Michael Dear, Professor of City and Regional Planning, blogs on the Huffington Post about the groups living along the U.S.-Mexico borderline, and the effects of U.S. immigration policy on them.
Michael Dear, Professor of City and Regional Planning, blogs on the Huffington Post about the groups living along the U.S.-Mexico borderline, and the effects of U.S. immigration policy on them.
CED Professor of City and Regional Planning Ananya Roy delivers a talk at TEDxBerkeley: (Un)Knowing Poverty.
'Fruit Activists' Take Urban Gardens in a New Direction.
Architecture students in Deborah Berke's ARCH 202 studio imagine city-based honey factories.
2013 marks the centennial anniversary of the Department of Landscape Architecture at CED.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Matthew Wolpe, Fabrication Shop technician at CED, and his business partner Kevin McElroy at Just Fine Design/Build are co-authors of Reinventing the Chicken Coop, as well as leaders in the field of custom chicken coop architecture.
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.
Take it from the top: A new center for jazz in San Franciso was designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates to invite the public in for more than musical riffs.
The Mahlum Architect team, including alumnis Robert Sabbatini AICP FASLA (BA Landscape Architecture, 1972) and Maureen O'Leary (M.Arch, 1994) were awarded a Society for College and University Planning 2013 Honor Award in Planning.
Stefan Al's (PhD CRP '10) edited book titled Factory Towns of South China was recently reviewed by the Architectural Record.
The Hallidie Building, an early 20th century architectural gem of San Francisco, recently underwent restoration.
Professor of City and Regional Planning Michael Dear spotlights the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Jeremy Rosenberg's weekly column, Laws That Shaped L.A.
An art installation by Walter Hood with audio design by Holly Alonso.
On Monday, April 29 fourteen staffers and members of six teams were honored as the 2013 recipients of the Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Awards. CED Team member Rachel Klein (CED Dean's Office) was awarded for her work with Stay Day.
Alumni were recently honored with awards from the ASLA Northern California Chapter awards for 2013: SWA Group and GLS Landscape Architecture.
Graduate student Sarah Moos (M.L.A. '13) received three awards: two awards in the Student Graduate Awards and a Merit Award under the Research, Analysis, Planning and Communication category.
Congratulations to John Barton, Jennifer Devlin-Herbert, Kurt Schindler, and George Shaw for being elevated to the prestigious AIA College of Fellows for 2013.
Johnson Fain has been commissioned to design an 88,000 square foot winery in the heart of Ningxia province's winery district.
Nicholas de Monchaux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley, has been selected as a winner of the 2013-14 Rome Prize.
Noll & Tam Architects (Principal Chris Noll M.Arch '81) announced the acquisition of BlakeDrucker Architects of Oakland, a firm with 30 years of experience in science, technology, and healthcare projects.
The recap features photos of the event, the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients Richard Keating (B.Arch '68), Jean M. Ross (M.C.P. '85), Achva Benzinberg Stein, FASLA (B.A. Landscape Architecture '69), as well as student honorees.
The second annual Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the Bancroft Hotel brought together the donors and students to celebrate the generosity of the donors and the otustanding work of the students.
Architect Denise Scott Brown, 81, said at an awards ceremony for women in architecture that it was time she share in the 1991 Pritzker Prize that was given to her design partner and husband, Robert Venturi, with whom she had worked side by side.
Editorials from Cathleen McGuigan of Architectural Record and Ned Cramer from the Architect discuss plans of The Museum of Modern Art in New York to demolish the Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' American Folk Art Museum.
Emeritus Professor of Architecture Sim Van der Ryn will be begin a month residency in April and May as a Rockefeller Fellow at the Foundation’s Center in Bellagio on Lake Como, Italy.
On Wednesday April 17th the Exploratorium will open its doors to the public from its new home on the Embarcadero. The Pier 15 Exploratorium boasts an impressive line of upgrades that will draw millions of visitors per year.
Mahammad Momin's (M.U.D. '12) thesis work has been selected for the 2013 Charter Awards (Academic Work Category) by The Congress for the New Urbanism.
Professor Mary Comerio (Architecture), Mohammed Hamdouni Alami (Archaeological Research Facility), Khalid Mosalam (Civil & Environmental Engineering), and Stefania Pandolfo (Anthropology) recently received the Chancellor's Award for Public Service.
Kurt Schindler, ELS Principal, has been elected to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows, a prestigious honor recognizing Kurt's significant contributions to architecture, historic preservation, and urban revitalization.
In the April 2013 issue of Sunset magazine Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design Walter Hood and alum Mia Lehrer, president of Mia Lehrer + Associates.
