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Hong Kong businessman honors father, Woo Hon Fai, with major gift to UC
Berkeley; Dec. 19, 2011 UC Berkeley News Center
David K. Woo
(B. Arch. ‘67) credits his parents with knowing that UC Berkeley was
the perfect place for his higher education. Now a successful architect,
businessman and developer in Hong Kong, and director of the Hong Kong-based Woo
Hon Fai Holdings, Woo has chosen to bestow a gift of $1 million to endow a
faculty chair in the College of Environmental Design. This gift is being
matched with $1 million by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as part of
the Hewlett Challenge for Faculty Support. The David K. Woo Chair in the
College of Environmental Design will support the work of an eminent faculty
member in the CED.
CED Dean
Jennifer Wolch praised Woo’s philanthropy by saying, “We
are extraordinarily grateful to David Woo for creating The David K. Woo Chair
in the College of Environmental Design. This generous gift of faculty support
is extremely important to CED and will benefit students and faculty for many
generations to come.”
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Steinberg
Architects Wins Design Project for Chinese Metropolis
Steinberg
Architects announced it will manage the design of the extensive Changsha Songya
Hu mixed-use project in China after winning a highly competitive bid process.
Set in the scenic outskirts of Changsha, a regional metropolis with 7 million
residents located on the Xiang River about 400 miles north of Hong Kong,
Changsha Songya Hu will develop 7,000 acres. Key aspects of the project include
a waterfront business district, an entertainment district, and an ecological
model community mixing residences and green public spaces. The total building
area is 80 million square feet — the rough equivalent of 30 Empire
State Buildings spread across a 3-square-mile area.
“We are honored to join the talented team
that’s developing the Changsha Songya Hu project,” said
Steinberg Architects President Rob Steinberg (M. Arch '77). “This new
landmark in Hunan Province will gracefully integrate many public and private
spaces in harmony with the local landscape. We’re eager to realize
the vision of Changsha Songya Hu as an ecological, vibrant and livable
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A Review of the Ninth Anual Jencks Award Winner’s
RIBA Lecture; Dec. 21, 2011 The Architectural
Review
The Royal
Institute of British Architects hosted the ninth annual Jencks Award, described
by its eponymous founder as ‘a simultaneous prize to theory and
practice, two mistresses in addition to Madame Architecture’. Not to
confuse his metaphors, Charles Jencks continued by paraphrasing the noted
evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould: ‘Greatness is an assault
against Dame Nature.’
The
award’s presentation is accompanied each year by a lecture from the
beneficiary. American Eric Owen Moss (M. Arch '68) scooped the prize this year,
a man Jencks described as ‘an architect’s
architect’. This figure, while clearly distinct from the
uncompromising individualistic architect of popular imagination (Howard Roark)
is nonetheless a stoically heroic one. According to Jencks, no other architect
has been responsible for such a large number of buildings in such a small area
of city, over such a long period as Moss. |
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IwamotoScott featured in Architectural Record : Dec. 2011
IwamotoScott
Architecture is included in Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard
2011, the magazine’s 12th annual feature “introducing ten
firms shaping the future of design”. IwamotoScott’s Edgar
Street Towers project is featured on the cover of the magazine’s
December 2011 print edition. From the magazine’s online description
of the Design Vanguard selection: “Architectural Record’s
annual Design Vanguard issue brings together the architects who are already
doing some of the most innovative work in the field and will lead the
profession in the future. They are the firms at the forefront of design and the
architects are the ones to watch. Design Vanguard began in Architectural Record
in 2000 with the intention of spotlighting the future stars of the profession.
Vanguard architects are selected by a panel of professionals including deans of
architecture and critics from around the country after they reviewed design
portfolios.”
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South Korea’s Plans for Tidal Power: When a
“Green” Solution Creates More Problems; Nov.
29,2011
Yekang Ko
(Ph.D. candidate in LAEP), Derek K.
Schubert (MLA '02) and LAEP Professor Emeritus Randy Hester examined how this
"conflict of greens" is playing out in South Korea's
environmental policies. This article tie into the ongoing work of SAVE
International (SAVE), an environmental nonprofit devoted to preserving the
endangered Black-faced Spoonbill and promoting sustainable solutions throughout
that bird’s migratory flyway.
Founded in 1997, SAVE includes CED students, alumni, faculty, and staff,
as well as citizens the world over. Visit
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Suburban
Alternatives
Karen Kubey
(B.A. Arch. '02) has been awarded an independent projects grant from the New
York State Council on the Arts for an exhibition and catalog entitled
“Suburban Alternatives.”
