The Berkeley Planning Journal (BPJ) at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley recently launched a call for papers for its next issue, "Volume 31: Transcending the Urban-Rural Divide."
The Berkeley Planning Journal (BPJ) at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley recently launched a call for papers for its next issue, "Volume 31: Transcending the Urban-Rural Divide."
College of Environmental Design faculty members Richard Hindle and Kristina Hill were featured in a newly collection of essays edited by Elizabeth Mossop titled Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning.
Talk to Deanna van Buren about her architectural aspirations, and the discussion routinely shifts back and forth between grand visions and the nitty-gritty of getting things done.
Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan and community leaders named transit and transportation project delivery expert Sam Zimbabwe (M.C.P. '01) as the next Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) last month.
Eric J. Cesal has been appointed as the Director of the Sustainable Environmental Design (SED) major at the College of Environmental Design.
Alumna Dominique Davison, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB (B.A. Arch. '96) was named the Architect of the Year by the American Institute of Architects -- Kansas City (AIAKC).
Professor of Affordable Housing and Urban Policy, Carol Galente, weighs in on the impact of natural disasters on the ongoing California housing crisis.
Fred Blackwell, CED Alum, claims the honor as "Most Admired CEO" from the San Francisco Business Times. Blackwell currently heads the San Francisco Foundation.
Professor of City and Regional Planning Charisma Acey, on Sustainable Urban Farming for Resilience and Food Security, a 3-year collaborative project which looks at questions of urban agriculture within the East Bay.
A recent op-ed in the New York Times Sunday Review cites CED faculty research, arguing for a shift from vehicle-oriented urban planning to a more pedestrian-friendly approach.
Caroline was recognized for her occupant satisfaction research in buildings using radiant systems at the 34th Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture in Hong Kong.
The Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Design Awards are a unique, project-based awards program that showcases great buildings, building elements, interiors, and installations. This year, they recognized six projects by CED alumni, faculty and students.
CED alum, Michael Chen exemplifies his ingenious, detail-oriented, and research-based architecture style and associated success through his remodeling of a Manhattan Townhouse.
The UC Berkeley Food Pantry provides critical support to UC Berkeley students. After four years, nearly 7,000 students use the service, out of the 42,000 on campus.
The ASLA medal is the highest honor the American Society of Landscape Architects can bestow upon a landscape architect, and recognizes Professor Jewell's contributions to the profession and their impact on the welfare of the public and the environment.
Professor Jennifer Wolch on "just green enough" community-based activist movements, in recent article by Pendarvis Harshaw on the proposed development San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood.
Lilian Rice, one of the first women to graduate from the architecture program at UC Berkeley, and a major influence in popularizing the the Spanish Colonial Revival style.
Real Estate Development + Design faculty and program advisors Chris Calott, Allison Arieff, Jonathan Segal, Daniel Simon, David Baker and Jonathan Tate contributed thoughts on why architects acting as building developers benefit both cities and clients.
Four Masters students from the Department of City and Regional Planning recieved Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) fellowships for the coming year.
Professor of City and Regional Planning Karen Chapple's latest book, Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development, wins the 2018 ACSP John Friedmann Book Award.
Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning Marta Gonzalez's co-authored paper analyzes cell phone and vehicle GPS data to assess traffic conditions in Boston, Porto, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Melbourne and the San Francisco Bay area.
A group of nationally renowned land use, real estate, and urban planning experts representing the Urban Land Institute provided strategic recommendations and advice next week to the municipality of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.
Nadia Shihab poses next to her mother, Lahib Jaddo, whose creativity and guidance inspired much of her new documentary, Jaddoland.
ELS Architecture President and CEO Clarence D. Mamuyac Jr., FAIA, LEED (B.A. Architecture '81, M.Arch. '85) was named the new chair of the College of Environmental Design's Dean's Advisory Council for the 2018-19 fiscal year.
Kristina Hill warns that the Oakland A's new stadium project won’t be easy — and not just because the ground there has a history as an industrial site. She fears that rising tides will negatively affect the design and layout of the space.
The latest issue of Frameworks, CED's bi-annual alumni magazine, is now live.
In the prime of her career, Kagure Wamunyu has capitalized on her success with a new title. The CED alumna has left a mark in her work with the ride-sharing company, Uber, and newest position with the Bridge International Academies in Kenya.
College of Environmental Design's Aboubacar Komara details the expansion of his "tiny house project" to the Bay Area.
Architecture student,Hasti Ahamdi, stands on site in Puerto Rico as she lends her hand and educational experience to the hurricane relief efforts.
Exuding an unique style in combination with a prioritization of affordable housing, the work of College of Environmental Design attendee Anne Torney has made her the recipient of the 2018 Marvin Design Award.
In a recent podcast with MarketScale, College of Environmental Design Professor of Architecture Dana Buntrock explains how climate change is influencing the way we think about architecture and build new buildings.
DeepAir (Deep Learning and Satellite Imaginary to Estimate Air Quality Impact at Scale) is a new Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Project by Professor of City and Regional Planning Marta Gonzalez.
Professor of Architecture Gail Brager and Department of City & Regional Planning lecturer Miriam Chion were the recipients of the 2018 Education Award by the AIA San Francisco (AIASF) Community Alliance.
Affordable Housing Finance inducted Carol Galante, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor of Affordable Housing and Urban Policy and Faculty Director of the Terner Center, into their 2018 Affordable Housing Hall of Fame.
Bo Chung (M.C.P., M.P.H. '18) co-authors a report on homelessness in Oakland. Entitled "Housing the Unhoused," the report represents a joint effort by local organizations to advance community-centered solutions for unhoused individuals.
Last month, UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation and Research Center (SafeTREC) launched Street Story, a community engagement platform that allows residents, community groups and agencies to collect information about transportation collisions.
Van Buren, award-winning architect and co-founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, was awarded the prize in recognition of her pioneering work in the field of restorative justice and gender equity in architecture.
Browse digitized drawings, photographs and ephemera, and explore the design principles, vision and historical context of Sonoma County's iconic unincorporated community, The Sea Ranch.
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation recently co-published a study with Buildzoom. The study identified discrepancies in income determined where individuals went after they decided to leave the Bay Area region.
The Environmental Design Archives is pleased to announce the completion of a joint project of digitizing more than 800 items from collections that highlight the development of The Sea Ranch.
Three student projects from Professor of Architecture Raveevarn Choksombatchai’s ARCH 100D studio course have been selected for a design exhibition at Yale University in November.
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Karen Trapenberg Frick co-edited a series of papers in the latest issue of Planning Theory and Practice. This collection of seven essays reconsiders the role of city plann
Professor of Architecture Andy Shanken recently published an essay in the Summer 2018 issue of Representations. Titled "Unit: A Semantic and Architectural History," this article traces the historical usage of "unit" as a measurement of living.
CED Alum, Natasha Case, was interviewed by fashion blog, Bastet Noir.
Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, Michael B. Teitz, was recently interviewed by the Oral History Project at the Bancroft LIbrary.
The explosion of e-scooters has left decisions of appropriate implementation and regulation up to individual cities. Tackling the correct approach to the new technology has become a main concern of Professor Elizabeth Deakin.
Research by Professor Karen Chapple into the correlation of transit improvement and transit-oriented development has led to various findings regarding maintenance of neighborhood appeal and gentrification.
Erin Moore (M.Arch. '02), Associate Professor of Architecture and Environmental Studies, is the new Head of the School of Architecture & Environment at University of Oregon.
Professor of City & Regional Planning Karen Chapple and College of Environmental Design alumnus Sergio Montero (M.C.P. ‘09, Ph.D. City & Regional Planning ‘15) co-authored a book last month titled Fragile Governance.
The American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC), recognized College of Environmental Design alumna Allison Grace Williams, FAIA (M.Arch ‘76) as the 2018 Norma Sklarek Award Recipient.
CED's IIT team won the Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award, which is among the the highest honors bestowed upon staff by the Chancellor.
College of Environmental Design alumnus Sben Korsh (M.S. Arch '16) was awarded the Emerging Curator Fellowship by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal, Quebec.
CED graduate students Diego Rentería (M.C.P./M.L.A. ‘20) and Lily MacIver (M.C.P./M.P.H. ‘22) were recipients of the American Planning Association (APA) Foundation’s Judith McManus Price Scholarship
CED Professors Carol Galante and Karen Chapple comment on the housing crisis in the Bay Area in a new feature piece in Architectural Record Magazine.
Assistant Professor of Architecture Andrew Atwood released a new book in September titled Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture
Housing is already a major issue for the Bay Area's economically vulnerable. Now, the rising sea level is compounding worries about environmental contamination and housing scarcity.
CED alumnus Will Vinton (B.A. Arch ‘70), who revolutionized Claymation to win an Academy Award died last week in Portland.
The fellowship supports promising young women in their pursuit of responsible land use and urban development. We recently sat down with Julia to ask her to reflect on her experiences and the industry.
The students proposed research projects exploring innovation in landscape architectural design relating to environmental issues like sea level rise, green infrastructure, climate change, wetland restoration, and environmental justice.
This summer, the Kissosso neighborhood in Conakry, Guinea welcomed a distinctly different home clad entirely in bright green corrugated metal. It's a prototype for what CED alum Aboubacar Komara hopes will be many sustainable homes in the neighborhood.
The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Renee Y. Chow as the newest Chair of the Department of Architecture.
Two student groups from the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the College of Environmental Design were honored in the 2018 ASLA Student Awards earlier this month.
Dean Jennifer Wolch announced last week her plan to step down next summer at the end of her second term.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He Jingtang's designs are lighting up the College of Environmental Design's lobby and library for the next two months.
A new report on the state of climate change in the Bay Area included input from CED Professors John Radke and Paul Waddell.
Interior Design Magazine announced IwamotoScott, led by Professors Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott, as one of the honorees of its 34th annual Hall of Fame Awards.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is expanding its popular triennial exhibition to feature notable architects including two CED professors.
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.
DCRP Associate Professor Marta Gonzalez was recently featured on WCAI’s Living Lab Radio segment discussing her latest research.
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.
Professor Emeritus of Architecture Stanley Saitowitz is one of the most respected, polarizing, and prolific designers in San Francisco, and yet outside of architecture circles his name is not well known.
Haag was known for several projects that remain as icons in the field of landscape architecture, including Seattle's Gas Works Park and the Bloedel Reserve.
Can public spaces both reclaim the past and embrace the future? Professor Walter Hood explores this question in his 2018 TED Talk.
An independent jury has chosen Lisa Iwamoto, a professor of architecture at the College of Environmental Design, as one of five winners of Architectural Record’s fifth annual Women in Architecture awards.
For the past decade, the transit center that will replace San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal has been the subject of grand plans and political controversies, struggles to stay on schedule and squabbles over costs. This week, all that changed.
Co-curated by Michael Dear and Ronald Rael, the exhibition explores representations of the US-Mexico ‘borderlands’ in contemporary art, with a special emphasis on the Bay Area.
The American Association of University Women awards funding to scholars tackling barriers women face in education. Gebb aims to build connections within the humanities through CED’s Global Urban Humanities Initiative.
In 2028, LA will host the Olympics for the third time. Advocates are asking: Will officials learn from the missteps of 1984 to ensure the health and safety of its most vulnerable residents?
Published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, DCRP professor Karen Trapenberg Frick's article provides compelling evidence that polarized citizens connect in agonistic and deliberative ways outside of formal planning processes.
CEO of SPUR and CED alum Gabriel Metcalf discusses the ways in which the Bay Area has changed over the past 20 years and the opportunities that await the region in an interview with the Mercury News.
Geoff Boeing (Ph.D. City & Regional Planning ‘17), a CED alumnus and postdoc in the Urban Analytics Lab at UC Berkeley, has found a way to visually represent a city in a a clever, shorthand way.
Brian Newman (M.C.P. ‘99) was announced as the new senior associate vice chancellor of UCSF Real Estate/vice president, UCSF Health.
UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED) has launched a unique 11-month Master’s program that revolves around a central mission: to build more sustainable, prosperous and equitable cities.
Dean and professor of city & regional planning Jennifer Wolch was recently featured on the Design Voice Podcast, which seeks to elevate and amplify the voices of women in the architecture, engineering, and construction professions.
California is in the middle of an affordable-housing crisis. CED alumnus Rick Holliday thinks one answer lies in an old shipyard in Vallejo, about 40 minutes northeast of San Francisco.
We are saddened to report that alumnus and award-winning landscape architect Ron Herman (B.L.A. ‘64) passed away in July.
CED alumnus and renowned landscape architect Michael Painter, FASLA, died June 29 of cancer at his home in Mill Valley. He was 83.
UC Berkeley was ranked fifth in the world for the subject area of architecture/built environment by global higher education analysis firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) for 2018.
CED Assistant Professor of Architecture Neyran Turan's book examines the broader concerns of climate change through the lens of architectural prompts and questions.
“How many architects can say they’ve designed a vampire headquarters, a morgue, a palace, or a plantation home?” Suzuki Ingerslev (B.A. Architecture ‘86) asked.
This was the inaugural year of the department's Excellence in Landscape Design Award funded by a generous contribution of the Narayanan Family Foundation.
Hosted by Brooks Walker III and Summer Tompkins Walker, a reception in support of CED’s Environmental Design Archives honored Lowell’s legacy while looking towards its curatorial future.
Peter Bosselmann's new book discusses environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas, specifically those near the coast.
The 3D-printed Cabin of Curiosities, an exploratory project led by associate professor of architecture Ronald Rael and his partner Virginia San Fratello, won the this year's 3D Pioneers Challenge.