The city of Los Angeles recently honored Mike Woo, dean of the College of Environmental Design, for his civic leadership. Woo received special recognition, along with philanthropist/chemist Myung Ki Hong, founder of DuraCoats Products, Inc., during a May 30 ceremony.…
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Both a public and private space, the Chancellor’s Residence at UC Riverside has the potential to be a local and regional showcase for inspired sustainability, beauty and responsible environmental leadership. This was the challenge to an interdisciplinary design studio developed…
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Professor Emerita Margarita McCoy, a former chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, has died. She was 92. McCoy was a professor in the department from 1975 to 1989, serving as its chair from 1977 to 1983. The…
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The Department of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design has made the DesignIntelligence list of the Top 20 architecture schools in the country for the third year in a row. The “America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools” survey asked…
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Graphic design student Mark Sutton and most of his peers at the Department of Art never met Nohemi Gonzalez. Gonzalez, a Cal State Long Beach industrial design student, was among the 129 victims that died in the Nov. 13 Paris…
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“Vessel,” a traveling exhibition celebrating some of the finest examples in book arts, is on view at Cal Poly Pomona’s W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery from Nov. 30 to Jan. 30, 2016. “The book as craft is the…
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Award-winning international architect Enrique Norten examined the growing social and environmental demands placed on architecture to an eager audience of more than 200 in the University Theatre. The second speaker in the Henry Woo Lecture Series, Norten was on…
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The start of every academic year tends to herald the new: fresh faces, experiences and opportunities. For the College of Environmental Design (ENV), it also applies to leadership, in the form of its new permanent associate dean, Mary Yu Danico.…
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Sarah Lorenzen, associate professor and chair of the Cal Poly Pomona Department of Architecture, will receive the 2015 Educator Award from the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles chapter at its 2015 Design Awards. Conferred by AIA|LA’s board of directors…
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The Cal Poly Pomona art galleries are showing a new exhibit by a Korean-born, L.A.-based artist who repurposes cast-off materials to create monumental, humorous and thought-provoking kinetic sculpture. The exhibit, “David Jang: Prequel to 2018,” Sept. 21 through Oct. 29,…
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