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Mastering Interdisciplinary Architecture and Sustainable Urbanism at UC Berkeley

Rene Submissions — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:30:00 +0000

Today, interdisciplinary learning and exchange are more important than ever in addressing increasingly complex environmental, social, and urban challenges.

Sometimes, All It Takes Is One Course to Unlock a New Future in Architecture and Design

Rene Submissions — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:30:00 +0000

Are you considering a career in architecture or environmental design? The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley offers immersive summer programs that could help you decide if these creative fields are right for you. Whether you're a professional, undergraduate, or high school student, CED's Summer Programs offer you an invaluable opportunity to explore architecture, urban design, sustainable city planning, and landscape architecture.

The Curb Cut Effect: How Accessible Architecture is Benefiting Everybody

Maria-Cristina Florian — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:00:00 +0000

The fabric of our cities is shaped by millions of small decisions and adaptations, many of which have become integral to our experience. Nowadays taken for granted, some of these elements were revolutionary at the time of their implementation. One such element is the curb cut, the small ramp grading down the sidewalk to connect it to the adjoining street, allowing wheelchair users and people with motor disabilities to easily move onto and off the sidewalk. This seemingly small adaptation has proven to be unexpectedly useful for a wider range of people, including parents with strollers, cyclists, delivery workers, etc. Consequently, it lends its name to a wider phenomenon, the “curb cut effect”, where accommodations and improvements made for a minority end up benefiting a much larger population in expected and unexpected ways.

QS World Rankings Selects Best Universities to Study Architecture in 2023

Christele Harrouk — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:30:00 +0000

QS- Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings just announced the 2023 top universities to study Architecture and the Built Environment. The index rates over 1,400 schools and covers a total of 54 disciplines, grouped into five broad subject areas, based on five indicators "to effectively reflect their performance, taking into account academic reputation, employer reputation, and faculty research".

There’s More Than One Way to Define Context

Emily B. Marthinsen — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Top Universities for Architecture in 2022, According to QS World Rankings

Christele Harrouk — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 04:30:00 +0000

The annual QS- Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings has announced the 2022 top universities. Covering 51 different subjects, the index rates universities across the globe according to academic reputation, employer reputation, and research impact. With few changes to the top 10 in the 2022 Architecture/ Built Environment category, MIT remained in the first position, for the third consecutive year, also topping the charts for the general QS World University Rankings.

"Architecture Can Heal": MASS Design Group's Katie Swenson on Building Equity Together

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 07:30:00 +0000

More inclusive, equitable futures are grounded in how we design for justice and the human condition. Katie Swenson is a Senior Principal of international non-profit MASS Design Group, and she has spent her career building social equity and advocating environmental sustainability. At the heart of her work is a thread of collective optimism, a knack for bringing people together to create healthier communities that promote human dignity and joy.

Call for Submissions // Disc*2020 Is Going Remote!

Rene Submissions — Thu, 07 May 2020 11:56:00 +0000

Disc*2020 (Design & Innovation for Sustainable Cities) is a five week summer program for currently enrolled college students that explores an interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach to design and analysis in the urban environment.

Now, more than ever, there is a need for Resilient Design and Planning in our cities in response to the unprecedented challenges of the global pandemic, climate change, and social inequities. Disc* brings together interdisciplinary students and expert practitioners from around the world to reframe these challenges as opportunities for design innovation.

As we move to remote learning this summer, we will utilize immersive technology including virtual

Call for Submissions // 2020 Summer [IN]SITU: A Virtual Summer Institute in Environmental Design

Rene Submissions — Thu, 07 May 2020 11:55:00 +0000

UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design is now accepting applications for the 2020 Summer [IN]SITU: A Virtual Summer Institute in Environmental Design.

The Summer Institute gives participants the opportunity to test their enthusiasm for the material and culture of architecture, landscape architecture and sustainable city planning.

The Institute is geared towards post-baccalaureate participants with no previous experience in design, or experienced designers who wish to explore an aspect of environmental design outside of their primary discipline.

