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ParticiPlace: Community-Based Participatory Research through an International Design Competition

ParticiPlace2012, an international design competition for the Living Culture Center for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation provided a test bed to explore the gap between global designers and local communities — the users in place. Read More »

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Building an Urban Honey Oasis

Architecture students in Deborah Berke's ARCH 202 studio imagine city-based honey factories. Read More »

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Wood, Salt, and Wonder: The Renewable Future of 3D Printing

Emerging Objects is the project of two architects, CED Assistant Professor of Architecture Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello. A fabrication studio, it focuses on the materials that go into 3D printing. Read More »

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Design Frontiers Workshop Series

Explore cutting-edge design technologies in CED's Design Frontiers Workshop Series. Register today!

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embARC Design Academy

High school students study real-world design and community development issues in our intensive four-week summer program.

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Margaretta K. Mitchell: A Retrospective

Friday, 04/26/13 12:00pm – 06/01/13 6:00pm 473 25th St., Oakland, CA 94612

Margaretta K. Mitchell: A Retrospective is a Fine Art Photography exhibition by alum Margaretta K. Mitchell (M.A. Design '85).

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John Galen Howard: Crafting Campus, Continuing Practice

Friday, 05/03/13 9:00am – 09/06/13 9:00pm 210 Wurster Hall

This exhibition highlights the work of John Galen Howard, founder of UC Berkeley’s School of Architecture and campus architect from 1901 to1922, a time of rapid growth and development for the burgeoning university

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Architecture and Water: 2013 Master of Architecture Thesis Exhibition

Monday, 06/03/13 11:00am – 06/21/13 5:00pm SPUR, 654 Mission Street, San Francisco

A selection of M.Arch. thesis work by students in the College of Environmental Design on display at SPUR in San Francisco.

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Opening Reception: Architecture and Water: 2013 Master of Architecture Thesis Exhibition

Monday, 06/03/13 6:30pm – 8:30pm SPUR, 654 Mission Street, San Francisco

Join us for the opening of an exhibition of M.Arch. thesis work by students in the College of Environmental Design.

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AIA Denver 2013 Alumni Reception

Thursday, 06/20/13 6:00pm – 8:00pm Hyatt Regency Room: Agate B/C, 650 15th St, Denver, CO 80202

Please join us in Denver for the CED Alumni Reception hosted by Chair and Eva Li Chair of Design Ethics, Professor of Architecture, and Department Chair Tom Buresh with special guest Assistant Professor of Architecture Ronald Rael.

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Vertical Cities Asia Competition

Monday, 07/08/13 5:30pm – 07/11/13 6:30pm National University of Singapore

Vertical Cities Asia is a series of international design competitions focused on high-density urbanism in Asia. Everyone Harvests." is the third theme in this series of five competitions.

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Unbuilt San Francisco: Ambition and Imagination

Saturday, 09/14/13 10:00am – 10/31/13 2:00pm 110 Wurster Hall

Unbuilt San Francisco will focus on buildings that never came to be and rhetorical visions that will include renderings and models that challenge viewers to imagine new ways of urban life.

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Symposium: On the Nature of Wicked Problems

Saturday, 10/26/13 9:00am – 6:00pm 112 Wurster Hall

The Wicked Problem Symposium will critically interrogate the history and evolution of Rittel and Webber's idea of the "wicked problem," and appraise the utility of wicked problem thinking in the light of contemporary issues of significance to society.

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News - May 21, 2013

Architecture student wins prestigious new sustainability fellowship

Antony Bum Kim, a CED M. Arch. student and Professor of Architecture Galen Cranz have been selected as one of ten recipients of the inaugural Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship for 2013-2014.

News - May 12, 2013

Tasty, and Subversive, Too

'Fruit Activists' Take Urban Gardens in a New Direction.

News - May 10, 2013

Building an Urban Honey Oasis

Architecture students in Deborah Berke's ARCH 202 studio imagine city-based honey factories.

News - May 06, 2013

Energy Efficient Japan

Architecture.Energy.2011 was developed by CED Professors of Architecture Dana Buntrock and Susan Ubbelohde to introduce advanced concepts of building energy use and occupant comfort after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

News - May 06, 2013

ParticiPlace: Community-Based Participatory Research through an International Design Competition

News - May 06, 2013

Kris Yao: Art, Technology, and a Little Luck

Renowned Taiwanese architect Kris Yao (M.Arch ’78) admits that he was lucky. As a young student entering Tunghai University, he decided to test for architecture and as luck would have it, discovered his passion.

News - May 06, 2013

Michael Lin: Inspiring Support

Like many CED alumni, Lin chose a career path outside of design, but his spirited “extracurricular” support of Berkeley and CED is still keeping him quite busy.

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