| The Fourteenth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectual Design Excellence 2012 | |
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Berkeley Prize CommitteeElaine Addison -- writer, educator, mother and documentary film-maker -- today combines all these talents as an international childcare expert. Author of Miss Poppy's Guide to Raising Perfectly Happy Children and co-founder of FAMILY LIFE parenting magazine, she has over 20 years of experience in child education and care. From teaching underprivileged children in inner city schools to caring for those of world leaders and Hollywood stars, she is the modern day Mary Poppins. Interested in how architecture can aid childhood development, she has worked with children living in tents in Cambodia to those in project housing and European stately homes. Andrew Amara is a registered architect in Uganda working with DIMENSIONS, a regional architecture practice. He is actively involved with MODE (Missionaries of Design), a non-profit organization which runs several small community intervention projects; ranging from refurbishment of urban monuments to slum dwelling upgrade. Andrew is a corporate member of the Uganda Society of Architects, and has served on several symposium committees. He is a member of the editorial board for the Society, spearheading a drive to raise public awareness on the role of architects in building sustainable environments. He has worked on documentary projects that capture the different experiences of living in Kampala, with the main aim of ''provoking'' city-building professionals to rethink the approach to building cities and settlements. He partnered with the Architecture Department at Makerere University to present these to the public and professionals. Andrew placed third in the BERKELEY PRIZE Essay Competition in 2006 and was also the recipient of the 2006 BERKELEY PRIZE Travel Fellowship. The Fellowship allowed him to participate in the World Urban Forum 2006 and the Global Studio Vancouver 2006. He was asked to return to the Global Studio Johannesburg 2007 as a mentor and later that year he represented the Global Studio at the Rockefeller World Urban summit in Bellagio. Andrew has served on the BERKELEY PRIZE Committee since 2007. Andrew is a recipient of the Arkright award for excellence at Makerere University, the REDDS award and a winner of the Uganda Ministry of Housing/Works Construction Exhibition Competition. Sangeeta Bagga graduated from the Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh, INDIA in 1991, and went on to receive a postgraduate degree in Urban Design from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. She was awarded her PhD in Architecture, from the Panjab University, Chandigarh and is now faculty at the Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh where she teaches Urban Design, History of the Built Environment and Architectural Design Studio. Her interests include documenting the change which Chandigarh is fast undergoing, the case studies of several of which have been presented at international conferences at home and abroad. She is a member of the Heritage Committee, Chandigarh Administration, member INTACH, Chandigarh Chapter and Life Member; Indian Institute of Architects, Mumbai. Paul Broches, FAIA, has been a partner at Mitchell/Giurgola Architects in New York since 1980. He advises clients on evolving educational policies and facility programming and has led master planning efforts and designed buildings on many campuses. In 2003-2004 he was involved in a housing competition intending to address the common issue in cities of high density and low density affordable housing with a plan that encourages the diffusion and diminishing of social and ethnic stress in neighborhoods in transition. The scheme was premiated perhaps because it had both clear social objectives, fresh architectural presence (yet buildable) and the sustainable design that hinged on a "breathing" weather-mediating porch/winter-garden for each apartment. This caught the attention of developers as it was both rentable space and an energy saving source of heating and cooling. We are also heavily involved with the design of public schools in NYC in communities where the school house becomes THE 24/7 civic center, a public place and safety net for all. Himanshu Burte is a practicing architect and independent scholar based in Goa, India. He has been involved with architectural practice, critical writing, research and building a public discourse around issues in architecture and planning in India. His first book, Space for Engagement: The India Artplace and a Habitational Approach to Architecture, was published in 2008 (Seagull Books, Kolkata). He was also a Fulbright Professional and Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of California over 2008-09. Jessie Canon graduated from West Virginia University, in 2004, with a BS in Computer Science. He has been the Berkeley Prize Competition's web administrator since 2005, and continues today. In September of 2009 he began full-time employment with the University of Pennsylvania Law School as a Web Application Developer. John Cary is editor of PublicInterestDesign.org, a new effort he has launched after recently stepping down after seven years as Executive Director of the non-profit organization, Public Architecture, in San Francisco. