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Bydesign Vol 24 Summer 2017 Some Thoughts: UC Berkeley ‘Refuse Fascism’ Rally © Designing The Future By a quarterly e-zine Summer Design Business Entertainment DESIGN Technology Art Education 2017 Volume 24 August 2017 OUR TEAM CONTENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS Editorial Board MEMO from the Editor 1 Rogelio Roy Hernández, Publisher & Co-editor Recognition in Divisive Times Founder, President & CEO D. Oswaldo Lopez, AIA, LEED GA ThirdWave Corporation [email protected] MA Arch, 78 CED UC Berkeley BA Arch, Honors 76 CED UC Berkeley CASA Now! 1 D. Oswaldo Lopez, AIA, LEED GA CASA Mural Completed Co-editor Itzel Torres [email protected] MA Arch, 78 CED UC Berkeley BA Arch, Honors 76 CED UC Berkeley Charles Higueras, FAIA Co-editor Project Manager, Public Works City & County of San Francisco Community 3 [email protected] M Arch ’81 CED, UC Berkeley The Divided States of the BA Arch ’79 CED, UC Berkeley US-Mexico Border The Autry Museum Michael Dear Griffith Park, Los Angeles Staff Through February 10, 2019 Lauren E. Hernández, Senior Writer [email protected] For those interested in a moving and powerful historical slice of Michael Hernández, Photographer Chicano history, there is an [email protected] Cover Story 5 exceptional exhibit at the Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles. Diana B. Marquez, Staff Writer Charles Higueras, FAIA [email protected] Strong, Brave, Humble & Badass The Autry is featuring a collection Joseph Martinez, Staff Writer Roy R. Hernandez of photos published in the [email protected] pioneering La Raza newspaper in Los Angeles from 1967-1977. ByDESIGN is published by: ByDESIGN Enterprises The bilingual periodical was a 11400 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 200 prominent voice for the Chicano Los Angeles CA 90064 Rights Movement, chronicling the social, economic and political ByDESIGN Magazine™ is published activism of the tumultuous electronically by ByDESIGN decade. The exhibit draws upon ® 9 Enterprises . All Rights Reserved. CASA Alumni at Work an archive of nearly 25,000 The ByDESIGN e-zine and logo are Victor Rivas Valencia at Gehry images created by La Raza trademarks owned by ByDESIGN. No Partners photographers currently housed part of this electronic magazine may Victor Rivas at the Chicano Studies Research be reproduced without the written Center at UCLA. consent of ByDESIGN. Young and old will be captivated by the images, which encapsulate a critical time and Architecture & Planning 10 place of the Latino movement for The Architecture of Cesar E. self determination and justice. Chavez Campus: Transcription of the Oral Story The Autry Museum, Griffith Park Joseph Martinez 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462 https://theautry.org/exhibitions/la- raza Perspective 13 Some Thoughts: UC Berkeley ‘Refuse Fascism’ Rally ON THE COVER: Roy R. Hernandez The cover photograph of Charles Higueras, FAIA, Project Manager, Public Works City & County of San Francisco, was shot by Los Angeles-based CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE: photographer Michael A. Roy R. Hernández, Oswaldo Lopez, Charles Higueras Hernandez. The photo was taken Lauren Hernández, Guillermo Galindo, Michael Hernández September 6, 2017 at the SF Victor Rivas Valencia, Joseph Martinez, Itzel Torres Public Safety Building, San Ana Teresa Fernandez, Michael Dear, Ronald Rael Francisco, CA. ByDESIGN © 2017 An Online Journal of Exceptional Achievement 1 DESIGN© a quarterly e-zine By D. Oswaldo Lopez, AIA, LEED GA Volume 24 August 2017 The Editorial Board at ByDesign are Architects who practice excited to introduce our Summer within this realm must be Edition highlighting the ongoing guided by the principle achievements of exceptional of making the right professionals, academics and decisions on behalf of students. Given today's divisive the public trust. Not an times, it is once again more easy task. It is not important for us at the Editorial surprising to me that Board to state that ByDesign was Charles is a Fellow of founded as an outgrowth of the American Institute of changing the narrative of Architects. An honor well achievement.. earned. As our current time attests, we are in an era experiencing Again, we are honored the cyclical nature of history and the re-emergence of in showcasing the ignorance. Truth, cannot not be lost during this time of involvement and work of delusions and distortion. Professor Michael Dear, Department of City ByDesign, and this summer's issue, is testimony to the Planning, College of truths and exceptional talent of people who show us that Environmental Design Charles Higueras, FAIA, at the knowledge and history is judged not by distortion or who presents "The SF Public Safety Building prejudices, but by people of all backgrounds who work and Divided States