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We are proud that three graduates of the Department of Architecture were elevated this year to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. Congratulations to Rossana Hu (BA 1990), Hon. FAIA; Mary Ruppenthal (MArch 1999), FAIA; and Bryan Young (BA 1997), FAIA.

In a paper published recently in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning Zachary Lamb and his co-authors assess the spatial characteristics of manufactured home parks in the Bay Area to find out if, counter-intuitively, they could be examples of “good urbanism.” 

The New York Times features a down-to-the-studs house renovation and addition designed by Associate Professor of Architecture Andrew Atwood’s First Office.

William W. Wurster Dean Renee Y. Chow has appointed Professor of Architecture and Civil & Environmental Engineering Stefano Schiavon to serve as the College of Environmental Design’s first associate dean for research and design. In this role, Schiavon will provide strategic guidance to the dean in all areas of research with the goal of boosting the college’s production of scholarship and design across disciplines. 

In the wake of the king tides that swamped San Rafael and Corte Madera in January, KQED interviewed Associate Professor Kristina Hill, an expert in sea level rise and climate adaptation. “We should be ready to live in a bathtub,” Hill said. “Then I think we’re in business and will have a way to live for a 100 years and preserve the city’s tax base.”