April 2010
Professor Ananya Roy Ph.D. ’99, Professor Teresa Caldeira Ph.D. ’92, Oxford University Professor of Economics Paul Collier, and Dean Jennifer Wolch after Collier’s lecture about integrating poor countries into global society. (Photo: Adrianne Koteen) The spring 50th Anniversary celebration shifted its focus to the problems that could not have been foreseen when the College of [...]
April 2010
The 50th Anniversary Gala on February 6, 2010, launched the 50th Anniversary Student Support Fund. The CED community enjoyed toasting the birthday of the college and a sustainable meal catered by Back to Earth. After dinner, alumni fondly reminisced about their time at CED. The UC Berkeley Blake Estate in Kensington, CA. Former CED deans [...]
April 2010
The College of Environmental Design began its fall 50th Anniversary celebration in a packed Wurster Hall auditorium on Friday, September 25, 2009. The fall program, tracing the past fifty years at CED, started with two fascinating lectures: the first from Dell Upton on the histories of the environmental design professions, which was followed by Sir [...]
Peter Bosselmann
Spring 2010
The College of Environmental Design was founded in the belief that the design of buildings, neighborhoods, landscapes and regions should be genuinely concerned with the conditions of all humans and be relatively free from doctrine of any persuasion. It was possible for such a humanistic tradition to emerge because those who founded the college held [...]
Sally B. Woodbridge
April 2010
I wanted it to look like a ruin that no regent would like.… It’s absolutey unfinished, uncouth, and brilliantly strong.… The Ark, for instance, is a ripe building; it has been lived in; it’s been used; it’s been beaten up.… It’s arrived. Our building will take twenty years to arrive. —William Wilson Wurster, 1964 Oral [...]
From the Dean
April 2010
Anniversaries prompt us to reflect on our past, but they also have a way of enticing us to think about our future. Arriving in time for CED’s 50th anniversary allowed me, as the new dean, to become quickly immersed in the college’s history and people, and begin to build on our legacy and traditions to [...]