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 buildings ...

, the Department of

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and

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, 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 ac ...

. 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

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History

In 1894,

Bernard Maybeck Bernard Ralph Maybeck (February 7, 1862 – October 3, 1957) was an American architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th century. He was an instructor at University of California, Berkeley. Most of his major buildings were in ...

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 John Galen Howard (May 8, 1864 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts – July 18, 1931 in San Francisco, California) was an American architect and educator who began his career in New York before moving to California. He was the principal architect at in ...

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 Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster (May 11, 1905 – November 21, 1964) was an American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners. A leading member of the "housers," a group of planners who advocated affordable housi ...

, 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

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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. 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

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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

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, 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 ...

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

Alumni and faculty

Notable alumni

Hans Hollein Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer

, ''

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 Yung Ho Chang () is a Chinese-American architect and Professor of MIT Architecture. He was formerly the head of the Department of Architecture at MIT. He studied at the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) before moving to ...

, head of the Department of Architecture at MIT * Vishaan Chakrabarti, 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, Cambri ...

, 2008 recipient of the RIBA

Royal Gold Medal The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture. It is gi ...

* Charles M. Eastman, pioneer of CAD and

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systems for architecture. *

Walter Hood Walter J. Hood (born 1958, Charlotte, NC) is an American professor and former chair of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. In 2019, Hood was awarded the MacA ...

* Norman Jaffe * Jim Jennings * Wes Jones * Ray Kappe, founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture * G. Albert Lansburgh *

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, designer of the

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* Robert Murase, 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 Southern California Institute of Architecture *

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 ...

* Robert Royston * Stanley Saitowitz *

Frederic Schwartz Frederic David Schwartz (April 1, 1951 – April 28, 2014) was an American architect, author, and city planner whose work includes '' Empty Sky'', the New Jersey 9-11 Memorial, which was dedicated in Liberty State Park on September 11, 2011, t ...

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 Owings in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, they were joined by engineer John Merrill. The firm ...

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

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 MIT. He was formerly Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the College of Environmental Design at the University of Cali ...

* William di Napoli * Darell Fields * Danelle Guthrie * M. Paz Gutierrez *

Lisa Iwamoto Lisa Iwamoto is an American architect, educator, and author. She is the founding partner of IwamotoScott, an architecture firm based in San Francisco, California. Iwamoto is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the ...

* Ajay Manthripragada * Rudabeh Pakravan * Keith Plymale * Ronald Rael * 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 Karen Chapple is an American city planning academic and currently holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Education Chapple received an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies at Columbia Univ ...

* 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 Donald Olsen (July 23, 1919 - March 21, 2015) was an important mid-20th-century Bay Area architect. He was born in Minnesota. He studied under Walter Gropius at Harvard and established an architecture practice in Berkeley in 1953. In 1954, he ...

* Nezar AlSayyad *

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 A pattern language is an organized and coherent set of ''patterns'', each of which describes a problem and the core of a solution that can be used in many ways within a specific field of expertise. The term was coined by architect Christopher Alex ...

* Donald Appleyard *

* Charles Benton *

Denise Scott Brown Denise Scott Brown (née Lakofski; born October 3, 1931) is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, ...

, partner in Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates * 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 col ...

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

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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 *

, 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 ...

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 widel ...

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 ...

Donlyn Lyndon Donlyn Lyndon is an American Third Bay Tradition architect and the Eva Li Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Lyndon was a co-designer of Sea Ranch, California. Education M.F.A. Archit ...

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 * Richard L. Meier, sustainable planning expert *

* 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 in his projects for department stores and cinemas. Mendelso ...

* Roger Montgomery * Charles Moore, 1992 recipient of the

* 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 * Stanley Saitowitz * Geraldine Knight Scott * Daniel Solomon *

Claude Stoller Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...

* Jill Stoner *

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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 of ...

* Dell Upton * Sim Van der Ryn * William Wurster, 1969 recipient of the

References

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External links

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