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, John was a 2008 recipient of the Rome Prize fellowship in design. He has also held the Public Affairs Practitioner Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, and was among the inaugural class of fellows of the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival. . He is the author of The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients (Metropolis Books / DAP, 2010). A 2003 graduate of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and its 2011 commencement speaker, John has been a BERKELEY PRIZE committee member since 1999. Ellen Chen is a planner, researcher, and design thinker. She has researched and written on urban sustainability for emerging markets with McKinsey & Co. In 2009, Chen led a feasibility study on rural infrastructure development in Southwestern China in addition to assisting on plans to develop the central business district of a new satellite city in Yunnan. Her research and design interests include urban industrial strategy, cluster development, and private-sector led action strategies for cities. Ms. Chen holds a B.A. degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. Thea Chroman has worked since 2007 as a producer at KALW public radio in San Francisco where she reports stories on education, urban planning and local politics. Her freelance reporting has won a number of awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for Best Radio Documentary, two Society of Professional Journalists Marks of Excellence for Region 11, and two Gracie Allen awards. She is administrator for the BERKELEY PRIZE. Benjamin Clavan, Ph.D. is Principal of Benjamin Clavan, Architect, AIA, located in Los Angeles, California. The residential and commercial projects of his firm have been showcased in design magazines and featured on television. He is also an active architectural critic and his commentary has appeared in professional journals. Dr. Clavan is active in civic affairs and over the years has served as an appointed Member of the West Hollywood Planning Commission, the West Hollywood Public Facilities Commission, and as an elected member of his Los Angeles neighborhood's Community Council and Chair of its Land Use Planning Committee. Benjamin is one of the founding Members of the BERKELEY PRIZE Committee and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the PRIZE, including website development and editing. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture (University of California, Berkeley), a Masters in Architecture (U.C. Berkeley), a Bachelors in Architecture (University of Virginia), and was a non-degree student in the Diploma in Architecture program (University College London). Roddy Creedon is a Lecturer in design at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also actively involved with the Arcus Endowment, which supports a wide range of critical activities that explore the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. He studied at Tulane University, the Architectural Association and Harvard, and is a principal of the award-winning firm Allied Architecture and Design. C. Greig Crysler, Ph.D., joined the Department of Architecture at Berkeley in 1999, where he is a professor in architectural theory and criticism. He received his Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He also holds a professional degree in architecture from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London, England, and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. Professor Crysler has extensive experience in professional practice in Canada and the UK. He is the recipient of research grants from the Canada Council, the Graham Foundation, Chicago, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. His book, Writing Spaces: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960-2000, was published by Routledge in 2003. He is co-editor, with Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen, and Sibel Bozdogan of the Handbook of Architectural Theory (in development for Sage Press). He is also Program Director of the Arcus Endowment at the College of Environmental Design. Howard Davis is Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon, where he teaches design studios, courses and seminars concerning the cultural and urban contexts of architecture. He was educated in physics at Cooper Union and Northwestern University, and in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, where he subsequently worked and taught with Christopher Alexander and Ray Lifchez. He is the author of The Culture of Building and the forthcoming Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life. His current work is concerned with how buildings and urban form can support grassroots economic activity for people at the bottom of the economic ladder, and is currently researching this topic in China, London and Portland, Oregon. He was founding co-editor of Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and in 2009 was named Distinguished Professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Kim Dovey, Ph.D. is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on theories of place and practices of placemaking in architecture and urban design, including the books Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form (Routledge, 2nd ed 2008), Fluid City (Routledge, 2005) and Becoming Places (Routledge 2009). He was educated in architecture at Curtin University, the University of Melbourne, and the University of California, Berkeley. Lynne Elizabeth is director of New Village Press, the publishing arm of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. She is also co-editor of Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods (John Wiley & Sons, 2000, 2005), Works of Heart: Building Village through the Arts (New Village Press, 2006), and the forthcoming What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs (New Village Press, 2010). Roberta M. Feldman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Architecture and Co-Director of the City Design Center, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an architectural educator and researcher who has lectured and published widely in the United States and abroad on socially responsible housing and community design. Most recently, her research and practice has focused on affordable and public housing including: author, with Susan Stall, of The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents Activism in