The fifth Berkeley/Design/Book, Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwoood Common, written by Curator Waverly Lowell, has just been released. If you would like to order a copy, please see our order form here.

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We are thrilled to announce the forthcoming history of the UCB Architecture Department-- Design on the Edge: A Century of Teaching Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, 1903-2003.  To pre-order a copy, please see the flyer. 

Henrik Bull, known for his graceful and warm modernism, is donating his papers from his 55 year career as an architect. He graduated from MIT in 1952, and in the early 1950s developed geodesic radar domes with Buckminster Fuller. He also worked with Mario Corbett, and opened his own practice in California in 1956. For the next 11 years, he designed numerous homes and resorts, many receiving design awards. In the late 1960s, he went into practice with several others to form the firm Bull, Field, Volkmann, Stockwell.

As befits UC Berkeley’s tradition of social consciousness, Interim CED Dean, architect Sam Davis, an advocate of affordable and humane housing, worked with us this year to expand Archives holdings in this area. It is through Sam’s engagement with the Archives that we have received the following two collections:

Dan Solomon, whose firm, Solomon E.T.C, focuses on, “residential architecture and the interaction between housing and urban design.” He has written many articles and two books, and is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism. In 2004, he received the Maybeck Award, the AIA California Chapter's honor for lifetime achievement by an individual architect for producing consistently distinguished design. His work carries Bay Area architecture into the 21st Century.

Robert Marquis’  housing related records will become part of the Archives.  Marquis was known for his socially aware projects, such as the St. Francis Square housing complex, built in 1963 with Claude Stoller and Lawrence Halprin. It was recognized nationally as a model for moderate-income urban design.  In 1985, he converted the Rosa Parks Apartments from a failed low-income housing complex to a safe residence for the elderly.  This was seen as a protoype for these types of redevelopment projects.

Supplementing our extensive collections relating to William Wurster, we were thrilled to have received a donation of his and Catherine Bauer Wurster’s personal papers.  The highlights of this collection are his diaries and their photographs and slides from their world travels, particularly those documenting housing.  There is also his student work in this gift. 

Adding to an earlier donation, the Archives has acquired the ASLA Awards Portfolios for 2003-2008.  Each year, ASLA honors, “the best in landscape architecture from around the globe,” in a juried competition.  This collection includes all entries, not only the winners.

We thank Walter Brooks for his recent gift.  Inspired by Walt Whitman and Frank Lloyd Wright, Brooks’ architectural work is heavily influenced by natural forms.  In his words, “Understanding the structure of something is just as important as understanding its outward visible form, and in Nature, both are indivisibly connected.”   In the 1960s, he used the form of the shell to, “chart the cultural development of human species over a hundred thousand year period.” His current project involves building the shell from the 60s chart for use as a digital museum of culture.  This is the first donation to the Archives that has arrived primarily in digital form.