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Wurster front courtyard

The need for leadership and innovation from urban planners and designers has never been more urgent.

As we face uncertain times in society and politics and witness disturbing environmental upheaval, your generosity makes a powerful statement — that you care deeply about educating the next generation of environmental design leaders and believe in their power to reshape our world.

Giving to the CED Fund is the most direct way for alumni, family, and friends to support the college.

Your unrestricted gift to the CED Fund is essential to helping our college grow and pivot to address changing needs on an ongoing basis.

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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE + ACCESS

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENT SUPPORT

CED students are a wonderfully diverse group. What they share is intelligence, inventiveness, and a commitment to making a difference through design practice. A design education requires exceptional resources and state support of higher education in California has been declining for decades. One of the most significant problems facing us today is the tremendous disparity of opportunity. Attracting and retaining a diverse and creative group of undergraduate and graduate students is a hallmark of CED and is crucial to providing a world-class design education. It is only with support from donors like you that CED is able to offer pathways and possibilities to all our exceptional students.

  • Diversity Fund (undergrad and grad)
  • Access for All Technology Assistance Fund (undergrad)
  • Undergraduate Scholarships
  • Named Graduate Fellowships

INTELLECTUAL SYNERGY

Today, it’s almost a matter of fact that the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning are housed together under one academic umbrella. But in the mid-20th century, no university in the United States had yet combined the three. The idea for such an integration came largely from William Wurster, for whom CED's brutalist building is named. Wurster, who valued the synthesis of knowledge and academic contributions in a way that would help shape the environment at large, saw environmental design as being inseparable from its social, political, economic, and cultural contexts. Since its founding in 1959, the college has seen countless environmental design pioneers who embraced the same thinking as William Wurster enter its doors.

Our extraordinary faculty hold a progressive vision for the future — one forged through the creative interaction of design, social and environmental justice, sustainability, and urban data and engineering. Your support allows us to focus on solving design and planning problems with innovative, cross-disciplinary solutions.

  • Faculty Research Fund
  • Sponsored Studios
  • Endowed Professors of Practice
  • Endowed Chairs ($3M Gift)

PRESERVING LEGACIES + FACILITATING ACCESS

There are a number of surprising artifacts hidden in the Environmental Design Archives. Eclectic treasures like a vintage silk handkerchief featuring a quaint rendering of a Japanese hotel or the briefcase and boots of noted landscape architect Thomas Church are just some of the unique items found within its walls.

But what’s most remarkable about the archives is its story: When William Wurster established the original Architectural Archives in 1953 under the advisement of architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock, its first acquisition included the personal papers and project records of Bernard Maybeck. Today, it is one of the largest architecture and landscape archival repositories west of the Mississippi.

The archives now hold over 200 collections spanning more than a century and contains primary source materials such as correspondence, reports, specifications, drawings, photographs, models, and artifacts. The collection houses the records of early architects of the First Bay Region Style including John Galen Howard, Julia Morgan, and Willis Polk as well as the landscape architecture holdings of plans and records by Beatrix Jones Farrand, Gertrude Jekyll, and Mary Rutherford Jay. The Environmental Design Archives have grown and thrived thanks to generous donors and those collecting, preserving, and sharing the records of leading designers whose works now live in one of the leading collections in the nation.

Much of that wouldn’t have been possible, however, without the efforts of Waverly Lowell who served as curator for the past 20 years.

PROVIDING ONGOING SUPPORT

Annual unrestricted support is critical to the survival and success of the archives. The operating budget is secured through grants, fees, and donations. Gifts like yours will ensure we can continue to share this outstanding resource with the college, UC Berkeley, the design community, and scholars around the world. You can learn more about becoming a friend of the archives at archives.ced.berkeley.edu.

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