Chicago Public Housing (Cambridge University Press, 2004); editor of the pioneering Internet catalog, Design Matters: Best Practices in Affordable Housing; curator of the exhibit, “Out of the Box: Design Innovations in Affordable Housing” which opened at the Field Museum in January 2005; one of the organizers of “Design Matters: US-China Housing Exchange” hosted in September 2004 by the Shenyang Construction Committee, China; consultant to the Cabrini Green Local Advisory Council in the HOPE VI redevelopment of their community; and editor of The Chicago Greystone in Historic North Lawndale, a forthcoming guide on community revitalization though historic preservation. Edward Forscher is currently an undergraduate studying Civil Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He has a strong interest in architectural design, specifically in matters related to the personal dwelling and hopes eventually to fuse architecture and engineering professionally. Alongside his technical studies, he has been a student in courses centered on the social art of architecture, as well as human interaction with the built environment, taught by Professor Raymond Lifchez (see below). His other interests include Japanese language and culture, digital photography, and baseball. Dorit Fromm is a researcher and consultant on innovative communities, design, and housing. Her background as an architect and communications director informs her writings, which have appeared in local, national and international publications including Urban Land, Metropolis, the Architectural Review, Communities Magazine, ArcCA, Baumeister, and AARP Journal. She is the author of Cohousing, Central Living and Other New Forms of Housing. Thomas Gensheimer is a professor of architectural history at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia where he specializes in African and Islamic architecture and urbanism. He has published on globalization and the urban history of the East African coast. Ann Gilkerson, Ph.D. completed her dissertation on Viollet-le-Duc at Harvard University in 2003. She has taught the history of modern architecture at Harvard, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of California, Davis. Dr. Gilkerson has also worked for the Northampton, and Cambridge, Massachusetts Historical Commissions. She is a long-time Member of the Committee and previously served as Administrator. Nicole Graycar graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor's in Architecture, but her interest in architecture hardly started here. She completed the International Baccalaureate at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales and there became interested in studying the disparities in living conditions across the globe. She began her architectural education at Tulane University in New Orleans, but was unable to return to the city following Hurricane Katrina. These experiences guided Nicole to pursue a more social architecture, one that is so much more than glossy pictures in periodicals. As a BERKELEY PRIZE Travel Fellow, Nicole traveled to Lesotho in 2008. Zachary Heiden is a lawyer in Portland, Maine, who works for minority assistance and protection using both legal and cultural tools. He has advocated for a jurisprudence based on respect for human dignity, and his scholarship has touched on issues of home design in James Joyce's Ulysses and the use of public land by religious minorities.
Sandy Hirshen, FAIA, FRAIC, Hon. MAIBC, has a forty year career in architecture as an architect, academic and researcher. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design for twenty-five years which included serving as Chair of the Architecture Department in the early 1980s. He was also a founding partner of Hirshen, Gammill, Trumbo & Cook, Architects, an award-winning practice focused on public service work in the San Francisco, California area. From 1991 until 2000, Sandy served as head of the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. In Vancouver, he was associated with the firm of Henriquez Partners Architects, engaging in social architecture, particularly the fields of health care, gerontology, housing and child development. He retired from UBC in June 2000 and now lives in Berkeley. Sandy graduated from the School of Architecture at Columbia University, New York in 1959. Ocean Howell is Assistant Professor of History and Architectural History in the Clark Honors College, at the University of Oregon. He serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Urban History and his own writings have appeared in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of Planning History (forthcoming), Space and Culture, the Journal of Architectural Education, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. He received his Ph.D. in Urban History from the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. His work links the study of architecture to the history of ethnic relations and urban governance. Rachel Kallus. D. Sc. is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She is an architect and a planner who works primarily with grassroot groups and NGOs toward social and political justice. Her academic work concentrates on the sociopolitical production of the built environment and the formation of urban culture, focusing especially on ethno-nationally contested spaces, for example that of Israel/Palestine. In her work she considers policy measures (planning) and physical manipulations (architecture) as they construct everyday life. Rachel is the author of numerous publications on socio-cultural aspects of the built environment and its production in academic journals and books. She co-edited Architecture Culture: Place, Representation, Body (Resling, 2005). Her current book project, titled: The Poetic of Place in a Global World, is based on her research, funded by the Israel Science Foundation, on the architect/planner Artur Glikson in the context of