UC Berkeley Environmental Design Archives

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Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

The Thomas D. Church collection documents over two hundred of Church's projects through textual records, drawings and photographs. The collection is arranged in four series: Office Records, Project Records, Display Boards, and Additional Donations. The office records include correspondence relating to prospective (uncompleted) projects, subject files that contain photographs and clippings of landscape details and structures, public relations files and exhibit boards. The public relations files include correspondence regarding the publication of Church's work and photographs of Church projects. The exhibit boards also feature photographs, as well as drawings. Additional photographs are located with the project files....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

The Kaneji Domoto Collection spans the years 1928-2002 and includes personal, professional, and project records. This collection is organized into five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Taliesin Papers, Project Records (Architecture), and Project Records (Landscape Architecture).

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

Contains records related to the life and career of landscape architect Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000). The collection includes files created by Eckbo and the numerous firms with which he worked. Contains a wide range of materials documenting Eckbo's long, innovative and productive career as a designer, planner, and author. The Personal Papers contain biographical material, personal correspondence, student work and travel photographs, as well as portraits and family photographs. Project records document a wide spectrum of Eckbo's large- and small-scale projects, including pedestrian malls, civic centers, waterfronts, public parks, churches, playgrounds, freeway systems, botanic gardens, cemeteries, office buildings, resorts, residences, and ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

This collection contains audio/visual materials digitized from the Brian and Edith Heath/Heath Ceramics Collection (2011-1). A/V materials include archival footage of Edith Heath in her garden in Tiburon, California and at a ceremony for her oral history published through the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO); as well as two videos of still images of Edith Heath's personal artwork and her ceramic work for Heath Ceramics.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

The collection consist of personal and professional papers, records of Farrand's work as a landscape architect, and records relating to the Reef Point Library.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

Howard A. Friedman was born in New York City in 1919. In 1949, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in architecture. After several years with San Francisco architecture firms, in 1953 he formed his own practice, which in 1967 became Howard A. Friedman and Associates. Friedman worked as an architect and planner until 1982. During 35 years of practice, Howard's firm compiled a distinguished record of nationally recognized designs, with projects in Northern California, Nevada, Georgia, Texas, Mexico, France, Holland, and Spain. In 1980 he was appointed Professor in the Department of Architecture at ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

The collection, which spans the years 1884-1931 (bulk 1891-1927), consists of records, drawings, and photographs relating to John Galen Howard's architectural career. The collection comprehensively documents the buildings for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle, Washington. It also shows Howard's architectural influence on the University of California, Berkeley campus beginning with the Phoebe Hearst Competition and continuing through his 22 years as Supervising Architect. This collection contains no records pertaining to his work as a Professor or as the Director of the School of Architecture. The collection is organized into seven series: Personal papers, Professional papers, Office records, Project records, University ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

Contains records related to the life and career of landscape architect Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) who practiced primarily in England. Documents Jekyll's collaborative relationships with architectcs, especially Edwin Lutyens, through project records. Records include correspondence, photographs, drawings, and albums.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

Contains records related to the life and career of landscape architect Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) who practiced primarily in England. Documents Jekyll's collaborative relationships with architects, especially Edwin Lutyens, through project records. Records include correspondence, photographs, drawings, and albums.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives