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COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE & ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN WINTER 2016Learn byFaculty and StudentsTeaching

Contents WINTER 2016 2 19 FACULTY AND STUDENTS CAED FACULTY & STAFF NEWS LEARN BY TEACHING Faculty accolades from around the college Current and emeritus faculty reflect on learn by teaching 21 10 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS Recognizing supporters COLLEGE & DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS 24 A look back at some of CA L P O LY S CH O L A RS the year’s highlights STARTS IN THE CAED Alumni and friends pay it forward with 12 support for Cal Poly Scholars SO L A R CA L P O LY I N H O U S E Do we have your current Solar Cal Poly INhouse wins third contact information? overall in 2015 Solar Decathlon To make updates, please visit 14 alumni.calpoly.edu/info. Or for questions, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS please contact 805-756-5138. From national competitions to launching a new product, read about ON THE COVER student achievements Landscape Architecture Faculty David Watts and students Shannon O’Hehir 16 and Mwinyi El-Kindiy review plans for the courtyard restoration project. ALUMNI NEWS See page 6 for complete story. News and updates from your friends and classmates Stay connected with the CAED caed.calpoly.edu EDITORS Natalie Schaefer, Brenda Flood, Ray Ladd, Jo Ann Lloyd PHOTOGRAPHY Josef KasperovichSimpson Strong-Tie Materials DESIGN IE Design + Communications, Hermosa Beach, Calif.Demonstration Lab

Dean’sMessageLearn by TeachingOur faculty and students Learn by Doing every day throughhands-on, practical application of planning, designing andbuilding. From designing a new patio for the college and test-ing sustainable building materials for developing nations, toconstructing a water system in Ecuador, our family of dedicatedlearners transform themselves as they transform environments.The theme for this edition of Connections is “Learn by Teaching.” Dean Christine TheodoropoulosWe asked ourselves these questions: How does learningimpact teaching? How does teaching impact learning?The answers were everywhere. Faculty and students are active in practice and engaged “The path forwith industry through sabbatical projects and summer internships, learning new concepts learning is aand methods to share in the classroom. They built a solar-powered home to compete in two-way streetthe Solar Decathlon in October, teaching themselves and the public about sustainable — students learnmaterials and technologies. They are learning to teach the next generation in our popular from faculty,summer career workshop for high school students. At Cal Poly teaching is learning, as certainly, andfaculty experiment with new teaching methods and devise curricular innovations that they enrich ourmaintain our leading edge in higher education. Emeritus faculty, many still engaged faculty, as well.”with the college, paved the way as they learned and taught.Our faculty are professional learners — they track developments in practice to ensure thatgraduates understand the evolving contexts that affect built environments. They stretch stu-dents’ imaginations and creativity in ways that position them to challenge today’s paradigmsand innovate toward the future. The path for learning is a two-way street — students learnfrom faculty, certainly, and they enrich our faculty, as well. They bring new perspectives,new outlooks, and even new technologies that inform the curriculum that faculty impart.I continue to be impressed with the openness for learning that occurs in both directions.Turning our sights to the future, our talented faculty and ambitious students deserveopportunities to learn and teach in well-equipped facilities equal to our national rankings.We have identified aspirational goals for our learning places — the labs, shops andstudios that inspire action. I invite your input and support as we build opportunities forlearning in the College of Architecture & Environmental Design.Christine TheodoropoulosAIA, PE C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI G N | C A L POLY 1

Faculty and StudentsLearnby Teaching Cal Poly’s College of Architecture & Environmental Design is the only school in the nation where all five disciplines of the built environment — architectural engineering, architecture, city & regional planning, construction management, and landscape architecture — blend seamlessly to provide an unparalleled educational experience. Interdisciplinary, real-world projects are the norm, with Cal Poly’s signature Learn by Doing approach in full operation. In this issue of Connections, we celebrate the adage, “To teach is to learn.”2 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

Sustainable EnvironmentsNationally RecognizedFor 22 years, the college’s sustainable environments program An EDES 408 team designed and installed a new landscape, includinghas offered Cal Poly students from all majors an opportunity garden beds for the SLO Women’s Shelter.to shape their own education informed by the principlesand problems of sustainable environmental design with with a rich array of people, organizations and entitiesglobal, regional and local significance. The program provides at Cal Poly and in the local region, including most of thestudents with the knowledge and abilities needed to university’s five colleges, Cal Poly’s Facilities, Planning &integrate concerns for ecology, social equity and economics Capital Projects Department, San Luis Obispo city and countywithin the context of human and natural resource systems governments, local school districts, public agencies, nonprofitand the built environment. organizations, the chamber of commerce, local businesses, local offices of national businesses, and others.The award-winning sustainable environments minor is bothinterdisciplinary and comprehensive. Interdisciplinary student The sustainable environments program has led to a numberteams undertake projects on campus or in communities to of student projects, including the creation of Empower Polydevelop tools, processes and designs for community-based (a coalition of student-led campus clubs that share goalsprojects at various scales to address the social, environmentaland economic issues of sustainability. Projects range frompolicy and planning recommendations to design proposals,technical fixes, informational projects, organization formingand built works.The minor includes two core courses team-taught by aninterdisciplinary group of faculty from the College ofArchitecture & Environmental Design and electives offered bydepartments in almost every college. It involves collaborationLEARN BY TEACHING “Teaching forces me to dig into the subject matter to better grasp the meaning, principles of the subject, and to work out applications. This Margarida Yin forces me to search for the broader relationships between the subject Faculty matter and daily life, society and the world.” Architecture C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI G N | C A L POLY 3

“E ducation is crucial for humans’ sustainable Participating CAED future,” said Joseph Ragsdale. “The truth and faculty include - consequences of our actions may be disruptive of existing paradigms, difficult and uncomfortable Jonathan Reich to implement, but our options are even more Architecture limited the longer we take.” Joseph Ragsdale— Joseph Ragsdale, Faculty, Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecturerelated to sustainability), advocacy for green certifications of campus projects and Paul Wacka greener “WOW Week,” changes to university food service practices, proposed City & Regional Planningpolicies to improve waste management and water conservation, and analyzingand implementing actions with local school districts for “greening” local schools. Tom di Santo ArchitectureIn response to the question about what he learns as a teacher of sustainableenvironments, Jonathan Reich replied, “I’m fortunate to have been employed Adrienne Greveto formally study and teach sustainability since the mid-’80s and to learn City & Regional Planningfrom the many guest speakers and students — especially from colleaguesand collaborators. The lessons from 30-plus years of studying and teaching Beverly Basssustainability are clear — it is a very complex subject requiring broad empirically Landscape Architecturebased interdisciplinary knowledge. Our own challenge as educators has beento provide a comprehensible interdisciplinary introduction to this complex Chris Clarkset of conditions that will most influence our students’ lives and provide an City & Regional Planningopportunity for students to act on their knowledge, and thus help them shapetheir futures accordingly.” Margot McDonald ArchitectureMore than 1,400 students, including students from every college at Cal Poly,have graduated with the sustainable environments minor and many of them In 2015, Cal Poly’s sustainablehave become influential in the field of sustainability in their various disciplines. environments minor won statewide recognition andLEARN BY TEACHING a Best Practice Award for Sustainability in Academics at Ken Haggard the California Higher Education Emeritus Faculty Sustainability Conference Architecture, 1967-1986 (CHESC). Through the years, the sustainable environments “It’s been said that you don’t really learn anything program has been recognized until you have to teach it. We live in such a dynamic locally and nationally for best society that teaching requires learning, which requires practices. As a Senior Fulbright research to stay current and hopefully slightly ahead Scholar, Reich taught a version of the curve. I always considered learning, teaching of the sustainable environments and research an integrated synergetic whole.” core in Italy.4 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

