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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
Title: William P. Coburn Collection
Creator:
Coburn, William P.
Identifier/Call Number: 2020.03
Physical Description:
2 Linear Feet:
2 flat files
Date (inclusive): 1977-1983
Language of Material:
English
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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.
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the
Curator.
[Identification of Item], William P. Coburn Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
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.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architects -- California.
Architects -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Landscape architects--California.