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The College of Environmental Design (CED) is UC Berkeley's home for environmental design theory, research, innovation and practice. The College comprises three core departments — Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, City & Regional Planning — and a recently-launched Real Estate Development + Design program. CED is consistently ranked as one of the most prestigious design

schools in the U.S. To read more about the history of CED and the opening of Wurster Hall, read our Frameworks article: https://frameworks.ced.berkeley.edu/2010/ced-in-wurster-hall/

Visit CED's new cafe, Rice & Bones, from the celebrated chef of The Slanted Door. To view the menu and hours, visit https://www.riceandbones.com/

05/28/2026

Meet Emma Lasky, a PhD candidate in landscape architecture & environmental planning at UC Berkeley, whose research sheds light on a climate change–induced threat: rising groundwater pushing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into our homes. We chatted with Lasky following the publication of a recent paper co-authored with Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design Kristina Hill ().

Using Richmond Field Station () as their research site, they investigated the hypothesis that potentially hazardous contaminants could enter sewer systems because of rising groundwater. “We used seasonality as a proxy for sea level rise because the shallow, unconfined coastal groundwater table can be influenced by physical processes like heavy precipitation or tidal effects, storm surges, and sea level rise,” Lasky says.

This research is just one step in this multiyear endeavor that she’s been working on with Hill. “My hope is to bring this idea and information to a global community — connecting and building this research on an international level,” says Lasky.

Read more on our website:

https://ced.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkeley-phd-candidate-emma-lasky-climate-change-public-health-environmental-policy

05/26/2026

Congratulations to the Class of 2026! 🎓 As you head out to shape the world, we leave you with this reminder from our keynote speakers Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu: “Know what home means to you, and let that be the ground you build from.” Hats off, graduates! 💙💛

05/14/2026

Looking back at last week’s spring final reviews. Congrats to all our students on completing another semester!

Images:

1: CP 208 – Collaborative Plan Preparation Studio, Instructor: Jane Lin

2, 3: LA 200B – Case Studies in Landscape Design, Instructor: Du Solier
LA 202 – Designs of Landscape Sites, Instructors: Rivera .z.rivera, Domlesky
LA 204 – Advanced Project Design, Instructor: Meyer

4, 5: ARCH 204B – Thesis Studio, Instructors: Anderson , Davids, Gutierrez, Jaehning
ARCH 100D – Architectural Design IV, Instructors: Miley, Riley

6: RDEV 270 – Development + Design Studio, Instructors: Smidek, Kennerly
ENV DES 253 – Thesis Studio, Instructors: Mozingo, Gaffney

7, 8: ARCH 100D – Architectural Design IV, Instructors: Atwood , Hu and Huang

9: ARCH 204B – Thesis Studio, Instructors: Anderson, Davids, Gutierrez, Jaehning

05/12/2026

Announcing the CED 2026 Commencement student speakers! We look forward to hearing their inspiring words on May 19 at the Greek Theatre.

Amy Bella Gonzalez, BA Landscape Architecture Amy is a first-generation Latina graduating with a degree in landscape architecture and business administration. Amy founded LBSA’s first consulting committee to help create more accessible opportunities for underrepresented minorities within the consulting industry. As financial director for Invention Corps, she helped raise over $15,000. Amy hopes to inspire others to pursue their passions fearlessly.

Yutong Li, Master of City Planning A lifelong student of cities, Yutong is interested in affordable housing development, transportation policy, and urban analytics. From Suzhou, China, she received a BS from New York University Shanghai in finance and urban studies. At CED, she deepened her understanding of how housing, mobility, finance, and community needs intersect. Post-MCP, she is committed to advancing sustainable and equitable community development.

Zeyu Lin, Master of Urban Design Zeyu's work examines how technological change reshapes cities, and how urban design can respond by centering social justice and human care. At UC Berkeley, he has worked across the Bay Area and beyond, engaging contexts from North Richmond’s community-based networks to Olympic legacy redevelopment in Los Angeles. With a background in landscape architecture, he approaches urban design as a way to reconnect systems, places, and people in everyday urban life.

Nathan Shui, PhD in Architecture Nathan’s research explores the q***r urban history of postsocialist China, focusing on how sexual minorities reappropriate state-led urban modernization to create spaces of their own. By tracing how q***r Chinese identify and inhabit the loopholes, blind spots, and unintended counterproductivities within these state-led modernizing programs, he advances an alternative conception of q***r spatial agency rooted in passivity, evasion, opacity, and impermanence illegible to Western liberal q***r discourses.

05/11/2026

As we get ready the graduate the class of 2026, we thought we’d look back at some members of the class of 1926.

Harold Stump (1905–1996), AB Architecture 1926
After graduating, Stump worked as a draftsman in the San Francisco architectural office of Kent & Haas and traveled to Europe to study the works of ancient and modern architects and painters. He joined the architecture faculty at UC Berkeley in 1942, retiring in 1972 as a full professor. His teaching was informed by his ongoing research into the interrelation of painting, sculpture, and building. In 2016, Stump’s student Lester Wertheimer (MArch 1952) established a travel fellowship for architecture students in his honor.

