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 un ...

. 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 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 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 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, 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. Bauer Wurster Hall, 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 yea ...

, 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 t ...

, 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 t ...

, 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 I ...

, 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 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 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 c ...

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 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 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 *

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

Golden Gate Bridge The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Pen ...

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 * 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 * 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, 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 Bing Wing Thom, (Chinese: 譚秉榮; 8 December 1940 – 4 October 2016) was a Canadian architect and urban designer. Born in Hong Kong, he immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with his family in 1950.Peter Walker * Harvey Wiley Corbett *

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

* 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 West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...

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 * 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 Un ...

* 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 *

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 ...

, 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 Alexa ...

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 * Penny Dhaemers *

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 * 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 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 wide ...

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 b ...

* 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 Urban planner, regional planner, systems theorist, scientist, urbanist, urban scholar, and futurist, as well as a Professor in the College of Environmental Design at the University of Californ ...

, 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 * Horst Rittel * Stanley Saitowitz *

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 * Claude Stoller * Jill Stoner * Stephen Tobriner * Marc Treib * Dell Upton *

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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