Professor Lifchez serves on the University Library Board, Berkeley. He is the author ofThe Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey, and numerous additional publications on accessible design, the social history of architecture, and architectural design pedagogy. He received a Community Service Citation from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association for his Rethinking Architecture, and an American Book Award Nomination for Design For Independent Living. In 1976 he received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award; in 2002, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor Award, and in 2008, the Berkeley Citation. His current research interest focuses on Jewish communities in the American south c. 1900.
August 4, 2020: Vishaan Chakrabarti assumes deanship at UC Berkeley CED (Achinect News)
May 21, 2020: Berkeley CED Professor Emeritus Raymond Lifchez donates $2.5 million for Universal Design-focused endowed professorship (Archinect News)
May 7, 2020: Crip Camp: An Interview with Filmmaker Jim LeBrecht About Accessibility, Universal Design, and Spaces of Freedom (Archinect)
February 11, 2019: Library celebrates legacy of its donors with hands-on viewing of artists’ books (Berkeley Library News)
January 24, 2018: UC Berkeley architecture professor recognized for contributions to disability movement (The Daily Californian)
January 22, 2018: 2018 Ed Roberts Award for accessible design leader Raymond Lifchez (Berkeley News)
December 17, 2016: Temescal, Oakland: Multicultural and Rapidly Gentrifying (The New York Times)
October 30, 2015: Stronach Prize: 10 years of social engagement (Berkeley News)
February 27, 2015: Breakdown of Brutalism (The Weekender)
August 29, 2013: Oakland's Temescal Alley is a Design Diamond in the Rough (7x7)
