ENVirons Magazine (Fall 2017) by College of Environmental Design, Cal Poly Pomona

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E EXPERIENTIAL GRAPHIC DESIGN IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT: SEOUL Assistant Professor Sooyun Im led a group of 13 students from her ART 299 special topics class for a visit to Seoul, South Korea, from June 17–July 1. The department’s study abroad program sought to introduce students to global design thinking by experiencing a variety of international inﬂuences, technologies, and unique environmental and cultural elements. Site visits included the Trick Eye Museum and Ice Museum; Doosung Paper Gallery; Bukchon Hanok Village, one of Seoul’s oldest neighborhoods; the 123-story Lo e World Tower; LG Electronics Design Campus; and the Joint Security Area in the Demilitarized Zone. View the full visual diary of the ART 299 South Korea visit at h p://sooyunim.info.

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Fall MANAGING EDITOR Samantha Gonzaga ENV Media & External Aﬀairs Coordinator ART DIRECTION Professor Alyssa Lang Associate Chair, Department of Art COPY EDITOR Gary C. Fong EDITORIAL CONSULTANT Kateri Butler

COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Michael Woo Dean Martin F. Sancho-Madriz Associate Dean Professor George Proctor Chair, Department of Architecture Professor Ray Kampf Chair, Department of Art Professor Andrew Wilcox Interim Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture Associate Professor Dohyung Kim Chair, Department of Urban and Regional Planning Professor Pablo La Roche Interim Director, John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies Jenkins Shannon Senior Director of Development

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ON THE COVERS Artwork by Professor Richard Willson, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Front cover: “Co onwood (2016),” oil on panel, painted at Co onwood Spring, Lower Mojave at Joshua Tree National Park Back cover: “4th Street Bridge (2017),” oil on canvas.

ABOUT THE FONT Neutraface is a family of fonts designed by Christian Schwartz, released by the type foundry House Industries in 2002, based upon the architectural le ering speciﬁed by Richard Neutra.

Desert Blooms Students partnered with four rural desert communities in the Mojave as part of Assistant Professor Courtney Knapp’s urban and regional planning studio class last fall.

A very special thank you to Juliana Terian (’80, architecture) for her generous gi that has made this magazine possible, and for her continued support of the College of Environmental Design.

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DEAN’s If only ENV were the subject of a hit mini-series on HBO or a summer blockbuster movie.…

I frequently hear from alumni, parents of current students, our allies at high schools and community colleges, and readers of ENVirons that our College of Environmental Design is still too much of a mystery. ENV is doing well at producing graduates ready to compete in the job market, but we’re still a well-kept secret. That is the simple idea underlying our upcoming ENV Festival, which will showcase the world of environmental design at Cal Poly Pomona, highlighting the diverse and sometimes awe-inspiring work and interests of our faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Several years ago, The New Yorker magazine launched the New Yorker Festival with events springing up in October at locations around New York City. The New Yorker Festival would stage events and a staff writer would interview a prominent author, movie director or actor; spend a morning touring the Frick Museum; or interview a musician interspersed with snippets of the musician performing songs. In some ways, the New Yorker Festival is like the magazine, but it happens in front of or with a live audience. We are hoping the ENV Festival will have the same effect, but instead of bringing life to the magazine, the ENV Festival will educate the outside world about the meaning of environmental design and the disciplines that comprise it, and the potential for ENV’s role in making the world a be er place through environmental design. By scheduling the festival for October and November (which happens to coincide with the Cal Poly Pomona application period for undergraduate freshmen and transfer student admissions for fall semester 2018), we will use the festival to reach out to an audience of prospective applicants, their families, friends, teachers and counselors. Think of it as an academic potluck. An ENV Festival may appeal to an audience that might not recognize the term environmental design, but is intellectually curious or is at least receptive to learning what it means. Maybe they’ve heard of Frank Lloyd Wright or Frank Gehry. Maybe they’ll give you a funny look if you say landscape architect or urban planner (but they’ve heard of the High Line). They might look blank the first time you try to explain the difference between graphic design and visual communication design, or bring up regenerative studies. But they know that “design” and “environment” mean something. They may have a passion for fighting climate change. Or conserving water. Housing the poor. Inventing the next killer app. Vertical farming. Figuring out whether robotics and autonomous technology can make city life more humane. Bringing an element of beauty or grace to a hardscrabble world. The unifying theme of the ENV Festival is “Design the Future.” Whether you design publications and websites, preserve historic buildings,

run a farmers market, write code for a national park app, fight groundwater contamination, analyze housing data, sketch production design for opera companies or theme parks, experiment with homeless shelter Dean Woo documenting mysterious urban phenomena designs, or design landscapes for in Ortigia, Sicily. community care facilities, you’re part of ENV’s mission to make the world be er by designing the future. We’re also going to emphasize this unifying theme in our outreach to high schools and community colleges. An ENV Festival, like ENV itself, isn’t going to change the world overnight. But we’ll have fun pu ing it on. Think of the ENV Festival as a version of pursuing truth in the company of friends. I’ll start by telling you how I plan to contribute to the ENV Festival. In October 2016, recreating a truly unique experience I had in summer school a ending USC’s Urban Semester program in 1972, ENV offered an all-night bus tour of downtown L.A. The point was to show people some important aspects of city life that are invisible when you go to sleep at night. We started at a downtown art gallery then went to the emergency room at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the central area Los Angeles Police Department station, the all-night construction site for the downtown regional connector, and finished at a wholesale produce company. We’re pu ing on another all-night bus tour Tuesday, Nov. 7, with an all-new downtown itinerary. For those who prefer to move around during the day, I’ll lead a Sunday walking tour of Hollywood on Oct. 22, starting with lunch at the Hollywood Farmers Market (of which I was a co-founder), and then walking around Hollywood to learn what makes that unique community tick. To close the ENV Festival in late November, I am working on an ENV-sponsored symposium in downtown Los Angeles on the advent of autonomous vehicles and their implications for architecture, planning and the future of cities. You may have to wait for the ENV mini-series on HBO or the ENV summer blockbuster. But check the ENV website for a complete and upto-date calendar, and please join us for some of the ENV Festival events running from mid-October to late November.

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Here’s a preview of festival events. Oct. 19, noon: “Francis Dean and the Art of Modern Landscape Architecture.” Learn about the founding partner of Eckbo Dean Austin & Williams. An exhibition preview with a curator’s lecture will be held in the Grand Meeting Room, third floor, University Library. An exhibition tour will follow in the Don B. Huntley Gallery. Oct. 22, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Tour of Hollywood. ENV Dean Michael Woo will lead a walking tour of Hollywood, starting with the Hollywood Farmers Market, now the largest certified farmers market in the City of Los Angeles. Woo helped to co-found the market in 1991. The tour will include other environmental design-related locations such as the Hollywood/Vine Metro Red Line station, Amoeba Music, historic preservation sites, and affordable housing complexes. Woo, who was the first urban planner elected to the Los Angeles City Council, initiated the Hollywood redevelopment plan that underlies Hollywood’s current revitalization. The tour is tentatively set to start at 9:30 a.m. at Selma and Ivar avenues. The $20 per person charge will pay for scrip that can be used to buy lunch and produce from the Hollywood Farmers Market. RSVP at h ps://hollywood-walking-tour-woo.eventbrite.com

Architecture Professor Kip Dickson will give the good, the bad and the ironic history of the Antoine Predock-designed CLA building.

Oct. 26, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: ENV Open House. High school and community college students interested in careers in environmental design can a end an open house and learn about ENV undergraduate programs and meet faculty members and current students. RSVP to h ps://fall-2017-env-open-house.eventbrite.com. Oct. 26, noon to 1 p;.m.: “The Dance of Idealism and Realism in the Environmental Design Disciplines.” A workshop with URP Professor Richard Willson. Location to be determined. Check env.cpp.edu for details.

Landscape architecture lecturer Keiji Uesugi’s walking tour will enlighten a endees on the background of Cal Poly Pomona’s Aratani Japanese Garden designed by his father, the late Professor Emeritus Takeo Uesugi.

Oct. 26, 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.: ENV Admissions Outreach Breakfast for High School and Community College Teachers and Counselors. The College of Environmental Design welcomes high school and community college teachers and counselors to learn about opportunities for their students in the environmental design ﬁelds. Chairs from the departments of architecture, art, landscape architecture, and urban and regional planning, and the director of the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies will address a endees. RSVP by Oct. 24 to fgloya@cpp.edu. \ 4 \ Fall

Oct. 30, noon: Aratani Japanese Garden Tour. The garden, which is adjacent to the CLA building in the heart of the campus, is familiar to current and former students, faculty and staﬀ. But few know the full story behind this idyllic spot and the philosophy behind the design. Join Keiji Uesugi, a lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture, for a one-hour walk through the Garden. He worked on the design of the garden with his late father, Takeo Uesugi, professor emeritus in the Department of Landscape Architecture. RSVP to sbgonzaga@cpp.edu. Nov. 1: Storytelling Through Design. ENV alumnus Bob Weis, president of Walt Disney Imagineering, and other leading practitioners will lead an interdisciplinary panel. Check env.cpp.edu for details. Nov. 2, noon to 1 pm: The Dynamics of Planners, Developers, and Architects in Reality. Real estate developer Gustavo A. Durán (’71, urban and regional planning), president of GD Realty Investments, gives a presentation and takes questions at a brown-bag lunch at the Building 7 Atrium.

For the full schedule, visit env.cpp.edu. Nov. 3, 12:15 p.m. CLA Tour. The ephemera and mythology of the Antoine Predock-designed CLA building will be addressed by architecture Professor Kip Dickson, who was here when the building was conceived, designed, built and inhabited. Meet for the tour at the bo om of the CLA building steps facing the construction site. Nov. 6, noon: Careers in Resilient Design. ENV alumnus Bruce Arita, forensic architect at Thornton Tomase i, has been in the thick of disaster-related crises including Hurricane Sandy and hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria. Meet Arita at a brown-bag lunch on campus and learn about the potential for careers in resilient design. Check env.cpp.edu for details. Nov. 7: Dean Woo’s All-Night Tour of Downtown L.A. Bus to depart Cal Poly Pomona campus around 11 p.m. and return by dawn the next day. Go to env.cpp.edu for more details. Nov. 9, 4 to 6 p.m.: Designing & Planning the Barrio: A Conversation with Frank Villalobos and Dr. Alvaro Huerta. Frank Villalobos (’70, architecture), president of Barrio Planners in East Los Angeles, comes back to ENV for a dialogue with Assistant Professor Alvaro Huerta who holds a joint appointment in the departments of urban and regional planning and ethnic and women’s studies. Building 7 Atrium. Nov. 14, 3 to 4 p.m.: ENV @ Gensler. The Los Angeles office of Gensler, the nation’s top revenue-generating architecture firm, is co-led by two Cal Poly Pomona architecture alumni and employs many ENV graduates. Current architecture majors and other ENV students are welcome at the Gensler office in downtown Los Angeles to meet ENV alumni who work for Gensler and hear about projects they are working on. A endance is limited to 30. Parking not validated; participants should carpool or take public transportation. RSVP required; contact Zaira Hernandez, president, Cal Poly Pomona AIAS at zchernandez@cpp.edu; or AIAS events coordinator Vi Phan at vphan@cpp.edu.

Walt Disney Imagineers turn big ideas into reality every day by combining experts from a variety of disciplines to create immersive, themed experiences for Disney Parks around the world. (Image courtesy of Walt Disney Imagineering)

Nov. 16, 6 to 7:30 p.m.: Francis Dean Exhibition Reception and Panel Discussion. The reception will be held in the Grand Meeting Room, third ﬂoor, University Library. The panel will convene from 7:45 to 9 p.m. in the Don B. Huntley Gallery. Got to env.cpp.edu for details. Nov. 17, 2 p.m.: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tour. Take a behindthe-scenes tour of JPL with visual strategist Dan Goods. The tour was arranged by Jenkins Shannon, ENV senior director of development. Space is limited to 20. RSVP at h ps://jpl-tour-with-env.eventbrite.com. Nov. 19, 11:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Tour of Barnsdall Art Park and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Michele Cairella-Fillmore, curator of the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery and the Don B. Huntley Gallery, will lead the tour. A endees will have a chance to explore LAMAG’s “Condemned to be Modern,” an exhibition about buildings in Latin America. Bring a lunch and join Cairella-Fillmore for a picnic and tour of Barnsdall Art Park’s gardens and vistas, and a tour of the Hollyhock House. Meet outside entrance of LAMAG. To RSVP, please send your name and number of guests in your party to artgalleries@cpp.edu.

