The College of Environmental Design, also known as the Berkeley CED, or simply CED, is one of fourteen schools and colleges at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. 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 Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

, the Department of

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and Regional Planning, and the Department of

Landscape Architecture Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...

and

Environmental Planning Environmental planning is the process of facilitating decision making to carry out land development with the consideration given to the natural environment, social, political, economic and governance factors and provides a holistic framework to ...

. CED is consistently ranked as one of the most prestigious design schools in the

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and the world. The Graduate Program in Architecture is currently ranked No. 6 in the world through

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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. The Urban Planning program is currently ranked No. 2 by Planetizen.

History

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. 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 John William Gregg (January 8, 1880, New Hampshire - 1969 Berkeley), was a 20th-century professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Gregg designed the townsites of California census-designated places Delhi, Calif ...

, 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 Vernon Armond DeMars (February 26, 1908 – April 29, 2005) was an American architect and professor at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. He specialized in Modernist housing projects and public housing complexes. Biography Vernon ...

. Originally, the school was located in North Gate Hall.

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, 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. 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 The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) is a research center at the University of California, Berkeley. CBE's mission is to improve the environmental quality and energy efficiency of buildings by providing timely, unbiased information on buildi ...

. 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

3D-printed 3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer co ...

sculpture, entitled "Bloom", which was composed of an iron oxide-free

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powder. This was the first printed structure of its type.

Undergraduate programs

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

, 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 * Master of City Planning * Master of Landscape Architecture * Master of Real Estate Development and Design *

Master of Science A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...

, Architecture *

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

, Architecture * Ph.D., City and Regional Planning * Ph.D., Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

Alumni and faculty

Notable alumni

* Hans Hollein, ''

Pritzker Prize The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produ ...

Laureate'' * David Baker * Kofi Bonner *

Alice Ross Carey Alice Ross Carey (November 10, 1948 – July 27, 2013) was an American preservation architect, advocate, and early practitioner of historic preservation, restoration, and reuse. Early life Alice Ross Carey was born in Brooklyn, New York, and ra ...

* Yung Ho Chang, head of the Department of Architecture at MIT *

Vishaan Chakrabarti Vishaan Chakrabarti (born March 29, 1966) is an American architect and professor. He is the founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), which is an architecture firm based in New York. In 2018 he was named a fellow of the American In ...

, architect and current dean * Thomas Church *

Edward Cullinan Edward Horder Cullinan HonFRIAS (17 July 1931 – 11 November 2019) was an English architect. Life Born in central London to Joy, an artist mother, and Edward, a doctor, Cullinan was educated at Ampleforth College, Queens' College, Cambrid ...

, 2008 recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal *

Charles M. Eastman Charles (Chuck) M. Eastman (May 5, 1940 – November 9, 2020) was a professor and a pioneer in the areas of design cognition,Eastman, C. M. (1969). “Cognitive processes and ill-defined problems: A case study from design.” Washington, DC. Bui ...

, pioneer of

CAD Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve co ...

and

building information modeling Building information modeling (BIM) is a process supported by various tools, technologies and contracts involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places. Building informatio ...

systems for architecture. * Walter Hood * Norman Jaffe * Jim Jennings *

Wes Jones Wesley Jones (b. Santa Monica, California January 27, 1958) is an American architect, educator and author. Founding partner of Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones, in 1987 and then Jones, Partners: Architecture in 1993, Jones is a leading architectural voic ...

* Ray Kappe, founder of the

Southern California Institute of Architecture Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is a private architecture school in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1972, SCI-Arc was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde and more adventurous than t ...

G. Albert Lansburgh Gustave Albert Lansburgh (January 7, 1876 – April 1969) was an American architect largely known for his work on luxury cinemas and theaters. He was the principal architect of theaters on the West Coast from 1900 to 1930. Life and career Lan ...

Gertrude Comfort Morrow Gertrude Comfort Morrow (February 13, 1888 – October 10, 1983) was an American architect who frequently collaborated with her husband, Irving Morrow. Early life and education Morrow was born Gertrude E. Comfort in San Francisco, California, an ...

Irving Morrow Irving Foster Morrow (September 22, 1884 – October 28, 1952) was an American architect best known for designing the Golden Gate Bridge. Early life He was born and raised in Oakland, California, the son of Susie (née Kirkman) and James Alexand ...

