College of Environmental Design (CED) Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Matt Kondolf recently co-authored a research paper with visiting scholar Rafael Schmitt on the impacts of sedimentation on reservoir storage.
College of Environmental Design (CED) Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Matt Kondolf recently co-authored a research paper with visiting scholar Rafael Schmitt on the impacts of sedimentation on reservoir storage.
Cycling advocates are prompting city officials to adopt plans to replace some traffic lanes with bike lanes in an attempt to increase safety for cyclists and pedestrians, ease congestion, give a boost to local businesses, and improve air quality.
The Urban Displacement Project recently created an explainer video titled “Pushed Out: Displacement Today and Lasting Impacts” that helps paint a clearer picture of displacement’s long-term impacts.
College of Environmental Design (CED) alumnus Greg Johnson (BA Architecture ‘86) was named the new managing director of global architecture and design at Perkins+Will’s San Francisco studio.
The haze and smoke surrounding Wurster Hall and the UC Berkeley campus is a reminder of the tragedy unfolding to the north of us right now. Destruction is extensive and has left many members of the CED community affected or displaced.
The wildfires that erupted in Northern California last week worsened a problem North Bay officials have struggled with for the past two years: A severe housing shortage that is pushing poor and working class residents out as prices continue to rise.
Award-winning culinary innovator, Charles Phan, partnered with CED to launch his newest endeavor — Rice & Bones — at the west entrance to Wurster Hall.
Associate Professor John Radke looks to Oakland as the location for the next big Bay Area blaze.
Architecture firm ROMA Design Group has been awarded the 2017 Silver SPUR Award for revitalizing declining urban areas and creating more livable and sustainable communities.
College of Environmental Design (CED) alumnus, Vishaan Chakrabarti (M.Arch ‘96), has been commissioned to reenvision one of New York’s historical landmarks: the Domino Sugar Refinery.
In an effort to increase affordable housing for individuals experiencing homelessness, modular construction has gained popularity in the Bay Area. CED alumnus, Rick Holliday (MCP ‘77), is at the forefront of the modular construction movement.
On Friday, September 29, Chancellor Christ recognized three Bay Area programs, giving special recognition to the Center for Cities + Schools (CC+S) and its award-winning educational program Y-PLAN for its strong social justice and health equity focus.
This fall, a UC Berkeley design team, including a number of students from the College of Environmental Design (CED), traveled to Denver, Colorado to compete in the 2017 Solar Decathlon.
Richard Hindle, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the College of Environmental Design, recently published a paper in Boom California detailing the history of swamplands in California.
In response to ongoing contention regarding free speech as it pertains to the UC Berkeley campus, the College of Environmental Design (CED) hosted an open forum to discuss the issues currently facing the community.
Chris Torres (MLA ‘12) has recently been interviewed by the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) after being named a "Leader in Landscape".
As Mexico City rescuers used sniffer dogs and tunneled through rubble in a desperate search for people buried alive from last Tuesday’s earthquake, one said the scale of the damage shows how the city is still unprepared to deal with major tremors.
Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design Walter Hood was highlighted in the East Bay Express for his environment restoration efforts.
Photographs taken by Professor Emeritus of Architecture Charles C. Benton have been featured on a line of sweatshirts by eco-conscious apparel brand, EIWIL.
Johnson Fain received numerous awards this year for architectural projects in and around Los Angeles.
Rossana Hu (B.A. Arch. '90) and Lyndon Neri (B.A. Arch. '87) were recognized by Architectural Record for their project “The Garage” as one of the most well-designed commercial interiors from around the world.
Alumna Vicki Elmer (MCP ‘81, Ph.D. City & Regional Planning ‘91) recently co-authored a Planning Advisory Service (PAS) report for the American Planning Association (APA) on water and the built environment.
College of Environmental Design alumnae Lisa Howard (MLA ‘96) and Sharon Danks (MLA/MCP ’00) have been actively involved in the release of a declaration by the International School Grounds Alliance (ISGA), which was released in September.
Karen Trapenberg Frick, Assistant Adjunct Professor of City & Regional Planning and Assistant Director of the UC Center on Economic Competitiveness and Transportation, is helping foster a partnership between Self-eSTEM and UC Berkeley this year.
CED alumnus Gary Fields published his book, Enclosure, this September on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Iryna Dronova was awarded the competitive Hellman Faculty Grant this past summer.
This past summer, Aboubacar Komara (BA Arch '18) spent 10 weeks studying and researching architecture in Germany as a part of the TUM Practical Research Experience Program (TUM PREP) at the Technical University of Munich.
The College of Environmental Design, Berkeley Center for New Media and Terner Center for Housing Innovation will be key players in leading the multidisciplinary team called The All Bay Collective.
Stefano Schiavon, Associate Professor of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design, was the recipient of the Berkeley Postdoctoral Association’s 2017 Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring.
Charles Phan, a teenage refugee from Vietnam, discusses how his childhood in a refugee camp in Guam shaped his career as an award-winning chef.
