| Design on the Edge: 100 years
of Teaching Architecture at the
University of California, Berkeley Chronology of the School and the Faculty
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| Architecture schools established | |
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1816
1865 1868 1871 1873 |
Ecole des
Beaux Arts, established in Paris.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) University of Illinois Cornell University Syracuse University |
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1868
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University of California founded |
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1894
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Bernard Maybeck instructed
on Architecture
Maybeck and Soule meeting Maybeck begins teaching classes in department of drawing under Prof. Herman Kower and H.T. Ardley. Drawing 10, "Architectural Free hand Work" Drawing 12, "Decorative and Industrial Art." |
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1895
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Drawing Dept. splits to form
"Instrumental Drawing and Engineering Design and Decorative and Industrial
Art.
Maybeck teaches in both. |
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1896
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst gives money for Mining Buildings C. Keler founds Ruskin Club. |
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1897
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Phoebe A. Hearst Campus Plan competition gave architecture school prestige. |
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1898
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Two-stage campus design competition
for campus Hillside club founded.
Maybeck teaches only in Instrumental Drawing and Engineering Design Department: Elements of Structural Drawing" |
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1899
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M. Emile Benard selected by Jury to design campus. |
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1901
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John Galen Howard appointed Supervising Architect and Professor of Architecture |
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1903
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Department of Architecture
established, under the direction of John Galen Howard, University Architect.
(Carried out campus plan)
Classes start in Eastman Building, Oxford and Shattuck. Classes and Howard office move to top floor of First National Bank building (now mercantile building) on Shattuck. School housed in the "Old Ark" at the North Gate of campus building designed by John Galen Howard. Atelier formed alongside office of supervising architect. |
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1905
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Course catalog lists 10 Upper division and 9 Grad courses; J.G. Howard listed as only faculty. |
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1906
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Prof. hays joins faculty
Ark constructed, 1800 sf, $4394.59, to Howards design Curriculum expanded to include 4 years of watercolor, pen and ink drawing and modeling. Wheeler Biennial report |
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1907
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Howard requests funds for addition to Ark |
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1908
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ARK addition, 3400 sf, $6000.00 |
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1909
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First "Jinks" ball / dance
First class graduates with 6 members. |
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1912
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Warren C. Perry, 07, joins staff |
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1913
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Department of Architecture,
under the College of Liberal Arts, becomes the School of Architecture
Comprising 3rd and 4th year students and graduate work. Howard plan for university |
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1914
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Drawings building added to Ark, 10,900 sf. |
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1918
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War-time forces three equal
terms instead of semesters
Department offers special military course: M18, Military Architecture; M19, "Outdoor sketching" |
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1919
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Program in visual design is broadened to include household art and science and given departmental status |
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1921
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Stafford Jory 12 joins staff |
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1922
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Aram Torossian from Yale joins staff |
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1923
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Berkeley hills fire |
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1924
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Department of Art formed, moves into North Drawing building. |
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1927
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W. Perry appointed Director of School (1927-1941); Chairman of Department (1927-1950) |
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1929
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W. Perry appointed Dean of the School (1929-1950) |
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1931
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Davis Hall built, North drawing building of Ark destroyed |
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1932
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John Galen Howard stops teaching |
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1935
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Walter Steilberg 10, design Library addition to Ark |
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1939
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1941
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W. Perry appointed Dean (1941-1950) |
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1945
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Some classes move to T-10 and T-4 |
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1947
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Eric Mendelsohn teaches (1947 - 1953) |
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1948
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1949
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F.L. Wright visits |
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1950
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William Wurster 09, appointed Dean of the School of Architecture |
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1952
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Report from Committee submitted to UCB Pres. Sproul recommended the creation of a new college CED |
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1953
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School of Architecture became
the College of Architecture under William Wurster
William W. Wurster founded the Environmental Design Archives (then Architectural Archives) following the recommendation of architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock. The personal papers and project records of Bernard Maybeck comprised the inaugural donation. J. Hudnut gives Hitchcock lecture Jim Burch starts as Architecture Slide Librarian, retired 1987 as Architecture Librarian |
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1954
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ACPLA Committee:formed of F Violich, CPL, H.L. Vaughan, LA, Vernon de Mars, Arch. |
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1955
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Report finalized with the name "Environmental Design." |
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1957
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College of Environmental Design name was created. |
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1958
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Bachelor or Architecture degree awarded for the first time |
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1959
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April 13, 1959 Academic Senate
on the Berkeley campus approved the establishment of the College of Environmental
Design, the union of the 3 departments Architecture, City and Regional
Planning and Landscape Architecture
Dean William Wurster first Dean of the College. (1959-1963) Chair Vernon A. DeMars (1959-1961) |
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1962
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Chair Charles Moore (1962-1965) |
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1963
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William Wurster retires.
