Clare Cooper Marcus Collection 2011.-14

University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
2017
230 Bauer Wurster Hall #1820
Berkeley, CA 94720-1820
designarchives@berkeley.edu


Contributing Institution: University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
Title: Marcus, Clare Cooper Collection
Creator: Marcus, Clare Cooper
Identifier/Call Number: 2011.-14
Physical Description: 8 Linear Feet: 14 Document Boxes, 1 Flat Box
Date (inclusive): 1963- circa 1995
Language of Material: English .

Access Statement

Collection is open for research. Many of the Environmental Design Archives collections are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use.

Publication Rights

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the Curator.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Clare Cooper Marcus Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.

Funding

Arrangement and description of this collection was funded by the Beatrix Jones Farrand Endowment through the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department of University of California, Berkeley.

Biographical Note

Clare Cooper Marcus first attended the University of London where she graduated in 1955 with a bachelor's degree in Cultural and Historical Geography. Soon after in 1958, Marcus received a master's degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in Urban Geography. Marcus finished her education with master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 in City and Regional Planning. Her master's thesis at Berkeley was titled, Some Social Implications of House and Site Plan Design at Easter Hill Village: A Case Study, and outlined her, soon to be, lifelong interest in relations among physical environments and social behaviors.
In 1969, Clare Cooper Marcus began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and continued to teach there until 1994 when she retired from teaching full-time under the title of Professor Emerita. Her teaching emphasized the social implications of open space design; user needs in high-density housing; behavior in public open spaces; and the needs of children in the natural and built environment. Often calling herself an " Environment-Behavior Researcher," Marcus pioneered her own field concerning the psychological and sociological aspects of architecture, landscape, and urban design.
As a faculty member and professor, Marcus taught both undergraduate and graduate courses with her most popular and longest running class being "Social and Psychological Factors in Open Space Design." She continued research throughout her time at the University of California, Berkeley at sites throughout the Bay Area such as St. Francis Square (San Francisco, CA), Geneva Towers (San Francisco, CA), Easter Hill (Richmond, CA), and Eichler Towers (San Francisco, CA). Marcus conducts her research through detailed observations of people's behaviors and through interviews of residents. Her extensive research has prompted books such as House as a Symbol of the Self (1974) and Housing As If People Mattered: Site Design Guidelines for Medium-Density Family Housing (1986), as well as many other publications.
Participating in independent consulting work throughout her career, Marcus has worked with a variety of clients throughout the United States and the world in countries such as, Scandinavia, Netherlands, Iceland, Italy, Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Marcus' consulting work specializes in user-needs in design and creating healing and comfortable environments. Marcus has received numerous awards throughout her career such as the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 1989 to support her research on co-housing in Europe and the US and CELA Outstanding Educator Award in 1997.
Biographical Summary, Box 1 Folder 1, Clare Cooper Marcus Papers, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Conarroe, Joel, Letter from Joel Conarroe to Clare Cooper Marcus, April 5, 1989, Clare Cooper Marcus Papers, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Sarkissian, Wendy. Letter from Wendy Sarkissian to Willo P. White, September 5, 1983, Clare Cooper Marcus Papers, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Contents

The Clare Cooper Marcus collection is primarily comprised of course materials and student work from her time teaching at the University of California, Berkeley from 1969 to 1994 and research notes from her field studies at St. Francis Square (San Francisco), Geneva Towers (San Francisco), Easter Hill, and Eichler Towers. This collection is organized into two series and documents her academic and research career from 1963 until the early 1990s. Series I: Professional Papers consists primarily of Marcus' correspondence, consulting work, unpublished writings, and book reviews, but also includes biographical information such as Marcus' CVs and graduate school work between 1963 and 1964. Series II: Faculty Records contains teaching and course materials, and extensive, detailed research notes from her field studies throughout the Bay Area. Throughout these research notes Marcus provides an array of observational data that she and/or her students conducted that ranges from survey interviews of residential community members, drawings done by young school students, and photographs. The Clare Cooper Marcus collection provides a wide range of information on Clare Cooper Marcus' career from environmental behavior consulting to her academic pursuits in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Related Collections

Records of the Department of Architecture, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Easter Hill Village -- St. Francis Square (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Geneva Towers (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Eichler Towers
Landscape Architecture
Environmental Behavior
Architecture--Domestic--California--San Francisco Bay Area.
Landscape architecture--California.
Urban landscape architecture
Urban Behavior
Marcus, Clare Cooper

 

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS I. 1963-1974

Physical Description: 1.5 Linear Feet:3 Document Boxes
Language of Material: English.

