ENVDES 1 [Staff]
Introduction to Environmental Design
Description: This class teaches beginning design of buildings, landscapes, and urban spaces in the complex web of ecological and man-made systems which make up our shifting environment. Students gain first-hand experience with drawing, measuring, and design which form the basis of the professions of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. The class culminates in a final design project.
ENV DES 2 SEC. 001
[IN]ARCH is an intensive six-week program designed to immerse students in the foundational theories and practices of architectural design. The program is structured as an introduction to studio culture and architectural discourse, and serves as a vehicle for further academic pursuits within the field.
Requisites: No previous experience in design necessary.
ENV DES 2 SEC. 002 [PLYMALE]
SUMMER [IN]STITUTE: [IN]ARCH ADV
[IN]ARCH ADV is an intermediate architectural studio for current architecture majors or recent architecture graduates formulated to push the boundaries of architectural thinking and design. The studios are formal, intensive and structured for experimentation with physical ideas. Participants will make models (physical and digital), draw, photograph, collage, montage, diagram, print, scan, map and write as they work. The studio becomes a place for participants to transform thoughts and ideas into form.
Requisites: Currently enrolled in an undergraduate architecture program or undergraduate degree in architecture.
ENV DES 2 SEC. 003 [LARICE]
Course description: [IN]CITY is a comprehensive six week introduction to the study and practice of urban planning through the lens of sustainability. By attending daily lectures and engaging in studio work, participants acquire the skills necessary to inform planning proposals. [IN]CITY assignments are real projects with actual clients who represent a diverse group of stakeholder organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. These organizations actively aim to influence sustainable planning policy at the local, county and regional levels. [IN]CITY is geared towards post-baccalaureate students who are considering graduate study in city and regional planning.
Requisites: No previous planning or design experience is necessary to be eligible.
ENV DES 2 SEC. 004 [YUI]
The [IN]LAND program introduces participants to the practice of landscape architecture as an active inquiry. Students are introduced to the fundamentals of landscape architectural practice through the process of making and experimentation as research into site potentials. Initial ideas are developed and transformed through rigorous investigation in a collaborative studio environment. Students develop a landscape vocabulary that engages with the concepts of ecology, public space, sustainability and multiple scales of design.
Requisites: No previous experience in design necessary.
ENV DES 8 [KAPRIELIAN]
DISC* (DESIGN & INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES)
Disc* is an immersive five-week summer program for college students offered by UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design that explores an interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach to design and analysis in the urban environment. Disc* participants engage in the discourses of urban innovation, and develop creative solutions to tackle the urgent challenges global cities face today.
Requisites: No previous experience in design necessary.
ENV DES 9 [SUCZYNSKI]
embARC is a four week summer design program at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design that brings together high school students from diverse backgrounds to explore architecture, urban design and sustainable city planning through integrated components: an Architecture + Urban Design Studio, a Sustainable City Planning Workshop, a Digital Design Workshop, an Environmental Design Conversation Series and a Community Build project.
Requisites: No previous experience in design necessary.
ENVDES 121 [Salazar-Jasbon]
Imagining, re-Envisioning the Urban Setting
Description: The question of how we see, record, recall and reconstruct places is of primary interest in this class. This inquiry will prove to be the underpinning pursuit of our investigations this summer while in Spain. We will not only explore different territories but we will also experiment with different methodologies of reconnaissance and attempt to maintain a presence so that the places we visit also become manifest to us in their phenomenal and experiential states.
Please note that this class is taken abroad and is offered through the Berkeley Summer Abroad program. For questions or information about participating, please go to summerabroad.berkeley.edu or email summerabroad@berkeley.edu.