post-WWII professional culture. Rachael received her Doctorate from the Technion, and holds an M. Arch. from M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Among other honors, Doctor Kallus was a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley's College of Environmental Design in Spring, 2009. Daniel Karlin earned his Bachelor’s in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley with highest honors in 2007. Since then, his passion for the underserved has taken him to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he is currently enrolled as a medical student. In seeking out opportunities to interact with the underserved communities of Los Angeles, he is a proud recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Community Service Fellowship, the James Slotnick Fellowship at the Los Angeles Free Clinic, and the UniHealth Foundation Scholarship. Throughout this process, his interests have turned towards the intersection of medicine and urban design, especially in the union of integrated housing and medical services for the homeless and similar populations. Thomas-Bernard Kenniff is a Ph.D. candidate at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture in London, England, where he is doing research on public space design, heterology, and ethics. He received his M.Arch degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2005. Thomas-Bernard won first prize in the Berkeley Prize 2002 Competition with an essay entitled "The Clean Street Paradox" that is published in arq: Architectural Research Quarterly (Cambridge University Press). He most recently collaborated with MSDL Architectes of Montréal on the project for the Grand Foyer Culturel de la Place des Arts. Barbara Knecht is an architect, writer and researcher in New York and Boston. She is currently the Director of Design at Adaptive Environments, a Boston-based, international nonprofit organization committed to enhancing the experiences of people of all ages and abilities through excellence in design. She is co-director of the IHP “Cities in the 21st Century,” a multi-country travel/study program for undergraduates that offers comparative exploration of social, political and environmental aspects of urban environments. She consults on affordable housing and community development projects at Westhab, Inc. a not for profit organization in Westhchester County, New York. She has been a contributing writer for magazines, including Architecture, Architectural Record, Design Book Review and the Enterprise Quarterly. Her book, Design and Feminism, Futures in Urban Housing is forthcoming. Ms. Knecht holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. She was awarded a Kinne Fellowship from Columbia University, a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University, and received a Graham Foundation grant. Scott Koniecko, A.I.A., is Principal of Scott Koniecko Architects, New York, New York. His firm, founded in 1987, is known particularly for its residential work and art galleries throughout the United States and Europe. The firm is committed to the principle that architecture evolves from a sensitive and heedful understanding of the settings of the daily interactions of the people that it serves…and that the application of this principle is integral to both the beauty and the dignity of the place that is ultimately created. Beyond his architectural work Scott's commitment to place extends to include serving as President of the Beatrix Farrand Society located at Garland Farm on Mount Desert Island in Maine, U.S.A. The Society seeks to foster the art and science of horticulture and landscape design as an educational facility, with an emphasis on the life and work of Beatrix Farrand, one of the United States’ foremost landscape architects of the 20th century. Scott graduated with a Masters of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 and worked for I. M. Pei and Partners for ten years before starting his own firm. Malini Krishnankutty is an architect and planner based in Goa, India. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Masters in Architecture and in City Planning. She is currently an independent planning consultant involved in architectural practice, teaching and research. She has been active in building a discourse around architecture and planning issue in India and is currently co-writing (with Himanshu Burte) two books on contemporary Indian architecture, including one on sustainable architecture. Raymond Lifchez, Founder of the BERKELEY PRIZE and Chair of the BERKELEY PRIZE Committee, is Professor in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley, where he has taught undergraduate design studios and writing seminars for many years. His publications include Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People (1981), Rethinking Architecture: Design Students and the Physically Disabled (1987), and The Dervish Lodge: Art, Architecture, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey (1992). Ian Mactavish is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from Columbia University in 2008 with a Bachelor's in Urban Studies and a concentration in Architecture. He wrote his thesis on the history of Philadelphia's waterfront, highlighting the impacts mid century planning efforts, the construction of Interstate-95 and the recent advent of the casino gaming industry. During his Junior year, he lived and studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and traveled South America extensively. During college, Ian worked at the at the Regional Plan Association, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and currently works for Voith & Mactavish Architects, LLP, in downtown Philadelphia. As one of the winners of the 2008 Travel Fellowship, Ian traveled to Stavanger in Norway, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin where he compared European attempts to reclaim urban space after the catastrophic