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7. In their fourth year, architecture students at CED can choose between these two tracks.
What are the studio track and the research track?
The Urban Studies major is housed within this department at the College of Environmental Design.
What is the Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP)?
West of the Mississippi River, this is the largest resource under Environmental Design.
What is College of Environmental Design Library?
These are 3 resources offered by CED.
What are Fab shop, DFL, Archives, Berkeley Engagement Center, Materials Store, CED Library?
This husband-and-wife duo played a key role in shaping modern architecture and planning education at UC Berkeley, with their namesake building serving as the home of the College of Environmental Design.
Who are Catherine and William Wurster?
Pin-ups, critiques, and reviews are common aspects of this core component of an architecture student’s education.
What is studio life?
This sustainable building practice, such as using plant-covered structures on rooftops, is emphasized in the program as an example of sustainability.
What are green roofs?
This on-campus facility provides tools, including 3D printers, laser cutters, and woodworking equipment for CED students.
What is the fabrication shop
This CED research center focuses on urban sustainability, resilience, and equitable city planning.
What is IURD? (Institue of Urban and Regional Development)
This minor is open to all majors except urban studies.
What is city planning?
Lisa Iwamoto, the chair of the Architecture Department at CED, designed these two projects featured in the presentation.
What are the ChengDu Pavilion and an ADU unit?
The SED major offers an interdisciplinary curriculum that equips students with both these critical skills for addressing sustainability issues.
What are technical skills and socio-cultural awareness?
Offers students access to advanced data visualization, spatial analysis tools, and remote sensing software, supporting research in urban planning, landscape architecture, and environmental design.
What is the GIS Lab?
One cannot minor in this specific minor because it is not offered by the college.
What is architecture?
This architectural style, characterized by raw concrete, geometric forms, and an emphasis on functionality, emerged in the mid-20th century and is exemplified by Wurster Hall at UC Berkeley.
What is Brutalist Architecture?
During their second year, students take lower-division studio courses that introduce them to these three design tools in addition to hand drafting.
The overarching goal of the Urban Studies major is to produce these two types of engaged individuals who will shape the future of cities.
What are urban citizens and global leaders?
Not offered by other colleges. It is a one stop shop.
What is CED Advising?
These traveling scholarships are there to encourage CED students to study abroad. Many of these awards are there to recognize students and their work, showcasing not just the talents of our students at the college, but also allowing them to be recognized by the bigger population.
What is the Geraldine Knight Scott traveling scholarship/Judith Lee Stronach undergraduate traveling scholarship?
CED’s flexible curriculum prepares students for careers in urban planning and this management field related to construction.
What is construction management?
This is an undergraduate studio with a central focus on climate modification for energy conservation. We will research historical precedents in order to develop new garden forms for passive green designs.
What is LDARCH103 Energy, Fantasy, and Form?
These four-course themes serve as a culminating and integrative experience for the Urban Studies major.
What are thesis, planning, research, and fieldwork?
This specialized collection within CED focuses on preserving materials related to modernist architecture and urban planning in the 20th century.
What is CED Archives?
Focus areas of CED, involves the process of carefully assessing issues before jumping to solutions, as well as emphasizing creative problem-solving.
What are design thinking and problem defining?
CED students tend to form this because they are provided resources of a large research institution with the feel and attention of a small college.
What is tight-knit community?