Construction ManagementService LearningService learning projects allow students to learn by using their skills in By the Numbersconstruction management in a safe and friendly environment while providingcommunity service. Improving the lives of local residents in need throughConstruction Service Learning (CM 420) was developed by Brett Mullinax construction service-learning(Construction Management, 2008) and his faculty advisor, Phil Barlow, as a projectssenior project. It’s been taught each year since and has evolved to includestudents from other departments. The class now averages about 24 students $70,000+who construct approximately six projects a year. worth of constructionFor the class, each student team is assigned a local service learning project materialson a scale that is deemed manageable in one quarter, is beneficial to theunderprivileged, and that encapsulates most aspects of the construction 35+curriculum. General contractors, including DPR, Clark, SUNDT, Hanover,NIBBI, and Hensel Phelps, provide funds to buy construction materials and local servicetools needed to build the projects. learning projectsThe course simulates the real-life construction process. Students are exposed 150+to client meetings, project design, code review, contract documents, the permitprocess, risk analyses, safety plans, estimating, scheduling, procuring materials, Cal Poly studentsjob tracking, jobsite productivity, construction, and the close-out process —­ atrue Learn by Doing experience. 10,000+What makes the service experience different from simply volunteering is the volunteer hourslearning element, which includes reflection on best practices and lessonslearned. The students are responsible for the project’s ultimate success or 2008failure, and their active engagement helps bridge the gap between Cal Polystudents and our host communities. Cal Poly University President’s Community“I have learned that I must teach the basic technical skills for a student to be Service Award forsuccessful — but coaching and putting students in positions that help them Service Learninggrow as individuals result in even better teaching opportunities,” Barlow said.LEARN BY TEACHING “In every course I taught, it was the interaction with the students that was the most enjoyable. The teacher needs to understand the underlying Jim Rodger principles of the subject matter to better present the whole picture. Emeritus Faculty Learning the whole story — the detail — allows the instructor to teach Construction Management the ‘why’ as well as the ‘what.’ Practical project-based lessons provide the 1986-2002 best teaching opportunities.” C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI G N | C A L POLY 5

Courtyard Renovation Paul Neel, emeritus professor and dean and a 1958Involves the Entire architectural engineering alumnus, is spearheading effortsCAED Family to renew this important place. Through his outreach, the classes of ’63-’65 and ’79-’80 adopted the LegaciesOriginally constructed in 1979 by architecture students, the Courtyard as their class project and have assisted in raisingcourtyard behind the Neel Resource Center and the Berg $15,000 toward the project’s $50,000 budget.Gallery has served the college as an active workplace forthousands of student projects and a gathering place for Respecting the project completed in 1979, current CAEDcollege events, serving every department in the CAED. But students will work to achieve the goals for the courtyardtime has taken its toll, and the courtyard is in dire need of and our college campus by providing a quality place for activerenewal to better serve our needs in the future. It is a very learning and passive refuge for students and faculty alike.special place for the college and an important priority forrenovation. It provides a perfect opportunity to Learn by “T his unique opportunity to engageDoing and learn by teaching. in teaching a design/build course epitomizes the Cal Poly motto of LearnLast spring, Joe Dunstan’s landscape architecture students by Doing and will enrich each of thepresented designs for consideration. The jury of faculty student’s experiences and advanceand administration identified several design features for their future work as professionals.”further development. This year, David Watts, landscapearchitecture faculty, will lead landscape architecture and — David Watts, Faculty, Landscape Architectureconstruction management students as they work togetherto finalize the design and build the project. We are accepting donations to complete this project. Please contact Natalie Schaefer, assistant dean for external relations, at 805-756-5138 or [email protected] BY TEACHING “With each project students had the opportunity to present their work both on and off campus to professionals with a vested interest. This sharing Gere Smith and feedback of knowledge with the greater community was always an Emeritus Faculty important part of learning for students and faculty.” Landscape Architecture 1980-20016 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

Building SandcastlesTeaches Others to LearnThe Sandcastle Competition gives elementary students I often explained one concept five different ways to accounta chance to construct a sand sculpture as architectural for their different learning styles. This made a huge impactengineering students and professionals from local engineering, on the way I thought about my future career … realizingdesign and construction firms learn by teaching. that if I am working with someone from a different field and they aren’t understanding what I am trying to explain, I mayArchitectural engineering students, working with need to rephrase that information so that they will be able toupper-level students enrolled in the teacher credential understand it better.”program, developed a curriculum to teach basic engineeringand design concepts, then taught it to children in five local Pamalee Brady, architectural engineering faculty member,fifth-grade classrooms. is the activity advisor.The first two lessons introduced plans and elevations, “T here aren’t enough professionals tothen students in small groups explored these definitions enter every classroom and introducethrough an activity in which they designed and built a students to the excitement ofstructure out of Linker Cubes. These buildings were placed engineering. This project enablesin a skyline. The students were then assigned a section of future teachers to make the messageskyline and instructed to draw the elevation on grid paper. their own and relate the math they areFinally, the students lined up their drawn elevations to teaching to engineering design.” see if they correctly represented the skyline arranged bytheir buildings. — Pamalee Brady, Faculty, Architectural EngineeringThe last two lessons focused on the design process andhow planners, architects, engineers and contractors worktogether to complete a project. They use these conceptsto design a sand sculpture, which is eventually built at thebeach in a competition with other schools. Judges hand outawards to each classroom based on teamwork, creativity andbest representation of the theme.Architectural engineering student Sydney Patrick was thisyear’s event organizer. “This experience taught me a lotabout communication because I had to think about thestudents’ vocabulary and what they were able to understand.LEARN BY TEACHING “F or me teaching and learning are so intertwined that it is a continual cyclical process. I am always learning how to be a better teacher, and Jill Nelson I am always improving my teaching because I can’t stop learning.” Faculty Architectural Engineering C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI G N | C A L POLY 7

Strategic Affordable HousingStudents of city and regional planning, architecture, construction management, business LEARN BY TEACHINGand biology took CRP 442: Housing and Planning taught by Hemalata Dandekar, City& Regional Planning Department head. They spent many hours listening to developers,city planners, economists, architects, builders, state-level strategists, and policymakersexplain how they think about, and act, to help build housing for low- and moderate-income families in California.Students were challenged to seek out and analyze built projects that have successfully Paul Wackinnovated in the areas of design, planning and finance to create affordable housing Emeritus Facultywithout any state or federal government subsidy. They were successful in finding excellent City & Regional Planning 1979-2014projects, all built within the last decade, that demonstrate how the private sector is able tobuild housing for this population, whose income precludes them from access to subsidized “I view teaching and learninghousing that goes largely to families with very low incomes. as a two-way street. I’ve learned just as much from classThe student-identified projects embody a complex and interactive array of innovations members as they have fromusing a range of design strategies, including smaller-by-design, flexible design and me. Learning from my 45 yearsadaptive reuse. These were often coupled with innovations in planning regulation with of professional practice informsrespect to parking, density, heights, setbacks and financing structures that allowed a the content of my teaching.developer to cover pre-construction costs and move forward to obtain construction loans Learning from my cumulativeon entitled projects. classroom experiences guides how course content isDandekar is developing a report to the California Housing and Community Development organized and presented.”Department, the agency charged with writing the California Statewide Housing Strategy/Plan 2015-25. Her report builds on and amplifies the student work to outline policy andstrategies that can strengthen the role of private sector housing developers in designingand building homes for working families with low and moderate incomes. The viability ofCalifornia’s industry greatly depends on these workers, and the ability to produce housingfor them — proximate to their work — is key to the economic vitality of the state. “My research effort is to identify the ways in which partnerships have engendered success in creating housing for low- and moderate-income people in California without deep state and federal subsidies. The students learned how to find cutting-edge professional activity and to analyze it to see how government, developers, designers and nonprofits contributed to the success. They learned to approach housing from an interdisciplinary perspective.” — Hemalata Dandekar, Faculty, City & Regional Planning8 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

