ENVirons Magazine (Winter/Spring 2018)

The Magazine of the || College of Environmental Design || WINTER | SPRING |

Photos on this page by Mark Maryanovich

GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER

Mark Maryanovich’s award-winning photography appears on album covers and artwork, and features musicians such as Chris Cornell, Bob Rock, Chad Kroeger, Ellio Smith, and Henry Rollins. When Slash, the lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, agreed to perform at a benefit for the Los Angeles Zoo, Maryanovich offered to donate his photographic services as a silent auction prize. Dean Michael Woo’s wife Laurie Dowling won the prize and gave it to ENV. Dean Woo asked Maryanovich to snap portraits of ENV department leaders and staff, with the intent of pu ing the framed portraits on a wall in the Building 7 atrium, in other ENV buildings, and on the ENV website. Maryanovich also captured other images of the College of Environmental Design as seen in this edition. Mark, many thanks for your discriminating eye! www.markmaryanovich.com

|| Dean’s Note || || Summer Internships || || ENV Online || || ENV FAQ || || Cultural Exchange || || Design Briefs || || Interim Architecture Show || || Class Notes || || Study Abroad || || Giving || || On the Grid || || Lyle Center || || In Memoriam || || Faculty Affairs || || Calendar ||

The image of Hunter’s Point Park was photographed by landscape architecture student Adrian Cruz during a winter 2018 field trip to New York City. A group of third-year students in Assistant Professor Rennie Tang’s LA 302L intermediate landscape design studio collaborated with third-year architecture students from the New York Institute of Technology. “We had a weeklong workshop at the Westbury campus where we designed and constructed concrete forms through various movements assigned to us,� Cruz says. “Now, we are moving in the direction of actually designing spaces and forms for iPoly High. Our goal is to create ‘playscapes,’ which will enhance how the iPoly students interact with their campus.�

W I NTER | S P RI NG MANAGING EDITOR Samantha Gonzaga ENV Media & External Affairs Coordinator ART DIRECTOR Ani Markarian 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 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 ENV ONLINE env.cpp.edu FOLLOW ENV www.facebook.com/cppenv twi er.com/cppenv Photos on this and opposite page by Mark Maryanovich

ON THE COVER Associate Professor Weimin Li, Department of Landscape Architecture, photographed the pa erns of a dried tree trunk on Santa Cruz Island: “The strokes and the face formed by the tree fibers remind me of Edvard Munch’s ‘Skrik’ (‘The Scream’).

Nature is really the best artist.”

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

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 for the College of Environmental Design.

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dean’s

NOTE What Can ENV Do About the Housing Crisis?

In academia or any large organization, leadership needs to stay focused on its main goals while taking care of the mountainous waves of minutiae that require daily a ention.

At the same time, all of us are part of a larger world that surrounds us with problems that sometimes seem so big that they’re beyond our reach or sometimes even our comprehension.

California is confronted by four paramount interrelated issues of resources and the environment: water, transportation, climate change and housing. On the first three issues — while solutions may still seem far away — California appears to be on the right path in adopting innovative policies.

However, housing stands out as an example of what one of my graduate school professors used to describe as “a wicked problem.”

Housing need is big in numbers, daunting in the scale and complexity of the underlying causes, complicated in the variety of populations affected by it, and overwhelming in terms of the gap between the extent of the unmet needs and the resources commi ed to solutions.

The growing homeless population in Los Angeles County (nearly 58,000 in 2017) is the second largest in the U.S., but constitutes the largest homeless population without shelter (75 percent in Los Angeles compared to 5 percent in New York City). The state’s public universities are far from immune. A recent study reported that one out of 10 California State University students is homeless (and one out of five lack steady access to food).

In addition to the most extreme tip of the housing iceberg manifested by homelessness, there is the less visible but pervasive problem of the lack of affordability in the local rental and homeownership markets. Ask any new Cal Poly Pomona graduate or recent faculty hire about the prospects of finding an affordable entry-level house. The average monthly rent in Los Angeles County is predicted to rise to $2,304 this year. More than half of L.A. residents spend one-third or more of their monthly income on housing. For decades, the local housing market has not produced enough affordable units to serve the demand, so rents and housing prices keep going up.

In the College of Environmental Design, we have unique resources among our faculty and students that could be applied to address key aspects of the housing crisis. Some of the solutions may relate to the design and policy issues we normally address:

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Architecture students could experiment with prototypes of microunits, granny flats, dormitories for urban professionals or other recent concepts for urban affordable housing types.

Landscape architects could help the homeless and newly sheltered to develop portable or small edible gardens.

Urban planners could address the myriad political, economic and policy barriers they face in building affordable units.

Graphic designers could explore the challenges of communicating about stigmatized populations, such as the homeless and the poor.

Regenerative studies students could explore the problem of expanding housing supply consistent with California’s sustainability goals.

Faculty and students could focus on housing solutions in existing ENV courses. In addition, because housing is by definition an interdisciplinary problem, there could be multiple opportunities for ENV to interact with students and faculty from other Cal Poly Pomona disciplines such as real estate, finance, sociology, psychology, history, education, human nutrition and food science, political science, and public administration. Funds could be raised from an external sponsor to support an interdisciplinary housing course. We could look for nearby property owners who might welcome pilot projects and interventions that could yield lessons and precedents for the real world. Policymakers and housing experts from a variety of disciplines could be brought to the campus to interact with us.

At Cal Poly Pomona, there are plans to develop the 300-acre former Lanterman state hospital property located about one mile away from the main campus. At Lanterman, there could be possibilities for developing innovative affordable housing alternatives that would be consistent with the university’s priorities and the surrounding neighborhoods.

Let me know if you have ideas about how ENV should step up to play a larger role in developing solutions to California’s housing crisis.

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Sincerely,

Michael Woo Dean, College of Environmental Design Email: mwoo@cpp.edu

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SUMMER Internships Take the Initiative If you really want an internship, you may have to use your wits to find one (just as you would to get anything else you really want).

Back in 1971, when I was looking ahead to the summer between my sophomore and junior years in college, I decided that I wanted to find an internship in a congressional office in Washington, D.C. But I was a­ending a college that didn’t have an organized Washington internship program. I had no idea of how to start searching for the internship I wanted.

I mentioned this to my friend Victor who was a pre-med undergraduate at UCLA. The university had a long-established and well-organized Washington summer internship program that posted lists on bulletin boards around the campus that identified dozens of members of Congress seeking UCLA interns.

Victor removed one of the lists from a bulletin board and sent it to me. A er perusing the list and pu­ing a check by the names of members of Congress I’d heard of or knew something about, I dra ed a form le­er to introduce myself and sent it to several senators and representatives.

Much to my surprise (and excitement) about two weeks later, I received a very official-looking le­er from the administrative assistant to Wisconsin Sen. William Proxmire, the powerful chairman of the Joint Economic Commi­ee, inviting me to work as an intern during the summer. I’d never met Proxmire and didn’t have any connections to him. I barely knew how to find Wisconsin on a map. But my le­er was good enough to stand out in the stack of entreaties from prospective interns.

That’s all it took. Writing a good le­er might be enough to get you through the door for the internship you want.

—Dean Michael Woo

Visualizing a Career Path in Art

Fifth-year art history student Kevin Torres learned valuable lessons in art conservation at the Getty Foundation’s Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program last summer. For 10 weeks, cultural organizations throughout Southern California, including the Getty Center and Getty Villa, hosted interns interested in careers related to museums and the visual arts. Learn more about the program at www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/mui.

Last year, I applied for an art conservation/collections internship funded by the Ge­y Foundation at Scripps College in Claremont. My focus was helping the collections manager take stock of inventory, and scanning and storing over 400 photographs by Dody Weston Thompson, the daughter-in-law of iconic photographer Edward Weston.

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of a plaster cast. It was a popular marble bas relief from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C, that was made by John Gregory, a sculptor during the 1930s well-known for his architectural style. In the past, the plaster cast was painted to match the color of the walls where it was being displayed. The goal of the restoration process was to strip off the paint without damaging the surface. I did this by applying different paint-thinning gels prepared by the conservator overseeing the project.

I also was involved with the Ge­y’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition, “Revolution and Ritual: The Photographs of Sara Castrejón,

Fi h-year art history student Kevin Torres restores sculptor John Gregory’s marble bas relief during his Ge y Foundation Multicultural Undergraduate Internship at Scripps College.

(Photo by Kevin Torres)

Graciela Iturbide and Tatiana Parcero,� at Scripps. I helped the gallery director with the translation of wall labels from English to Spanish and prepared invitations that were sent to the collectors, the families of the artists, and the artists themselves. I also assisted with the installation process of the exhibition.

This internship gave me experience and knowledge of the roles of the collection manager, the registrar and the gallery director — career paths that I am interested in pursuing. The coolest thing I learned was how an exhibition is put together from start to finish, and all the logistics involved. With help from the gallery director, I was able to build a network of professional contacts in the art history field and explore careers in the visual arts. I am now considering the path of curatorship or applying for a doctorate program in art history.

Keep Eyes and Ears Open for Opportunities Recruitment season for summer internships typically kicks off in the fall of the previous year, with application deadlines closing in March.

Securing an internship requires not only a measure of luck, but also the foresight to plan ahead — way ahead. “Opportunities can pop up anywhere, so participate in as many events as possible — lectures, conferences, meeting alumni,� says Professor Do Kim, chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. “Utilize any event to network to find these opportunities. Also, pay a’ention to department emails. We send plenty of emails about internships. Always check your email.�

Students have to start early to find an internship for the short summer break, says Professor Alyssa Lang, associate chair at the Department of Art. “CPP ends classes in June, and semester campuses have been out of class for a full month before our spring term ends,� she notes. “Design firms are an obvious place to look for a position, but also consider a position ‘in house.’ There are tons of companies all over L.A. that utilize an in-house design team, and this is a great window into a particular industry.

And remember, it doesn’t have to be your dream job. You’re looking for some experience, an entry on your resume, and maybe the chance to find out the kind of work that isn’t right for you.�

Don’t rely solely on department postings, urges Karlyn Griffith, assistant professor of art history. Be proactive because “it’s a good skill that mimics the actual job market. In this vein, I recommend students take the initiative and contact programs with questions. This shows initiative, obviously, but it also can help to keep your name familiar to reviewers. A good idea for scholarships and grants, too.�

Gaining an edge sometimes means looking at private firms, says Pamela Galera (’92, landscape architecture), principal project planner at the City of Anaheim and a member of the Department of Landscape Architecture Professional Advisory Board.

