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Morris Adjmi's Anchor House helps new Berkeley students feel at home

2024-11-26T11:37:00-05:00

Morris Adjmi Architects' new Helen Diller Anchor House student housing project has debuted on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley.

Photo by Jason O'Rear

The project is a resource meant to house transfer students who are a vital part of the UC system and more likely to be first-generation college students from low-income backgrounds than their peers. Anchor House has ample space for their transition with 772 beds at 450,650 square feet. Its construction was funded entirely through the Helen Diller Family Foundation, helping the university towards its 9,000-bed goal to end a housing crisis that has persisted for almost a decade.

Photo by Jason O'Rear

Adjmi’s team situated the mixed-use development, which offers 11,500 square feet of ground-level retail space to non-related dorm establishments like a bookstore and fitness center that help fund its maintenance and scholarships for students, in a prime gateway location adjacent to the western edge of campus.

Photo by J...

Pioneering UC Berkeley professor Sim Van der Ryn dies aged 89

2024-11-18T16:06:00-05:00

Dutch architect Sim Van der Ryn, a pioneer of green architecture and a longtime professor at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, has died at age 89 according to the San Francisco Chronicle. He will be remembered for his experimental teaching methods and approach to designing buildings as ecological systems, both of which later became widely accepted as either field looked to embrace sustainability as its new baseline standard.

Van der Ryn's memorial page on the CED's website also credits his work with Murray Silverstein as leading the way for post-occupancy user studies. Dean Renee Y. Chow added her own context to his legacy at the school, saying: "Sim was one of the people who laid the foundation for CED’s ongoing commitment to resilience and environmental equity. He was focused on how to build in environmentally friendly, energy-efficient, socially just ways long before 'sustainability' was even a term in the architectural lexicon. His influence, on Berkeley and beyo...

Julia Morgan’s first home design lists for $1.9 million in Berkeley

2024-10-02T18:08:00-04:00

Julia Morgan’s first residential design completed after opening her own practice has hit the real estate market in the Bay Area after listing for the first time in 50 years. The 116-year-old home owned by architect Claude Stoller until his death last year in Berkeley is just steps from UC Berkeley’s campus and includes four bedrooms and 3.5 baths in a 2,555-square-foot envelope.

The listing is for $1.9 million. According to SFGate.com, which first reported the news last week, "The property is also a mix of Morgan’s original vision and contemporary amenities: The 4,182-square-foot lot hosts the home as well as an outbuilding — itself a diminutive replica of the main house — currently used as a studio, and a redwood board and batten garage with a 220-volt power outlet. Established maple and redwood trees as well as a vine-covered pergola put the finishing touches on this historic landscape."

Image: Peter Lyons/Claudia Mills Real Estate Team

Morgan, who designed the famed Hearst Castle ...

Terner Center's report on construction defect liability turns a new page for California housing reformers

2024-07-26T11:48:00-04:00

The latest report from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation on the stasis of multifamily developments in California has identified existing construction defect liability laws as a barrier to enabling housing justice statewide.

This issue involves the risk taken on by developers of condominium projects and particularly affects BIPOC communities who are less likely to be homeowners than their peers. California’s policies are therein compared to others in the United States and Canada. The findings will help lead to legal reforms to increase homeownership and should be considered especially by architects working in the state's surging multifamily market.

New Terner Center study assesses the impact of SB 4's implementation in California

2023-09-16T10:37:00-04:00

A new study from the University of California, Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation has uncovered over 171,749 acres of developable land owned by nonprofit colleges or faith-based organizations in the state, bolstering the aims of the “Yes in God’s Backyard” movement as it pushes Governor Gavin Newsom to sign SB 4 by the end of next month.

The bill passed the state senate along with the related SB 423 on Monday. If signed into law, it would streamline the process by which churches and other nonprofit organizations can enact housing at sites that previously had been limited by local land use restrictions and the California Environmental Quality Act (or CEQA).

Supporters of the measure have said it will help increase housing in much-needed communities where displacement and homelessness have become the norm as rising expenses and pushback on the part of local municipalities in the wake of SB 9 threaten to derail efforts statewide.

