ARCH LECTURE

CED Lecture Series: Dan Pitera

Wednesday, April 4, 2012   |  6:30 - 7:30 pm   |   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.

ANNOUNCEMENT

New Alumni Challenge Is Back

Alumni from the Classes of 2007 through 2012 has the opportunity to take part in The New Alumni Challenge! Thanks to the generosity of CAL Alumni Paul and Stacy Jacobs your donation will be matched 1:1, making small contributions (up to a $1,000 per donor) go a long way! Choose to give to the CED Fund or to a CED endowed fund such as the 50th Anniversary Student Support Fund. Visit Give to Cal website for more info.

ARCH LECTURE

Preston Scott Cohen

Monday, April 9, 2012   |   6:30PM - 7:30PM   |   112 Wurster Hall

Preston Scott Cohen is the founding Principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., an architecture firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also the Chair of the Department of Architecture and the Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is the author of Contested Symmetries and numerous theoretical and historical essays on architecture. His work has been widely published and exhibited and is in numerous collections. He lectures regularly in prestigious venues around the world.

EXHIBITION, LECTURE + RECEPTION

Linda Jewell: White Gloves/Work Gloves: On-site with Beatrix Farrand

Thursday, April 12, 2012   |   6:00 - 7:00 pm   |   Environmental Design Library, 210 Wurster Hall

Linda Jewell, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, will give a lecture on Beatrix Farrand. Professor Jewell joined the UCB faculty in 1991. She is a committed educator who also maintains a practice. Her publications and design work have won numerous ASLA merit and honor awards. Professor Jewell is fascinated with the relationship between landscapes and structures. In both her teaching and practice, she focuses on landscapes where structural interventions -buildings, roads, walls, pavements, sculpture, bridges and other human made artifacts - are introduced into landscapes. To better understand the dimensional scale of proposed landscape changes, students in her classes often experiment with full-scale construction and/or mock-ups of proposals. A related exhibition entitled "Plants, Books and Drawings: The Work of Beatrix Farrand" takes place March 12-June 8, 2012, in the Volkmann Reading Room, Environmental Design Library, 210 Wurster Hall (Raymond Lifchez and Judith Lee Stronach Exhibition Cases).

CONFERENCE

DIVERSITY: The BCSLA 2012 Annual Conference

April 13 (8:00AM - 7:30PM) - April 14, 2012 (8:30AM - 8:00PM)  |   Pinnacle Hotel, North Vancouver

Assistant Professor Judith Stilgenbauer will be a keynote speaker at The British Columbia Landscape Architects (BCSLA) Annual Conference. The BCSLA Annual Conference brings together over 200 design professionals, practitioners, and key stakeholders, to examine and deliberate the theories and ideas regarding the landscapes that celebrate both the people that experience them and the sustainable practices of the future. For more information please click here.

DCRP ALUMNI EVENT

2012 APA National Planning Conference CED/DCRP Alumni Reception

Saturday, April 14, 2012   | 8:00 - 9:30 pm   |   Diamond Salon 1 - JW Marriott, 900 West Olympic Boulevard · LA

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.

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 11th, 2012.

LAEP LECTURE

CED Lecture Series: Perry Howard

Monday, April 16, 2012   |   6:30 - 7:30 pm   |   112 Wurster Hall

Perry Howard, FASLA, is an associate professor of agriculture and environmental sciences and program coordinator of the landscape architecture department at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NCA&TSU). He received a B.L.A. from Louisiana State University in 1975 and an M.L.A. from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1982. Howard was a vice president at EDSA in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and a member of that firm for most of the time from 1975 until 1989. Howard received the Teacher of the Year Award from NCA&TSU in 2003-2004 and was named one of Harvard Graduate School of Design's Top 100 Distinguished Alumni in 2000. Howard was elected secretary to the Council of Fellows for the ASLA in 2003 and received the President's Award of the ASLA North Carolina Chapter in 1998.

ARCH LECTURE

CED Lecture Series: Elizabeth Diller

Wednesday, April 18, 2012   |   6:30 - 7:30 pm   |   2050 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley

Elizabeth Diller, a founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, attended the Cooper Union School of Art and received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Cooper Union School of Architecture. Ms. Diller is Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. Based in New York City, Diller Scofidio + Renfro is led by three partners who work collaboratively with a staff of 70 architects, artists, and administrators. Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts.

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. 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.

EXHIBITION

The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area

March 31 - July 29, 2012   |   San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Bay Area has long attracted dreamers, progressives, nonconformists, and designers. Buckminster Fuller was all of these, and although he never lived in San Francisco, his ideas have spawned many local experiments in technology, design, and sustainability. The first to consider Fuller's legacy in the Bay Area, the exhibition features some of his most iconic projects, as represented in a Fuller print portfolio recently acquired by SFMOMA from the collection of Chuck and Elizabeth Byrne. For more information about the exhibition please visit the SF MOMA website here.