For landscape architecture students, she advises looking for prospects in community colleges and school gardens: “Look in the public sector, in the water districts, sanitation districts, Army Corps of Engineers, public and quasi-public agencies,� she says.

For Mike Barker (’91, architecture), an internship at a small development company in La Habra initially had him running small errands, from washing the owner’s Mercedes-Benz to running blueprints (“I can still smell the ammonia.�). But he also learned how to dra¨ by hand. He weathered through turbulent times at the company — including an armed break-in — and rose through the ranks. This internship prompted his decision to apply to the architecture program at the College of Environmental Design.

He stayed at the company for two years. “By that time I was responsible for a completed 256-unit multifamily project in Fontana and a 310-unit project in Riverside that had just broken ground,� says Barker, who now works at Irvine-based Kevin L. Crook Architect, Inc. “My advice is, don’t look for the ideal big firm as they tend to compartmentalize tasks. It’s the small offices where you’ll actually learn how to build.�

Students, alumni, faculty and staff: What are your plans this summer? Do you have an interesting internship lined up, a passion project set aside or a bucket list item to mark off? Share what you’ll be doing at env@cpp.edu. || ENVirons || WINTER-SPRING 5

WEB OF INTRIGUE Since launching a dynamic website overhaul two years ago, the College of Environmental Design has been working hard to present a rich, visually compelling online presence.

The ENV website runs on the Drupal content management system, a platform used by top universities and educational institutions around the world — among them Oxford, Harvard and MIT. The system also is used by sister CSU campuses at Monterey Bay and San Francisco and the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric, Whole Foods and Ma el also utilize the platform.

ENV’s site enables faculty, students and staff to control their profiles, allowing the expression of innovative work inside and outside the classroom.

Over the last two quarters, ENV has launched two pilot programs to enhance the way students, faculty and visitors experience the site.

The college has started migrating department course catalogues to the pages of corresponding programs. Every class now has a dedicated page, with the capability to display image galleries and student projects. This provides unique insight into the creative solutions tackled in studios and glimpses into the activities throughout the quarter.

More than 150 students enjoy free online portfolios, linking projects to courses. Courses, in turn, are connected to ENV’s forward-thinking faculty.

This multi-layered experience showcases the college’s programs by allowing visitors to identify the individuals that practice Cal Poly Pomona’s learn-by-doing ethos.

Here are other website features:

ENV MAP OF THE WORLD The college continues to work on an interactive map that demonstrates where and how alumni change the communities in which they practice. The latest additions include: Quinton “Corky” Bradley (’75, architecture): President and principal at RB+B Architects in Fort Collins, Colorado. www.rbbarchitects.com Kenneth Brokaw (’82, landscape architecture): Senior landscape architect and environmental planner at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ Bureau of Facilities and Lands. h p://dnr.wi.gov Duncan Paterson (’87, architecture): Principal at Gensler’s Los Angeles office. www.gensler.com/ people/duncan-paterson Rosemary Woodruff (’76, master’s in urban and regional planning): Senior environmental property specialist at Cuyahoga Land Bank in Cleveland, Ohio. h p://www.cuyahogalandbank.org/staffBoard.php To participate, email env@cpp.edu.

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Photo by Mark Maryanovich

NEW FEATURES ENHANCE ENV’S ONLINE PRESENCE

COURSE CATALOGUE The program is being implemented by the Department of Architecture, and will proceed with rollouts at the Departments of Art and Urban and Regional Planning.

Check out the landscape architecture program’s fall 2017 studio, “Basic Landscape Design”: h ps://env.cpp.edu/la/course/la201201l/fall-2017. The department’s course catalogue is available at h ps://env.cpp.edu/la/courses.

STUDENT PROFILES ENV student profiles are converted into alumni accounts a¨er graduation. Who is designing the future? Here’s a sampling: Marc Escobar (junior majoring in landscape architecture): h ps://env.cpp. edu/la/student/marc-escobar Kara Bolin (sophomore majoring in landscape architecture): h ps://env.cpp. edu/la/student/kara-bolin Ada Aybar (freshman majoring in architecture): David Lynch Ranger Center project: h ps://env.cpp.edu/arc/project/ david-lynch-ranger-center Visit the ENV website at env. cpp.edu.

ONLINE OPTIONS

To enhance the learn-by-doing doctrine, the College of Environmental Design utilizes online learning opportunities to augment the hands-on experiences of students. Online courses are a convenient option for students who work full time and cannot a end classes on campus. Some courses are hybrids, requiring a combination of classroom lectures, seminars and computer laboratory work.

Here are the online offerings for spring 2018: DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING URP 104: The Evolution of Cities. Typically offered during the fall and spring terms, the class takes a historical review of cities dating to antiquity.

Lecturer Abhishek Tiwari examines the origins and development of cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The course also investigates the social, economic, political, cultural and technological interrelationships that determine where and how cities are located and formed, their rise and decline, and how these factors are relevant to urban planning.

JOHN T. LYLE CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE STUDIES RS 450: Sustainable Communities. Offered online for the first time, this course is taught by Tim Kohut, AIA, director of Sustainable Design at National Community Renaissance. Open to all ENV students in their fourth year and above, the interdisciplinary class provides a cross-cultural study of sustainable communities, emphasizing the interdependence of human society and ecology. Students examine and analyze communities as models of traditional and alternative pa erns. The course also explores the legal and economic organization of land-holding pa erns; housing and community design features; values inhibiting or facilitating experimentation; and the impact of cultural values in the interpretation of science and history.

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On Pace to GRADUATE?

transition to the semester system in August. To make sure you’re on track to graduate, you must complete an Individual Academic Plan (IAP). This tool allows you to organize your schedule and determine whether you have fulfilled your graduation requirements. Here’s what you need to know:

HOW CAN I TELL IF I WILL BE READY TO GRADUATE?

If you are within 60 units of graduating, you should have received a notice from the university at the start of fall 2017 quarter to complete an IAP on your BroncoDirect To-Do List. It’s important that you fill out your IAP. The IAP is a visual roadmap that lists the sequence of classes — general education, prerequisites and core courses — that students in every major need to complete.

It’s the ultimate time-saver and ensures that students don’t overlook registering for important classes. To create an IAP, students must use the online program MyPlanner on BroncoDirect. A•er inpu–ing the courses you plan to take in the future, your schedule will be reviewed by a faculty advisor and, a•er it is approved, an IAP is generated.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR A Short Summer and Long Fall Cal Poly Pomona’s transition from a quarter system to a semester calendar means a short summer this year.

Summer break kicks off on June 11 a‚er the 2018 Commencement weekend. The summer quarter begins on June 18 and concludes with finals the week of July 23. Unlike previous summers when there were two five-week sessions, there will only be one five-week session this year.

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning will be the only ENV department holding summer classes. Four URP lecture courses will be offered through Open University: URP 104 (Evolution of Cities), URP 411 (Evolution of Cities and the Planning Movement), URP 475 (Cities in a Global Economy) and URP 499 (Special Topics for Upper Division Students: Public Finance). Course descriptions are available at hšp://schedule.cpp.edu.

The fall semester begins on Aug. 23 and concludes with finals week beginning on Dec. 10.

HOW ARE MYPLANNER AND IAP RELATED?

MyPlanner is an important tool in the Semester Conversion toolbox. It’s available online in BroncoDirect and helps students plan their paths to graduation. This is where you’re able to plot required and elective courses by quarter, while also being able to view your Degree Progress Report.

The IAP tracks your progress toward graduation and provides a snapshot of the courses you’ve taken. You’ll need a copy of the IAP to submit to your faculty advisor for review. Note: Unapproved changes from your IAP could delay your graduation, so keep your advisor in the loop. Learn more about MyPlanner and IAP at h–p://www.cpp.edu/~advising/myplanner

WHAT DEADLINES SHOULD I BE AWARE OF? For those graduating in June, here are two dates to note: April 13: Online application deadline for candidates to be listed in the Commencement program. Early Commencement participation applications are also due this day.

July 13: Last day to submit final transcripts, petitions and other requested information for spring 2018 graduates.

WHERE DO I FIND A GRADUATION APPLICATION? Graduation applications will be available in BroncoDirect on March 29. Learn more at www.cpp.edu/~registrar/graduation/graduationapplication-info.shtml.

I’M STILL ANXIOUS„ The Registrar’s Office will host “Ready, Set, Graduate!� on April 13. Staff members will look over your graduation checklist and progress report.

The free event is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. in Ursa Major AB at the Bronco Student Center.

Still have questions? Visit www.cpp.edu/~semester/conversion-guide.shtml Cal Poly Pomona President Soraya M. Coley speaks with ENV students during a semester conversion-themed Pizza with the Presidents college tour in February. Every quarter she and the ASI student president host a free pizza lunch and Q&A session with students.

Photo by Tom Zasadzinski

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Feifei Chen paints a new project at the ceramics studio.

Xiaona Wang puts the finishing touches on a project for art department lecturer Gina Lawson Egan.

Wenjing Guo, from le , Feifei Chen, art department lecturer Gina Lawson Egan and Xiaona Wang stop by the ceramics studio in Building 13.

Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu, from le , Feifei Chen, Dean Michael Woo (the first Asian American elected to the L.A. City Council), Wenjing Guo, and Xiaona Wang a†end the City of L.A. Asian Pacific Heritage Month reception.

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LASTING IMPRESSIONS ENV Helps Visiting Scholars From China Broaden Their Horizon The College of Environmental Design welcomed five visiting scholars from China and helped them further their research.

Yanyan Huang from Hubei University of Technology studied low-carbon architecture design at the Department of Architecture. Li Peng of South China Normal University delved into landscape planning at the Department of Landscape Architecture.

Wenjing Guo, Feifei Chen and Xiaona Wang — all from Foshan University in Guangdong Province — molded their ideas at the Department of Art and offered their dispatches from the field.

Wenjing “Phoebe” Guo

Department of Art and Design, School of Ceramic Art & Industrial Design, Foshan University It has been a year since I came to the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona. During my visit, I have been working on my research related to web design and UX (user experience) design. I audited several courses in graphic design, including color theory, 3-D graphic design, motion graphic design and web design.

In the course of the audits, I was able to not only study different teaching skills on different projects, but the professors shared their experience and opinions in their fields as well. Based on the studies and the discussion with the professors in the Department of Art, I published an article, “The Study of the Approach and Significance of ‘Brand Design’ Course Reform Based on Interdisciplinary Work.”

