Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- William P. Coburn Collection
- Dates:
- 1977-1983
- Creators:
- Coburn, William P.
- Extent:
- 2 Linear Feet: 2 flat files
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], William P. Coburn Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The William P. Coburn Collection consists of drawings documenting 13 projects of primarily residential architecture and landscape designs. There are also two commercial projects of which Coburn designed the signage for storefronts in Oakland, CA.
- Biographical / historical:
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William P. Coburn, born in 1944, is an architect based in Berkeley, CA. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Arts in 1966, and a Masters in Architecture from Harvard School of Design in 1971. In 1978, Coburn opened his firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. Coburn's projects are primarily based in the East Bay and Contra Costa County, but there have also been projects in Seattle, WA; Martha's Vineyard, MA; Hong Kong; and India. Coburn's practice focuses on creating designs that include existing urban and cultural contexts, and solutions to environmental problems. Coburn's work includes residential projects, historic preservation, multi-family homes, and landscape design.
William P. Coburn is also the author of "A Northern California Modernist Architect," published by Archetype in Fall 1980.
Sources: "About Firm." William P. Coburn, Architect, 2013, wcoburn.freeservers.com/about.html. Accessed 20 February 2020.
William Pierce Coburn, prabook.com. Accessed 20 February 2020.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-12-18 23:06:21 UTC .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research. Many of the Environmental Design Archives collections are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use.
- Terms of access:
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All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the Curator.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], William P. Coburn Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
- Location of this collection:
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230 Bauer Wurster Hall #1820Berkeley, CA 94720-1820, US
- Contact:
- (510) 642-5124