Previously on Archinect: Plan to let churc...

Walter Hood prepares to lead UC Berkeley's landscape department

2023-08-24T11:37:00-04:00

Professor Walter Hood is set to become chair of UC Berkeley's Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning (LAEP) for a two-year term beginning this fall. Berkeley describes Hood as “one of the pre-eminent American landscape designers working today,” whose projects “combine architectural and public art approaches with a concern for ecological sustainability.”

As our 2021 interview explored, Hood's education began at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED), where he obtained both his Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Architecture in 1989, followed by an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Joining CED's faculty in 1993, Hood has previously held the position of LAEP department chair, serving one term, and was honored with the Woo Chair for Design Excellence from 2012 to 2022.

Archinect Feature: Othering Blackness in Design: Reflections with Walter Hood

Meanwhile, Hood's literary contributions include authoring Urban Diar...

UC Berkeley’s successful environmental design summer programs are back on campus

2022-05-03T16:15:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

The College of Environmental Design (CED) at UC Berkeley was the first college to combine architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning in one entity. This happened in the 1950s, and throughout the years, students have benefited from CED’s interdisciplinary approaches, as well as the strengths of the college’s individual departments alike. For example, CED has been consistently placed in the Top 10 QS ranking in the category Architecture & Built Environment.

In 2022, the CED Summer Programs are in their ninth year and continue to build their success upon the unique tradition and achievement of the college. Summer Program participants consistently give the programs and their instructors excellent reviews. Additionally, CED Summer Programs alumni have been admitted to graduate degree programs at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, UCLA, Yale, and last but not least, UC Berkeley.

The faculty a...

California's inventory of disused strip malls may be an overlooked option to shore up its housing stock by 2030

2022-05-02T12:35:00-04:00

Converting empty or underutilized strip malls and shopping centers into mixed-use residential and retail developments could help solve California’s housing shortage crisis and allow stores to stay afloat amid the shift to online shopping, said housing experts and industry leaders during a panel at the Urban Land Institute’s spring meeting last week in San Diego. However, that transformation will require cities to change their land-use policies.

Greyfield land may be the most underutilized resource in the state’s harried attempt to create the more than 2.5 million housing units required to meet demands set forth by the Department of Housing and Community Development in March. A bill introduced last week by state rep Buffy Wicks would include them along with disused offices and environmentally unhealthy parking lot spaces in a zoning update that could allow developers to make relatively quick conversions into mixed-use sites with job-site provisions for apprenticeship employment.

With a portion of the state's population moving east, the measure has the most potential in embattled urban areas like LA or San Diego. According to a report from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, around 40% of the state’s 50 largest cities do not allow for residential development on designated commercial plots currently....

Lisa Iwamoto has been appointed as the new Chair of Architecture at UC Berkeley's CED

2021-12-14T17:25:00-05:00

UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED) has named a successor to its Architecture Chair in its effort to fill a leadership void created after popular former dean Vishaan Chakrabarti announced his unexpected departure in early September.

Current Professor of Architecture Lisa Iwamoto was appointed Chair of the department effective December 1st by the CED’s acting Dean Renee Chow.

Iwamoto has been on the faculty at Berkeley for the past two decades and is also a founding partner of the San Francisco-based practice IwamotoScott Architecture, which has won multiple national awards since its founding in 2002.

“I am pleased to appoint Lisa as the next chair of the department. She has dedicated her career to balancing practice with academia and enters the position with a well-rounded approach to architectural education that can meet the contemporary environmental challenges and opportunities we face,” Chow said in a statement.

Iwamoto is a graduate of the Harvard GSD and the U...

Vishaan Chakrabarti is stepping down as Dean of Berkeley CED

2021-09-24T16:05:00-04:00

Berkeley CED dean Vishaan Chakrabarti has announced he will be leaving his post at the university to return to New York over pressing family medical concerns.

Chakrabarti ascended to the position in 2019 after a successful career in New York, where he quickly established his firm PAU as an industry leader in sustainable design.

The 55-year-old left said he Berkeley with a “new foundation from which to build” and departs in the midst of a tenure in which CED underwent a tremendous amount of change and restructuring.