, designer of the

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Robert Murase Robert Murase (September 9, 1938 – July 19, 2005) was an American landscape architect. He worked throughout the Pacific Northwest in the field of landscape design. Biography Murase was born in San Francisco as a third generation Japanese-Am ...

, noted landscape architect *

Eric Owen Moss Eric Owen Moss (born 1943 in Los Angeles) practices architecture with his eponymously named LA-based firm founded in 1973. Education Moss was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1943. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Califo ...

, director of the

Vladimir Ossipoff Vladimir ‘Val’ Nicholas Ossipoff (russian: Владимир Николаевич Осипов; November 25, 1907 – October 1, 1998) was an American architect best known for his works in the state of Hawai'i. Biography Early life and s ...

* Margaret Read *

Ananya Roy Ananya Roy is a scholar of international development and global urbanism. Born in Calcutta, India (1970), Roy is Professor and Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She has been a p ...

* Robert Royston *

Stanley Saitowitz Stanley Saitowitz is an American designer. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1949. He received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Witwatersrand in 1974. He received a Masters in Architecture from the University of Calif ...

* Frederic Schwartz *

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon Barbara "Bobbie" Stauffacher Solomon (born 1928) is an American landscape architect and graphic designer. She is well known for the large scale interior Supergraphics that were highly influential in the 1960s and 70s and exterior signage at Sea ...

Edwin Lewis Snyder Edwin Lewis Snyder (July 2, 1887 – March 28, 1969) was an architect and pioneer in the use of Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture, building homes in Northern California for decades from the early to mid-twentieth century. The Snyder-desi ...

Marilyn Jordan Taylor Marilyn Jordan Taylor (born 1949) an American architect, who has been a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill since the early 1980s and served as its first female chairman. She specializes in urban architectural projects and designed the master ...

, chairman of

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel A. Owings, Nathaniel Owings in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, they were joined by engineer Jo ...

and dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design * Bing Thom * Peter Walker * Harvey Wiley Corbett *

Gwendolyn Wright Gwendolyn Wright is an architectural historian, author, and co-host of the Public Broadcasting Service, PBS television series ''History Detectives''. She is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, also holding appointments in both its ...

Michael Woo Michael K. Woo (born October 8, 1951), also known as Mike Woo, is an American politician and academic who was the dean of the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As a member of the Los Angeles City ...

, dean of the Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design, and current Los Angeles planning commissioner. * Ridwan Kamil, 15th Governor of

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Current faculty

Architecture

* Andrew Atwood * Mark Anderson * R. Gary Black * Jean-Paul Bourdier * Gail Brager * Dana Buntrock * Tom J. Buresh * Luisa Caldas * Chris Calott * Greg Castillo * Marco Cenzatti * Vishaan Chakrabarti * Raveevarn Choksombatchai * Renee Chow * Mary Comerio * Margaret Crawford * Roddy Creedon * Greig Crysler * René Davids *

Nicholas de Monchaux Nicholas de Monchaux (born July 30, 1973) is a designer and author, and currently Professor and Head of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. He was formerly Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the UC Berkeley College ...

* William di Napoli * Darell Fields * Danelle Guthrie * M. Paz Gutierrez * Lisa Iwamoto * Ajay Manthripragada * Rudabeh Pakravan * Keith Plymale *

Ronald Rael Ronald Rael (born 1971, Conejos County, Colorado) is an American artist known for architecture, human rights and environmental advocacy along the U.S - Mexico border, earthen architecture, and 3D printing. He works independently, and operates co ...

* Charles Salter * Stefano Schiavon * Simon Schleicher * Andrew Shanken * Kyle Steinfeld * Neyran Turan * Susan Ubbelohde

City and Regional Planning

* 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 Jennifer R. Wolch is a professor of Urban Planning, Geography and dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. Before accepting the dean position, Wolch was the Founder and Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities at the Universi ...

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

* 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

* Donald Olsen *

Nezar AlSayyad Nezar Al Sayyad (born October 10, 1956) is an architect, city planner, urban designer, urban historian, and professor emeritus at the University of California Berkeley in the College of Environmental Design, where he received the Distinguished ...

Christopher Alexander Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (4 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature o ...

, Professor Emeritus and developer of the Pattern Language *

Donald Appleyard Donald Sidney Appleyard (July 26, 1928 – September 23, 1982) was an English-American urban designer and theorist, teaching at the University of California, Berkeley.Catherine Bauer Wurster * Charles Benton * Denise Scott Brown, partner in

Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major architectural figures of the twentieth century. Together with ...

