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Global Urban Humanities

A joint initiative that brings together scholars and practitioners from the fields of architecture, urban design, city and regional planning, and landscape architecture, and multiple humanities disciplines. Read More »

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2013 CED Commencement Ceremony

CED's 2013 commencement ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, 2013, at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. A reception in the Wurster Hall courtyard will precede the ceremony. Read More »

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2013 Prizes and Awards Luncheon

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. Read More »

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Welcome

Welcome to CED, one of the world’s most distinguished laboratories for experimentation, research, and intellectual synergy. Read More »

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Berkeley Circus

CED's annual Berkeley Circus invites distinguished visitors, critics and alumni to celebrate the accomplishments of the CED community. Read More »

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Walter J. Hood Appointed Inaugural Holder of the David K. Woo Chair in Environmental Design

Distinguished designer and artist Walter J. Hood has been appointed the inaugural holder of the David K. Woo Chair in Environmental Design. Read More »

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Career Services

CED's career services center offers students personalized counseling, an annual career fair, and a variety of professional development workshops.

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Summer Programs

CED is accepting applications now for introductory and advanced summer programs for adults and youth in environmental design.

CED Special Event

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).

ARCH Exhibition

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

ARCH Exhibition

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.

ARCH Reception

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.

ARCH Alumni Event

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.

ARCH Exhibition

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.

CED Special Event

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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City + Regional PlanningNews - May 15, 2013

Building Connections (Not More Walls) Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

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.

City + Regional PlanningNews - May 12, 2013

Ananya Roy at TEDxBerkeley: (Un)Knowing Poverty

CED Professor of City and Regional Planning Ananya Roy delivers a talk at TEDxBerkeley: (Un)Knowing Poverty.

CEDNews - May 12, 2013

Tasty, and Subversive, Too

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

ArchitectureNews - May 10, 2013

Building an Urban Honey Oasis

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

Landscape Architecture + Environmental PlanningNews - May 06, 2013

Celebrating 100 Years of Landscape at Berkeley

2013 marks the centennial anniversary of the Department of Landscape Architecture at CED.

ArchitectureNews - 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.

ArchitectureNews - May 06, 2013

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.

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