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Professor Comerio Receives Green Star Award from the United Nations
Professor of Architecture Mary Comerio
received the Green Star Award today, May 18, from the UN Environment Programme, the UN Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Green Cross International. Comerio is an internationally recognized
expert on disaster recovery. She was honored with the Green Star Award for her remarkable efforts in
preventing, preparing for and responding to environmental emergencies around the world. |
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Head Librarian Elizabeth Byrne earns Distinguished Service Award
The Environmental Design Library's Head Librarian Elizabeth Byrne
received the Chancellor’s
Distinguished Service Award at commencement on Monday. Since joining the Environmental Design Library as
its Head in 1984, Byrne has led the way in establishing the library as one of top architecture, landscape,
and planning libraries in North America. She was also recently the co-editor of Design
on the Edge, which traces the history of architectural education at Berkeley. |
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2011 Berkeley Prize Winners Announced
The Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Design Excellence endowment was established through a gift from Judith
Lee Stronach to the Department of Architecture to promote architecture as a social art through research,
writing, and criticism: traditionally under-represented aspects of the architecture curriculum. The Berkeley
Prize honors undergraduates from around the world From CED, Architecture Undergrad Preeti Talwai won
Architectural Design Fellowship Competition. She will use the $2500 prize to study People's Park as a
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Berkeley Retains the Golden Shovel for 4th Consecutive Year
Every year Berkeley and Stanford MBA students compete for the Golden Shovel (a cousin of the Big Game Axe)
as part of the NAIOP Real Estate Challenge. Berkeley won for the fourth consecutive year. Architecture
graduate student Michael Song was a member of the winning team, along with team adviser Craig Davey and MBA
students Charlie McEachron, Tyler Kepler, Dan Byrnes and Derek Simmons. |
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Homeless House, Soiled, April 2011
The Homeless House, a project by Professor of Architecture Ronald Rael, is featured in the inaugural issue of Soiled, a new journal operating at the interstices of architecture, urbanism, and the pedosphere. The Homeless House was selected from over 476
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Survival House 1977 an open door on gay history, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 April 2011
Bruce Pavlow (A.B. Arch. '77) began his new book, Survival House 1977, while a senior at CED in 1977 as a research project for a class on architecture of the gay community. The book was released 34 years later, and The Chronicle says beyond its rarely seen images from the era, it provides an insider's view into an underground society on the verge of assimilation.
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Success by Design, KennedyPens, 2011
Success by Design: Revealing Profiles of California Architects, a new book by journalist Jenn Kennedy, chronicles the careers of 25 successful California architects. Featured architects include Art Gensler, Ray Kappe, Steven Ehrlich, Stephen Kanner and Lauren Rottet. |
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CED Student Preeti Talwai wins 2011 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research
CED Student Preeti Talwai has won the 2011 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. The judges unanimously selected the Architecture 170A project Praying through Politics, Ruling Through Religion: The Rajarajeswaram as an Instrument of Economic and Political Unification in the Chola Empire for the prize. Talwali will be honored at a reception on Wednesday, May 4. | |
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Alvaro Huerta: April 2011 Cover, Planning Magazine, April 2011
DCRP Ph.D. student Alvaro
Huerta is featured on the April 2011 cover of Planning magazine, which is put out by the
American Planning Association (APA). He was honored by the APA at their recent convention with the 2011
National Planning Achievement Award for Advancing Diversity & Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff.
Huerta received was honored for promoting diversity and demonstrating a sustained social commitment to
advocacy within the planning field.
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Q&A with Jennifer Wolch, Childhood Obesity Conference, 14 April 2011
CED Dean Jennifer Wolch will be a panelist at the 6th Biennial
Chilhood Obesity Conference from June 28 - 30 in San Diego. Wolch speaks about her recent work in childhood
obesity on the conference website. She says she believes the challenge is to translate findings about access
to parks and recreational programs, which influence the development of childhood obesity, into urban
planning policy and action. |
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A Conversation with Michael Woo, Archinect, 7 April 2011
Dean of Cal Poly Pomona's College of Environmental Design Michael Woo (M.C.P '75) is interviewed by Archinect on the politics of architecture. Woo says that architects like to say that there is
no politics of architecture. But, as an urban planner and former politician, he argues that he frequently
sees the politics of the situation that an architect otherwise might not.
