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Design on the Edge:
A Century of Teaching
Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, 1903-2003
Edited by Waverly Lowell, Elizabeth Byrne, and Betsy Frederick-Rothwell
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An engaging and thoughtful look at first
hundred
years of teaching Architecture on the UCB Campus. A richly illustrated
combination of scholarly essays written by faculty and alumni about
their experiences; a timeline/chronology; lists of key people and
contributions; a color portfolio of a century of student drawings,
illustrate this 320 page monograph.
During the
first half-century John Galen Howard and Warren Perry brought the
traditional Beaux-Arts architectural education process to “the
provinces” of the West Coast. In the second half-century the department
became an energetic and innovative force in architectural education
under the leadership of William Wurster and Catherine Bauer Wurster, a
faculty member in the City and Regional Planning Department. In the
late 1950s and early 1960s Berkeley’s Architecture Department was the
first to incorporate design methods and processes, developed and taught
by internationally-known scholars Horst Rittel and Christopher
Alexander; the first include “social factors” in the teaching of
architecture and to regard architecture as an applied social science;
and possibly the first to establish a building science program.
Following Wurster, Charles Moore and subsequently Gerald McCue
translated Wurster’s ideas and energy into a practical curriculum like
no other.
Renowned architects including
Arthur Brown, Jr., Charles Moore, James Ackerman, Vernon DeMars, Ernest
Born, William Wurster, Donlyn Lyndon, Spiro Kostoff, Joseph Esherick,
Dan Solomon, Roselyn Lindheim, and Stanley Saitowitz, plus visiting
faculty Charles Eames and Erich Mendelsohn have been associated with
UCB’s Architecture Department as students, faculty, or both. This
extraordinary mixture of pioneering architects and their diverse and
broad views of design led the Architecture Department to
internationally influence the direction of the study and practice of
design.
WAVERLY
LOWELL, Curator of the Environmental Design Archives at the
University
of California, is active as an archival consultant, historian, and
educator.
ELIZABETH
BYRNE has been an art,
architecture and design librarian for more than 40 years. For the last
25 years she has headed the UC Berkeley Environmental Design Library.
BETSY
FREDERICK-ROTH (March ‘02), for many years as an archivist at
the
Environmental Design Archives, is now a historic preservation
specialist with the U.S. General Services Administration.
11.25” x 9.25” cloth, 320
pp., pub. date June 2010
978-0-9819667-3-1
$60
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