Volume 3, Issue 7 | December 4-17, 2020 |
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Urban design theory class partners with LA Metro for demography study |
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Pomona Gold Line Perspective by Bertha Mendoza, Angie Mejicanos, Helen Puga and Sherlin Orozco
Professor Brian Garcia's URP 2010L (Urban Design Theory for Planning Laboratory) partnered with LA Metro and the Foothill Extension Construction Authority for a demography study of the communities along the new planned Foothill Gold Line Extension. Under the $12.1 billion project, six stations will be built between Glendora and Montclair. Construction is slated for completion in 2025-26.
Students' final projects built on their demographic research midterm projects. Their proposed design interventions were based on their sites' strengths and weaknesses, including connections such as bridges, pedestrianization improvements, bicycle routes to better connect people to rail or they recommended affordable housing to place people next to rail and other strategies to enliven the station area. Read more
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2020 Social Mobility Index ranks CPP No. 1 polytechnic university in U.S. |
Cal Poly Pomona was again recognized as the nation's highest-ranking polytechnic university in CollegeNet's 2020 Social Mobility Index. In addition to leading all polytechnic institutions, it also ranked No. 6 among all colleges and universities nationwide.
SMI celebrates schools transforming lives and focuses attention on universities working to solve the urgent problems of declining economic mobility and income inequality in the United States.
The university was recently rated No. 10 in Money Magazine’s list of the “10 Most Transformative Colleges in the U.S.” Read more
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Most classes and services are remote/virtual in the fall term.
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Update your contact information on BroncoDirect to receive important campus updates.
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Read California's new limited stay-at-home order here, and Los Angeles County Public Health's temporary stay-at-home order here.
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Students have two grading options available to them for Fall 2020 through Summer 2021: ABCDF or ABC/No Credit for undergrads, or AB/No Credit for grad students. Visit the 2020-21 Grading Options website for general info, or view recordings of this week's Grading Options Forums.
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Follow CPP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@calpolypomona).
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Find news and updates in the College of Environmental Design's news section.
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Buildings 1, 2, 3, 7, 13, 89 and 209 are closed and locked until further notice. Studios and classrooms should not be accessed at this time.
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MyPlanner will be discontinued at the end of this semester and replaced with CPP Connect Planner. Students are advised to download PDFs of their MyPlanner by December 18 to have copies of their academic plan.
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Find ENV stories in the Fall 2020 Philanthropy Edition of CPP Magazine.
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Follow ENV on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn (@cppenv). ENV Student Success Advising Center is on Instagram (@cpp_envadvising).
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interdepartmental | stay in the know
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Fine Arts
1st Place – Paper Craft: Charles Chartier ('21)
2nd Place – Drawing: Heajung Yu ('21)
3rd Place – Sculpture: Lydia Oweis ('22)
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Visual Communication Design
1st Place – Poster Series: Michelle Martinez ('20)
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Honorable Mention
Painting: Emmanuelle Hidalgo ('22)
Poster Series: Alejandra Arevalo ('23)
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ART
The department this week announced the 2020 winners of the 2d3d+ Juried Student Art Exhibition, its annual end-of-the-year showcase featuring the best of the best of student fine art, digital and motion graphics work. The 2020 exhibition was redesigned as a virtual exhibit by Assistant Professor Kevin Moore. Cash prizes were awarded for the Top 3 winners in the Fine Arts and Visual Communication Design categories.
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The Farm Store, CPP Discovery Farm and AGRIscapes have a 40% by-the-case discounts on the university's award-winning Horsehill Vineyard wines: the 2019 Zinfandel Rosé ($100/case) and 2017 Zinfandel ($130/case). The sale runs through December 23 or while supplies last. The Farm Store is open daily (10 a.m. - 6 p.m. PST); online purchase and curbside pickup options are available.
The wines are the fruit of an unprecedented collaboration between the College of Environmental Design, The Collins College of Hospitality Management, and the Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture. The distinctive labels were designed by graphic design alumni Sarah Martinez ('19), Kazu Iwasawa ('20) and Christian Venegas ('20).
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Lecturer Ann Phong has a solo exhibition at John Wayne Airport through December 20, where 18 of her mixed-media paintings are displayed in showcases in Terminal Lobby A, B and C, and baggage claim area.
Phong has participated in more than 70 solo and group shows in galleries and museums in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Paris and Seoul. Known for using discarded objects for her sculptural paintings, her work can be found in several CSUs and UCs, private collections, and The Queen's Gallery in Bangkok.
(The Act of Cleaning Up, 32x42, acrylic with found objects. Courtesy of Ann Phong.)
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Throughout the semester, architecture and landscape architecture students in the interdisciplinary Walt Disney Imagineering Studio worked on proposed urban design strategies for the new site of the African American Museum of Beginnings. They will present their work to museum officials in a virtual event on Saturday, December 4. The studio is co-taught by Professor Irma Ramirez and Professor Andrew Wilcox.
Finals Presentation: African American Museum of Beginnings
A staple in the Pomona community for 10 years, the institution will be relocating to a 10,000-square-foot site in downtown Pomona to accommodate its expanding cultural, education and community programs. The museum's leadership team envision the new two-story museum to be a magnet for art, history and healing in the region — a place that will house a community-based collection of significant artifacts, books, stories, and experiences with a rooted educational component.
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URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
Professor Richard Willson's book, Reflective Planning Practice: Theory, Cases, and Methods, appears in the Honorable Mention category of Planetizen's Top Urban Planning Books of 2020. Linking theory and practice, Willson's book includes seven case studies that test out a framework for reflective practice planners can apply in their work. A chapter is devoted to Cal Poly Pomona's Climate Action Plan. (Receive a 20% discount when purchasing directly from the publisher.)
