Urban Designer Jay Claiborne reflects on lessons learned from thirty-five years of living in a house designed by William Wurster.
Go to Post | January 12th, 2012berkeley
Artisanal Recycling by Leger Wanaselja
In this post, we highlight several projects from a Berkeley architectural firm that practices Artisanal Recycling, a craft-oriented approach to reusing materials and objects.
Go to Post | November 11th, 2011Book Review: 100 Years of UC Berkeley’s Architecture Department
After a decade of research, interviews, and editing, UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design has just published Design on the Edge: A Century of Teaching Architecture, 1903–2003, a book chronicling the history of the University’s Department of Architecture.
Go to Post | November 29th, 2010The new Brower Center in Berkeley
The recently completed David Brower Center is a memorial to a major figure in the environmental movement. The building design and its structural system were created to insure that the physical embodiment of Brower’s legacy would be a state-of-the-art expression of his life’s work.
Go to Post | February 8th, 2010UC Berkeley’s new East Asian Library
The C. V. Starr East Asian Library on the University of California’s Berkeley campus opened in March 2008. Designed by Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, the building occupies a site on the north edge of the Memorial Glade that is part of the campus’s landmarked Classical Core. Yet, while honoring its context, the architects have created a building that has more in common with the tenets of Modernism than those of Classicism.
Go to Post | July 15th, 2008
