Achva Stein Collection 2016.-05
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
2023
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: 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
.
Content Description
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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the
Curator.
Preferred Citation
Achva Stein Collection, Environmental Design Archives. College of Environmental Design. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California.
Personal and Professional Records
1976-2010
Box 1, Folder 1
Diplomas, Awards, Certificates
1978-2001
Box 1, Folder 2
Forms and Functions in Islamic Gardens
undated
Scope and Contents
Student work, circa 1970s
Box 1, Folder 3
Landforms & Land Features in Arid Zones / The Spanish Colonial Grid-Iron City A case Study of Oaxaca & "Zocalo"
undated
Scope and Contents
Student works, independent study, circa 1970s
Box 1, Folder 4
Sudbury River Recreation Study
1978
Scope and Contents
Student work at Harvard University
Box 1, Folder 5
The Tidal North River Issues and Recommendations Harvard GSD
1976-1977
Scope and Contents
Student work at Harvard
Box 1, Folder 6-7
Articles and Clippings
1989-2010
Box 1, Folder 8
Articles by Stein
1983-1987
Box 1, Folder 9, flat-file-drawer R 5.1
Exhibits and Presentatons
2000-2008
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 1
Notin exhibit materials
undated
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 2
Windows of Opportunity exhibit materials
undated
Box 1, Folder 10
Amsterdam Avenue "Main Street" Heritage Heights Village Initative
undated
Scope and Contents
City College Architecture Center project
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 3
Berkeley-Richmond line planting plan
undated
Tube R 2.1, Tube 2
Beverly Hills Estates
undated
Box 2, Folder 1
Blessed Rock of El Monte
1997
Box 2, Folder 2, Tube R 2.1, Tube 2
Blacklist Project Blacklist Monument USC Fisher Gallery
1999-2000
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 4
Carmelitos Community Garden and Horticultural Training Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
undated
Box 2, Folder 3
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation community park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1995
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 5
Evetz Palgey Naeem / source of the Jordan River (Hula Valley, Israel)
1985
Box 2, Folder 14
Kinjo, Richard residence (Pasadena, Calif.)
1999
Tube R 2.1, Tube 1
Kiry at Shmone daylighting sewer system (northern Israel)
1982
Box 2, Folder 4, Tube R 2.1, Tube 2
Manteo, Town of plan update and design guidelines (Manteo, Vir.)
2003-2004
Box 2, Folder 5, Tube R 2.1, Tube 1
Migdal Haemek and Kibbutz Yifta (Israel)
1984-1986
Tube R 2.1, Tube 2
Montanoma School parkways and play area (Los Angeles, Calif.)
undated
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 6
Rainbow Canyon / Mount Washington (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1991
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 7
San Francisco, City of mini parks (San Francisco, Calif.)
1970
Box 2, Folder 7-9
Shaye, Eva (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
1997-2000
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 8
Shaye, Eva garden (Santa Monica, Calif.)
1996
Box 2, Folder 10, flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 9
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 10
University of California, Berkeley Wurster Hall courtyard competition (Berkeley, Calif.)
undated
Box 2, Folder 11
Uyemura residence (Newport, Calif.)
undated
Box 2, Folder 12
Veterans Park Preserve (West Los Angeles, Calif.)
1991
Box 2, Folder 13
Vista Nueva Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1997
Tube R 2.1, Tube 2
Washington School garden (Burbank, Calif.)
undated
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 11
Watts Garden Proposal (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1992
flat-file-drawer R 5.1, Flat-File 12, Tube R 2.1, Tube 3
West Hollywood, City of projects (West Hollywood, Calif.)
1984