A new photographic book by Professor Jean-Paul Bourdier is now available on Amazon.
LAEP senior Megan Bradley, member of Team Kareen, won the 24 Hours of Adrenalin mountain bike race this summer.
Musk wants to build a vast network of tunnels below cities like Los Angeles in which cars and people will be whisked across town on electrically driven platforms at speeds of 125mph.
College of Environmental Design alumnus Ed White (BLA ‘70) was awarded the 2017 Glenn T. Seaborg Award from Cal Athletics for his distinguished career in football, coaching, public service and his subsequent career as a sculptor and artist.
Jason Corburn, College of Environmental Design Professor of City & Regional Planning and Director of the Institute of Urban & Regional Development, was the recipient of the 2017 Peder Sather Grant.
College of Environmental Design alumnus Vincent Xeus (BA Arch ‘06) exhibited his latest collection of paintings at the recently opened tasting room for Acumen Wines, a new concept winery in Napa Valley.
Two faculty members from the Department of Architecture and one from the Department of City & Regional Planning were promoted this fall.
Four buildings that showcase sustainable design and provide high quality spaces for work and study have been recognized as part of the annual Livable Buildings Award, a program of UC Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment (CBE).
This wonderful series of talks about research and content from the Environmental Archive Collections will offer a glimpse into research material that is not often publicly available.
Last June, the Berkeley City Council unanimously voted to place a 1.8 percent gross-receipts tax increase on the November ballot with the aim of raising an extra $5 million a year for affordable housing projects and homeless programs.
Elizabeth Macdonald, Professor of City & Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the College of Environmental Design, recently published a new book on the impact of waterfronts on urban life, titled Urban Waterfront Promenades.
Associate Professor Kristina Hill's blog post details the environmental consequences of Hurricane Harvey.
Fisher creates flavors based on her childhood in Bangkok. Instead of chocolate, pistachio and salted caramel in her ice cream case, you’ll find chocolate-lemongrass gelato, soursop-ginger sorbet and salted tamarind sorbet.
The Eastern Surfing Association has awarded its 2017 Marsh Scholarship to Landscape Architecture senior, Mya Kotalac (BA Landscape Architecture ‘18).
The commuter line, in the works in and around Honolulu for more than a decade, is less than halfway complete and facing a budget shortfall of up to $3 billion.
The newly launched Masters in Real Estate Development + Design is an 11-month interdisciplinary degree program incorporating finance and cutting-edge design to prepare real estate professionals to build sustainable, equitable, and prosperous cities.
CED Alum Fred Blackwell's statement regarding the Charlottesville protests.
New Undergraduate and Graduate Certificates in Global Urban Humanities will accelerate experiments in studying urban life through disciplines ranging from anthropology and architecture to music and rhetoric.
Alumnus Kofi Bonner (M.C.P. '86, M.Arch '87), the regional president of Northern California for FivePoint, discusses the community review of the Concord Reuse Project.
College of Environmental Design Professor of Architecture Andrew Shanken recently posted an essay on the state of Confederate statues in the United States on the UC Berkeley Blog.
A restored two-bedroom, 1 1⁄2 -bath Modern beach house was the prototype for a cluster of cabana-like Amagansett homes designed by architect, professor emeritus, and former dean of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, Richard Bender.
The 500,000-square-foot project, known as 1629 Market, will be directed by Alumni David Baker (M.Arch ‘82), Owen Kennerly (M.Arch ‘95) and Sarina Bowen Kennerly (BA Arch ‘92, M.Arch ‘98)
As part of RWJF's “global ideas for U.S. solutions” program, the foundation has vetted and funded a variety of fascinating projects from around the world that could serve as models for how to create a more robust culture of health in the United States.
Video from the June conference on housing affordability issues hosted by the Terner Center for Housing Innovation is available online.
Assistant Professor Hindle's latest article in the Journal of Landscape Architecture discusses the history and geomorphology of the Mississippi River Delta.
The memorial designed by architect and Professor Emeritus Stanley Saitowitz, features 132 panels of glass etched with seven-digit numbers symbolizing the numbers tattooed on the arms of Jews during the Holocaust.
Karen Chapple was named a Fulbright Global Scholar for the 2017-2018 academic year, supporting six months in total of research at three different universities.
Dogs are children for a growing number of Americans—and that’s putting new pressures on pup-friendly space.
College of Environmental Design alumni Rossana Hu (B.A. Arch. '90) and Lyndon Neri (B.A. Arch. '87), founding partners of the Shanghai-based architecture and design firm Neri & Hu, were named this year’s Interior Designers of the Year by Iconic Awards.
ARCH Alum and incoming Dean's Advisory Council member David Fong (B.Arch '68, FAIA, FARA and LEED AP) and his partner Chui lin Tse-Chan are celebrating 35 years in business in San Francisco.
Peter Imhof (Masters, City & Regional Planning 1995) is Goleta's new palnning director.
Meet APE founder and CED alum Greg Perloff (Masters in City & Regional Planning, 1976).
