OPENING RECEPTION + EXHIBITION

San Francisco Processcapes

Wednesday, May 2, 2012   |   6:00 - 8:00 pm   |  SPUR Urban Center, 654 Mission Street, SF 94105

Join SPUR for the opening of a new exhibition of design work developed by Professor Judith Stilgenbauer's Fall 2011 LdArch 203 class (Master of Landscape Architecture students). The project sites explore site- and program-specific ways of combining time, process, ecology, and placemaking — ideas oftentimes considered to be divergent in the urban landscape. These speculative designs propose hybrid places that are dynamic and performative (problem-solving and/or productive), yet beautiful, usable and memorable.   Join us on opening night for refreshments, discussion and more as we learn about how sites, from disused parks and public spaces to freeways and ports, can be redesigned and reinvigorated to create extraordinary spaces. The exhibition will run from April 30th through May 25.

SEMINAR

Mind Your Own Business: Finding Success with the Current State of the Practice

Thursday, May 3, 2012   | Lunch and presentation 12:30 - 2:00 pm   |   130 Sutter Street Suite 600, SF 94104

Panelists Susan Ubbelohde (UC Berkeley), Mary Breuer (Breuer Consulting Group), John Kouletsis (Kaiser Permanente) and Michel St. Pierre (EHDD Architecture) will discuss the state of the architectural practice in the United States from the perspectives of general practice, including business development and professional and personal development, with a goal of framing the current context and conditions to present attendees with possible paths to success. The groups will also explore: recently-graduated architecture students and their expectations of the practice in the new economy, their skill sets and expectations of prospective firms, current best practices in business development, decision-making with regard to pursuing projects overseas, and others.

DCRP SYMPOSIUM

DCRP Professional Research Symposium

Monday, May 7, 2012   |   5:30 - 7:30 pm   |   First Floor Lobby, Wurster Hall

The Department of City and Regional Planning and Planning Students Association invite you to the third annual Professional Research Symposium. Planning and joint degree masters students will present their Professional and Client Reports in concurrent sessions, with commentary from professionals in the field. Each student presentation will be followed by a short reflection from a current planning professional and a question and answer session.

Presentations will be followed by a reception with light food and drinks from 7:30-8:30pm in the Second Floor Lobby. Please see further info and RSVP at: http://www.wix.com/dcrppsa/symposium

CED RECEPTION

AIA 2012 National Convention Alumni Reception

Thursday, May 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.

LECTURE

Gary Snyder: Cold Mountain, The Life of Creative Translation

Friday, May 11, 2012   |   6:30 - 9:30 pm   |   Morrison Reading Room, Doe Library

Gary Snyder is a mountain poet-scholar who works with the forests and communities of the northern Sierra. He did Graduate Study in Chinese and Japanese at UC Berkeley in the 50s, then lived in Kyoto for ten years working with the Abbott of Daitokuji, a Rinzai Zen temple. His most recent volume of essays is Back on the Fire. His translations of Han Shan poems--in "Cold Mountain"--are known worldwide.

THANKS TO BERKELEY

New Alumni Challenge Is Back

Alumni from the Classes of 2007 through 2012 have 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.

SPECIAL EVENT

CED 2012 Commencement

Sunday, May 13, 2012   |   starts at 7:00pm   |   Zellerbach Hall (directions)

CED's 2012 commencement ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 13, 2012, at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. Please take note of the new location. Emily Pilloton (BA Arch. '03) is this year's keynote speaker. Pilloton is founder and executive director of Project H Design. For a schedule of events, more detailed information on the commencement speaker, ceremony sign-ups, tickets, photography, parking and transportation, and special guest services information please visit the CED commencement website page here.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Graduation Gifts for CED Graduates

$75 purchase in advance online | Pick-ups BEFORE graduation ceremony

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation from the College of Environmental Design! In celebration of your great accomplishment and the memories you made as a CED student, the Environmental Design Archives has created the perfect graduation gift bag that you can get yourself or ask someone to get you. The gift bag includes: A copy of Design on The Edge - 100 Years of UC Berkeley's Architecture Department with a brief history of the College and Wurster Hall UC Berkeley Alumni license plate holder Cal coffee mug Limited edition canvas bag featuring a sketch by William Wurster Purchase a gift bad today at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=230100 before the commencement ceremony on the 13th.