I also a ended panels such as Storytelling by Design with Walt Disney Imagineering executives as well as many other activities, including the Walking Tour of Hollywood and the Noir L.A. Tour, which were led by Dean Michael Woo. I had a chance to know the city and design be er through his guidance and instruction.

It has been a great journey to extend my research at the College of Environmental Design. I truly appreciate the support and assistance from the professors of the college, and especially Dean Michael Woo.

Feifei “Fay” Chen

Department of Ceramic Art, School of Ceramic Art & Industrial Design, Foshan University I am very grateful to art department lecturer Gina Lawson Egan, a ceramic artist, for her guidance and help in a six-month ceramic course that enabled me to complete the creation and firing of nearly 10 ceramic works. She taught me about mastering the characteristics of the U.S. native ceramic materials and their manufacturing processes.

During the year, I listened to a lot of courses, published a number of works and papers, and participated in various activities at the university. This made me understand the characteristics of American higher education. This will have a great impact on my teaching career.

Xiaona “Natalia” Wang

Department of Ceramic Art, School of Ceramic Art & Industrial Design, Foshan University I am honored to study at ENV for one year. All of the teachers and students I have met are particularly passionate to help me in life and work.

During this visit, I have been working on ceramic art and researching art design. I audited a few courses, and in one course I made some work to communicate ceramic art with teachers and classmates. Campus life is particularly rich, and I was invited to a end many activities on campus, such as The Collins College wine tasting and auction. Through activities, we gained a good understanding of campus life and urban culture in the United States. In short, it has been a pleasant time at Cal Poly Pomona.

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LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

FRANK GEHRY’s Hay Barn at Student Project Site Offers Inspiration

By George Proctor, AIA Chair, Professor, Department of Architecture

Image courtesy of Professor George Proctor, Department of Architecture.

Last fall, my graduate-level architecture studio and a landscape architecture studio under Professor Weimin Li collaborated on a design proposal for the Rancho Mission Viejo Reserve land conservancy headquarters in San Juan Capistrano.

Irvine-based LPA, Inc. supported the endeavors of eight students from the LA512L Methods and Applications Studio and 13 from ARC 504 Tectonics Studio. The group investigated designs for a new building and landscaped grounds as an interpretive center. The project site sits at the edge of the Cleveland National Forest on Ortega Highway in south Orange County and the land has a rich history, spanning from the indigenous Acágchemem people and the Mission Period to the O’Neill Ranch that is occupied by Rancho Mission Viejo.

The site supports a collection of existing small ranch buildings, including a hay barn designed by architect Frank Gehry in 1967. In the last 50 years, the ranch — family owned since the late 1800s — has slowly transformed into a series of carefully considered communities, separated by tracts of dedicated open space that are held in a pristine natural state. Recently, the ranch relocated the office for its reserve land conservancy to this site on Ortega Highway.

The conservancy’s mission is to preserve and enhance dedicated ranch lands for ecological, educational, charitable, conservation, open space, scientific and recreational uses. The conservancy maintains its mission through educational and outreach programs as well as a variety of research projects, acting as land steward for vast tracts of south Orange County lands linking the Cleveland National Forest to the Pacific Ocean.

Indigenous environments, replete with native plant and animal populations, are intrinsic to the studio project location and the conservancy’s mission.

The conservancy anticipates interpretive and instructional space needs on the headquarters site, including native gardens and a multipurpose building. The joint curriculum of the architecture and landscape architecture design studios was a logical fit with the project. Landscape architecture graduate students considered two alternative site design and landscape proposals, while architecture graduate students focused their efforts on the design of a simple interpretive building that fit carefully into one of the two site scenarios. The students collaborated to adjust site landscapes and building designs.

The Gehry hay barn had already been improved to support group functions and grade-school instruction when the two studios got involved. All studio site and building design scenarios gave the hay barn careful consideration — the openness of the barn suits plans for outdoor interpretive instruction and the tectonic qualities of the structure resonated with the design intent for the interpretive center building design.

INTERDISCIPLINARY INSIGHT

Image courtesy of Professor George Proctor, Department of Architecture.

Last September, conservancy director Laura Eisenberg and I met with Gehry to describe to him the programs and activities that occupy the building he designed 50 years ago. He was delighted to know it served educational activities, but noted he liked the building filled with hay bales. Gehry said the barn was a labor of love long ago, a simple pale e of materials meant to blend into its se ing — the diagonal roof, and shingled corrugated metal roof and side walls were designed to reflect and disappear into the sky. A trained eye can see ideas and elements in the barn architecture we now assign to Gehry. While the students used a pale e similar to Gehry, they may have learned more about their own potential career paths from the barn and its story. Learn more about the Rancho Mission Viejo Reserve at www.rmvreserve.org.

The joint project for the Rancho Mission Viejo Reserve provided an exciting and intense exploration into the principles of design from different perspectives. Second-year graduate students of landscape architecture and architecture collaborated to provide an environment for children to learn about ecology.

Students from the two studios designed an integrated indoor and outdoor environment that functioned as a cohesive learning experience.

As a joint class, we visited the site to understand the needs of the space and the opportunities for learning. As graduate students with experience from our previous majors, our varied backgrounds inspired creative ideas in the most opportune spaces. Furthermore, working with the Rancho Mission Viejo Reserve’s employees and LPA, Inc. provided a substantial critique we could only get from a real client and an interdisciplinary firm.

In the end, the project was exciting to design, and the experience provided invaluable insight into professional interdisciplinary design.

—Christopher C. Carrillo

(’18, master’s in landscape architecture)

SOCIAL JUSTICE Graphic Arts Students Help Nonprofit Groups at CPP’s First Design-a-Thon Trejo, art and design coordinator at the Dreamers Resource Center. “It will allow people to recognize us. We’re open to Dreamers and open to others, and to new potential allies.”

Assistant Professor Anthony Acock served as the faculty advisor for the design-a-thon. In addition to Alley and Hammock, other student participants for the Dreamers Resource Center were Darleen Ralota, Marissa Nieto, Danielle Giberti, Kevin Luck, Victor Lara, Guadalupe Gutierrez, Baykomious El Magarisy, Kimberly Au, Yoojin Lee, Christian Opdahl and Jed Irish Dar Juan. The Project Sister team consisted of Natalie Tran, Iesa McReynolds, Marissa Merida, Danny Do, Christina San Nicolas, Stephanie Amaya, Natalie Romo, Alejandro Sisro and Brandon Busante.

Professionals who provided feedback were Garza Group Communications principal Augustín Gonzáles Garza, a member of the AIGA national board of directors; multi-disciplinary artist Gabriella Sanchez, whose clients include Nike, Facebook and Toyota; Cal State Long Beach graphic design Assistant Professor Sam Anvari; Khara Cloutier, AIGALos Angeles board member and Long Beach City College visual and media arts instructor; and Cal State Long Beach graphic design alumni Raymond Ramirez and Derek Dubler.

“It was a really fun event,” Hammock says. “We designed good work. I’d do it again. It was a good way to bond with people and get industry critiques at a professional level.”

Photo by Assistant Professor Anthony Acock, Department of Art.

The student chapters of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) at Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State Long Beach teams teamed up for CPP’s first design-a-thon, Design for Good, in January.

For 24 hours, participants worked on materials for two nonprofit organizations: The university’s Bronco Dreamers Resource Center for undocumented students and Project Sister Family Services, a rape crisis center in Pomona.

Students created designs and improved existing visual campaigns — logos, websites, brochures and pamphlets — to increase the organizations’ visibility to the public. The students divided into two teams and consulted with representatives of the groups.

“We wanted to create an identity system that is memorable and pertains to their values,” says fifth-year graphic design student Daniel Alley, a member of the Dreamers Resource Center team.

The team was able to draw from the experiences of classmates who are Dreamers — young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — and find artistic inspiration, says fi©h-year student Joshua Hammock, president of the CPP student AIGA chapter.

In early February, the teams presented their designs to Project Sister and the Dreamers Resource Center.

“This was to help us develop something that will expand the amount of information we give out to the university community without it looking clu ered,” says Francisco

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“Blue House” MADE OF METTLE

The “Blue House” in the courtyard of Building 7 has a peripatetic past. The house — a learn-by-doing project that taught a group of architecture students how to build in steel — has been carted around to various parts of the campus since it was constructed nearly 40 years ago Douglas Noble (’82, architecture), the discipline head for Building Science and director of the Master of Building Science Degree program at USC, returned to his former stomping grounds in the winter quarter to teach a Façade Tectonics course to upper-division architecture students. He recalls the origins of what was then called the Open House.

The “Blue House” in the courtyard of Building 7.

(Image courtesy of Douglas Noble.)

Architecture students from the Class of 1981 gather for their Commencement procession.

(Image courtesy of Don Looney; ’81, architecture.)

The house was a class project around 1980.

We got a grant for a few thousand dollars from the American Institute of Steel Construction for the materials, and our class held a mini-competition. I think we had a week or two at the beginning of the quarter to submit a proposal. “Ghost Structures” — a public art piece in Philadelphia’s Franklin Court at Independence National Historic Park built in 1976

by Venturi, Rauch and Sco Brown — was in the magazines at the time, and everyone knew about it and liked it. So I proposed a smaller version. Each student in the class made a proposal. Mine was selected. Everyone in the class helped.

Dozens of students participated, doing welding and painting — the blue color was based on the architecture department’s color scheme at that time, a Pantone Pan Am blue. Landscape students painted it green around 1984 — architecture students painted it back pre y quick. It needs a new coat of paint now.

It was humorously called the “Open House” and we used several real estate open house signs pointing to it at the official unveiling. The house was designed to last a long time — very strong and heavy steel.

The house has moved several times, including one time being located in a pasture not far from the current Interim Design Center. Somewhere I have photos of it with horses milling about. We moved it short distances ourselves with three or four architecture students li£ing each corner. It weighs about a ton. Literally. The legs have steel plates on the bo om.

In the early 1980s, there was a built-in brick barbecue at the west side of the current wildflower rectangle. The house was placed over the barbecue so smoke went up the chimney.

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Images courtesy of Cal Poly Pomona chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students

Students and faculty admire work at the Interim Design Center during the architecture department’s Winter 2018 Interim Student Exhibit. The one-day exhibition showcased the best student projects from the fall quarter.

Interim Architecture SHOW COOL PROJECTS at Winter Exhibit

At the start of every quarter, the student chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students hosts the Interim Student Exhibit at the Interim Design Center. The one-day show gives faculty, students, alumni and prospective employers a chance to see the best graduate and undergraduate student work from the previous term.

The exhibits were chosen by architecture faculty members. Displays ranged from first-year 3-D model projects and fourth-year undergraduate case studies to highlights from the ENV China Program.

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Changing the World Jack and Laura Dangermond (Image courtesy of Esri)

NATURE CONSERVANCY RECEIVES $165-MILLION GIFT

In December, Esri founders and digital mapping pioneers Jack Dangermond (’68, landscape architecture) and Laura Dangermond (’74, social sciences) donated $165 million to the Nature Conservancy, the largest private donation received by the nonprofit organization. Their gi is earmarked to preserve eight miles of coastline in Santa Barbara County: the 24,000-acre Cojo/Jalama Ranch at Point Conception, where the couple honeymooned in the 1960s. The area is home to centuries-old coastal oaks and nearly 40 endangered wildlife species.

PRESTON RETIRES AFTER 38-YEAR CAREER

Ayzenberg, an ad agency whose offices were designed by architecture alumnus Rick Corsini.

CORSINI WINS AIA|LA CITATION AWARD

Corsini Stark Architects, the firm founded by Rick Corsini (’82, architecture), received a 2017 Citation Award from the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects at its Design Awards ceremony in October. The firm was recognized for its work on Ayzenberg Group’s offices in Pasadena.

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Steve Preston (’80, urban and regional planning; ’84, master’s in urban and regional planning) has retired as the city manager of San Gabriel, which won awards for its redevelopment programs under his leadership. He also worked for the cities of La Verne and Glendale during his 38-year career in city planning and management.

For the past decade, he was the co-chair of the UCLA Extension Land Use Law Conference, and was president of the Asian Youth Center, La Casa de San Gabriel Community Center and Pasadena Heritage. He also served on the American Planning Association’s national board and chaired its Legislative and Policy Commi©ee. He received several honors from the organization, including the 2000 Distinguished Service Award.

Preston has authored and co-authored notable reports such as “Planning at the Edge of the Millennium for the California Planning Roundtable,” and wrote a chapter in the 2012 Planning Los Angeles anthology produced by APA Press. Preston also taught at USC and Cal Poly Pomona. In 1995, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus for the College of Environmental Design.

MOVING ON AND MOVING UP

David Salazar (’90, master’s in urban and regional planning) has been named chief facilities executive at the Los Angeles Community College District. He previously served as the associate vice president of Facilities Planning and Facilities Management at Cal State Long Beach, where he worked for nearly nine years. In 2005 he was honored by Cal Poly Pomona with a Distinguished Alumnus award from the College of Environmental Design.

Bill Manis (’86, urban and regional planning) has been named Upland’s new city manager. He began his career in advanced planning and code enforcement in Cerritos and later served as redevelopment and economic manager. He was involved in developing the Cerritos Town Center and played a key role in bringing several dealerships to the Cerritos Auto Center, the world’s largest auto mall. He also served as deputy city manager for San Bernardino from 2014 to 2016.

As Claremont’s new community development director, Brad Johnson (’94, urban and regional planning) will have a hand in shaping two major developments: the expansion of The Village South on the west side of Indian Hill Boulevard south of Claremont Village, and luxury housing development Clara Oaks slated for construction near Webb Canyon Road.

Johnson previously served two years as the development services manager and eight years as the planning manager for Pomona. During his tenure in Pomona, he guided the city’s 10-year general plan update and worked closely with the Gold Line Construction Authority on the Pomona portion of the Glendora-Montclair light rail expansion.

RECALLING THEIR DESIGN INSPIRATION

Gail Garbini (’78, landscape architecture) and Rick Garbini (’83, master’s in landscape architecture), principals of the award-winning Garbini & Garbini Landscape Architecture, Inc., sat down with the San Diego Downtown News to talk about their inspiration — mid-century landscape architecture pioneers Garret Eckbo and Dan Kiley, East Coast urban hubs and Joe Yamada, one of San Diego’s iconic practitioners — and urban and environmental design projects that have a social impact. Gail Garbini is active in the American Society of Landscape Architects’ subcommi¨ee, the Historic American Landscape Survey, which identifies endangered landscapes around the country. She also served two terms on San Diego’s Historic Resources Board. Rick Garbini has served on various ASLA commi¨ees, including stints as president and vice president.

ALUMNI GIVE INSIGHTS AT LECTURE SERIES

For its winter quarter professional lecture series, the Department of Architecture organized a lineup of alumni: Horst Noppenberger (’81), founder of Laguna Beach-based Horst Architects; Wendy Rogers (’88), the first female CEO of LPA, Inc.; Anders Lasater (’95), founder and principal of Anders Lasater Architects and former lecturer at the department; Carl Smith (’97) of Telemachus Studio (Smith co-founded with ’97 classmates Melynda Eccles and Ma hew Chaney.); and Juan Moreno, president of Chicago-based Juan Gabriel Moreno Architects.

Go ahead, brag! Send your alumni news to env@cpp.edu.

Tina Ngan Le, a fi h-year graphic design student, died on Dec. 17, 2017, from injuries suffered in an early morning traffic accident in the Ladera Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 22.

Le enrolled in the Department of Art in 2013 and was minoring in marketing management at the College of Business Administration. She was scheduled to graduate at the end of the 2018 winter quarter. She was also a member of the Cal Poly Pomona Vietnamese Student Association.

She was a graphic design intern at A ers Ice Cream in Orange County. She also completed internships with KMZ Prints and Honey Belle Inc. as an in-house graphic designer, creating custom stationery and honing her skills in social media marketing.

Natalie Tran, who is graduating in June with a major in graphic design and a minor in art history, knew Le since their freshman year.

They became close friends in their junior year a er taking the ART 252 course taught by Professor Crystal Yachin Lee. Tran organized a memorial on Jan. 12 to celebrate Le’s life. The event was held in Building 13’s newly remodeled Room 1237.

Tran said the room was the space where Le “made close friendships with classmates and showed off her illustrative talents.” More than 50 classmates and faculty members a end the memorial.

Professor Sarah Meyer said Le and her classmates in the ART 352A course designed the classroom.

Upgrades for the room were made possible by a $65,000 grant from Steelcase Education, the school division of the global furniture, design and technology company.

“She was a quiet leader,” says Meyer. “She’s the type of person who says something when she needs to and people listen. You watch students get stunned that she’d lead the room. She was well-spoken.”

Meyer said that Le had hoped to leave her mark at Cal Poly Pomona with her contributions to the project. This spring, Le’s classmates plan to fulfill her ambition by integrating some of her final design ideas into the last phase of the room remodel.

Her poise, solid design skills and methodical approach to projects signaled what would have been a smooth transition into a professional career, Meyer says. “I couldn’t wait to watch her transition from student to colleague.”

Tran reflects on their friendship: “She was a bright light in my life, always exuding positivity and optimism. She loved design, traveling, and seeking out new adventures and opportunities. Knowing that her life was cut short before she could graduate and live out her dreams was soul-crushing. I felt like the only way I could truly honor this kind of selfless and beautiful person was by dedicating a memorial service in her honor. Tina was one of the most beloved people I’ve ever met in my life, and I will always hold her deep in my heart. I’m so thankful for being able to share a part of my life, regardless of how small it was, with someone as amazing and talented as her.” || ENVirons || WINTER-SPRING 15

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ABROAD Living Beyond Boundaries

China + Japan 2018

studying the megacities of Beijing and Shanghai. For the first time, the program will include a nine-day stay in Tokyo, notes Professor Irma Ramirez from the Department of Architecture.

The travel-study program — scheduled from June 27 to July 31 — will be co-taught by Ramirez and Assistant Professor Courtney Knapp from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

The ENV China + Japan group will work with Chinese faculty and student counterparts at NCUT on urban design solutions. Topics for collaboration will include ecological issues, economic development strategies, transportation and urban systems, neighborhoods with deep historic roots, and populations unique to each urban center.

Learn more about the ENV China Program’s projects and read student blogs at h p://calpolypomonachina.blogspot.com. View the 2017 program video at h ps://env.cpp.edu/la/env-china.

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Fourth-year landscape architecture student Gerardo Rosales marvels at the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.

Photo by Gerardo Rosales

Beatriz Salazar (’16, architecture) created a sketch that was inspired

by Beijing’s Since 2005, the College of Environmental hutongs — small Design has partnered with North China University of neighborhoods Technology to bring Cal Poly Pomona architecture, connected by narrow alleys — landscape architecture, and urban and regional planning students to Beijing in the summer. Entering its that date more than 700 years 13th year, the ENV China Program achieved a milestone. to the Yuan A record-se ing 32 students will spend nearly a month Dynasty.

For undergraduate students, study-abroad programs may be their first exposure to the world. Landscape architecture student Gerardo Rosales decided to take the plunge and enrolled in the Department of Landscape Architecture’s Italy Study Abroad Program. He spent an academic quarter at Castiglion Fiorentino in eastern Tuscany, and took advantage of travel opportunities to other parts of Europe. He shares an eye-opening experience of leaving Southern California: Many people say studying abroad is a life-changing experience, but they o en don’t say why. Some might go to study art, and find their life’s work. Others go to study architecture or to sketch, and it changes their lives.

For me, studying abroad was a li le bit of everything. I’m a fourth-year landscape architecture student. My profession is interdisciplinary and so was my trip. I studied history, public art, architecture, urban planning and, of course, landscape architecture.

So why was my trip life-changing?

I used to say I lived in a box, where everything was comfortable.

I knew everything about my surroundings. From my first year to my fourth year, that perspective changed. I now live in a globe, and I’ve overcome boundaries. Literal boundaries and figurative ones. I got comfortable with the uncomfortable.

I traveled to 15 countries in four months. I explored the grounds of a World War II concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland, experienced the Gardens of Versailles in France, walked on the roof of the Milan Cathedral in Italy and hiked up the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland. I saw construction sites and studied their materials and pa erns. I got lost and just kept walking.

Studying abroad promotes personal growth that later converts into career growth. It develops your interests and inspirations. It takes you to places that you’re used to seeing only in pictures. For some people, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For others, it’s not even an option. Studying abroad is a phenomenal experience. Take the opportunity and develop your own story.

Photos by Marissa Merida

North Korean and South Korean soldiers stand guard at the Joint Security Area at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

Conflicting Views at the DMZ Last summer, graphic design student Marissa Merida visited Seoul, South Korea, as part of Assistant Professor Sooyum Im’s ART 299 special topics class.

The two-week itinerary took Merida and 12 classmates to sites intended to encourage global thinking from technological, cultural and environmental viewpoints — from the LG Electronics Design Campus to Bukchon Hanok Village, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods.

