February 13, 2018
Exploring connections among cinema, landscape design, local culture, and community identity.
March 16, 2015
The century-old edifice was initially built to give female students — who weren't allowed in Senior Hall — a place to congregate for social activities.
December 15, 2014
UC Berkeley Architecture students held the opening ceremony for their holistic garden, Nest We Grow, in Hokkaido, Japan.
November 18, 2014
An M.L.A. student has been honored by the ASLA for his design of the 16th Street Station in Oakland.
January 17, 2014
The Arts Research Center (ARC) has announced the selection of fellows for the 2014 ARC Fellows Program for UC Berkeley graduate students and faculty. The cohort, led by Professor Mary Ann Smart (Department of Music), includes faculty and students from a wide range of disciplines, including Architecture, Art Practice, Environmental Design, Ethnic Studies,…
June 1, 2012
These 12 people, in some ways the crème de la crème of this year's top graduate student instructors, have effectively, and often cleverly, identified, addressed, and documented a teaching problem they encountered and, for the benefit of all, told how they solved it. Read, for instance, how Sonja Schwartz reinvented the bean jar.
June 23, 2011
The unselfish help of mentors was recently recognized by the Graduate Division, the Sarlo Foundation, and the Graduate Assembly, in a warm gathering and in two friendly ambush-style presentations.
May 21, 2010
Walter Hood recently won a public art competition to design a planned solar energy array at the North Campus of the University of Buffalo in New York. Hood, a 20-year member of Berkeley's landscape architecture faculty, earned two graduate degrees here (M.L.A. '89, and M. Arch. '89).
August 27, 2009
Claire Weldin took her master’s degree in architecture to London a decade ago, “fascinated by the complex structure of cities: the multiplicity of urban experience and, underlying it, the presence of the past.” Today, as an Associate with Allies and Morrison Architects, she is leading the £370 million phase 2 King’s Cross Underground Station redevelopment.
April 28, 2008
When I was a graduate student, I was a teaching assistant (more than once) for a very inspiring mentor, a man named Manos Vakalo. His teams of teaching assistants had remarkable autonomy. He never questioned a grade we gave, and he always treated us as respected equals. In retrospect, we could be dumb at times; I remember bringing beer to a critique for our undergraduates, and Manos simply raising an eyebrow in reprimand. That, however, was enough. He had remarkable expressions, every one of which I think I could still imitate perfectly today, nearly 20 years later.