WWII bombings with American cities' attempts to reclaim space after rapid mid-century decentralization and the death of the manufacturing industry. Christine Macy is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie University, Canada. Her research interests include the representation of cultural identity in architecture, public spaces, civic infrastructure, and festival architecture. She practiced architecture in New York and San Francisco before establishing her partnership, Filum, with Sarah Bonnemaison in 1990, specializing in lightweight structures and public space design for festivals. Her books with Sarah Bonnemaison include Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape (Routledge, 2003), Festival Architecture (Routledge, 2007), and Responsive Textile Environments (TUNS/Riverside Press, 2007). Other books include Greening the city: ecological wastewater treatment in Halifax (TUNS Press, 2000), Free Labs: Design-Build Projects from Dalhousie University (TUNS Press, 2008), and Dams (W.W. Norton, 2009). John Q. McDonald is an astronomer and spacecraft flight engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. For two years, he was a student in writing seminars at Berkeley's Department of Architecture, and assists in reading for a current seminar there taught by Prof. Raymond Lifchez (see above). John is a landscape painter and author who has published writings that interweave memoir and the built environment. Jason Miller joined the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design's Architecture Visual Resources Library in 2003 as a library assistant, where he stayed until 2006. After working as a sailboat rigger and then as a collections and resource librarian at Anshen and Allen Architects in San Francisco, California, he returned to UC Berkeley to lead the CED Visual Resources Center as its Director. Jason brings a deep interest in photography and its use in documenting the built environment to work with the extensive analog and digital collections held by the College of Environmental Design. Jason received his Master's degree in library and information science from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2003. Previous to getting his degree, Jason worked in various capacities at The Evergreen State College Library, the Tufts University Archives, Harvard Law Library, and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute. He is a member of the Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America. Anusha Narayanan is currently pursuing an undergradute Architecture degree in architecture from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University , located in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Born in the metropolitan Mumbai, she holds the potpourri of essences of places as far and varied as Chennai, Prague, Singapore, Jammu & Kashmir, and the capital city of India- New Delhi. In her second year of university, she won the First BERKELEY PRIZE Architectural Design Fellowship, going on to organize Sparsha - a nation wide Shelter Design contest, sponsored by the BERKELEY PRIZE Committee in the year 2008. Currently she is undergoing her professional training at Arcop Associates Pvt. Ltd.,India. Architecture being her first love, she aspires to preserve the historical roots of architecture and apply them in the modern context through in-depth analysis and architectural journalism. Angela Nkya is an Architect and winner of the 2004 Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence. She has a Bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and has worked for Architectural firms in California and Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. Maire O'Neill is Associate Professor at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate level design since 1990. She has also taught at University of California, Berkeley. She is a practicing architect, licensed in California and Montana, and is on the Montana Board of Architects and Landscape Architects. Her teaching, research, and writing has focused on haptic experience in understanding space and place. She explores how we develop our understanding of natural elements of the landscape and forces of local climate, and the ways in which our built environment aids or inhibits in the development of this knowledge. O’Neill is a member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, and in 2009 co-chaired the international VAF conference in Butte, Montana. She has served for six years on the Montana Committee for the Humanities Speakers Bureau, presenting her on-going research on the morphology of historic agricultural structures in the Rocky Mountain West, and the relationship of form to community knowledge and social influence. Through exploratory foreign studies programs with her students in rural Asia (Thailand, Nepal, and India), Maire practices a cultural immersion learning experience, challenging students’ powers of observation and integration of design knowledge. With her students she has developed design drawings for community service projects such as an international cultural learning center for His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Darjeeling, India (Manjushree Centre for Tibetan Culture), and a paleontology Museum in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia (Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs), and community design projects in Kathmandu, Nepal. John Parman is the editorial director/publications at Gensler, a global design consultancy. He is a founding editor of TraceSF, an online design journal focused on San Francisco, and an editorial adviser to the California edition, Architect's Newspaper. He also co-founded and published the award-winning quarterly, Design Book Review. Parman is a graduate in architecture of the University of California, Berkeley and Washington University.
