Architecture Graduates “Unleash” Designs

More than 150 of Cal Poly’s fifth-year architecture students will exhibit their thesis projects at the design exhibition “Unleashed.” The opening reception is Friday, May 23, from 3 - 6 p.m. in Chumash Auditorium, and continues Memorial Weekend, May 24-25, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to the public. The largest of its kind between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the exhibition features final projects that range from the Central Coast to the moon. Read more in the news release or visit the Unleashed website.

New CAED Connections Magazine

The college’s new “Connections” magazine celebrates 60 years of success! It features alumni profiles, a photographic view of the college’s history, a message from the dean and more.

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Architecture Students 'Steel' Away With Top Design Awards

Cal Poly Architecture students Kristian Fosholt and Greg Taylor took top awards at the 2006-07 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Competition. Fosholt, working with Architecture Professor Jonathan Reich, earned a third place and cash awards in the Student/Open Category for his visionary design called “Of A Freeway,” which proposed integration of a multi-modal transit center into the large amount of single-use land occupied by the I-405 and I-105 freeways near Los Angeles International Airport. Taylor's project, called Pulling Tendons, earned an honorable mention for his proposed design for a Museum of Steel in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Read more about the winning Architecture student designs

Architecture Students Earn Prestigious SOM Internship

Rachel Glabe and Katsunori Shigemi were selected from a global pool of nearly 300 applicants to participate in a prestigious summer internship program hosted by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Read more about SOM’s exceptional architecture program based in San Francisco.

CRP Student Awarded Fellowship with Hispanic Caucus

Esther Valle is one of fewer than 20 students in the nation to be awarded a Public Policy Fellowship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, DC. Read more about the recent grad who just received her master’s degree in City and Regional Planning.

Landscape Architecture Commemorates 35 Years

Founded in 1972 the department is ranked as one of the best in the nation. To commemorate the anniversary there will be an alumni celebration at the ASLA conference in San Francisco on October 5, 2007 and an on campus celebration May 30-31, 2008.

ArcE Students Donate Bridge to Community

Six architectural engineering students donated a bridge to the SLO County Golf Course at Dairy Creek as part of their senior project. The design is an undulating double curve 2-span steel bridge. It took 200 hours of engineering and 2000 hours of construction labor to design and build the bridge.

Graduate to Shake Things Up in Europe

Architectural engineering grad Bill Janhunen has received a full fellowship to the European Union's Master's in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (MEEES) program. The program is an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course that aims to provide higher-level education in the field of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology.

5th Year Architecture Show 'Small Servings'

May 25-27

The exhibit begins Friday, May 25, with an opening reception from 3 to 6 p.m. in Chumash Auditorium. It continues over Memorial Day weekend from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The event culminates a year of thesis work by nearly 150 graduating architecture students and is one of the largest architecture and design exhibitions between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

CAED Alumni at RRM Team Up with Cal Poly Staff on Programming for Center for Science and Mathematics

RRM Design Group and a team of Cal Poly staff from the College of Science and Mathematics and the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences finished the programming phase on the Center for Science and Mathematics. The new building, and associated green space, will be located in the center of campus and is scheduled for completion in 2011.

Architecture Students Help Design Proposed Nipomo Community Center

Six student designs were chosen by the Nipomo Recreation Association as possible choices for the new center. Faculty member Margarida Yin assigned the Nipomo project to her third-year design studio students as part of her Community Based Design Program.

AIA Alumni Reception May 3 in San Antonio.

The reception will be at the San Antonio Marriott Center in salon B from 6:30–8:30 p.m. Go to the Architecture Department website to learn more about the alumni gathering by clicking here.

City and Regional Planning Professor Michael E. McDougall Remembered

Michael E. McDougall, of San Luis Obispo, passed away April 8, 2007, in San Francisco. In 1973, he accepted a position as a founding faculty member of the City and Regional Planning Department at Cal Poly where he taught planning, design and architecture for 20 years until his retirement. Memorial tributes will be held Sunday, May 13th in San Francisco (see link for details) and Saturday, May 19th at Cal Poly in the Business Rotunda (03-213) at 2p.m. Read more about his life and accomplishments.

Karten Update

Construction management graduate Joe Karten continues his travels and studies courtesy of the Victor L. Regnier Traveling Fellowship. He was awarded the Fellowship and $20,000 for his proposal to research sustainable buildings in foreign countries and create a web-based database of case studies of the buildings he visits. He is currently in Spain after visiting much of Europe and Mexico. See his progress reports at the Fellowship website.