Dean Martin Meyerson (Department of City and Regional planning) (1967-1976) Assoc. Dean Catherine Bauer Wurster. |
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1964
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College of Environmental Design
moves from Ark into Wurster Hall, combining the three departments:
Architecture, Landscape Architecture and city Planning Wurster design by DeMars, Esherick & Olsen. Department of Decorative Art becomes Department of Design and incorporated into CED. Institute of Urban and Regional Development formed. |
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1965
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Ph D. Program in City and Regional planning established |
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1966
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Department changes emphasis
to liberal B.A. from professional degree
Graduate program allows students from different backgrounds into program Semester system converts to quarter system Dean John E. Burchard (acting) Martin Meyerson appointed Chancellor at UCB. Chair Gerald McCue (1966-1970) |
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1967
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Dean William L.C. Wheaton (Department of City & Regional Planning) (1967-1976) |
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1968
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PhD program in Architecture begins |
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1969
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PhD in architecture with a social factors emphasis(Area E) was inaugurated. |
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1971
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PhD program in Landscape Architecture
begins.
Chair Richard C. Peters (1971-1974) |
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1972
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First recipient of PhD in Architecture, Hugo Blasdel |
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1973
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In 1973 expanded holdings in landscape architecture prompted the College of Environmental Design to adopt the name "Documents Collection." |
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1974
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Program in Visual design begins
Department of Design discontinued.
Chair Richard Bender, 1974-1976 |
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1975
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Concrete |
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1976
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Dean Richard Bender, Department
of Architecture, 1976-1988
Chair Joseph Esherick, 1977-1981 |
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1979
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Undergraduate department of Instruction in Environmental Design is established to offer lower division courses. |
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1980
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Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman of UCB |
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1982
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CED Alumni News
The Center for Planning & Development Research renamed the Center for Environmental Design Design Research. Chair Sanford Hirschen (1982-1983) |
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1983
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Places |
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1984
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Chair Jean-Pierre Protzen,
1984-1986
Ramonas Café remodeled. Silver Anniversary of the founding of the College of Environmental Design. 20th Anniversary of the opening and dedication of Wurster hall. |
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1987
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Chair Howard Friedman, 1987-1988. (died in 1988) |
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1989
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Chair Gary Brown, 1989-1992
(fall)
Dean Roger Montgomery, 1989-1995 |
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1992
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Chair Jean Pierre Protzen, 1992 (spring) -1993 (spring) |
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1993
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Chair Sam Davis, 1993 (fall)-1996 (spring) |
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1996
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Dean Harrison Fraker, 1996--
Chair Donlyn Lyndon, 1996 (fall)-1999 |
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1998
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Joseph Esherick dies (1914-1998) |
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1999
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CED Environmental Design Library
moves into Moffitt Library May 22-June 13, 1999
The Documents Collection became the Environmental Design Archives in 1999 in response to the establishment of a formal archival program. |
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2000
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Chair Charles C. Benton, 2000-2002
College surges out of Wurster Hall for seismic construction into the Hearst Field Annex - HFA |
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2001
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Environmental Design Library reopens in Wurster Hall. |
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2003
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Chair W. Mike Martin, 2003
- present.
Roger Montgomery dies (....- Oct 25, 2003) |
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| Web site by Susan Koskinen. Updated 5/20/04 |