| Fall Program: Traditions of Design Activism and their Consequences |
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On Saturday, September 26, Russ Ellis led a panel of professors emeriti, including Clare Cooper Marcus, Stanley Saitowitz, and Michael Teitz, in a discussion of the historical and philosophical roots of CED's approach to design and planning education. Harrison Fraker then led a panel of some of our most accomplished alumni, including Ray Kappe, Carol Galante, and Mario Schjetnan, in a discussion of the impacts of CED on the professions. Rapporteur's remarks were given by Sir Peter Hall. Sunday, September 27, was filled with an exciting series of expeditions led by faculty and alumni to innovative and historic sites around the greater Bay Area, ranging from building- to landscape-scale. If you missed any of these lectures and discussions, you can view them on YouTube. See below for speaker/panelist bios.
Photos: Eric Gillet. Richard Bender Richard Bender is an architect, civil engineer, and planner with an international practice in urban and community planning, town planning, and campus planning for universities, the arts, media, and entertainment. He has taught and lectured in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. Professor Bender is a former Dean of the College and since 1989 has occupied the “GC-5” Visiting Chair in Urban Planning and Design at the University of Tokyo. He has also been a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Professor Bender did his graduate study at MIT and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, completing his studies with the Master of Architecture degree in 1956. He is a director of the Université Europeene de Maitrise D’Oeuvre Urbaine in France, ART (Artists’ Residencies in Tokyo), and the Urban Rehabilitation Assistance Board (UHAB) in New York City. He is also a founder and director of BRIDGE Housing Corporation and since 2002 has been part of an international “Swords to Plowshares” program to develop ideas for converting military bases to community uses. Among the books and articles Professor Bender has authored is A Crack in the Rear-View Mirror: A View of Industrialized Building.
Sam Davis is Principal of Sam Davis Architecture and has been on the faculty at UC Berkeley since 1971. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has served as President of the AIA East Bay and on the Board of Directors of AIACC. His professional work, mostly in California, is focused on affordable housing, housing for those with special needs, and facilities for the homeless. His work on homeless facilities includes a 100-bed adult shelter for Contra-Costa County and several projects for Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco. Among these is the nation's first housing specifically for homeless youth with HIV and AIDS. Other work includes multi-family affordable housing in Albany, Davis, West Sacramento, and Bay Point. Professor Davis was part of design/build teams that won two competitions to replace the aging University Village in Albany for the University of California. Both phases of the new village, a total of 980 apartments, are now fully occupied. Davis is a recipient of design awards from the AIA and Progressive Architecture as well as several housing competitions. He also is a recipient of the University of California at Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award and the Excellence in Education Award from the California Council of the AIA. Publications include three books on housing: The Form of Housing, The Architecture of Affordable Housing, and Designing for the Homeless: Architecture that Works. His teaching has included design studio, lecture courses in professional practice and social aspects of architecture.
Russell Ellis was born at Los Angeles County Hospital on June 16, 1935. He graduated from Compton High School in 1953 and attended UCLA, where he received his B.A. in sociology in 1958 and his Ph.D. in sociology in 1969. He has taught at UC Riverside; Pitzer College, in Claremont, California; State University of New York at Old Westbury; Yale University; and UC Berkeley. He joined the faculty of the Department of Architecture in 1970, where he dealt with the social aspects of architecture and urban design. Publications include Architects’ People (edited with Dana Cuff, Oxford University Press, 1989), which deals with architects’ and planners’ conceptions of the people who occupy their designs and plans. Professor Ellis served as assistant dean of the College of Environmental Design from 1975 to 1977 and as the University's vice chancellor for undergraduate affairs from 1989 to 1995. He has served as assistant to the chancellor for national and community service. He is currently a member of the UC Berkeley Library Advisory Board and the board of Groundwork Institute.
Harrison Fraker Jr., FAIA, was educated as an architect and urban designer at Princeton and Cambridge Universities and is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, daylighting, and sustainable design research and teaching. He has pursued a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with an award-winning practice. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for creating a new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and was appointed the founding dean. He was granted fellowship in the AIA College of Fellows for his distinguished career of bridging education and practice. He has published seminal articles on the design potential of sustainable systems and urban design principles for transit-oriented neighborhoods. He teaches design studio and believes in integrating pragmatic and theoretical analysis to create new knowledge about the most critical environmental design challenges facing society. He is currently pursuing his beliefs through a whole-systems design approach for entirely resource-self-sufficient, transit-oriented neighborhoods of 100,000 people in China.
Carol Galante joined the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Programs in May 2009. She is responsible for HUD’s financing support for the development and preservation of privately-owned rental housing (a current portfolio of over $58 billion) and will be integral to several new initiatives that promote sustainable development. Prior to HUD, Ms. Galante was president and CEO of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, a position she held since 1996. BRIDGE, the largest nonprofit developer of affordable apartments and homes in California, specializes in the development of rental and ownership housing and an array of revitalization, transit-oriented, urban infill, and mixed-use/mixed-income developments. Since 1983, BRIDGE has created over 13,000 homes serving over 35,000 Californians. At BRIDGE, Ms. Galante was responsible for the overall direction of the company’s real estate development, property and asset management, and corporate administration, as well as its major affiliates such as BUILD, an investment advisor to CalPERS under the California Urban Real Estate Program, and BASS, a licensed life-care provider. She joined BRIDGE as vice president in 1987. Prior to BRIDGE, she was the executive director of Eden Housing, Inc., where she developed affordable homes and formed a property management subsidiary. Ms. Galante has also worked for the cities of Santa Barbara, Richmond, and Philadelphia. Ms. Galante has received many honors including: Multifamily Executive magazine’s 2008 Executive of the Year, California Homebuilding Foundation Hall of Fame 2008, Builder magazine’s Top 50 Most Influential People in Home Building 2006, San Francisco Business Times 2003 Deal Maker of the Year, Most Influential Women in the Bay Area, and the 2002 UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design Distinguished Alumna Award. She is a licensed real estate broker and holds a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan and a Master of City Planning from UC Berkeley.
Peter Hall is Professor of Planning and Regeneration at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London; Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley; and President of the Town and Country Planning Association. From 1991-94 he was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the United Kingdom Secretary of State for the Environment, with special reference to issues of London and southeast regional planning, including Thames Gateway and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. In 1998-99 he was a member of the United Kingdom Deputy Prime Minister's Urban Task Force. He is author, co-author, or editor of over 35 books on urban and regional planning and related topics — most recently, London Voices London Lives, published in 2007. In 2005 he was invited to deliver the American Planning Association’s first L’Enfant Lecture in Washington, D.C. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 2003, the Balzan International Prize in 2005, and the Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize of the International Union of Architects in 2008.
After graduation from UC Berkeley in 1951, Ray Kappe cut his housing teeth working for the San Francisco firm of Anshen + Allen; a designer of Eichler houses; and Los Angeles-based architect Carl Maston, with whom he designed apartment buildings. But he soon hung out his shingle as a solo practitioner, eager to tap the post-World War II housing boom and its remarkable tolerance for new ideas. He settled in Sherman Oaks, California, and built his first houses in the San Fernando Valley. Throughout his career, Mr. Kappe has explored many avenues of interest to his inquisitive mind, all the while continuing his residential practice. He was especially drawn to urban planning and co-founded a collaborative, Kahn Kappe Lotery [Boccato] Architects Planners, to work on those projects and others. He taught design at the University of Southern California and in 1968 founded the architecture department at California Polytechnic State University at Pomona (Cal Poly). After a falling-out with Cal Poly's administration three years later, he left with a few of his teachers, some of his students, and his wife, Shelly, also a teacher and his great partner in life, to start SCI-Arc. He directed the school — which quickly became famous for its free-thinking and freewheeling creativity — until 1987.