Union Bank Plaza, Los Angeles, 1965, drawing: Eckbo, Dean Austin & Williams (Francis Dean Collection, ENV Archives-Special Collections)

Nov. 20: “Disruption and Design: How New Technologies and Energy Systems Will Change Architecture, Planning and the Future of Cities.” The symposium will address autonomous vehicles, new technologies and the advent of new energy systems with their implications for planning, architecture and cities. Check env.cpp.edu for details. Fall \ 5 \

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ENV OPEN HOUSE

Calling All Future Designers!

Dean Michael Woo welcomes guests a ending the ENV Open House in fall 2016.

DEAN’S OUTREACH BREAKFAST Dean Michael Woo will host an outreach breakfast at the Kellogg West Conference Center on Oct. 26 for the region’s high school counselors and teachers, community college advisors, and academic professionals. Get to know Cal Poly Pomona’s nationally ranked design programs over a complimentary breakfast and Q&A session with faculty and department chairs. Learn about admission requirements for ﬁrst-time freshmen and community college transfers, design disciplines and career paths to students, academic partnerships with the College of Environmental Design. Check-in starts at 7:45 a.m. h ps://fall-2017-env-outreach-breakfast.eventbrite.com

Associate Professor Michael Fox represents the Department of Architecture at the 2016 ENV Open House.

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Professor Andrew Wilcox gives a tour of a landscape architecture studio classroom at the 2016 ENV Open House.

Guests visit the art department table at the 2016 ENV Open House.

High school and community college students, their friends and families are invited to the Second Annual Fall ENV Open House on Oct. 26 at the Building 7 Atrium. A endees will get an opportunity to learn about the design disciplines of architecture, graphic design and art history, landscape architecture, and urban and regional planning through interactive activities. The day’s program includes department and ENV facility tours, mini-lectures, and meet-and-greets with faculty members. There also will be onestop information sessions about academic advising, admissions and ﬁnancial aid. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at h ps://fall-2017-env-open-house. eventbrite.com

Assistant Professor Barry Lehrman talks about the landscape architecture program at the 2016 ENV Open House.

Professor Courtney Knapp demonstrates a “build your community” activity at the urban and regional planning booth at the 2016 ENV Open House.

WHAT IS

Environmental Design? The Disciplines Foster an UNDERSTANDING of How the HUMAN-DESIGNED WORLD Interacts With NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

The College of Environmental Design oﬀers undergraduate majors in Architecture, Graphic Design, Art History, Landscape Architecture, and Urban and Regional Planning. For more information on deadlines and how to apply, go to h ps:// www2.calstate.edu/apply

ARCHITECTURE is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. The Department of Architecture’s diverse population and perspectives is a direct reflection of the multicultural demographics of Southern California and the broad spectrum of creative opportunities found in the region. Experimental movements in architecture, along with the influences of technology, film, aerospace, military and real-estate development, manifest in the department curriculum. The program begins with a core foundation in design, followed by technical training for the practice of architecture; subsequently, students proceed on a variety of professional paths. Upper-division students explore electives, topic studios and projects that range from the theoretical to the practical. Many students focus on sustainability, preservation, urban design, healthcare, education and hospitality design. Along this journey, students build awareness of cultural phenomena, and emerging fabrication and construction techniques. ENV NATIONAL RANKINGS: DesignIntelligence 2017: Undergraduate Program (No. 19); Graduate Program (No. 24); Interior Design (No. 10), Computer Application (No. 8); Construction Methods & Materials (No. 5); Cross-Disciplinary Teamwork (No. 9); Sustainable Design Practices & Principles (No. 9).

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ART HISTORY are majors offered by the Department of Art. The faculty imbues students with an awareness of global environmental, social and ethical issues as a basis for solving communication problems. Courses equip future creative thinkers with an understanding of business practices, technology and communication theory to be er understand their roles in the creation, reproduction and distribution of vital messages. The art history program prepares students for professional careers in museums and art institutions, art editing and publishing, art law, art business, and art conservation.

ENV NATIONAL RANKINGS: Animation Career Review 2016: Top 10 Graphic Design Schools and Colleges in the West (No. 10); Top 50 Graphic Design Schools and Colleges in the United States (No. 21).

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE is the design and planning of the outdoor environment. It involves building public parks and plazas, designing green infrastructure and urban areas, formulating future ecologies, managing ecological restoration, facilitating community connections and envisioning the future of public space. Landscape architecture is a practice that links culture and ecology through design, and landscape architects connect place and people to develop the most sustainable communities possible. This profession mixes ecology, engineering, entrepreneurship, design, and expertise in human and environmental health, beauty, and culture. The largest and most diverse program of its kind in the nation, the department uses the creative and cultural capital of Southern California to train curious students to solve the ecological and social challenges of the 21st century. ENV NATIONAL RANKINGS: DesignIntelligence 2017: Undergraduate Program (No. 11); Graduate Program (No. 14).

URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING is dedicated to helping society manage change. Planners o en operate in the political arena, providing guidance and informed decision-making to fulﬁll idealistic goals: A high quality of life, job creation, and socioeconomic equality and opportunity. They tackle issues related to resilience, environment, sustainability, infrastructure, transportation, social justice, community development and urban design. The department’s undergraduate and graduate programs teach students to deﬁne issues, solve problems, and implement solutions to improve the quality of the natural and built environment in ways that promote social justice that are rooted in an understanding of social change.

ENV NATIONAL RANKINGS: College Aﬀordability Guide 2016: Top Urban Planning Schools in the United States (No. 14). Planning Accreditation Board: The only university in Southern California with undergraduate and graduate programs both accredited by PAB.

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The Road to ENV According to Cal Poly Pomona’s Oﬃce of Admissions, more than 3,400 ﬁrst-time freshmen and transfer students enrolled at the College of Environmental Design between 2008 and 2017. They came from public schools and private schools, technical and performing arts academies, and universities and junior colleges, from nearby neighborhoods to the Central Coast and Bay Area to the Midwest, East Coast and overseas.

Below is a sampling of high schools, colleges and universities whose students have graduated from or are currently enrolled in ENV. To see the full list, visit env.cpp.edu. Let us know if your school isn’t on it by contacting env@cpp.edu. Academy for Academic Excellence (architecture) Academy of the Canyons High School (architecture) Aliso Niguel High School (architecture, art) Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High School (art history) Alta Loma High School (architecture, art history, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Arizona State University (urban and regional planning)

Basse Senior High School (architecture, art, landscape architecture)

College of the Canyons (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture)

Beaumont Senior High School (architecture, urban and regional planning)

College of the Desert (architecture, art history, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning)

Bell Gardens High School (architecture) Boston University (graphic design) Brooks Institute of Photography (architecture) Broward Community College (urban and regional planning) Cabrillo College (landscape architecture) California State University, Bakersﬁeld (urban and regional planning) California State University, Chico (graphic design) Fresno State (art history) Cal State Fullerton (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture) Cal State Long Beach (architecture, ﬁne arts, graphic design, landscape architecture) Cal State Northridge (art history, graphic design, urban and regional planning) Cal State San Bernardino (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Cal State San Marcos (graphic design, urban and regional planning) Chino High School (art, graphic design, landscape architecture) Chino Hills High School (architecture, art history, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning)

Bakersﬁeld College (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Barstow Community College (graphic design) Baldwin Park High School (architecture, graphic design)

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College of Marin (landscape architecture) College of San Mateo (architecture) College of the Sequoias (architecture, urban and regional planning) Colorado Mesa University (graphic design) Diamond Bar High School (architecture, art, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Diamond Ranch High School (architecture, art history, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Dominguez High School (architecture, landscape architecture) Don Antonio Lugo High School (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture) Don Bosco Technical Institute (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Downey High School (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture) Downtown Business High School (graphic design, landscape architecture) Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School (graphic design) Dr. T.J. Owens Gilroy Early College Academy (architecture)

Christ Centered Pasadena Christian School (art)

Duarte High School (architecture, graphic design)

Christian Brothers High School (architecture)

Escondido Charter High (graphic design)

Citrus Valley High School (architecture, graphic design)

Fontana High School (architecture, graphic design)

Claremont High School (architecture, art, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning)

Fontana A.B. Miller High School (architecture, landscape architecture)

Chaffey Community College (architecture, fine arts, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Citrus Community College (architecture, art history, fine arts, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) City College of San Francisco (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture)

Foothill High School (architecture) Fountain Valley High School (architecture, art history, graphic design, urban and regional planning) Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet School (landscape architecture) Half Moon Bay High School (architecture) Hawaii Baptist Academy (architecture)

Hawthorne Math and Science Academy (architecture) Irvine High School (architecture, art history, graphic design)

UCLA (landscape architecture)

University of Redlands (graphic design)

UC Riverside (graphic design, landscape architecture)

UC San Francisco (ﬁne arts)

Irvington High School (architecture)

UC Santa Cruz (graphic design, urban and regional planning)

James A. Garﬁeld Senior High School (architecture)

University of Colorado, Denver (urban and regional planning)

John A. Rowland High School (architecture, art, art history, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning)

University of Houston (urban and regional planning)

La Habra High School (architecture, graphic design, urban and regional planning)

University of Washington, Sea le (urban and regional planning) Ventura College (architecture, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Victor Valley Community College (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture)

University of Nebraska (graphic design)

Woodbury University (urban and regional planning)

University of the Paciﬁc (landscape architecture)

Yuba College (architecture)

La Mirada High School (architecture, graphic design) La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls (architecture) La Puente High School (architecture, art, art history, graphic design, landscape architecture) La Quinta High School (architecture, art history, graphic design, landscape architecture) La Salle High School (architecture, art history, graphic design) La Serna High School (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Pomona Catholic Girls High School (architecture, graphic design) Pomona Senior High School (art, art history, graphic design) Port of Los Angeles High School (graphic design) Ramona Convent Secondary School (landscape architecture) Ramona High School (architecture, graphic design) Rancho Alamitos High School (architecture, art, graphic design) San Bernardino High School (architecture) San Clemente High School (architecture) San Diego City College (architecture, landscape architecture) San Diego Mesa College (architecture, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) San Diego Miramar College (architecture, landscape architecture) San Diego State (ﬁne arts, graphic design) San Francisco State (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Southern California Institute of Architecture (art history) Southwestern College (architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning) Triton College (urban and regional planning) UC Davis (landscape architecture) UC Irvine (graphic design) Fall \ 9 \

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JOB SITES

ENV graduates have gone on to a variety of jobs around the world. Let us know where you are and what you’re doing for inclusion in the upcoming interactive ENV Map of the World feature on the ENV website at env.cpp.edu. Email env@cpp.edu.

