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.
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.
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.
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 four-alarm blaze that had 100 firefighters battling a burning apartment building under construction in Oakland was a repeat of the building being set on fire 12 months before.
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 Rosanna 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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Alumnus Kris Yao, Hon. FAIA (M. Arch ’78), teams up with Renzo Piano Building Workshop on new Sky Tower in Teipei.
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.
Stunning, Simple Maps Show San Francisco vs. Other Global Cities
The decision to approve permitting for Moonrise Kingdom was due in part to a testimony made by Dr. Castillo to the Marin County Planning Commission.
Thirteen students from Associate Professor of Architecture Ronald Rael’s ARCH100D architectural design studio transformed a site in Vipingo, Kenya into a living laboratory for innovation as part of their research into the design of 3D printed houses.
New National Historic Publications grant has been awarded to the CED Archives and the Architectural Archives @ UPenn for digitization of historic photos from Sea Ranch in northern California.
The Department of City & Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design was ranked as the second best graduate program nationally by Planetizen.
Martinez hires economic director, seeks second official for new program
Professor of Architecture Gail Brager has been named the Interim Director of the Center for Environmental Design Research (CEDR) at the College of Environmental Design, effective July 1, 2017.
Alumnus David Baker, whose San Francisco–based firm celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, has hewn a design philosophy that prioritizes the social and financial concerns of the communities in which the firm works.
A growing movement of urban planners is pushing policies that would spur homeowners in hot housing markets like San Francisco and Los Angeles to create “granny flats” on their properties.
Sixty-eight years ago, the black businesses of South Berkeley — beauty shops, dry cleaners, real estate offices, a jewelry store and a theater —held the community together. Now, that community is gone. In their place are coffee shops and yoga studios.
Arturo Taboada (BA Architecture '85, MBA '91) is SRGNC's new Commercial Division VP
Now that employees have more flexibility and mobility, companies will need to get even more creative to incorporate new and exciting workspace elements, according to Chair and Professor of LAEP Louise Mozingo.
Alumnus Anthony Poon (BA Architecture '86) has release a new book exploring art as shelter and architecture as a noble social good. Poon draws on his extensive experience as an architectural designer in looking behind the structure to the deeper interact
CED alumnus and landscape architect Peter Walker, FASLA, (BA Landscape Architecture ‘55) is the first recipient of the $150,000 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts.
CED master's students Bo Chung and Jaime Lopez were the recipients of a competitive USAID grant which supports cutting edge solutions to address pressing sustainable development challenges.
A team of graduate students in the Architecture Department at the College of Environmental Design install a giant digital bird's nest at the Botanical Gardens.
George Takei (ATU, '59, Architecture) recently donated part of his personal collection to the JANM in LA. An exhibit created from his collection will be at the museum through August.
A cohort of 15 ARCH students from CED traveled to Lima, Peru
Many low-income San Mateo County tenants have been priced out of their neighborhoods and driven to homes much farther away, leaving them with fewer job options and health services, according to a new study.
Karl Kullmann, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, recently wrote an article titled “Hong Kong, Grounded” for Places Journal.
A new acquisition of the work of Daniel Judah Liebermann has been added to the Archive at the College of Environmental Design.
In April, Room One Thousand participated in "Open Issues," an unprecedented gathering of editors of student-run design and architecture publications from around the world.
DEADLINE: AUG 15. The biennial Arcus-Places Prize is now open for applications. The Prize is for the opportunity to research and write an article that explores the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment.
Graduation for our PhD students is very special at City and Regional Planning. Our faculty's colors represent the academic power of many different institutions.
The International Hydropower Association recognized CED visiting scholar Rafael Schmitt this week as a recipient of the Young Researchers of the Year Award.
College of Environmental Design student Megan Bradley (BA Landscape Architecture ‘18) was named Female Athlete of the Year by Cal Sports on April 26.
CED alumnus and Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo William Siembieda was recently recognized for his contribution to the advancement of Disaster Science in Chile.
Almost everyone who flies into San Jose airport has seen it -- a vibrant patchwork quilt of colorful water. To get the best view, it helps to have a kite. Just ask CED Professor Emeritus of Architecture and kite aerial photographer Charles Benton.
Private companies need to be part of the solution to grating commutes, and they need to get on board fast. That’s the key takeaway from SPUR’s newest report on the future of the corporate campus.
Unless wetland restoration is combined with other innovative, potentially disruptive baywide adaptation measures, restoring wetlands will be like siphoning a few drops from a brimming bucket, according to CED alum Nate Kauffman (MLA '14).
We are saddened to report the passing of CED alumnus Irving Jarkovsky, who passed away in April.
The hippies who created the Summer of Love aesthetic should get more respect for their contributions to design, architecture, technology and politics, according to Associate Professor of Architecture Greg Castillo.
Disc* (Design & Innovation for Sustainable Cities) and the Summer [IN]STITUTE in Environmental Design are accepting international applications through Monday May 8, and domestic applications through Monday May 15.
Banned from college in Iran because of her Baha’i faith, College of Environmental Design alumna Niknaz Aftahi (M.Arch ‘14) risked everything to learn, studying architecture at a storied underground university.
With a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, Lalo Alcaraz is one-of-a-kind as a syndicated cartoonist, TV filmmaker, and author.
Dozens of nonprofit organizations have made plans in recent months to leave downtown Oakland as commercial rents skyrocket, changing not just the neighborhood landscape, but where low-income children and families go to get basic services.
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Nicholas DeMonchaux was recently named a Bakar Faculty Fellow for 2017-2018, in addition to being named the recipient of the Spark Fund Award.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning Karen Frick recently wrote an article for Alexandrine Press -- publisher of the journal Built Environment -- on the pitfalls of infrastructure megaprojects.
Three of the firm's associates are alumni of the College of Environmental Design: Associate Principal Gregg Novicoff (BA Architecture ‘92), Senior Associate Vanna Whitney (MArch ‘98), and Associate Aaron Thornton (MArch ‘97).
Los Angeles–based architects Johnson Fain have revealed a new rendering for 641, a proposed mixed-use tower in the Los Angeles Arts District.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: FRIDAY, JUNE 9.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: June 9, 2017
Alumna Jennifer Ly (BA Arch ‘07) a designer at Foster + Partners, was recently announced as this year’s winner of the prestigious Rotch Travelling Scholarship.
Iryna Dronova's latest paper discusses environmental heterogeneity and its effect on biological diversity in the most recent issue of Landscape and Urban Planning Journal.
What are animals doing in design? A new study by Dean Jennifer Wolch and LAEP Ph.D student Marcus Owens analyzes contemporary animal design projects to consider what it means to pose such a question.
DCRP Professor Karen Chapple was named the recipient of the 2017 faculty Chancellor's Award for Research in the Public Interest.
Avanath Capital Management utilizes creative investment to fund housing developments in high cost areas.
A new study by the Terner Center explores how three cities have helped stimulate production of ADUs to help ease housing pressures in high-cost regions.