The group also visited the Joint Security Area, a meeting point in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Running 160 miles long and 2.5 miles wide, the DMZ is a buffer that divides North Korea and South Korea. Merida reflects on the visit to Panmunjom, a North Korean village in the DMZ:

The drive from Seoul to Panmunjom is quiet and heavy with history. As the urban streets of Seoul fade, the rural greenery takes over and for a while there is only forest. But then the view changes to flat, open expanse. On one side of the empty highway is the Han River. Barbed wire and occasional camouflaged watchtowers line the side of the river. On the other side is wildlife and foliage, with small red signs that warn of mines planted during the Korean War. We reach gates guarded by South Korean soldiers. They enter the bus and look us over, closely inspecting the passports and identification of each passenger. The vacant road ahead is the polar opposite of the lively streets of Seoul, a leading hub of art and design. It doesn’t register completely that the two places exist in the same nation, only 35 miles or so apart.

The difference is striking. Where Seoul was bright and loud, Panmunjom is reserved and serious. An environment of war and political strife is reflected in the design — in the forma ing of a “possibility of injury or death” waiver; in the editing of a video detailing the ba les, deaths and major events in the DMZ; and in the construction of buildings to withstand tension and war. Design takes a

much more constrained and utilitarian form. In an environment reliant on structure, clarity and the absolute, there is li le space for creative dawdling.

This tone follows as we enter the area where we are no longer in South Korea, but not in North Korea, either. On one side are South Korean soldiers.

Mirroring this is the North Korean side, with soldiers staring back at us. We are instructed to take pictures a certain way. We can only point and click. Any gestures, movements or loud voices could cause agitation. We stand, take photos, view North Korea from the closest distance allowed, then about-face, and walk back to South Korea.

Later, as we share photos among our group, we notice how each photo resembles the next in a precise and ordered way, each photo a product of the structured process and context it was created in. These photos do not fit in with the ones taken the day before at a sepia-toned coffee shop in Hongdae or an electric nightclub in Itaewon. The difference in design approach is obvious and telling. As we traveled back to Seoul in the bus, we peer out the windows at the wide river fenced in by chains and barbed wire, until the foliage returns, and then until the vibrant city emerges again.

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A Window to Design Students Travel to China for ‘Beyond the Edge’ Studio For 10 days in January, 20 fourth-year landscape architecture students in Professor Andrew Wilcox’s LA 402L studio visited Wuhan, China, to participate in a cross-cultural urban design studio with 20 of their counterparts at Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST).

The Cal Poly Pomona studio, “Beyond the Edge,” was made possible by a partnership with SWA Laguna Beach. The studio was funded by 30 industry partners, which collectively contributed nearly $20,000 for travel, the workshop and other studio expenses.

The project explored sustainable solutions for waterfront developments along the Yangtze River in central China. Wuhan, with a population of 10 million, sits along the central bank of the world’s third-longest river. As central China’s largest city, it is the seat of the region’s political, economic, financial and cultural power.

The trip was designed to expand students’ awareness of the culture, climate, ecology and history of Wuhan, located in Hubei Province, and the Yangtze River watershed. Students were challenged to develop projects that integrate the region’s trade and industry with resilient design that addresses climate change and future trends in mobility, transit, retail, residential, office and environmental infrastructure.

The itinerary included site visits, meetings with site representatives and local design firms. A five-day workshop allowed students in LA 402L and HUST to present their project ideas to government agencies.

The workshop concluded with trips to Shanghai, Suzhou and Tongli so students could supplement their Wuhan site research.

A midterm and final review included members and guests of SWA and HUST, construction, product design and supplier affiliates, and Cal Poly Pomona’s landscape architecture department. SWA Laguna Beach supported the studio with lectures, critiques, design charre es and workshops.

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Photo by Professor Andrew Wilcox, Department of Landscape Architecture.

ON THE Fourth-year landscape architecture student Dawn Wang, center, sketches with classmates Amy Chen and Nick Chau at the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, China.

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TWO STUDENTS EARN SCHOLARSHIPS

Fi h-year undergraduate architecture students Eric Ton and Seyed Nazari placed second and third, respectively, in the 2018 Coalition for Adequate School Housing design competition. The statewide contest challenged students to submit design concepts for a K-12 educational facility. Ton earned a $1,500 scholarship while Nazari received a $1,000 scholarship.

Learn more about the competition at www. cashnet.org.

DIGGING INTO A TREE’S ‘LEGACY EFFECT’

David Bañuelas, who is graduating in June with a master’s degree in regenerative studies, was accepted to the doctoral program at UC Irvine’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

He will be working at the Treseder Lab in the fall.

Bañuelas will examine the “legacy effect” of the Brazilian pepper tree (Schinus terebinthifolius), which is not native to North America and has been known to change soil microbes and inhibit the establishment of native plant species even a er removal of the tree.

Newport Beach and the Newport Bay Conservancy are leading an effort to remove four acres of pepper trees at Big Canyon Nature Park to help restore native coastal sage scrub.

“For my research I will look at how the soil microbes change when removed and when native plants are introduced,” Bañuelas says. “This research will help be er manage the species in California, Florida and Hawaii as well as South Africa, where pepper trees are also invasive.”

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The Cal Poly Pomona student chapters of ASLA and APSA’s #ENVibrant design project.

Images courtesy of CPP student chapters of APSA and ASLA.

#ENVibrant

Every quarter, two student clubs from the College of Environmental Design form a partnership to work on a “space activator” project. Club members select a location to temporarily redesign with the goal of enlivening and increasing social interactions in a public space that has been taken for granted.

Past projects involved the transformation of the Atrium in Building 7 into a small indoor park using artificial grass rugs and balloon clouds, and a larger-than-life installation of inflatable solar bags flown as kites in the back of Building 7.

The Cal Poly Pomona student chapters of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and American Planning Students Association (APSA) paired up for #ENVibrant. Second-year urban planning student Tony Lopez and third-year landscape architecture student Nayon Kim describe the design process.

As American sculptor Janet Echelman once said: “I believe that open space should be intentional: It should be obvious that you belong.”

In this collaboration of ASLA and APSA, our vision for the “space activator” was to revitalize an overlooked space. We wanted to make the space obvious and vibrant to encourage people to use the area, which is why we named the project #ENVibrant.

We chose the seating area on the west side of Building 7 for this project. The path parallel to the seating area generates heavy foot traffic. However, the seating area is hardly noticed. By the use of vibrant colors, movable furniture and lighting, we wanted to generate curiosity that would a­ract passers-by to take detours into the area and claim their space. We used colored fabric that wrapped around the surrounding trees and colored strings to create that curiosity factor. The furniture and interactive chalk allowed students to assert themselves into the space. LED lights created ambiance during the evening.

Over time, the space was used by many people as a place to study, relax, draw and write inspirational quotes with chalk. Bringing people into the area created animation and vitality, establishing an “urban buzz” into the once overlooked space.

In addition to the two of us, Aldo Reyes (landscape architecture), Aaron Saenz (urban and regional planning), Mario Valdez (landscape architecture) and other members from the clubs made this experience fun and informative. Since we come from two different disciplines — urban planning and landscape architecture — we were able to learn from one another. We cra¤ed friendships that transcended the boundaries of being students in different majors. We became colleagues with one thing in common: a passion for environmental design.

ROCKETRY PROGRAM BRANDING LAUNCHES

Cal Poly Pomona’s rocketry program is gearing up in a collegiate race to space, vying with 10 other universities to be the first to launch a liquid-fueled rocket 45,000 feet into the atmosphere. Daniel Alley, who is graduating in June with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design, has a different challenge on his mind: delivering a visual branding campaign that conveys the cu­ing-edge identity of the project.

Alley redesigned the university’s Liquid Rocket Lab website, banners, logos and other visual elements last summer. He was also responsible for the exterior design of the Mobile Operation Center Assembly Trailer (MOCAT) that will be used for rocketry field work.

The trailer will be the nerve center of the rocketry team at the FAR-MARS Society Launch Contest on May 5 in the Mojave Desert. The rocketry program consists of 70 students, the College of Engineering and the College of Business Administration, and seven faculty advisors.

“What was really interesting was the kind of interdisciplinary collaboration in this project,” Alley says.

The designs had to balance visuals representing the partnership between the College of Business Administration’s NASA CPP Program and the rocketry program at the College of Engineering. The four logos he designed — for the Liquid Rocket Lab, Bronco Launch Vehicle, Cygnus Engine and Mobile Rocket Engine Test Stand — had to be distinct while still conveying visual unity.

College and university engineering teams from around the world will compete for $100,000 in prizes in the competition co-sponsored by the Mars Society and the Friends of Amateur Rocketry. Teams will pit their liquid-fueled rocket designs against each other in a quest to reach 45,000 feet. The next phase of the competition will aim for an altitude of 330,000 feet, reaching the boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.

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John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies Reimagining, Reinventing and Regenerating a sustainable future. Closely aligned with environmental, economic and social sustainability projects, regenerative studies emphasizes the development of community support systems capable of being restored, renewed, revitalized or regenerated through the integration of natural processes, community action and human behavior.

Graduate students in the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies share their experiences and thoughts on the program.

By David Bañuelas, Cassidy Furnari, Stephanie Gebhardt, Jane Pojawa, Jose Mejia, Stuart Nealy, Emily Nelson, Malik Rivers, Angelica Rocha, Norma Saldana, Silvia Lopez-Segura, and Jacqueline Wong The John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies is an on-campus laboratory devoted to earth-friendly technologies and educational experiences. Interdisciplinary offerings include sustainable technology, economics, biology, anthropology and civil engineering.

Students hail from diverse backgrounds, not just from environmental sciences but also journalism, agriculture, architecture, and urban and regional planning. Inclusion and diversity give the program strength and flexibility as students learn by doing.

As an active sustainability laboratory, the Lyle Center offers students opportunities seldom found on other campuses, from monitoring oldgrowth Southern California Walnut Woodland trees during a drought to maintaining the permaculture garden (buildings and landscapes functioning as natural systems, such as hillside terraces). The center is a focal point for green architecture (buildings are literally a “textbook example”), which includes passive heating and cooling systems, green roofs and straw-bale construction methods. Students have toured the Puente Hills Landfill, an industry leader that practices methane capture and operates its own power plant. The facility has a papercrete (repulped paper fiber) building to test affordable housing construction material in developing areas, se ling ponds and a hydroponic greenhouse.

The center has hosted dinners for leaders in sustainability-focused fields and students have met with community leaders to discuss more sustainable growth options for the City of Pomona.