of the US © Michael A. Hernández come together in the public square for the betterment of - Mexico Border". society. This ongoing historical issue has been a large part of a This edition features Charles Higueras FAIA, a Wurster and lingering wedge between the US and Mexico since 1848. CASA Alumni who is instrumental in the shaping and crafting of the public environment of the City of San We are also pleased to welcome our friend and fellow Francisco. Charles was not given this prestigious position ByDesign contributor Joseph Martinez, AIA who as a because of his heritage or social class, but rather through successful practicing architect presents his work on the his perseverance, hard work, and talent. An architect who Architecture of the Cesar Chavez Campus in Barrio Logan rose to a prominent partnership position in private practice of San Diego. to that of public practice is not an easy transition. With all these new stories, can the continued showcasing The role and responsibility of an architect in public practice of these exceptional individuals and their work change the carries the responsibility of trust on behalf of the public to narrative of today's divisive times? whom they serve in the decision-making process. We believe it can. Semilla de la Resistencia Wurster Hall College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley Designers: Itzel Torres, BA Urban Studies 2018 Heidi Villaseñor, BA Urban Studies 2018 Completed: June 2017 “I am without a doubt grateful to have been part of such an amazing project. Our culture and voice is extremely important in institutions that day after day question our worth. We are here to stay. I hope that future generations that come look at this mural and resonate with its narrative. I hope they look at it and feel and see their worth.“ Roy R. Hernandez (BD Publisher and one of the artists of the original 1976 CASA ITZEL TORRES mural, Huelga de Estudiantes) and Itzel Torres pose in front of the new CASA Mural. ByDESIGN © 2017 An Online Journal of Exceptional Achievement 2 DESIGN© a quarterly e-zine Volume 24 August 2017 On August 24th, a group of Bay Area artists, design professionals, and scholars met at SPUR Oakland headquarters to explore alternative ways of resistance and activism for countering on- going pressure to expand the fortification of the US-MX border. Ronald Rael, Eva Li Ana Teresa Fernandez, Guillermo Galindo, Memorial Chair in Artist, Art Professor at experimental composer The conversation was organized by Ronald Rael, Eva Li Architecture at UC CCA, SF Art Institute, / artist and co-author, Memorial Chair in Architecture at UC Berkeley, and Berkeley UC Berkeley & University Border Cantos moderated by Michael Dear, emeritus professor in the of San Francisco Department of City & Regional Planning. Our impeccable host was SPUR's Noah Christman. Early this year, a newly-installed President Trump promised to build a second wall along the border at a cost Michael Dear opened the discussion by providing a (fact- of over $24 billion, but he soon retreated in the face of based) update on the current state of wall construction, substantial opposition, basically dropping plans to fortify drawing on research reported in his book Why Walls Won't the river boundary, and substituting fences for much of the Work. promised concrete walls. After 9/11, the US government installed On August 24th, a Presently, Trump has rekindled his efforts, calling for $1.6 billion to begin over 650 miles of fortifications on the group of Bay Area artists, land boundary between the two wall construction, even though former countries. Most of the water boundary design professionals, and head of the Department of Homeland (the Río Bravo del Norte / Rio Grande scholars met at SPUR Security, John Kelly (now Trump's River) remained without walls. Michael chief of staff at the White House) has argued that the wall had been Oakland headquarters to reiterated his opinion that "physical ineffective in stopping undocumented explore alternative ways of barriers" alone will not secure the migration; and the decline in the US border. undocumented population (from 12.4 to resistance and activism for 11.1 million) was attributable to factors countering on-going Responding to the threat of further unrelated to the wall, such as record- disruption in borderland communities, pressure to expand the setting levels of deportation, increased Ronald Rael brandished a copy of his numbers of border patrol agents, and a fortification of the US-MX new book Borderwall as Architecture: new emphasis on interior enforcement. border. A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary, which demonstrates alternative architecture that activists can adopt to combat fortification fever. Borderland people don't want more barriers, Ronald emphasized; instead, they prefer
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