Meet CED Alums

We’re proud to share that that Alicia Moreira (March 2021) has been named a Wortham Fellow by Rice School of Architecture. Moreira is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator whose work examines architecture’s relationship to property, collectivity, and alternative forms of domesticity.

The Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning announces the appointment of Kimberly Garza (BA Landscape Architecture 2006) and Erik Prince, principals of mission-driven landscape architecture, urban design, and public art studio Atlas Lab, as the fall 2026 Lifchez Professors of Practice in Social Justice.

The College of Environmental Design announces the appointment of Dorothée Imbert, FASLA, as professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning. An expert in landscape modernism, she is a respected scholar, designer, and academic leader. Imbert received both her MLA and MArch degrees from Berkeley and in 2024 was honored with a CED Distinguished Alumni Award.

The Wallpaper* US400 list celebrates the people who are shaping the creative landscape in 2026. This year, the list includes eight CED alums who are advancing design culture.

Read excerpts from the 2026 CED Commencement address given by Rossana Hu (BA Architecture 1990) and Lyndon Neri (BA Architecture 1987). The pair met at CED as undergraduate architecture students and went on to found Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, a globally recognized, award-winning practice.