RENÉ C. DAVIDS, FAIA Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley
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OFFICE 341 Wurster Hall #1800 Berkeley, CA 94720-1800
PROFESSIONAL 1501 37th Avenue A2 Oakland CA 94601 Tel. 510 532 3202 Fax 510 532 3203
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LANGUAGES English, Spanish, German, and French. Reading comprehension of Portuguese and Italian
EDUCATIONRoyal College of Art, LondonM.A. Environmental Design
Escuela de Bellas Artes,Arts Diploma
Universidad de Chile, Santiago
Facultad de Arquitectura y UrbanismoBachelor of Architecture
Universidad de Chile, Santiago
PROFESSIONAL Registered architect in the State of California, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
MEMBERSHIPSLicensed to practice in Chile, member of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile
CURRENT ACADEMIC AFFILIATION
Department of Architecture, College ofUniversity of California, Berkeley
Environmental Design (CED)
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) University of California, Berkeley
AWARDS & HONORS
National Awards
Fulbright Specialist Roster Candidate Fulbright Senir Specialist Program2015
Elevated to the College of FellowsAmerican Institute of Architects2008
President's Award Metal Construction Association Annual Design2004
Metal Construction Association Awards Program
Progressive Architecture Citation forFor “The Hillside Elevators of Valparaíso, Chile”1999
Architectural ResearchAnnual National Research Awards Program
Federal Design Achievement AwardsNational Endowment for the Arts design 1995
awards for Daybreak Grove & Sunrise Place
AIA National Honor Award for ArchitectureFor Sunrise Place. One of 11 projects selected 1995
from over 500 entries. Jury: "A refreshing solution
to the problem of providing high quality low-cost
housing to low-income families. With a limited
palette of materials and a restricted site, this
housing achieves impressive results.”
ACSA Design AwardFor Daybreak Grove. Association of 1995
Collegiate Schools of Architecture
ACSA Citation for ExcellenceFor Daybreak Grove. Association of Collegiate1994
in Urban DesignSchools of Architecture Committee for Education
AWARDS & HONORS
National Awards
ACSA Citation for Excellence in Urban DesignFor Sunrise Place. Association of Collegiate1994
Schools of Architecture Committee for Education
AIA National Honor Award for ArchitectureFor Daybreak Grove. One of 17 projects 1994
selected from over 500 entries. Jury: “A great
solution to the problem of providing high quality
low-cost housing to single parents.”
Progressive Architecture Award forFor Sunrise Place. Annual national design awards 1992
Architectureprogram. One of 22 awards out of 762 entries.
Jury: “This design sets up quite a rich housing
situation. There is dignity to this project you don't
usually find with low cost housing.”
Progressive Architecture Affordable Housing For Twice House, one of 10 projects awarded from1991
Competition Commendationover 600 entries
Progressive Architecture Award forFor Daybreak Groove. Annual national design 1991 Architecture awards program 16 winners out of 824 entries
Jury: “Fabulous program, very successful units,
added virtue of reconstituting the urban texture.”
AIA National Honor Award for ArchitectureFor Observatory House. One of 19 honored from 1990
over 700 entries. Jury: "A laboratory of esthetic experimentation. Exudes extraordinary power.”
International Awards
Gondwana Circle International Design98 entries from Europe, Asia and the Americas. 2009
Competition Honorable MentionThe objective of this competition was
to generate a design solution to educates visitors
about the historical significance of Gondwana for
the evolution and current horticultural communities
of the Southern Hemisphere (with Eleanor Pries)
First Prize, Central Glass Co. Ltd./First out of 733 entries, Competition judged by 2008
Shinkenchiku-sha Corporation Toyo Ito, Riken Yamamoto, Kengo Kuma,
International Design Competitionand other distinguished Japanese architects
(with Taylor Medlin)
Merit Award Octavia Boulevard San Francisco International 2005
Octavia Boulevard International CompetitionDesign Competition, 167 entries from North
America, Europe and Asia2005
Mención de Honor, IX Bienal PanamericanaSunrise Place and Daybreak Grove honored 1994
de Arquitectura de Quito, Ecuadorout 180 entries from 15 countries in the Americas
Third PrizeMitsui Residential Design Competition1990
330 entries from 23 countries