Campus as aLiving LaboratoryWith the growing number of LEED-certified buildings oncampus, faculty and students have ready access to casestudy fieldwork. Using the campus as a living laboratory,students investigate building performance while gatheringuseful information for LEED documentation and post-occupancy assessments.Over the past two years, architecture students in a second-year environmental controls systems class studied the BakerCenter for Science and Mathematics, which was designedby ZGF Architects LLP and opened in fall 2013.Thanks to a systemwide sustainability grant from the The curriculum design project was presented at a NationalCalifornia State University Chancellor’s Office, students Science Foundation (NSF) convocation on undergraduateand faculty explored shading design and daylighting research held at the National Academy of Sciences and in anperformance in several different space types for this Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture/Americanbuilding, including offices and classrooms. Institute of Architects Professional Practice Intersections Workshop in May 2015. Participants included faculty members“We feel incredibly honored to have received this grant Margot McDonald, Clare Olsen, Stacey White and Jeffin an inaugural year for the CSU Campus as a Living Lab Landreth, with architecture students Lisa Hayden and Katieprogram,” said Architecture Department Head Margot Worden, in collaboration with alumnus Ted Hyman (ARCH,McDonald, who is the lead on the project. “To invite 1979) and the Los Angeles office of ZGF Architects LLP.students to bring their natural curiosity and ingenuityto real-world studies through a funded opportunity forcourse design focused in their own backyard was brilliant.It created synergies between facilities, faculty and fellowstudents that had not existed previously.Through this program, students are engaged in courseworkthat provides tangible, hands-on measurement andevaluative activities related to sustainability, informingtheir design education.LEARN BY TEACHING “G eorge Hasslein taught me to always try to find a way to give back. Teaching fundamental skills is great, but being able to teach students the Elbert Speidel current technology to get a leap ahead really excites me. I’m learning Faculty more now with these new tools than I ever have in my life.” Construction Management C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI G N | C A L POLY 9

College & DepartmentHighlightsLearn by Making and EngagingCOLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE& ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Student Concrete Designing Phenomena-Places.Projects.People Reinforcement based Learning Research Published Environments |We are nationally recognized for Fostering Connectionsoutstanding programs that prepare Students Daniel Berger and Caleb with the Natural Worldprofessionals to dream, design and Dunne were recently recognized anddo. “Places.Projects.People” is an published by the American Society Students in Kelle Brooks’ classinitiative that forms the foundation of Testing and Materials for their visited two local elementary schoolsof the college’s efforts to advance study of the use of bamboo for observing children using outdoorthis legacy. out-of-plane reinforcement in learning environments. concrete masonry unit walls. TheyThe $50 million campaign will help also recently presented their work at Elementary school student “clients”build inspirational places, support the Structural Engineers Association visited Cal Poly, getting a chance toinnovative projects, and develop of California convention. see what studying design at collegephenomenal people who will be is like. They were exposed to designthe industry leaders and design As a result of their experiments, Berger principles and learned how theprofessionals of the future. and Dunne concluded that bamboo- design of an environment can affect reinforced concrete walls performed the way they learn. They were also“Students and faculty deserve facilities significantly better than unreinforced introduced to the “critique” methodand support equal to our national masonry walls and that the failure in design, offering their own to therankings,” said Dean Christine method of bamboo was similar to steel, architecture students.Theodoropoulos. “We must ensure warranting further testing of bambootomorrow’s College of Architecture & as a viable reinforcement material. The architecture students learnedEnvironmental Design provides access Bamboo reinforcing can be significantly firsthand how children interact withto current equipment and technology, less costly than steel, and the work learning environments. They enjoyedopportunities for more interdisciplinary demonstrated that it might prove to be getting feedback on their designprojects, and engagement with especially appropriate in developing na- projects from young users of the builtindustry for students, staff and faculty.” tions in tropical, seismically active areas. environment and gained experience presenting their projects to a dynamicA volunteer committee of faculty, ad- Jim Guthrie and James Mwangi served and curious group. They observed thatministration and industry professionals as the faculty advisors, and many other it was much different than a typicaldeveloped a program for renovation. students helped grout the walls. review because the children were soArchitectural firms Mode, Cumming specific with their observations andand LPA provided cost estimates and “Daniel and Caleb’s work was excellent insistent that the projects “get builtrenderings for our future places. and their approach has the potential as soon as possible!” to lead to significant advances in seismic safety in developing nations,” Guthrie said.1 0 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

CITY & REGIONAL PLANNING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTUREUrban Design Vision Professors and The President’sfor San Clemente Students Assist Garden In EcuadorSan Clemente’s Planning Department At the invitation of Cal Poly Presidentengaged Vicente del Rio’s graduate Solar-powered energy has made it Jeffrey D. Armstrong and his wife,studio to work on an urban design all the way to the Amazon jungle, Sharon Armstrong, landscape architec-vision to revitalize the South El Camino thanks in part to faculty Thomas ture students designed four low-water,Real corridor. Korman and Lonny Simonian. high-performance alternatives for a new project planned for constructionThe project’s goal was to make the Joining students Adam Poffenbarger at the University House during thecorridor more reflective of community and Wesley McGuire, the four traveled winter 2015 quarter. Student proposalsneeds, more appealing and safer to to Ecuador to help deliver clean spring reduced water used for irrigationpedestrians and bicyclists, and better water to about 200 indigenous people by up to 60 percent while creatingconnected to its vicinities and the rest in the Amazon Basin — a project, biologically rich gardens.of San Clemente. Students assessed noted Korman, that would “benefitopportunities and constraints through so many who have so little.” Students, led by faculty memberfield studies and interviews, an online Ellen Burke, were challenged tosurvey with almost 150 respondents, They went there to help install a create an aesthetically pleasing andan active project website, and a system to pump water from a spring drought-tolerant alternative to thecommunity meeting. to a village about 5,000 meters away. current lawn. President and Mrs. By the time the students arrived, Armstrong were involved throughoutThe students proposed an ambitious some trenches had been dug, and the process, including attending thestreetscape transformation, includ- construction at the spring had started. mid-term review to offer feedbacking traffic-calming solutions, Class The students experienced a whole on proposals. Students also worked1 bike lanes, and public art; intense new level of Learn by Doing. They closely with the university’s Facilitiesinfill development, particularly vertical carried machetes and cleared under- Management office.mixed-use; three anchor developments brush. They worked in a large,to serve as gateways and a community open-walled structure, assembling Supported by a grant from thecore; and new connections, including small components, prefabricating Landscape Architecture Foundation,the redesign of the existing pedestrian pipes, valves and fittings. students expanded their investigationsbridge over Interstate 5. at the University House to include “It was great to be part of a team increased sustainability in the landscapeThe students presented the final helping a community of people install including improved storm-waterproject in public meetings for the a system that will dramatically improve management, creation of habitat forSan Clemente City Council and their lives,” Simonian said. birds and insects, carbon sequestra-Planning Commission. tion, food production, and sustainable maintenance regimes. C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI GN | C A L POLY 1 1