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Maria-Paz Gutierrez wins Graduate Student Mentoring Award and Fulbright Scholarship
Assistant Professor of Architecture Maria-Paz
Gutierrez has recently been awarded both the Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award—which
she is the first professor from CED to receive in its five-year history—for her work mentoring
graduate students at CED. Gutierrez was also recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for 2011-12 to support her research, which proposes to
develop an affordable housing prototype that tests the integration of solar-based energy storage and
greywater recycling for thermal and water management suitable for flood zones. |
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2011 AIA Awards Announced
Several members of the CED community recieved awards from the AIA this year. LAEP Professor Walter Hood (MLA '89; M. Arch. '89) will receive the Institute Honor for
Collaborative Achievement. Dougherty +
Dougherty, run by Betsey Dougherty(M. Arch. '75) and Brian Dougherty (M. Arch. 75), was one of three
firms to receive the Firm Diversity Award. The firms of both Michael Lehrer (B. Arch '75) and Larry Bruton (M.Arch. '71) won Honor Awards for Interior Architecture. The firms
of Allen Eskew (M.Arch. '77), Stephen Yamada-Heidner (M.Arch.
'87), and David Baker (M.Arch. '82) all won
in the Housing Awards category. Both Yamada-Heidner's and Baker's firms won twice in that category.
Four CED Alumni were also elected as AIA Fellows this year: Michael Fifield (B. Arch.
'73), Denis Henmi (B.A. Arch. '74), Tully Shelley
(M.Arch. '73) and Douglas
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2011 AIASF Awards Announced
Congratulations to the members of the CED community who received awards from the local San Francisco
chapter of the AIA this year.
Associate Professor of Architecture Mark Anderson's firm, Anderson Anderson Architecture, won an
Honor Award in the Unbuilt Design category. Siegel & Strain Architects, founded by Henry Siegel (M. Arch. '77) and Larry
Strain (M. Arch. '83), won the Citation Award for Energy and Sustainability. EHDD earned a Honor Award for Excellence in Architecture. Mark Cavagnero Associates, headed by Mark
Cavagnero (M. Arch ’83), won the Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture. David Baker + Partners, run by David Baker (M.
Arch. '82), won the Citation Award for Excellence in Architecture. Leddy Maytum Stacy, where Gregg Novicoff (B.A. Arch. '92) is an associate, won a
Citation Award for Excellence in Architecture. Ogrydziak
/Prillinger, run by former Friedman Assistant Professors Luke Ogrydziak and Zoë Prillinger, won an Honor
Award for Excellence in Architecture. And, Sand
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How those bird's-eye snapshots are taken, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 April 2011
Barrie Rokeach (M.A. Design '74; Distinguished Alumni '08) explains to the Chronicle his
process of taking aerial photography, which has been the driving force behind his forty-year career. Rokeach
says that when doing landscape photography, you have all the time in the world; but, in the air, it is the
exact opposite.
Photo: Alex Washburn / The Chronicle |
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History's Hands, New York Times, 20 March 2011
Achva Stein (B.L.A) is featured in The New York Times as an expert on Moroccan courts and
gardens and a professor of landscape architecture at City College of New York. Stein was a crucial part of a
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Urban Journal: Show Them What You’re Making, Wall Street Journal, 1 March 2011
Bimal Patel (Ph.D. City Planning '95; Distinguished Alumni '08) recently wrote a piece for the India
Real Time section of The Wall Street Journal. Patel writes about the importance of
communicating visions of public space to the general public. He then expounds on the topic with some of the
lessons learned from a recent exhibition in which he tried to do just that.
Photo: In December, Patel and his team put on an exhibition of what Ahmedabad’s riverfront would look like
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The Healer, Landscape Architecture Magazine, February 2011
Professor Emerita of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Clare Cooper
Marcus was featured in the February 2011 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. The
magazine writes that throughout a long, distinguished career, she has continued to inspire, write, and teach
about the power of place and design to affect and improve human life—especially, during the past two
decades, about how landscapes can improve health and well-being. |
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Wiggins to receive CIF Distinguished Service Award
Jerome Wiggins (MCP '72) was selected for the California Interscholastic Federation Service Award. Wiggins
is a long-time advocate for public school financing and drop-out prevention programs. He was also appointed
by the Alameda County School Boards Association as its representative to the North Coast Section for a sixth
consecutive three-year term.
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Green Playgrounds Spring Up Around Bay Area, The Daily Californian, 24 February 2011
Sharon Danks (MLA/MCP '00), author of the recent book Asphalt to Ecosystems, and her firm, Bay Tree Design, have been working with Bay
Area school districts to create green schoolyards, boasting features like outdoor classroom spaces,
greenhouses, edible vegetable gardens and composting bins. Kids grow up to think about the world in the
way they experience it, Danks said. Why should we accept clay and asphalt and boring environments for
our kids when we could have something else? Danks is also featured in a two-part interview with the Scottish blog, Creative Star
Learning.
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Wurstershire Sauce, ArchDaily, 23 February 2011
Landscape Architecture and Architecture graduate students at CED led a design build seminar to rethink a
little known courtyard on the northeast corner of Wurster Hall, ArchDaily reports. The team of
students designed and built a folding wooden bench to serve as outdoor classroom, performance platform, and
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DCRP Professor Jason Corburn invited to present at the General Council of UN-Habitat
Professor Jason Corburn
and partners from his collaborative slum upgrading project in Nairobi were invited to present at the 23rd
Session of the Governing Council of UN-
HABITAT, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya in April 2011. Corburn's project at CED was also invited to join
The Habitat Partner University Initiative, which aims to promote the cooperation between UN-HABITAT and
institutions of higher education. Professor Corburn is directing the Nairobi Studio this year and will bring
Berkeley students to Kenya to work with residents and non-governmental organizations to improve living
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CED Teams Earn Honorable Mention at ULI Competition
Two CED teams earned honorable mentions at the ULI Geraldine D. Hines Student Competition. The first team
consisted of graduate students Rob Tidmore, Robin Kim, Danny Yost Jr., Alex Schuknecht, Jonathan Rogers, and
Faculty Advisor Elizabeth Macdonald. Their project was entitled Rainier Triangle. The other
team was graduate students Sarah Moos, Christopher Torres, Patrick Race, John Corcoran, and Mark Kelly, with
Peter Bosselmann and Judith Stilgenbauer as faculty advisors, for their project, Urban
Catchment. |
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Egypt: Military, money and motives, Berkeley Blog, 17 February 2011
Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Nezar AlSayyad
(Ph.D. Arch. '88) writes about the recent revolution in Egypt for the Berkeley Blog. AlSayyad
writes that the country's future now depends on the actions of the Egyptian military over the course of the
next few months. And, he concludes, only time will tell which direction, or interests, will prevail at this
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Writer explores life and work of Bay Area architect Bernard Maybeck, Oakland Tribune, 13
February 2011
Bernard Maybeck: Architect of Elegance, a new book by Mark A. Wilson (B.A. '73), is a study of
the life and work of Maybeck, an early architecture professor at UC Berkeley and perhaps one of the top ten
architects of all time. Wilson became interested in Maybeck as a Berkeley undergraduate in the 1970s, when
he noticed various buildings around town with curious arts and crafts inspired features, and after a
sustained relationship with Maybeck's daughter-in-law, Jacomena.
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State of the Union, The Monthly, February 2011
At 83 and 81, respectively, Don (B. Arch. '50) and Mich Hisaka have been married for 61 years. They met as
teenagers during World War II, in a relocation camp in Arkansas. Since that time, Don and Mich have traveled
the country as Don became a world-renowned architect, including a three-year stint at CED in 1992 when Don
returned to Cal as the chair of the architecture department.
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The Good City, Routledge, February 2011
In his new book, The Good City: Reflections and Imaginations, Professor Emeritus of City &
Regional Planning Allan B. Jacobs
contends that cities ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people
can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet
and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society's collective achievements. |
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Discretionary review: SF should raise standard, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 February 2011
San Francisco architect Cassandra Mettling-Davis (B. A. Arch. '85) speaks with The Chronicle about the city's
discretionary review policy. Discretionary review, as it stands, allows neighbors to object to changes in their neighborhood,
causing some projects to become stuck in a long bureaucratic process. Mettling-Davis used to support the process, she told The Chronicle, until she was entangled in a contentious review that cost her client thousands of dollars.
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Vernacular Architecture of West Africa, Routledge, March 2011
Vernacular Architecture of West Africa: A World in Dwelling by Professor of Architecture Jean-Paul Bourdier, along with co-author Trinh T. Minh-ha, professor
of rhetoric and gender studies at UC Berkeley, will be released by Routledge Press next month. The book focuses on the
dwellings of hundreds of African ethnic groups, which offer a variety of conceptions and building practices that contradict
the widespread image of the primitive hut commonly attributed to rural Africa. |
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AIA gives 3 Bay Area projects Honor Awards, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 January 2011
John King writes about the Bay Area winners of 2011 AIA Awards, including LAEP Professor Walter Hood (MLA '89; M. Arch. '89) receiving the Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement.
King goes on to write about the recent book, Port City: The History and Transformation of the Port of San Francisco, 1848-2010 by Michael R. Corbett,
which, despite it only being January, King says is his nomination for Bay Area history book of the year. Finally, the article
features upcoming events at CED--including Teddy Cruz, March 4 at the Berkeley Circus, and Jeanne Gang, April 5 as part of the
CED Lecture Series.
