News

Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Chair Walter J. Hood (MArch + MLA 1989) has been named the 2025 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, the University of Virginia’s highest external honor in the field. Previous recipients include Mies Van Der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Jose Luis Sert, I.M. Pei, Lawrence Halprin, Fumihiko Maki, Frank O. Gehry, Tod Williams & Billie Tsien, Zaha Hadid, Maya Lin, Rafael Moneo, Laurie Olin, Diébédo Francis Kéré, and Kate Orff.

Over 10 summers, students impacted by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Tohoku  came to CED to develop strategies for recovery using the Y-PLAN framework.

Remembering Professor Emeritus Allan B. Jacobs, an influential urban planner and thinker about cities. Jacobs had an outsize impact on the field of urban design and led generations of students to grasp the importance of observation in understanding how great cities work.

A duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, shows off Ultramoderne’s take on “cheapskate” architecture, using discarded materials from local construction projects. “Innovative architecture is still possible in today’s economic climate—it just requires a new approach.”

“Getting In, Out, and About,” a report by Morgan Cunneen-Franco (MCP 2025), Lisa Schroer (MCP 2025), and Esteban Villaseñor (MCP 2025), analyzes the Berkeley Hills and recommends strategies to improve pedestrian safety, emergency vehicle access, and evacuation routes in the dense residential area.