INhouseSolar Cal Poly’sThe Solar Decathlon is a competition sponsored by the U.S. Departmentof Energy, which challenges collegiate teams from across the nation todesign, engineer and construct a net zero home. An interdisciplinaryteam of more than 100 Cal Poly students and faculty across 12majors and five colleges participated, with the CAED taking thelead on organizing and fundraising for the award-winning project.Teams apply to participate. From an interactive and integrated design. home was built to take full advantageinitial field of 20 universities selected, INhouse explored the link between of the Central Coast climate, withthe final competition involved 14 cam- systems and residents, with the goal indoor and outdoor living spacespuses from across the state and na- of making operation and management melding seamlessly to create antion. Each team competed in a series of the home simple, energy affordable, attractive and comfortable home.of ten different contests, ranging from and waste minimal. Additionally, thearchitectural design and lighting, tousing their appliances to cook a meal, “T he team created and realized a project that we areand charging an electric car which was all incredibly proud of — a very beautiful, well-crafteddriven daily during the competition. net zero home.”This year’s home was dubbed — Sandy Stannard, Faculty, Architecture“INhouse,” due to its intuitive,1 2 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

Alyssa Parr and Lisa-Marie Mueller Faculty Involvement were co-project managers for the project. Pictured below. This project has been a passion for many. The CAED thanks these dedicated faculty for their time and energy seeing the project through to completion. Sandy Stannard Lead, Architecture Richard Beller Co-Lead, Architecture Competition Results: Kim Shollenberger Co-Lead, Mechanical Engineering 3rd Place Overall 2nd Place Home Life John Clements 2nd Place Market Appeal Computer Science 3rd Place Architecture 4th Place Engineering Dale Dolan Electrical Engineering Kevin Dong Architectural Engineering“T hrough the Solar Decathlon, I had the unique learning Lynn Metcalf opportunity to realize a project from start to finish while Marketing working with and being inspired by so many students, faculty, administration and supporters. I am so incredibly Jeff Ponitz proud of what our team accomplished!” Architecture — Lisa-Marie Mueller, co-project manager Elbert Speidel Construction Management Howard Vogl Graphic CommunicationNet-zero features of the Cal Poly last competed in 2005, taking David Wattshome include: 3rd place overall. Since that competition Landscape Architecture was held in Washington, D.C., theLandscape irrigation – The roof home was designed to travel across Thank You toredirects storm water to planter boxes country, which limited its size. This Our Sponsorsthat naturally filter the water through year, with a home field advantagethe landscape and soil. (the competition took place in Irvine, PREMIER Calif.), the home was 1,000 squareConstructed wetlands system – feet – the maximum square footage Harold HayThe system cleans and recycles all allowed – with an additional 700gray-water and directs it to be used square feet of outdoor living area. S U S TA I N I N Gfor landscape irrigation. Future Plans Department of EnergyBifacial solar panels – Making up halfof the photovoltaic array, these panels The INhouse will make its final home RENEWABLEhave photovoltaic cells on both the on Cal Poly’s campus, providing yearstop and the bottom of the panels, col- of post-occupancy studies to measure Resource Furniturelecting energy from the sun’s radiation building performance. The residents Anonymous Alumnusdirectly, then again indirectly as the of INhouse will face the challenge ofradiation bounces back from the deck. learning how to achieve net zero, with SUPPORTING the house itself being the vehicle ofPhase-change material duct – A their education. BHE Renewablesduct which uses a natural oil product Simpson Strong-Tiethat changes phase with temperature. Taco Bell Corp.Energy (in the form of heat) is NanaWallabsorbed or released as needed. Big Creek Lumber Co. Humboldt Redwood Co. C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI GN | C A L POLY 1 3

Student 4 Achievements 312 Photo courtesy of Michelle Zucker1 Nicole 2 Architecture 3 City & Regional 4 ConstructionO’Hearne Students Planning Student ManagementReceives Recognized with Receives National Students Win TopOutstanding Design Awards Scholarship Honors at ASCWoman inEngineering Emily Saunders, and Penn Graduate student Daniel Students earned top honorsAward State alumna Michelle Audelo received one of at the Associated Schools Zucker, won the AECOM two national scholarships of Construction competitionNicole O’Hearne (ARCE (Architecture, Engineering, awarded by the Latinos in Reno, Nev. Seven out of2015) was recognized as a Consulting, Operations and and Planning Division 12 Cal Poly teams placed in2015 Outstanding Woman Maintenance) 2014 Urban of the American Planning the top three spots in theirin Engineering by the So- SOS open ideas competi- Association. The 2015 respective categories.ciety of Women Engineers. tion. Their project, “Restart scholarship fosters Students placed first inShe and four others were Tirupur in India,” proposed increased interest in the Mechanical categorychosen based on faculty to re-open abandoned the study of urban (shown above); second inrecommendations, textile factories as water- planning within the Latino Mixed Use, Design Build,demonstrated leadership, filter systems and startup student population at the and Marine Construction;related work experience, community factories. advanced undergraduate and third in Heavy Civil,and academic performance. Zach Williams, received and graduate levels. Concrete, and RiskAt Cal Poly, O’Hearne the Design Excellence Audelo assisted with a Management. Of the 43served as president of Award in May at the comprehensive planning universities competing,the Structural Engineers Danish Institute for Study studio in Sanger, Calif., Cal Poly was awarded theAssociation of California Abroad. He distinguished and is pursuing a dual most trophies overall.student chapter and was himself through diligence, master’s degree in cityin the Honors Program. commitment and academic and regional planning andShe is pursuing graduate performance, and by con- transportation engineeringstudies in Italy. tributing to a collaborative at Cal Poly. learning environment.1 4 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

6 6a5 Intercollegiate 7 Team Captures Second at NAHBPhoto Jennifer Olson; 6 Students CAED students achieved Illustration Nicole Moliné Sweep Top second place among 54 Awards in teams in the four-year5 Landscape Steel Design college category at the 7 Team ProjectArchitecture 2015 National Association Garners SecondStudents Create Architecture students won of Home Builders Place in B of ANew Insights the 2014-15 Association Residential Construction Challenge of Collegiate Schools of Management CompetitionAlex Henige (LA 2015) Architecture/American Insti- in Las Vegas last January. Cal Poly’s Green Teamreceived national media tute of Steel Construction Team members included partnered with People’sattention for developing a (ACSA/AISC) Steel Design students Josh Gleason Self-Help Housing tocoffee cup embedded with Student Competition. and Eric Sanchez, both develop plans that earnedCalifornia wildflower seeds. Natacha Schnider, and construction management; them a second-place finishHis Reduce. Reuse. Grow. Stephen “Chip” Hubert, Derik DeLonzor, architec- in the Bank of Americacup allows consumers to soak won first place in Category ture; Darya Oreizi, city and Merrill Lynch Low-Incomethe cup in water after using, I – Library, with their entry, regional planning; and Housing Challenge in May.then plant it and watch it “Rebound,” which embod- business administration Their project, Vestri Vitagrow. Henige is minored ies the dynamics of new students Chris Bet and — “your life” in Latin —in industrial technology and old forms of media. Anna Costa. Nick Gibson, is a 30-unit affordableand packaging. Caroline Angell, garnered construction management, housing complex for at-riskPlanning Committee director first place in Category II – and Scott Heath, business and homeless veterans inKate Cannon, worked with Open, with her selected site administration, assisted with Atascadero, Calif. Thedepartment students to host and building program for preparing the proposal, team created an ADA-LABash, the national student the Murshidibad Women’s which included market compliant design, includinglandscape architecture Resource Center. research and sales strategy, a counseling center, first aidconference held at different Each entry earned $2,500. product and site design, resources, and a “makeruniversities throughout Their faculty advisors were green building initiatives, space” geared to helpthe U.S. and Canada every Margarida Yin, and James land development, veterans reintegrate intoyear. Professionals, alumni Guthrie. Overall the jury estimates, schedules the community.and current students from selected six prizewinners and a financial analysis. The faculty advisers were Kentrelated fields gathered and 10 honorable mentions In the competition, stu- Macdonald, architecture, andto celebrate landscape out of more than 500 dents apply skills learned Pratish Patel, finance.architecture, learn new entries. The projects will in the classroom to a realskills, network, and gain new be displayed next year construction managementinsights into the discipline. at the 104th ACSA Annual problem and present a land Meeting in Seattle and acquisition proposal to a at the AIA National panel of industry experts. Convention in Philadelphia. Scott Kelting, construction management, served as faculty advisor along with business faculty, Pratish Patel. C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI GN | C A L POLY 1 5

