Waverly Lowell, Jaye Fishel, and David Eifler. Photo: Reef Point Garden, Maine, Beatrix Farrand Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley

EXHIBITION

Bridge 11: Lia Cook

February 4, 2012 - May 13, 2012   |   Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (4848 Main St. Houston, Texas 7702)

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) presents "Bridge 11: Lia Cook," an exhibition of fiber artist Lia Cook (M.A. Design '73 and 1998 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient). The exhibits features woven images of human faces and Cook's recent art-neuroscience collaboration wherein she combines woven portraits with lines that represent her collected data. HCCC Curator, Anna Walker, describes the significance of the exhibition: "Arguably one of the pioneers of the modern fiber-art movement, Lia Cook was one of the first people to utilize a digital jacquard loom as an art tool in the 1980s. HCCC is thrilled to host an exhibition of an artist as important to the history of studio craft as Cook, and we are especially pleased to do so during Fotofest 2012, the largest and longest-running international photography festival in the U.S. Thinking of her work in relation to photography provides visitors with an opportunity to recognize this medium as part of her process, as well as to consider her use of focus, scale and portraiture in the final works."

2012 ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition Finalists

Congratulations to the UC Berkeley team for becoming finalists at the 2012 ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition!

The ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition is an "urban design and development challenge" for graduate students. The competition challenges multidisciplinary student teams to create a development program for a real, large-scale site.

2028 - University of California, Berkeley - "The Grand"

• Deepak Sohane, Master of Urban Design
• Brian Chambers, Master of Urban Design
• Carlos Emilio Sandoval Olascoaga, Master of Architecture
• Jim Farris, MBA
• Momin Mahammad, Master of Urban Design
• Faculty Adviser – Peter Bosselmann (Professor of Urban Design in Architecture, City & Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture; Co-Chair, Master of Urban Design Program)

Photo: Source_Caption

Salesforce campus gone, but too bold to forget, SFGate, 04 March 2012

Salesforce announced on Monday that it is putting its campus construction plans in San Francisco's Mission Bay district on hold. Instead, the company will lease the space as needed.

Even if the campus, designed by Mexican firm Legorreta + Legorreta, won't be built in San Francisco, it will surely enter the "annals of unbuilt architecture that leaves a mark on the landscape." The design's sharp-angles and vibrant colors create a unique and unforgettable atmosphere for a corporate campus. The project's design features a parking lot of orange "baguettes" of terra cotta and a roof that is colored purple, yellow, olive and pink to name a few. The Salesforce campus continues the American tradition of raising the bar for designers, architects, and developers in creating designs that challenge convention and are driven by innovation and creativity.

Photos by: dwinslow / Courtesy of the SF Planning Comm

Redwood City: New shoreline development plan, SFGate, 04 March 2012

In May of 2009, DMB Pacific Ventures called for 12,000 apartment units and houses to be built on an old salt pond on the Redwood City shoreline. In response, residents and environmental groups have voiced their concerns against the project and have named it a "regional disaster." Public officials and environmental groups point to the vanishing wetland of the San Francisco Bay and the deteriorated ecosystem and water and air quality of the area. Stephen Knight, political director for Save the Bay, commented, "Our position is, you don't put housing on the bay. Period."

Facing public concerns over traffic, water, and other environmental issues, DMB Pacific Ventures withdrew their proposal in order to revamp it and more properly address the community's concerns. Last week the developer announced that their updated proposal would soon be ready. According to David Smith, senior vice president of the firm, "We had hopes it'd be out by now, but we wanted time to do our own internal evaluations...It's important to get this right." Smith is confident that the proposal will outline solutions to the many concerns raised.

Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle

Nostalgia in abundance at Old Mint, SFGate, 04 March, 2012

On Saturday March 3rd The Old Mint was opened to hundreds of San Francisco residents who were eager to walk down memory lane. The exhibit featured: a lost-and-found ledger from 1917, a cable car track, and many more. According to the chief operating officer of the Historical Society Kurt Nystron, "Really, the objective here is to introduce the public to the history of San Francisco."

Design to Occupy UC Berkeley, polis, 25 February, 2012

Robert Tidmore and Alex Schuknecht, Landscape Architecture students at the College of Environmental Design, discuss the role of architecture and design of the Occupy movement at the University of California, Berkeley in November of 2011.

Tidmore expresses the unique role of architects as being in a position that "bridges social, cultural and environmental concerns." After his participation in the Occupy Cal movement Tidmore now realizes that it is no longer sufficient to merely build attractive places that facilitate large-scale gathering and promoted community and civic engagement. In response to the removal of the Occupy Cal encampment and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Judith Stilgenbauer's urging of students to respond to the movement, the idea of a floating encampment on Sproul Plaza was born, "I felt very strongly that we needed to re-occupy the space and rekindle the hope and elation of the Occupy movement." Schuknecht expressed, 'It was just a matter of doing, and the excitement and will to do it was there. The hope now is to continue to feed off that excitement and not let it wane into the humdrum of professional life."

Both students feel strongly about the active role that architects must take in applying what is learned inside the classroom into the real world in order to tackle the complex issues being faced by society.

We need to show consideration for the poor, The Progressive, 24 February, 2012

In his article titled "We need to show consideration for the poor," Alvaro Huerta (Ph.D candidate in City & Regional Planning, College of Environmental Design) defends the poor against the stigma that has developed in American society. Huerta emphasizes the need for Americans to recognize how vital government programs are to needy Americans and re-evaluate their views on the poor.

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REQUIREMENTS: Open to all current students who have authorization to work in the U.S. and who will be returning to school in the Fall of 2012. 1) a completed online profile and 2) cover letter stating your design discipline and location preferences, resume with expected date of graduation, a color PDF of your work (4MB maximum file size; printable size minimum 8-1/2 x 11 and maximum 11 x 17)
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