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2018 CED Soirée

Tickets to CED's annual Soirée gala are now on sale. Your ticket purchase helps support the next generation of world-class designers and planners. Read More »

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YBCA’s “Bay Area Now” Exhibition Features Nicholas de Monchaux and Neyran Turan

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is expanding its popular triennial exhibition to feature notable architects including two CED professors. Read More »

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Two CED Alumni-Led Firms Win 2018 AIA/HUD Secretary’s Awards

David Baker Architects and DAO Architecture were recently recognized by AIA and HUD for their contributions to affordable, accessible, and well-designed housing projects and complexes. Read More »

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Walter Hood Gives TED Talk on Building Community in Urban Spaces

Can public spaces both reclaim the past and embrace the future? Professor Walter Hood explores this question in his 2018 TED Talk. Read More »

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Professor Ronald Rael’s 3-D-Printed Cabin Pushes Construction Boundaries in Oakland

Ronald Rael's 3-D-printed Cabin of Curiosities is a research endeavor and “proof of concept” investigation into the architectural possibilities of upcycling and custom 3-D-printed claddings as a response to 21st-century housing needs. Read More »

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CED Faculty Co-Author New Assessment of Bay Area Climate Impacts

A new report on the state of climate change in the Bay Area included input from CED Professors John Radke and Paul Waddell.

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CED Graduate Architecture Program Ranked #1 Public Program, #8 Overall in 2019 DesignIntelligence Survey

CED's Masters program in Architecture was again ranked the #1 public program and the #8 program across all universities in DesignIntelligence’s 2019 Top Architecture Schools ranking.

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ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION: PLACE, CULTURE, TIME - DESIGN IN DRASTICALLY CHANGING CHINA

Wednesday, 08/29/18 – 10/21/18 210 Wurster Hall

ON VIEW: AUG 29-OCT 21. Works of He Jingtang over the past three decades and their profound reflections on place, culture, time, and future urban development. Panel Discussion (at Bancroft Hotel) & Opening Ceremony on AUG 30. Free and open to all!

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Califas: Art of the US-Mexico Borderlands

Tuesday, 09/11/18 – 11/16/18 Richmond Art Center (2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA)

ON VIEW: SEPT 11-NOV 16 @ Richmond Art Center. The exhibition, co-curated by Professors Michael Dear & Ronald Rael, explores representations of the US-Mexico ‘borderlands’ in contemporary art. Opening reception on SEPT 8 from 5-7pm. Free & open to all!

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Biomimicry: Design with Nature

Friday, 09/21/18 10:00am – 11:00am 112 Wurster Hall

This presentation will explore the biomimicry creative process, drawing inspiration from natural forms, processes, and systems, to reimagine how to solve complex human design challenges such as climate change and urbanization.

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GUH Lecture: APARTHEID REMAINS

Tuesday, 09/25/18 12:00pm – 1:30pm 170 Wurster Hall

Sharad Chari's talk draws on 15 years of historical and ethnographic research on southern reaches of the Indian Ocean city of Durban, and particularly on two neighborhoods, 'Indian' Merebank and 'Coloured' Wentworth.

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Terner Center Open House & A Conversation on Rent Control

Thursday, 09/27/18 5:30pm – 8:00pm 112 Wurster Hall

Join the Terner Center for Housing Innovation for its fall open house event.

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DCRP Webinar: Critical Lessons for Infrastructure Megaprojects and the “Third Crossing” Project

Friday, 09/28/18 11:00am – 12:30pm Online Webinar

Karen Trapenberg Frick is the featured speaker at this upcoming webinar, highlighting the importance of multifaceted discussions, critical analysis, and deep reflection for infrastructure mega-projects, including California's high-speed rail project.

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GUH Lecture: Lineages of the Global City

Tuesday, 10/02/18 12:00pm – 1:30pm 170 Wurster Hall

Drawing on the example of designs for a Cité Mondiale by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and the Belgian pacifist Paul Otlet in 1920s, this lecture investigates how the interwar discourse of the global city clarifies the conceptual boundaries of t

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ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: Jack Halberstam

Wednesday, 10/03/18 6:30pm – 8:00pm 112 Wurster Hall

WED, OCT 3, 6:30pm. Please join us for a talk about the queer and trans* legacy of the work of Gordon Matta-Clark and the concept of anarchitecture to contemporary queer and trans* projects, aesthetic and activist. Open to all!

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MRED+D ADMISSIONS WEBINAR

Friday, 10/05/18 12:30pm – 1:30pm Webinar

Please join the UC Berkeley Master of Real Estate Development + Design (MRED+D) Admissions Office for an online information session.

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Open House for Prospective Master’s Students

Monday, 10/08/18 9:00am – 12:00pm Wurster Hall

Prospective master's students are invited to attend classes, meet professors and explore Wurster Hall at this CED Open House.

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GUH Lecture: Informal Urbanism, Creativity, and Ecology in Lagos, Nigeria

Tuesday, 10/09/18 12:00pm – 1:30pm 170 Wurster Hall

Lagos is notorious for its ever-expanding population, massive infrastructural challenges, and controversial practices of state-sanctioned land capture. This talk will discuss will discuss how we can utilize urban planning and visual culture studies to inv

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ced News - September 20, 2018

Dean Jennifer Wolch Announces Plan to Step Down in 2019

Dean Jennifer Wolch announced last week her plan to step down next summer at the end of her second term.

land News - September 20, 2018

Kristina Hill Warns About Rising Tides and the Future of Real Estate

Professor Kristina Hill says affluent, high-density areas should be the focus of intense adaptation measures, because they’ll have resources to perfect these new systems.

city News - September 20, 2018

Urban Displacement Project Finds Housing Prices are Resegregating the Bay Area

The Bay Area’s soaring housing costs are pushing poor people into neighborhoods where poverty and racial segregation are on the rise, a UC Berkeley study published by the Urban Displacement Project on Wednesday found.

city News - September 20, 2018

Two CED Graduate Students Awarded Urban Land Institute Fellowships

The Urban Land Institute SF announced CED students Mark Trainer (M.C.P. '19) and Julia McElhinney (MRED+D '19) as two of its graduate fellows.

arch News - September 18, 2018

New York Times Features Neri&Hu, Deborah Berke in Female-Led Firm Feature

Two of the projects highlighted in the New York Times’ roundup of architecture practices led or owned by women include a College of Environmental Design alumni team and a Rupp Prize recipient.

city News - September 18, 2018

Karen Chapple Predicts a Grim Future for Bay Area Housing

As a Professor of City & Regional Planning at CED, Karen Chapple spends her days thinking about what cities will look like in 30 years. What she sees in the region’s future is unsettling to her.

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CED Alumna Karen Kubey Guest-Edits Latest Volume of Architectural Design

CED alumna, urbanist, and architectural educator Karen Kubey (B.A. Arch ‘02) is the guest editor of Architectural Design’s (AD) current volume, titled Housing as Intervention: Architecture Towards Social Equity.

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