Jake Aalfs (’11, master’s in landscape architecture)

Mike Abbate (’85, landscape architecture)

Eugene Amo (’10, graphic design)

Sera Barnard (’10, graphic design)

Jon Black (’83, architecture)

Jeﬀ Murphy (’92, urban and regional planning)

Ma Richmond (’87, landscape architecture)

San Antonio, Texas Landscape Architect, San Antonio River Authority

Portland, Oregon Director, Portland Parks and Recreation

Calabasas, California Creative Director, Content & Merchandising, PlanetArt.com

New York, New York Graphic designer, Bowlmor AMF

Los Angeles, California Principal, Rios Clementi Hale Studios

San Diego, California Planning director, City of San Diego

Los Angeles, California Chief technology oﬃcer, Rios Clementi Hale Studios

David Salazar (’90, master’s in urban and regional planning) Long Beach, California Associate vice president, Physical Planning and Facilities Management, Cal State Long Beach

Marq Trusco (’84, landscape architecture)

Bob Weis (’80, architecture)

Sacramento, California District Council Chair, Urban Land Institute – Sacramento Lecturer, UC Davis

Glendale, California President, Walt Disney Imagineering

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LALA Land

Los Angeles Landscape Architecture (LALA) is a group of design professionals who have come together to promote dialogue, encourage curiosity, explore action, and advocate for a more humane and ﬂourishing city. LALA will host a curated exploration of L.A.—“Los Angeles 2 x 1: Los Angeles Is Our Landscape”—in which numerous participants will speak for one minute on the image of the Los Angeles landscape, perceived or real, at the A+D Museum on the evening of Oct. 22. Inspired by Hokusai Katsushika’s “36 Views of Mount Fuji,” the LALA exploration will examine the many facets of L.A.’s landscape—familiar, misunderstood, constantly evolving—and promote dialogue and inquiry into the conﬂuence of environment and urban space. In this image-making city, what is landscape in Los Angeles? How do we read, understand and represent L.A.?

CAL POLY POMONA ENV ASLA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE WELCOMES

These themes also are explored in the diptychs and short narratives presented here—produced by

Los Angeles Is

local landscape architects, artists and urbanists—each oﬀering an engaging, humorous, unpredictable or

Our Landscape

Learn more about LALA at LALA-salon.org.

PAT R O N AG E The city has a voice. The voice I hear is wonderful, quiet. This voice does not speak to be heard, but rather, speaks to tell a story of its own to those who will listen. Before you listen, however, you must first take notice and see. The voice I hear, the city I see, shouts confidently as it speaks alongside mountains of opportunity. It has personality, it is unique. The vibrancy of the city o en amplifies the volume of this voice and the juxtaposition of its scale amidst its context transforms what was seemingly void into a striking mass. The voice of this particular city will continue to echo.

—Tony Lopez ’05, landscape architecture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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irreverent view of the landscape we share, while wrestling with these fundamental dichotomous conditions.

—The LALA Community

T O T H E E N D S O F

NORMANDIE

Whether you’re a local or a tourist, you know Griffith Observatory. Everyone who has been there knows the view from its balustrades, looking out over the smoggy city. Your eye follows the straight line of Normandie Avenue until it’s lost in the haze. The observatory is an L.A. icon, but how many of us know the scene at the other end of Normandie? What lies within that haze over 27 miles away? Would you believe there is another great architectural landmark, another building that has the purpose of seeing and being seen? Only this one, the Point Fermin Lighthouse, L.A. doesn’t want to show you. L.A. is glitz and glam, L.A. is tough and gri y, L.A. is urban wilderness. L.A.’s image to the world is embodied by the Griffith Observatory, perched upon Mount Hollywood, showing off its brawny stance and beloved Art Deco style. The Point Fermin Lighthouse is bashful, dressed in Victorian Stick architecture, a picket fence and rose bushes. LA doesn’t readily reveal this sweet, charming, 19th-century side of itself. But it isn’t very well-hidden. Next time you’re gazing down the straight line of Normandie from the observatory, hit the street and see where it will lead you.

—Jana Wehby ’12, master’s in landscape architecture, SWA Group

WHAT IS THE LANDSCAPE IMAGE OF LOS ANGELES TO ME?

—Anna Leah Ilao Lynn Capouya, Inc.

Pretentious Real

Free Constrained

Polluted Sterile

Exclusive Inclusive

Raw Polished

End Beginning

Mundane Exciting

Loss Hope

Plain Complex

Destination HOME

LYLE CENTER RECEIVES ASLA AWARD

The Lyle Center for Regenerative

GRASS IS GREENER

Studies has received the prestigious

Graduate students in the Landscape Architecture 606 studio received an Honor Award for Research in the Professional Category from the American Society of Landscape Architects. The award will be conferred at the 2017 Annual ASLA Meeting and Expo in Los Angeles. The winning project, Greenways to Rivers Arterial Stormwater System (GRASS), was led by landscape architecture Professor Lee-Anne Milburn and Associate Professor Weimin Li and former ENV Dean Karen Hanna. The client for the two-phase project was the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, Watershed Protection Division. The GRASS plan oﬀers a much-needed design tool and approach that can be utilized to manage stormwater in urban landscapes more eﬀectively. It provides pragmatic alternatives that support localized regulatory reform, political coordination and compromise, unique and impactful site designs, and implementation with strategic benchmarking, sequencing and placement.

ASLA Award for Community Service in the Organization Category from the American Society of Landscape Architects. The award is given annually to recognize an individual landscape

architect, group of landscape architects, landscape architecture firms, landscape architecture education programs, or ASLA chapters who have provided sustained, pro bono service to the community while demonstrating sound principles or values of landscape architecture. Since the Lyle Center’s inception in 1994, its mission to provide “a collective impact toward a sustainable future” has brought together faculty, staff and students who have worked on numerous projects to empower diverse local communities to address environmental challenges and opportunities. The LCRS is the first center or academic organization to be given the community service award; a number of individual university faculty have received the ASLA award in past years.

NOT ALL CULTURE IS SACRED

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DIVERSITY The city of Vernon is surrounded by one of the most densely populated, highly urbanized and culturally diverse areas in the nation: Los Angeles County. A er all these years, it continues to stand as the leading food processing and distribution hub for Los Angeles. Vernon’s rail lines, facilities and overpasses allude to its industrial character. The city’s limitless accessibility to resources contributes to its evolution. There are 49,000 workers distributed throughout the city to maintain Vernon’s industrial nature.

When water has been bent by the will of those seeking to expand a tax base in ﬂood control’s name When a river’s path has been ﬁxed and we stand at its edge to declare it tame Not all culture is sacred

When planners make plans based on pre y words that drip with political expediency and a new mall strip When concrete is valued as an architectural feature and land is commodiﬁed at the expense of every creature

When eroding ranges never reach the beaches When a woodland is wasted in the name of sediment placement Flood plain management without the plains means nothing in the watershed will ever sea change

Not all culture is sacred

Vernon is most active Monday through Friday between 5 a.m. and 6 p.m. By the end of the day, the city empties. Suddenly, trucks and cars compete for road space as they try to escape the city edges. The city runs on a series of schedules as diﬀerent materials arrive and leave throughout the day. This ﬂux gives Vernon a unique rhythm of its own.

—Sara Abed ’14, landscape architecture, Sitescapes

When they say give it time everything will be ﬁne because a er all we’ve been green since 1899

—Joshua Link ’06, landscape architecture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; president and founding principal Ecotone Studios Fall \ 13 \

CAL POLY POMONA ENV ASLA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE WELCOMES

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Landscape Architecture Students Dig Summer Internships

BEIJING’S BOOMING LANDSCAPE INDUSTRY

HONORING THE SAN BERNARDINO TERROR ATTACK VICTIMS

My summer internship was at ATA Architects & Planners Corp., an international firm headquartered in the U.S. with a subsidiary in Beijing, China. I chose to go back to China for the internship because China is one of the biggest markets for landscape projects, and I could easily get a range of practical experience. Also, I wrote a paper to compare the urban space development processes in China and the United States last quarter, and I was hoping to put my academic work into real practice by comparing my internship in China to my last internship at Site Design Studio in Tustin. Beijing is a typical metropolis in China, so I believed that I could learn a lot by working there. During my internship, I helped the team with a variety of tasks, ranging from modeling (both physical and digital), rendering, dra ing construction document, material selection and project indexing (the first step of the design process that includes data collection and building relationships with project partners). I learned a lot from this internship experience, and have summarized the pros and cons of the process in China and the U.S. At the end of the summer, I also participated in the workshop led by Beijing studio Remix to learn about indexing for projects. We also formed a team for a final project presentation a er six days of study. I have learned so much during the process and made a lot of friends from across the world. —Jingwei Zhou (junior, landscape architecture)

HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE I’ve always wanted to help people and I feel landscape architecture has the ability to allow me to help people in many different ways. A ending Cal Poly Pomona has opened my eyes to the many avenues that this profession can take, but I’ve always had the smallest itch to work for a giant firm. I wanted to feel like I was a part of something; I wanted to see my work help someone. Working at a smaller firm like Lifescape Colorado this summer reaffirmed the satisfaction a handson experience that I wouldn’t have received working for a giant firm. Lifescape Colorado is a high-end residential design-build firm and is one of the top three firms of its kind in Denver. At Lifescape I learned the entire process of the design-build scheme: customer consultation, initial site inventory, design concepts, design renderings, design presentations, contract acceptance, build process, plant selection, plant placement at the site and project completion. Being a part of the one-on-one, interpersonal designer-client relationship allowed me to see how much your design can help someone. Every client has a need and every design has the ability to help someone, and that’s what I want to do. I want to help people. —Kenneth Rodgers (senior, landscape architecture)

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I spent a summer interning with the Incredible Edible Community Garden (IECG). The project I worked on was the San Bernardino Terror A ack Victim Memorials. The internship consisted of assisting IECG with the design and construction of the memorials as well as the creation of memorial renderings for the victim’s families. My role in the memorials included helping with design by research, assisting with concept creation, creating construction documents and producing renderings. Furthermore, I assisted with the construction of two of the projects. My tasks included laying mulch, creating rock features, planting trees and laying concrete. Each memorial was located in the city where the victim lived and was tailored to represent each individual’s interests and beliefs. For example, the Hal Bowman Memorial in Upland was designed to illustrate Hal’s love of nature. Plants were chosen based on the ability to support local habitat, and a faux bench (meant for symbolism rather than practical use) was added to give his spirit a place to rest and view the mountains and wildlife that he enjoyed so much. The memorial for Nicholas Thalasinos uses plant and hardscape to represent symbols from his Jewish faith. —Timothy Curran (third year, master’s in landscape architecture)

SMALL STUDIO BIG EXPOSURE I got a three-month internship with Superjacent in downtown L.A.’s Chinatown. We are a small studio with only four people, but undertake large urban design projects. I got a wide exposure to design work, office work, presentation preparation, business management, marketing, and communication with multi-disciplinary people, including real estate developers, high-end residential clients, architects, and branding firms that we cooperate with in the beginning stage. In our studio, we mainly focus on public space design and a few high-end residences. During my internship, I realized what kind of role I want as an urban designer. The urban designer should be the balance between the developers and the people, especially the poor. As designers, we have to know what our clients are thinking. As business people, the ultimate goal of developers is creating economic value, which helps the city. However, our academic background has taught us that sometimes gentriﬁcation can harm the masses and create more inequality, which is not the best for all in the long-term. To be an urban designer, we should be aware of this balance between satisfying the client and helping the city. —Shuang Chen (’17, landscape architecture)