Architects Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons work on the Marina Safeway became a prototype for grocery stores nationwide.
San Francisco Chronicle's John King begins a weekly series that retraces the San Francisco landscape one hill at a time.
CED landscape architecture students designed and built "The Green Walls of China" for this year's San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.
For Women's History month The Berkeley Daily Planet featured a short essay on alumna Julia Morgan (B.S. Civil Engineering 1894) by Sandhya Sood AIA (M.Arch '99).
Environmental Design Librarian David Eifler recently hosted the Association of Architecture School Librarians' 2013 annual conference which was held in conjunction with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference
Natasha Case (B.A. Architecture '05), Coolhaus CEO, tells the story of her "ah ha" moment that brought her mission of "Frachitecture = food + architecture" into fruition.
Max Levy Architect was recognized with the 2012 Architecture Firm Award by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Dallas Chapter.
NYTIMES -- As the United States reconsiders immigration policy reform – particularly between the U.S. and Mexico – the focus should be on immigration and integration, instead of tougher border security, says author Michael Dear.
Alvaro Huerta's (Ph.D. City & Regional Planning '11) reframes the national immigration discourse towards a more humanistic paradigm in his most recent op-ed.
Associate professor Jason Corburn recently published an opinion piece in the UK Guardian on healthy and equitable cities and will be releasing a new book in April.
Professor Emeritus of Architecture Jean-Pierre Protzen and Stella Nair (PhD Arch '03) are the authors of the recently published book The Stones of Tiahuanaco. A Study of Architecture and Construction.
The second video in The #GlobalPOV Project series is an exploration of ethical consumerism and fair trade interventions.
CED and the Division of Arts & Humanities in the College of Letters & Science will collaborate to develop new pedagogical and research methodologies thanks to a $1.75 million, four-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
NYTIMES -- NEARLY 700 miles of walls now separate the United States and Mexico...these barriers are having a significant and lasting effect nonetheless: they are harming communities on both sides of the border.
A fundamental shift in the way Silicon Valley views its work space in the next few years
Wolpe's exciting work with redesigning backyard chicken coops has culminated in the new book, Reinventing the Chicken Coop
Don Hisaka FAIA, one of America's most respected architects, passed away on Wednesday, February 20
Elizabeth Byrne was recently awarded the newly established Distinguished Service Award by the Association of Architecture School Librarians
Vishaan Chakrabarti (M. Arch '96) is the author of the new book A Country of Cities
The Architectural Record's March cover issue, Sheltering the World: new models for social housing, highlights work by David Baker + Partners and Daly Genik Architects
Distinguished designer and artist Walter J. Hood has been appointed the inaugural holder of the David K. Woo Chair in Environmental Design.
Robert Siegel Architects' U.S. Land Port of Entry in Calais, Maine has been nominated for the 2013 Architizer A+ Awards for the Government & Municipal Buildings, Police & Fire Stations category
Jeff Hou (PhD '01, M Arch '94) was recently selected as the City of Vienna Visiting Professor for 2013 by SKuOR -- the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at Vienna University of Technology
Designed by the New York City-based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), work on the future home of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) in Berkeley’s downtown arts district began on February 12th
SFGATE -- In the next few months city park workers will fell around 150 Monterey pine, cypress, and eucalyptus trees in Golden Gate Park.
Ricardo Cardoso, who is pursuing a doctorate in City and Regional Planning with support from the Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship was the Third Place winner of the 2013 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest.
SFGATE -- Senator Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, introduced the California Homes and Jobs Act, SB391, which would bring in about $525 million annually for affordable housing by imposing a $75 recording fee on real estate documents
Shared is a space for creative people to work and collaborate together, founded by award-winning author/artist/designer Marilyn Yu (MCP '06).
SFGATE -- The landscape architecture firm SWA Group has freshened up Oakland's Jack London Square.
SFGATE -- Gould Evans Associates, with founding principal Robert Gould (M.Arch '70), recently worked on the condo building at 750 Second St.
SFGATE -- On February 14 SFMOMA announced its plans for the 235,000-square-foot expansion designed by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta.
SFGATE -- The SFJazz Center in San Francisco's Civic Center, designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates, was recently featured in an article by the San Francisco Chronicle
David Dahl Assoc. AIA (M.Arch '11) was recently awarded the 2013 Emerging Professionals Travel Scholarship by AIA Seattle. Dahl's winning proposal, "Float Fill Flood – Narratives of Development on Water"
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -- A recent article from the San Francisco Chronicle discusses the Berkeley-Rupp prize winner Deborah Berke and her public lecture and exhibit in Wurster Hall.
