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WORKSHOP AND LIVE WEBCAST
Integrating Disaster Recovery: What Should Long-term Disaster Recovery Look Like?
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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8:30am - 5:30pm
| Pew D.C. Conference Center, 901 E. St., NW, Washington, D.C
Mary Comerio, Professor of Architecture, leads a national roundtable on integrated disaster recovery today in Washington, D.C. The workshop will bring experts and officials together to discuss effective ways to provide disaster aid by "using an integrated, interdisciplinary case management system that taps into medical models for disaster response and new information technologies."
Register now and watch the webcast live. Advance registration for the broadcast is available here. |
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PANEL DISCUSSION
GROUND UP Journal: Landscapes of Uncertainty
Wednesday March 21, 2012
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6:30 - 8:30 pm at 112 Wurster Hall | Reception starts at 6:30pm in 108 Wurster Hall
GROUND UP, student-edited journal of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, presents a panel discussion on: Landscapes of Uncertainty. Discussants:
--Ila Berman, Director of Architecture, California College of the Arts, + Studio Matrixx
--Douglas Burnham, Principal, envelope Architecture + Design, + Proxy SF
--Scott Cataffa, Principal, CMG Landscape Architecture
--Sha Hwang, Design Technologist, Movity-Trulia
Moderator:
--Sarah Peck, SWA Group |
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EVENT
Barrie Rokeach Aerial/Terrestrial Photography: Secrets Revealed
Thursday, March 22, 2012
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6:30 pm
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Internationally recognized aerial photographer Barrie Rokeach (M.A. Design, '74 and 2008 DAA) will reveal all secrets of his bridge photography technique. He’ll show slides of photos from his book Rising from The Bay and the book will be for sale. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
A Poignant Idyll: The National Cemetery of Finland
Feb 16 - March 28, 2012
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1:00 - 4:00 pm
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Institute of European Studies, 201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley
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Eric Kotila (M.A. Design, '93) exhibit at the Institute of European Studies features gesamtkunstwork. A gesamtkunstwork, massive Hietaniemi National Cemetery, Helsinki, is a multifaceted and bucolic environment which has grown up over two centuries to become Finland’s national place of mourning. Through her enchanting landscape architecture, sculptural artistry, and soldiers’ fields, the cemetery encompasses in a self-conscious way what it means to be a modern Finn. A canopy of immense, leafy trees shield endless rows of graves in Swedish, Finnish, Russian, and English, many adorned with intriguing sculptures, or quotations.
Photo: Eric Kotila
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ANNOUNCEMENT
embARC Summer Design Academy Open House during Cal Day on April 21st
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The College of Environmental Design (CED) at the University of California, Berkeley is excited to announce the embARC Summer Design Academy, an intensive three-week summer day program for high school students interested in exploring the fields of architecture, urban design, and sustainable city planning. Through a series of lectures, design studios, and field trips, students will experience the culture of the design studio, connect to top CED faculty and professionals and build a portfolio for their college application.
embARC is open to local high school students entering into their senior year and exceptional junior year students. The program dates are July 16-August 3, 2012. For more details about the embARC Summer Design Academy visit our website at:
www.ced.berkeley.edu/college/academics/embarc
For interested parents, counselors, and students, the College of Environmental Design is hosting an embARC open house in conjunction with Cal Day on April 21st at 104 Wurster Hall from 12-2pm. We hope to see you there!
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ANNOUNCEMENT
CED Summer [IN]STITUTE - Summer 2012
Deadline to Apply: April 13, 2012
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 |
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EVENT
2012 APA National Planning Conference CED Alumni Reception
Saturday, April 14, 2012
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Diamond Salon 1 - JW Marriott, 900 West Olympic Boulevard · LA
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Join us in Los Angeles for the CED Alumni Reception at the 2012 National Planning Conference. Please come to reacquaint yourself with fellow colleagues and classmates, and learn about what's new at Wurster Hall. RSVP to Mary Cocoma by April 10th, 2012.
