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Thanks to Walt Kanzler AIA LEED Fellow for organizing this panel for the UC San Diego Education Innovation Expo tomorrow afternoon. This panel brings together an Architect at UC San Diego and four practicing architects with deep experience in educational environments to explore how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping the design of learning spaces. With campuses across the globe embracing hybrid pedagogy, digital collaboration, and immersive tools, this discussion will examine how architectural innovation can support—and be transformed by these trends. Framed by the theme of "Teaching with Tech," the session will address four core questions: ·      How is AI influencing architectural programming and the design of educational spaces? ·      What spatial adaptations best support hybrid and asynchronous learning models? ·      How can physical environments impact innovation in a tech-enhanced academic world? ��      What design strategies anticipate the long-term integration of intelligent systems in learning environments? https://lnkd.in/gxYPQRUM

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Exhibition now on view through February 1, 2026 | Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California Lifchez / Stronach Exhibition Cases, Environmental Design Library Drawing on the collection of the Environmental Design Archives, this exhibition highlights the often overlooked contributions of Asian American architects to the development of architectural modernism in postwar Northern California. It features works of six designers: architects Kinji Imada (1927–2005), Roger Yuen Lee (1920–1981), Terry Tong (1921–2016), and Worley Wong (1912–1985) and landscape architects Mai Kitazawa Arbegast (1922–2012) and Casey Kawamoto (1919–2010). All except Imada earned their design degrees from University of California, Berkeley. The exhibition explores how these designers incorporated the language of California regionalism in the mid-20th century in their professional practices, developing new yet familiar architectural and landscape expressions that we still encounter today. More than a survey of their professional achievements, this exhibition aims to contextualize their design practices within the highly racialized history of the Asian American experience in the mid-20th century by interweaving their professional drawings with personal documents, ranging from encampment photos and family portraits to diaries and personal correspondence. Curated by Nathan Shui PhD candidate in architecture, and Elizabeth Fair, PhD candidate in history of art. The exhibition is free and open to the public during Environmental Design Library hours. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dS9HascR Between History and Design, a symposium related to the exhibition, will be held tomorrow afternoon, Friday, October 10. It will dive into the socio-spatial history of Asian American communities and designers, exploring the intertwined relationship between Asian American identities and the built environment in their many constitutive affinities and historical multitudes. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dzZpdbmt Support provided by the Joan Draper Research Endowment (Department of Architecture), the Center for Race and Gender, and the Mary C. Stoddard Lecture Fund (History of Art Department). Image: Left: Roger Lee, Four Cedars Apartments, Berkeley, California. Photo: Joshua Freiwald. Roger Lee Collection. Right: Unknown, Hollywood-La Brea Square, Los Angeles. Terry Tong Collection. Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley.

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The California College of the Arts recently expanded to unite its main academic space with a new building that enables them to continue supporting different modes of learning and making. With innovative and sustainable use of mass timber at the heart of its design, the project has been recognized by WoodWorks as a winner of the 2025 Wood in Architecture Awards. The building's architecturally-exposed timber bracing is the first-ever use of an exposed mass timber, eccentric-braced frame system in a high-seismic zone. The utilization of mass timber lends itself to several benefits as it is lightweight and a highly-sustainable construction material, allowing the campus to lower its carbon footprint as it serves the community for years to come. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dq6SgiUe #MassTimber #StructuralEngineering

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ZGF Architects collaborated with Oregon State University’s College of Forestry and the TallWood Design Institute to design the building's structural bay with #masstimber columns, beams and a composite deck that provide the stability needed for sensitive scientific equipment, while also reducing embodied carbon emissions by 108% compared to conventional all-concrete construction. Read More Here: https://lnkd.in/gZgPJAU6 Arnie Didier

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