The Environmental Design Archives provides primary source material for scholarly research, teaching
06/02/2023
Jerry Veverka residence, ca. 1980, Jerry Veverka Collection, Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley. See more of Architects designing for themselves and eachother in All Their Own http://exhibits.ced.berkeley.edu/exhibits/show/alltheirown
05/31/2023
Earl Nisbet (1926-2013) was a California architect who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in the early 1950s, returning to California in 1953 to pursue his own architectural career. This was a decade filled with creative and innovative projects for Nisbet, including Cabaña Tanglewood, the Falconer House, and the Doo House. Learn more from the "Remembering Earl Nisbet" exhibit at http://ow.ly/T5W950Ow3km
05/31/2023
Earl Nisbet, architect, “Sai Chow Doo residence,” Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley. Learn more about Earl Nisbet from the "Remembering Earl Nisbet" exhibit here: http://exhibits.ced.berkeley.edu/exhibits/show/rememberingnisbet
05/27/2023
Most designers began their careers designing single family homes. Nearly every collection in the Environmental Design Archives contains numerous designs for both home owners and developers. In addition to residences that reflect regional climate and lifestyle, these renderings particularly serve as documents of social history illustrating lifestyle, gender roles, family life, relationships, domestic desires, and the use of residential spaces. Check out more from the Designing People exhibit at http://ow.ly/o3yS50Ow2Qc. Olsen, Donald, 1919-2015 (Architect), “Finley, W.,” Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley.
05/25/2023
Wurster Hall drawing from the Joseph Esherick Collection. Exhibit to open early June!
05/12/2023
Quirk/Sahlberg Mausoleum, 1903 from The Henry & Mildred Meyers Collection. Check out the "Fatal Design" exhibit at http://exhibits.ced.berkeley.edu/exhibits/show/fatal
05/10/2023
Sketch from the Julia Morgan Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
05/08/2023
"Student Center, University of California, Berkeley Campus," the Vernon DeMars Collection, Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley.
05/05/2023
Recently viewed in the Archive "Plan of Garden for Mrs. Herbert Satterlee," Bar Harbor, Maine, 1936-1939 from the Beatrix Jones Farrand Collection.
05/03/2023
Allan Jacobs, Director of the San Francisco Department of City Planning from 1969-1974, “doodled” while on the phone. These blotters illustrate issues on the desk of the Planning Director and thoughts generated by these issues. Check out the online exhibit at http://exhibits.ced.berkeley.edu/exhibits/show/jacobsblotters
05/02/2023
Exhibit on Bauer-Wurster Hall coming soon! Sketch by Donald Olsen, March 11, 1960.
04/26/2023
Earth Week Collection Highlight: When designers Randy Hester and Marcia McNally began their work to save the endangered Black-faced Spoonbill in 1997, there were fewer than 500 Spoonbills counted. Years of dedicated engagement with students and partners using comprehensive and participatory approaches have created a hopeful outcome. In 2023, the Spoonbill count was 6,603.
Help us preserve the records of this amazing effort and make them available for future generations. Please donate to our Earth Week fundraising campaign http://ow.ly/2Zrn50NRRpp