Esther Baum Born (1902-1987), Master of Architecture, 1926
After receiving her undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from UC Berkeley, Born practiced architecture in New York with her husband, fellow UC Berkeley architecture graduate Ernest Born. While in New York, she studied photography, which became her life’s work. Inspired by her friendship with artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, she spent 10 months in Mexico photographing and drawing the regional architecture and design. This resulted in the monograph “The New Architecture in Mexico,” published by Wm. Morrow & Co. (New York, 1937). The Borns returned to San Francisco, where Born ran her husband’s architectural office and to worked as a photographer.

Geraldine Knight Scott (1904–1989), BS Landscape Architecture, 1926
After Geraldine Knight Scott received her degree in landscape architecture from the College of Agriculture and spent two years in Europe studying gardens in Italy, France, and Spain. Scott established her own private landscape architecture practice in Berkeley, which she ran from 1948 to 1968, and in 1952 began teaching in the Department of Landscape Architecture. When Blake Garden was gifted to the department in 1962, Scott took on its management and developed the site into an important field education resource. Scott established a travel fellowship for landscape architecture students, so that they could experience the expression of culture and the sense of place that she discovered on her travels.

04/30/2026

Thinking of majoring in architecture? Experience a day in the life of a UC Berkeley architecture student! 📐

From early mornings, to studio pin-ups, to late-night modeling — there's nothing quite like the CED community.

04/24/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 CED Distinguished Alumni Award winners! The awardees will be honored at our commencement ceremony on May 19.

Alma Du Solier (MLA 1999)
Studio Director and Partner, Hood Design Studio

Gregg W. Perloff (MCP 1976)
Co-Founder and CEO, Another Planet Entertainment

Lyndon Neri, Hon. FAIA
(BA ARCHITECTURE 1987)
Founding Partner, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Rossana Hu, Hon. FAIA
(BA ARCHITECTURE 1990)
Founding Partner, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Miller Professor and Chair, Department of Architecture, University of
Pennsylvania

04/22/2026

Andrew Atwood, Associate Professor of Architecture, shares an early take on LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries with The Architect's Newspaper:

“I like it. Of course I like how it looks, which should not surprise anyone who knows me, but more importantly, I like how I have experienced it, mostly during construction and from my car. Driving west on Wilshire, the street rises and the building sits at eye level. Then the street drops, and you realize you are about to drive under it. That sequence is distinctly Los Angeles in the most straightforward and unromantic way. Many people have famously written about Los Angeles architecture and cars, but I have always found much of that to be too abstract, too contrived. Here it is just literal. You drive at it. You drive under it. You drive through it. Most people will see the building from the street and from their cars, not from inside the museum or the LACMA campus. Even for that reason alone, I will always like it.”

Read more on AN’s website: https://www.archpaper.com/2026/04/architects-critics-educators-early-takes-lacma/

Photo: LACMA hovers over Wilshire Boulevard, by Iwan Baan.

04/16/2026

The College of Environmental Design regrets the passing of Professor Emeritus of Architecture Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, a thoughtful and generous teacher and last surviving member of the original design team of The Sea Ranch.

In his work there, as well as in his other projects, writings, and teaching, Lyndon was interested in how buildings interact with a particular site to create and sustain a sense of place, resonant with history, memory, and meaning.

In a personal philosophy statement written for the College of Environmental Design, Lyndon wrote: “Architecture is a complex engagement between people and the things which surround them. The architect’s task is to make places and buildings that nurture and enrich that engagement, bringing imaginative, critical, responsible thought to the making of things — so that they will stand, stir, accommodate, intrigue, sustain attention, and take a rightful place in people’s lives.”

He will be missed. Read our remembrance on our webstie.

Images:
1 – Donlyn Lyndon, 1908s.
2,3 – Lyndon/Buchanan Associates, Lyndon Wingwall House, 1991. The Sea Ranch. Photo: Jim Alinder.
4 – Donlyn Lyndon (1936–2026). Photo: Maynard Lyndon.

04/10/2026

We’re so thrilled to announce that CED’s 2026 Commencement keynote speakers will be Lyndon Neri (BA Architecture 1987), Hon. FAIA, and Rossana Hu (BA Architecture 1990), Hon. FAIA.

They are the founding principals of the acclaimed Shanghai-based interdisciplinary architectural design practice Neri&Hu Design and Research Office () and founding partners of Design Republic.

They both earned their undergraduate degrees in architecture from UC Berkeley and have continued to be a part of the CED community: they served as Friedman Visiting Professors of Practice in 2023 and are members of the college’s advisory council. Alongside their design practice, Neri and Hu are deeply committed to architectural education and have lectured around the world at various universities and professional forums. In 2024, Hu was appointed chair of the architecture department at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

We look forward to having them join us in the Greek Theatre to celebrate the class of 2026!

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