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Plants, Books and Drawings: The Work of Beatrix Farrand March 12–June 8, 2012 Beatrix Jones Farrand practiced landscape design from the 1890s through the 1940s. In 1899, she was a founding member, along with Frederick Law Olmstead, of the American Society of Landscape Architects. During her fifty-year career, Farrand designed more than 200 gardens for educational institutions, universities, communities, museums, and wealthy private clients. 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. In 1935 Farrand and her husband historian Max Farrand developed the Reef Point Estate as a horticultural and landscape history study center. In addition to a test garden of native flora and an herbarium, Reef Point also contained a large library and collection of educational materials that included books, prints, photographs, and the archival collections of Gertrude Jekyll and other practitioners. 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. Library information, hours, and directions
Perry Kulper March 19-April 27, 2012 Exhibition Hours Opening Reception This exhibition is part of the Spring 2012 CED Lecture Series. Perry Kulper is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan, he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 16 years as well as in visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. 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.
2011 Branner Traveling Fellows February 27–March 10, 2012 Exhibition Hours Opening Reception This exhibition is part of the Spring 2012 CED Lecture Series. The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship is a $25,000–35,000 prize for international travel and research, awarded annually to up to six Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) students in the College of Environmental Design. The 12-month fellowship, which starts in December, is to be used before or during the students' final year in the M.Arch. program. Students must explore a particular architectural question or issue that may later be expanded as a thesis. France and Italy must be included in the travel itinerary. This exhibition highlights the work of 2011 Branner Fellows Bryan Allen and Justin Short. Bryan Allen is an Option 2 M.Arch. student whose research focuses on exploring Post Industrial Latent Spaces through an Urbex methodology with a specific interest in their embedded contextual connection, ecological opportunity, palimpsest qualities, and spatial potential. Post Industrial Latent Spaces exhibit architectural dreams and fears, at once inspiring architecture’s promise and aware of its ultimate entropy. Here spatial distinctions between solid/void, building/landscape, and inside/outside become ambiguous yet paradoxically present. Visit Bryan's Post Industrial Latent Spaces blog. Justin Short is an Option 3 M.Arch. student whose research examines the physical implications — collateral architecture, urbanism, and infrastructure — of varied postures in material practice. Visit Justin's Material Practice and Provenance blog.
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis February 8–24, 2012 Exhibition Hours Opening Reception This exhibition is part of the Spring 2012 CED Lecture Series. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL Architects) is a design-intensive architecture firm founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis, located in New York City. LTL Architects engages a diverse range of work, from large-scale academic and cultural buildings to hospitality projects, interiors, and speculative research projects. LTL Architects realizes inventive solutions that turn the very constraints of each project into the design trajectory, exploring opportunistic overlaps between space, program, form, budget, and materials. LTL's methodology of practice combines intensive research with a design approach that strives to make extraordinary architecture by creatively engaging the programmatic requirements, economic imperatives, and technological demands of the project at hand. Rather than imposing a predetermined form or style on a given set of conditions, LTL believes that the most successful architectural designs evolve from a thorough examination of the parameters of a project, recasting these supposed limitations as the very catalysts for invention.
