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Susan Stryker, leading voice in the field of transgender studies, Selected for CED’s 2021 Arcus/Places Prize

How Will the Future Remember COVID-19? Arch’s Ronald Rael and other designers draw up visions for a hypothetical pandemic memorial

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Susan Stryker, leading voice in the field of transgender studies, Selected for CED’s 2021 Arcus/Places Prize

Susan Stryker is a leading voice in the field of transgender studies and an award-winning activist, author, and filmmaker. Read More »

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How Will the Future Remember COVID-19? Arch’s Ronald Rael and other designers draw up visions for a hypothetical pandemic memorial

Ronald Rael lays out "29CuCV-19", an innovative, portable monument design to commemorate the Coronavirus pandemic. Read more for a in-depth look at his copper inspiration and why thinking about a memorialization, now, is important and worth pondering. Read More »

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Catherine Bauer Wurster’s legacy to live on in renaming of UC Berkeley building

Former UC Berkeley College of Engineering and Design Associate Dean Catherine Bauer Wurster will be honored by the program she helped create through the renaming of Wurster Hall to Bauer Wurster Hall.

News - January 11, 2021

Susan Stryker, leading voice in the field of transgender studies, Selected for CED’s 2021 Arcus/Places Prize

Susan Stryker is a leading voice in the field of transgender studies and an award-winning activist, author, and filmmaker.

News - December 15, 2020

CED Publication, “Room One Thousand”, recieves Graham Foundation grant

The grant will support the production and creation of the cohort's ninth issue; "Room One Thousand" is a mostly-CED student publication. This year, the Foundation awarded $480,000 in the form of 36 grants to individuals and organizations, including RM1000

News - December 08, 2020

How Will the Future Remember COVID-19? Arch’s Ronald Rael and other designers draw up visions for a hypothetical pandemic memorial

News - November 30, 2020

Architecture’s James Garrett, Jr., honored as co-recipient of AIA Minnesota 2020 Gold Medal

On November 24, the American Institute of Architects Minnesota bestowed James Garrett Jr. (B.A. Architecture ‘95), AIA, NOMA, and Nathan Johnson, a partner in Garrett's firm, 4RM+ULA, with one of the highest honors within the AIA organization.

News - November 13, 2020

Architecture Faculty and CRO Studio founders, Adriana Cuellar and Marcel Sanchez Prieto, collect multiple AIA San Diego 2020 Design Awards

On October 29, CRO Studio received a total of four Committee awards, two honor and two merit, for their projects in Tijuana. This year AIASD honored 29 designs with an emphasis on sustainability over a broad range of categories.

News - November 05, 2020

Architectural League of New York’s First Friday – Distance Edition ft. Rael San Fratello

The Oakland-based studio, led by Professor Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, will host a virtual project visit, featuring one of the partners' most recent projects, MUD Frontiers / Casa Covida, as well as informal conversation on Nov. 5 at 7PM EST.

News - November 04, 2020

Architecture Ph.D. students collect campus, national awards

Elnaz Bailey and Haripriya Sathyanarayanan, architecture Ph.D. students and researchers at Professor Luisa's Caldas’ XR Lab, have recently been named recipients of multiple campus and national awards involving AR and VR technology.

News - October 07, 2020

Architecture alumnus, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II wins his first Emmy for HBO’s ‘Watchmen’

Abdul-Mateen graduated from CED's undergraduate architecture program in 2011. Born in New Orleans, the actor is also familiar to the Bay Area where he went to high school and spent post-grad life before leaving for L.A. to pursue acting.

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ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: JOHNSEN SCHMALING ARCHITECTS

Wednesday, 02/17/21 1:00pm – 2:00pm LIVESTREAMED

WED, Feb 17, 1pm. Join us for a livestreamed talk with the founding partners of a critically=acclaimed, Milwaukee-based design and research studio dedicated to architectural innovations and environmental sustainability. Open to all!

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ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: ALLISON GRACE WILLIAMS

Wednesday, 03/03/21 1:00pm – 2:00pm LIVESTREAMED

WED, Mar 3, 1pm. Join us for a livestreamed talk with the Fall 2020 Joseph Esherick Visiting Professor of Practice, founder of AGWms_studio and CED Distinguished Alum. Open to all!

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ARCHITECTURE + GMS LECTURE: OLALEKAN JEYIFOUS + BRANDI T. SUMMERS

Wednesday, 03/17/21 1:00pm – 2:00pm LIVESTREAMED

WED, Mar 17, 1pm. Join us for a conversation between artist/designer Olalekan Jeyifous and Assistant Professor of Geography and GMS Brandi T. Summers on speculative architecture and urban Utopias/Dystopias. Livestreamed & open to all!

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ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION: BUILDING FOR A DECARCERATION NATION

Monday, 03/29/21 – 05/15/21 VIRTUAL BAUER WURSTER

ON VIEW Mar 29-May 15. Explore our first virtual exhibition in Virtual Bauer Wurster, showcasing recent initiatives by Deanna Van Buren, Executive Director and Design Director of DJDS and the 2019-20 Berkeley-Rupp Visiting Professor. Open to all!

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JOINT ARCHITECTURE + AIA EAST BAY LECTURE: JEANNE GANG

Wednesday, 03/31/21 6:00pm – 7:00pm LIVESTREAMED

WED, Mar 31, 6pm. Join us for our 40th annual joint AIAEB Lecture with the founding principal and partner of Studio Gang, an award-winning, international architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago. Livestreamed and open to all!

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ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: HASSAN ALLY + ELI B. GOTTLIEB

Wednesday, 04/14/21 1:00pm – 2:00pm LIVESTREAMED

WED, Apr 14, 1pm. Join us for a livestreamed talk with the Spring 2021 Howard A. Friedman Visiting Professors on architectural engineering and opportunities for change. Open to all!

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