Cal Poly Pomona architecture student Christopher Ornelas will receive a 2020 CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement, the CSU’s highest recognition of student success. One student from each of the 23 CSU campuses receives this distinction each year. Ornelas will…
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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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Cal Poly Pomona’s award-winning Horsehill Vineyards is uncorking its first wines wrapped in labels created by CPP students. The collaborative project between three colleges on campus included picking the grapes, creating the label for the wine bottle and marketing the…
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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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