Student Cohorts and Research Projects Our 2016 graduate student cohort — a group of students enrolled in the two-year master’s program — is in the midst of thesis research at the Lyle Center and in the community.

David Bañuelas: Our resident expert in habitat restoration, Bañuelas is running tests to determine if the Peruvian pepper tree (Schinus molle) is an effective natural allelopathic suppressor of nonnative weeds such as milk thistle and black mustard. His project is being conducted at the Voorhis Ecological Reserve in the northwest part of the Cal Poly Pomona campus. Additionally, he is a Farm-to-School Coordinator at the Upland Unified School District in an internship funded by real estate executive and philanthropist Randall Lewis.

Stephanie Gebhardt: She is surveying a broad section of Southern California’s independent breweries to find ways to make the beer industry more sustainable. “Green beer” — using water-wise and lowcarbon emi ing techniques — may soon make beer an ecologically sound beverage choice. For Gebhardt, “green beer” is not only her preferred beverage, but her favored career path.

Silvia Lopez-Segura: She has developed a five-day watershed education curriculum for high schools. Lopez-Segura is researching ways to promote watershed stewardship in surrounding communities and expose youth to natural places such as creeks and waterfalls. She is also a water-use efficiency intern at the Municipal Water District of Orange County and hopes to continue in the field of water-use efficiency.

José Mejia: One of the permaculture assistants at the Lyle Center, Mejia is studying small-scale sustainable urban agriculture with an emphasis on the commercial viability of vertical production.

Jane Pojawa: She is conducting a study of intentional communities, defined as “people living together with some shared resources on the basis of explicit common values” to evaluate their sustainable practices. Using intentional communities as a human laboratory, the experiences of these participants may provide a blueprint for a bestpractices approach to sustainable living outside the framework of an intentional community. In other words, what do they know that the rest of us could learn from?

Photo by Professor Pablo La Roche

Regenerative studies is an interdisciplinary field concerned with

Photo by Mark Maryanovich

Norma Saldana: She has been fascinated with the outdoors and the benefits nature has to offer. The San Gabriel Mountains are a great resource for bilingual, minority and underrepresented populations. Her research is centered on wilderness parks in Claremont and Monrovia.

The management of these wilderness areas, under city designation, affects hiking and addresses the needs of a growing population. Saldana has worked with the U.S. Forest Service and as a park ranger for the City of Claremont.

Jacqueline Wong: She studies sustainable waste management with an emphasis on anaerobic digestion systems (biological processes where microorganisms break down biodegradable material when there’s no oxygen). Wong was an intern last summer for a startup waste logistics company called TrashLogic, which offers waste audits and recycling services for multi-family housing. With recent California legislation that requires commercial and residential sectors to increase recycling and include organics recycling, Wong believes that proper waste management and consulting is a crucial need.

Members of the 2017 cohort, consisting of Cassidy Furnari, Stuart Nealy, Emily Nelson, Malik Rivers and Angelica Rocha, just finished their first quarter and are starting to find their niche in the sustainability field. They are several months away from finalizing thesis topics.

Rivers’ impressions of the master of science in regenerative studies curriculum and the Lyle Center are shared by many in the program.

“When thinking about moving toward a regenerative system and the obstacles contemporary society faces when considering our current degenerative system, the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies is a living model for how humans ought to live with their local environment,” Rivers says. “Even without the curriculum, local visitors learn from nature at the Lyle Center.”

New Leadership Looks Beyond Horizon The Lyle Center plans to start several projects and collaborations.

Pablo La Roche, a longtime faculty member of the regenerative studies program, has been selected as the center’s interim director.

La Roche is mapping out a direction that will benefit current and future master of science in regenerative studies students. The center also continues to work with other ENV student organizations and collaborate on projects to help boost the facility’s interactions with the rest of the campus. The Lyle Center also is exploring projects with the College of Agriculture and the Farm Store to upgrade or replace the aquaponics system.

At the turn of the millennium, there was a plan to use the land at the side of the Spadra Landfill for a small golf course. Fortunately, a more egalitarian vision persisted and the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies was built instead. Now it is a home for students whose room overlooks a pond. It has views of regenerative studies graduate and undergraduate minor students studying and working on its grounds, and wildlife that includes egrets, mosquito fish and crayfish. The vision of a sustainable future thrives at the on-campus sustainability laboratory.

A Man for All Seasons Interim Director Pablo La Roche is thinking big when it comes to the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies.

His goals are forward-looking and ambitious: Boost the visibility of the Lyle Center as a top-ranked facility for interdisciplinary research.

Expand educational partnerships from elementary school to the university. Increase undergraduate and graduate opportunities. Offer more online courses for practicing professionals. Upgrade the 16-acre facility. Find funding sources for a sustainable solution to the center’s urgent need for cooling options. Formalize itineraries for group and selfguided tours that open the center to a broader audience.

There are many things the center can do to advance and put into practice the principles of sustainable living, notes La Roche, a longtime architecture professor and sustainable design leader at CallisonRTKL. He wants to empower communities to understand how to live in the 21st century without wasting natural resources and contributing to climate change.

Before his appointment as interim director, La Roche — who has published extensively on green building — was already deeply immersed in interdisciplinary research on passive cooling systems (structures that cool themselves without using energy) and low-energy, carbon-neutral architecture.

“I feel that buildings and landscape work together toward the same goals, such as environmental impact and implementing regenerative systems,” La Roche says. “Working together is where they make the most impact.”

The center has long a racted a diverse field of practitioners and scholars from different disciplines, including designers from ENV departments as well as students from agronomy, business, biology, engineering and geology. Ongoing applied research projects include solar a ic testing, rammed earth architecture, low-cost solar hot water systems, and researching and prototyping a system to recycle pond water to douse fires.

Architecture and graduate regenerative studies students build experimental energy cells to study their performance. Engineering and agriculture students have partnered on aquaponics projects. An organic farming program yields harvests for students and the community. The center also collaborates with international graduate students, visiting scholars and post-doctoral students.

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Eat Your Fruit and Veg! Finding organic produce on campus has never been easier — or more affordable — because of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program at the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies.

The Lyle Center, perched atop a hill near the university-run Farm Store, is a living laboratory do ed with experimental structures containing passive heating and cooling systems, interdisciplinary aquaponics pods, a hydroponic greenhouse, a permaculture garden and examples of green architecture.

The center dedicates nearly two acres of land to urban farming.

Its facilities manager, agrobiologist Jillian Gomez (’10, master’s in regenerative studies), oversees the cultivation of seasonal crops. The bounty of monthly harvests is available to students and community supporters of the CSA program.

“This opportunity allows members of the campus community to ‘invest’ in the garden,” says Stephanie Gebhardt, regenerative studies graduate student and garden volunteer.

Members can collect fresh produce every week for just $20 a year for Cal Poly Pomona students and $100 for non-students.

“We grow according to organic principles using soil to sequester atmospheric carbon,” Gomez says. “We plant using different techniques.”

Those techniques include intercropping, meaning that crops with mutually beneficial relationships are planted near each other. For example, beans add nitrogen to the soil. That nutrient is crucial for corn and squash. Corn, in turn, provide a natural trellis for beans to climb.

Terraces are used to grow grains, onions and garlic. The soil is irrigated with a drip irrigation system using reclaimed water.

Gomez’s soil management places an emphasis on heirloom crops and seed saving. In 2016 alone, the Lyle Center harvested an average of 1,200 pounds of produce per month. Because the crops are grown onsite and harvested near the peak of ripeness, the vegetables, fruits and herbs picked by CSA supporters are more flavorful than those available at markets.

To join the Community Supported Agriculture program, visit env.cpp. edu/rs or contact Jillian Gomez at jilliangomez@cpp.edu.

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The facility strives to take an active role as the climate continues to undergo change.

“When you think about climate change, it’s one of the biggest issues of our time,” La Roche says. “We have a special place in which different sciences and disciplines can educate, do outreach and do research.

These disciplines are connected with this issue. We have to grow. It’s part of our mission.”

Before La Roche and his staff can achieve their goals, he has to contend with an even larger challenge: funding for infrastructure maintenance consistent with the Lyle Center’s stature as an example of sustainable and regenerative living. When it was built in 1994, the center was designed to set the standard for advanced practices that implemented layers of technologies.

A©er 25 years of deferred maintenance, repairs or upgrades are needed in several of the original structures: the center’s commons, two academic facilities, the Sunspace and Riverfront student housing, the Village Green and the solar park. The infrastructure repairs and upgrade would cost an estimated $8.5 million.

La Roche is seeking private donors to fund the improvements. To expand the pool of supporters, the center plans to offer tours and publicize its programs and activities to increase visibility. Fees for space rentals have been updated. Plans also are in the works to establish an advisory board of academics, practitioners and business sponsors.

“The Lyle Center is special and we’re lucky to have a place like this,” La Roche says. “It was designed to be state-of-the-art and ahead of its time. We want it to come back to that state. It has all the things it should have. The mission is now more important than ever before. There are few places with this interdisciplinary opportunity to teach others how to live and work with each other in a time of climate change.”

To learn more about the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies, visit h ps://env.cpp.edu/rs.

Photo by Mark Maryanovich

The Commons is an event and gathering space at the Lyle Center.

HARRY ANTONIADES ANTHONY Department of Urban and Regional Planning Harry Antoniades Anthony, professor emeritus in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, died Feb. 26. He was 95.

In 1971, the College of Environmental Design recruited Anthony to lead its urban and regional planning program, confident that his leadership would steer the young department to maturity.

His reputation preceded him. Anthony was a triple threat: An Ivy League educator, an urban planner who had a hand in designing iconic structures, and an architect who worked under Le Corbusier, one of the pioneers of modern architecture.

Anthony served as chair of urban and regional planning from 1972 to 1976, and taught until 1986. He established a tutoring program for underrepresented students and steadfastly pursued grants for scholarships.

In 1975, Cal Poly Pomona honored him with the Outstanding Professor Award. He received emeritus status in the 1982-83 academic year.

Prior to his professorship at ENV, he taught and directed from 1962 to 1965 the graduate division of urban planning at Columbia University’s School of Architecture and Planning. There, he was credited for bringing Le Corbusier to the university in the early 1960s to take part in the historic symposium “The Great Makers of Modern Architecture.”

