UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

College of the University of California, Berkeley

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University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Bauer Wurster Hall

Type| Public professional school
Established| 1959 (1894)[a]
Dean| Renee Y. Chow[2]

Academic staff

| 100[3]
Students| 1107
Undergraduates| 641
Postgraduates| 466
Location|

Berkeley, California

U.S.

37°52′13.98″N 122°15′17.58″W﻿ / ﻿37.8705500°N 122.2548833°W﻿ / 37.8705500; -122.2548833
Website| ced.berkeley.edu

The College of Environmental Design, also known as the Berkeley CED, or simply CED, is one of fifteen schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The school is located in Bauer Wurster Hall on the southeast corner of the main UC Berkeley campus. It is composed of three departments: the Department of Architecture, the Department of City and Regional Planning, and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.

CED is consistently ranked as one of the most prestigious design schools in the United States and the world. The Graduate Program in Architecture is currently ranked No. 6 in the world[4] through QS World University Rankings subject rankings. The Architecture program has also been recognized as the top public program by the journal DesignIntelligence and is currently ranked No. 6 in the United States.[5] The Urban Planning program is currently ranked No. 2[6] by Planetizen.

## History[edit]

In 1894, Bernard Maybeck was appointed instructor in drawing at the Civil Engineering College of the University of California. A school of architecture did not yet exist.[1] The School of Architecture at Berkeley was developed by John Galen Howard in 1903 followed by the School of Landscape Architecture, established by John William Gregg, which began instruction in 1913 and City Planning in 1948. In order to encourage an atmosphere of interdisciplinary study, the three schools, with the Department of Decorative Arts, were brought under one roof and the College of Environmental Design was founded in 1959 by, William Wurster, T.J Kent, Catherine Bauer Wurster, and Vernon DeMars. Originally, the school was located in North Gate Hall. Bauer Wurster Hall, the building which currently houses the college opened in 1964 and was designed by Joseph Esherick, Vernon DeMars, and Donald Olsen, members of the CED faculty.

One of the CED's early innovations during the 1960s was the development of the "four-plus-two" ("4+2") course of study for architecture students, meaning a four-year non-professional Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree followed by a two-year professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch) degree.[7] The 4+2 program was meant to address the shortfalls of the traditional 5-year professional Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) program, which many architecture educators felt was too rushed and neglected the undergraduate's intellectual development in favor of a strong emphasis on practical design knowledge. The 4+2 program allowed one to receive a broader education including exposure to the liberal arts as an undergraduate and thus a deeper and more thorough education in architectural design as a graduate student. CED was also an early proponent of design for disability and green architecture, and is home to the Center for the Built Environment.[8][9]

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Selected locations on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley

* Buildings and venues
* Landmarks

University House (1911)

North Gate Hall (1906) and North Gate (1990)

Founders' Rock (1860)

Evans Hall (1971)

Hearst Memorial Mining Building (1907)

Hearst Greek Theatre (1903)

Crescent Lawn (1929) and Springer Plaza (1964)

Valley Life Sciences Building (1930)

Doe Memorial Library (1917)

South Hall (1873)

Sather Tower (1914)

Haas School of Business (1995)

Haas Pavilion (1933)

Sather Gate (1908)

Sproul Plaza (1962)

Hearst Memorial Gymnasium (1927)

College of Environmental Design (Bauer Wurster Hall, 1964)

School of Law (Boalt Hall, 1951)

California Memorial Stadium (1923)

People's Park (1969)

In 2009–2010, the College of Environmental Design marked its 50th anniversary with a year-long series of events that paid tribute to CED's history and legacy, and engaged the college community in a lively discussion about its future.

In March 2015, the college unveiled a 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) 3D-printed sculpture, entitled "Bloom", which was composed of an iron oxide-free Portland cement powder. This was the first printed structure of its type.[10][11][12]

## Undergraduate programs[edit]

* Bachelor of Arts, Architecture
* Bachelor of Arts, Landscape Architecture
* Bachelor of Arts, Sustainable Environmental Design
* Bachelor of Arts, Urban Studies

## Graduate programs[edit]

* Master of Architecture
* Master of Design
* Master of Urban Design[13]
* Master of City Planning
* Master of Landscape Architecture
* Master of Real Estate Development and Design
* Master of Science, Architecture
* Ph.D., Architecture
* Ph.D., City and Regional Planning
* Ph.D., Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

## Alumni and faculty[edit]

### Notable alumni[edit]

* Hans Hollein, Pritzker Prize Laureate
* David Baker
* Kofi Bonner
* Alice Ross Carey
* Yung Ho Chang, head of the Department of Architecture at MIT
* Vishaan Chakrabarti, architect
* Thomas Church
* Edward Cullinan, 2008 recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal
* Charles M. Eastman, pioneer of CAD and building information modeling systems for architecture.
* Walter Hood
* Norman Jaffe
* Jim Jennings
* Wes Jones
* Ray Kappe, founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture
* G. Albert Lansburgh
* Gertrude Comfort Morrow
* Irving Morrow, designer of the Golden Gate Bridge
* Robert Murase, noted landscape architect
* Eric Owen Moss, director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture
* Vladimir Ossipoff
* Margaret Read
* Ananya Roy
* Robert Royston
* Stanley Saitowitz
* Frederic Schwartz
* Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
* Edwin Lewis Snyder
* Marilyn Jordan Taylor, chairman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design
* Bing Thom
* Peter Walker
* Harvey Wiley Corbett
* Gwendolyn Wright
* Michael Woo, dean of the Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design, and current Los Angeles planning commissioner.
* Ridwan Kamil, 15th Governor of West Java, Indonesia

