UC Berkeley's embARC Summer Design Academy

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Basic Information

Focus: architecture, urban design and city planning
Owner: UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Director: Kimberly Suczynski-Smith
Address: 235 Wurster Hall #1820, Berkeley, CA 94720-1820
Phone Number: 5106431188

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UC Berkeley's embARC Summer Design Academy
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Additional Information

Ages/Grades: rising juniors and seniors
Camp Season: summer
Setting:

Instruction takes place UC Berkeley's Wurster Hall studios, classrooms, auditorium, Fabrication Shop and Digital Fabrication Lab and various site visits.

Gender: all
Camp Capacity: 50
Pricing: $4,000-$10,000 (scholarships available)
Activities:

sketching, drafting, model making, reading, discussion, presentation, construction, fabrication, designing, building, research, field trips, lectures, group projects

Additional Information:

The embARC Summer Design Academy is an intensive four week summer program for high school students offered by UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. embARC brings together students from diverse backgrounds to CED to study architecture, urban design and sustainable city planning through four components: a lecture series, an Architecture & Design studio, a Sustainable City Planning Workshop, and a Design-Build project.

embARC students works on real design projects in a studio environment, and engage as genuine stakeholders and participants in a process to develop solutions to authentic urban planning questions. Together, the program's components provide a comprehensive framework and multi-disciplinary approach to "placemaking".

Slogan: embARC: UC Berkeley's architecture, urban design and city planning summer program for teens.

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