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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.”

The Architect’s Newspaper says that the Chengdu Pavilion, a building in China’s Sichuan Province designed by Chair of Architecture Lisa Iwamoto’s firm IwamotoScott, “represents a trajectory toward environmentally adaptive architecture in anticipation of the context taking shape around it.”

Alum Ramon Ramirez (BA Architecture 1993, MArch 1997), who taught and practiced architecture for two decades, has turned to painting full-time. His paintings have traveled nationally and represent the architecture of Los Angeles — bridging Chicanx identity, urban form, and the poetic urgency of place.