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Professor of Architecture Raveevarn Choksombatchai is retiring from the university after 30 years of teaching in the College of Environmental Design. Founder and principal of VeeV Design, Raveevarn will continue to pursue her creative practice after retiring from teaching.

A new report from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation finds that some metro areas have outperformed national trends in building housing in walkable neighborhoods. Understanding what these cities have done may help others make similar progress.

For the first time, Berkeley teams came out on top in the 2025 Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition. The theme for this year’s competition, which received entries from schools across the country, was “designing for disasters.”

UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design is excited to announce that Justin Kollar will be teaching the InCity program this summer. Kollar brings a tremendous breadth of experience in academia and practice  —spanning global planning, urban design, and critical research — to the InCity studio. There are still some spots left: apply today!

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.