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The grant awards include monetary and in-kind support for projects that engage emerging technologies. Rael and co-recipient, Virginia San Fratello, plan to use the grant to reexamine Indigenous mud-based building materials through 21st-century robotics.

Welcome to new City & Regional Planning faculty Zachary Lamb, whose research focuses on the role of urban planning and design in shaping uneven vulnerability and resilience in the face of climate change.

The biennial prize is a unique collaboration between the Diversity Platforms Committee of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley and Places.

In early May, CED Students from multiple departments claimed first place in the James R. Boyce Housing Studio Challenge. Their project centered on new housing in Sacramento as the competition aimed to bring affordable housing to state-owned land.

Donated by CED Professor Emeritus Daniel Solomon (M.Arch ’66), FAIA, and filmmaker, Shirley Sun, the pledge will provide seminars and studios connected with the idea of social housing: designs that embrace and embody their local history and community.