WORTH IT Three months, 613 hours of work and 210 hours in traffic. My internship at SWA Laguna Beach was worth it. Every day was different. I never fell into a routine. I fear routines. I didn’t even feel like an intern because there’s no sense of hierarchy. Positions are indistinguishable. Working on competitions, small-scale, largescale, local and international projects made me appreciate the flexibility of the firm. Project plans by Nermeen Aboudawood for SWA Laguna Beach. The principals bring in a variety of projects. Depending on an individual’s interests, they could work on projects they believe they could thrive in. The various projects that I was a part of educated me about my own culture, and cultures that I didn’t know much about. Sometimes, I would be so invested in a project that I would forget that I Galina Novikova (le ) at Fallingwater in Mill Run, Penn. was in Laguna Beach. Walking out and taking breaks by the beach always gave me peace COEXISTING WITH THE POWER OF NATURE of mind. Walking around a small town in work a ire was almost uncomTippet Rise is a 10,260-acre conservation site in Fishtail, Montana, that mon, but I enjoyed the mystery in the eyes of the locals and tourists. I interweaves science, art and nature. Visitors o en express awe over didn’t feel like I was working in a corporate bubble, but rather I somehow the intimate integration of art, classical music, agriculture and sustainfit into this small town. The best part of my experience was that it was far ability in one place. Before Peter and Cathy Halstead founded Tippet more than just landscape architecture, design and planning. It was always Rise, it was a sca ered collection of post-homestead ranches that had more; and that more will always be a part of me because I was a part of it. been long abandoned because of the harsh climate. —Nermeen Aboudawood (senior, landscape architecture) The Olivier Music Barn at Tippet Rise utilizes a geothermal heating and cooling system supported by 30 solar wells. These solar wells THIS MAGICAL PLACE go 400 feet into the ground in order to sustain a fixed temperature I applied and was accepted to fill one of two internship positions for 12 Steinway pianos. The parking lot pavilion is made of solar panels last summer at Fallingwater, the family residence designed by archithat direct stormwater into an underground container, which irrigates tect Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann in Mill Run, the campus. My duties as an operations intern included assisting edPennsylvania. Located in the southwest region of the state within ucational workshops with local communities, set up and break down the Appalachian Mountain Range, the home was designed to coexthe venue for concerts, communicate with visitors, give sculpture ist within an ever-changing environment and draw from the color, tours, and occasionally serve as a ranger to assist hikers and bikers. texture and local material to create a site that humbly complements Toward the end of my internship, I proposed a custom bike rack with its surroundings. The eastern temperate forest was a backdrop and a seating function and constructed a prototype. source of inspiration for both Wright and the Kaufmanns, and continLiving in Montana for three months taught me how to respect and ues to be a source of inspiration for visitors and design professionals coexist with livestock, fire and the power of nature, which I would not from around the world. The residence is in the process of becoming a otherwise have in the cities of Southern California or Taiwan. I was very World Heritage Site a er nomination papers were filed in 2016. fortunate to witness successful execution and appreciation across multiThe nonprofit organization that supports Fallingwater tries very ple disciplines, including ranching, engineering, design, art and geology. hard to promote inter-departmental collaboration as one of the main —Dawn Wang (senior, landscape architecture) goals for its employees. My fellow intern, Rene, and I worked closely together with Linda Waggoner, the director of Fallingwater, the maintenance team and our supervisor, Ann Talarek, to complete the design of two projects on the property. This involved assessing both sites, exploring typologies, and taking inventory of materials and vegetation using various representation methods. Throughout this process, Rene and I had formal critiques and presentations to communicate our work. During the final week of our internship, we presented our work to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. In a nutshell, this has been an unforge able experience. I was able to make lifelong connections and friendships with Rene and other interns. And I feel welcomed to visit this magical place any time. —Galina Novikova (senior, landscape architecture)

Dawn Wang follows Interpretive Ranger Jenny Van Ooyen on a 13-mile trail hike at Tippet Rise in Montana.

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Alumni on the Go FROM INTERN TO CEO Wendy Rogers (’88, architecture) was named the chief executive at LPA, Inc., becoming the firm’s second CEO in its 50-year history and one of a handful of women at the helm of a national architecture firm. She takes on the leadership role during a period of expansion for the firm, which offers architecture, interior design and engineering services, and specializes in sustainable corporate, educational and municipal projects. The firm’s current projects include Mazda Motor Corp.’s Irvine headquarters, the TIDE Academy STEM school in Silicon Valley, and the LEED-certified Silver Monarch Center at Los Angeles City College. Rogers will lead day-to-day operations with LPA President Dan Heinfield. Her initial priorities as CEO include increasing the role of the firm’s proprietary research unit, LPAred. Rogers’ elevation to CEO had been planned for years, according to her predecessor, Robert Kupper. “Wendy has shown her ability as a design professional and leader,” he said in an official statement. “She is a collaborator.” The story of her rise from LPA intern to CEO was highlighted in an August 2017 feature in the Los Angeles Times, in which she spoke about discovering architecture at the age of 5 through a family friend designing a home in Sherman Oaks. Rogers landed an internship with the firm in 1987, and was immediately hired a er graduation. “Architecture is something where you learn the cra in school, but it’s really something where you are mentored and take what you can learn from others in the industry,” she told The Times. “[It’s] a problem-solving process.”

ON BOARD The Board of Directors of the Loyola University System in March added to their ranks Juan Gabriel Moreno, who was enrolled in the ENV and CSU Florence architecture programs. The board governs a highly specialized care system that includes the 61-acre Loyola University \ 16 \ Fall

Medical campus, Go lieb Memorial Hospital and centers in Cook, Will and DuPage counties in western Illinois. Moreno is the president and founder of Chicago-based JGMA (Juan Gabriel Moreno Architects), with a portfolio of public and private projects ranging from education and government, to research and commercial, and urban planning and product design. He has been recognized in the U.S. and abroad for his dedication to social justice, and by the president of Colombia as one of “100 Colombianos” for 2013. In 2015 he was appointed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to the Commission of Public Landmarks, and Crain’s Business named JGMA as one of the architecture ﬁrms “Reshaping Chicago” in 2014.

PROFESSIONAL IMAGINEER Ryan Keenan (’17, architecture; minor in regenerative studies) transitioned from intern to associate facility designer at Walt Disney Imagineering last summer. While he was a student at the Department of Architecture, he was a 2015–16 President’s Council Scholar for the College of Environmental Design. He was recognized for his leadership and involvement in the American Society of Engineers and Architects, the Cal Poly Pomona chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students and its community service program, Freedom by Design. Keenan was also the recipient of the prestigious Jean Roth Driskel Scholarship Award, conferred by the PasadenaFoothill chapter of the American Institute of Architects; and the SOPREMA Scholarship Program, a national program that awards scholarships to the nation’s top undergraduate and graduate students in the ﬁelds of architecture, engineering and construction management. In 2015, he was selected for the Keck Institute for Space Studies. For one week, he and Noel Vazquez (’17, architecture)—a fellow Jean Roth Driskel Scholarship Award honoree— were paired with Caltech and USC counterparts in a NASA workshop titled “3D Additive Construction for Space using In-Situ Resources.”

Keenan also displayed an entrepreneurial streak during his time as a student, operating his own 3D printing business and binding services. He started these ventures because he felt compelled to oﬀer customers, especially fellow students, higher-quality printing products compared to the competition. “I’m not in the business to make money, but to get things done properly,” he said in a 2016 interview.

INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP Claire Latané (’06, master’s in landscape architecture), a senior associate with Los Angeles-based Mia Lehrer + Associates, was selected as one of six fellows in the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s inaugural LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership. The 2017–18 fellows each received a $25,000 award to fund projects aimed at making contributions toward environmental and social equity and investment in the future of the landscape architecture profession. The results of their research will be presented at a final symposium in the spring. Latané’s research, “Advocating for Landscape Policy Progress at LAUSD Schools,” examines the benefits and obstacles of implementing multi-purpose landscapes on the campuses of the nation’s second-largest school district. Her advocacy background will help to develop a communications initiative to change policy and practices to elevate and reassess the value of landscape in schools, with a growing body of research supporting the academic benefits of green views and multi-purpose landscapes.

GOOD DESIGN NUVIS Landscape Architecture, founded by Robert Cardoza (’64, landscape architecture), is a recipient of a 2017 ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) Honor Award in the General Design Category for Owens Lake Land Art in Inyo County, a project for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Wendy Rogers (’88, architecture).

Ryan Keenan (’17, architecture).

MOVING UP Correy Kitchens (’11, urban and regional planning) was hired in July by the planning department of the City of Los Angeles as a planning assistant. Kitchens previously worked as a transportation assistant in Thousand Oaks, and as an assistant planner for Valencia-based Moore & Associates. He held an internship for the Los Angeles oﬃce of Habitat for Humanity. In 2011, he was the recipient of the American Planning Association Academic Award conferred by the Inland Empire chapter of the APA for his project, La Sierra Gateway Development Plan for the City of Riverside.

URP MINI-MEETUP Longtime ENV donors Wilson Hubbell (’75, urban and regional planning) and Janice Hubbell (’75, urban and regional planning) organized a mini-reunion with fellow URP alumni Hank Phan (’17, urban and regional planning) and Eve Sanford (’14, urban and regional planning) in Santa Barbara. The Hubbells have been contributors to the college’s Faculty Development Fund and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning since 1990. Phan is a planning and design intern in the Torrance Transit System, while Sanford is the planning and policy director of the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition.

DIRECTING DEVELOPMENT Brad Johnson (’94, urban and regional planning) is the new community development director in Claremont. Johnson got his start in the design ﬁeld at his father’s ﬁrm after graduation. He served for two years as Pomona’s development services manager and eight years as the city’s planning manager.

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Urban and regional planning alumni Wilson Hubbell (’75), Hank Phan (’17) and Eve Sanford (’14) and Janice Hubbell (’75).

IN MEMORIAM Julia Manzo (’15, graphic design) died on Aug. 11 a er a years-long ba le with brain cancer. She was 29. A memorial service and reception was held on Aug. 18 at Christ’s Church of the Valley in San Dimas. Born into a family of photographers, Manzo was the owner/ operator of Chino-based Manzo Studio, a wedding photography and cinematography business, and contributed her talents as a photographer and graphic designer to California Mustang and Mom365. She was enrolled in the Department of Art from 2010– 2013 before taking a break to undergo cancer treatment. She Julia X. Manzo walked in the 2013 ENV Commencement ceremony, but complet(‘15, graphic design). ed her last course and was officially conferred in spring 2015. Manzo was active in the Cal Poly Pomona chapter of the Hermanas Unidas student club. She was also a member of the university’s cross-country and track and field team in the 2009–10 season, during which she competed in five meets as a sprinter in the 100-meter hurdle and the 200-meter dash. In her best performance that season, she placed 12th at the Stanislaus State Invite Cross Finish, clocking in 18.06 seconds in the 100-meter hurdle. Fall Fa ll \ 117 7\

Transition Time

What to Do as Semester Conversion Approaches in Fall 2018

Cal Poly Pomona is one academic year away from converting to the semester system. Over the next year, undergraduate and graduate students should work with their academic advisors to make sure they’re on track to graduate and create a transition plan. Don’t know where or how to start planning? Here are some common concerns:

I’m graduating in spring 2018. Why should semester conversion ma er to me? Check and double-check to make sure you are still on track to graduate under the current quarter system. If you haven’t already done so, ﬁll out your MyPlanner and consult your Individual Academic Plan (IAP). These two tools will help you keep track and give a visual snapshot of the sequence of courses you’ve taken or still need to complete under the quarter system. If you are within 60 units of graduating, you should have received a notice from the university to complete your IAP on your BroncoDirect To-Do List. You can learn more about MyPlanner and the IAP at www.cpp.edu/~advising/myplanner.

Why is MyPlanner so important? Colleges and departments use aggregated data from MyPlanner to forecast demand for classes and to add sections where student demand is high. If you need to take a class but it’s not being oﬀered in the quarter you need it, make sure to tell your department.

I’m graduating a er semester conversion. What important things should I know about financial aid, course units and study-abroad opportunities? The university’s Pledge to Students promises that you won’t lose any credits that you’ve earned before semester conversion or endure additional time to graduation as long as you remain in your major a er completing 45 major units, pass your classes, take full-time schedules, and regularly meet with your faculty advisor. Your financial aid package would not be affected by semester conversion. The only change would be the disbursement schedule: It will happen twice a year instead of three times. Planning to study abroad? Good news: The semester calendar makes it easier to pursue study-abroad opportunities because most international universities that partner with the CSU system follow the semester system. For additional resources to guide you through semester conversion, go to www.cpp.edu/~semester. Naoto piece is featured in Ink & Clay 43 at the W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery.

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What We’ve Been READING AND WRITING THE GLOBALIZATION OF THE ART MARKET Over the summer, art department Professor Alison Pearlman worked with ENV librarian Kai Smith to get a book on the University Library bookshelf, and for a good reason: “If you want to learn how the market for contemporary art—including the gray and the black—really works (A hint for students who will take the art history seminar ART 418 in winter 2018, the theme of which is Art and Consumer Culture Since 1960.), read John Zarobell’s ‘Art and the Global Economy’ (University of California Press, 2017),” Pearlman said.

