Global Architecture Brigades UC Berkeley

10/05/2016

Reminder that we have a meeting tonight at 6PM in the Cal design Lab (4th floor of Wurster). We will be working on our design project, which includes designing a latrine and school for communities in rural Honduras, hope to see some you there!

09/08/2016

Global architecture brigades will have our first general meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, at 6pm in the cal design lab (4th floor wurster).

We will be discussing our design project for the fall and our architecture brigade in Honduras that would be focus on in the spring. Each summer we travel to Honduras to work with global brigades on a build project, and this summer is no different. If you are at all interested please come to our meeting in the design lab!

Thank you,

Nicole Anacker, GAB President

04/27/2016

Thank you to Jeff Kroot Architect & Associates for your generous donation to our Brigade this summer!!

04/27/2016

Thank you so much to our Sponsor, Trainor Commercial Construction, Inc., for their generous donation to our Brigade to Honduras this summer! Without their support this brigade would not have happened, so thank you!

04/07/2016

Today, from 9AM-12PM we will be having a bake sale at the Berkeley Student Food Collective (2400 Bancroft Way), so stop on by to purchase some baked goods to benefit our upcoming brigade to Honduras!

03/02/2016

Make sure to come out to our meeting in 494 Wurster tonight from 6:30-7:30PM! We will be discussing more brigade logistics and signing up on empowered, hope to see you there!

02/24/2016

This summer we are going to Honduras for a week (May 16th-23rd) to help work on a community bank in a small rural community. We are still looking for more people to join our brigade, so if this interests you at all please sign up to volunteer here: https://www.globalbrigades.org/empowered/chapter/university-of-california-berkeley-architecture-brigades-chapter/brigade/university-of-california-berkeley-architecture-brigade-may-2016-honduras

This is an amazing opportunity to get hands on experience in a foreign country and meet some incredible people, so come on out to our WEEKLY meetings from 6:30-7:30PM in 494 Wurster! Hope to see some of you there!!

Architecture Brigades at UC Berkeley is a discipline of Global Brigades, the world\\\'s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization.

02/12/2016

Hey GAB!

PLEASE EVERYONE take literally take 1 mintue to fill out this quick survey:

https://docs.google.com/a/globalbrigades.org/forms/d/1GTkaYhpsfEjiEECyoXbGk8qgCnjZzeExjd6bvI8sdhM/viewform

01/26/2016

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Join us for this free lecture by Charles Renfro, partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the New York–based interdisciplinary design studio that designed the new BAMPFA. Renfro will present the design of BAMPFA in the context of several other DS + R projects that challenge our standards of perception i…

01/19/2016

You know how you helped. Keep it going.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/travel/ct-trav-0125-world-watch-20150121-story.html

Honduras: Good news for travelers in Central America: Although a U.S. State Department travel warning remains in effect from June 2014, new reports indicate that crime levels have dropped dramatically across Honduras. Officials announced that the government has taken drastic measures to curb drug tr…

01/06/2016

Hey all, post when you are free to meet before semester starts again this spring. If you have rested up and have bright ideas for the coming semester, then is the time to chat about it!

Happy New year.

06/12/2015

Hi GAB member!

You're invited by AIA East Bay to sign up to volunteer for our June "Architecture Camp." We'll have a volunteer meeting w/pizza on Thursday, June 18th at 6pm--rsvp to [email protected]!

Please click on the link below to view the online sign up sheet.

To sign up, go to:
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C054DA8AB22A6F85-architecture2/18195163

The second annual architecture camp for underrepresented and at-risk youth needs volunteers! This program, co-hosted by AIA East Bay and Fam 1st, exposes middle school students (12-15 years old) to architecture and design thinking as they assist Fam 1st with the development of their future Oakland-b…