Climate Solutions
Research + Design

Maria Paz Gutierrez, associate professor of architecture, receives National Science Foundation grant for household greywater reuse project. Gutierrez is working with professor of architecture, Luisa Caldas, and UC Merced.

Kanani D’Angelo, who is pursuing concurrent MCP and MLA degrees, is the 2024 winner of the Hawaii Chapter ASLA/David T. Woolsey Scholarship from the Landscape Architecture Foundation. She is focusing on reviving Native Hawaiian cultural practices to restore degraded landscapes, such as freshwater fishponds, and reconnect people to the land.

Grace Diebel and Shayda Rashidi won the top prize in a contest aimed at generating innovative and cost-effective landscaping ideas that enhance wildfire defense while maintaining aesthetic appeal.

Three studios considered the redevelopment of the Golden Gate Fields sites along the East Bay shoreline.

Iona Normandi, Bryan Tran, and Theo Wyss-Flamm (all SED 2024) are using their awards to pursue further training in sustainable practices.

Cheng-Kai (Kai) Hsu's findings highlight the need for regulatory oversight to protect vulnerable gig workers and the public.

Naidu Janardhan, a leader in community-led design and sustainable architecture, will be in residence at the College of Environmental Design during the fall 2024 semester.

This year's projects focus on neighborhood energy-sharing strategies, flood adaptation in unincorporated areas, and heat and pollution in urbanizing towns.

Terner Center study creates interactive map on housing affordability in California, asking an essential question: How affordable is California to the people who would live there if they could?

In an interview published in Arch Daily, Ron Rael shares his views on the potential of AI, material culture, the role of the architect in society, architectural education, sustainability, and more.

Paul Mayencourt is prototyping sustainable construction materials and methods in the Wood Lab, including a solar kiln.

An exhibition and lecture reveal innovative research into climate solutions by CED faculty.

The founding principal of Peripheral Projects, Tidwell joins the department at a pivotal moment, when explorations into new materials and methods, and the capabilities of wood in particular, are deepening.

Geospatial scientist Lu Liang uses GIS and UAV to explore how environmental conditions, such as air pollution, impact the daily lives of individuals.

The Berkeley facility is now one of the most advanced test chambers of its type and new studies are already underway.

Rivera's prize-winning article argues that engaging local histories of racism and prejudice in Texas's Río Grande Valley is key to redressing post-disaster inequities.

Senior author Stefano Schiavon, professor of architecture and researcher at the Center for the Built Environment, says that this pilot program for hybrid cooling in Singapore exceeded his expectations.

Lead researcher Kristina Hill publishes groundbreaking study in the journal Earth's Future.

This new grant program supports cross-disciplinary projects led by CED faculty that aim to reduce the impacts of climate change. This year's funded projects forge innovations in climate resilience through explorations in building technologies and materials, housing security, water access, and community-based climate visualizations. These projects stood out from the field of applications for their impact on underserved communities and their capacity to have actionable environmental outcomes.

The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. In this vital new collection, acclaimed landscape designer and public artist Walter Hood assembles a group of notable landscape architecture and planning professionals and scholars to probe how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape.