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UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

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UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
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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 includes 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. In the QS World University Rankings, CED ranks as the top public university in the United States for the study of architecture and the built environment.

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Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
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History

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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]

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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

Faculty and Alumni

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Deans of the College of Environmental Design[6]

Notable Alumni

In 1998 CED established the Distinguished Alumni Award[7] to honor alums who have exhibited outstanding public service, in its broadest sense, throughout their careers. Recipients include: David Baker, Fred Blackwell, Kofi Bonner, John Cary, Yung Ho Chang, Clare Cooper Marcus, Dana Cuff, Charles M. Davis, Vernon DeMars, Garrett Eckbo, Lee Ehmke, Frederic C. Girot, Hans Hollein, Ray Kappe, Rodolfo Machado, Gerald M. McCue, Eric Owen Moss, Michael R. Painter, Robert Royston, Stanley Saitowitz, Frederic D. Schwartz, Jorge Silvetti, William K. Stout, Peter Walker, Lewis Watts, and Gwendolyn Wright.

Other notable alumni include:

Notable Current Faculty[8]

Notable Former faculty

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