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The CED Lecture Series features noted visiting academics and professionals from a broad range of environmental design fields. All lectures take place on the UC Berkeley campus (unless otherwise noted) and are free and open to the public. Spring 2012 Lectures
DCRP Lecture
Greg Castillo Design Radicals: CED in the Sixties Greg Castillo received a B.F.A. in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.A. at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California in 1978, an M.Arch at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995, and a Ph.D. in architectural history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000. He has taught architectural history at the University of Miami School of Architecture and at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney, where he remains a research associate at the United States Studies Centre. He has received grants and fellowships from the German Fulbright Fund, the Getty Research Institute, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Ford Foundation, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst. Professor Castillo's research explores the influence of the cold war on design discourses and practices in the first and second worlds. His first book, Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design, published by the University of Minnesota Press, examines domestic material culture as a theater of operations for superpower conflict and influence. A second book project, Cold War under Construction: Architecture and the Cultural Division of Germany, investigates contesting postwar visions of urban reconstruction, historical memory and political economy. Castillo is also collaborating on two anthologies: Architectures of Americanization (co-edited with Paolo Scrivano), which surveys case studies in the transfer, appropriation and repudiation of US postwar design, and Soft Power Culture (co-edited with Gay McDonald), which reviews strategies and outcomes of cultural diplomacy from the cold war to the present. CED Lecture
Peter Walker Before the World Trade Center Memorial With a career spanning five decades, Peter Walker continues to have a profound international influence on the field of environmental design. He is the founder of PWP Landscape Architecture (formerly known as Peter Walker and Partners), a Berkeley-based landscape architecture firm with a commitment to dynamic and sustainable solutions for constructed systems and environments. Over the years, PWPLA has created numerous prize-winning and iconic designs, ranging from small gardens to complete master plans. Walker served as co-designer with Michael Arad to the National September 11th Memorial, unveiled this past September. Before founding PWPLA, Walker co-founded the firm Sasaki, Walker, and Associates (est. 1957). His career also includes a significant role as an educator, serving as acting director of the urban design program and chairman of the landscape architecture department at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as well as head of the landscape architecture department at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. He has also served as advisor and consultant on numerous projects, including the Redevelopment Agency of San Francisco and the American Academy in Rome. Over many years, PWP has explored the issue of horizontality in a number of projects. We see horizontality as a metaphor for the earth, an abstraction of the way we perceive the landscape. Many of these projects — some light-hearted and experimental, others more serious — led to conceptual insights that informed the design at the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City, which Walker will discuss in his lecture. DCRP Lecture
McKenzie has been studying the rise of common interest housing since 1985 and has written extensively about it in academic and popular publications. His book on the subject, Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government, was published by Yale University Press and received the Best Book on Urban Politics Award from the American Political Science Association.
Warner is author of one edited volume and more than 70 refereed articles, book chapters, extension and consulting reports. She has received major research grants from the USDA National Research Initiative and Hatch program to look at the impacts of devolution and privatization on local government service delivery, and from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to explore the regional economic impacts of child care. She consults widely on economic development policy, local government and child care issues at the local, state and national levels. She has worked closely with International City County Management Association, National League of Cities, National Association of Counties and public sector unions such as AFSCME and CSEA. She was a visiting scholar with the Economic Policy Institute in 2005. She has been a featured speaker at local government conferences in Australia, New Zealand and Spain, and childcare conferences all over the United States. Warner has a Ph.D. in development sociology, a master's degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University, and a B.A. in history from Oberlin College. She served as a program officer with the Ford Foundation for three years and as associate director for nine years of Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute, where she brought policy-makers, community development practitioners and academics together to explore new approaches to community development. ARCH Lecture
David J. Lewis David J. Lewis holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, a Master of Arts in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College. David is an Associate Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, where he directs the Design Workshop program, and has also taught at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, University of Limerick, and Ohio State University. He serves as a founding member of the Advisory Board of the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland. ARCH Lecture
The Richard Keating Lecture Philip G. Freelon Phil Freelon is the founder and president of The Freelon Group, Inc. Freelon's work has been published in national professional journals including Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, and Contract magazine, which named him Designer of the Year for 2008. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Freelon earned his Bachelor of Environmental Design degree in architecture from North Carolina State University and his Master of Architecture degree from MIT. Freelon also received a Loeb Fellowship and spent a year of independent study at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at North Carolina State University’s College of Design and has been a visiting critic/lecturer at Harvard, MIT, the University of Maryland, Syracuse University, Auburn University, the University of Utah, the California College of the Arts, Kent State University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, among others. Freelon is currently on the faculty of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. Freelon is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a LEED-Accredited Professional and the 2009 recipient of the AIA Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. Some of his notable projects include the Center for Civil & Human Rights, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. This lecture is co-sponsored by the San Francisco Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects and the East Bay Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. ARCH Lecture
Bryan Allen Post Industrial Latent Space Bryan Allen, a current M.Arch. student at CED, is one of two recipients of the 2011 Branner Traveling Fellowship, a 12-month fellowship that supports the exploration of a particular architectural question or issue that may later be expanded as a thesis. Bryan dedicated his year of travel to exploring Post Industrial Latent Space, a research initiative that brought him to marginalized, polluted, illegal, appropriated, and ignored built environments across the United States, Central and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, and Asia. At the 2011 Branner Lecture, Bryan will discuss his travels and findings on the potential exhibited by such spaces. A complementary exhibit on Bryan’s research will be on display February 27–March 10, 2012, in the Architecture Gallery (108 Wurster Hall). Potential and interested applicants for the 2013 Branner Fellowship are especially encouraged to attend. For more information on the Branner Fellowship, and to view last year’s information packet, please visit: http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/resource/prizes/branner. CED Lecture
Van Jones This lecture is a part of the 2012 Berkeley Circus Soireé. Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean energy economy. He is a co-founder of three successful nonprofit organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, and Green For All. He is also the best-selling author of The Green Collar Economy, the definitive book on green jobs. Jones served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House in 2009. In addition to his role as a senior policy advisor at Green For All, Jones is currently a Senior Fellow at American Progress focusing on "green-collar jobs" and how cities are implementing job-creating climate solutions. He holds a joint appointment at Princeton University as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. LAEP Lecture
Georges Descombes One of the most original practitioners of recent times, Georges Descombes has a subtle design approach that reflects three guiding (aesthetic/ethical) principles: minimal insertion (consulting and respecting the existing, and then doing the most with the fewest resources); identifiable interventions (what has been added should be apparent), and reversibility (what has been done may be modified as conditions change). Descombes' landscapes are characterized by an intensive investigation of the qualities and history of the site, deriving their vocabularies from the existing characteristics of the place. His best-known works are the Bijlmer Memorial in Amsterdam, the Parc de Lancy in Geneva, and the Swiss Path around Lake Uri in Switzerland. Current projects include the Parc de la Cour du Maroc in Paris, a riverfront park in Architect and Landscape in Lyon, and the transformation of the River Aire outside Geneva. Descombes has taught at several schools including UC Berkeley, Harvard, Penn, and the University of Geneva, where he was Professor of Architecture and founder of the graduate program in landscape architecture. ARCH Lecture
Lars Lerup Lars Lerup, designer and writer, is Dean Emeritus of the School of Architecture at Rice University, where he served as dean from 1993-2009 and as William Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture from 1995-2009. Previously, he taught for many years at UC Berkeley, where he is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Architecture. Lerup's work focuses on the intersection of nature and culture in the contemporary American metropolis, and on Houston in particular. He is currently finishing up work on a new book, entitled One Million Acres and No Zoning, which examines the consequences that relentless growth and expansion has had on various natural systems and how those consequences will effect the future of the city. Lerup lectures and participates in numerous conferences and symposia. Most recently, he was a lecturer at the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, Germany, in 2011; directed a master studio at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam in 2009; was the keynote lecturer at the Megacities 2005 conference in Amsterdam; was a panelist at the ArchiLab 2004 conference; was a participant in the New Urbanism and Beyond conference in Stockholm; and was the guest speaker at the Inaugural Conference of the Delft School of Design. He also participated in one of the three sessions of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture's Debates on Urbanism, in a session with Peter Calthorpe entitled "New Urbanism," which was published as part of a three-volume set in 2004. Lerup received the Bruner Rome Prize in 2009-10 from the American Academy in Rome; the 2006 Educator of the Year Award from the American Institute of Architects, Houston Chapter; and in 2004 was named the Swedish-American Citizen of the Year for his lifelong contributions to architectural education and practice. LAEP Lecture
Chris Reed Chris Reed is principal and founder of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, a Boston-based strategic design and planning practice, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Reed holds an A.B. in urban studies from Harvard College and an M.L.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Reed's research interests include the infrastructure-based urbanism manifested most robustly in North America in the Los Angeles metropolitan region and in innovative applications of ecological processes and mechanics. His infrastructural interests are being developed in a series of research seminars and design studios around the topic of "Recalibrating Infrastructure"; he also organized and hosted a colloquium at the GSD last spring titled "Critical Ecologies," which is being expanded into a book of the same name to be co-edited with Nina-Marie Lister. Reed's publications include "Public Works Practices" in Charles Waldheim's The Landscape Urbanism Reader, published by Princeton Architectural Press. ARCH Lecture
Christopher Lasch and Benjamin Aranda Description to come. CED Lecture
Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado Although Machado and Silvetti Associates was not incorporated until 1985, co-founders and principals Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado have been in association since 1974. Working together on a variety of diverse projects, the unifying theme in Machado and Silvetti’s work is not a signature aesthetic, but a commitment to expressing the unique and important aspects of each individual project, integrating these characteristics harmoniously with the client’s aspirations and into the environment as a whole. The firm has developed special expertise in art museums, educational institutions, and urban design and planning worldwide. Some of the firm’s notable projects include the Getty Villa in Southern California, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine, the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and One Western Avenue at Harvard University. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, both Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado studied architecture at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design before becoming associates, and later partners. In addition to producing award-winning work, Machado and Silvetti remain committed to educating future generations of architects, teaching at numerous institutions including Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Rice University, and Carnegie Mellon University. With the objective of expanding projects in Argentina and the rest of Latin America, Machado and Silvetti established an office in Buenos Aires in 2008. ARCH Lecture
Dan Pitera Dan Pitera is a political and social activist masquerading as an architect. He is presently 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. The sustainability and regeneration of any neighborhood lies in the hands of its residents. Thus, the Design Center provides not only design services but also empowers residents to facilitate their own process of urban regeneration. Pitera was a 2004-05 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. He was a finalist for both the 2008-09 Rafael Vinoly Architects Grants in Architecture and the 2006-07 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City. Under his direction since 2000, the Design Center was included in the U.S. Pavilion of the 2008 Venice Biennale in Architecture and recently was awarded the 2009 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Design Excellence for the St. Joseph Rebuild Center in New Orleans. The Design Center was the recipient of the NCARB Prize in 2002 and 2009 and was included in the international exhibit/conference ArchiLab in 2001 and 2004 in Orleans, France. The Design Center has also been the awarded the 2002 Dedalo Minosse International Prize. In 1998, Pitera was the Hyde Chair of Excellence at the University of Nebraska. He has lectured and taught extensively throughout the North America, South America, and Europe. He likes "fallout shelter" yellow.... DCRP Lecture
Dan Chatman's 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. His research relies heavily on original data collection including surveys, focus groups and interviews. 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. He is working on a book entitled The Death and Life of Smart Growth with Randall Crane. Before joining UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning, Chatman was an assistant professor of urban planning and policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and research director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University. His previous experience includes work as a planner and consultant in the Bay Area, and three years with the Peace Corps in Botswana. ARCH Lecture
Preston Scott Cohen 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 (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001) and numerous theoretical and historical essays on architecture. His work has been widely published and exhibited and is in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard. He lectures regularly in prestigious venues around the world. Cohen’s work has been the subject of numerous theoretical assessments by renowned critics and historians including Sylvia Lavin, Antoine Picon, Michael Hays, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Terry Riley, Robert Somol, Hashim Sarkis and Rafael Moneo. He was the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto (2004) and the Perloff Professor at UCLA (2002). He has held faculty positions at Princeton, RISD, and Ohio State University. LAEP Lecture
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). In 1965, Dr. Charles A. Fountain, a professor of horticulture at NCA&TSU, saw the need for effective design, planning, and management of the environment and pursued the Master of Landscape Architecture degree at UC Berkeley. One of Dr. Fountain's goals was to facilitate a program in landscape architecture at a historically black college or university. Such a program was established in 1976 at NCA&TSU. In 1989, after some coaxing from Dr. Fountain, Howard joined the program as its coordinator. Howard was born in Morganza, Louisiana, and grew up in New Orleans. 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. Before his appointment at NCA&TSU, 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 became a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 1995. He is a registered landscape architect in Florida and North Carolina with extensive knowledge of sustainable design and infrastructure. He has served as ASLA Florida Chapter secretary and ASLA North Carolina Chapter president and trustee. He has been a member and chair of the Council on Education for ASLA, CELA regional director, a member of CLARB’s Subject Matter Expert Committee for the LARE, a LARE grader, and member on a number of Community Assistance Teams. He is a past member and vice chair of the North Carolina Board of Landscape Architects. 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
Elizabeth Diller Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. 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. 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. CED Lecture
Martha Welborne Architect and urban planner Martha Welborne is the Executive Director of Countywide Planning at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. For many years, she has been a major force for transit-oriented development in the Los Angeles County area, leading the successful effort for the expansion and construction of the Metro Rapid Bus system and the Metro Orange line. Working with LACMTA, Welborne continues with this significant work, leading the development and delivery of Measure R projects, a voter-approved initiative that commits a projected $40 billion over the next 30 years to traffic relief and transportation upgrades. Prior to her appointment at LACMTA, Welborne served as managing director at Grand Avenue Committee, a public/private partnership dedicated to the ongoing revitalization of the Los Angeles downtown civic and cultural districts. As a principal of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, LLP, she has also worked on numerous large-scale planning projects, ranging from transit systems to campus master plans. Welborne was also an associate partner of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, as well as a principal of Sasaki Associates, Inc., in Boston. |
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Evan McKenzie is an attorney licensed in Illinois (active) and California (currently inactive) who has represented community associations and owners. He serves as an expert consultant and expert witness concerning the operation of community associations, land use, and other issues. He teaches political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and also teaches the law of common interest communities in the LLM in Real Estate Program at The John Marshall Law School.
Mildred
Warner is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning
at Cornell University, where her work focuses primarily on local
government service delivery and new community development models for
addressing human services. Her work shows potential for market-based
solutions in public service delivery but also raises cautions about the
uneven incidence of markets in depressed inner-city and rural areas. Warner's research explores the issues of privatization, devolution and
economic development.
Perry Howard, FASLA
