Kelly Wong entered Cal Poly Pomona as an engineering technology major, but a lifelong love affair with art will see her graduate with a BFA in visual communication design and double-minors in art history and studio arts at the top of her class…
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Henry Woo’s exemplary work designing and building public education facilities in the San Gabriel Valley merited distinction from a congressman. Woo (’77, architecture; 85, master’s in architecture) was recently honored by U.S. Representative Gilbert Cisneros (CA-39) with the 2020 Asian…
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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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