Early in his career, Anthony rubbed elbows with the Swiss-French architect, working in Corbusier’s Paris office as an architect-planner in 1947. Anthony also was part of the team that implemented the Marshall Plan, the American economic development initiative to help Western Europe rebuild a¤er World War II. A¤er moving to New York City in the early 1950s, he worked as a city planner and urban designer for Skidmore Owings and Merrill, where he assisted in designing the Lincoln Center, Habana del Este in Cuba, and Idlewild Airport, which is now John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Throughout his teaching career, Anthony was the recipient of many honors, among them the International Land Economics Society of Lambda Alpha’s 1988 Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator Award and the 1984 Distinguished Service Award from the San Diego chapter of the

(Image courtesy of the Anthony family)

American Planning Association.

He was also an accomplished poet. In 2004, the International Society of Greek Writers named him a laureate in architecture and poetry. He was fluent in Greek, French and English, and was reputed to recite passages of Homer’s “Odyssey” in ancient Greek.

Anthony shared his design expertise with his community and took an active role in several cultural and design associations. He was the chair of the architectural commi ee of his homeowners’ association in La Jolla’s first planned residential district and a member of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association.

For more than 20 years, he was consulting architect for the design of Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Cardiff-bythe-Sea. For this contribution and his inspirational design, the archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church awarded him the Gold Medal of St. Paul. Additionally, the San Diego chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the American Planning Association honored the church with an Orchid Award.

Archival records of Anthony’s work are housed at the Geisel Library at UC San Diego, the Avery Library at Columbia University and the oral history collection of the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago.

Those who wish to honor Anthony’s memory are encouraged to donate to the student scholarship fund of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Cal Poly Pomona (cpp.thankyou4caring.org/pages/ harryanthony); and to Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Cardiff-by-the-Sea (www.stsconstantinehelen.com/memorials)

Remembering Art Hacker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Architecture The College of Environmental Design hosted a memorial celebration on Feb. 9 to honor Art Hacker, professor emeritus in the Department of Architecture. The event was a ended by family members, friends, former students and faculty.

Hacker taught architecture design, theory and history from 1978 to 2010. He served as associate dean for three years and also was the director of the graduate program in architecture.

Hacker a ended Yale University, where he received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture. Hacker was the first Architecture Professor Luis Hoyos, from le , Kathy Hacker, wife of Professor Emeritus Art Hacker; Professor Lauren Bricker, director of the ENV ArchivesSpecial Collections; and Dean Michael Woo a end the memorial celebration.

chairman of the American Institute of Architect’s national student program on environmental issues. He was a member of Claremont’s Architectural Commission and Claremont Heritage.

Department colleagues and friends, including Professors Denise Lawrence and Lauren Bricker, were among the speakers. Assistant Professor Robert Alexander (’01), one of Hacker’s former students, read a statement on behalf of Professor George Proctor (’89), who also was a former student and the current department chair. The memorial was a ended by Hacker’s widow Kathy, and sons Andrew and James.

The event included an exhibition of Hacker’s site models at the ENV Gallery. Among them were models of Leon Ba ista Alberti’s Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, designed for Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, a Renaissance-era patron of the arts who held political posts under the Medicis; Ange-Jacques Gabriel’s Petit Trianon in Versailles, famously gi¤ed to Marie Antoine e by her husband Louis XVI; and Donato Bramante’s Palazzo Caprini in Rome, once home to the painter Raphael. || ENVirons || WINTER-SPRING 23

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Extra Curriculum Work PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE

Lecturer Audrey Sato (’09, master’s in architecture), principal architect at SATO Architects, has launched the “XX|LA Architects Podcast” series that features the leading women of Los Angeles architecture.

“In the past few months, I have interviewed Professor Sarah Lorenzen about her roles as a professor, partner at TOLO, and her role as former chair of the architecture department,” Sato says. “I have also interviewed alumna Laura Vanasky O’Neill (’09, master’s in architecture) about her historic preservation work at GPA Consulting and her role as the chair of the Santa Monica Landmarks Commission.”

Eight episodes are available at www.xx-la.com and other podcast providers such as iTunes.

PROFESSOR, STUDENTS EARN AIGA AWARDS

Assistant Professor Anthony Acock from the Department of Art, Michael Putra (’17, graphic design) and Bre Araos (’17, graphic design) were honored by the Orange County chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) at its 2017 Design Awards ceremony last November.

Acock won the bronze award for the fall 2017 and winter/spring Bre Araos (’17, graphic design), pictured above, and his award2017 editions of ENVirons magazine. Acock was the art director for the winning art. first two issues and played a key role in establishing the publication’s signature size and look. Instead of the usual magazine dimensions, ENVirons is 12 inches by 15 inches. “The magazine was printed oversized to make the reader feel as though they were having a conversation with the magazine instead of being a passive reader,” Acock says.

Araos earned the student gold medal for designing the logo, brand identity, and poster and mailers for last year’s PolyKroma, the art department’s annual show highlighting the best works of graphic design and art history students. “I wanted to evoke mystery with my poster,” Araos says, explaining the iridescent design. “It’s the glimmer Michael Putra, “Calling All Creatives.” of light at the end of the tunnel. PolyKroma is our last few steps before we leap out into the world as graduates. I thought it just looked really rad, too.”

Putra won the student bronze medal for his “Calling All Creatives” poster project for the 2D-3D component of last year’s PolyKroma show. He had two goals with the poster: Promote the 2017 show and invite submissions from art department students. He drew inspiration from director Christopher Nolan’s film, “Inception,” latching on to the idea of “a dream within a dream — it is an art within an art on top of an art.”

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WHEN MEDIEVAL MEETS DIGITAL

PROFESSOR GOES WITH THE FLOW

The art history program in the Department of Art hosted its first guest lecturer.

Professor Meredith Cohen of the UCLA Department of Art History visited the campus in January to discuss “Going Digital Gothic: Thoughts on the Practice of Reverse Engineering Medieval Paris,” which drew more than 80 art history, graphic design and architecture students.

Cohen gave the students a glimpse of the trends in art and architectural history research and the use of digital technology. She explained the process of digitally reconstructing the mid-13th century Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain des Prés in Paris, including the lithic, textual, graphic, and contextual evidence used for her project and the conclusions she and her team reached through the process of digital reconstruction. She also highlighted the key role played by her undergraduate students as research and digital technology assistants.

The lecture was funded by Cal Poly Pomona’s Student Success Fee. Based on the enthusiastic response from the audience, the art history faculty is already seeking the next guest lecturer.

WEDGE CABIN WINS ANOTHER AWARD The Wedge cabin design completed by students in Associate Professor Juintow Lin’s 2014 ARC 499/ 503L studio won a 2017 Merit Award from the Society of American Registered Architects.

The winning design was produced by Emily Williams, Bryan Charney and Antonio Fernandez (’16, all master’s in architecture). The cabins aim to encourage millennials and urban residents to experience the outdoors. The design 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.

Four Wedge cabins are available to rent at Pfeiffer State Park in Big Sur, the site of the first cabin. Three other cabins are situated at Spring Lake Regional Park in Santa Rosa. The cabins also inspired the new visitor’s center at Bodega Bay’s Doran Beach, which opened to much fanfare last August. The cabins are accessible to people with disabilities and can accommodate up to four.

Bookings for the wedge cabin can be made through Reserve America at (800) 444-7275 or at www.reservecalifornia.com. The cost is $60 to $100 per night. Demand is high for rentals; park officials recommend booking at least six months in advance.

Photo by Tom Zasadzinski

Wedge cabin prototype displayed in the Building 7 wildflower patch in 2015.

Assistant Professor Barry Lehrman from the Department of Landscape Architecture had a busy sabbatical. In February, he presented his recent work to the ENV community at the Building 7 Atrium.

In the fall, Lehrman created a prototype animated LED water-use display. Developed to study water conservation, the Infrastructural Displays of Real-time Information for Persuasion (InfraDRIP) prototype will be used in a field trial later this year in collaboration with Cal Poly Pomona Facilities Management and Housing Services. Beyond advancing his scholarship into visualizing the interface between infrastructure, ecology and culture, the sabbatical provided a hands-on experience in teaching landscape architecture students how to design and fabricate custom environmental sensors using Arduino microcontrollers.

Lehrman also wrote the article “Hybrid Sankey Diagram/Flow Map to Visualize Metropolitan Water Supply Systems — A Case Study” for the Journal of Maps. The article, which features his map of the Los Angeles Aqueduct created for the 2013 Aqueduct Futures exhibit at Los Angeles City Hall, explores methods for mapping the flow of water and depicting changing landscape conditions. College of Environmental Design Faculty Development funds enabled publication of the article as open access. The article is available at www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjom20/current.

An updated version of Lehrman’s 2007 Infrastructural City essay about the Los Angeles Aqueduct and Owens Lake appears in “Water Index: Design Strategies for Drought, Flooding and Contamination” (Actar, 2017; edited by Seth McDowell), which was published in fall 2017. The book is the first critical inventory and analysis of innovative architecture, landscape architecture and design solutions to address rising, disappearing and contaminated water.

CLASSROOM IDEAS ARE ELEMENTARY Last fall, lecturer Kevin O’Brien took a group of architecture students to Palm Crest Elementary School and met up with a class of second-graders to toss around ideas of what the classroom of the future could look like. The suggestions included ice-cream pens, robot-teaching assistants, space elevators, anti-gravity machines and underground classrooms for tornadoes.

“The rationale is that 6- and 7-year-olds have fewer preconceptions and incredible imaginations and can help inspire my students to think outside the box, literally,” O’Brien says in a Los Angeles Times article about the visit.

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ON-CAMPUS

MARCH March 29: CPP ARC/LA Firm Day

2018. The architecture and landscape architecture departments will connect regional design firms with students for possible internships and postgraduation employment from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Register at h ps://cpp_arc_la_firm_ day_2018.eventbrite.com

March 29: The Cesar Chavez

Professor Richard Willson, “From First Street, Winter.”

Conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Ursa Major Suite, Bronco Student Center. For information, email Sara Reynoso at sbreynoso@cpp.edu.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Campus closed.

APRIL April 3: “Ready, Set, Graduate!” Check

your progress toward graduation at the Registrar’s Office U-Hour in Ursa Major AB, Bronco Student Center.

April 13: Early Commencement

Participation Application available. Last day to submit final transcripts, petitions and other requested information. h p://www.cpp.edu/~studentsuccess/ academic-calendar/index.shtml

April 16: Last day to withdraw from spring quarter classes without petition.

April 8-30: Summer quarter registration period. The five-week summer session begins on June 18.