Creativity on the Line: Design for the Corporate World, at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University through August 21, 2017.
Robert Raymond Jenks (BA Architecture '50), an architect who worked in the San Francisco and Palo Alto areas passed away on June 30, 2017.
In the latest issue of Frame, Neri and Hu reflect on how coming of age outside their native China has allowed them to translate design ideas from West to East – and vice versa.
Alumnus Kris Yao, Hon. FAIA (M. Arch ’78), teams up with Renzo Piano Building Workshop on new Sky Tower in Teipei.
The first residence to receive a platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Homes program, this two-story, 2,500-square-foot home is composed of 11 modules that were crafted in a factory and constructed on site in just eight hours.
Berkeley homes are selling for about 20 percent more than their list prices, with prospective homebuyers facing a shortage of options.
Tech giant Google to purchase modular housing to ease employee living crisis.
The city of Portland has granted a building permit for the first cross-laminated timber high rise over 85 feet to LEVER Architecture, founded by CED alumnus Thomas F. Robinson.
Cities around the world are getting hotter as the planet warms, and the consequences can be deadly.
Dr. Anna Livia Brand joins the College of Environmental Design this fall as an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning.
Dongmin Park (Ph.D Architecture '16) will work on an architectural fellowship in Seoul, Korea for the 2017-18 year.
The products of this summer’s embARC Design Build project aimed to enhance the accessibility and visibility of a host of services providing fresh, affordable and nutritious food to students in need at UC Berkeley.
DCRP Ph.D student, Miriam Solis has received a fellowship from the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation for environmental research.
Moria O'Neill, DCRP Lecturer and IURD Associate Research Scientist along with her co-PI Professor Eric Biber have received a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation for research on California land entitlement processes.
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Kristina Hill, speaks about her recent work in the San Francisco Bay Area – a region that, like Christchurch, is challenged by a rising water table in a seismic zone.
Kolko, a senior fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the College of Environmental Design, determined that 41 out of the 51 U.S. metros with over a million people have become more suburban in recent years.
CED alumna Kathryn Anthony (Ph.D. Architecture ‘81) has made it her life’s work to study and write about how the design of products and places shapes our everyday lives. And what’s more everyday than the toilet?
Can Google Prevent Traffic and Housing Woes in San Jose?
Professor René Davids discusses his student workshop on Huacas in Peru.
Lyman Conrad Jee (BA Arch ‘50, MA Arch ‘51), an architect and real estate developer in the San Francisco Bay Area, passed away on July 1, 2017 in Berkeley at age 90.
Professor Corburn's paper evaluates urban slum upgrading from cities across the world and concludes that few capture the multiple health benefits of upgrading because they fail to consider the interrelated social and medical determinants of health.
In an interview with Archinect, CED alumnus Vishaan Chakrabarti discusses some of his firm's latest projects.
Site-Specific Pavilion, designed by a group of students under Professor of Architecture Lisa Iwamoto, is one of two full-sized pavilions commissioned for a new exhibit at San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design.
DCRP Professor Jason Corburn is interviewed about new research that looks at slum health improvements from around the globe and how progress from other countries can be applied to low income communities in the United States.
Professor Nezar AlSayyard was interviewed last month on the dilemmas and contradictions researchers face in undertaking research in the Middle East.
Yolanta C. Siu (BA Landscape Architecture '14) analyzes the relationship between metalworkers, artists, and entrepreneurs in Mullae, a neighborhood in Seoul.
LAEP student Janet Torres receives Smithsonian internship intended to increase participation of groups who are underrepresented in the museum field.
Atelier FCJZ and Coldefy + Associates Architects and Urban Planners win opportunity to build a residential facility at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
AIA East Bay and Fam 1st Family Foundation held their fourth-annual camp in the Cal Design Lab in June.
Professor Andrew Shanken recently published an article in the June issue of Women's Studies Journal on the history and significance of the gendered representation of electricity.
Professor Emeritus Sam Davis is tasked with overseeing a conceptual plan that would see the construction of both student housing and separate supportive housing for the homeless in People's Park.
The boom in home prices that began in 2012 is still going strong, but experts are questioning how long the overheated real estate market with skyrocketing prices and bidding wars among buyers can continue.
Among the 11 recipients of this year's AIA Small Projects Awards, two were alumni of the College of Environmental Design: Warren Techentin (BA Arch ‘90) of Warren Techentin Architecture and Max Levy (BA Arch ‘71) of Max Levy Architect.
The Transformative Effect of Pogo Park, One of America’s Most Innovative Public Spaces
According to Associate Professor Kristina Hill, rising sea levels could turn much of the Bay Area and Peninsula into a swamp.
What does inclusivity mean in urban planning, and why should planners pay attention? CED alumnus Victor Pineda (MCP '06) explains that cities often burden disabled people and prevent them from participating equally in public life.
CED alumnus Ephraim Baran (BA Arch '51) passed away on June 7 at the age of 95.
New International program for undergraduate students interested in developing their studies in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Sustainable Design to start in Fall, 2017.