UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
The College of Environmental Design, also known as CED, is one of 15 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The college is housed in Bauer Wurster Hall at the southeast corner of the main UC Berkeley campus. It is composed of four departments: the Department of Architecture, the Department of City & Regional Planning, the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, and the Institute of Urban & Regional Development.
History
The College of Environmental Design was founded in 1959, when Dean William W. Wurster brought together four existing campus units to create a multidisciplinary approach to the built environment: the School of Architecture (founded 1903 by John Galen Howard), the School of Landscape Architecture (founded 1913 by John William Gregg), the Department of City Planning (founded 1948), and the Department of Decorative Arts. Wurster Hall, designed by CED faculty Joseph Esherick, Vernon DeMars, and Donald Olsen to house the new college, opened in 1964; the building was renamed Bauer Wurster Hall in 2020 after archival documentation came to light revealing that the building name was intended to recognize both William W. Wurster and Catherine Bauer Wurster, associate dean of the college, for their contributions to the founding of CED.[1]
One of 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.[2] 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.[3][4]
Selected locations on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley
- Buildings and venues
- Landmarks
Undergraduate programs
- Bachelor of Arts, Architecture
- Bachelor of Arts, Landscape Architecture
- Bachelor of Arts, Sustainable Environmental Design
- Bachelor of Arts, Urban Studies
Graduate programs
- Master of Architecture
- Master of Design
- Master of Urban Design[5]
- Master of City Planning
- Master of Landscape Architecture
- Master of Real Estate Development and Design
- Master of Science, Architecture
- Master of Advanced Architectural Design
- Ph.D., Architecture
- Ph.D., City and Regional Planning
- Ph.D., Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Alumni and faculty
Deans of the College of Environmental Design[6]
- 2021–2026: Renee Chow, Dean
- 2020–2021: Vishaan Chakrabarti, Dean
- 2019–2020: Renee Chow, Acting Dean
- 2009–2019: Jennifer Wolch, Dean
- 2008–2009: Sam Davis, Interim Dean
- 1996–2008: Harrison Fraker, Dean
- 1988–1996: Roger Montgomery, Dean
- 1976–1988: Richard Bender, Dean
- 1967–1976: William Wheaton, Dean
- 1966: John E. Burchard, Acting Dean
- 1963–1966: Martin Meyerson, Dean
- 1959–1963: William W. Wurster, Dean
Notable alumni
- David Baker
- Kofi Bonner
- Alice Ross Carey
- Yung Ho Chang, architect and former 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.
- Hans Hollein, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- 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
- Alan Wanzenberg
- 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
Former faculty
- Donald Olsen
- Nezar AlSayyad
- Christopher Alexander, Professor Emeritus and developer of the Pattern Language
- Donald Appleyard
- Catherine Bauer Wurster
- Charles Benton
- Jean-Paul Bourdier
- Denise Scott Brown, partner in Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
- Gary Brown
- Vishaan Chakrabarti
- Mary Comerio
- Vernon DeMars
- Neil Denari
- Penny Dhaemers
- Anthony Dubovsky, Professor Emeritus
- 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, Professor Emeritus
- Dell Upton
- Sim Van der Ryn
- William Wurster, 1969 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal
Affiliated Research Centers
- Terner Center for Housing Innovation
- Center for the Built Environment
- Center for Environmental Design Research
- Center for Cities + Schools
References
- Notes
- Citations
- ^ "History of the College of Environmental Design - UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design". 2025-02-05. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
- ^ "Architectural Education". ACSA. Archived from the original on July 22, 2007.
- ^ Waverly, Lowell; Elizabeth, Byrne; Betsy, Frederick-Rothwell (2009-01-01). 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.
- ^ "About Us". Center for the Built Environment. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
- ^ "Master of Urban Design". 11 December 2021.
- ^ "History of the College of Environmental Design - UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design". 2025-02-05. Retrieved 2025-04-04.