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

ANNOUNCEMENT

embARC Summer Design Academy Open House during Cal Day on April 21st

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!

Designer Charts New UC Berkeley Buildings, Berkeleyside, 03 April 2012

Preeti Talwai, an undergraduate architecture student at CED, has had a front-row seat as two of Berkeley’s newest buildings (Helios Energy Research Facility, Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences) have arisen within sight of her downtown apartment. She reports on the impact watching the emergence of the two new building has had on her, especially the way the sites became an extension of her classroom.

Photo: Jef Poskanzer

Peter MacKenzie, SFGate, 01 April 2012

Peter MacKenzie AIA died on March 21, 2012 surrounded in the comfort and love of his wife, Nina, his daughter, Paige, and close family. Peter studied architecture at the UC Berkeley, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983. He earned his architectural license in 1988 and was made Partner of the firm now known as David Baker + Partners in early 2001. Peter designed more than 2,500 new homes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The projects he headed garnered more than 60 local and national design awards. In total his built work exceeds $500M in construction value. Peter took quiet pride in the firm's selection as the 2012 Distinguished Practice by the AIA California Council.

A public memorial service will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 1pm, at the Julia Morgan designed Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland where Peter will later be interred. All are welcome. In lieu of flowers, friends may wish to support Peter's long-time client Mercy Housing California www.mercyhousingcalifornia.org.

Major Grant Awarded, UC Berkeley NewsCenter, 29 March 2012

The quest to capture the massive amounts of data being produced in our world – and in so doing unveil answers to some of society’s most vexing problems – has gotten a $10 million boost from a National Science Foundation award to the University of California, Berkeley. The five-year NSF Expedition award to – an award rarely given to individual universities – will fund the campus’s new Algorithms, Machines and People (AMP) Expedition. AMP Expedition scientists expect to develop powerful new tools to help extract key information from Big Data, a term coined for the dizzying array of measurements, images, audio, video, tweets, texts and more that has grown ever larger, faster and more diverse. The grant will assist a number of Big Data projects already underway at UC Berkeley, including UrbanSim, led by Paul Waddell, professor and chair of the Department of City & Regional Planning.

When a Parking Lot Is So Much More, NY Times, Day 25 March 2012

In his article Eran Ben-Joseph (Ph.D Environmental Planning '95) introduces the idea that the parking lot is "ripe for transformation." Believing parking lots to be more than storage sites for cars, Ben-Joseph encourages the use of parking lots to include a variety of other public uses while simultaneously mitigating its effect on the environment. The parking lot's expanded role provides space for activities such as farmers' markets, street hockey, nighttime parties, and many more.

Photo: Sophia Martineck

This Dilapidated Warehouse Is a Landmark, NY Times, 23 March 2012

Alongside the construction of the new Bay Bridge is a steel infrastructure which supports a dilapidated 19th century warehouse. Elsewhere the warehouse might be considered a blight, but in this case the building has an important impact on the bridge's construction. According to Karen Frick's doctoral dissertation on the subject, the buildings were "pawns in a much larger power play" that involves the future development of the island and placement of the bridge.

Photo: Scott James/The Bay Citizen

Raised Beds Lift Any Garden, Houzz

Dean Wolch's garden was recently featured on Houzz.com. The garden's design features garden boxes which provide multiple uses such as adding dimension, a space for growing vegetables, and surfaces to sit on. The article also offers solutions for various garden spaces and sizes. The project has received many positive comments and questions from the online community.

Photo: Arterra LLP Landscape Architects

Lars Lerup at Wurster Hall, TraceSF, 12 March 2012

In a recent blog entry John Parman (M. Arch., 1975) highlights the main points of Lars Lerup's lecture at Wurster Hall. Professor Lars Lerup referenced his book One Million Acres & No Zoning in a discussion of Houston's cityscape. According to Lerup Houston is "neither a city nor a suburb" and would benefit from embracing its "unzoned self-management."

Photo: John Parman

UC President's Faculty Research Fellowships in the Humanities 2012-2013

Professor of City & Regional Planning Teresa Caldeira has been awarded the UC President's Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities for the academic year 2012-2013. The UC Humanities Network fellowship will support Professor Caldeira's research.

ParticiPlace Design Competition, Registration deadline April 14, 2012

Yael Valerie Perez (a PhD. Candidate in Architecture) has organized an international design competition as part of her research. ParticiPlace is a yearly design competition which brings together international designers and communities-in-need to work on sustainable and socially sensitive building designs. In 2012, ParticiPlace's challengers will design an off-grid living-culture center for the Pinoleville Promo Nation (PPN), a Native American nation in Northern California. The emphasis will be on an onsite-generated, low-energy building which is sensitive to the local culture. For more information please visit the ParticiPlace website here.