A university statement cited Chakrabarti’s “enormous mark on the college over the past year, even in the midst of a global pandemic” and praised the architect for his leadership commitment to social justice issues.

Chakrabarti was able to raise over $17 million for the college during his tenure as Dean and leaves behind a legacy of innovation, collaboration, and thoughtful stewardship.

Previously featured on Archinect shortly after Chakrabarti was named new dean at ...

UC Berkeley revises proposed People's Park housing scheme as Chancellor promises to accommodate its unhoused population

2021-09-01T16:48:00-04:00

An amended plan for new student housing at the University of California, Berkeley has been announced amidst protests surrounding the development that have touched on issues related to the state’s ongoing housing crisis.

Local outlets are now reporting that the planned dormitory in People’s Park will be reduced to 12 stories and moved to direct more sunlight onto the city’s landmark First Church of Christ, Scientist, which was designed by prominent Arts and Crafts Movement architect Bernard Maybeck in 1910.

The housing development as viewed from Dwight Way. Image courtesy LMS Architects / Hood Design Studio via UC Berkeley.

University Chancellor Carol Christ said the revised double-winged scheme will still be able to accommodate approximately 1,100 residents (down from the original 1,200) and that the school will wait until it can comply with demands of protesters before it breaks ground on the new housing complex.

Students gathered last week at the park’s iconic Sather Gate to prot...

The University of Virginia names Malo A. Hutson as dean of the School of Architecture

2021-05-17T18:10:00-04:00

Columbia University professor Malo A. Hutson has been appointed as the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, effective July 1st. Hutson, who is currently a tenured professor and director of the Urban Planning Ph.D. Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University as well as the school’s Urban Community and Health Equity Lab, succeeds Ila Berman, who served as dean of the UVA School of Architecture for five years and will return to the school’s faculty.

With a nationally and internationally recognized expertise in the subjects of community development, environmental justice, and urban health, “Hutson brings with him a proven track record of academic leadership, and his collaborations across disciplines in both the academic and professional sphere place him at the nexus of environmental, architectural and urban equity studies,” as said by UVA Today.

“I’m thrilled to be joining the School of Architect...

Jason Young has been named the next dean of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's College of Architecture and Design

2021-05-13T19:46:00-04:00

Jason Young, professor and director of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s School of Architecture, has been named the next dean of the College of Architecture and Design effective July 1. [...] Young will succeed Dean Scott Poole, who announced in 2020 that he would step down and return to the faculty, continuing a successful 35-year career of teaching, professional practice, service, and leadership, with many accomplishments and accolades along the way.

"Young will succeed Dean Scott Poole, who announced in 2020 that he would step down and return to the faculty, continuing a successful 35-year career of teaching, professional practice, service, and leadership, with many accomplishments and accolades along the way." — The University of Tennessee Knoxville

Young will oversee the college’s four schools: architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, and design. Before the University of Tennessee, Young taught architecture at the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley as the 2013 Howard Friedman Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, the Summer Institute for Architecture at the Catholic University of America, and served as a visiting professor at the Schwerpunkt Holz in Murau, Austria.

Jason Young’s academic research explores contemporary conditions of American urbanism in a post-city, digitally organized culture. He has lectured on his research at institutions including, the Rhode Island Schoo...

Vishaan Chakrabarti assumes deanship at UC Berkeley CED

2020-08-04T15:29:00-04:00

Nearly 15 years after earning an M.Arch degree from the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, architect, educator, and author Vishaan Chakrabarti has taken the reins of the college as its new Dean.

In a welcome note published to the school's website, Chakrabarti reflects on the "intertwined challenges" facing rising architecture and design students, explaining that "the world is at an inflection point like no other."

Previously on Archinect: "Deans List: Berkeley's Vishaan Chakrabarti on Rejecting the False Choices Embodied by Recent Architectural Pedagogies." Vishaan Chakrabarti is the new dean at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Image courtesy of Columbia University.

"From the righteous calls on city streets for racial, economic, and environmental justice; to the disproportionate impacts of this global pandemic on black and brown communities; to the promise and pitfalls of new technologies; to the fraying ...