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Landmark Houses: Ray Kappe's wood and glass retreat, Los Angeles Times, 22 January 2011
The L.A. Times features an interactive panorama of the 1967 Los Angeles-area house that Ray Kappe (A.B. Arch '51; Distinguished Alumni '98)
built for his family. Out of more than 100 houses that Kappe designed, the Los Angeles Times writes, this one is
the most important. Last year, the home ranked number 8 on a poll of the best Southern California houses of all time.
Photo: Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times |
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Architecture Graduate Student John Voekel Wins seekingShade Design Competition
John Voekel, a dual Master's degree candidate in Architecture and Structural Engineering at UC Berkeley, was selected by a
seven-person jury as the winner of the seekingSHADE student design competition. The competition challenged participants to
conceive a shade structure for the forthcoming pedestrian bridge at the United States Land Port of Entry in San Ysidro,
California.
Photo: Part of John Voekel's submission for the seekingShade Student Design Competition. |
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Q&A with CEO of MAAC Project, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 January 2011
Antonio Pizano (M.A. Arch. '75) is president and CEO of the MAAC
Project, a multifaceted social services agency promoting self-sufficiency for low and moderate income families and
communities of Southern California. The San Diego Union-Tribune interviews Pizano about MAAC, his role as CEO,
and his background in non-profit organizations.
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Deans List, Metropolis, 17 January 2011
Metropolis quotes University of Maryland Dean and Professor of Architecture David Cronrath (M. Arch. '76) as
one of the architecture- and design-school deans hired in the last year for what his plans are for the future. Cronrath says
he wants to integrate the traditional disciplines into curricula that cover the entire spectrum of issues associated with
settlement.
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Storied Pelican Building is considered for landmark status, Berkeleyside, 14 January 2011
Designed by CED co-founder and Professor Joseph Esherick in 1956, the Pelican Building on the UC Berkeley campus is now being
considered for landmark status, which it will likely receive, Berkeleyside writes. The building was originally
designed to house the campus' humor magazine, The California Pelican, but is now home to the Graduate Assembly.
The Esherick-designed YWCA building in Berkeley received landmark status in 2010.
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Redevelopment projects face funding cutoff, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 January 2011
In Gov. Jerry Brown's recent budget proposal, the funds allocated for redevelopment would be transferred to cities,
counties, and school districts.
Fred Blackwell (MCP '96), the redevelopment chief for San Francisco, says that redevelopment funds sponsor about half of the
affordable housing in the city, as well as much of the park space and the recently redeveloped Mission Bay.
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Women and the Everyday City, University of Minnesota Press, 2011
Women and the Everyday City, a new book by Boston University Professor Jessica Ellen Sewell (Ph.D. Arch. '00), explores
the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender roles and American cities,
she shows how changes in the city affected women’s ability to negotiate shifting gender norms as well as how women’s
increasing use of the city played a critical role in the campaign for women’s suffrage.
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New UC Berkeley Mobile App for Smart Phones and Mobile Devices
UC Berkeley mobile provides campus information designed for the web browsers on different types of smart phones and mobile
devices. The m.berkeley.edu site includes the campus map,
directory, events, news, varsity athletics, as well as course and event videos. More features are in the works.
Photo: Berkeley Mobile Screenshot |
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Alvaro Huerta Receives National Planning Excellence Award from the APA
DCRP Ph.D. student Alvaro Huerta was recently awarded the 2011 National Planning Achievement Award for Advancing Diversity &
Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff from the American Planning Association. Huerta was honored for promoting diversity
and demonstrating a sustained social commitment to advocacy within the planning field. Huerta will receive the award at a
special luncheon at APA’s National Planning Conference in Boston on April 11, 2011.
Photo: UCLA Magazine |
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Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, The MIT Press, February 2011
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, a new book by Assistant Professor of Architecture Nicholas de Monchaux, will be released by The MIT Press in February. The book tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. de Monchaux touches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior’s New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK’s carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA’s Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. |
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Small, cozy cottage may start new trend, ABC 7, 8 January 2011
Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning Karen Chapple is at the forefront in Berkeley of what Mayor Tom Bates is calling smart growth for the city. Chapple designed a small cottage in her backyard, which she will rent out. Berkeley's mayor attended the ribbon cutting for the cottage because he hopes it will spark a new trend in backyard cottages, hopefully accommodating the city's growing population while curbing urban sprawl. |
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