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.

CED SPECIAL EVENT

CED Cal Day 2012

Saturday, April 21, 2012   |   9:00am - 5:00 pm   |   Wurster Hall

Wurster Hall will be open to all on April 21st. Please join our deans and faculty for an introduction to CED and its vital and vibrant undergraduate programs in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban studies. Admissions Ambassadors, Peer Advisers, and student leaders will also be available to answer questions about the undergraduate programs in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban studies. Guests will also be able to see student work, learn about student groups, and take a tour of the CED building and design studios. Events of the day include: tours, exhibitions, information sessions, studio open houses, and more. For a full list of events, times, and locations please visit the CED listing for Cal Day 2012 here.

CED WEBINAR

Jennifer Wolch, Michael Jerrett, and Robert Garcia: Green Visions

Tuesday, April 24, 2012   |   11:00am - 12:00 pm   |   Online

Presenters — Jennifer Wolch and Michael Jerrett from UC Berkeley and Robert Garcia from The City Project — will introduce exciting new research linking parks and recreation to physical activity and reduced obesity. Presenters will explore: how parks are unequally distributed throughout Southern California and how many areas lack park access, the important role recreational programming can play in preventing childhood obesity, how some communities lack the resources necessary to supply quality parks and recreation, and possible solutions that will help you promote active living in your community. To register for the webinar please follow this link.

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

High Comfort—Low Impact, From Buildings to Cities

April 30, 2012   |   12:00 pm   |   Building 50 Auditorium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Considering today's situation—high pressure from human-made climate change, and limited resources already causing war—single tower projects will be not enough to initiate change. We need concepts for the cities of tomorrow—like those we developed with Foster Partners for the carbon-neutral Masdar City, or with Finn Geipel/Giulia Andi for Grand Paris in 2030. By 2050, more than 75 percent of the world's population will live in cities. As a member of the design team—consisting of the architects, traffic planners, infrastructure and renewable energy systems engineers, and us as climate engineers—for the Masdar City Master Plan in Abu Dhabi, we developed a new and most holistic approach for defining sustainable urban development.

EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION

TRAZANDO LA LINEA/TRACING THE LINE

Friday May 4, 2012   |   7:00 - 9:00 pm | Centro Estatal de las Artes, Calzada de los Presidentes y Ciudad Victoria s/n, Zona del Río Nuevo, Mexicali, Baja California, México

The exhibition (open from May 4 until July 8, 2012) tells the story of the Mexico-U.S. border In Baja California from 1848 to the present day. Although the line commemorated the divide between two nation-states, borderland peoples continued their centuries-old practices of cross-border commerce and society. Twin towns flourished on opposite sides of the line and the border region remains a place of continuity and connection akin to a "third nation" between Mexico and the USA. The exhibition includes historical and current artwork, photographs, maps, treaty documents, and contemporary accounts of travelers, explorers, and military personnel. Examples of exhibition content for this period include architectural renderings of cross-border connections; artistic, cinematic and other cultural manifestations of the border's possible future; economic and land-use proposals for cross-border development.   The exhibit is co-curated by Michael Dear and Hector Lucero, head of the Cultural Heritage Department for the state of Baja California. RSVP to Mary Cocoma before April 30, 2012.

CED RECEPTION

AIA 2012 National Convention Alumni Reception

Thursday, Mary 17, 2012   |   6:00 - 8:00 pm   |   Room 12-13, Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW, Wash., D.C.

Join us in Washington, D.C. for the CED Alumni Reception hosted by Dean Wolch. Please come to reacquaint yourself with fellow colleagues and classmates, congratulate the new AIA fellows, and learn about what's new at Wurster Hall.   RSVP to Mary Cocoma before May 11, 2012. For more information on the 2012 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in Washington, D.C, please visit the event website here.

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.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Summer Course: ARCH 149 ZERO ENERGY BUILDING

Registration deadline: June 10, 2012  |   Class times: Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-9pm (June 18-August 10)

The architecture department is proud to present an expanded list of course offerings this summer. Among them is a new class that might interest you called Zero Energy Building. This introduction to zero energy building will focus on the central role that architecture plays relative to energy demand and production. Accessible to students and professionals in all fields and backgrounds, the class will explore how and why buildings use energy, ways of reducing consumption, and methods for supplying and storing energy in a sustainable fashion. Students will learn to analyze existing buildings for their energy use and then propose measures to reduce net energy consumption using parametric analysis to understand cost, comfort, and energy. Students and professionals in all fields are welcome. No prior knowledge is required. This class will count toward the sustainability minor. It is going to be offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-9pm so that it will not conflict with day jobs.  The deadline to register is June 10 and the class runs from June 18-August 10.  You can find the course description and information about the instructor, Brendon Levitt, on the course website.

EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION

Gyöngy Laky: CROSSOVER, Cain Schulte Contemporary Art

Thursday, May 3, 2012   |   5:30 - 7:30 pm   |   251 Post Street, SUITE 210 • San Francisco, CA 94108

On Thursday Mary 3, 2012 the Cain Schulte Contemporary Art in San Francisco will be hosting an opening reception for Gyöngy Laky's exhibit. Gyöngy Laky (M.A. Design '71), in her first solo exhibition, will present a series of work "examining our complex relationship with nature." Her exhibition features "sculptural pieces containing words, letters, and symbols are made of painted and stained branches and twigs combined with screws, nails, wires, and plastic figurines." For more information about the exhibit location and times, please visit the gallery's website here.

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-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

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.

Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 12 April 2012

Congratulations to Professor Teresa Caldeira for being named a 2012 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded Fellowships on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. Professor Teresa P. R. Caldeira has always worked in an interdisciplinary manner, combining methodologies, theories, and approaches from the different social sciences, but she has been especially interested in reshaping ethnographic methods for the study of cities and political action.

Richard Bender's Oral History, Regional Oral History Office, 10 April 2012

The Regional Oral History Office has released the oral history entitled, "Reflections: An Architect's Journey: Living, Teaching, and Practice in a World Without Walls," of Richard Bender, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and former Dean of the CED. Professor Bender was honored this year with the creation of the Richard Bender Fellowship at CED. The Fellowship, established by an anonymous donor, will be used to support a dual-degree graduate student in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Department of Architecture, who focuses on the design of affordable housing in livable communities.

UC Berkeley's Team for 2012 ULI Design Finalist, ULI, 09 April 2012

The joint team from the University of Colorado and Harvard University edged out teams from University of California-Berkeley, Columbia University, and the University of Michigan in the final round of the competition, held April 6 in Houston. For more information about the UC Berkeley team's proposal "The Grand" click here. Congratulations to the UC Berkeley team for becoming finalists in the competition.

• 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

Architectural LOLCATS, Archinect, 02 April 2012

Over the spring break, UC Berkeley Ph.D. students at the College of Environmental Design developed their own Architectural LOLCATS, images that combine cat pictures and text to create humor. Check out the Tumblr page here for more LOLCATS and submit your own.

Rodolfo Machado at Wurster Hall, TraceSF, 12 March 2012

John Parman (M. Arch. '75) shares his observations and reactions to Rodolfo Machado's recent lecture at Wurster Hall. Parman comments, "It seems crazy to ignore an architecture that is as thoughtful as his. While he eschews the methods and formal moves that are now in fashion, Machado’s work clearly has a method and a formal logic. Seen head on, in elevation, a view favored by some of his photographers, it can seem abstractly compositional, almost two-dimensional, but this is a misreading."

Photo: Anton Grassl/Esto

Congratulations to CED Alumni Named FAICP at the 2012 APA National Meeting in LA

Election to Fellow is one of the highest honors that the American Institute of Certified Planners bestows upon a member. Fellows of AICP are honored in recognition of the achievements of the planner as an individual, elevating the Fellow before the public and the profession as a model planner who has made significant contributions to planning and society. Congratulations to the following CED Alumni who became fellows in 2012.

• Barry J. Miller (M.C.P. ’83)
• Robert B. Olshansky (Ph.D. Planning ’87)
• Michael A. Dobbins (B.A. Arch. ’79)
• Brian D. Taylor (M.C.P. ’88)
• Ellen J. Greenberg (M.C.P. and M.S. Engineering ’81)

Alumni Receives Peter E. Haas Public Service Award

Congratulations to Patricia A. Kinaga (M.C.P. '77) for being awarded The Peter E. Haas Public Service Award, one of the most prestigious honors conferred by the Berkeley campus. The Peter E. Haas Public Service Award seeks to recognize an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, who has made a significant voluntary public contribution to the betterment of society, particularly at the community level. Patricia combines her work as a civil litigator with volunteer advocacy and creativity to give a voice to Asian Americans with unmet needs. She also co-founded the only U.S. nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of Asians with physical and mental disabilities.

PhD Candidate Receives Ford Foundation Fellowship

Congratulations to PhD candidate Michael A. Mendez for being awarded the Ford Foundation Fellowship. Awards are given to those who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. This year, the Ford Foundation received over 1300 predoctoral applications and only 60 predoctoral awards.