Berkeley CED Professor Emeritus Raymond Lifchez donates $2.5 million for Universal Design-focused endowed professorship

2020-05-21T18:57:00-04:00

University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design (CED) Professor Emeritus Raymond Lifchez has donated $2.5 million to the college in order to create a new endowed teaching position focused on universal design.

Previously on Archinect: "Unpacking The Spatial Implications Of Architecture's Accessibility Failures." Image courtesy of Murmurs and Josh Schaedel.

The new Lifchez Professor of Practice in Universal Design position will help bring additional design and pedagogical energies to the topics of accessibility and universal design, two areas that Professor Lifchez has pursued over his 50-year-long career at CED.

According to a news post published by the school, the Professor of Practice in Universal Design will rotate between departments within CED, which include Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and City and Regional Planning.

Virtual events to join today and over the weekend include an open house for UC Berkeley and a mid-century modernism tour of Chicago

2020-05-15T08:00:00-04:00

Today's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, are hosted by UC Berkeley and the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Are you hosting a virtual lecture? Presentation? Tour? Interview? Happy Hour? Submit it for consideration by clicking here.

Are you an expert in an arena that's especially important right now? Let us know if you would like to work with Archinect to host an online event.

College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley presents a Virtual Gallery Open House
Friday, May 15, 2020 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
As we move to remote learning this summer, we will utilize immersive technology including virtual and augmented reality to explore the latent potential of digital platforms for creativity and collaboration. A Disc*2020 Virtual Reality Gallery Open House to experience first hand what design pedagogy in a post-studio landscape can look like.
Click here to attend and/or register

CAC Live: Mid-Century Modernism Tour
Sunday, May 17, 2020 | 1:00 PM – 2...

The Crumple and the Scrape: Two Archi-Textures in the Mode of Queer Gender

2020-03-05T20:59:00-05:00

Texture is the condition of possibility through which our bodies meet environments; like gender in its relationality, texture is palpable only in becoming. So did the blue carpet in my childhood bedroom enmesh gender between my toes? And if we alter texture — including how we talk about it — might we transform gender in both minute and brash ways?

Whether or not they realize it, architecture critics generally build a body into their writings. And we must allow ourselves, and others, to write bodies other than cis, straight, white, able ones into the affect of our analyses. Changing words — say, crafting new architectural metaphors for trans and queer embodiments — can alter our perceptions of bodies and buildings alike.

Lucas Crawford, the latest recipient of the Arcus/Places Prize for innovative public scholarship on gender, sexuality, and the built environment, explores how the language of architectural criticism influences the ways that we discuss the design of built space.

The Arcus/Places Prize is an ongoing collaboration between Places Journal and the Diversity Platforms Committee of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley's housing innovation center launches cost-saving startup lab

2019-05-24T20:15:00-04:00

A growing number of entrepreneurs are leading the way, challenging our antiquated housing system and creating new ways for housing to be more equitable and affordable across the board. However, they need support navigating the complex policy environment and accessing the necessary capital. The Housing Lab will advise promising ventures while they evolve their business models and connect them with the industry leaders and capital to achieve greater scale.

In California, the collapse of proposed statewide legislation that would have eliminated single-family zoning and could have boosted density along transit corridors has left housing activists scrambling.

While state legislators regroup to tackle the structural issues, like zoning, underpinning California's housing crisis, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation is putting its money on...well, money. This week, The Terner Center, a partnership between the College of Environmental Design and the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, unveiled the nation's first housing innovation startup lab focused on lowering the cost of housing. The group has partnered with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and is currently accepting applications from existing housing innovation ventures that are ready to be incubated to success.

Applications for the inaugural cohort are due June 10th.

UC Berkeley’s new Master of Real Estate Development & Design program puts innovative design and sustainability at the center of real estate

2018-11-01T13:08:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by the University of California, Berkeley

In June 2018, UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED) launched its unique 11-month Master’s program that revolves around a central mission: to build more sustainable, prosperous and equitable cities.

