Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design

This article is about the college of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona. For the college of Architecture and Environmental Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, see Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design
Motto	Instrumentum Disciplinae (Latin: "Application of Knowledge")
Established	January, 1971
Type	Public College Space Grant
Dean	Michael Woo
Academic staff	86 (Fall 2001)
Students	1,632 (Fall 2001) (percent of total university enrollment: 8%)
Undergraduates	1,480
Postgraduates	152
Location	Pomona (pop. 152,631), California, United States
Campus	College of Environmental Design Building 7 - Environmental Design
Affiliations	•National Architectural Accrediting Board •California State University system
Website	Cal Poly Pomona - ENV

The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona College Environmental Design also known as the Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design (CENV) is one of Cal Poly Pomona's seven colleges. The college houses over 1,600 students; making it one of largest environmental design programs in the United States. The college offers bachelor's degrees in five departments, as well as three master's degree programs.

History

The planning programs at Cal Poly Pomona evolved from the undergraduate landscape architecture program that originally was part of the School of Agriculture. After approval of the creation of a new School of Environmental Design, the landscape and urban planning programs moved into their current building in January 1971. The Department of Urban Planning was created and soon after a Department of Architecture. Department of Urban Planning was renamed "Department of Urban and Regional Planning" in 1983 to reflect an expanded program. The School was renamed the "College of Environmental Design" in 1988. The Department of Art was transferred to Environmental Design from the College of Arts in 1992.

In 1978, the College was briefly led by Richard Saul Wurman, founder of the TED (conference) and given credit for coining the term "information architect".

In 2005, in a project called Prioritization and Recovery, university president J. Michael Ortiz proposed breaking up the college, promoting the Department of Architecture to a School within the College of Engineering, moving the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning to a proposed College of Agriculture, Natural and Environmental Sciences, and moving the Art Department to the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. In response to student, faculty and alumni backlash and unanimous college consensus against the proposal, the project was abandoned.

IDC (Interim Design Center)

In the summer of 2009 the University hired former Los Angeles City Councilman and current member of the Planning Commission Michael Woo to serve as Dean of the college.

The college is housed in several buildings around campus including Building 7, designed by modernist architect Carl Maston, and the IDC (Interim Design Center), a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m²) design studio building at the east end of the campus. Current plans are for a new Environmental Design Center on the north side of University Drive at the northwest corner of the campus.

Admissions

ENV First-Time Freshmen Profile

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Enrollment	174	220	194	236	159	149	130
Average GPA	3.44	3.44	3.43	3.42	3.57	3.64	3.58
Average SAT	1066	1050	1055	1058	1109	1111	1125

Academic programs and departments

Architecture

The Department of Architecture is a member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. The Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) and the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) programs are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. Along with its sister campus program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, they are the only two public and professional Bachelor of Architecture degrees in the state of California. The undergraduate program was ranked 15th nationally in the 2008 edition of "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools" published by the journal DesignIntelligence and was in the top 20 in the 2011 survey. In 2009, the program was named one of three schools in the nation that excel in sustainable design by Arch Ed 2009 published by Architecture (magazine). The program has been "impacted" since its inception over 40 years ago, with many more students applying than can be accommodated. In 2002 the department admitted 15 percent of undergraduate applicants making it the 5th most selective Bachelor of Architecture program in the country. By 2007 the department's acceptance rate was down to 9 percent, or 225 out of 2,551 applicants, of which 100 enrolled.

Due to the design studio based structure of the program, the student to faculty ratio is a relatively low 17 to 1. Prior to graduation students are required to complete a 500 hour internship of which 250 have to be under a licensed architect.

Unlike the more technically focused program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the department is able to tap into the design talents of Los Angeles area architects. Notable and influential 20th century architects that have taught at the department include Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano Craig Ellwood, Thom Mayne, and Ray Kappe, who founded the program in 1968. After a falling out with university administrators, Ray Kappe and Thom Mayne went on to form the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1972. Other past and present faculty include:

• William Adams FAIA - Professor Emeritus and former department chair.
• Aaron Betsky - Served as visiting instructor.
• Lauren Weiss Bricker, Ph.D - Architectural historian and author of The Mediterranean House
• Ana Escalante AIA - Current design studio instructor and Cal Poly Pomona alumna.
• Michael Folonis FAIA - Former design studio instructor from 1983-2003
• Michael A Fox - Associate professor with a focus on Interactive architecture and author of a book on the subject.
• Hsin Ming Fung - Assistant professor for 16 years and principal of Hodgetts + Fung. Former graduate coordinator and currently holds the same post at the Southern California Institute of Architecture
• Margaret Griffin AIA
• Christine Killory
• Juintow Lin - Assistant professor.
• Sarah Lorenzen AIA - Associate professor and director of the Richard Neutra - VDL House
• Marvin Malecha FAIA - College Dean from 1982 to 1994 and 2009 president of the American Institute of Architects.
• Norberto Nardi AIA - Professor Emeritus.
• Sigrid Miller Pollin FAIA - Former department chair and design studio instructor. Currently a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Axel Prichard-Schmitzberger - Associate professor.
• Judith Sheine - Current department chair. She is a Rudolph Schindler (architect) scholar and authored several books about him.
• William Taylor - Former first year coordinator and founder of the Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design
• Bernard Zimmerman FAIA - Department co-founder and professor for 35 years. Creator of the New Blood 101 and New Blood: Next Gen exhibits showcasing emerging talents of Los Angeles area designers. Also co-founder of the Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design.

ARC Undergraduate admissions

Avg. GPA	Avg. SAT	Avg. ACT	Applied	Accepted	Admissions Rate
3.83	1,179	24	1,588	286	&1000000000000001800000018%

Undergraduate demographics

Minority	Female	International	Financial Aid
66%	42%	4%	61%

Student - faculty ratio

Student/Faculty ratio
20:1

Tuition

Graduate	Undergraduate	Non-resident
$4,551	$5,487	add $288 per unit

Art

Department Majors:

• Art - Options: (1) Fine Arts, (2) Art History
• Graphic Design

Landscape architecture

The Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture (BSLA) is a general professional degree, nationally accredited by the American Society of Landscape Architects. The undergraduate and graduate program both ranked 18th nationally by DesignIntelligence 2008. The department's students won 5 out of 20 awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects student competition in 2008, more awards than Harvard and University of Pennsylvania. Longtime faculty member Takeo Uesugi designed the George and Takaye Aratani Japanese Garden adjacent to the CLA building on campus. In 2005, the college awarded Jack Dangermond, a department graduate and Forbes 400 richest persons in America, an honorary degree. Due to the design studio based structure of the program, the student to faculty ratio is a relatively low 16 to 1.

Urban and regional planning

The Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning is designed for students interested in working with the critical issues of social, environmental, and physical change in cities and regions. Student to faculty ratio is 24 to 1. In 2008, the program was ranked 21st in the nation for Best Urban & Regional Planning graduate program amongst all private and public schools, according to Planetizen, an online publication for the urban planning, design and development community and 2nd best for programs without a Ph.D.

Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies

Located on 16 acres (65,000 m²) within the Cal Poly Pomona University campus, the Center researches and demonstrates a wide array of regenerative strategies including low-energy architecture, energy production technology, water treatment, organic agriculture, ecological restoration and sustainable community development. Up to 20 students can choose to reside in one of two dormitories on site. The center offers a Minor in Regenerative Studies and a Master of Science degree in Regenerative Studies. The center became the first carbon neutral facility in the California State University system.

Special programs

Neutra VDL House

• Richard Neutra - VDL House - The college maintains the house of renowned modernist architect Richard Neutra, whose wife left the house to the college to continue his legacy. The house serves as a laboratory for the study of historic preservation and sustainable design and has been used to host college guests and design studio presentations. In 2000, it was designated a World Monument by the World Monument Fund to bring attention to the house's desperate need for funding its maintenance and repair. In 2005, in a project called Prioritization and Recovery, university president J. Michael Ortiz proposed transferring the property to an organization more financially suited to fund the house's maintenance. College departments unanimously agreed against the proposal and are currently engaged in a $1 million capital campaign to keep the house under university ownership.

• Office for International Studies - The College encourages students to participate in study abroad programs through the CSU International Programs in Italy, Denmark and Canada. In addition the college maintains direct exchange programs in architecture with the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris France, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, Kyushu University in Japan, the National Technical University of Athens in Greece, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow Scotland, fachhochschule Biberach in Germany, and the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and Chaoyang University of Technology in Taiwan. An average of 60 to 80 students participate each year in the various programs. Under existing agreements, a number of foreign students also study each year at the College.

• Resource Center - A resource library containing 25,000 books, periodicals, technical reports and a special collection of documents from the architectural offices of Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood, Raphael Soriano and Donald Wexler.

• W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Art Gallery - Located in building 35A, the 4,500-square-foot (420 m²) gallery hosts contemporary art exhibits for the campus and greater Los Angeles community. It's sculpture garden and entry gates were designed by Italian industrial designer Ettore Sottsass.

• Neutra Medal for Professional Excellence - An annual award given in recognition of an individual's contribution to the environmental design profession. Past recipients include Renzo Piano, Harwell Hamilton Harris (1982), Kisho Kurokawa (1988), Herman Hertzberger, Konrad Wachsmann (1980), Bruce Schneider-Wessling (1985), Ian McHarg (1992), Moshe Safdie (1993), Samuel Mockbee, Francis Dean, Raymond Kappe, Jones and Jones (2007) and Thom Mayne (2011) .

• Schrage House - In 2011, the college was pledged the Schrage House designed by renowned Mid-Century Modern architect Raphael Soriano in the 1950s. The $3 million bequest includes funding for the future maintenance of the home.

See also

• California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• Architecture