Case studies of low-rise, high-density housing of the 1960s and
‘70s and interviews with project architects will highlight urgent
social and ecological issues. This project extends Karen Kubey’s
recent housing research, funded by the Buell Center’s Oral History
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Peter
Marcuse Wins ACSP Distinguished Educator Award
Peter Marcuse
(Ph.D. DCRP '72) received the Distinguished Educator Award at the annual
meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. This is the highest honor the organization
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Endres Wins 2011-12 ACSA Creative Achievement
Award
Paul Endres
(M.S '91; M. Arch. '94), Catherine Wetzel and
Rick Nelson from Illinois Institute
of Technology were honored with the 2011-12 ACSA Creative Achievement Award for
thier project, Structures in the Studio.This 5-year study demonstrates an
emerging collaborative context where architectural education converges with
structural design. With 118 students involved in 23 projects of varying scale,
this course demonstrates the durability and sustained impact of an engaged
curriculum. The course investigates forces and flows not only through lectures,
but also through a combination of workshops and both hand and digitally
fabricated scaled and full-scale models. The range of exploration articulated
by the faculty dynamically links practice to the academy, not merely as digital
simulation, but also as an expressive three-dimensional textbook of applied
knowledge. This course can be emulated
as an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to structures in
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Michael
Lin with 2012 CAA Bradford King Award
Cal Alumni
Association’s 2012 Alumni Award recipients include Michael Lin (BA
Arch. '01) for the The Bradford S. King Award for Excellence in Service by a
Young Alumnus. He will be honored at
Charter Gala 2012 on March 24, 2012 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The
Gala will also celebrate the 144th anniversary of the University of California
and the 140th anniversary of alumni excellence and support through the Cal
Alumni Association. Online registration and full details will be available starting February 2. |
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In a San Francisco Home, a Vibrant Mix of Life and Work - November 30th New York
Times
Associate
Professor of Architecture Raveevarn Choksombatchai has deftly blended art and urban
Design at her tiny, yet artistically robust 107 building in SoMa area of San
Francisco. The previous owner, the painter Vladimir Nemkoff, who died in 1998,
had opened the interior vertically to create a double-height painting area that
is now VeeV’s studio. Raveevarn retained this and other spatial
interventions he made, but “reinterpreted” the place,
repainting yellowish walls and brown moldings that she said made it
“feel darker and smaller.” To create a legible sequence of
spatial volumes, she gave the walls and ceiling in each room a single color:
vermilion for the vestibule, lime-green for the bedroom and deep orange for the
kitchen.
Over the
years, the scheme has evolved. Raveevarn still hopes to proceed with
construction one day, but for now, her experiments roll on.
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Rethink Sprawl, Start With Offices: The
Latest Article by LAEP Professor Louise A. Mozingo - November 25thThe New York Times
Landscape
Architecture and Environmental Planning Professor
Louise A. Mozingo writes a fascinating article regarding the nature
of the "other archetype of sprawl, the suburban
office."
She describes
the function of location and proper use of space in the context of a
metropolitan areas across America, finding commonality across the country.
Mozingo argues that "these workplaces embody a new form of
segregation, where civic space connecting work to the shops, housing,
recreation and transportation that cities used to provide is entirely absent.
Corporations have cut themselves off from participation in a larger public
realm" and that "rethinking pastoral capitalism is integral
to creating a connected, compact metropolitan landscape that tackles rather
than sidesteps a post-peak-oil future. Existing infrastructure needs
maintenance and renewal, not expansion."
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Michael Heyman, former UC Berkeley Chancellor, dies at 81 - November 21stUC Berkeley NewsCenter
Ira Michael
Heyman, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1980-1990
and a professor emeritus of law and of city and regional planning, has died at
age 81 after a long battle with emphysema. Connected to UC Berkeley for 52
years, he was a champion of diversity and civil rights and recognized for his
political courage.
Heyman worked
on several issues related to the protection of the environment and treasured
spaces in his position from 1993-1994 as counselor to the secretary and deputy
assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Interior. He
established the methodology for land-use planning for ecosystems that has been
used across America.
In lieu of
flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the I. Michael Heyman
Project at Berkeley Law or the Ira Michael Heyman Memorial Scholarship Fund,
University Relations, 2080 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94720-4200. Those
wishing to donate online may do so by going to the Give
to Cal website and searching under
“Heyman.”
A memorial service
will be held on campus on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. at Boalt Hall in
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Al
Boeke, Architect Who Sought Ecological Harmony, Is Dead at 88 - Nov. 16 New
York Times
The Pomo
Indians, who once inhabited the land, were long gone the day in 1962 when Al
Boeke flew in a small plane over the pristine beaches, steep bluffs, wind-swept
woods and sheep-grazed meadows along the Pacific Coast in Sonoma County,
Calif., about 150 miles north of San Francisco. What Mr. Boeke saw, in his
mind’s eye, was a residential community that would blend in with that
10-mile stretch, with its jagged rocks, redwoods, pines and Monterey cypresses.
That vision led to Sea Ranch, a development that set a standard for
environmental preservation. It now has about 1,700 homes, including one owned
by Mr. Boeke, an architect. He died there on Nov. 8, his wife, Pamela, said. He
was 88.
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LAEP Students Protest
with Flying Tents on Sproul Hall to Support Occupy Cal Movement - November
17th, KGO-TV
"Our
Space" was a collaborative independent project created by final year
graduate students in Landscape Architecture.
The protest piece was a response to the Administration's brutal
crackdowns on the rights to freedom of expression and the use of public space
on campus. To mock the Administration's ban on the use of tents on campus,
tents were floated above the ground with helium balloons. If the tents weren't actually pitched on the
ground, then the Administration couldn't dispute their presence.
The pieces served as
a rallying cry for all students of the CED and culminated in a march to Sproul
plaza, where a massive floating banner was unfurled above the Mario Savio steps
that read, "Our Space."
Several students gave speeches with the use of the "People's
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Ceara
O'Leary Named Enterprise Rose Fellow - November 16th, Architectual
Record
Ceara O'Leary
(M.Arch/MCP ‘ 10), an emerging architect and very recent CED grad was
recent named an Enterprise
Rose Fellow by Enterprise Community Partners, a nonprofit organization
focused on affordable housing and other quality-of-life issues. The fellowship
program pairs emerging architects with community developers around the country
for a three-year term. O'Leary was one of five fellows announced for the
2012-2014 season. She will be working for the Detroit Collaborative
Design Center for the next three years.
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The
Grove: A New PBS Documentary Film about the AIDS Memorial Grove in
Golden Gate Park
The
documentary film “The Grove” will premiere on PBS on
November 28th. The Grove tells the story of the AIDs Memorial Grove in Golden
Gate Park. Stephen Marcus (MLA ’73) and Isabel Wade (PhD
’85) were important figures in the original organizing committee for
the creation of this space which later became the National AIDs Memorial Grove
by Act of Congress. It is the only National Memorial outside of Washington DC.
Check your local
listings for viewing times.
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Tolls Thin Traffic in SF Carpool Lanes, a New Study by CED
Transportation Researchers Finds - Nov. 7, 2011 SF
Chronicle
Professors
Robert Cervero and Elizabeth
Deakin recently completed a
research study concerning Toll changes in the Bay Area and their subsequent
effect on traffic speed and bridge congestion. According to the study, ordered
by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission after it restructured and raised
tolls at the Bay Bridge beginning in July 2010, charging a discounted carpool
toll of $2.50 caused 4,365 vehicles to abandon the carpool lanes daily - a 26
percent decline.
The other big
change, the region's first congestion-based toll - a $6 charge during peak
commute hours and $4 at other times - delivered time savings for drivers of as
much as 16 minutes on some bridge approaches, according to the study.
"Traffic's moving faster, and carpool lane
volumes have plummeted," said John Goodwin, a spokesman for the
commission.
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Big Ideas for Job Creation: A Q&A With Karen Chapple - Nov. 7th,
2011 UC Berkeley NewsCenter
Thirteen big ideas for programs and policies to create badly
needed jobs in the United States were unveiled on Monday, November 7th, 2011 at
a Washington, D.C., briefing in conjunction with the Big Ideas for Jobs
Creation project of the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute
for Research on Labor and Employment and Annie E. Casey Foundation.
The ideas,
presented in formal papers and a policy brief, ranged from
sustainable local food systems to turning waste into jobs. The winners were
chosen by the Big Ideas team, led by
Karen Chapple, acting director of the institute and a UC Berkeley
associate professor of city and regional planning, who received submissions
from invited academics, nonprofit leaders and economic development
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House of the Issue; Swatt Miers - Sept. 29ArchtectsNewspaper
S Swatt Miers Architects of Emeryville, CA has
recently been in the news with some of their Silicon Valley and Bay Area
residential projects.The OZ house is located on a 2.8 acre site in the Silicon
Valley.
Robert Swatt,
FAIA (B.A. Arch. '70) has been invited to do a presentation of the firms
modernist architecture atthe Berkeley store of Design Within
Reach on November 17th @ 7:00PM. The store will display a number
of models and photography of Swatt Miers residential projects in the week
leading to the presentation. A recently published book of the firms
work InsideOut will be available.
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Designing
for Density Doesn't Have to Be Ugly, or Scary - Oct. 28 The Atlantic
Cities
Few
architects take the challenge of density done right as seriously—and
creatively—as David Baker, principal of David
Baker + Partners Architects.
Among the many tools in his impressive design arsenal is one you
might not expect: an ability to humanize
the data. He's designing not for stats
and acronyms but for citizens.
Though an
unabashed lover of cities, David Baker (M. Arch '82) would never describe
himself as
“anti-suburb.” As he explains, “I think the most
important thing is to get away from the
idea that either suburban or urban life is
'better,' that there is a loser and a winner (except in carbon footprint, where suburbs really can't
compete on a per-person basis).
Sometimes the assumption is that density is inherently 'bad' [but] increasingly people are much more open to
density, especially in places like San
Francisco where there is such a renaissance of urban culture going on. We
have the advantage here of being able to
point to many built examples of high density urban projects, ours
and others, that are wonderful
communities.”
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Brian + Edith Heath Archives Donated to the ED
Archives
In 2011, the
Brian + Edith Heath Archives, containing artwork and personal papers, were
donated to the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California
Berkeley to honor the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Edith Heath. Jay
Stewart shares details of this important collection and historic
photos.
Waverly
Lowell, Curator of the
Environmental Design Archives comments: “This is a
wonderful collection of both artistic and historic value. The Heaths and Heath
Ceramics played a significant role in the aesthetic and cultural life of
mid-twentieth century California. Their deep connection with
architects and architectural design is why this collection is a welcome
addition that enhances the mission and research potentials of the Environmental
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Zero Net Energy Community Established - Oct. 23, 2011SF Chronicle
80 miles
east of San Francisco, a remarkable and new 130-acre development has sprung up
in Davis, claiming to be the nation's largest zero-net energy community. SWA's
master plan arranges buildings in loose clusters so as to allow afternoon
breezes from the delta to filter through the site. These moves are keyed to the
Davis climate, where summer days often are accompanied by triple-digit
temperatures.
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Growing Gardens Up a Wall - Oct. 19, 2011 SF
Chronicle
San Francisco
is now the home to a unique and innovative intersection of urban design and
vegetation featured at the Drew School
in Lower Pacific Heights. Here "vertical gardens" have taken
root on the walls of the School.
Roma Design Group, where many CED Alumni currently
work at, customized the depth and size of the windows to accommodate the growth
of these friendly plants. This landscape wall is a beautiful dichotomy of architecture and a burgeoning green
consciousness in the Bay Area.
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From Warehouse to Hip Geometric Fortress - Oct. 17, 2011
, Inc Magazine
IwamotoScott
transformed a standard warehouse in San Francisco's Dogpatch to a
geometric-minded tri-level matrix of workspaces and a glorious showroom.
Obscura Digital headquarters in San Francisco was designed by IwamotoScott
Architecture. This entry showcased true inventiveness by a firm, in dealing
with a straightforward space, tight budget, and strict redesign
schedule.
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Q&A With Ray Kappe: Man of the House - Oct. 5, 2011 ArchitectsNewspaper
Ray Kappe
(B.A. Architecture '51), one of the most acclaimed architects in Southern
California was Founding Chairman of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona and
Founding Director of SCI-Arc. Now at 84, he opens up about the problems with
prefabs, SCI-Arc’s issues, and his attitudes about architecture and
recognition.
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LACMA's "Living the Modern Way" - Oct. 1,
2011 LA Times
The museum
has re-created an October 1951 cover of the Los Angeles Times Home magazine
showing a plastic Eames armchair, Van Keppel-Green cord patio furniture and
other pieces of modern living along with a headline that confidently declared:
"What Makes the California Look."
"The reason we chose this image
was because it encapsulates the essence of California," said Bobbye
Tigerman, co-curator of the show. "All of the objects shown in the
photo were then used in an exhibition that traveled around the country, and
some actually traveled abroad in a State Department show. Not
only did The Times deem these the essential pieces of the era, but these
choices were sent out into the world to represent California
modernism."