The inaugural class of 16 students bring wide-ranging national and international experience in development, architecture and planning practice, affordable housing, policy, and economics. Throughout the year, students build dynamic career networks and learn directly from distinguished developers, entrepreneurs, designers, and planners in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The program offers an especially competitive edge to students by providing a world-class education at one of the top research universities in the world. CED’s professional programs focused on the built environment ranked #1 among all public universities in the country, and Berkeley ranks #3 in the world in the area of architecture and the built e...

Unbuilding Gender

2018-10-05T18:16:00-04:00

Gordon Matta-Clark’s inventive site-specific cuts into abandoned buildings demonstrated approaches to the concept of home and to the market system of real estate that were anarchistic, creatively destructive, and full of queer promise.

In "Unbuilding Gender," Jack Halberstam extends the ideas of unbuilding and creative destruction that characterize Gordon Matta-Clark's work to develop a queer concept of anarchitecture focused on the trans* body.

Halberstam is the 2018 recipient of the Arcus/Places Prize for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. The biennial prize is a unique collaboration between the Diversity Platforms Committee of the College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley, and Places, supported by the college’s Arcus Endowment.

UC Berkeley names Renee Y. Chow new Architecture Chair

2018-09-27T15:48:00-04:00

The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Renee Y. Chow as the newest Chair of the Department of Architecture. Chow, who has taught at the College since 1993, began her tenure in July. Most recently, she was the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and formerly held the Eva Li Chair in Design Ethics (2005-2010) at CED.

Professor Chow, who is also a principal of Berkeley-based firm STUDIO URBIS: Architecture/Urban design, on her vision as the department's new Chair: "I hope to immediately strengthen our connections with the larger community—professional, alumni—and with residents and agencies in the Bay Area. I want the department to be seen as a resource and a partner in exploring the future of architecture and environmental design."

Berkeley's College of Environmental Design Launches Masters in Real Estate Development and Design

2017-10-17T11:00:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by the University of California, Berkeley

The College of Environmental Design (CED) at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to announce the formation of an innovative advanced degree in real estate development. The newly launched Masters in Real Estate Development + Design (MRED+D) is an 11-month interdisciplinary degree program incorporating finance and cutting-edge design to prepare real estate development professionals to build sustainable, equitable, and prosperous cities.

As our rapidly urbanizing world faces major challenges—from climate change to social inequality—creating a need for professionals who understand the power of design and have a deep knowledge not only of the mechanics of real estate, but also how development can bring positive benefits to society and the environment, is paramount to the future.“As a developer with both private and public sector experience, I know the importance of the built environment and its design to ...

Mapping how LA's expanding Metro network fuels gentrification (or not)

2016-09-09T14:01:00-04:00

Researchers from the Urban Displacement project, a joint UCLA and UC Berkeley effort, recently released a gentrification map of Los Angeles. They examined the city from 1990 to 2000 and up to 2015, focusing on neighborhoods near transit stops. The goal was to see if these areas saw higher rents and more displacement than other areas. The answer? Yes — with some exceptions.

Some of the UCLA researchers' key findings for Los Angeles Country (via the project's website, urbandisplacement.org):

Our analysis found that areas around transit stations are changing and that many of the changes are in direction of neighborhood upscaling and gentrification.
Examining the changes from 2000 to 2013, we find that relative to non-transit areas, transit neighborhoods are more associated with higher increases in whites, college educated, higher income households and greater increases in the cost of rent. Conversely, transit neighborhoods are associated with greater losses in disadvantaged populations including individuals with less than a high school diploma and lower income households.
The impacts of changes vary across locations but the biggest impacts seem to be around the Downtown areas where transit-oriented development interacts with other interventions aiming to revitalize the urban form.

Click here for the interactive LA map. — Looking for the SF Bay Area map inste...

DS+R's Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive announces first exhibit, preps for 2016 opening

2015-03-27T17:26:00-04:00

The Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive recently revealed details to their inaugural exhibition and other fun-sounding programs as they prepare to move into their new downtown Berkeley location at Oxford and Center Streets, across the University of California, Berkeley campus. The new museum -- which Diller Scofidio + Renfro was commissioned to design -- is scheduled to open in early 2016.

With DS + R as design architect, the $112 million project will integrate the former UC Berkeley printing plant and a new steel-clad curvilinear structure, encompassing about 82,000 sq.ft total. The new structure will include improved accessible spaces to house BAM/PFA's exhibition spaces, film screenings, offices, and other public amenities. On the other hand, the project preserves some original elements of the UC Berkeley printing plant such as the north-facing sawtooth roof to let natural light filter into the ground-floor galleries.

The new structure will also feature two film theaters (232 ...

UC Berkeley team unveils "Bloom" 3D-printed cement structure

2015-03-06T20:49:00-05:00

A UC Berkeley research team led by Ronald Rael, associate professor of architecture, will unveil today (Friday, March 6) the first and largest powder-based 3-D-printed cement structure built to date. The debut of this groundbreaking project is a demonstration of the architectural potential of 3-D printing. It will close the fifth annual Berkeley Circus, which celebrates the research and accomplishments of the College of Environmental Design (CED) community.

Get Lectured: UC Berkeley, Fall '14

2014-10-02T14:09:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2014

Say hello to another edition of Archinect's Get Lectured! As a refresher, we'll be featuring a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next featured poster comes from the University of California - Berkeley, College of Environmental Design.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Unless noted, all events begin at 6:30 p.m. at 112 Wurster Hall, and are open to the public. Below are upcoming department of Architecture events only.

Oct. 8
THE MAKING OF THE AVANT GARDE
Film screening + panel with Diana Agrest / Cooper Union - NY
Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects - San Francisco
Sylvia Lavin / UCLA - Los Angeles
Nicholas de Monchaux / UC Berkeley

Oct. 15
KEES CHRISTIAANSE / Kees Christiaanse Architects + Planners - Z...

Sheila Kennedy of KVA MATx wins 2014 Berkeley-Rupp Prize

2014-09-15T18:47:00-04:00

Sheila Kennedy — a principal of KVA MATx and the first woman to hold the title of Professor of the Practice of Architecture at MIT’s School of Architecture & Planning — was announced today as the 2014 recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Prize.

Awarded every two years by the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design (CED), the $100,000 Berkeley-Rupp Prize is given to a distinguished design practitioner or academic who has made significant contribution to advance gender equity in the field of architecture, and whose work exhibits commitment to sustainability and community. The prize consists of a semester-long professorship, a public lecture, and a gallery exhibition at the CED. Deborah Berke of Deborah Berke Partners received the inaugural Berkeley-Rupp Prize in 2012.

Kennedy is scheduled to begin her residence in January 2015. On February 4, she will give a public lecture on soft infrastructure followed by an open studio exhibition showcasing her work in progress at Wurster Hall on the U...

Cal Architecture Grad Asks Fellow Alums to Urge Toy Titan: LEGO My Campanile

2014-05-01T13:16:00-04:00

He merely wanted to immortalize the most iconic of Berkeley’s icons—the Sather Tower campanile—in a Lego kit. “A couple of months ago I started fooling around with Legos and I made a couple of mock-ups of the Campanile,” he recalls. “I knew that Lego has a suggestion site—if you submit a proposal and it gets 10,000 votes, they’ll consider making a kit. I thought it would be very cool if they included the Berkeley Campanile in their architecture series.”

2014 BERKELEY PRIZE Winners Announced

2014-04-21T17:27:00-04:00

The winners of the 16th annual international BERKELEY PRIZE competition were just announced. The 2014 challenge revolved around the topic: 'The Architect and the Healthful Environment.' 141 undergraduate architecture students from 28 countries responded to this year’s call to describe examples of healthful and unhealthful environments in their respective cities and to compare them analytically.

Get Lectured: UC Berkeley, Spring '14

2014-02-12T17:41:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season. Be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next poster comes from the University of California, Berkeley - College of Environmental Design. Their Spring poster shows off a French Pop-Tone Sour Apple paper and a fluorescent blue overprint gradient.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Lectures will take place at 6:30 pm in 112 Wurster Hall, unless otherwise noted. Listed below are upcoming lecture events only. Events open to the public.

FEBRUARY

Feb 12
The City of Devi
Manil Suri / University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Rajat Dutta / Trikone, Bay Area and Funding377NoGoingBack
Harsha Mal...