Caroline Lavoie: Landscapes of the American West January 22–February 24, 2012 Exhibition Hours Opening Reception This show examines the process involved in drawing on-site: seeing, interpreting and internalizing the qualities and variations of the landscape to facilitate a form of interaction with the viewer. The themes in the exhibit are interrelated: from desert landscapes to landscapes of water/rivers, to winter and mountain landscapes; from very quick sketches to longer ones; and from the large-scale to smaller details in the landscape. These sketches were drawn directly on-site in order to capture the relationship between the artist/designer and the landscape. In its representation, a drawing can describe the landscape in all its four dimensions as a moment in space and time. Thus, drawing is not only a mode of representation but also rather one of perception, interpretation and reflection. As a form of analysis, a sketch can convey the sense and essence of place. Drawing in the landscape creates an awareness of place that is a distinct form of information-gathering and of understanding the landscape. The act of awareness in drawing involves our imaginative perception of space: an active visual, physical and cultural relationship to the land. Thus, each drawing is a unique reconstruction of one’s perception of space, a critical aspect of how one proceeds with visual research and design. In addition, drawing forms a commitment that is closer to design than any other medium of representation. Showing the process of drawing and representation by a designer/landscape architect may lead the viewer to a better appreciation for those landscapes and to better convey a sense of place. For example, some large-format drawings will bring the viewer closer to the scale of the actual experience of our unique Utah landscapes. Caroline Lavoie is a landscape architect/conceptual artist who investigates landscape representation and perception as part of the design process in landscape architecture. She is interested in theoretical frameworks that influence the design of urban spaces and urban cultural landscapes as well as in the ideas that attempt to address some of the limitations in the design process. One part of this creative investigation explores the metaphorical forces of movement as a process for the creation of spaces in landscape architecture. Her work on drawing has been published in the prestigious Landscape Journal — a special edition on representation — Sketching the Landscape: Exploring a Sense of Place. Drawing is part of a larger body of work on representation. For instance, a series of her collages were exhibited for Design Utah 2005 in Salt Lake City. These collages were interpretations of moving landscapes — moving becoming the condition under which we appreciate landscapes and our relationship to them. These were also published in KERB-Journal of Landscape Architecture, published by the RMIT Roy-al Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. The article was entitled "Collages as re-collections: Experiencing the in-between." Ms. Lavoie is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. She joined the department in 1995. She holds both a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Planning in Urban Design Studies from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She received a BLA degree from the Université de Montréal. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. She has been a Fellow of the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies in Utah (1999-2001).
R. Burton Litton, Jr.: California Landscapes January 9–March 6, 2012 This is an exhibit of watercolor sketches by CED Professor R. Burton Litton, Jr., who was a pioneer in the field of visual landscape assessment and is remembered for his abilities as a teacher, author, photographer and watercolor painter. Spanning the years 1982–98, Litton painted these watercolors while teaching his favorite class, Landscape Architecture 223: Introduction to California Landscape Regions. Exhibit prepared by T. Mollette-Parks, J. McBride, K. Cahill, and Mirando Hambro. Sketches scanned by C. Becker. Library information, hours, and directions
Robert Adams: The Asclepius Machine: Genetic Diversity and Extreme Urban Euphoria October 10-December 2, 2011 Exhibition Hours Exhibition Opening Reception and Talk Lecture Robert Adams is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where he teaches and coordinates graduate courses in design and construction. His academic research interests and creative work focuses on contemporary forms of urbanism and architecture in the rapid urbanization in China and its effects on design, construction practices, and material culture in the United States. Adams’ project, The Asclepius Machine: Genetic Diversity and Extreme Urban Euphoria, was a finalist in the Seoul International Design Competition, Design For All. Named for the Greek god of healing and medicine, The Asclepius Machine explores the relationship of genetic diversity and architecture as a means to re-think contemporary design methodologies and the rich vitality of disability culture. The research seeks to extend the range of architecture’s capacity to enroll a more intricate understanding of the public sphere regardless of bodily ability. The objective of the project is to reconfigure cultural codes through architecture in response to a wider distribution of the social body and interactive structures for people across diverse abilities. William Wurster's Frames for Living
Exhibition Hours Opening Reception and Talk Closing Talk with Caitlin Lempres Brostrom and Richard C. Peters This exhibit presents a comprehensive retrospective of the life and work of William W. Wurster and complements the publication of The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living, by Caitlin Lempres Brostrom and Richard C. Peters. The exhibition includes images never before seen by the public as well as extensive holdings from the Environmental Design Archives of UC Berkeley. The exhibit demonstrates the impact of Wurster’s work on the practice of architecture today, and documents how Wurster's designs and educational philosophy continue to inspire other architects and those who occupy his buildings. About the Book The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living (2011 Princeton Architectural Press), by Caitlin Lempres Brostrom and Richard C. Peters Over the course of a career that spanned 45 years, William Wilson Wurster (1895–1973) designed hundreds of residences up and down the West Coast. Like Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, with whom Wurster maintained a close professional exchange, Wurster blends modernism with the vernacular. Wurster described these homes as "frames for living": spaces that could be fully transformed by the occupant to meet their needs and desires; well-designed canvases for homemaking. Authors Caitlin Lempres Brostrom, AIA, and Richard C. Peters, FAIA, draw upon extensive historical research as well as personal relationships with Wurster to tell the story of his career, including both residential and institutional building. The Houses of William Wurster features new and archival footage of 33 of the architect’s best-known houses and includes a foreword by Donlyn Lyndon. About the Authors Caitlin Lempres Brostrom, AIA, is a principal of First Bay Architecture and visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, where she received her M.Arch. Richard C. Peters, FAIA, is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. Recruited by William Wurster in 1958, he taught at Berkeley for 35 years.