Helaine Kaplan Prentice, ASLA, is a lecturer at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, and fittingly, a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Community Innovation. Long a planner in Oakland, Helaine’s work there was recognized with a lifetime achievement award from the Oakland Heritage Alliance. AIA’s East Bay Chapter singled out her positive impact on local projects in their first award to a non-architect. A UC Berkeley Mellon Fellow (2003-04) and juror for the Undergraduate Research Prize (2006), she currently serves on the Chancellor’s Design Review Committee for major buildings on campus, bringing expertise in resource stewardship. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Foremost a writer, Helaine explores the robust edge condition where verbal and visual overlap––hence narrative commissions from major design firms, a landscape literature initiative, and her popular class Power of the Word: Verbal Skills for Visual Thinkers. Books include Rehab Right, winner of the Gordon Gray Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Gardens of Southern California and Suzhou: Shaping an Ancient City for the New China. Articles in Landscape Architecture Magazine include profiles of cultural geographer J.B. Jackson and Christo’s luminous Running Fence, for which she took her own air photos. The ASLA honored her writing with the distinguished Bradford Williams Medal. Adriano Pupilli, is a recently qualified practicing Architect who led a community-building project in Papua New Guinea in 2005. He has now returned home to Australia to focus on Indigenous housing issues throughout urban and rural Australia with the nationally-based Housing for Health program, which is sponsored by the government of New South Wales to ensure safe and healthy living environments within Aboriginal homes. Pupilli's research has highlighted environmental health conditions, particularly the failure of existing housing and health infrastructure in many Aboriginal communities, as being an important contributor to the higher rates of infection, injuries, and chronic disease in Aboriginal people. Adriano Pupilli gained his Bachelor of Architecture with first class honors from the University of Sydney Australia. Part of these studies included a semester abroad at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout student life, Adriano was awarded a number of grants enabling him to pursue social research projects in architecture nationally and abroad. These investigations included recycled self-build housing in Sydney, Australia; informal building processes in Manila, Philippines; education infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; community-initiated revitalization in Istanbul, Turkey; and self-made housing in Barcelona, Spain. Pupilli’s work in Barcelona was made possible by the 2004 BERKELEY PRIZE Travel Fellowship. Pupilli's publications include: "Barcelona Notes" (Architectural Theory Review, 2004); and "Paper House: Self-Help and Waste Reuse towards Affordable, Sustainable and People Empowering Architecture" (Bachelor of Architecture Honors Thesis: University of Sydney, 2006). Scot Thrane Refsland, Digital Media Architect, received his Ph.D. in Computer Systems and Software Engineering at Gifu University in Japan. He has won several awards for his digital media installations and performances in Australia and Japan, is a Visiting Fellow in Computer Arts, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland. Hadas Rix graduated with a degree in the architecture and urban planning at the Israeli Institute of Technology, (also known as the Technion ), located in Haifa, Israel. In 2004, Hadas joined the Israeli Chamber of Icomos and took part in the Jewish heritage sites preservation mission to Moravia. She has a strong interest in public participation in planning and in ecological and environmental design. Hadas was a BERKELEY PRIZE Travel Fellow in 2005. Daves Rossell is Professor of Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, where he specializes in American architecture and urbanism, cultural landscape, and the vernacular. He is Chair of the Chatham County Historic Preservation Commission, and Director of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 2007 Annual Meeting in Savannah. He is past co-editor of Arris, the journal of the Southeastern chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and is co-editor of an upcoming book on Commemoration and the American City with the University of Virginia Press. Ananya Roy is Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley , where she chairs the undergraduate major in Urban Studies. She is also Associate Dean of International and Area Studies, responsible for various undergraduate majors such as Development Studies and Peace & Conflict Studies. She is the author of the book, City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (University of Minnesota, 2003) and co-editor of the volume, Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America (Lexington Press, 2004). Roy is currently working on a new book titled Poverty Experts: The Production of Truth in the New Global Order (Routledge, 2007). In 2006, Roy received UC Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus's highest teaching honor.