April 17 to May 18: Class

April 13: Cal Poly Pomona Campus Tour and ENV Tour. Admi ed applicants are invited for tours of the campus and student housing and a “Next Steps” workshop by the Office of Admissions. A special tour of the College of Environmental Design is scheduled at Building 7 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., enabling admi ed applicants and their guests to learn more about ENV’s art history, landscape architecture, and urban and regional planning programs through department tours and one-on-one sessions with faculty. Peek in at ENV studio projects and get the inside scoop from student docents. To reserve your spot, email Frances Loya at fgloya@cpp.edu. The entire program runs from 1 to 4 p.m.

April 19: Partners Circle Board Meeting at noon. For information, contact Fathima Halim at fyhalim@cpp.edu.

withdrawal by petition for serious and compelling reasons.

Through April 26: “David Jang:

Systems of Production” at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery.

Electro-mechanical engineering collides with art. A sampling of Jang’s works was seen in the “Prequel to 2018” series at the Don B. Huntley Gallery last year. He was one of three of artists who incorporated technology to create large-scale video and installation artworks that transform spaces. h ps://env.cpp.edu/kellogg/wkeith-janet-kellogg-art-gallery

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May 1: Graduation application closes for Commencement.

June 9-10: PolyKroma 2018. Family Weekend. Family, friends and supporters of the Department of Art are invited to check out the year’s best works during a special exhibition from noon to 4 p.m. at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery.

May 19: Industry Day. An invitation

for outside industry professionals to view graduating seniors’ graphic design portfolios, projects, and motion graphics presentations from noon to 4 p.m. at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery.

May 21 to June 10: PolyKroma 2018.

A three-week series of exhibitions at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery highlights works by students in fine arts, graphic design and art history.

The opening reception will be held May 21 from 6 to 8 p.m.

June 10: Commencement for the College of Environmental Design starts at 8 p.m. in the University Quad. h p:// www.cpp.edu/~commencement

May 21: PolyKroma 2018: 2-D and

3-D Art History Papers Presentation.

Graduating art history students present abstracts of their final thesis papers.

Jurors from the fields of fine arts and graphic design will give awards to the top 2-D and 3-D entries. Awards and commemorations will be bestowed at 7 p.m. in the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery.

May 28: Memorial Day. Campus closed.

AT THE HUNTLEY GALLERY 4th Street Viaduct Bares the Soul of a City Featuring the collaboration of Professor Richard Willson, renowned essayist and historian D.J. Waldie and artist Roderick Smith, “Positively 4th Street: An Encounter with Los Angeles’ 4th Street Viaduct” at the Don B. Huntley Gallery contemplates the viaduct’s identity and symbolism.

“The bridge is a stoic artifact in an area of change, as gentrification occurs in the Arts District and Boyle Heights, and designers and engineers consider the greening of the Los Angeles River,” says Willson, former chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Willson also is an expert on parking policy and a plein-air painter.

Willson, Smith and Waldie — a retired deputy city manager, longtime director of public information and historian emeritus for the City of Lakewood and 2017 Dale Prize winner — interpreted the viaduct “on a shared instinct for poetic realism.”

Smith depicts the grit and density of the urban sprawl surrounding the bridge while Willson’s paintings capture the stillness and the movements of the L.A. River, the viaduct and the river channel. The exhibit also features found objects such as scraps of printed instructions for train engineers, a ball-peen hammer, hubcap fragments and a railroad tie.

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“For me, there’s a fight between the horizontality and the verticality,” Willson says. “It’s a corridor for carrying things, and the bridge for crossing it.”

Supplementing the visual representations are Waldie’s ruminations: “The Fourth Street Viaduct bears desires across railroad tracks, across access roads, across the blank surface of the Los Angeles River channel, and across time. Some are desires you may not recognize today or want anymore. But the viaduct cannot do otherwise, or be other than what it is, so well made was it, with skill and an eye toward the effect of its repeating elements of arch and trefoil, pylon and spire, light and shadow. These elements, which framed the city’s aspirations in 1931, are still available today as a borrowed elegy for a city full of anxieties about its place.” (Read Waldie’s full essay at h ps://boomcalifornia.com/2018/02/24/a-traveler-comes-to-a-bridge/.)

“Positively 4th Street: An Encounter with Los Angeles’ 4th Street Viaduct” is on display at the Don B. Huntley Gallery, fourth floor of the University Library (Building 15). Hours: Noon to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays; 4 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays; closed on Fridays.

Photo by Mark Maryanovich

March 30: Cesar Chavez Day.

David Jang, “Affirm.”

Image courtesy of the artist.

Technology Mimics Organisms in ‘Systems of Production’ Los Angeles-based sculptor David Jang questions reality by conceptualizing a world in which the tempo of day-to-day life is calibrated to the fast pace of technology.

“I do think of my kinetic sculptures to be like segments of video that play continuously, programmed to repeat,” Jang says. “I study the replica of normal functions of objects from our daily life and the way we respond to these objects.”

His installations examine how technology — from consumer electronics to household appliances — influences social interactions and personal meaning. His latest works in the “David Jang: Systems of Production” exhibit takes another dive into that realm.

“I feel economic freedom brings us different levels of consumerism, including conspicuous consumption and invidious consumption,” he notes. “This brings wastefulness and greed, and encourages consuming for the sake of consuming, rather than need. I try to explore the diversity of human activity represented by these consumer materials and disposed artifacts.”

His artwork tends to revolve around the theme of survival, or what he calls “life tactic.” He seeks self-organizing systems known as “autocatakinetics,” and sees industrial society as a living organism. He asserts that the behavior of technological systems of production mimics complex human systems: both are random and opportunistic.

“As I reify categories of identity, my practice with installations and consumer materials shows how things are not as they appear,” Jang says.

“David Jang: Systems of Production” at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery. Hours: 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday. Noon to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Closed on Friday. h¡ps://env.cpp.edu/kellogg/w-keith-janet-kellogg-art-gallery

Roderick Smith, “Gothic.”

Image courtesy of the artist.

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OFF-CAMPUS

March 21: “Cohabitation: Cities, Nature and the Evolving Ecosystem.” The mountain lions known as P-22 and P-55 have become symbols of the complicated relationship between nature and cities.

A panel of designers, environmental scientists and historians will discuss the intersection of the built environment, the Los Angeles natural habitat and a more densely populated future. Mark Gold, UCLA associate vice chancellor for Environmental and Sustainability, will moderate a panel led by Mia Lehrer of Mia Lehrer+Associates; Lori Be ison-Varga, president of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles; and Ryan Harrigan, assistant professor at the UCLA Institute of Environmental Safety and Sustainability.

The discussion will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. h ps://hammer.ucla.edu/programsevents/2018/03/cohabitation-cities-natureand-the-evolving-ecosystem

March 28: A lecture examines“Komorebi

Spectra of Transparent Structures.” Jun Sato, a structural engineer and professor at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University, has a passion for transparent and ductile structures. As the chief executive of Jun Sato Structural Engineers, he has collaborated with architects including Kengo Kuma, Riken Yamamoto, Toyo Ito and Sou Fujimoto, inspiring his focus and direction. The lecture will start at 6 p.m. USC, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall 101. h ps://arch.usc.edu/ calendar/komorebi-spectra-transparentstructures-lecture-jun-sato-se

March 29: Deadline for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards. The competition is open to students and practitioners with up to 14 years of design experience in the built environment; design concepts; furniture and lighting; packaging; transportation; commercial equipment; design education initiative; interaction; service design; visual communications; consumer product design; designs for social impact; open design; and strategy and research. h p:// designawards.core77.com

Mary Lyon (sophomore majoring in graphic design) created “Transparency,” black board with white pencil, for a project in lecturer Ann Phong’s ART 242 intermediate drawing class.

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APRIL April 4: A look at “Benjamin Ball & Gaston Nogues.” A conversation on architecture and public art by the two pioneers of the Ball-Nogues Studio will explore how fabrication and industrial design affects environmental outcome.

The lecture is set for 4 p.m. USC, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall 101. h ps://arch.usc.edu/calendar/lecturebenjamin-ball-gaston-nogues April 5-7: “Dwell on Design 2018.”

This four-day event is the West Coast’s largest design fair. The festivities will kick off with a keynote address from design icon Jonathan Adler. The exhibition and conference will feature the best of modern furnishings, lighting, technology and design materials. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. h ps://www.dwellondesign. com/en/home.html Through April 7: Pontus Willfors’

exhibit “SHOP.” Objects such as tables, chairs and mops are reimagined by the sculptor. Willfors creates a playful and delicate dance between wood and metal. DENK Gallery, 749 E. Temple St., Los Angeles. www.denkgallery.com/ exhibitions/solo-project

April 28-May 20: SCI-Arc Spring

Show 2018. The Southern California Institute of Architecture will hold its annual show highlighting undergraduate theses and featuring graduate and postgraduate projects. The show will be held from 7 p.m. to midnight, SCI-Arc, 960 E. Third St., Los Angeles. h ps://sciarc. edu/events/exhibitions/spring-show

Photo by Mark Maryanovich

MARCH

MAY

David Jang’s larger-than-life installation, “Replicate Substance,” is on display at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery’s Sculpture Garden.

May 1: Deadline for the International Finsa Award 2018. For the first time, Finsa will hold a student competition.

This year’s theme is the interaction between children and the elderly: design a communal space that provides facilities traditionally found in children’s and senior day-care centers. Future designers are challenged to explore and redesign the use of wood and other environmentally sustainable and recyclable materials in construction.

Free registration. h ps://www.archdaily. com/887228/call-for-submissionsinternational-finsa-award May 12: “BoldPas: An Art Takeover of

Pasadena.” Old Pasadena will serve as a canvas in this event that demonstrates the intersectionality of art, architecture, history and public space. More than a dozen mid- to large-scale temporary installations will be on display in the 22 blocks of the historic old town, featuring store fronts decorated as art shops. Old Pasadena, 23 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. h ps://www.oldpasadena.org/visit/events/ signature-events/boldpas

Through May 13: “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth.” This exhibition at The Broad features more than 100 of the iconic artist’s paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings on loan from public and private collections. The works trace the evolution of his 60-year career through a series of thematic chapters, during which he influenced artists such as Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, and John Baldessari. Admission is $25. The Broad, 221 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. h ps://thebroad.org May 14: Deadline for the Coffee Mania Model Young Package 2018. This competition invites designers from around the world to create sustainable packages. This year’s challenge: design and create packaging for all aspects of coffee, including dessert flatware and beverage sets. h p://young-package.com/en

Abstract digital work: charcoal drawings overlaid on a macro photograph of a mouth. This is the creation of Mario Valdez, a thirdyear landscape architecture student.

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