### Current faculty[edit]

#### Architecture[edit]

* Andrew Atwood
* Mark Anderson
* Gail Brager
* Luisa Caldas
* Chris Calott
* Greg Castillo
* Marco Cenzatti
* Raveevarn Choksombatchai
* Renee Chow
* Margaret Crawford
* Greig Crysler
* René Davids
* William di Napoli
* Darell Fields
* Aaron Forrest
* Danelle Guthrie
* M. Paz Gutierrez
* Lisa Iwamoto
* David Orkand
* Rudabeh Pakravan
* Keith Plymale
* Ronald Rael
* Charles Salter
* Stefano Schiavon
* Simon Schleicher
* Andrew Shanken
* Kyle Steinfeld
* Neyran Turan
* Yasmin Vobis

#### City and Regional Planning[edit]

* Charisma Acey
* Sai Balakrishnan
* Teresa Caldeira
* Karen Chapple
* Daniel Chatman
* Stephen Collier
* Jason Corburn
* Karen Frick
* Carol Galante
* Marta Gonzalez
* Zachary Lamb
* Carolina Reid
* Daniel Rodríguez
* Annalee Saxenian
* Paul Waddell
* Jennifer Wolch

#### Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning[edit]

* Peter Bosselmann
* Anna Livia Brand
* Danika Cooper
* Iryna Dronova
* Kristina Hill
* Richard Hindle
* Walter Hood
* G. Kondolf
* Karl Kullmann
* Elizabeth Macdonald
* David Meyer
* Louise Mozingo
* John Radke
* Chip Sullivan

### Former faculty[edit]

* Donald Olsen
* Nezar AlSayyad
* Christopher Alexander, Professor Emeritus and developer of the Pattern Language
* Donald Appleyard
* Catherine Bauer Wurster
* Charles Benton
* Denise Scott Brown, partner in Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
* Gary Brown
* Vernon DeMars
* Neil Denari
* Penny Dhaemers
* Charles Eames
* Garrett Eckbo
* Joseph Esherick, 1989 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal
* Norma Evenson
* Richard Fernau
* Paul Groth
* Sir Peter Hall
* John Galen Howard, founder of the Department of Architecture
* Sara Ishikawa
* Allan Jacobs
* Spiro Kostof
* Lars Lerup
* Donlyn Lyndon
* Aaron Marcus, graphic designer
* Clare Cooper Marcus
* Richard L. Meier, sustainable planning expert
* Bernard Maybeck
* Mike Martin
* Erich Mendelsohn
* Roger Montgomery
* Charles Moore, 1992 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal
* Richard Peters
* Jean-Pierre Protzen
* Horst Rittel
* Stanley Saitowitz
* Geraldine Knight Scott
* Daniel Solomon
* Claude Stoller
* Jill Stoner
* Stephen Tobriner
* Marc Treib
* Dell Upton
* Sim Van der Ryn
* William Wurster, 1969 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal

## See also[edit]

* San Francisco Bay Area portal

* Center for the Built Environment
* UrbanSim

## References[edit]

Notes

1. ^ The CED traces its history back to architecture instruction by Bernard Maybeck in 1894.[1]

Citations

1. ^ a b "Maybeck's First House Was a Design Laboratory". Berkeley Landmarks. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
2. ^ "RENEE Y. CHOW". UC Berkeley Environmental Design.
3. ^ "Annual Reports". UC Berkeley Environmental Design.
4. ^ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020– Architecture / Built Environment". April 21, 2020.
5. ^ "DesignIntelligence Rankings". 2016.
6. ^ "The Top Schools for Urban Planners". 2019.
7. ^ "Architectural Education". ACSA. Archived from the original on July 22, 2007.
8. ^ Waverly, Lowell; Elizabeth, Byrne; Betsy, Frederick-Rothwell (January 1, 2009). Design on the Edge: a Century of Teaching Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, 1903–2003. College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-9819667-3-1. OCLC 940646191.
9. ^ "About Us". Center for the Built Environment. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
10. ^ "Researchers at UC Berkeley Create 'Bloom' – First Ever 3-D Printed Cement Structure That Stands 9 Feet Tall". March 6, 2015.
11. ^ Lofgren, Kristine (June 20, 2016). "UC Berkeley unveils 3D-printed "Bloom" building made of powdered cement".
12. ^ Fixsen, Anna (March 6, 2015). "First Powder-Based 3D Printed Cement Structure Unveiled".
13. ^ "Master of Urban Design".

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