David Salazar has been a committee member of the BERKELEY PRIZE since 1999. He is the owner of DTSalazar Inc., a multidisciplanary Owner's Representation, Project Management, Development and Design practice in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The work spans a broad base of categories ranging from unique residential and restaurant ventures to socially-oriented school and museum projects in Africa and Cambodia. David is also Director of Development for CAMS Global, a London-based privately held real estate company working in Eastern Africa building large scale master plans for work force housing, as well as Development Manager for 9-Mile Investments in California. Magda Saura is an architect, art historian and professor of architecture at the Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Saura advises the Officer of Cultural Affairs of Catalonia on social and historic preservation policies; has led the master planning team for the Greco-Roman archeological site of Empuries, Spain; and built a promenade for the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. Her publications include articles on the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona and also on Leon Battista Alberti, as well as Pobles Catalans/Catalan Villages (Barcelona, 1997). Anthony Schuman, a past president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), is Associate Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Architecture. A registered architect, his articles on housing design and community development appear in eight books and numerous journals. He has been a founding member of several advocacy and activist organizations in architecture and planning. Arijit Sen, Assistant Professor of Architecture, teaches architectural design, urbanism and cultural landscapes at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the co-coordinator of the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures collaborative doctoral initiative between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Milwaukee. His research interests include physical and cultural landscapes of immigration in the United States. He is currently completing his book Creative Dissonance: The Politics of Immigrant World Making and a co-edited monograph Devon Street, Chicago: Interpreting Landscapes of Transnationalism. Sen received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and served as a Center for 21st Century Studies fellow at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (2007) and a Quadrant Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (2008). Murray Silverstein is a partner in the architectural firm of Jacobson Silverstein Winslow/Degenhardt, Berkeley, California. He is co-author of four books on architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press) and Patterns of Home (The Taunton Press), and has recently published a volume of poetry, Any Old Wolf (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006). Avikal Somvanshi grew up in the city of Allahabad, India. After completing his schooling from the Boys' High School & College at Allahabad, he went to pursue an under graduate degree in architecture at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University in Katra, Jammu & Kashmir in 2006. During his second year he won the First Berkeley Prize Architectural Design Fellowship 2008 and went on to organize Sparsha - a shelter design contest, as the fellowship endeavor. He did his professional training at HCPDPM, a design firm in Ahmedabad. He has interned with the prestigious environment magazine Down To Earth, and has authored two cover features for the magazine’s monthly supplement ‘GOBAR Times’, reporting on issues like street food and rag pickers (solid waste management in Delhi). Currently he is working with EartHauz Architecture- a sub-unit of the Centre for Scientific Research, The International House – Auroville, India, as an architect cum blogger cum researcher, working mostly on pro bono projects for the Auroville community, along with the use and development of alternate building materials and technology. He aspires to research and draw connections between varied aspects of our society, environment and architecture.
Philip Tidwell is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Architecture at Princeton University. In 2003 he was awarded the BERKELEY PRIZE for his essay, "Place, Memory and the Problem of the Architectural Image." Previously he studied architecture and urbanism in the United States and France, and was the recipient of a 2006 Fulbright Fellowship to Finland. He has worked as an architectural and graphic designer in New York and Helsinki, and is a founding member of the New York-based Urban Research Group (URGe). Currently he serves as Programs Coordinator for the Princeton Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure and as editor of the School of Architecture’s semi-annual publication Pidgin. Leslie Van Duzer is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has taught at schools of architecture throughout the United States and Europe and has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including most recently, a 2006-2007 Dayton Hudson Faculty Fellowship. Prof. Van Duzer has published three books in collaboration with Kent Kleinman: Villa Muller: A Work of Adolf Loos, Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision, and Mies van der Rohe: The Krefeld Villas and is currently working on two more: Adolf Loos in the Czech Lands and Architects of Illusion (working title). Jan Wampler, FAIA, is a Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). Each semester, he teaches an Architectural Design Studio and a special academic initiative, the "International Workshop". One of the current results of this effort is 10,000 Architects, a course for young people around the world coordinated with United Nations Habitat. In addition to teaching, Jan Wampler runs an architectural office from his home town of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. His recent projects include the Renaissance Project: Hope for Haiti, a public effort to establish a vital, self-sustaining resource for Port au-Prince, including housing for 1,000 people; redesign of an area in Havana, Cuba; two new cities in Jinan, China; urban design in Tangshan, China; and buildings in several Chinese cities. Recently, a well-known architectural critic published a glowing review of an exhibition of Jan Wampler’s work, calling him "The Walt Whitman of Architects". Jan has been a Visiting Professor at several Universities around the world including the University of California, Berkeley (USA); University