Explore the singular, historic Bauer Wurster Hall at UC Berkeley, home to the College of Environmental Design

Although home to Berkeley's architecture department, Wurster is often voted Berkeley's ugliest building for its Brutalist, bare concrete appearance. But some of the "ugliness" is a result of functionality, like the concrete sunshades over windows to minimize energy costs.

2023年8月2日 · A new exhibition traces the rich history of UC Berkeley’s Bauer Wurster Hall, which has shaped generations of architects. A campus tour guide, nimbly walking backwards, gestures towards the concrete building that is home to the College of Environmental Design: “Isn’t it ironic that the architecture building is the ugliest on campus?”

Iconic Bauer Wurster Hall (1964), designed by Vernon DeMars, Joseph Esherick, and Donald Olsen, houses the college. Famed for its use of raw concrete, the building is an ideal place for experimentation: the architects aimed to design a “finished-unfinished” building to encourage students to define their own spatial experiences and modes of ...

The school is located in Bauer Wurster Hall on the southeast corner of the main UC Berkeley campus. It is composed of five departments: the Department of Architecture, the Department of City and Regional Planning, the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and the Institute of Urban & Regional Development.

2024年9月7日 · From the extensive patch of grass in the Wurster courtyard, to the roundtables and benches on Ong&Ong plaza, the building welcomes its visitors with its communal areas around its entrances.

Classrooms, studios, research labs, and facilities are spread across three sites: Anthropology and Art Practice Building (formerly known as Kroeber Hall) and Wurster Hall, located next to each other on the main UC Berkeley campus; and at the Richmond Field station (RFS), a …

William Wurster, then Dean, appointed four architects to collaborate and design the new building; those architects were Donald Olsen, Vernon DeMars, Joseph Esherick, and Donald Hardison.* Between the years 1958-1960, the architects met with a faculty building committee and Louis DeMonte, the campus architect to discuss each of the department's ...

For better or worse, Bauer Wurster Hall is unlike any building on the UC Berkeley campus. Completed in 1964, it has since confounded many a tour-group leader trying to reconcile its stark appearance with its identity as the architecture school.

2020年12月14日 · Wurster Hall, a nine-story concrete monolith that houses the College of Environmental Design in the southeast corner of campus, was originally named for William Wurster, an architect who was...