News
Dec 8, 2022
Alan Ricks: Lifchez Visiting Professor of Practice in Social Justice
Alan Ricks, founding Principal and Chief Design Officer of the award-winning MASS Design Group will be the Spring 2023 Lifchez Visiting Professor of Practice in Social Justice.
Dec 1, 2022
Penny Dhaemers, first female CED Chair, dies at 96
Dhaemers served as head of the Department of Design from 1974-1976 before chairing the campus’ visual design program and then heading the Visual Studies Committee for almost twenty years. Dhaemers, a gifted photographer and creative, died on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in Novato, Calif.
Nov 7, 2022
Michael Ren (M.Arch ’25) wins World Architecture Festival drawing prize
Ren teamed up with Samuel Wen, a graduate student from the University of Melbourne, to create "Fitzroy Food Institute," winner of the prize's hybrid category. Ren and Wen's design plays with depth, elevation, orientation and more as it proposes a Chinese dumpling institute under the increasing dynamic between man and machine.