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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Professor Lauren Weiss Bricker has been appointed interim dean of the College of Environmental Design following the retirement of Michael Woo. Her one-year appointment begins Aug. 19. Bricker, a professor of architecture for 20 years, is the current director of…
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Michael Woo, the first urban planner, the first Asian American and second-longest-serving dean of the College of Environmental Design, is retiring after 10 years of service. Lauren Bricker, professor of architecture and director of the ENV Archives-Special Collections, begins her…
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In his six-decade career, Frank Gehry revolutionized architecture’s aesthetics and techniques and recast its relationship with cities as one of the modern era’s early advocates of design’s inherent social responsibility. For his pioneering work, the Department of Architecture honored Gehry…
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Landscape architecture professor Andrew Wilcox was voted one of the nation’s Top 25 Most Admired Educators in Architecture, Interiors, and Landscape Architecture by DesignIntelligence, a national firm whose closely followed annual surveys track industry and education trends in the design,…
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A group of 65 Cal Poly Pomona students accepted the NASA eXploration Systems and Habitation (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge and designed and built a functional, innovative prototype that increases functionality for human space exploration missions. The Mars habitation module (CPP-HAB),…
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New Mexico-based artist Sasha vom Dorp wants you to see the interplay of light, sound and water in fleeting, microscopic moments. Vom Dorp captured these split-seconds in a series of photographs and multisensory video installations that are at the heart…
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