RECEPTION + EXHIBITION

Keith Wilson: The Invention of an Architectural World

Reception: Thursday, May 3, 2012   |   5:00 - 8:00 pm   |   639 Howard Street, San Francisco CA 94105

Keith Wilson's (BA '76, M.A. '79) "paintings are icons; they are dedicated to an architecture that is no longer conceived or constructed. They also represent his continuous study of architectural form and the history of the place of buildings in paintings. In his work he uses building structures and details in playful juxtaposition, allowing classical elements and vernacular constructions to have their own way, proliferating variations. The result of this graphic exploration is a body of several hundred paintings and drawings, in which memory of historic form, fantasies of buildings that might be, and studies for commissioned works are all intermixed." For more information about Keith click here. The exhibition is open until May 18, 2012

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

TRAZANDO LA LINEA/TRACING THE LINE

May 4 - July 8, 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

Trazando La Linea 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.

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 May 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, visit the gallery's website here.

OPENING RECEPTION + EXHIBITION

Piedmont Center for the Arts presents "Five Looking West"

Reception: Friday, June 15, 2012   |   6:00 - 8:30 pm   |   801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont CA 94611

"Five Looking West" is an exhibition of five Bay Area artists whose work has been inspired by the cultural and artistic traditions of Korea. Each artist investigates personal visions at the intersection of East and West. The exhibition features: the photography and glass art of Marilyn Hulbert (M.A. Design '79), Lois Lancaster's (M.A. Design '79) series of scrolls recycling old Levi's in combination with Korean paperstring art, Mary Pettis-Sarley's (M.A. Design '79) combinations of printmaking influenced by Taoism and the Yi Ching, Linus Lancaster's wooden figures, and Christopher Sarley's ceramic work with a Korean style kiln. The exhibit will run from June 13 – June 24. For more information please visit http://www.piedmontcenterforthearts.org/

DCRP Students Finalists in the Hult Global Case Challenge, HULT, 26 April 2012

Congratulations to DCRP students Matt Chwierut, Salma Mousallem, and Ruco Van Der Merwe for being finalists in the 2012 Hult Global Case Challenge. The Hult Global Case Challenge is the world's largest case competition and crowdsourcing platform that attracts participants from nearly all of the top MBA programs and undergraduate universities. DCRP's students participated in the Housing track with Habitat for Humanity as their case client.

Richard Meier & Partners Tower Planned in SF, SFGate, 26 April 2012

In 2008 developer David Choo acquired a site on the busy corner of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue. The proposed design by New York's Richard Meier & Partners has been in the works since 2008. The firm's proposal would replace a parking lot with a 34-story, 400-foot residential "tall tapered cone wrapped in...Mullion-free glass, broken only by two slits from base to sky that would emphasize the sleek height." According to King the cone tower would either "seduce or simply stick out" in San Francisco where the architectural stakes have been raised in the past decade.

Photo: Richard Meier & Partners

Bicycles Run Through It: L.A. 20 Years On, Huffington Post, 26 April 2012

The American Planning Association (APA)’s National Planning Conference was held on April 14 through the 17th at the Convention Center in Los Angeles this year. Urbanist writer Frank Gruber recounts his experience attending various panels at the conference. Gruber recommends “Planning Los Angeles,” the APA’s new publication about the development of L.A, for all to read. The book was also the subject of a conference panel that featured Dean Jennifer Wolch and Robert Gottlieb during the conference.

Clog Debates New Apple Building's Design, SFGate, 25 April 2012

Apple's impact on product design, architecture, and the public realm were the issues featured in Clog magazine's second issue. The issue presents "fragmented views of a unitary vision conceived at [Steve] Jobs' behest." Professor Louise Mozingo's book is mentioned in the discussion among architects. Mozingo "places Apple's Eden within the history of migration of corporations to the suburbs, infused with her dismay at the firm's 'commitment to verdant, entitled isolation in a world of diminishing resources and fractioning social divides.'" King writes that while the discussion is a cacophony the voices do not cancel each other out.

Photo: Bloomberg

Gerald Lee, SFGate, 21 April 2012

Gerald K. "Jerry" Lee Architect and resident of San Francisco, passed away on March 19, 2012 surrounded by loving members of his family. Jerry grew up in Berkeley and received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1960. Most notable among his many projects are the Mei Lun Yuen Chinatown Housing, Pier 45 Development Proposal, SFO AirTrain Stations, Citizens Utilities Company of California, and his collaboration on the San Francisco Asian Art Museum and Yerba Buena Gardens Children's Center. Lee returned to his alma mater as an adjunct faculty member in the College of Environmental Design, where he guided and inspired the next generation of visionary designers. For those wishing, a memorial contribution in Jerry's honor may be made to the Asian Art Museum or the Chinese Historical Society of America.

