
News + Events
Feb 11, 2025
Renee Chow to step down as CED dean in 2026
William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design Renee Y. Chow announced her decision to step down as dean at the end of her current five-year term on June 30, 2026.
Feb 7, 2025
Newly published research from Max Buchholz tracks racial disparities in urban economic mobility
New research from Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning Max Buchholz published in PNAS suggests that large cities, with their high cost of living and large populations, may create strong barriers to Black and Latinx workers accessing good jobs with high levels of upward mobility, as compared to white workers. This research is part of Buchholz’s ongoing investigations into the causes of urban inequality.
Jan 29, 2025
ACSA honors Neyran Turan with a Creative Achievement Award for her MArch thesis teaching
Award from ACSA honors Associate Professor of Architecture Neyran Turan's teaching of the Master of Architecture thesis seminar and studio sequence at UC Berkeley from 2017 to 2024, which was themed "Another Imagination—Another Practice." Turan is currently the director of the Master of Architecture program.
Jan 17, 2025
Exhibition by Liz Gálvez and the (Im)material Matters Lab highlights climate resilience
Collective Comfort: Airing on Possibilities, an exhibition by Professor of Architecture Liz Gálvez, examines climate resilience in desert cities. Highlights design-research, full-scale prototypes, and student work addressing the urgent need for alternative cooling solutions in regions facing extreme heat.
Upcoming Events

Models: Process + Presentation | ED Archives Exhibition
Mon | Nov 25, 2024 - Tue | Apr 1, 2025
Environmental Design Library, 210 Bauer Wurster Hall

Moving the Spirit by Shaping the Earth | Exhibition
Thu | Feb 20, 2025 - Fri | Feb 28, 2025
Bauer Wurster Gallery

Raymond Lifchez Symposium for Social Justice & Planning
Fri | Feb 28, 2025
9:00am - 6:30pm
106 Bauer Wurster Hall

Dylan Connor: Spatial & Racial Wealth Inequality in the U.S. | City & Regional Planning Lecture
Thu | Mar 6, 2025
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Wurster 106

An Evening with Gabriela Carrillo | Architecture + AIA East Bay Lecture
Wed | Mar 12, 2025
7:00pm - 8:00pm
112 Bauer Wurster Hall

Mo Torres: They Ran that City Down: Municipal Stigma and Urban Austerity in Michigan | City & Regional Planning Lecture
Thu | Mar 20, 2025
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Wurster 106