For directions to the event location click here. |
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DCRP LECTURE
CED Lecture Series: Dan Chatman
Monday, April 2, 2012
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7:00 pm
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112 Wurster Hall
Dan Chatman is an assistant professor of city and regional planning in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC-Berkeley. His research areas of interest include travel behavior and the built environment; residential and workplace location choice; "smart growth" and municipal fiscal decision making; and the connections between public transit, immigration and the economic growth of cities. Current projects include studies of the economic impacts of south Jersey's River Line; the barriers to transit-oriented development in New Jersey; the implications of immigration trends for transit service in the state; and a nationwide study of whether transit investments increase agglomeration economies. |
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ARCH LECTURE
CED Lecture Series: Dan Pitera
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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7:30 pm
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112 Wurster Hall
Dan Pitera is a political and social activist masquerading as an architect. He is presently the Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. With the view that "design" is an essential force in establishing human relations, the Design Center is dedicated to fostering university and community partnerships that create inspired and sustainable neighborhoods and spaces for all people. |
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LAEP SYMPOSIUM
After Three Gorges Dam: What Have We Learned?
Friday, April 13 - Saturday, April 14, 2012 | 8:00AM - 6:00PM
| 112 Wurster Hall | Registration $100/Students $40
China is at a critical point in its development path. Rapid economic development has overpowered concern for long term environmental and social costs. The Three Gorges Dam is not only a major infrastructure project in its own right – affecting the lives of 400 million people living in the Yangtze Valley; it is also a test case of how China can plan, execute and mitigate projects that transform its environment.
The symposium will convene invited experts both from within China, and outside, who are knowledgeable about the planning and environmental assessments of large dams, particularly the Three Gorges Project. We invite speakers to share their evaluations of anticipated and surprising project impacts, future long term impacts, and recommended management actions to minimize adverse impacts.
If you are interested in attending, please register here before April 9th, 2012.
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EXHIBITION
Perry Kulper
March 19 - April 27, 2012
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1:00 - 6:00 pm
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108 Wurster Hall
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Perry Kulper is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. 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. |
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EXHIBITION
Plants, Books and Drawings: The Work of Beatrix Farrand
March 12 - June 8, 2012
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9:00am - 9:00 pm on weekdays
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210 Wurster Hall, Environmental Design Library
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Beatrix Jones Farrand practiced landscape design from the 1890s-1940s. In 1899, she was a founding member, along with Frederick Law Olmsted, of the American Society of Landscape Architects. 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
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A San Francisco District Begins to Reduce Blight, NYTimes, 13 March 2012
Bayview, a historically African-American district in San Francisco's southeastern waterfront, has been the center of a succession of revitalization agendas of mayors Dianne Feinstein, Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom. Now, the $75 million mixed-use development at 5800 Third Street is complete. The project is divided into two mixed-use buildings and shared common space. The project also includes 137 condominium units that appeal to first-time buyers. Rick Holliday, Founder Holliday Development (M.C. P. ’77 and CED DAA ’04), has already sold all of the units on the ground floor. He expects an influx of more residents once the Redevelopment Agency's projects are finished.
Photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times
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Inside Out | Occupy Oakland, 11 March 2012
Celsa Dockstader (B.Arch 11) is a part of the Inside Out | Occupy Oakland team that is creating an urban exhibition of bold black and white portraits of Occupiers. The project expresses not only the diversity of the movement, but also promotes a fresh attitude toward "reclaiming public space, employing art and architecture, and making bold visual statements." Dockstader expressed, "Our portraits hold the power to encourage creative, positive, and community-based action within the larger Occupy movement. This is just the beginning, and we are already preparing for a feature in ADBUSTERS Magazine, exhibitions in Oakland, a documentary short, another exciting exposure." The Inside Out | Occupy Oakland Team is participating in the global art project, Inside Out, along with over 200 projects worldwide. Dockstader's team was successful in raising over $8000.
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Fougeron Architecture, The Architects Newspaper, 07 March 2012
Anne Fougeron (M. Arch '80) is known for her elegantly detailed residences and design practice in the city. According to Fougeron, "This profession is so unfriendly to women. It’s hard for us to get work, it’s hard for us to be taken seriously. But it’s not a nice field for the guys either—so you have to buck up and just do it." Fougeron brings an 'interesting combination of strict modernism which has been culturally and socially reorganized.' Fougeron's projects include: 400 Grove Street (SF), Buck Creek House (Big Sur), Ingleside Branch Public Library (SF), Wisconsin Street House (SF), and Tehama Grasshoper (SF). Follow the link above to view detailed descriptions and images of the projects.