of Sydney (Australia); University of South Florida (Tampa, USA); and in Tsinghua, China. His articles and buildings have been published in a number of international architectural magazines. He also authored a landmark book: All Their Own, People and the Places They Build, which focuses on "architecture….based on the desires of people." Jan has been honored with the Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (USA). He received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, Rhode Island, USA) in 1963, and a Masters of Architecture and Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) in 1964. Matt Werner earned his Bachelor's in English from UC Berkeley with highest honors in 2007. He is currently writing his dissertation for a Master's in English at the University of Edinburgh, where he studies on the Winston Churchill Scholarship awarded by the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco. While at McSweeney’s Publishing, Werner worked on the titles What is the What, Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan, Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, and 2006 Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other titles. Werner is currently working on an oral narrative collection of interviews with recent college graduates. Werner is the Communications Director for the nonprofits the Global Micro-Clinic Project and Sparkseed. Cynthia Whitehead is an international environmental lawyer whose work integrates environmental, land use, administrative law, and human rights. She began in the 1970s with the The Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C., researching "what Europe does better" in land use planning, urban development, and public participation. Since 1981 she works as a consultant to the European Union on the reform of urban planning and environmental laws and practices in Europe and Asia, in particular in the formerly Communist countries. She is a graduate of Reed College and the University of Oregon, and the recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes fellowship to the University of Cologne and a German Academic Exchange fellowship to the University of Munster. Keith Wilson Principal, Seaton/Wilson Architects, received his BA and MArch from UC Berkeley and was an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the California College of the Arts. After twenty years of architecture, he has left active practice and is concentrating on watercolors inspired by vernacular structures, public spaces and the social organizations that shape the built environment. Extensive travel that began with the UC Branner Traveling Fellowship has shaped his understanding and appreciation of the buildings and cultures of the world. Friedner D. Wittman, Ph.D., has over thirty years' experience in community planning for health and social services, environmental design, and architectural programming. His primary interests are twofold: environmental approaches to prevention planning for community-level problems of alcohol/drug availability; and policies, practices, and design of facilities and settings for alcohol/other drug treatment and recovery services, and for treatment of mental health disabilities. From 1988 through 2011, he founded and directed the Community Prevention Planning Program, now part of the Institute for Study of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley. The Community Prevention Planning Program is a nationally-recognized program that utilizes environmental planning approaches to prevent problems related to the retail, public, and social availability of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and other drugs. Dr. Wittman has worked extensively in the United States with California state agencies (especially Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs), the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, the national Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and numerous counties and cities on problems related to local alcohol and drug availability. Dr. Wittman has written over 100 papers, reports, monographs, and published articles. His education includes a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design (1983); an M. Arch. from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1967); and a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (1964). Dr. Wittman and his wife Ruth Henderson Wittman reside in Berkeley, California. They have two children. Bahram Hooshyar Yousefi is a PhD candidate in architecture, Technische Universitat Wien/Austria and a researcher at the Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan Stockholm/Sweden. He completed an M.Arch. at Azad University, Tabriz, Iran, where he received his B.S. in Architecture. He has worked in the architectural division of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization in Eastern Azerbaijan, as well as in architectural offices in Tabriz and Tehran, and has received awards for his writings on traditional and contemporary architecture. Yousefi writes for a wide range of design and consumer titles, he is the author of several articles, and frequently teaches and lectures. He is now teaching in Tehran Sooreh and Qazvin Azad Universities. He is the writer of Art & Architecture, which is the first Blog of architecture in Persian; and the founder and editor of the first architecture and urban news agency in Persian. Yousefi is also the writer on architecture for Tehran's Hamashahri newspaper; and chief editor of Daris (monthly on architecture),Tazinaate Sakhteman (monthly on interior design). He was formerly the editor of architecture for Mehr (weekly), Rah-o-Sakhteman (monthly), and the Donyaye Eghtesad newspaper. He is a member of AA (Architectural Association) of London, the Iranian Architects Society, and the Iranian Construction Engineers Organization. Emeritus Committee Members
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