Alumni News (Psychology 1995), and family and architect for Los Angeles. For the past serves as a planning commissioner. two years, he’s served on the board of directors for a water reclamation plant Douglas Ghiselin (ARCE 1964) is and was elected chairman. enjoying retirement in Sonoma, Calif., tending to small vineyards.Mario Aiello (ARCH 1978) was Enrique Guzman (LA 2014) received Doug Ide (CM 1980) has been withpleasantly surprised to receive a call an Award of Honor from the Southern Parsons Corp. 18 years, most recentlyfrom CAED staff inquiring about California Chapter of the American as senior project manager/mechanicalartwork from his college days. He Society for Landscape Architects for his estimator in Sumner, Wash., focusingreturned to the CAED’s main lobby entry in the 2014 Quality of Life Design on water and wastewater treatmentwith his wife, Cynthia, to be reunited Competition. Jeff Ferber (LA 1985), Brian facilities. He and his wife, Nancy, havewith his vintage handiwork. Hannegan (LA 1990) and Mike Sherrod three children and two grandchildren. (LA 1994) received Awards of Merit.Joseph Baltar (ARCE 1979) has served David Keeton (ARCE 1981) is presidentas a staff engineer for the U.S. Army Michael Heater (CRP 2013), above, of a new east coast company, AeroEdgeand U.S. Navy in Europe for more than and his wife, GraceAnne, are in the USA, that manufactures a patented roof20 years. Peace Corps primarily teaching English edge designed to reduce wind uplift in the village of Murunda, Rwanda, in and hurricane damage.Nicholas Bleich (CRP/MSE 2015) and central Africa.Elissa McDade (CRP/MSE 2014) were Megan Kosaka Caldera (ARCH 2007)selected as Presidential Management He is working on a vision plan for and Ryan Caldera (ARCH 2007), shownFellows, accepting positions with the the school where they teach and is here at their wedding, co-foundedU.S. Department of Energy and the Fed- renovating the sports field. Caldera Kosaka Design Studio in Loseral Transit Administration, respectively. Angeles, focusing on cultural, residential Kenneth Alcazar and Sang Yoon and commercial projects.Kevin Bussett (ARCH 2009) became Soon, both ARCE students, along witha licensed architect in California with Carly Althoff (ARCH 2015) and Ethan Michael Krakower (ARCE 1975)Di Donato Associates in San Diego. Peper (CM 2015) prepared a theses to and team at Krakower & Associates design and construct a community Structural Engineers received anAnn (Wessel) Desautels (ARCE 1981) center in the Philippines. Maddie historic preservation design awardand Bob Desautels (ARCE 1981) Pfeffer (ARCH 2013) of BAR Architects from the Los Angeles Conservancylaunched PrimIDEA Building Solutions accompanied Althoff to the site. for the rehabilitation project of theInc., an engineering consulting firm in Peper is remodeling an existingWalnut Creek, Calif. structure in Tacoloban in association with Journeyman International.Nick Dzubnar (CM 2015) fulfilled hisdream of becoming a linebacker with William (Bill) Holland (ARCE 1969)the San Diego Chargers, making it on relocated to Georgia after retiring as citythe NFL team’s 53-man roster. As a Mus-tang, he broke Cal Poly’s school recordfor most tackles in a single season.Eric Flodine (LA 1996) is director ofcommunity development for StrataEquity Group in San Diego. He lives inSan Marcos with his wife, Lu Flodine1 6 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

Ken Scofield (ARCE 1974) is a sole practitioner and occasionally works on projects with his old dorm mate, Michael Krakower. They recently worked on a seismic facade upgrade near downtown Los Angeles. Barry Shaw (ARCH 1980) of Barry Shaw & Associates Inc. in Los Angeles is mentoring the next generation of architects through local career day programs and summer internships.The architecture classes of 1979 and ’80 returned in late May for their 35-year Thomas Simonson (MCRP 1997) isreunion. Getting ready to tee off from left are Chris Stephens, Kelly Givens, a principal regulatory analyst for theCal Poly President Jeffrey D. Armstrong, Wally Gordon, Tony Lawson and nonprofit Local Government NewGreg Coghill. Zealand in Wellington.102-year-old Pacific Electric Railway-El events, managing farm-to-school social Jessica Steely (CM 2004) was hired byPrado Railroad Bridge in Torrance, Calif. media platforms, and conducting gar- Semmes & Co. Builders Inc. after gradua- den and nutrition education lessons. tion and is now part owner and generalAnna Lang (ARCE 2001) earned her manager along with founder Turkodoctorate in structural engineering from Sam Nunes (ARCH 1986) and John Semmes (CM 1978). The firm buildsUC San Diego and is currently studying Ruffo (ARCH 1976), two of the founding custom homes in San Luis Obispo County.remote sensing technologies with partners at WRNS Studio, are celebrat-predictive catastrophe models at the ing the firm’s 10-year anniversary. Alfred “Weird Al” Yankovic (ARCHRochester Institute of Technology. 1980) received his fourth GrammyShe and husband, Tyler Ofstad, are Maggie Redfern (ARCH 1996) is Award for Best Comedy Album of 2015,expecting their second child. assistant director of the Connecticut for “Mandatory Fun.” Yankovic also College Arboretum in New London, received a lifetime achievement awardDominic Leong (ARCH 2001) a partner Conn. Her husband, Jon Goodhue from the CollegeHumor Comedy Musicat Leong Leong, announced the firm (ARCH 1997), is a sole practitioner in Hall of Fame.was selected by the Los Angeles LGBT Boston specializing in the zoning andCenter to design the master plan and permitting process. The ARCE and ARCH classes of 1963,architecture for the center’s new, mixed- ’64 and ’65 joined together touse site in Hollywood, Calif., in collabo- Arnoldo Rodriguez (CRP 2004) is celebrate their 50-year reunionsration with Killefer Flammang Architects. Yuba City’s new development services in early May. Alumni toured Poly director, overseeing inspections and Canyon, met with former Dean PaulMonica Lubag (CM 2010) and her federal Community Development Neel to view the Legacies Courtyardhusband, Chaz Thomas, welcomed Block Grant funds. project, and enjoyed dining withtheir baby girl, Harper Lucia Thomas, in faculty over the weekend.August. Lubag is a development and CAED alumni Jessica Moon (2013),construction project manager with Pris- Matthew Moran (2010), Sigita Mo-tine Sun in San Francisco. The company ran (2010), Domini Padua (2011),specializes in utility-scale solar projects. Ashley Richardson (2004), and Cory Walker (2012) were part of theAshley Marquez (LA 2014) finished her winning team at Ehrlich ArchitectsFoodCorps service membership with that received the 2015 AIA Nationalthe San Diego Unified School District. Architecture Firm award.Her work included community outreach C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI GN | C A L POLY 1 7