Arrangement

This series is arranged chronologically.
 

Biographical A.

Box 1, folder 1

Curriculum Vitarum 1962-2010

Language of Material: English.
 

Student Work B.

Language of Material: English.
Box 1, folder 2

Graduate School Term Papers, City Planning 1963-1964

Language of Material: English.
 

Correspondance C.

Language of Material: English.
Box 1, folder 3-4

Thank You Letters, Letters of Recommendation 1955-1998

Language of Material: English.
 

Consulting D.

Box 1, folder 5

Reports 1969-1985

Language of Material: English.
 

Writings E.

Language of Material: English.
Box 2, folder 6-7

Published Photos from Housing as if People Mattered n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 2, folder 8

House as a Symbol of the Self 1974

Language of Material: English.
Box 2, folder 9-11

Unpublished Essays, Papers, Presentations 1974-2001

Language of Material: English.
 

Book Reviews F.

Language of Material: English.
Box 3, folder 12-14

Reviews of House as a Symbol of the Self 1976, 1992-1996

Language of Material: English.
 

Research Notes G.

Language of Material: English.
Box 3, folder 14a

Analysis of Interviews 1967-1968

Language of Material: English.
Box 3, folder 14b

Notes on Analysis, by Phyllis Hacket 1967-1968

Language of Material: English.
Box 3, folder 15

People's Park Protest 1969

Language of Material: English.
 

FACULTY RECORDS II. 1968- circa 1995

Physical Description: 6.5 Linear Feet:11 Document Boxes 1 Flat Box
Language of Material: English.

Arrangement

This series is comprised of four subseries with each subseries arranged chronologically. Course Materials and Student Work is arranged by course name and chronologically within each course. Research is further arranged by projects.
 

Administrative A.

Language of Material: English.
Box 4, folder 1

Department of Architecture Faculty Retreat 1987

Language of Material: English.
 

Teaching Materials B.

Language of Material: English.
Box 4, Folder 2

Course Accreditation Information n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 4, folder 3

Social Cultural Emphasis, CED 1973, 1988

Language of Material: English.
Box 4, folder 4

Graduate Course Proposal: Social/Cultural Factors in Design circa 1975, 1969

Language of Material: English.
Box 4, Folder 5

Graduate Course Proposal: Social/Cultural Factors in Design circa 1985

Language of Material: English.
Box 4, folder 6-7

Graduate Course Proposal: Social/Cultural Factors in Design circa 1995

Language of Material: English.
 

Course Materials and Student Work C.

Language of Material: English.
Box 5, folder 8

LA 102: Co-taught with Michael Laurie 1991

Language of Material: English.
Box 5, folder 9-10

LA 140: Social and Psychological Factors 1972-1993

Language of Material: English.
Box 5, Folder 11

LA 140: Lecture Notes 1990-1991

Language of Material: English.
Box 5, Folder 12-13

LA 140: Student Evaluations 1982

Language of Material: English.
Box 5, folder 14

LA 140: Student Work, "Compare Two Plazas" circa 1975

Language of Material: English.
Box 5, Folder 15

LA 140: Student Work, "Evaluation of Spaces" 1986, 1988

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 16

LA 140: Student Work, "Evaluation of Spaces" 1980-1981

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 17

LA 140: Student Work, Environmental Autobiography 1988

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 18

LA 151: Social and Psychological Factors in Open Space Design 1969-1971

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, Folder 19

LA 151/140: Handouts n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 20

LA 198: Social Context for Open Space Planning 1969

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 21

LA 200b: Studio n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 22

LA 202b: Advances Landscape Design and Detailing 1982

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 23

LA 240/198: Personal Values in Design and Planning 1974-1981

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 24

LA 240: Age Segregated Environments 1976

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 25

LA 240: Social, Cultural, and Psycgological Factors in Design 1993-1994

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 26

LA 240: Student Work 1993-1994

Language of Material: English.
Box 6, folder 27

LA 240: "Compare 2 Plazas" 1993

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, Folder 28

LA 298/198: Planning and Design for Urban Youth and Childhood 1974-1976

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, folder 29

LA 298: Studentwork 1976

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, folder 30

LA 298: Public Life and A Sense of Place 1988

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, folder 31

Arch 179: Architecture of Social Responsibility 1988

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, folder 32

Arch 200: Design Journal 1987

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, folder 33

Arch 201: Social Factors Criteria in the Design Process n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, folder 33a

