News + Events
News
Aug 26, 2026
Department of Architecture announces visiting faculty and fellows
The Department of Architecture has named its visiting faculty and fellows for the fall 2026 semester, appointing Casper Mork-Ulnes as Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice, Luke Ogrydziak and Zoë Prillinger as Esherick Endowed Professors, and Laura Sánchez Carrasco and Íñigo Cobeta as UPM Visiting Professors of Practice. In addition, the inaugural Creedon Fellow, Julie Riley, will continue in this role for the coming academic year.
Aug 24, 2026
Emmett Zeifman joins Department of Architecture
The Department of Architecture is delighted to welcome Emmett Zeifman to UC Berkeley. Zeifman has extensive teaching experience and an impressive record of editorial and curatorial work that brings archival research into contemporary discourse on the future of design.
Aug 24, 2026
City & Regional Planning welcomes Ken Salo, Joshua Muldavin as visiting professors
The Department of City & Regional planning is pleased to announce the appointments of Ken E. Salo as Theodore B. and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Real Estate Law and Urban Planning and Joshua Muldavin as a visiting professor. Both bring deep experience and expertise in global urban issues: Muldavin is an Asia expert and Salo focuses on international law and urban governance in racialized subaltern urban collectives in South Africa, Northeast Brazil, and the American Midwest.
Aug 24, 2026
Sean Canty appointed assistant professor of architecture
The Department of Architecture is thrilled to announce the appointment of Sean Canty to the faculty as assistant professor. Canty is an architect and educator whose work explores the capacity of architectural form to reorganize spatial norms and forms of social life.
Events
Modernism: Born in California | Environmental Design Archives Exhibition
Mon | May 18, 2026 – Wed | Sep 30, 2026
Lifchez / Stronach Exhibition Cases, Environmental Design Library, Bauer Wurster Hall
Yung Ho Chang: How a House in the Sky Landed on Earth? | Inaugural Stanley Saitowitz Alumni Lecture
Wed | Sep 9, 2026
6 – 7:30 pm
112 Bauer Wurster Auditorium
Peter Norton: Learning from Experience — The Past and Future of Urban Mobility | City & Regional Planning Lecture
Thu | Sep 10, 2026
3:30 – 5 pm
106 Bauer Wurster Hall
Ariel Bierbaum: Schools for Sale — Disinvestment, Dispossession, and the Promise of Reparative Planning in School Building Reuse | City & Regional Planning Lecture
Thu | Oct 1, 2026
3:30 – 5 pm
106 Bauer Wurster Hall
Magdalena Ugarte: Rethinking the Normative — Settler State Planning, Indigenous Law, and Grounded Legal Pluralism | City & Regional Planning Lecture
Thu | Oct 15, 2026
3:30 – 5 pm
106 Bauer Wurster Hall
Kimberly Garza & Erik Prince: Small Moves, Meaningful Change | Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Lecture
Wed | Oct 21, 2026
5:30 – 7 pm
112 Bauer Wurster Auditorium