* Gary Brown *

Neil Denari Neil Denari (b. Fort Worth, Texas September 3, 1957) is an American architect, professor, and author. Based since 1988 in Los Angeles, Denari emerged in New York during the 1980s with a series of theoretical projects and texts based on the collap ...

Penny Dhaemers Margaret Penrose "Penny" Dhaemers (1926–2022) was an artist and professor in the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design (CED), specializing in fine, visual, and textile arts. She was the first woman to chair the Depar ...

Charles Eames Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker. In professional partnership with his spouse Ray Kaiser Eames, he was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the field of a ...

Garrett Eckbo Garrett Eckbo (November 28, 1910 – May 14, 2000) was an American landscape architect notable for his seminal 1950 book '' Landscape for Living''. Youth He was born in Cooperstown, New York to Axel Eckbo, a businessman, and Theodora Munn Eckbo ...

* Joseph Esherick, 1989 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal * Norma Evenson *

Richard Fernau Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

Paul Groth Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth (23 June 1843 – 2 December 1927) was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures. Bi ...

* Sir Peter Hall * John Galen Howard, founder of the Department of Architecture *

Sara Ishikawa Sara Ishikawa is an architect and academic specializing in people-space relationships. She is a professor emerita at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. She is co-author of ''A Pattern Language, The Oregon Exper ...

Allan Jacobs Allan B. Jacobs (born 29 December 1928) is an urban designer, renowned for his publications and research on urban design. His well-known paper ''"Toward an Urban Design Manifesto"'', written with Donald Appleyard, describes how cities should be l ...

Spiro Kostof Spiro Konstantine Kostof (7 May 1936, Istanbul – 7 December 1991, Berkeley) was a Turkish-born American leading architectural historian, and educator. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His books continue to be widely ...

Lars Lerup Lars is a common male name in Scandinavian countries. Origin ''Lars'' means "from the city of Laurentum". Lars is derived from the Latin name Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel". A homonymous Etruscan name was born ...

* Donlyn Lyndon *

Aaron Marcus Aaron Marcus (born 22 May 1943) is an American user-interface and information-visualization designer, as well as a computer graphics artist. Biography Marcus was always interested in both science and technology as well as visual communication ...

, graphic designer *

Clare Cooper Marcus Clare Cooper Marcus is a prominent educator in landscape architecture and architecture and a pioneer in the field of social issues in housing, open space design, and healing landscapes. Clare Cooper Marcus was born in 1934 and raised in a north ...

Richard L. Meier Richard Louis Meier (1920 - February 26, 2007) was a US regional planner, systems theorist, scientist, urban scholar, and futurist, as well as a Professor in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley. He was ...

, sustainable planning expert * Bernard Maybeck * Mike Martin *

Erich Mendelsohn Erich Mendelsohn (21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic Functionalism (architecture), functionalism in his projects for department ...

Roger Montgomery Roger Montgomery (1925–2003) was an American architect, and Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and University of California, Berkeley. Early life and education Roger Montgomery was born in New York City to parents Graham Livings ...

* Charles Moore, 1992 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal * Richard Peters *

Jean-Pierre Protzen Jean-Pierre or Jean Pierre may refer to: People * Karine Jean-Pierre b.1977, White House Deputy Press Secretary for President Joe Biden 2021- * Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet (1766–1823), French statesman and Peer of France * Eugenia Pierre ( ...

* Horst Rittel *

Geraldine Knight Scott Geraldine "Gerry" Knight Scott (July 16, 1904 – August 2, 1989) was a California landscape architect. She taught landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and was a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. S ...

Daniel Solomon Daniel Solomon (born 1945) is an abstract painter who uses intense, vibrant colour in his work, combined with complex, pictorial space, inspired by artists such as Jack Bush and is a painter and professor in Drawing and Painting at OCAD Univers ...

* Claude Stoller *

Jill Stoner Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian ( Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian. People with the given name *Jill Astbury, Australian re ...

* Stephen Tobriner *

Marc Treib Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system o ...

Dell Upton Dell Thayer Upton (born Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1949) is an architectural historian. He is emeritus professor at the department of art history at University of California, Los Angeles, and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University o ...

Sim Van der Ryn Sim Van der Ryn is an American architect. He is also a researcher and educator. Van der Ryn's professional interest has been applying principles of physical and social ecology to architecture and environmental design. Van der Ryn has promoted s ...

* William Wurster, 1969 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal

References

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External links

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