Third Prize Hawaii Loa College design competition1986
Second Prize Opera la Bastille design competition, 756 1983
entries from 44 countries
AWARDS & HONORS
International Awards
Honorable Mention Schinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 1979
Local Awards
AIASF Citation Unbuilt Design CategoryFor Plug-in Pavilion. Annual AIA San Francisco 2009
design awards program
National Contractor of the Year AwardFor Red House. Entire house renovation award,2003
National Association of the Remodeling Industry
NARI Grand Remmie AwardFor Red House. Best project, Bay Area Chapter, 2002
National Association of the Remodeling Industry
NARI First Place -Whole House RemodelFor Red House. Annual design awards program of2002
the National Association of the Remodeling Industry
AIA Citation of RecognitionFor the Aztec Motel. San Diego AIA annual 1996
design awards program
AIA Merit AwardFor Sunrise Place. San Diego AIA annual1993
design awards program
AIA Merit AwardFor Daybreak Grove. San Diego AIA annual1993
design awards program
AIA Citation of RecognitionFor Sunrise Place. San Diego AIA annual 1992
design awards program
Sunset Western Home AwardFor Observatory House. Biennial residential design 1991
awards program sponsored by Sunset Magazine
AIA Citation of RecognitionFor Daybreak Grove. San Diego AIA annual design 1991
awards program
AIA Merit AwardFor Observatory House. San Diego AIA annual 1990
design award program
AIA Citation of RecognitionFor Observatory House. San Diego AIA annual 1988
design award program
GRANTS
Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study GrantWorkshop: Customizable Pre-Fabricated Footbridge 2014
in Bodø‚ Norway(with Professor Pasi Aalto,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Grant from the Fondo de Apoyo a la OrganizaciónPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2013
de Reuniones Científicas
Fulbright Specialist Grant in Urban PlanningPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile2011
Research Grant from the Center for “Topography, Architecture and Identity: 2005
Latin American Studies (CLAS) UC Berkeley University Building in the Americas”
GRANTS
Faculty Research GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research2005
Faculty Research GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research2004
Faculty Research GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research2003
Grant, Graham Foundation for Advanced For “AsBuilt: Theory of Practice” 2004
Studies in the Fine Arts
Faculty Research GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research2002
Faculty Research GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research2001
Pilot Research Grant For “Claiming the High Ground: Building Cities 2001
Center for Latin American Studies UCBon South-American Hillsides”
Research Grant from the Center for Course improvement grant with funding from the2000
Latin American Studies, UC BerkeleyWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial“The Hillside Elevator as a Generator 1999
Foundation Fellowshipof Social and Urban Form in Valparaíso, Chile”
Research Enabling Grant Berkeley Division Committee on Research 2003 - 2005
Research Assistantship for the HumanitiesBerkeley Division Committee on Research 1999
Faculty Research GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research1997
Faculty Research GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research 1996
COR Equipment GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research 1996
Junior Faculty Mentor GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research 1996
Junior Faculty Research GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research1995
Faculty Research GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research1995
Research Assistantship in the HumanitiesBerkeley Division Committee on Research1995
Committee on Research AssistantshipBerkeley Division Committee on Research 1995
COR Equipment GrantBerkeley Division Committee on Research1995
British Council Fellowship, RoyalFull two-year scholarship for Royal College 1976 - 1978 College of Art, London of Art masters degree program
PUBLICATIONS / BOOKS
Shaping Terrain: Topography, City Building, and Architecture in Latin America. Florida University Press 2016
Details Technology and Form. New York, Princeton Architectural Press 2012
Detail in Process. New York: Princeton Architectural Press 2008
Details in Contemporary Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press 2007
PUBLISHED REVIEWS OF BOOKS