Photo: Fougeron Architecture
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Buildings for Social Change, Architectural Record, March 2012
Congratulations to the following CED alumni who were featured in the Architectural Record's March issue and included in the 'Buildings for Social Change' article.
- East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Mark Cavagnero
In 2005 Mark Cavagnero (M. Arch ’83) and Associates was commissioned to complete an $8.3 million rehabilitation of the 16,000-square-foot, reinforced-concrete-and-heavy-timber Winters Building.
- Windsor Super Market, Studio H students and Project H Design
In 2010 Emily Pilloton's (B. A. Arch ’03 and 2012 CED Commencement speaker) Studio H and its students embarked on a project to build an open-air farmers market in Windsor, North Carolina for local farmers.
- East Oakland Sports Center, ELS Architecture and Urban Design
The 25,000-square-foot East Oakland Sports Center takes its stylistic cues from a nearby shipping company's headquarters. The design features sustainable materials.
- Ubuntu Center, Field Architecture
In Zwide, Port Elizabeth, South Africa the multipurpose Ubuntu Center provides pediatric HIV/AIDS testing and treatment, spaces for dance classes, performance, and social functions. Stan and Jess Field (M. Arch ’06) designed the building which opened in 2011.
Photo: (top to bottom) Tim Griffith, Brad Feinknopf, David Wakely, Jess Field
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Morocco's Spell, Landscape Architecture Magazine, February 2012
Achva Benzinberg Stein, FASLA (B.A. Landscape Arch. ’69) is the landscape architect on the project team in charge of the Metropolitan Museum's newly reinstalled collection of Islamic Art titled "New Galleries for the Art of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia." The gallery's spaces are adorned with mosaic tiles, intricately carved plaster, fountains, and decorative ceilings. According to the article by Julie Lasky, "The triumph of the Moroccan Court lies not merely in conveying authenticity through the labors of modern artisans practicing thousand-year-old skills but also in creating the feeling of a generously scaled, skylighted space in a confined museum interior."
Photo: Michael Moran
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Chancellor's Award for Public Service 2011-2012
Congratulations to Deborah McKoy (Ph.D. ’00), Director, Center for Cities & Schools; Lecturer in City & Regional Planning and the Y-PLAN (Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now!) for receiving the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service 2011-2012. Y-PLAN engages UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students as mentors and educational and civic leaders as "adult allies" in local planning and community development projects. Y-PLAN has supported communities in creating changes that affect the lives of thousands.
Chancellor and Mary Catherine Birgeneau will host an awards ceremony and reception in honor of the recipients at the Sibley Auditorium on Monday, April 30, 2012, at 3pm. |
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Alumnus Receives 2012-13 Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity
Congratulations to CED alumnus Victor Pineda (M.C.P '06) for being awarded the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, faculty mentoring, and eligibility for a hiring incentive to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California.
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DCRP Professor Receives Graduate Assembly 2012 Faculty Mentor Award
Congratulations to Professor Teresa Caldeira for being selected as one of the Graduate Assembly's 2012 Faculty Mentor Award winners. The award honors members of the Berkeley faculty who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and generally supporting graduate students. This award is one of the most honored ones for faculty at UC Berkeley and truly shows the dedication of its recipients to student learning and mentoring. The awardees will be recognized at an awards ceremony on April 18th.
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2012 CNU Charter Awards
Congratulations to CED alumnus Daniel Solomon (M. Arch '66) for receiving the CNU Charter Awards. The CNU's award program recognizes the very best in New Urbanist design. Winning projects are recognized for their "excellence in architectural, landscape, and urban designs built in harmony with their physical and social contexts." Solomon's project, the David Brower Center and Oxford Plaza, is located in Berkeley. For more information about the project click here. |  |
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Architecture professor recognized nationally, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, 21 February 2012
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Congratulations of CED alumnus Donald Corner (M. Arch, '74) for receiving the 2011-2012 Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Corner is a graduate of the College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley where he earned his Masters of Architecture in 1974. Corner, a registered architect in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, began his teaching career at the University of Oregon in 1980. According to the head of University of Oregon's Department of Architecture Professor Christine Theodoropoulos, "Donald Corner is an extraordinary teacher, whose work on building technology education and its integration with architectural design has influenced generations of Oregon graduates and seeded innovations at numerous schools of architecture where his former students are teaching." |
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