Fall Connections
Greetings CAED Community,
I am proud to share our fall issue of Connections e-Magazine.
Join me in congratulating the design-build excellence by students during this year’s Vellum/CAED Furniture Competition and Exhibition, a Whiting-Turner Endowed Professorship in Construction Safety, the latest efforts by Cal Poly’s Gateway Decathlon team, CRP students taking on an international urban design workshop in Portugal and a proposal addressing a housing shortage and rising sea levels in the Bay Area.
I want to express my sincerest appreciation to you, our alums, faculty, staff and friends for your continued investment in the success of Learn by Doing at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design.
Thank you for your unwavering partnership and dedication to our students.
Sincerely,
Kevin Dong
Interim Dean, College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA
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In this Issue...
Cal Poly Students Bring Furniture Designs to Life
Over 200 students displayed their one-of-a-kind furniture pieces at the 21st Vellum/CAED Furniture Competition and Exhibition. Hosted by Cal Poly's Architecture Department and San Luis Obispo firm Vellum Design Build.
Construction Management Faculty Awarded Whiting-Turner Chair
The Whiting-Turner professorship endowment recognizes the outstanding work of dedicated, innovative faculty in Cal Poly’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, which has the potential to shape the future of built environment education.
Gateway Decathlon: Exploring the Future of Housing
In the face of the United States’ widespread housing shortage, the construction industry is searching for and exploring new ways of designing, constructing and developing housing with a primary focus on innovative housing design and off-site construction in an old industrial neighborhood in St. Louis, just south of the Gateway Arch.
A “Brave Proposal” Seeks to Address a Housing Shortage and Rising Sea Levels in the Bay Area
Already critically short, Bay Area housing availability could dramatically worsen with the potentially devastating impact of rising sea levels, said Amir Hajrasouliha, an associate professor in Cal Poly’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED).
Summer in Lisbon: CRP Takes on International Urban Design Workshop
From June 24 to July 5, CRP students participated in the 5th International Urban Design Workshop in Lisbon. Coordinated by City and Regional Planning (CRP) Professor Vicente del Rio and co-taught by professors Fernando Nunes da Silva and Ana Sá Moraes at the Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa.
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