Morgan, William, “Detail in Process” Architectural Record Vol. 196 Issue 6, June 2008 p. 59
Open, Bobby, “Devil in the Details” in Architectural Review Vol. 223, Issue 1331 2008 p. 29
Architect July 2007, Vol. 96 Issue 8 p. 85
Soltész, David, “Details in Contemporary Architecture”, Library Journal April 1, 2007 Vol. 132. Issue 6 p. 87
Soltész, David “AsBuilt” Architecture, November/December 2006 Vol. 95, Issue 12, p. 147
PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES
“Topography and Subversion” Geeta Mehta and George Kunihiro, eds., City Connect: Regeneration, Equity and Sustainability in the 21st Century (forthcoming)
“Vertical Neighborhoods: Hybrid Urban Form in High Density Cities” Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition and Symposium 2012: Everyone Ages, Guangxi Normal University Press, Guangxi, China2013 p. 62-67
“Restoring Bogotá’s Waterscapes” Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Fall 2012 p. 41-45
“Topography and Civic Order in Latin America” ArhitextAnul XIX No. 6 (226) November-December 2012p.75-85
“Social and Physical Segregation in Latin America” The International Journal of the Constructed Environment Volume 1 Issue 3 2011 (peer reviewed)
”Designing for a Global Context: The Impact of New Technologies in Architectural Education” Proceedings of the EDULEARN 11 Conference Barcelona, Spain July 2011 (peer reviewed)
“Architects and Engineers: Bridging the Gap” Assembling Architecture: Proceedings of the 2009 BTES Conference, Albuquerque, NM, by Dana K. Gullig, Diane Armpriest, LULU Press, 2010
“Development, Topography, and Identity: the Dougherty Valley and the New Suburban Metropolis” Places Volume 20 No. 3, Fall 2008( peer reviewed)
“Mythical Terrain and the Building of Mexico's UNAM”, Working Paper 23, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
“Le Corbusier, Rio de Janeiro, and Housing: A Cross-Cultural Exchange” Encounters, Encuentros, Recontres: Proceeding of the 2005 ACSA International Conference, ACSA Press, Washington, D. C. 2005 p. 30-38
“Rich and Poor Hills in the Americas” Contribution and Confusion: Architecture and the Influence of Other
Fields of Inquiry in ACSA International Conference Proceedings 2003, Helsinki, Finland, ACSA Press, Washington, D.C. 2004 p. 218-222
“Demolishing Hills, Establishing New Identities” Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Arts
and Humanities, Honolulu HI 2004 p. 1668-1677
“Urban Slopes: the Inclined Elevators of Pittsburgh and Valparaíso” Cross Currents, Transcultural Architecture, Education, and Urbanism: Proceedings of the 2000 ACSA International Conference. Hong Kong, ACSA Press, Washington, D.C. 2000 p. 203-208
“Diversifying Suburbia: Bungalow Courts as Spaces of Social Transformation” La Citta Nuova: Proceedings of the 1999 ACSA International Conference, ACSA Press, Washington, D.C. 1999 p. 459-464
“Adapting Traditional Prototypes to Contemporary Urban Neighborhoods: Daybreak Grove” Places, 12: 3, 1999, p. 22-25
“Serial Vision: Storyboard in the Design Studio” Legacy and Aspirations: Considering the Future of Architectural Education. Proceedings of the 87th ACSA Annual Meeting 1999 p. 239-245
PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES
“Storyboards: Application of a Film Making Technique in the Architectural Design Studio” Towards a Critical
Pedagogy:Proceedings of the ACSA Regional Conference, ACSA Press, Washington, D.C. p. 11.1 - 11.13
“Constructing Urban Infrastructure: The Hillside Elevators of Valparaíso, Chile” Constructing New Worlds: Proceedings of the 1998 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, Washington, D.C. 1998 p. 81-85
“A Wall between Countries, a Bridge for People” Places 11:1 1997 p. 62-63
"Demolishing Urban Hills: Establishment of a New Identity in Rio de Janeiro” Center for Latin American StudiesNewsletter. University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2003 p. 6, 7, 35
“The City That Is Not a City” Design Book Review, No. 39. 1997 p. 45-47
“Writing Home” Design Book Review, No. 37-38 Winter, 1996-1997 p. 16-17
“The Search for Modern Architecture in Chile” Traditional Dwellings and SettlementsReview Working Paper Series: Modern Practices, Interpretations of Traditions, Vol. 87, 1996 p. 2-15
“Derivative or Imitative: Modern Architecture in Chile” Architecture California, Vol. 17 No. 2, November 1995 p. 39-44
“Rene Davids y el Periplo Americano” (interview with Jaime Marquez, Gabriela Manzi) CA, Revista Oficial del Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile, No. 80 Jun 1995 p. 80-83