SFGATE -- There are plans to demolish Candlestick Park next year in order to make way for a shopping center
Michael Dear, professor of City and Regional Planning and author of Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide (Oxford University Press), discusses the border between Mexico and the US in a blog post at the OUP blog
Stefano Schiavon, Assistant Professor of Architecture (Sustainability, Energy and Environment), Dept. of Architecture, Center for the Built Environment, was recently awarded the 2013 Ralph G. Nevins Physiology and Human Environment Award
Yung Ho Chang + FCJZ: Materialism is a showcase of the major accomplishments of Yung Ho Chang (M. Arch '99, DAA 2008) and his studio Atelier FCJZ
Alum appointed Head of Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Lisa Iwamoto, Professor of Architecture and principal of IwamotoScott Architecture, is included in David Katz's list of architects that will lead the architectural movement
UC Berkeley students Tiffany Yuan (B.A. Arch '13), Andrew Lin, Kathryn Moore are finalists at ImagiNations, a national Disney-sponsored design competition
Orlando Diaz-Azcuy has been selected by California Home and Design as their first Design Icon.
NYTIMES -- The 'Making Room' in the City exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York showcases innovative housing designs responding to changing demographics in New York City and around the world.
Ki Suh Park (B.A Arch '57) died on January 26 at Stanford University Medical Center after battling with pancreatic cancer for four years
SFGATE -- Frederick Fellows Warnke (B.S. Agricultural Science '49, M.S. Landscape Architecture '53) passed away on January 30, 2013 at the age of 91
Benny Ho (BA Arch '03) has recently published a book titled "The Accidental Career." The book is a collection of interviews with people who "fell" into careers they love rather than walked into careers they planned.
"The top ten schools produced almost half (46%) of all planning faculty (out of approximately 850 total faculty)...UC Berkeley is the clear leader followed by Cornell, MIT, and UCLA."
The California Energy Commission awarded a $600K grant to the Center for the Built Environment. The grant will support two key areas of research: Advanced Personal Environmental Control Systems and space condition in near zero-net-energy buildings
Sahra Mirbabaee, a student in the Urban Studies Program, posted a short version of her paper from Professor Ananya Roy's Global Poverty class on the [polis] blog
This Spring 2013 semester, Paula Daniels joins CED and Berkeley Law as the Theodore B. and Doris Shoong Lee Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Law and Urban Planning
The fate of the Palace of Fine Arts stands unresolved, as the Exploratorium begins its move to Pier 15
HUFFINGTON POST -- The U.S. Senate confirmed Carol Galante (M.C.P., '78) as an assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
SFGATE -- 2012 marks the last of the subtle transformations to the San Francisco urban landscape, with many of them, such as green bicycle lanes and parklets, geared towards making the city and the Bay Area a more livable place.
David Woo, who began his career in 1967 as an architect working on the UCB Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, has chosen to honor his late father, Woo Hon Fai, and to celebrate the museum structure, with a major gift to the UC Berkeley campus
Michael G. Donovan, Ph.D. (2007), was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowship in the area of Diplomacy, Development and Security
Professor Emeritus and sociologist Manuel Castells was the recipient of the 2012 Holberg Inernational Memorial Prize, awarded annually for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and the humanities, social sciences, law and theology
This year’s Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture honors Michael Pyatok, FAIA, who has demonstrated a commitment to quality design of public architecture while working in a public sector
Professor Emerita Clare Cooper Marcus discusses restorative landscapes at the School of Forest and Landscape at the University of Copenhagen.
On November 15, 2012 a screening of Ansel Adams' images from FIAT LUX took place at Wurster Gallery, followed by a panel discussion with Ananya Roy, Kristina Hill, Malo Hutson, Andrew Shanken.
SFGATE -- UC Berkeley closes its on-campus pub, the Bear's Lair, part of the ongoing $233 million overhaul of Lower Sproul Plaza
The Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) has been partnering with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN) near Ukiah, CA to co-design culturally-inspired, sustainable housing and renewable energy power systems
The Chicano Architectural Student Association's (CASA) alumni recently awarded and celebrated the Esparza / Del Campo / Escobar Awards scholarships awarded to six students
NYTIMES -- Russell dedicated her time and talents as an editor, artist, and organizer to the Berkeley Friends Meeting and to the UC Berkeley Department of Architecture for many years
SFGATE -- Award-winning textile artist Lia Cook (MA Art and Design '73) was included in an episode of PBS' "Craft in America" series
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Nicholas de Monchaux's book Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT) was recently selected for the shortlist of the Art Book Prize.
Steinberg Architects' Chamisa Village Phase II at the New Mexico State University (NMSU) campus was certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council