"Living in a Modern Way" has been in development since
2006 and is being presented as part of Pacific Standard Time, the initiative in
which dozens of cultural institutions across the region spotlight Los Angeles'
contributions to modern art. The LACMA show also includes a full-scale replica
of Charles and Ray Eames' living room, complete with 1,864 objects moved from
the Pacific Palisades landmark.
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Baker FAIA Wins the CCAIA 2012 Distinguished Practice
Award
The
California Council of the American Institute of Architects recently awarded
David Baker (M. Arch. '82) the 2012 Distinguished Practice Award.
Established
in 1982, David Baker + Partners (DB+P) is best known for the design of
environmentally and socially sustainable affordable housing that fosters a
lively sense of community. Working with partners Peter MacKenzie and Kevin
Wilcock, founder David Baker, FAIA, has pioneered tactics that have
significantly changed the way planners, developers, tenants, and neighbors
approach such projects. Baker and his firm’s primary tactic is thinking not
“outside the box”, but outside the building: conceiving the project as part of
the holistic fabric of the block, neighborhood, or city.
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Aerial
Photographer Barrie Rokeach Takes Flight, Receives Recognition
Barrie
Rokeach—a CED Distinguished Alumnus in 2008—was one of six
photographers
featured at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai, China, in
July 2011. The
exhibit, “Bridging the Ocean, Bridging the Bay,” showcased
the work of the
photographers documenting the fabrication and construction of the new East Span of the San
Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, which
incorporates the world’s largest self-anchored suspension
bridge.
Rokeach was
represented by 20 large aerial photographs in both the exhibit and a companion exhibit catalog.
Moreover, Rokeach’s aerial photograph of the erection of the tower section
of the new span appeared on the cover of
the catalog. A
commercially rated instrument pilot who flies and shoots at the same time, Rokeach has been
documenting the ongoing construction of the bridge from the aerial
perspective for several years.
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IwamotoScott Architecture: Bookshelf Screen Wall,A/N Blog, 23 September 2011
Associate Professor of Architecture Lisa Iwamoto's firm, IwamotoScott Architecture,
designed and fabricated a digitally fabricated screen wall and bookshelf for
digital media company Obscura Digital's San Francisco office.
Situated in a 1940s-era warehouse, the 32-foot screen wall
is constructed of laser cut white powder-coated sheet metal and deforms in
response to the mass of a geodesic dome in the industrial building's atrium.
Read more about the IwamotoScott bookshelf screen wall here.
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The Voids: An Interview with Peter Walker,Landscape Architecture Magazine, September
2011
Christopher Hawthorne of Landscape Architecture Magazine
(ASLA) interviewed
Peter Walker (B.S. Landscape Architecture '55) for the magazine's
commemorative September 11 issue. Peter Walker and his firm, Peter Walker
Partners Landscape Architecture, collaborated with Michael Arad, designer of the
National September 11 Memorial, to create a landscape that complemented and
enhanced Arad's initial design. Read more about the National Memorial and
Museum competition and creation in an article featured in Architectural Recordhere.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, designed
by ROMA Design Group, to be Dedicated October 16, 2011
Bonnie
Fisher's (MLA '80) firm ROMA Design Group designed the Martin Luther King, Jr.
National Memorial in Washington, DC. ROMA's design was inspired by Dr. King's
poetic use of language, and pays tribute to his contributions to positive
social change. The memorial, which is situated on axis between the Jefferson
and Lincoln Memorials, will be dedicated
in a ceremony on Sunday, October 16.
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Professor Ananya Roy's Poverty Capital
Receives ASCP 2011 Paul Davidoff Book Award
Professor Ananya
Roy's Poverty
Capital (2010, Routledge),which discusses the dynamics of
poverty and the case for microfinance in development, has been granted the 2011
Paul Davidoff Book Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
(ACSP). The award recognizes an outstanding book publication promoting
participatory planning and positive social change, opposing poverty and racism
as factors in society and seeking ways to reduce disparities between rich and
poor; white and black; men and women.
The 2011 Davidoff Award will be presented at the ACSP 52nd
Annual Conference Awards Luncheon on October 15 in Salt Lake City. A ticket is
required for entry. Please visit the ACSP on the
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Show Me the Sunny, The Spectrum, 2 September 2011
The Spectrum discusses the construction of the ‘Solar Strand,’ the largest solar array in New York State located on the University at Buffalo campus. Designed by Professor Walter Hood’s design , the 3,200-panel solar array will stretch over 175,000 area feet of space and will harvest 750 kilowatts of energy to partially power on-campus apartments. ‘Solar Strand’ is expected to be completed and ready to contribute to the campus’ 2030 carbon neutral goal by the end of this year.