Alumni News (L to R): President Jeffrey D. Armstrong, Scott Gaudineer and Dean Christine Theodoropoulos AIA and ASLA Professional Fellowships AwardedScott Gaudineer, 2015 The college is proud toCAED Honored Alumnus recognize the induction this year of five alumni:Scott F. Gaudineer, AIA, is the college’s something special that will make2015 Honored Alumnus. a difference in someone’s life.” P amela Anderson-Gaudineer has served the college in various Gaudineer is passionate about supporting Brulé, FAIAcapacities for many years. A 1979 graduate the profession he loves, whether through (ARCH 1981)of the architecture program, he was a the role of architect advocate or mentoring Founder/president,founding member of the Daedalus chapter and supporting students, emerging Anderson Bruléof Alpha Rho Chi (the national architecture professionals and citizen architects. Architects Inc.,fraternity), participated in the student San Jose, Calif.senate, and co-chaired the CAED Student “I derive true joy seeingCouncil. He was a member of the National our students blossom and David Diamond,Honor Society and was a Julia Morgan- grow as they matriculate FAIA (ARCH 1989)Phoebe Hearst scholarship recipient. through college and enter Associate director/ their careers,” technical designer,Gaudineer knew he wanted to be an Skidmore, Owingsarchitect by the time he was 11 years — Scott Gaudineer & Merrill (SOM),old. As president/CEO of Flewelling & San Francisco, Calif.Moody, he has overseen the facilitation He is an active member of his local AIAof numerous K-12 and higher education and the Trustee Division of the State Nathan Good,buildings throughout the state. “I Architect Advisory Board. He received FAIA (ARCH 1978)consider myself so lucky to have been the Presidential Citation from the AIA Principal/owner,offered the opportunity to attend and California Council in 2013. Gaudineer Nathan Good Archi-graduate from Cal Poly and pursue my chaired the college’s Dean’s Leadership tects, Salem, Ore.passion of creating great school facilities Council from 2011-15, and he and his wife,for the next generation. My best days are Leslie Gaudineer (Social Sciences, 1980), Diane McLean,when I get to create, design and build are longtime supporters of the college. FAIA (ARCH 1980) Program architect, New Construction Services, Southern California Edison, Santa Ana, Calif. René Bihan, FASLA (LA 1988), managing principal at SWA Group, San Francisco, Calif. In addition, Bihan was inducted into the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows.1 8 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

CAED Faculty& Staff NewsPhilip Barlow completed The conference focused on proposal “Proto-Ecological Internship Program withhis doctorate at the Uni- greenhouse gas emissions Planning by the Olmsted 12 students this summer.versity of Florida and was reduction and climate Brothers in 1920’s Los Angeles:awarded the AGC Faculty adaptation at the local and Using Georeferencing as a Barry Jones (CM) returnedInternship award. One of regional level. Mapping Tool to Understand from Indonesia, where heBarlow’s studies on the Spatial Reasoning and was teaching Infrastructureslow rate of leveraging Ellen Burke (LA) received Ecological Function.” Project Management totechnology by contractors a $150,000 national grant civil engineering studentswas recently cited on from Art Place America at various universities asConstructionDIVE.com. for her project SLO Map. part of a Senior FulbrightHe is serving as CM’s The grant involves CAED Scholar award.interim department head students in research, GISduring fall quarter while mapping of local food Omar Faruque (LA) is Two studies by WilliamAllan Hauck is on sabbatical. systems, and planning the new chair of the LA Riggs (CRP) received community participation. Department. He received online exposure: “Technol-UN-Habitat invited Michael his degrees in landscape ogy Use by City PlanningBoswell (CRP) to provide The Association of architecture and architecture Departments” reveals howtwo presentations in Oslo, Collegiate Schools of from Texas A&M University emerging technologies areNorway, at a meeting on Planning presented and began teaching at changing urban planning.Guidelines for City Climate Emeritus Department Cal Poly in 1989. “Walking is Good for You,”Action Plans, in conjunc- Head Linda Dalton (CRP) an article that appearedtion with the 2015 Cities & with the Margarita McCoy in CityLab, examines theClimate Change Initiative Advancement of Women importance of walkableAdvisory Committee meet- in Planning Award 2014. neighborhoods.ing. Boswell co-authoredthe leading text on Local Department Head Hemalata Donald Grant (ARCH),Climate Action Planning Dandekar (CRP) announced emeritus faculty member,with Adrienne Greve the formation of the City completed another issue(CRP) and Tammy Seale of & Regional Planning of the Design Methods,Michael Baker International. Advisory Council, CirPAC. a quarterly journal with The committee recently a focus on the graphic hosted an alumni event in analysis of building value. association with the Ameri- can Planning Association conference in Oakland.Boswell and Greve also Vicente del Rio (CRP) was a CM Department Head Sandy Stannard (ARCH)organized the 2015 Climate team member in a runner-up Allan Hauck is the chair of was one of three facultyAction Planning Conference entry for the Olympic Park the board of trustees for selected for the Distinguishedat Cal Poly in partnership Master Plan of the 2016 the American Council for Teaching Award for thewith the Governor’s Office Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Construction Education, the 2014-15 academic year.of Planning and Research. national accreditation body Christine Edstrom O’Hara for construction manage- Brian Osborn (ARCH) and (LA) was awarded the ment programs in higher Carmen Trudell (ARCH) 2015 Charles E. Beveridge education. He successfully announced the June arrival Research Fellowship for her launched the Carpenters of their son, Edro Osborn. C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI GN | C A L POLY 1 9

CAED Faculty & Staff NewsArchitecture Department The CAEDHead Margot McDonald welcomes:led the formation of thenew Cal Poly Architecture Kate Auslen, personnel Sustainability ChampionAdvisory Council (CPAAC). analyst, Dean’s Office; Margot McDonaldThe council’s inaugural Casey Benito, equipmentmeeting was this summer. technician, Support Shop; Architecture Department Head Margot McDonald received Ellen Burke, faculty, land- the Sustainability Champion Award at the California HigherBarry Williams (ARCH) scape architecture; Miran Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC). The award iswas appointed by Gov. Day, faculty, landscape the highest level and the only individual award given at theBrown to the California architecture; Mariam Emyan, conference. She was selected for her work on the sustainableArchitects Board. He has associate dean for finance environments minor; for planning the 2008 UC/CSU/CCCbeen a lecturer for the and data, Dean’s Office; Sustainability Conference; for serving as a member ofARCH Department for Brenda Flood, administrative the Chancellor’s Office Committee on Sustainability inmore than 35 years and analyst/specialist, External Education and Research and the President’s Advisoryis the president of the Relations; Amir Hajrasouliha, Committee at Cal Poly; and as a longstanding memberCAED Foundation Board. faculty, City & Regional of the Sustainability Conference Steering Committee. Planning; David Kempken,Donald Woolard (ARCH) instructional shops manager, With gratitude, we bid For more information,(retired) has moved “Down Support Shop; Brigette farewell to these former go to caed.calpoly.edu,Under” to Paradise Point, Olmos-Arreola, program faculty and staff members and click on RecentQueensland, Australia. specialist, Construction as they transition to News or the department Management; Brian Osborn, off-campus positions: links in the right-handCongratulations faculty, Architecture; Jennifer Jessica Frazier, (CM) column.and thank you Shields, faculty, Architecture; Cameron Man, (LA)to these retirees Adriana Sousa, administra- Fred Potthast, (ARCH)for their years tive support coordinator,of service. Architectural Engineering; Carmen Trudell, faculty,A few will continue to teach Architecture; Kristinain the Faculty Early Retire- Van Wert, administrativement Program*: Abe Lynn, support assistant, Architecture;faculty (ARCH); Donna Susan Waterman, adminis-Parker, administrative trative support coordinator,analyst, Dean’s Office; Architecture; Emily White,Bill Siembieda*, former faculty, Architecture; Melannidepartment head, (CRP); Wiedrich, administrativePaul Wack*, faculty (CRP); support coordinator, CityBarry Williams, faculty & Regional Planning; Julie(ARCH); and Christopher Zafiratos, administrativeYip*, faculty (ARCH). support coordinator, Construction Management; and Garret Zook, gallery specialist, Dean’s Office.2 0 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

Honor Rollof DonorsThe College of Architecture Alumni, Parents $1,000 TO $4,999& Environmental Design & Friendsthanks all of our alumni, Alfonso A. Abalos & Janette P. Dyeparents and friends for $50,000 TO $100,000 Dennis B. Ahearn (ARCH)their support. This honor roll Blythe & Thom Alison-Maynerecognizes gifts of $1,000 Gregory L. Errett (CRP) C. Kendall (ARCE) & Laurel Allenor greater received during Robin L. (ARCH) & Laurie K. Rossi (ENGL) Anonymous Donorthe 2014-15 fiscal year. Roger C. (ARCE) & Susana Antablin $25,000 TO $49,999 Ricardo M. Arevalo (ARCE) Carlos D. Azalde (ARCH) Anonymous Donor David C. & Michelle S. Baeza Allen R. & Nancy G. Minton Margaret Barrett-Blach & Michael J. Blach $10,000 TO $24,999 Leonard P. Beuth (ARCE) David M. & Heidi D. Bezaire Florian G. (ARCH) & Lori L. Barth Brian R. (ARCH) & Lori Bloom Jack A. Berridge (ARCH) Stephen E. & Janice H. Boggs Deborah & P. G. Cosko Timothy C. (CM) & Allyson W. Bolton Rafael Franco (ARCH) Kenneth D. (ARCE) & Kristen Bondy Richard Franco (ARCH) Gordon A. Bradley (CM) Bruno Giberti (ARCH) James P. & Terry Broyles Ted A. (ARCH) & Kelly A. Hyman Donald P. Brutzman Patricia Ann Morgridge & Terri Ekelund Brutzman Paul R. (ARCH) & Verla J. Neel (EDUC) Elizabeth A. Buchner (ARCH) Christopher K. Smither (CM) Bruce (ARCH) & Jane Campbell Julia K. & Scott Starkey Ann & John M. Coil Donald B. (ARCE) & Carole F. Tanklage Eugene E. (ARCE) & Irma Cole Christine Theodoropoulos Scott L. (ARCH) & Betty G. Cox & Mark Henry Charles E. (ARCH) & Lois Crotser Brian Tulloch Trudie B. Daggett Bruce E. Danziger (ARCE) $5,000 TO $9,999 Anne M. & Paul W. Davis Paul E. (ARCE) & Joan Davis Samuel B. Abbey Charles F. & J. A. DeFreest Douglas H. (ARCH) & Wendy A. Austin David G. (CM) & Lisa A. Beck (BUS) Matchmaker Arel W. & Ellen W. Berrier* Desiree G. & Lawrence J. Domino Thousands of companies match David & Cher C. Dubbink charitable contributions by employees, Charles F. & Gail D. Greene retirees and spouses, potentially Arnold B. & Gail T. Jonas doubling your gift to the CAED. Mark A. (CM) & Jennifer A. Montoya For more on participating firms and Jolie G. Scheibe establishing a matching gift, go to: Ken (ARCH) & Jeanne Stone (LS) giving.calpoly.edu/matching. James W. Troxel (ARCE) Mario (CM) & Dona Wijtman C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI GN | C A L POLY 2 1

Honor Roll of DonorsKevin J. (ARCE) & Wende L. Dong (BUS) William R. Miller (ARCE) Labs, Shops & StudiosJohn W. (ARCE) & Yvonne Hsu Edmisten* Andrea & Georg MuellerLeeAnne Edwards (CRP) Gery & Susan W. Muncey In our labs and shops, studentsGeoffrey R. & Susan M. Entress Charles B. (CM) & Flavia Muttillo explore material aspects of buildingAllen C. & Peggy A. Estes Robert L. Nibbi (CM) using models and prototypes, bothLarry M. (CM) & Ariel A.Etcheverry Donna J. Olsen Ballard (ARCH) physical and virtual. Our studiosGino P. Filippin (CM) John R. (ARCH) & Kristi A. Pangrazio simulate professional work settingsRichard L. (ARCE) & Susan R. Foley Carol D. Papay where students collaborate onBert & Candace Forbes Christopher P. & Diana M. Parr projects that develop theirScott F. (ARCH) & Leslie A. Gaudineer William A. Phillips (ARCH) professional abilities. We encourageDouglas R. (ARCE) & Patricia A. Ghiselin & Mary C. O’Toole-Phillips you or your firm to invest in creatingDavid & Judith M. Gorcey Ronald M. Radziner (ENGR) state-of-the-art spaces – go toDennis P. (ARCH) & Janet M. Govan Neil G. (ARCE) Rains & Sharon Berg caed.calpoly.edu/caed-giving forJay A. & Kenneth F. Grolle Stephen W. Riano (ARCH) more information.Alan C. & Holli A. Hanson Madalyn & Samir RustagiBrad J. Hanson (CM) Steve W. Schiller (ARCE) Construction Employers AssociationKenneth D. (ARCH) Carl Schubert (ARCH) Cupertino Electric Inc. & Kathleen B. Hayes Jack T. (ME) & Alice Spaulding CYS Structural Engineers Inc.Christopher T. Hong (ARCH) Christopher R. (ARCH) Degenkolb EngineersLorna S. & Norman G. Y. Hong & Michelle C. Stephens DeSilva Gates ConstructionRoberta Jorgensen (ARCH) Michael J. Stone (ARCH) DPR Construction Inc.Lawrence S. & Lynn Kahn Christine & Curt Taylor The Errett Fisher FoundationLarry R. (ARCE) & Denise M. Kaprielian John P. Tully (LA) & Linda J. Howard Filippin Engineering LLCGary Karner & Pandora Nash-Karner Larry R. Weese (ARCH) Fluor Enterprises Inc.Elizabeth D. LaCour Max O. Wisotsky (ARCH) Forest City EnterprisesChristine S. Laing & Scott C. Mosher Daniel K. (ARCH) & Tina Wu Hanover RS Construction LLCJohn W. Lawson (ARCE) Hayes Group Architects Inc.John C. Lee (ARCE) Corporations, Foundations Heliodyne Inc.Alan D. Mawdsley (ARCE) & Organizations Helms BakeryCharles J. (ARCH) Hensel Phelps Construction Co. & Kathleen M. McClain American Society of Professional HMC ArchitectsDebra F. (CRP) & Dwayne S. Mears Estimators Chapter 55 Holland Construction Inc. Anonymous Donor John C. Lee, Architects/Planners Inc. Legacies Courtyard Arup Services New York Ltd. Kiewit Pacific Co. AVRP Studios KNA Consulting Engineers Inc. Paul Neel, dean emeritus and Berridge Manufacturing Co. KPFF Consulting Engineers former state architect, is a leading BHE Renewables advocate for the renovation of the Blach Construction Legacies Courtyard adjacent to the Brian R. Bloom Architect college’s Berg Gallery and Neel Brush Family Foundation Resource Center. Combine your Cody Brock Inc. support with gifts from the classes Communitas Architects Inc. of 1963, ’64, ’65, ‘79 and ’80 to Computers and Structures Inc. complete enhancements to this Concrete Masonry Association outdoor interdisciplinary space. of California & Nevada2 2 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

KTGY Group Inc. Teacher/Scholar Fellowships Florence E.* & James W. Fisher*Level 10 Construction James E. & Kimberly A. GrantMAD Architects Teacher/student scholar fellowships Rick J. & Suzanne HerreroMarin Community Foundation are intended to foster a culture of Bruce & Louise HubalMcClain Consulting Services Inc. intellectual experimentation and Marin B. & Mike JonesMcGuire & Hester curricular innovation for students and Kenneth M.* & Patricia S. KohlenMHP Structural Engineers faculty. To learn how you can further Stephen V. Kohler*Microsoft Corporation their opportunities for professional Skip La VineModular Lifestyles Inc. development and enhance the qual- Mrs. Eugene LenzMorgan Stanley ity of the built environment through Paul & Daiga LewisMorley Group Inc. fellowships, grants and awards, go to Herbert F. & Mary Jane LoweNational Association of Home Builders caed.calpoly.edu/caed-giving. John M. Maple & Carol A. MacKinneyNational Electrical Contractors Glen A. & MaryAnn Matteson Association Inc. Simpson Manufacturing Kathryn R. McCafferty*NECA-Northern California Chapter Spaulding Family Trust Genevev P. Musick*Nibbi Brothers General Contractors Sprig Electric Seiichi Odo*Northern California Mechanical Swinerton Inc. Cynthia L. & Donald H. Osborne Contractors Association The Paul Davis Partnership LLP Russee J. ParvinObayashi Webcor USA The Sundt Companies Inc. Michael C. & Pamela M. PeacheyPacific Structures Inc. The Vinnell Foundation Jay J. ShapiroPCL Construction Services Inc. The Walt Disney Company A. J. ShepardR.L. Foley & Associates Inc. Tulloch Construction Inc. Fred L. & Jane S. SweeneyRotary Club of Santa Maria Breakfast Viega LLC James W. TroxelSeneca Structural Engineering Inc. Western Construction Group William A. VolgarinoS.H. Cowell William Randolph Hearst Foundation WM Lyles Co. *Deceased XL Construction Yum! Brands ZGF Architects LLPThe Poly Canyon Fund Legacy Club TO NOTIFY the college of your bequest, or to receive moreThe college plans to restore the Frederick F. & Vivian F. Abler information on planned giving,Poly Canyon Structural Design Frieda Agron* please contact the CAED ExternalLaboratory and continue its Robert T. Anderson* Relations Office at 805-756-5138.legacy. This fund empowers students Anonymous Donorto engage in learn by making Douglas H. & Wendy A. Austinopportunities that include new Richard W. & Jeanne E. Barnesstudent structures and Design Village. Margaret Baylis*Go to caed.calpoly.edu/caed-giving Peter H.* & Ida Mae H. Bergfor more information. Arel W. & Ellen W. Berrier* Fred F.* & Margaret J. Bradley* Bruce S. Cameron Philip & Wendy Chu C OL L E GE OF A R C H I TE C TU R E & E NV I R ONM E NTA L DE SI GN | C A L POLY 2 3

Cal Poly ScholarsStarts in the CAEDWhat do Ken and Jeanne Stone, Bruno Giberti, and severalother CAED alumni and friends have in common? Togetherthey have funded the first CAED Cal Poly Scholars.The Cal Poly Scholars program targets high school The Stone Family (L to R): Michael, Jeanne, Daniel, Andrew and Kenstudents who are very successful academically and desirea higher education, but their families are challenged one architectural engineering student arefinancially to send them to college. It is not uncommon for supported through their philanthropy.these students to be the first in their families ever to attendcollege. Cal Poly Scholars is a universitywide program, with A fifth Cal Poly Scholar position was funded to support acollaboration between Admissions, Housing, Financial Aid construction management student who comes from the& Scholarships, Student Academic Services, the Mustang East Bay area.Success Center, and participating colleges. “Thinking about the benefits my peers and I enjoyed asFirst piloted in fall 2012 in the College of Engineering,Cal Poly is welcoming 70 new scholars in engineering, students at Cal Poly, I hope my investment is a challengebusiness — and this year, architecture and environmentaldesign — bringing the total population of Cal Poly Scholars to them,” said Giberti. “Perhaps they’ve reached a pointto approximately 210. in their lives where money isn’t such a struggle, and they“I enjoyed an essentially free public education,” says Giberti,a 1979 graduate and current faculty member. “The Cal Poly can afford to give back toScholars program helps me to give back to students whomay struggle to attend the university. With a relatively low another generation of students.investment, I can help a specific student get an educationin a particular department at Cal Poly.” His contribution has Supporting them will increasebeen paired with another alumnus’ investment in this pro-gram to fully support a Cal Poly Scholar in the Architecture Cal Poly’s diversity and the To be eligibleDepartment during the 2015-16 academic year. diversity of the architecture to participate – profession as a whole.”Ken Stone (ARCH, 1980) and Jeanne Stone (Liberal Studies,1978) felt the same way, adding an additional perspective. The Stones look forward to Students must graduate fromBoth Cal Poly graduates, their three sons also attended providing an opportunity for one of the more than 200Cal Poly — two in the CAED. When their youngest was students to benefit from a California Partner High Schoolsbeginning his last year in fall 2013, Jeanne mentioned to Cal Poly education, and they (which are identified by aKen that now that they were close to the end of an eight- hope that many other Cal Poly majority of students receivingplus year run of college expenses, she would like to take a alumni, parents and friends Free/Reduced Lunch).portion of that “savings” and support an incoming student will consider joining them andwho could not otherwise afford to attend Cal Poly. Ultimately, Bruno Giberti in supporting Family income is $80,000 orthey chose to help launch Cal Poly Scholars in the College of Cal Poly Scholars. Their goal is less per year, and their annualArchitecture & Environmental Design by making an annual for the CAED to raise the funds contribution to their child’scommitment to help support three students throughout their to support five more scholars to college education is $12,000four to five years at Cal Poly. Two architecture students and start in fall 2016, with a target of or less per year. 20 or more Cal Poly Scholars in the near future. Students must agree to live on campus their freshmen and sophomore years. If you have questions about the program or wish to support a Cal Poly Scholar, please contact Natalie Schaefer, assistant dean for external relations at 805-756-5138 or [email protected] 4 C O N NE CTION S | W IN TER 2016 | C AED.C ALPO LY.EDU

It’s Your Legacy. How to Name Cal PolyExplore it. as a BeneficiaryCONTINUE SUPPORTING CAL POLY 1 Contact the administratorSTUDENTS AFTER YOUR LIFETIME of your retirement account or insurance company for aBeneficiary Designations change-of-beneficiary form.By naming Cal Poly as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or 2 Name Cal Poly as the benefi-life insurance policy, you may support the university, with the ciary of a specific percentagedesignated gift amount transferring to the university tax-free. of your plan. CaliforniaThese gifts are simple and only require an update to your Polytechnic State Universitybeneficiary form, not a change to your will. This approach is Foundation Federal Tax ID:an effective and easy way to leave a future gift to Cal Poly. 20-4927897Just like any other donation, you may direct your future gift to 3 Return the form to your plansupport the college, department or program of your choice. administrator and send a copy to Cal Poly. Contact Us Planned Giving 800-549-2666 or 805-756-7125 [email protected] plannedgiving.calpoly.edu

California Polytechnic State UniversitySan Luis Obispo, California 93407-0280Landscape Cal Poly students helped construct the 2015 Rose Float, “Soaring Stories,” withArchitecture their counterparts at Cal Poly Pomona. It won the Lathrop K. Leishman Trophy forStudents Soar the most beautiful non-commercial float in the 2015 Rose Parade. Landscape architecture (LA) major Young Choi served as the float’s production manager, and he designed, constructed and planted the float’s green wall. Assistant design chair Jo-Annie Tran and Liang Kai “Ryan” Wang, both LA, were on the design committee. This year’s float is titled “Sweet Shenanigans.” Look for it on New Year’s Day.