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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
Title: Achva Stein Collection
Identifier/Call Number: 2016.-05
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet:
1 flat file drawer, 3 tubes, 2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1970-2008
Language of Material:
English
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The materials are arranged in two series: Personal and Professional Records and Project Files. The project files consist of
drawings and manuscript materials pertaining to specific projects. The Personal and Professional Records consist of materials
about Stein and also include some exhibition materials.
Achva Benzinberg Stein was born in Israel and came to the University of California Berkeley in 1965 to study landscape architecture
and received her Bachelors degree. She then received a Master of Arts in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate
School of Design. Stein taught and was the Director of the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Southern California;
a professor and department chair of the Landscape Architecture department at North Carolina State University; and the director
and founder of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture at the City College of New York. Since 2014, Stein has been
a Senior Lecturer at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, in addition to running her own practice.
Stein has received two Fullbright awards- one in 1979 to study landscape design in India, and her second one in 2002 to study
in Germany. She has received numerous teaching awards, and was named a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architecture
in 2003.
Collection open for research.
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the
Curator.
Achva Stein Collection, Environmental Design Archives. College of Environmental Design. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California.