On December 3, Professor Alvaro Huerta led a session on immigration and the informal economy in the four-part virtual conference L.U.G.A.R.E.S.: Latinidad, Unity, Gente, Advocacy, Resiliencia, Equity, Spaces organized by the American Planning Association's Latinos and Planning Division (LAP). The proceedings highlighted the ways planners within and outside of formal planning processes are addressing challenges and issues in their communities – the COVID-19 pandemic, transportation, housing, community engagement and environmental justice – with a focus on how Latinx planners are working to make their communities a better place for all.
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REGENERATIVE STUDIES
Lecturer Douglas Kent's book, Foraging Southern California: 118 Nutritious, Tasty, and Abundant Foods has won the Nature Guidebook Category of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award. Kent's book was one of 14 honored by NOBA, the outdoor world's largest and most prestigious nonprofit educational program.
View the complete list of 2020 winners here.
NOBA's review: “Foraging Southern California is a terrific little guidebook on nature’s edible goodies, which easily slips into a pocket of your pack. Foraging expert Douglas Kent takes care of the important stuff first. In the opening chapter, he pictures and describes the plants you want to stay away from: those that are toxic or poisonous. From there it is smooth sailing, setting the stage for a great day of foraging. Each of the edibles include a large color photograph and descriptive information on habitat, leaves, flowers, harvest season, and comparable species.”
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Assistant Professor James Blair gave a keynote lecture to the United Nations Association of Pomona Valley on November 17. "Beyond Extractive Renewables: Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Decarbonization" was part of The Global Issues Series sponsored by the UNA of Pomona Valley, Pomona College's International Relations Program, and the Claremont Colleges chapter of the UNA. Blair is the regenerative studies graduate coordinator, and teaches at the Lyle Center and the Department of Geography and Anthropology in the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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img | stories in pictures
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SCIENTIST RETREAT | For their final projects, third-year architecture students in lecturer John Bohn's ARC 3011L studio designed scientist's retreats — a private residence with a public viewing deck to host large groups — using existing foundations of buildings that once stood at the Vetter Mountain Lookout Point in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Ian Galang ('23) chose a flora theme from the list of guiding inspirations Bohn provided. He picked the yucca, a plant native to the site, explaining:
"The building draws from the blooms and was the driving force for the shape of the building when seen in plan and the shading devices were based from the long strap-like leaves. The way I had chosen to depict the project was a more stylized artistic take and it is my personal preference. I was introduced to this style back in second year when we were tasked with creating collages. I enjoy doing these very romantic and dreamy collage style renders as they're so different from the more commonly used hyper-realistic renders seen today."
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opportunities | your professional development
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METROPOLIS MAGAZINE: FUTURE 100 | Apply by December 7
Metropolis Magazine invites architecture students from the Class of 2021 for the chance to be listed in Future 100, North America's Top 100 architecture and design graduates.
Applications must be filed by December 7 at midnight (PST).
The Future 100 list will be shared with A&D recruiters. Selected students and their programs will be featured in the magazine's March/April 2021 issue.
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OUR CONFERENCE PRESENTATION AWARD | Apply by December 11
The Office of Undergraduate Research's (OUR) award covers the cost of conference registration fees for students whose research will be featured in a conference.
Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply. Due to current travel restrictions, the award will only be granted for virtual conferences where travel isn't required. Learn about the program here.
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alumni | designing the future
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OJB's latest accolade honors the practice's transformative design of public spaces nationwide in projects that revitalize local economies, connect disparate spaces, create communities on college campuses, and energize the urban environment.
One of the firm's notable projects is the Sunnylands Center and Gardens in Rancho Mirage, a nine-acre garden featuring more than 50 arid-landscape species designed to surprise visitors with the depth of color and sculptural vibrancy of desert planting.
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Lenny Lam ('18, graphic design) launched Dummy Dojo, an Orange County-based game design/development company that originated as concept during his student days.
After years in development, Lam's game, "Ninja Chowdown," is now available for download in the Apple Store and Google Play.
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Manuel Zermeno ('16, architecture) bested 395 entries from 22 countries to receive the HKS Award for Best Hand Delineation for his drawing, The Los Angeles Transcripts. He is a graduate student in Princeton University School of Architecture.
Conferred by the Texas chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition is an internationally recognized contest that for 46 years has honored the world's best hand and digital drawings. (Watch the jurors reactions to Zermeno's entry at 1:32.56 mark in the video above).
Zermeno's entry evolved from his senior project, "The Persistence of Forgetting" for Professor Axel Schmitzberger.
"I used a series of hand drawings and hand-built models to reinterpret a generic warehouse in Vernon, Los Angeles," Zermeno said. "Similarly, this method of reinterpreting forms and relating actions to the spaces they occur in highly influenced my entry.
"[The Los Angeles Transcripts] examines spatial conditions by translating geometries, movements, and events depicted throughout forty-five scenes of three films: Chinatown (1974), Blade Runner (1982), and Pulp Fiction (1994). While each film is distinctive in its own narrative and style, they are united by their portrayals of Los Angeles through various time periods: a promised city, a present one, and its alternative reality."
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ON THE GRID is produced by the College of Environmental Design (ENV) at Cal Poly Pomona.
Masthead design by Maribel Ruiz ('22, architecture).
Send your news, announcements and upcoming (virtual) events to env@cpp.edu.
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