Mai K. Arbegast, Legacy, 15 April 2012

Mai K. Arbegast earned a M.S. in Landscape Architecture from Berkeley in 1953. She taught both full and part time at Berkeley in the Department of Landscape Architecture from 1953 to 1967. In 1967, she began a full time professional practice that continued through 2003. Arbegast was involved in the design of large scale residential gardens/estates, wineries, in addition to commercial, educational and public projects. Arbegast played a key role in the gift of the Blake Garden to the UC Berkeley Department of Landscape Architecture and the transfer of Filoli Gardens to the National Trust. She was largely responsible for the donation of the Beatrix Farrand Collection and Gertrude Jekyll Collection as well as the Farrand scholarship and fellowship funds to the UC Berkeley Department of Landscape Architecture. There will be no funeral or memorial services. In lieu of flowers the family invites donations to Filoli 86 Canada Road, Woodside, CA 94062.

AIA SF 2012 Design Awards

Congratulations to CED alumni who were recognized for their outstanding works and contributions to the field of architecture. In addition, John King mentions some of the awardees selected from more than 180 entries in an article for the SFGate. For more detailed information about the awards please visit the AIA SF website here. Congratulations once again to all of the awardees!

CED Shop Safety2012 Award Winners

Congratulations to Max Feldman and Gita Khangdale for being recognized as this year's Shop Safety Award Winners. Max showed the highest level of shop safety commitment by leading by example and being a self-starter; continually examining the facility for work and storage hazards while remaining highly mobile and interactive with the shop users he was responsible to monitor. Gita exhibited ongoing leadership in several areas of the shop, including the CAD/CAM 3-axis router; she has advised students about the importance of appropriate attire, use of personal protective equipment, and safety guards. Both students exemplify the best in shop safety and we thank them for helping us keep everyone safe.

COMPANY: MKThink(http://mkthink.com)
JOB TITLE: Benchmarking Specialist (Database/Research)
LOCATION: 1500 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA 94111

MKThink is looking for a talented and enthusiastic planning/design student to join our Strategy Studio as a summer employee. Ideal candidates are creative, responsible, and personable with strong communication skills and analytical abilities. As a Strategy intern at MKThink, you will work with the Strategy Studio’s team on projects involving research, community engagement, work with facility databases, user schedules and other data to generate data sets to be used in benchmarking and peer comparison exercises for current clients, and the synthesis of information from a broad range of sources into actionable implementation plans.

Qualifications for applicants:

• A positive attitude and a curious mind
• A portfolio that shows data analysis skills and experience
• Self-motivated and responsive to direction at the same time
• Strong conceptual and strategic thinking skills
• Working knowledge of: Filemaker Pro or similar relational database software, Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet software, quantitative research methodologies, CAD and/or GIS skills are a plus, Adobe Creative Suite skills are also a plus

HOURS & COMPENSATION: The full-time position is available from May through September and may be coordinated around your schedule. Hours-per-week are negotiable. Compensation will be based on skills and experience.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 11, 2012
CONTACT: Email your resume along with a cover letter in PDF format to Chloé Lauer at lauer@mkthink.com. Please indicate "Benchmarking Specialist” in the subject line of your email. Unfortunately, if e-mails are not sent in this format, they may not get reviewed. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. MKThink is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

COMPANY: Basis Architecture & Consulting (www.basisarch.com)
JOB TITLE: Architectural Intern
LOCATION: 1408 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901
REQUIREMENTS: Basis Architecture & Consulting specializes in the rehabilitation of Multi-family residential properties. Our services range from providing assessment of existing properties to full service project architecture. We offer a rewarding work environment that promotes professional development for individuals who are eager to learn.

Qualified candidates are to be recent graduates with a degree in Architecture who can work collaboratively in a small business environment. Candidates should have excellent graphic communication abilities and feel comfortable multitasking in an office environment while working on multiple projects. Preferred software proficiencies include: AutoCAD, Sketch UP, Photoshop, Word and Excel.

Please submit your resume and letter of interest to our office via email in PDF format only to Barbara Kuhn at bkuhn@basisarch.com. Please also list dates of availability.

CONTACT: Barbara Kuhn, Chief Financial Officer (email: bkuhn@basisarch.com)