Design Village is an annual event in which competitors flood Cal Poly’s Architecture Graveyard to construct temporary structures to camp in for the weekend. This year’s event, with the theme of “Modular,” took place from April 26-27. In the only group of seven in their studio, architecture freshmen Sophia Gonzalez and Serena Cree said they chose […]
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Students compete in furniture design contest for chance to attend world’s largest trade fair
Once a year the San Luis Obispo firm, Vellum Design Build, and Cal Poly’s Architecture and Environmental Design department partner up to host a two day event called the Vellum Furniture Design Exhibition. “Vellum is a furniture competition, it’s also a heuristic device,” Cal Poly architecture professor Tom Di Santo said. “It’s classic ‘learn by doing.’” […]
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Students introduce interdisciplinary experiences to CAED department through first Hasslein Student Competition
Construction management senior and competition coordinator Catie Dines lined up for a photo with the competitors of her senior project last month. They stood in front of the George Hasslein Memorial Sculpture and smiled. As she looked around she took a moment to reflect on her childhood love for designing homes in the virtual world […]
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Inside the winning structure of Design Village 2023
Cal Poly hosted the 48th annual Design Village competition from April 28-30. Each year, freshmen architecture students build shelters reflecting a given theme and sleep in their designs throughout the weekend. This year’s theme was biophilia, defined as the “innate human instinct to connect with nature and other living beings,” according to the event website. […]
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Students compete in Design Village while commemorating Sean Hillman
Architecture freshman Max Dennison first met Sean Ogawa Hillman at the start of spring quarter, when their professor put them in the same group for the annual Design Village competition being held April 28 to 30. In the short time she’s known him, Dennison said Hillman “always had the biggest smile on his face and […]
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Cal Poly City and Regional Planning students develop urban plans for LA County community
Siga aquí para leer este artículo en Español. Acton is a small, unincorporated part of Los Angeles County. It’s a rural town where some say it isn’t uncommon to see horses hitched outside the supermarket as residents run their errands, and horseback riding is almost as common as driving cars and riding bikes. “It’s an equestrian […]
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Estudiantes de ciudad y planeamiento regional de Cal Poly desarrollan planes urbanos para la comunidad del condado de LA
El artículo fue originalmente escrito en Inglés. La traducción en Español fue hecha por Mieke Esparza. Acton es una pequeña y desconectada parte del condado de Los Ángeles. Es un pueblo rural donde algunos dicen que no es raro ver caballos enganchados afuera del supermercado mientras los residentes hacen sus mandados, y montar a caballo […]
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Chloe Wardrick first student to win MLK Legacy Award
Cal Poly Black Student Union (BSU) President and architecture senior Chloe Wardrick is the first student to win the MLK Legacy Award, which recognizes people who exemplify courage and selflessness in areas of social justice. “In the past, it has just been faculty or staff members that have been awarded, but this year I was […]
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A new structure has been built in Arch Graveyard
Architectural engineering graduate student Will Adam said he didn’t realize how impactful his senior project would be at first glance. However, Adam had a bold idea from the get-go: construct the first experimental structure in Poly Canyon in three years. The team — who dubbed their project “Tensegrity” — finished their project in Poly Canyon […]
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City & Regional Planning department moves some courses permanently online
It was sunny due to the midafternoon sun, but cold. Kay Choe, along with the other students in her environmental planning class, were bundled up in sweatshirts and jackets as they walked up Cerro San Luis in the early autumn of 2021 not to hike, jog or bike, but to examine the terrain. They took photos […]
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Dave Amos: Cal Poly professor by day, Youtuber by night
Having people watch him is nothing new to Dave Amos. By day Amos is a planning professor at Cal Poly and by night they are a YouTuber with almost half a million subscribers. Amos arrived at Cal Poly in the Fall of 2021 and began their youtube channel City Beautiful in January of 2017, according […]