LIFE DEATH AND CITIES Natasha Kumar, a senior majoring in urban and regional planning, has cities on her mind. In between her duties as vice president of the ENV Council and preparing for her final academic year, she managed to fit in readings that le an impression. “The Death and Life of American Cities” (Random House, 1961). Considered a classic in urban planning policy, journalist/activist Jane Jacobs criticized the failures of urban renewal initiatives in the 1950s and 1960s, arguing that the decline in city neighborhoods is a ributed to the short-sightedness of planners and development financiers, and the dangers of too much development money and not enough understanding of the complexities of neighborhoods. “How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood” (Nation Books, 2017). Journalist Peter Moskowitz investigates the forces and process behind gentrification, and the dismantling of neighborhoods and uneven treatment of poor and affluent communities. The investment and decisions of large corporations and developers could be a boon to struggling communities, but when city leaders rely on private-sector funds, those who live and work in these neighborhoods o en lose the their city hall advocates along the way. “The Image of the City” (MIT Press, 1960). Urban planner Kevin Lynch, a student of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, parses how peoples’ perceptions of their own cities lead to “mental mapping,” a form of interaction between the physical spaces of a city and the ways in which

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its dwellers interact with and within it. Another essential primer for planners and architects, Lynch’s classic posited that mental maps are valuable to planners in the building and rebuilding of cities. “Great Streets” (MIT Press, 1993). Allan B. Jacobs, former San Francisco planning director and a city and regional planning professor emeritus at UC Berkeley asks: “What are the characteristics that make the world’s best streets great?” A study of more than 50 great and once-great streets from around the world reveals that practical design and strategies go a really, really long way. He discusses the community-building power of streets in 15 essays that examine thoroughfares ranging from medieval streets in Rome and dreamy Parisian boulevards to the tree-lined avenues in suburban America, all arranged by type and supplemented with maps and visual design details that infer the pulses of urban living as revealed by their street pa erns.

OUR RESTLESS SPECIES I just finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s excellent book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” (HarperCollins, 2015) and have embarked on a read of his follow-up work, “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” (HarperCollins, 2017). Together, these books lay out a clear overview of where our restless species is in its development and the astonishing places we are likely to go. Beginning with the formation of the first human cultures 70,000 years ago, the author takes us on a satellite-level journey through our expanding presence and power on Earth. Then, in “Homo Deus,” he goes on to present how we are in the process of directing our future evolution in ways that are likely to change both who and what we are. As a practicing architect, I find Harari’s discussions of human evolution and purpose to be a rich framework for reconsidering what I know of architectural history. Furthermore, his well-reasoned extrapolations of current trends in science and technology promote deep thinking about where our design professions are headed. I’m confident that anyone curious about our cultural production and values will find these books well worth reading.

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—Craig Jameson (’84, architecture), principal/co-founder of Parallax Associates, Architecture and Planning, Culver City

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GIVING ENSURING THE FUTURE Our mission at Cal Poly Pomona is to guide our students to become practitioners, thinkers and leaders. We accomplish that goal by delivering quality academic programs, oﬀering a supportive learning environment and providing state-of-the-art facilities that are critical to our learn-by-doing philosophy. By making a gi to ENV, you are providing our students with fundamental tools for their success. Alumni and friends have generously supported our students, sponsoring building and technology upgrades, studio projects, supplies and scholarships (63 students received assistance in 2016–2017!). You may designate your gi s to any area you choose; for example: funding a lecture series, an endowment or a study abroad program.

We invite you to invest in our future! Please make checks payable to: Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc. College of Environmental Design c/o Jenkins Shannon, Senior Director of Development California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 3801 West Temple Avenue Pomona, CA 91768 For more information, visit the College of Environmental Design webpage, env.cpp.edu/env-make-gi . Or call Ms. Jenkins Shannon at (909) 869–5128, or email her at jshannon@cpp.edu.

A BEQUEST Armed with his degree in landscape architecture, Steve Kikuchi moved to Half Moon Bay in Northern California and started his own company. Thirty-four years later, Kikuchi + Kankel Design Group is highly sought a er for residential, recreational, corporate and commercial projects. Steve and his wife, Jane (’77, recreation administration), have been steadfast supporters of ENV for over 30 years, starting with their first donation of $10 in 1983, six years a er they graduated from Cal Poly Pomona. This spring, the Kikuchis made a generous bequest to the Department of Landscape Architecture and the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center. “I will be forever grateful to Cal Poly Pomona. Studying there was a turning point in my life, providing me with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to commence my career in landscape architecture,” Steve Kikuchi says. “Cal Poly Pomona is also where I met my wife along with classmates, who remain some of our best friends today. My life would certainly be less rich and fulfilling if I had not a ended a very unique educational institution.” \ 20 \ Fall

“I continue to support ENV and the art department because I feel as an alumna, it’s my responsibility to give back and help enrich each generation to ensure continued growth and development—paying it forward.” —Corina Smith (’02, graphic design), a designer for Bebe, has been contributing to her alma mater since 2003

A SCHOLARSHIP Smashing the glass ceiling before the phrase even existed, Professor Margarita McCoy was the ﬁrst woman to chair an urban planning department at an American university. Her seven years as chair of Cal Poly Pomona’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning was the capstone of her career as a distinguished scholar and as a trailblazer in a male-dominated profession. In addition to being a role model for women, McCoy also was revered as an advocate for students from underrepresented communities, se ing a precedent that continues at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. A er McCoy passed away in March 2016, her son, Alfred McCoy, and daughter, Lady Margarita Ground, announced the goal of establishing a scholarship in their mother’s memory. Along with McCoy’s son and daughter, 25 of McCoy’s friends and former students have donated to a permanent endowment that will provide one annual scholarship of $7,000 to deserving women and members of underrepresented communities in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

“My URP education at Cal Poly Pomona provided me with real work experience that was extremely useful later on. It allowed me to advance in my career in a way that I might not be able to do otherwise.” —Wilson Hubbell (’75, urban and regional planning), retired Senior Environmental Planner, County of Santa Barbara Planning & Public Works Departments, who has been contributing to ENV and URP since 1986

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ARCHITECTURE STUDENT TEAM Wins Shulman Emerging Talent Award

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ARCHITECTURE PROGRAMS SURGE IN NATIONAL RANKINGS The Department of Architecture has scored a major upset in the latest national ranking of undergraduate and graduate architecture programs. Cal Poly Pomona’s architecture program jumped to No. 12 nationally among all architecture schools, up from No. 19 in last year’s survey by DesignIntelligence, a highly respected survey of architecture employers across the country. IIn the separate ranking of the Master of Interior Architecture program, the joint program oﬀered by Cal Poly Pomona’s Department of Architecture and the College of Extended University in partnership with UCLA Extension rose in the national DI rankings to No. 8, up from No. 10 last year. To gather data for its “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools Survey,” DesignIntelligence asked architecture and design hiring professionals across the United States to consider which schools are the best at equipping their students for a future in the design industry. Here’s where the department placed:

Undergraduate Program No. 12 (up from No. 19 in 2017 DI rankings)

Master of Interior Architecture No. 8 (up from No. 10 in 2017 DI rankings) In addition to overall rankings, the DI survey also ranks schools on speciﬁc criteria that demonstrate how well their programs prepare students for careers in the profession. The Department of Architecture held on to Top 10 spots in the following categories:

DesignIntelligence Category Rankings No. 6: Construction No. 5: Engineering Fundamentals No. 8: Healthy Built Environments No. 7: Project Planning and Management No. 5: Practice Management No. 10: Sustainable Built Environments/Adaptive Design/Resilient Design

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DEAN’S PICKS From an hour of a ernoon browsing in Book Alley (1252 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena), one of the few remaining used bookstores in Southern California, I walked out with an armful of books on Sept.17: Beth Dunlop, “Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture,” (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).

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SAFE STREETS

FOR SENIORS Jaclyn Garcia, who is working on her master’s in urban and regional planning, was named ENV’s 2018 Transportation Research Board Minority Fellow. She will present her paper, “Program Design Evaluation of Safe Street for Senior Programs” at the Transportation Research Board’s 97th annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in January 2018. In September, she shared her research findings at the American Planning Association California Conference in Sacramento. She is scheduled to graduate next June.

Stephen Graham, “Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers” (London: Verso, 2016). Wade Graham, “Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World” (New York: HarperCollins, 2016). David Macaulay, “Mosque” (New York: Houghton Miﬄin Co., 2003). Henry Petroski, “The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure” (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2016). Anthony W. Robins, “New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture” (Albany: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2017). Alexander Von Vegesack, Jochen Eisenbrand, Gloria Gerace, Susanne Jaschko, eds. “Open Architecture: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living” (Weil am Rheim, Germany; Vitra Design Museum, 2006). —Michael Woo, Dean, College of Environmental Design

What inspired your research topic?

HANG ON TO THAT IDEALISM PLANNERS Urban and regional planning Professor Richard Willson is a longtime mentor to urban planning students and young planning professionals. There seems to be a recurrent theme to questions he fields from mentees: How does one make good choices and practice the discipline effectively without diminishing one’s idealism? In his new book, “A Guide for the Idealist” (Routledge, 2017), Willson gives advice based on his experience as a planning professor who also has practiced planning throughout his career. The book includes his and other planners’ personal anecdotes about how they launched and managed their careers. It provides tools for emerging professionals to help find meaning in planning work. Built around concepts of idealism and realism, the book takes on the gap between expectations and constraints of the practice, advising on career planning and “launching” issues, and explaining principled adaptability as a professional style. He tackles early practice issues: Being right, avoiding wrong, navigating managers, organizations and teams, working with mentors, and understanding the career journey, and calls on planners to reflect on what they are doing as they are doing it. \ 22 \ Fall

The aging of the Baby Boomer generation is already having important implications in planning and public health, but is touched less o en in transportation. Transportation agencies have focused mostly on transit services for the elderly. I live a couple blocks from a hospital and various retirement homes, and there are a number of high-speed streets in the area and not enough safety infrastructure that accommodates walking. This helped create my interest in exploring how agencies can or currently are making cities safer for elderly populations. I feel this topic is especially important for California, which has the highest total number of seniors among any other state. What transportation safety needs are not being addressed for an aging population? I think there are currently two types of needs not being met: safety needs and comfort needs. Streets are generally designed around a standard adult and a standard walking speed. Some feel this should be adjusted for particular neighborhoods with a high number of seniors or areas with popular destinations for seniors. This could include increasing the crossing time or creating median islands between lanes. Sidewalks also play an important part in comfort and enjoyment, which means we should be adding more rest benches and more trees for shade in these areas.

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Assistant Professor Robert Alexander, Department of Architecture, “Response Number Three,” Ink & Clay 43 at the W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery.

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Stephanie Wagner, a lecturer in the Department of Art, and students in her printmaking class published of a book of monograms. They worked with ENV librarian Kai Smith and Special Collections librarian Katie Richardson to bind the volumes and make the images available online through the University Library. Thinking of taking your BFA in art history to the next level? Smith collaborated with Professor Alison Pearlman to help those researching master’s programs online: the College Art Association’s Directory of Graduate Programs in Art History is available at the University Library.

The artwork of Assistant Professor Robert Alexander from the Department of Architecture, Professor Emerita Babe e Mayor, and former art department chair Diane Divelbess are among 103 pieces on display at the Ink & Clay 43 exhibition at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery. The annual national competition invites professional artists to submit printmaking, drawing, ceramic arts, clay sculpture, installations, and mixed-media works that incorporate ink or clay as materials. Alexander’s entry, “Response Number Three,” is an 11-inch by 46inch mixed-media piece. Mayor’s piece, “Hello Northwest-Goodbye Southwest,” is from her Observer Series, which studies “the difficulties—the loneliness and isolation—and beauty if starting a new life, a new state” and inspired by changes she has experienced. Divelbess, who taught in the department from 1963–1990, may be a familiar name to students. An endowed scholarship in her honor was established in 1996 to benefit full-time juniors and seniors studying graphic design and art history. Her ink-and-graphite work, “Formal Thought Revisited IV,” reflect an interest in simplified abstract line, angles, forms and edges.

