For Corey Norman, the journey from the mean streets of the west side of Tampa, Fla., to the five-year architecture program at Cal Poly Pomona took many years and many detours. But now that he is set to walk across…
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Bob Weis arrived at Cal Poly Pomona as a freshman pursuing a theater degree. A professor’s praise of his design skills inspired Weis to shift his focus and pursue a degree in architecture. Forty-one years later, it’s safe to say…
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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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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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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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The team of Paraday Sarun, Mariana Uy and Matthew Rivera, all architecture students from the class of 2019, won the Los Angeles Business Council’s 2019 Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Award, following their presentation to industry leaders. Each year the Los…
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Cal Poly Pomona’s distinctive Student Services Building took top honors in the education category at the Los Angeles Business Council’s 2019 Architectural Awards ceremony on June 21. “This year’s award winners exemplify how architecture can elicit joy, enhance social interaction,…
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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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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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