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May 28, 2025
PhD student Aoyu Zou wins Art Rosenfeld Award for Energy Efficiency
The California Institute for Energy and Environment announced Aoyu Zou, a PhD student in architecture (BSTS), as the recipient of the 2025 Art Rosenfeld Award for Energy Efficiency. Working in the Center for the Built Environment under Professors Stefano Schiavon and Gail Brager, Zou is developing scalable, grid-interactive solutions to improve energy efficiency in the built environment.
May 27, 2025
David Brown (MArch 1990) leads Thomas Church Memorial Design Competition
Designer, educator, researcher, and alum David Brown (MArch 1990) led this year’s competition, with the theme Lot, Garden, and Void. Student teams of five to six students had 58 hours to create their designs before presenting to a panel of jurors. Brown, professor of architecture and director of the College of Architecture at the University of Illinois – Chicago, is best known for The Available City, his ongoing initiative to document, explore, and reimagine vacant lots in Chicago as landscapes of collective action.
May 23, 2025
CED awards four faculty seed grants for climate research
CED announces Just Climate Futures grants to support projects that investigate carbon-neutral timber construction, new methods of wildfire risk mitigation, converting commercial buildings into affordable housing, and the environmental impacts of AI.
May 22, 2025
Professor Emeritus W. Mike Martin receives Sandra Vivanco Education Award from AIASF
Professor Emeritus W. Mike Martin, FAIA, is the 2025 recipient of the Sandra Vivanco Education Award from the San Francisco chapter of the AIA. The award is named in honor of Sandra Vivanco (BA Arch 1985) and recognizes an organization or individual advancing architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service excellence.
Upcoming Events

Out of the Wild and Into the Garden | Environmental Design Archives Exhibition
Thu | May 1, 2025 – Mon | Sep 1, 2025
Environmental Design Library, 210 Bauer Wurster Hall

Margaretta Lin + Charisma Acey: California’s 5th Racial Equity and Climate Justice Report | Public Launch Event
Mon | Jun 2, 2025
2 – 4 pm
Blum Hall, B100