HONORING A PIONEER Richard Willson, an urban and regional planning professor, accepted the Planning Pioneer Award on behalf of the family of the late Professor Emerita Margarita McCoy at the California Chapter of the American Planning Association Annual Conference in Sacramento on Sept. 24. The nomination eﬀort was led by San Gabriel City Manager Steve Preston (’80, bachelor’s in urban and regional planning; ’84, master’s in urban and regional planning). At the same event, Willson received an Honor Award from the Planners Emeritus Network. Willson was in Denver, Colorado, on Oct. 12, to a end a conference organized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning to present a paper titled, “Teaching Outside the Planning Curriculum: An Assessment of Mentoring Practices,” co-authored with economic development consultant Robin Scherr and APA career services manager Bobbie Albrecht. A sought-a er expert in transportation and parking management, Willson has concentrated his recent writing on the role of mentoring in the urban planning profession. He launched the career-planning blog Launching Your Planning Career: A Guide for Idealists (www.planning.org/idealistblog) and published its companion book, “A Guide for the Idealist” (Routledge, 2017).

ON THE BOARD Anthony Acock, an assistant art professor, joined the Los Angeles board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in July. An active member for 14 years, which included stints as a board member in Connecticut and Kansas City, he will serve a two-year term as codirector of the Education Commi ee.

FULBRIGHT PROJECT IN MOROCCO

Professors Lee-Anne Milburn from the department of landscape architecture (center) and Gwen Urey (far le ) from the department of urban and regional planning in Morocco with fellow Fulbright Hays educators.

Professor Lee-Anne Milburn, Department of Landscape Architecture, and Professor Gwen Urey, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, joined a team of educators as part of a Fulbright Hays Group Project last summer. The group participated in Arabic language lessons, lectures and discussions that included topics such as Islamic architecture and city planning, and secular and religious governance in the Middle East/North Africa. The ﬁve-week program’s goal is to enhance teaching about Moroccan culture and literature, Islam, Arab-Islamic studies and Arabic language. Participating faculty members are expected to integrate the experience into their courses and create a Morocco-focused curricula for their professional portfolios. Fall \ 23 \

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VISITING SCHOLARS

Douglas E. Noble (’82, architecture), discipline head for Building Science and director of the Master of Building Science degree program at USC, will teach his Façade Tectonics course in the winter quarter to upper-division students in ENV’s architecture program. The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects has honored Noble as Educator of the Year. In 2007, he co-founded the Façade Tectonics Institute, a university-based research and education program that hosts conferences and publishes research. He co-founded CLIPPER Lab at USC in 1991 to support research about computers in architecture and design, pioneering early computer-based design studio experiments with colleague Karen Kensek, with whom he created the “NotLY: Not Licensed Yet,” a support system for individuals preparing for the Architect Registration Exam (ARE) for emerging professionals and academics.

The College of Environmental Design will host a group of visiting scholars from China during the 2017–2018 academic year. Yanyan Huang from Hubei University of Technology will further her scholarly exploration of low-carbon architecture design. Wenjin (Phoebe) Guo, Feifei (Fay) Chen and Xiaona (Natali) Wang—all from Foshan University in Guangdong province—plan to continue their studies in graphic design and ceramic art in the Department of Art. Meanwhile, Li Peng of South China Normal University will delve into his landscape planning research work at the Department of Landscape Architecture.

RESIST Julianna Delgado, a professor of urban and regional planning, is organizing a Southern California Climate Change Summit for Southern California Planning Progress—where she serves as president—in collaboration with the American Planning Association, the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Environmental Professionals. The event, tentatively scheduled for Earth Day on April 22, 2018, supports the region’s “climate mayors” who are among the 366 leaders nationwide pledging to continue upholding the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garce i will lead the summit, which seeks to develop local tools for resisting the current federal administration’s dismantling of sustainability and Environmental Protection Agency’s policies. Delgado also moderated and spoke at the California Preservation Foundation’s Sept. 14 workshop at San Diego’s Balboa Park. She opened the morning session, and in the a ernoon led the session “Best Practices for Accessory Dwelling Units in Historic Districts” with land use/environmental a orney Deborah Rosenthal and urban designer Nore Winter.

SERVICE AWARDS Cal Poly Pomona honored faculty and staﬀ members who have served the university for 10 years or more at the annual Service Awards Ceremony a er the president’s Fall Convocation. This year’s honorees by department are: Architecture: Administrative coordinator Roxanna Sanchez (25 years), Professor Irma Ramirez (10 years), Professor Robert Alexander (10 years), Professor Benham Samareh (10 years). Art: Administrative support assistant Lydia Martinez (10 years). Landscape Architecture: Administrative coordinator Kristopher Penrose (15 years). Urban and Regional Planning: Administrative coordinator Laura Fujimoto-Hernandez (30 years), lecturer Abishek Tiwari (10 years). Dean’s Oﬃce: Associate Dean Martin Sancho-Madriz (20 years), senior budget analyst Rebecca Cheng (10 years). \ 24 \ Fall

Visiting scholars, from le to right: Yanyan Huang, Wenjin (Phoebe) Guo, Feifei (Fay) Chen, Xiaona (Natali) Wang, and Li Peng.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

FACULTY OPENING The Department of Art has an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of graphic design, scheduled to begin teaching undergraduate courses in fall 2018. Minimum qualifications are a master’s in fine arts or a doctorate degree in visual arts, graphic design or related fields from an accredited university completed by June 30, 2018; a minimum of two years’ experience in professional design; university-level teaching experience in design or related fields; and demonstration of the ability to contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, creative and scholarly activities, teaching, advising, and service. The ideal candidate would be able to teach foundational and upper-level courses in 3D design, technical illustration and studio art, and is an expert in using and teaching so ware and technologies in the digital 3D environment. To learn more about the position and the application process, visit www.cpp.edu/~faculty-affairs/documents/acadapplication.pdf, or email department administrative coordinator Patricia Martinez at pmartinez@cpp.edu.

IN MEMORIAM Arthur Hacker, Department of Architecture Arthur Hacker, professor emeritus in the Department of Architecture, died July 2 a er a long illness. He was 74. Hacker taught at the department from 1978 to 2010, holding key leadership positions during his faculty career. He was chair of the department’s graduate program and served for three years as interim associate dean at the Jared Dudley (‘01, architecture) with Professor College of Environmental Design. Arthur Hacker. Early in his professorship, Hacker established a reputation as a dynamic force—taking on a heavy teaching load while participating in several department commi ees and working on special assignments. In a 1980 memo supporting his reappointment as associate professor, then-department chair and future ENV Dean Marvin Malecha noted: “His work in the department has set a standard for excellence for which he deserves our recognition and appreciation.” Hacker’s passion lay in the study of architectural history and theory, and his lectures reflected his reverence of the old masters. “I loved how he told stories of historical architects like they were his old friends,” says Julie Coleman (’12, architecture), a designer in the Los Angeles office of Minneapolis-based DLR Group. “Class was less of a lecture and more like storytelling over a cup of coffee. He was an inspiring professor with a lasting impact.” He strived to instill in students an appreciation for the contributions of architecture’s giants, recalls Patrick Sanjongco (’95, architecture), who was enrolled in one of Hacker’s history classes. “He made us memorize 100 historic buildings,” says Sanjongco, a senior architect at Architects Orange. “Names, dates, architect. He also made us draw detailed elevations of the classical orders. Very diligent teacher.” An alumnus of Yale University’s undergraduate and graduate architecture programs, Hacker in 1970 became the first national student chairman in the American Institute of Architects’ inaugural program on environmental issues. He would later serve as the editor of the Journal of Architectural Education. Hacker’s breadth and depth of knowledge provided valuable contributions to Claremont Heritage. He was an appointed member of Claremont’s Architectural Commission, serving from 1980 to 1988. “The architectural community lost a great one with the passing of Art Hacker,” says Jared Dudley (’01, architecture), another former student who is a senior associate in Newport Beach-based Saunders+Wiant Associates. “His wit and dry sense of humor were second to none. His keen ability to deliver a mountain of information the size of Mt. Everest to thousands of doe-eyed students still leaves me in awe. I’m so glad I got to know him outside of the classroom, as he and his teachings have inspired me to this very day.” Friends and loved ones who wish to honor Hacker’s memory may donate to Claremont Heritage (claremontheritage.org) or the Sierra Club (h p://sierraclub.org).

Remembering a Colleague and Friend I ﬁrst met Art Hacker in summer 1996. I had applied for a lecturer position in the architecture department. While my meeting with Art was technically a job interview, it didn’t feel like one. His demeanor was friendly, informal—as though he had already decided to hire me before we’d met. We immediately found shared interest in the writings of cultural geographer J.B. Jackson (whose work he assigned in his American architecture class—and I have continued to assign it to my students). Jackson’s writings encompassed vernacular architecture, popular taste and historic context. Neither Art (nor I) saw these perspectives as a substitute for canonical modernism; instead, they enriched interpretations of the works of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, R.M. Schindler and many others. Art’s non-doctrinaire a itude was refreshing, and brave at a time when the specter of postmodern architecture made it easy to dismiss the role of historic precedent in contemporary design. Art was always interested in ﬁnding new ways to engage students in architectural history. He revamped his Renaissance to Baroque Architecture class, modeling its organization on the Grand Tour of Europe. His lectures sought to capture the experience of visiting great cities, drawing on his personal knowledge of each place to convey its quality and character. If Art had a favorite period of architecture, it was the Renaissance, especially in Italy. He believed that study of this period could teach our students important lessons about proportion and classicism, as well as urban design. To this end, Art assigned detailed façade models in one of his lecture classes, and based studio courses on contemporary uses of the palazzo. Art set high standards for students, and derived incredible pleasure when they demonstrated their talent through these projects. Outside of school, Art’s life was devoted to his family—his wife, Kathy, and two sons, Andrew and James. He was proud of his sons’ academic and professional success, and was pleased when Kathy began working at the Huntington Library. He was a passionate baseball fan, favoring the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Art had a wry sense of humor; he could deliver a devastating critique of the politics of academia, as well as misdeeds taking place in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. He was a wonderful friend, and I will miss his enjoyment of life. —Professor Lauren Bricker, Department of Architecture

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Martin Sancho-Madriz, Ph.D. Martin Sancho-Madriz recently celebrated 20 years of service as a faculty member at Cal Poly Pomona. He began his appointment as the associate dean of the College of Environmental Design last spring. Prior to joining ENV, he was the chair of the Department of Human Nutrition and Food Science at the Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture. He serves on Cal Poly Pomona’s Strategic Planning Steering Commi ee and the WASC Reaccreditation Steering Commi ee. You’ve just celebrated 20 years at Cal Poly Pomona. What accomplishments are you most proud of?

I am most proud of my work as a faculty member starting and then developing the Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Technology Program. Over the years, I’ve watched it grow, going from just a couple of students and myself as the only faculty member back in 1999 to a robust enrollment of approximately 180 students, four tenure-track faculty, one full-time lecturer and three part-time lecturers in March 2017, when I assumed the ENV associate dean position. A highlight was when the first graduate of our program earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University and what this meant in terms of validating the quality of our program. [Editor’s note: Sancho-Madriz graduated from Cornell, whose food science program is considered one of the best in the nation.] I felt as proud as a parent does when their child has this kind of achievement. Another important accomplishment in my time in the Department of Human Nutrition and Food Science was developing a mandatory internship program for the Food Science and Technology Program students that resulted in many of them landing their first job. This high-impact practice provided valuable feedback from employers and self-reflection from the students themselves regarding student preparation and job readiness, as well as on the quality of the program and the importance of its learn-by-doing approach that makes our graduates competitive and positions them to excel in their careers.

What strengths from your time in Agriculture and other leadership positions on campus do you bring to ENV as associate dean? Spending close to seven years as the leader of my department allowed me to understand be er the Academic Aﬀairs Division and the university; being department chair is both a challenging and rewarding position. My year as vice chair and two years as chair of the Academic Senate gave me a great perspective on faculty and programs across campus and on the importance of what I call the Three C’s: consultation, collaboration and compromise. Continuous improvement, whether it is related to curriculum, policies, classroom/labs or other facilities, gives me the satisfaction that \ 26 \ Fall

keeps me going. My personal goal is to leave things be er than I found them and to beneﬁt the students, faculty, staﬀ and anyone else I serve through my job.