“Multi-Family Residential Zone Regulations: Will Legislation Ensure Good Design?” Cartouche, Summer 1991,
p. 15-16
“Interview with René Davids” by Luis Liceaga” in Cartouche, Vol. 21Summer, 1990, p. 10
“Opera de la Bastille Competition, Paris: Entries by Rene Davids (projet premie) and William Firebrace, Introduction by René Davids” in AA files No. 5 January 1984, p. 75-83
“The Impact of Early Soviet Russian Architecture on That of Chile” Royal College of Art Masters Thesis, 1978
DESIGN RESEARCH / PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Mission Creek Strategic Plan 2013
“Picturing ‘Home-for-All’”, Imabari, Omishima, Japan 2011
Sukkah 2010 Competition 2010
Gondawana Circle Competition, San Francisco, CA2009
Plug-in Pavilion, Central Glass Co. World Heritage Site Competition 2008
Blue Sky After School Facility 2006
Octavia Boulevard Housing Competition (Site V) San Francisco, CA 2005
Octavia Boulevard Housing Competition (Sites O & P) San Francisco, CA 2005
Cabrera Residence, Riverside, CA 2004
Recording Studio, Riverside, CA 2004
Pueblo Sierra Fourplex, Riverside, CA 2004
Music Studio, Riverside, CA 2004
DESIGN RESEARCH / PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Taller de Diseño, Visiones Regionales, Bogotá, Colombia (charette) November2003
Red House, Berkeley, CA 2003
Wurster Hall, Second Floor Courtyard Renovation Project, Berkeley, CA 2002
Livable Places Housing Charette, Los Angeles, CA 2001
Vasen Residence, Bellevue, WA 2001
Manz Residence, Berkeley, CA 2000
Kook Residence, San Francisco, CA 2000
Schwab Residence, Atherton, CA 1999
Humanity Missionary Baptist Church Hall and Residence, Oakland, CA1999
385 Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA 1997
Minneapolis Mills Redevelopment, Minneapolis, MN 1995
The Aztec Motel, Albuquerque, NM 1995
El Sereno ten-unit housing complex, Los Angeles, CA 1995
Boyle Heights six-unit housing complex, Los Angeles, CA1995
Lincoln Park 53-unit affordable housing complex, San Diego, CA 1995
Fire Station 43, San Diego, CA 1994
City Heights Housing for Extended Families, San Diego, CA1994
Sunrise Place Housing for Homeless Families, Escondido, CA 1993
Daybreak GroveHousing for Single Parents and Children, Escondido, CA 1993
Phillips Residence, Newport Beach, CA 1993
Haak Residence, San Diego, CA 1992
Honda House, Mitsui Residential Design Competition, Tokyo 1990
Proscenium House, San Diego, CA 1989
Observatory House, San Diego, CA 1989
Colton Senior Housing Competition, Colton, CA 1988
West Hollywood Civic Center Competition, West Hollywood, CA1987
Thomas More Street Residential Complex, London, U.K., with Thomas Brent Associates, London, U.K. 1987
Indira Gandhi Center for the Performing Arts Competition, New Delhi, India 1986
Hawaii Loa College Performing Arts Center Competition. Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii 1986
Leeds Town Center, Redevelopment, with A.P.P. Architects and Planners, Horsham, Sussex, U.K. 1986
Grand Buildings Competition, London, U.K. 1985
Biennnale di Venezia, Competition and Exhibition, Venice, Italy 1984
DESIGN RESEARCH / PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Opera Bastille Competition, Paris 1983
Cherry Garden Pier Housing Competition, London, U.K. 1982
House for Sunbathers, Mallorca, Schinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, Tokyo 1983
Kew Gardens Exhibition and Research Facility Competition, London, U.K. 1982
Kadhimiyeh Shrine Redevelopment, Baghdad, Iraq with A.P.P. Architects and Planners, Horsham, Sussex, U.K .1981
Social welfare buildings, banks, residences in Saudi Arabia, with Viterazi Consultants, London, U. K. 1978 - 1981
Schinkenchiku Residential Design Competition “House for Karl Friedrich Schinkel”1979
Unity Theatre, Camden Town, London with the Royal College of Art Project Office 1978
Corporación de Mejoramiento Urbano, Santiago, Chile (staff architect) 1974 - 1976
PUBLICATION OF DESIGN WORK
“Past Progressives A Village for Those in Needin Escondido, California. Davids Killory Designed a Community for Homeless Mothers and Children” by John Morris Dixon,Architecture Magazine, March 2013 p. 104
“Dry to Wet: a Network for All Ages” Frameworks November 2012
Kisyn-no-Kai, ed. “Home-for-All” Design Ideas, Plans and All. Tokyo, Ito School 2012 p. 42-45
Kellar Bouknight, Joanne. All New Kitchen Idea Book. Newton, CT, Taunton Press 2009 p. 171
“2009 AIA SF Design Awards” California Home +Design March/April 2009 p. 134