Clare Cooper Marcus (M.C.P. ‘65) is a professor emerita in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley. Professor Marcus has lectured and consulted in the United States, Canada, Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, and China. Her firm, Healing Landscapes, offers services related to the programming, design, and evaluation of outdoor spaces in healthcare settings. Her areas of special interest include medium-density housing, public-housing modernization, public open-space design, children’s environments, housing for the elderly, post-occupancy evaluation of designed settings, design guidelines, healing environments, and the psychological meaning of home and garden. Professor Marcus has written five books — Easter Hill Village: Some Social Implications of Design; Housing as if People Mattered: Site Design Guidelines for Medium-Density Family Housing (with Wendy Sarkissian); People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space (with Carolyn Francis); House as Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home; and Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations (with Marni Barnes) — and has contributed numerous articles to design and academic journals. Honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Award for Exemplary Design Research, a Career Award of the Environmental Design Research Association, and a Guggenheim Award.
Mario Schjetnan G. was born in México City. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1968). He obtained a master's degree in landscape architecture with emphasis in urban design at UC Berkeley in 1970. In 1985, he was appointed Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies by the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is a founding partner, together with José Luis Pérez, of Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU), a firm established in 1977 in México City with projects in landscape architecture, architecture, and urban design. Mr. Schjetnan 's work has been recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects on several different occasions. His work has been published in various countries of the world.
Michael Teitz is director of the Economy Program, senior fellow, and former director of research at the Public Policy Institute of California, which he helped to plan and establish. He holds a B.Sc. (Economics) from the London School of Economics, an M.S. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania. His recent research has been in the fields of regional planning, local economic development, and housing planning and policy. Author of a book on residential rent control and numerous papers and reports, Professor Teitz has served as a consultant and advisor to local, state, and national governments, both in the United States and internationally, and to private-sector and non-profit organizations. He has been chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning, chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate of the University of California, and president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. He has received the Berkeley Citation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Dell Upton is a member of the board of advisors of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, as well as a member of the editorial boards of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, the Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, and the Material History Review. His publications include Architecture in the United States, Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia, Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans, America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America, and (with John Michael Vlach) Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture. His books have won the Louisiana Literary Award, the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, the Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize, and the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize. Professor Upton has been a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of a Getty Senior Research Grant in Art History. He teaches courses on the history of architecture and urbanism, vernacular architecture, material culture, cultural landscapes, and research methods. Sim Van der Ryn Sim Van der Ryn is a professor emeritus of architecture at UC Berkeley and president of EcoDesign Collaborative. Since the 1960s, Sim Van der Ryn’s architecture, planning, teaching, writing, and public leadership have advanced the viability and public and professional adoption of ecological principles and green design in architecture and community planning. Appointed California State Architect in the 1970s, he created programs of energy-efficient design and renewable energy for the mainstream, making California the leader in initiating programs that shaped the rise of the green building movement. His thirty years as professor of architecture and founder of the University of California’s ecological design program were marked by leaps in connecting design with natural processes and a series of ground-breaking projects and buildings. His work has been widely recognized through national awards and honors. Fine Home Building magazine selected the Integral Urban House as one of 25 most important houses in America, citing it as the “Birth of Green.” Residential Architecture magazine honored him as 2005 Architect of the Year. He is one of few architects ever selected as a Rockefeller Scholar. He is the founder of the EcoDesign Collaborative, the non-profit Ecologic Design Institute, and the Center for Regenerative Design at the College of Marin. He is a frequent public speaker and the author of seven books, including his latest, Design For Life.
Jennifer Wolch is a leading scholar of urban analysis and planning. Her past work focused on urban homelessness and the delivery of affordable housing and human services for poor people. She has also studied urban sprawl and alternative approaches to city-building such as smart growth and new urbanism. Her most recent work analyzes connections between city form, physical activity, and public health, and develops strategies to improve access to urban parks and recreational resources. The founding director of the University of Southern California’s Center for Sustainable Cities, Dean Wolch worked to promote sustainable metropolitan development through research, education, and policy outreach programs. She also headed the Green Vision Plan for 21st Century Southern California, a planning guide for habitat conservation, watershed health, and recreational open space. Dean Wolch has authored or co-authored over 100 academic journal articles and book chapters. She was also a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center, and other prestigious honors. |
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Sam Davis, FAIA
Russell Ellis
Harrison Fraker, FAIA
Carol Galante
Sir Peter Hall
Ray Kappe
Clare Cooper Marcus
Mario Schjetnan
Michael B. Teitz
Dell Upton
Jennifer Wolch