What opportunities and challenges have you identified in the college? First of all, I am impressed with the talent, creativity and professional expertise that I have observed in ENV faculty and how this is also reflected in the students in the different programs. Also impressive: all ENV undergraduate programs are accredited. There are opportunities for collaboration within the college and with other programs across the university. I am glad some of our departments have submi ed proposals under the Cluster Hires Initiative and hope we are able to secure a position through the program. An important area of opportunity for the college is the growth of external funding, both through grants and contracts and through philanthropy. The biggest challenge for the college is being able to diminish reliance on state funding. As we know, our state funding is linked to enrollment and, while some growth is possible, we have limited human resources and infrastructure.

New w Members to Leadership Team Pablo La Roche, Ph.D. Professor Pablo La Roche, one of the nation’s leading scholars and practitioners of sustainable building and design, is the new interim director of the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies. The longtime Department of Architecture faculty member succeeds Professor Kyle Brown, who has held the position since 2004. La Roche also will become the graduate coordinator for the Master of Science in Regenerative Studies program. Brown returned this fall to the Department of Landscape Architecture, and will continue to teach in the department and at the Lyle Center. As a testament to his leadership and dedication to Professor John T. Lyle’s concept of regeneration, the Lyle Center will be honored this month by the American Society of Landscape Architects with the Community Service Award at its annual conference in Los Angeles. La Roche has published and presented more than 130 papers on passive cooling systems, low-energy carbon-neutral architecture, and affordable housing. Last year, he was the chair of the Passive Low Energy Architecture conference, bringing the international event to the United States for the first time. In 2013, he co-chaired the Building Enclosure Sustainability Symposium Sustainable Buildings conference, the first regional conference on sustainable buildings in the country. La Roche is also the sustainable design leader at Calliston RTKL, and previously served as director of design at HMC Architects.

Pablo La Roche speaks to architecture students at one of his Topic Studio classes.

What motivated you to take on the role of director at the Lyle Center? When the Lyle Center was built, it was ahead of its time. At a moment in which most people were barely beginning to understand the importance of sustainability, the Lyle Center had already embraced the concept of regenerative systems—the idea of doing good to the environment instead of simply less harm. I am excited to lead a center in our very own college that has always been a leader in sustainability.

What are your starting priorities/goals as director? For many years, Kyle Brown with limited resources has done a great job as the center’s director. As interim director, I have goals in multiple fronts. When the center was built, it was an example of advanced practices, implementing multiple types of technologies. Now, a er almost 25 years of inadequate maintenance, many of the original systems need to be repaired or updated. I would like to increase the center’s visibility as a demonstration facility that showcases strategies to reduce our impact on the environment and on climate change. The center’s graduate and undergraduate programs are also important and I would like to reinforce the center’s mission as an interdisciplinary center for research, education and demonstration in which multiple disciplines and colleges work together in projects that advance our understanding of diﬀerent types of environmental systems.

What kind of opportunities and challenges does the Lyle Center face? The center is special and unique, and there are many opportunities to make it into a special place. However, there are also many challenges. Some of the most important ones have to do with the urgent need for ﬁnancial resources for much-needed maintenance, renovation and upgrades, which include not only the buildings but also the grounds and food production.

John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies.

Learn about the Lyle Center and ways to support its mission at env.cpp.edu/rs/rs. Fall \ 27 \

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It’s the architecture studio project that keeps giving. The Wedge cabin designs that originated in Associate Professor Juintow Lin’s Revamp the Camp 503L studio in 2014 have inspired the new visitor’s center that opened in August at Bodega Bay’s Doran Beach. The Wedge cabins were designed by Emily Williams, Bryan Charney and Antonio Fernandez (’16, all master’s in architecture), and were constructed with recycled material. The cabins were intended to entice millennials and urban residents to experience the great outdoors. The Wedge captured the interest of California State Parks and the California Coastal Commission a er its debut at the 2014 Los Angeles County and California State fairs. The cabin design earned a Citation Award in the Inspire Category at the American Institute of Architects Orange County chapter 2015 Design Awards gala. Four Wedge cabins are available to rent at Pfeiﬀer State Park in Big Sur, the site of the ﬁrst cabin. Three other cabins at Spring Lake Regional Park campground can be reserved. The cabins are ADA accessible and can accommodate up to four people.

Wedge cabin at Spring Lake Regional Park. (Paul Vu Photography)

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Guy Nordenson Receives 2017 Neutra Award Princeton Professor of Architecture and Structural Engineering Has Worked With Architectural Icons The Department of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona honored Guy Nordenson —professor of architecture and structural engineering at Princeton University’s School of Architecture—with the 2017 Richard Neutra Award for Professional Excellence on Oct. 9. Nordenson has been involved in complex and challenging projects. His New York structural engineering practice, Guy Nordenson and Associates (GNA), was founded in 1997 on the principle that collaboration is essential to design. As an engineer, he has an extensive history in architecture, having worked in the joint studio of Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi in 1976, then later establishing the New York oﬃce of Ove Arup & Partners in 1987. Notable GNA projects, completed in collaboration with ranked architectural ﬁrms, include: • National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., with Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup. • Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Art + Design Wing in Corning, New York, with Thomas Phifer and Partners. • Kimbell Art Museum Expansion in Fort Worth, Texas, with Renzo Piano Building Workshop. • New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York with SANAA. • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Expansion in Kansas City, Missouri, with Steven Holl Architects. \ 28 \ Fall

• Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion in Toledo, Ohio, with SANAA. • 2004 Museum of Modern Art National Museum of African American History and Culture, Expansion in New York Washington, D.C. (Brad Feinknopf) with Taniguchi and Associates. • International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. • Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center in Houston, Texas, with Johnston Marklee. • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Glassell School of Art with Steven Holl Architects. Since 2007, GNA has been engaged in the development of strategies for climate change and coastal adaptation, working with stakeholders at the local and national levels— a measure of Neutra’s “Survival Through Design,” the idea that planners have a responsibility to connect their design practices with advancements in science and research in diverse ﬁelds. The Richard Neutra Award for Professional Excellence is an annual honor conferred by the Department of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design. To see the full list of past honorees, visit env.cpp.edu/arc/neutra-award.

The Richard Neutra-Designed Chuey House, Which Is Being Sold as a Tear-Down, Is the Latest Historically Significant Structure to Potentially Face Demolition in Los Angeles On the Loss of Historic Homes By Professor Luis Hoyos, Department of Architecture Co-Coordinator Concentration in Historic Preservation Take a look at any guidebook for Southern California cities and you will find li le jewels hidden in plain sight in the countless neighborhoods that make up our poly-nucleated metropolis. Houses recognized as historic because of their design, the people who lived there and, possibly, events that took place in them. For those who know, the houses are like life-long friends you recognize on the street, “Nice to see you. How’ve you been?” As we’ve built Los Angeles, we’ve used up most of the readily available land and face the necessity of clearing land so new construction can happen, potentially endangering historic places. For example: While the preservation community holds dear every house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (nobody in their wildest dreams would tear down one of his houses, although the Ennis House was a challenge to fix), a property owner had no hesitation in tearing down the spectacular Bird of Paradise House (1965) in Rancho Palos Verdes by Wright’s son, Lloyd Wright, as well as the iconic Moore House (1959), also in the same neck of the woods. The houses were innovative, forward-looking designs, Photograph of the Chuey House interior (Los Angeles, unique and irreplaceable. Calif.), 1960 by Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Ge y Trust. Their bad luck was the Ge y Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10). simple fact of their location: fabulous neighborhoods on large lots with views to die for. The economic logic of what is now called “mansionization” is inescapable: small houses on big lots that can hold a lot more. In this manner, a 2,000-square-foot house on an acre view lot is a goner when the lot can hold a 10,000-square-foot spec house that can go for several million dollars in today’s real estate market. The steady drip of demolitions of houses designed by prominent architects shows no sign of ending. Gone are several houses in recent years by noted architect Paul Revere Williams. Gone is the Shusse House (1951) by John Lautner a er a protracted fight to save it in 2010. Preservationists were shocked by the demolition of Richard’s Neutra’s Visitor Center at the Ge ysburg National Military Park (known as the Cyclorama Building), ironically perpetrated by the National Park Service which embeds preservation functions at the national scale. An all-time jaw-dropper: the weekend demolition in 2002 of the Neutradesigned Samuel and Luella Maslon House (1962), an unquestioned and intact 13-room master work beautifully sited on a golf course, commissioned by art collectors in Rancho Mirage, demolished in a hurry with furniture in it. There are no easy fixes. You can move a house in order to save it (rarely done). Cities may be goaded into writing preservation ordinances, certain protections may delay demolition, but public pressure does ma er. At the end of the day, there is li le that can stop a determined property owner in our country, where property rights are the ultimate sacred cow.

The property owners who demolish recognized historical structures are guilty of a crime against culture, history and society. One doubts whether they feel guilt. They likely feel supremely confident in cashing in on an incredible deal, preservation and history be damned. The neighborhood loses a dear friend and gains a bloated eyesore. Nothing can replace the original. Developers o en offer to document a building as “mitigation”—cold comfort in the face of absolute loss. The drawings and pictures become the remaining record of the dirty deed. However, you cannot really inhabit a drawing and a picture of the Dodge House (1916, Irving Gill), and those will never replace the real deal (demolished for a failed school proposal in 1970). Eventually, I suppose, we will be asked to consider whether a virtual reality version of Orange Coast College will suffice, as plans progress to demolish a substantial part of its collection of Neutradesigned academic buildings. The California Environmental Quality Act/Environmental Impact Report [CEQA/EIR] process is no guarantee that a preservation alternative will result in a positive outcome. Not all buildings can be preserved, but works of recognized master architects should stand a be er chance of surviving.

Raymond Neutra Vividly Recalls a Magical Night of Artistry in the Chuey House Designed by His Father In the summer between my senior year at Pomona College and going off to study medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, I had a job with the Los Angeles Unified School District: taking art teachers on tours of modern homes. The houses included the Charles and Ray Eames home in Santa Monica overlooking the Pacific Ocean and my father’s Chuey House high on the ridge of hills between Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley. The Chuey House, owned by Robert and Josephine Ain Chuey, boasted an extra high studio to the back and a living room with a broad overhang against the southern exposure. It was supported by a spider leg ending in two shallow reflection pools. There must have been five or six of these weeklong tours that summer, and the Chueys were gracious about le ing me and my gaggle of teachers traipse through their house. Robert was a retiring and reticent man who taught painting at Chouinard Art Institute. He had studied with Rico Lebrun, Howard Warshaw and Bill Brice (who also owned a Neutra house). Josephine, with bright blue anxious eyes and an enormous head of black wiry hair, was a poet who was devoted to hosting the first wave of Tibetan monks. That summer, I was studying classical guitar with Celedonio Romero while living with a family of Japanese musicians and trying to learn their language. In gratitude for their hospitality, I asked the Chueys if they would like to have a house concert of Spanish and Japanese music. They accepted with enthusiasm. The musicians were happy to experience my father’s design. Celedonio and his son, Pepe, who were not yet famous in 1961, came with their guitars and the Wakita family came with traditional Japanese instruments, a samisen and a koto (string instruments) and a shakuhachi (bamboo flute). As Celedonio played Isaac Albéniz, the carpet of jeweled lights of Los Angeles spread out before us through the large plate-glass windows. Then the moon came up, reflected in the shallow pools beyond the balcony. The room was silent except for the shakuhachi. The memory is vivid half a century later. Fall \ 29 \

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OCT Oct. 1–Nov. 30: Application ﬁling period for undergraduate admission to the CSU system (including Cal Poly Pomona) for fall 2018. Apply at h ps://www2.calstate.edu/apply. Oct. 19: College of Environmental Design Special Preview: “Francis Dean and the Art of Modern Landscape Architecture.” Sponsored by the Southern California chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, ENV, and the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery and Don B. Huntley Gallery, this two-hour program includes refreshments, a curators’ lecture with Professor Lauren Bricker and lecturer Keiji Uesugi, followed by an exhibition tour. Noon to 2 p.m. Grand Meeting Room, Third Floor, University Library (Building 15). Oct. 19: Clothes Closet Open House. Cal Poly Pomona Career Center provides students with professional clothing for an interview, a career fair, or for the ﬁrst week of work.10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Career Center Patio (Building 97). www.cpp.edu/~career/Clothes Closet Open House.shtml Oct. 19: Career Fair Workshop. Students can learn how to market themselves to employers at the Oct. 26 Fall Career Fair. Noon to 1 p.m. Bronco Student Center (Building 35), Ursa Minor. www.cpp.edu/~career/Prep%20 for%20Career%20Fair%20Workshop.shtml

Through Oct. 26: Ink & Clay 43. Established in 1971, this annual national competition is a showcase of printmaking, drawing, ceramic arts, clay sculpture, installation, and mixed-media artworks incorporating ink or clay as materials. W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery (Building 35A). h ps://env.cpp.edu/ kellogg/w-keith-janet-kellogg-art-gallery Oct. 26: ENV Admissions Outreach Breakfast. Dean Michael Woo hosts high school and community college counselors and teachers at the Kellogg West Conference Center for a question-and-answer session with department chairs from the College of Environmental Design. 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Kellogg West Conference Center, Dining Room B. More information: (909) 869–2667 or env@cpp.edu. Oct. 26: ENV Open House. High school students and prospective community college transfers and their friends and family are invited to preview ENV’s undergraduate programs. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Building 7 atrium. More information: (909) 869–4806 or env@cpp.edu.