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Peter Walker (BS 1955) and Fred Schwartz (BA 1973) 9/11 Memorials
The 10-year anniversary of 9/11 saw the dedication of a number of memorials across the nation, including two designed by CED alumni Peter Walker (BS 1955) and Fred Schwartz (BA 1973). Peter Walker was the partnering landscape architect on Michael Arad’s design for the Ground Zero memorial, “Reflecting Absence". Across the Hudson is “Empty Sky,” designed by Fred Schwartz. “Empty Sky” is located in New Jersey’s Liberty State Park and sits against the lower Manhattan skyline.
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Professor Mary Comerio to Speak at Yale School of Architecture Symposium
Professor Architecture Mary Comerio will be a speaker at the Yale School of Architecture “Catastrophe and Consequence: the Campaign for Safe Buildings” symposium, in November 2011. This symposium will explore the challenges architects face in countries with weak or non-existent building code systems. Leaders in banking insurance, architecture and government will explore new ways of guaranteeing safe buildings in the developing world. |
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Anne Fougeron (M Arch, 1980) Publishes Monograph and Curates Exhibition at Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland
Anne Fougeron (M Arch, 1980) published her first monograph on her award-winning San Francisco-based firm, Fougeron Architecture. Fougeron Architecture: Opposition/Composition(2011 Princeton Architectural Press) features fourteen projects by the firm and a foreword by Hitoshi Abe. Anne also curated an exhibition at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland that will be on view until September 30, 2011. The exhibition is comprised of artwork by Creative Growth studio artists that represent “opposing forces that shape a composition,” a concept influential on her work as an architect.
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Lewis Watts (MA 1973) Joins UC Santa Cruz Department of Art Tenured Faculty
Lewis Watts (MA 1973) was advanced to Full Professor in Photography in the Department of Art at UC Santa Cruz in Spring 2011. Lewis is 2005 CED Distinguished Alumnus and has lectured in the college’s Visual Studies department in the past. He is currently working on a book, New Orleans Suite, which will be published by the University of California Press in 2012.
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Three Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) Student Teams Win at 2011 ASLA Student Awards
Three student teams from CED’s LAEP Department were responsible for winning entries in the 2011 ASLA Student Awards. Michal Kapitulnik, Catherine McDonald, Alex Schuknecht, and Robert Tidmore, under the advisory of Professor Judith Stilgenbauer, received an Honor Award in the General Design Category for their entry The Docks: Engaging the Edge at Brooklyn Basin.
In the Student Collaboration Category, Michael Cook, Chris DeHenzel, Brian Gillett, Rockne Hanish, and Darryl Jones, also under the advisory of Professor Stilgenbauer, received an Award of Excellence for their plantLAB entry.
Chris DeHenzel, Brian Gillett, Robert Glass, Rockne Hanish, Molly Mehaffy, Alexis Opos, and William Smith, under the advisory of Professor Linda Jewell, received a Student Collaboration Category Honor Award for their entry, Wurstershire Sauce.
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Professor Rene Davids Receives Grant from Fulbright Specialist Program
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Rene Davids has been selected for a Fulbright Specialist Grant in Urban Planning as a guest of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He will be spending six weeks in his native Chile giving lectures and organizing seminars around the country in the late Fall 2011 semester. |
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The Spirit of the Spacesuit, New York Times, 20 July 2011
On the eve of NASA’s final space shuttle mission, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Nicholas de Monchaux
contributed an Op-Ed piece to the New York Times in which he examined
the role of the spacesuit over the course of the administration’s
history. Professor de Monchaux explores the architectural history of the
Apollo 11 Spacesuit in particular in his new book Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011).
Professor
de Monchaux was also a guest on Science Friday with John Logsdon and
Ira Flatow. Listen to their discussion on the beginning and legacy of
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SEAT, Fort Mason Center, 24 June 2011
Professor Galen Cranz, Associate Professor Raveevarn Choksombatchai, and Assistant Professor Ron Rael
are all contributors to the upcoming exhibition SEAT, a showcase of
novel outdoor seating at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. The yearlong
show was curated by artist and landscape designer Topher Delaney (B.A.
Landscape Architecture, 1973), principal of Seam Studio and 2011 CED Distinguished Alumna,
whose work will also be on view, along with those of more than 40
designers, artists, and architects. SEAT will be on view from June 24,
2011 through May 24, 2012. |
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