Spring Hearst Lecture Series “PAN PACIFICA” Continues

The spring series continues during Open House with UCLA Assistant Professor of Design David Erdman. He will discuss his experience as a founder and principal of Servo, a Los Angeles-based research and design collaborative. His firm was honored with the American Institute of Graphic Arts Design Award in 2004. Other speakers include Hernan Diaz Alonso, Neil Watson, Sarah Graham, Kevin Daly and Stanley Saitowitz.

Architecture Professor and Cal Poly Students Invited to Italy

Professor Jonathan Reich has been invited to co-organize, lecture and be a design critic at the fourth annual "Coast2Coast" conference and design workshop at the Università di Camerino, Facoltà di Architettura di Ascoli Piceno, Italy April 29 – May 5. The weeklong conference and design workshop brings architecture and landscape architecture students from both Cal Poly and Cal Poly Pomona together. They'll work with Italian students and Italian professor Cristiano Toraldo di Francia on urban coastal development issues. See Cal Poly students at work.

New Architectural Engineering Department Head Announced

Allen Estes has been named head of the Architectural Engineering Department. Estes joins the Cal Poly faculty after serving as director of the Civil Engineering program at the United States Military Academy. Estes graduated from West Point in 1978 and received his master’s degrees in structural engineering and construction management from Stanford University and his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Colorado. He recently retired from the military.

CAED Spring Calendar Update

The CAED’s new calendar has all the latest events for the upcoming quarters including Open House and Design Village in April; plus alumni reunion events and student job fairs. Click here for more, or the “CAED Calendar” icon in the right column.

Landscape Architecture and Architecture Programs

"Best in the Nation"

In a poll of western practitioners, Cal Poly’s undergraduate landscape architecture and architecture programs were chosen as "Best in Nation" for 2007. Both programs also ranked well in various subcategories. More than 450 firms and organizations employing more than 102,000 architects and design professionals participated in the 2007 DesignIntelligence survey.

CAED Participates in CSU-wide Strategic Planning

The CAED is currently holding meetings with students, faculty, and staff to participate in a CSU-wide Strategic Planning Process. This process, called “Access to Excellence”, will guide the CSU's future direction and also help start a planned Cal Poly and CAED update of their own strategic plans. The Access to Excellence process utilizes six “Domains” for guiding discussion and review. Campus conversations will culminate in a University wide gathering on Tuesday, February 27, from 9-12 noon at Chumash Auditorium. Friends and alumni are welcome to participate or send comments directly to the CAED at caed@calpoly.edu. Summary notes of the CAED meetings are posted at the following link:
CAED Access to Excellence

Design Competition Feb. 2-3 Benefits CAED Students

The Architecture Department is partnering with Vellum Build, a San Luis Obispo design and build firm, to host the third annual Vellum/Architecture Department Furniture Design Competition Feb. 2 and 3. The event will include a design competition, gallery exhibit and silent auction that will benefit students of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Photo courtesy of alumnus Eric Holm.

CRP Department Receives National Recognition

Cal Poly's Master's in City and Regional Planning program was ranked 25th in the nation overall, and 8th in the West in the Planetizen 2007 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs. The new graduate school reference guide published by Planetizen is the leading on-line network for the urban planning community.

Architecture Students to Propose Tech Center Designs

Fourth-year architecture students were asked this quarter to create concept designs for a state-of-the-art discovery center, which includes a planetarium/observatory with hands-on exhibits, classrooms, a conference center, IMAX theater, organic research farm, and an organic food restaurant featuring food from the farm. The students selected the Dalidio Ranch as a site for the discovery center.

Henri de Hahn to Lead Architecture Department

An enthusiastic Henri de Hahn joins the CAED as the new head of the Architecture Department. Henri has taught in a variety of academic settings in the US and abroad and brings with him fresh attitudes about innovation, balanced instruction, and the visibility of the program. Read more about Henri's unique perspective and his vision for the program.

CRP Department to Help State Reduce the Effect of Wildfires, Earthquakes and Floods

The City and Regional Planning Department will help the Governor's Office of Emergency Services revise the California State Hazard Mitigation Plan.

CRP Templeton Development Plan Wins Award

A comprehensive long-term development plan for the town of Templeton put together by city and regional planning students received the Award of Excellence from the California Chapter American Planning Association.

CRP Department Hosts Design Symposium

The symposium was developed to encourage debate on the quality of design of public spaces. Guest speakers included: Larry Herzog, Leo O'Brian, Daniel Levi, Denise de Alcantara. The lectures dealt with alternative uses for public spaces all over the world.

Brent Dickens CAED's "Honored Alumnus" for 2006

Architecture alumnus Brent Dickens and six others were recognized as "Honored Alumni." The award is the highest honor bestowed upon university alumni by the Cal Poly Alumni Association. Find out more about the award and the recipients.

Architectural Engineering Students Win International Contest for Blind Prediction

Michael Billings, Soyoon Lee and Evan Peterman (shown L-R) won $2,500 in the undergraduate division of the Seven Story Reinforced Concrete Building Slice Blind Prediction Contest. The international award was presented at the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

CAED Teams Up with Habitat for Humanity

Faculty and students of the CAED collaborated with Habitat for Humanity to construct a beautiful home in Cambria dedicated July 30th. Faculty member Hal Johnston (left) guided two CM students whose senior projects involved on-site construction. Elbert Speidel (second from right) taught a class that completed the construction drawings. ARCE students worked with ARCE alum John Kudla to perform the structural calculations.

Architecture Alumna is Awarded Rome Prize

Adriana Cuellar embarks on an 11-month residence at the American Academy in Rome, America's leading overseas center for advanced research in the arts and humanities. Since graduating in 2000, she has won many awards and worked with notable architects Robert Vinoly and Teddy Cruz. Read more about her prestigious award and proposal, Trajectories.

View Groundbreaking Photo Gallery & “Live” Web Cam of New CAED Building

The Groundbreaking Celebration for our new CAED Building was a great success May 6. Visit the online event photo gallery and the “live” webcam. The new building will be near the old Powerhouse, Crandall Gym and Engineering West (shown L-R in photo). Once linked to the webcam, simply click on the camera icon in the lower right corner to gain control, and use the three scroll bars to zoom, tilt, and pan the site.

National Landscape Architecture Scholarship
Awarded to LA Student

Sahoko Yui was awarded the American Society of Landscape Architecture Council of Fellows’ scholarship for promising students of landscape architecture. Yui was one of only two students in United States to receive the award this year.

ARCE Instructor Gives Award-Winning Presentation

Edmond Saliklis (left) earned “Best Presentation” in the Architectural Engineering Division at the American Society for Engineering Education's Annual Conference. Visit Cal Poly News for more on Saliklis' paper that describes the current literature devoted to the engineering undergraduate research experience, and several case studies of student projects he has mentored.

Students Win Award for Concrete Sculpture

Five students received an Award of Excellence at the 2006 Post Tensioning Institute Awards for their design of a concrete blade structure. It replaced the deteriorating original designed in 1963 by (L-R at the dedication) Ken Minor, Steve Gilmore, Mark Haselton and the late Dan McMann. The winning students are Jon Voorhies, Susan Smilanich, Robert Pacheco, Mike McDonnell, and Ben Green (bottom right). Their faculty advisor Nick Watry is pictured top right. Read more.

Dean Emeritus Paul Neel Receives Prestigious Award

Paul Neel, FAIA and dean emeritus of the CAED, has been awarded the Octavius Morgan Distinguished Service Award. The award, presented by the California Department of Consumer Affairs, recognizes architects for their contribution to the profession and the people of California.

Architecture Alumni Place Third at ENYA Competition

Dominic Leong and Brian Price were recently awarded third place at the Biennial International Ideas Competition in New York City. The event challenged participants to develop a visual/performing arts center on Roosevelt Island, New York, keeping in mind issues of universal design and historic rejuvenation. Read more about the competition that included more than 40 jury-selected entries from around the world.

Kick-off of Design-Build ‘Boot Camps’ a Success

The California Center for Construction Education at Cal Poly and the Design-Build Institute of America recently hosted the first Design-Build Professional Designation Boot Camp, May 8-12. The boot camps are designed to speed up the certification process for professional design-build designation. Two more boot camps are planned. The Aug. 6-12 session is full, with space still available for the Sept. 10-16 program. CM Professor Barbara Jackson leads the camps and was honored with the DBIA Distinguished Service Award.