Oct. 20: Last day to apply for fall 2017 graduation. Oct. 25–26: Winter 2018 priority registration. Oct. 25–26: Free ﬂu shots for students, courtesy of Cal Poly Pomona Student Health and Counseling Services. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. University Park. For information, email health educator assistant Jonathan Martinez at jgmartinez@cpp.edu.

Stanton Hunter, “Intimate Corners #5” (detail).

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Oct. 26: Fall Career Fair. More than 150 employers from various industries will set up booths at the University Quad to provide information on career opportunities, take resumes and network to ﬁnd recruits. 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. www.cpp.edu/~career/ Fall%20Career%20Fair.shtml Oct. 30–Nov. 17: Winter 2018 registration Oct. 31: Cyber Security and Awareness Fair. Learn about the risks of new IoT (Internet of Things—interrelated mechanical and digital machines), cyber threats and physical threats. The event will feature a workshop on physical security, peer-to-peer hacking demonstrations organized by SWIFT (Students With an Interest in the Future of Technology) and the third annual Cyber Security & Forensics Research Poster Contest oﬀering $1,000 in prize money for top poster designs. 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bronco Student Center (Building 35), Ursa Major suite. www.cpp.edu/~cyberfair

DEC Nov. 10: Veterans Day—campus closed.

Dec. 4: Winter 2018 fees due.

Nov. 16: “Francis Dean and the Art of Modern Landscape Architecture.” Held in tandem with the Department of Landscape Architecture’s 60th anniversary celebration, the evening’s program includes an exhibition reception at the Don B. Huntley Gallery on the fourth ﬂoor of the University Library, followed by a panel discussion at the Grand Meeting Room on the third ﬂoor. 6 to 9:45 p.m. University Library (Building 15).

Dec. 4–8: Fall 2017 ﬁnal examinations.

Nov. 18–Feb. 1, 2018: “Jim Morphesis: Passion and Presence, Memento and Myth.” An exhibition of Morphesis’ works representing the spiritual, cognitive and personal journey confronting humankind’s inescapable mortality. Through archetypal and allegorically infused subjects and themes inspired by early Christian and Eastern Orthodox iconography and Renaissance chiaroscuro and impasto, his featured artworks fuse modernist styles and techniques of abstraction, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism and Hyperrealism. W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery (Building 35A). Opening reception on Nov. 18 from 2 to 5 p.m. h ps://env.cpp.edu/ kellogg/w-keith-janet-kellogg-art-gallery

Dec. 13: Fall 2017 grades due. Dec. 15–Jan. 8, 2018: Winter 2018 add/drop period.

Jim Morphesis, “Skull Study, No. 48.”

Dec. 25–Jan. 1, 2018: Campus closed for winter break.

JAN Jan. 2, 2018: Winter 2018 classes begin. Jan. 8: Last day to drop classes without receiving a “W.” Jan. 23: Last day to withdraw from classes without a petition. Jan. 24: First day to withdraw from classes by petition for serious and compelling reasons.

Nov. 23–24: Thanksgiving—campus closed. Jan. 26: Last day to apply for winter 2018 graduation.

FRANCIS DEAN and the ART of MODERN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Don B. Huntley Gallery • Oct. 21, 2017–Jan. 11, 2018 To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the College of Environmental Design’s Department of Landscape Architecture, Cal Poly Pomona will honor one of its most celebrated faculty members— landscape architect Francis H. Dean, FASLA (1922–2003) — with an exhibit featuring original landscape drawings, photographs and related materials. Dean, who graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor of science degree in landscape architecture in 1948, was a leading figure in postwar landscape architecture. As co-founder of the internationally acclaimed firm Eckbo, Dean, Austin and Williams (and its predecessor firms), he demonstrated an ability to plan and execute projects in a wide range of scales, including private residences, college and university campuses, regional parks, and urban open spaces that covered hundreds of square miles. Dean joined the faculty of the landscape architecture department at Cal Poly Pomona in 1976, and his professional stature added significantly to the reputation of the department. Through his teaching and public service, he was a strong advocate for an approach to landscape architecture that drew on an analytic and creative design process to meet the needs of people while maintaining the health and quality of the environment. While Dean was a principal of EDAW and its earlier iterations, the firm established offices in Washington state and Hawaii. Dean opened an office for EDW in Sea le (1958–61), and during that period designed the University of Washington Faculty Club (1960 –67); the property was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Another out-of-state

Union Bank Plaza, Los Angeles, 1965, Francis Dean, EDAW, landscape architect. (Photograph by Kent Oppenheimer, courtesy of the ENV Archives-Special Collections)

project where Dean was the principal-in-charge was the Science Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama (1967), a museum designed to showcase the Saturn V rocket and other hardware associated with the space program. —Professor Lauren Bricker, Department of Architecture, and Keiji Uesugi, lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture This piece was adapted from an article by Bricker and Uesugi in the fall 2017 edition of Eden: Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society. Fall \ 31 \

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Through Oct. 15: Amici di ENV: Tour of Castiglion Fiorentino. The College of Environmental Design is partnering with the Department of Landscape Architecture to sponsor a week in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. The location of the longest-running international program in the college, Castiglion Fiorentino has been home to students of landscape architecture for 25 years. The trip provides an opportunity to connect to the community, and the landscape that has proven to be fundamental to educating generations of landscape architecture students. The excursion also is an opportunity to explore a part of Italy that is off the beaten path and spend time at the Santa Chiara Study Center. h ps://env.cpp.edu/la/amici-di-env Oct. 19: AIA|IC 60th Anniversary Celebration. The Inland California chapter of the American Institute of Architects pays tribute to six decades of providing resources, advocacy, community outreach and education for professionals and students of architecture and its allied fields. 6 to 8:30 p.m. Mission Inn, 3649 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside. www.aiaic.org/ event/aia-ics-60th-anniversary-celebration Oct. 20: Landscape Architecture Foundation 32nd Annual Benefit at Union Station. Top designers and leaders from the industry are invited to enjoy fine dining with proceeds supporting LAF research, scholarships and leadership programs. Student discounted rate, $75. h ps:// lafoundation.org/news-events/annual-benefit Oct. 20–23: American Society of Landscape Architects 2017 Annual Meeting and EXPO. ASLA’s Los Angeles conference and expo is the largest trade show in the industry and the best-a ended event of the annual meeting, featuring hundreds of new products, services, and technology and design solutions. Professor Andrew Wilcox and alumni Sara Abed (’14), Aaron Dang (’11) and Natasha Harkison Leyva (’13) will speak at an 8:30 a.m. panel on “Unsanctioned Ideals: Future Scenarios from Diverse Experiences,” which will examine the experiences of young professionals working with urban and suburban landscapes as they identify emerging trends, the importance of diversity in the profession,

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and the current issues and ethical values have deﬁned their careers so far. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. www.aslameeting.com

Oct. 21: Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architecture at the ASLA Alumni Tailgate at the ASLA Annual Meeting EXPO. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. h p://socal-asla.org/ event/cal-poly-pomona-la-asla-alumni-tailgate Oct. 22: Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architecture Fall Mixer, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. A+D Museum, 900 E. Fourth St., Los Angeles. Free with Eventbrite registration. Oct. 23–26: Urban Land Institute Fall Meeting. Expected to draw more than 6,500 developers, investors, architects, planners, brokers, a orneys and government oﬃcials, the annual meeting is one of few events that a racts leaders from every sector of the real estate development industry. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. h ps://fall.uli.org/future-meetings Oct. 30: 2017 AIA|LA Design Awards Party + Ceremony. The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects will honor standout practitioners, projects and educators. A dinner, party and “assorted revelry” will follow the ceremony. 6 to 10 p.m. The Broad Stage at Santa Monica College, 1310 Eleventh St., Santa Monica. www.aialosangeles.org/ calendar/design-awards-party-2017

NOVEMBER Nov. 4: “Landscape as Catalyst: Lawrence Halprin’s Legacy and Los Angeles.” The Cultural Landscape Foundation collaborates with A+D Architecture and Design Museum for a daylong symposium to examine the inﬂuences and accomplishments of the landscape architect, with a special focus on his impact on downtown Los Angeles’ renaissance. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. A+D Architecture and Design Museum, 900 E. Fourth St., Los Angeles. h ps://tclf. org/landscape-catalyst-lawrence-halprins-legacy-and-los-angeles

Nov. 30: Lucky 13 Green Gala. USGBC Los Angeles celebrates the green building marketplace, sustainable cities and communities, and green building policy at the annual gala featuring a charity casino and cocktail hour, the Green Gala Dinner, and the Sustainable Innovation Awards. 6 to 9 p.m. Taglyan Complex, 1201 Vine St., Los Angeles. h ps://socal-asla.org/event/lucky-13green-gala-usgbc-los-angeles-13th-annual/

DECEMBER Dec. 9: Highlighting Works of Eckbo, Dean, Austin & Williams—Guided Tour. Locations designed by the pioneering international landscape architecture ﬁrm EDAW, from Ambassador College to downtown Los Angeles’ Union Bank Plaza, will be visited. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. h p://socal-asla. org/event/highlighting-works-eckbo-dean-austin-williams-guided-tour

JANUARY Through Jan. 7, 2018: The cra smanship of 20 architecture students from Professor Luis Hoyos and Professor Lauren Bricker’s ARC 499 Special Topic: California Architecture class from spring 2017 is integrated into “Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living Architecture.” The exhibition explores the two architects’ works as part of the Palm Spring Art Museum’s contribution to the Ge y initiative “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American & Latino Art in LA.” Cal Poly Pomona architecture students built five physical and five digital models of modernist homes designed by Frey and Bo Bardi. Free admission. Thursdays from noon to 8 p.m.; Fridays through Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed on Wednesdays. Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, 300 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs. www.psmuseum.org Through Jan. 17: “Tu Casa Es Mi Casa.” The Neutra VDL Research House hosts an exhibition uniting two modernist houses in Los Angeles and Mexico City to answer questions about architectural space, mass production and domesticity through the exchange of narrative texts, industrial objects, and installation by contemporary architects and artists. Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, 2300 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles. www.neutra-vdl.org/site/ lectures.asp?830201713431

Lina Bo Bardi, Bardi House (Casa de vidro), São Paulo, Brazil, 1949–1952, Lina on entrance stairway. (Photograph by Francisco Albuquerque, 1952, Courtesy Instituto Lina Bo e P. M. Bardi)

Physical and digital models cra ed by students from Professors Lauren Bricker and Luis Hoyos’ ARC 499 Special Topic: California Architecture class are part of an exhibition exploring the works of architects Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi at Palm Springs Art Museum’s Architecture and Design Center. Pictured to the le : digital model of the interior and exterior of the Frey-designed Aluminaire House by architecture student Kyle Ng.

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