Arch 209: People and Places 1981

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, folder 34

Arch 211/CRP 200: Environment of the Life Cycle, Fall 1986

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, Folder 35-36

Arch 219c: Programming and Evaluation 1991-1992

Language of Material: English.
Box 8, Folder 37-38

Arch 219d: Social Aspects of Housing Design 1982-1994

Language of Material: English.
Box 8, folder 39

Arch 219d: Post-Constuctural Site Planning Evaluations, Fall 1993

Language of Material: English.
Box 8, folder 40

Arch 219d: Lecture Notes n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 8, folder 41

Arch 219d: Student Work 1968

Language of Material: English.
Box 8, folder 42

Arch 219d: Student Work 1982, 1985

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 43-44

Arch 219d: Student Work 1987

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 45

Arch 219d: Student Work. Fall 1991

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 46

Arch 219d: Student Work 1992

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 47

Arch 219d: Student Work, Spring 1993

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 48

Arch 219d: Student Work 1994

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 49

Arch 240: Social Issues in Housing Form 1978-1980

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 50

Arch 298: Social and Psychological Factors in Housing Design 1971-1972

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 51

Arch 299: Social Housing Projects in 20th cent. Europe 1992

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 52

Unidentified Class Materials n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 53

Indian Rock n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 9, folder 54

Unidentified Student Work n.d.

Language of Material: English.
 

Research D.

Language of Material: English.
 

St. Francis Square, San Francisco 1. 1969

Language of Material: English.
Box 10, folder 55-59

Preliminary Analysis n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 10, folder 60-63

Survey/ Questionnaire n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 11, folder 64-65

Survey Maps n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 11, Folder 66

Blank Survey Maps n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 11, folder 67

Survey Data n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 11, folder 68

Interviews n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 11, folder 69-71

Observation Notebooks n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 11, folder 72

Site Plans n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 11, folder 73-74

Correspondence n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 11, folder 75

Photos n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 12, folder 76-77

Reports n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Flat-box 15, folder 78

Plan n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 12, folder 79

Children Essay. St. Francis Square, 3rd grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 12, folder 80

Children Essay. St. Francis Square, 4th grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 12, folder 81

Children Essay, St. Francis Square, 5th grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 12, folder 82

Case Study: St. Francis Square, Geneva Towers, Easter Hill n.d.

Language of Material: English.
 

Geneva Towers, San Franciso 2. 1969-1970

Language of Material: English.
Box 12, folder 83-84

Research and Consulting n.d.

Language of Material: English.
box 12, folder 84a

Interview: Ned Eichler, by C.C. Marcus and Phyllis Hacket 1967

box 12, folder 84b

Interview: Joseph Eichler, by C.C. Marcus and Phyllis Hacket 1967

Box 12, folder 85-86

Observation Notebooks n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 12, folder 87

Children Drawings, Geneva Towers, 1st grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 12, folder 88

Children Drawings, Geneva Towers, 3rd grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 12, folder 89

Children Drawings, Geneva Towers, 3rd grade 1969

Language of Material: English.
Flat-box 15, folder 90-91

Children Drawings, Geneva Towers, 6th grade 1969

Language of Material: English.
 

Easter Hill 3.

Language of Material: English.
Box 13, folder 92

Easter Hill Research Boycott n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 13, Folder 93-94

Children Drawings, Easter Hill, analyzed n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 13, folder 95

Children Drawings, Easter Hill, 2nd and 3rd grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 13, folder 96

Children Drawings, Easter Hill, 3rd and 4th grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 13, folder 97

Children Essays, Easter Hill, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 13, folder 98

Children Drawing and Essay, Easter Hill, 3rd grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
 

Eichler Towers 4.

Box 13, folder 99

Children Essay, Eichler Towers, 3rd grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 13, folder 100

Children Essays, Eichler Towers, 5th grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 13, folder 101

Children Drawings. Eichler Towers, 1st grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
 

Children's Work 5.

Language of Material: English.
Box 14, folder 102

Children Drawings, Survey Analysis n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Flat-box 15, folder 102a

Children Drawings, "Ideal Playground," 1st- 4th grade n.d.

Language of Material: English.
 

Observation Notebooks 6.

Language of Material: English.
Box 14, folder 103

Balconies and Patios n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 14, folder 104

Areas n.d.

Language of Material: English.
Box 14, folder 105

Parks n.d.

Language of Material: English.
box 14, folder 105a

Field Notes: Tapiola "New Town", Finland 1967

Box 14, folder 106-107

Unidentified Observation Notebooks n.d.

Language of Material: English.