Off Hours: Environments for Entertainment September 27–December 22, 2011 As Americans' leisure time has increased during the century, we have filled it with all manner of diversions. This exhibit highlights the buildings and landscapes in which we spend leisure time for respite from the stresses of daily life. Grouped thematically as things to watch, play, eat, and buy, the focus is on spaces such as theaters, restaurants, playgrounds, country clubs, stores, and sports facilities. Original sketches, photographs, drawings, and rare books are included in the material on display provided by the Environmental Design Archives, Visual Resources Center, and Environmental Design Library. Curators: Mirando Hambro, Assistant Curator, Environmental Design Archives; Jason Miller, Associate Librarian and Director, Visual Resources Center Library information, hours, and directions
Wes Jones | Eric Kahn | Gary Paige: Other Works September 7-October 7, 2011 Exhibition Hours Closing Reception and Talk Lecture Wes Jones, Eric Kahn, and Gary Paige are the Fall 2011 Howard A. Friedman Visiting Professors of Professional Practice, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley. Wes Jones is a partner in Jones, Partners: Architecture, a California-based architectural practice founded in 1993. His technologically inspired designs for completed buildings and theoretical projects received acclaim for their critical engagement with the contemporary cultural scene and their disciplinary sophistication. His eight Progressive Architecture Design Awards include recognition for the Astronauts' Memorial at Kennedy Space Center and the $180M South Campus Chiller Plant for UCLA. Los Angeles architect Eric Kahn, formerly of COA (Central Office of Architecture), is now a partner with Russell Thomsen at IO (IDEA Office). Since 1987, their work has sought to engage a range of issues, from architecture and urbanism to technology and design. Their recent work includes the donor wall for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the lobby of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the winning entry in the Dead Malls Competition, a new student services building at Los Angeles Community College, the VPM prototype for the Dwell Home Invitational, and a series of compelling single family houses in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo. Gary Paige is a principal of Gary Paige / Studio [GP/S], a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary design firm engaged in projects ranging from architecture and urbanism to furniture and graphic design. Since its inception in 1985, the studio has sought to explore the terrain that fuses the pragmatic with the poetic and the material with the atmospheric. Selected past and recent work includes an awarding-winning installation for the Venice Biennale; the design and renovation of the Freight Depot for SCI-Arc; the Manifold House; and recently, his project Variegated Mat-scape was a finalist in the Los Angeles Forum Dingbat 2.0 Competition.
Gardens for Peace June 8–September 23, 2011 A former English teacher from Berkeley wondered why there was no national monument for peace amidst our country’s many national monuments to war. So in 1985 she determined to create a National Peace Garden in Washington, D.C. "Gardens for Peace" explores this idea, the competition for its design, and its fate by asking, "What is a Peace Garden? What is its value? What should it look like? Who pays for it?" Original sketches and drawings from the design competition, letters from supporters and detractors, and examples of other peace gardens are included in the material on display, provided by the Environmental Design Archives, the CED Visual Resources Center, and Berkeley's Environmental Design Library. Curator: Gar-Yin Lee, MLA; Exhibition Committee: Waverly Lowell, Curator, Environmental Design Archives; Miranda Hambro, Assistant Curator, Environmental Design Archives; Adam Rubin, Archives Technician. Library information, hours, and directions |
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September 30-November 15, 2011