“Plug-in Pavilion” in Townsend Center for the Humanities Newsletter February/March 2009 p. 23
“Architecture and World Heritage Sites in Symbiosis” Shinkenchiku 2008 p. 1129-1130
“Winning Entries of the Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition 2008” Japan Architect,
Winter 2009 p. 128
“Urban Ecology: Change, Continuity and the Modified Ground” Framewoks April 2008 p. 12-13
“The Mexico City Studio” Frameworks September 2007 p. 28-29
Cisneros, Henry and John Rosales. Casa y Comunidad. Washington D.C., BuildersBook.com 2006 cover, p.197
“Space Savers” Sunset Magazine May 2006 p. 110
“De las Ciudades a las Regiones” Desarrollo Regional Integrado en Bogotá-Cundinamarca UNDESA-UNCRD,
August, 2005 p. 200-206
Zhou, Jingmin. Housing Forms. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2005 p. 35-40
“Self Expression Showcase” Professional Remodeler, November 2005 p. 58-59
Cornell University Newsletter Vol. 8:1 Winter/Spring 2005 p. 16
“Garage Solutions” Interior Digest, Moscow, Russia, October 2004 p. 116-127
Trulove, James Grayson ed. New American Interiors. New York, Whitney Library of Design 2004 p. 28-35
“Davids Killory Red House” GA Houses No. 82, July 2004 p. 64-75
PUBLICATION OF DESIGN WORK
“Lessons from the Edge” by Zahid Sardar San Francisco Chronicle Magazine May 9, 2004
“Tapping Inner Cool of a 20s Teardown” by Christopher Hawthorne New York Times November 20, 2003 p. D8
Wurster Redux: a Celebration. Regents of the University of California, 2003
“Design Awards 2003” in RemodelingMagazine September 2003 p. 107
Sutro, Dirk. San Diego Architecture from Mission to Modern: Guide to the Buildings, Planning, People, and Spaces
That Shape the Region. San Diego Architectural Foundation, 2002
Truelove, James Grayson. Private Towers. Harper Collins, 2002 p. 45-64
The Berkeley Voice Section B, November 8, 2002
Design Within Reach catalogs, August 2002 - February 2006
Crispiani, Alejandro. Aproximaciones: de la Arquitectura al Detalle. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Arquitectura 2001
“Jacobsen Variations” in Light on Learning: P G & E Energy Center & California Statewide Schools Initiative,
February 2000 p. 45-64
“Rave Design” by Ann Jarmusch San Diego Union Tribune. Section B, July 12, 1999 p. 2
“P.A. Awards: The Hillside Elevators of Valparaíso, Chile - Neighborhood Transportation as a Generator of Urban
Form” in Architecture April 1999 p. 123
“Desire and Domesticity” by Gwendolyn Wright Design BookReview No.37-38, Winter, 1996-1997 p. 3
IX Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito. Quito Ecuador: Imprenta Mariscal 1996 p. 32-33
Casas Internacional, Argentina Agosto 1996 p. 70-72
“Inside the Upper Story” in San Diego Architect, July-August 1996, p. 1-2
Jones,Tom, William Pettus, and Michael Pyatok. Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing. Mulgrave, Australia, Images Publishing Group, 1996 p. 132-135
“Designing Multi-Family Housing for Residential Neighborhoods” Planning Commissioners Journal No. 23,
Summer 1996 p. 14-15
“Nine Projects Tapped for AIA Awards”San Diego Union Tribune June 30, 1996 p. H9
“On the Boards” Architecture June 1996 p. 65
Minneapolis Riverfront: Vision and Implementation. Bolger Publications 1996 p. 22
“Libraries” The San Diego Union Tribune April 8, 1996 p. H1- H5
“Vivienda de Interés Social en Escondido, CA” Arquitectura No. 6 September 1995 p. 16-19
“Davids Killory Again Lauded for Low-Income Projects” in The San Diego Union Tribune August 20, 1995 p. H. 4
“Sheltered by Design: Building a Sense Of Security” by Blair Kamin in Chicago Tribune June 21, 1995 p. 1-8
“Davids Killory” in A+U Architecture and Urbanism July 1995 p. 98-110
PUBLICATION OF DESIGN WORK
“René Davids y el Periplo Americano” Ciudad /Arquitectura No. 80 Abril/ May/ Jun 1995 p. 80- 83
“AIA Honor Awards Feature Environmental Awareness” Environmental Building News, Vol. 4, No. 4 1995 p. 6
Davis, Sam. The Architecture of Affordable Housing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995 p. 95-96,
184-188
“Sunrise Place and Daybreak Grove: Affordable Housing Developments in Escondido CA” Proceedings of the
83rd ACSA Annual Meeting”1995 p. 68-69
“Housing” AIA Architect March 1995 p. 17
“Way Out West” On Air Magazine March 1995 p. 2, 15
“Applause” Albuquerque Journal, Business Outlook February 27, 1995
“Notables” UNM Campus News Vol. 30 No. 14 February 27, 1995
“Davids Killory Honored for Sunrise Place” San Diego Daily Transcript February 15, 1995 p. 3b
“The (Social) Art of Architecture” Progressive Architecture, January1995 p. 43