http://designbythebay.com Robin Chiang & Company Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:06:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://designbythebay.com/2012/01/house-william-wurster/ http://designbythebay.com/2012/01/house-william-wurster/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:10:11 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=1588 Urban Designer Jay Claiborne reflects on lessons learned from thirty-five years of living in a house designed by William Wurster. ]]> http://designbythebay.com/2012/01/house-william-wurster/feed/ 10 http://designbythebay.com/2011/11/artisanal-recycling/ http://designbythebay.com/2011/11/artisanal-recycling/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:11:10 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=1522 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. ]]> http://designbythebay.com/2011/11/artisanal-recycling/feed/ 4 http://designbythebay.com/2010/11/100-years-of-uc-berkeleys-architecture-department/ http://designbythebay.com/2010/11/100-years-of-uc-berkeleys-architecture-department/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:15:13 +0000 admin http://designbythebay.com/?p=1198 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.]]> http://designbythebay.com/2010/11/100-years-of-uc-berkeleys-architecture-department/feed/ 1 http://designbythebay.com/2010/02/brower-center-berkeley/ http://designbythebay.com/2010/02/brower-center-berkeley/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:30:22 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=697 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. ]]> http://designbythebay.com/2010/02/brower-center-berkeley/feed/ 6 http://designbythebay.com/2008/07/uc-berkeley-east-asian-library/ http://designbythebay.com/2008/07/uc-berkeley-east-asian-library/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:30:49 +0000 Sally B. Woodbridge http://designbythebay.com/?p=103 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. ]]> http://designbythebay.com/2008/07/uc-berkeley-east-asian-library/feed/ 0