The Institute consists of four cohorts:

[IN]ARCH ADV is an advanced studio for current students or recent alumni of architecture programs. It places emphasis on an iterative process

Design Your Summer! UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design is Now Accepting Applications

Rene Submissions — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 04:30:00 +0000

Today's designers have inherited unprecedented global challenges, a legacy which will require radically new ways of fashioning the buildings, places and landscapes that harbor our diverse ways of life. The College of Environmental Design offers several introductory and advanced programs for those interested in confronting these challenges in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, and sustainable city planning. Please visit Berkeley's Summer Programs website to view images of student work and learn more about the CED Summer experience.

Design Your Summer! UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design is Now Accepting Applications

Sponsored Post — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:30:00 +0000

Today’s designers have inherited unprecedented global challenges. This legacy will require radically new ways to fashion the buildings, places and landscapes that harbor our diverse ways of life.

Call for Applications: Summer [IN]STITUTE in Environmental Design

Rene Submissions — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:30:00 +0000

UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design is now accepting applications from prospective participants in the 2016 Summer [IN]STITUTE in Environmental Design. This six week intensive summer program gives students the opportunity to test their enthusiasm for the material and culture of environmental design.

The Summer [IN]STITUTE consists of [IN]ARCH, [IN]LAND and [IN]CITY, three introductory programs in architecture, landscape architecture and sustainable city planning for post-baccalaureate students and senior-level undergraduates, as well as [IN]ARCH ADV, an advanced studio for post-baccalaureate students who have a degree in architecture or who are senior-level architecture majors.

Call for Applications: Summer [IN]STITUTE in Environmental Design

Rene Submissions — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:32:00 +0000

Call for Submissions: GROUND UP Journal, Issue 5

Rene Submissions — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 07:40:00 +0000

Euclid understood lines as ‘breadthless lengths,’ defined by two points and stretching on into infinity. But delineations can also be as small and simple as a flick of the wrist; the mind moving out of the hand into a gesture. Vassily Kandinsky believed lines to be ‘created by movement – specifically through the destruction of the intense self-contained repose of the point.’ Process is suggested; moments emerge from the continuity to form a rhythm. When the abstract becomes physical, delineations unite and exclude. Sociologist T.K. Oommen sees ‘the very story of human civilization’ in shifting and overlapping boundaries of all kinds. Whether blurred or accentuated, instantaneous or permanent, representational or manifest, intentional or happenstance, DELINEATIONS in the landscape are consequential. They have a story to tell.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive to Open in 2016

Holly Giermann — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 08:00:14 +0000

As construction continues on its new home across from the UC Berkeley campus, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is finalizing plans for its first exhibition - Architecture of Life - in this location. The curvilinear structure, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with EHDD as executive architect, fuses old and new, outfitting what was the UC Berkeley printing plant with modern exhibition space, offices, and theaters to make it a focal point in Berkeley's downtown arts district.

Neri&Hu: Redefining the Meaning of 'Made in China'

Finn MacLeod — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

When Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu arrived in Shanghai in 2000, working on a project for Michael Graves, they had no plans to stay. "Three months turned into six, then eight," said Neri of his first visit; fourteen years later, Neri & Hu Design and Research Office operates from Shanghai with more than 100 multi-disciplinary staff. The firm has developed a reputation for their original designs in a landscape dominated by duplicate architecture. In a recent article in The Star Online, Leong Siok Hui maps Neri & Hu's road to success, featuring their work on Design Collective and The Waterhouse at South Bund. Read more here.

Study Shows Green Office Buildings Don't Make Happier Workers

Jennifer Whelan — Wed, 14 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever wondered if you would be happier working in a LEED building? Wonder no more - a new study says no. Although the findings indicate employees are generally satisfied with working in green-certified buildings, they are no happier than they would be in a non-LEED building. The study, which contradicts previous findings, was conducted by Sergio Altomonte from the Department for Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham and Stefano Schiavon from the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California Berkeley.

Deborah Berke awarded new Berkeley-Rupp Prize

Karissa Rosenfield — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:00:38 +0000

Deborah Berke, a New York City-based architect known for her design excellence, scholarly achievement and commitment to moving the practice of architecture forward in innovative ways, was selected as the first recipient of the University of California, Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED) inaugural 2012 Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize.