It took eight years and a decisive switch of majors for Lenore Roberts (’20, architecture) to get to this point: graduation. Three years into the art program at Cal State Fullerton, Roberts pivoted to architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, a five-year commitment…
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Lecturer Noam Saragosti (’14, architecture) is the new resident director of the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences – where he once greeted guests as a student docent trained by his immediate predecessor Professor Sarah Lorenzen. The docent program is one of many enhancements Lorenzen implemented…
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World-renowned architect, design educator and prolific author Marvin J. Malecha, former dean of the College of Environmental Design and former president of the American Institute of Architects, died May 4 due to complications from heart transplant surgery. He was 70. “Clear thinking…
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Jaime Scholnick, a lecturer in the Cal Poly Pomona Art Department, is one of only 14 artists selected by LA Metro to decorate its eight new stations along the highly anticipated LAX/Crenshaw line. Her vivid 400-foot mural, which consists of…
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The Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies will receive more than $5 million from the Chancellor’s Office to fund upgrades and improvements on the 16-acre site. A construction budget of $4.29 million and a total project budget of $5.38 million from the…
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Cal Poly Pomona’s Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies will research nanotechnology-based thermochromic materials that coat buildings in order to help them perform better under the stresses of climate change. The research will be funded by a $26,000 grant shared with…
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Ray Kappe, FAIA, the founding chair of the Department of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona and the founding director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), died Nov. 21. He was 92. Kappe left an indelible mark in Southern…
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The campus community is invited to a public workshop on Monday, Oct. 7 to provide feedback on a proposed redesign of the Neutra Plaza in front of Building 7. Lecturer Keiji Uesugi’s third-year landscape architecture design studio is collaborating with…
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For his first solo exhibition, visual communication design student Ethan Moll wants you to experience synesthia – that peculiar condition in which one of the five senses is simultaneously perceived by at least one other. Design student Ethan Moll. Rhythm & Hues is…
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The urban and regional planning graduate program (MURP) in the College of Environmental Design secured top national rankings in the latest edition of “Planetizen Guide to Urban Planning Programs.” The Department of Urban & Regional Planning has the distinction of…
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