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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
Title: Tito Patri Collection
Creator:
DeMars, Vernon, 1908-2005
Creator:
Royston, Robert
Creator:
Eckbo, Garrett, 1910-2000
Identifier/Call Number: 2016.-03
Physical Description:
13 Linear Feet:
1 document box, 21 flat file folders, 1 tube
Date (inclusive): 1955-2015
Abstract: The Tito Patri Collection spans the years 1955-2015. The collection is organized into four series: Personal Papers, Professional
Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. The collection includes a published sketchbook of his travel drawings, regional
studies and reports, and documents Patri's career designing landscapes for residences, businesses, and cities.
Language of Material:
English
.
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], Tito Patri Collection (CEDA 2016-03), Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Born in San Francisco on April 18th 1933 to Stella Nicole Patri, a bookbinder of rare books, and Giacomo Giuseppe Patri, a
prominent San Francisco artist and teacher, Tito Patri graduated with a B.S. degree from the College of Agriculture (UC Berkeley)
in 1955, and went on to work for Eckbo, Royston, and Williams (1954-1957), both in San Francisco with Robert Royston and Los
Angeles with Garrett Eckbo. In 1957 he worked on a few projects in the firm Patri Patri Patri with his brothers, architects
Remo and Piero. Tito taught landscape architecture and environmental planning at the College of Environmental Design at UC
Berkeley (1961-1970), and has lectured at a dozen universities in the United States and internationally, including the Technical
University of Munich where he was a guest lecturer in landscape planning (1974-1975) and the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
(2015).
He directed more than 30 environmental planning studies and master plans including: regional and local land use impact assessments,
site development based on natural and visual resource protection, and environmental management guidelines. His planning projects
include community and regional parks, as well as master plans for two major botanic gardens. His international interests led
him to study culturally and ecologically responsive tourism potentials in the Republic of Slovakia, and in 1964 participation
in a master planning team for two villages on the Island of Guam. He has also designed two estate gardens in Todi, Italy and
a community garden in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Patri chaired the California State Mining and Geology Board (1979-1982) and was honored as a Fellow of the American Society
of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 1987. He has served on design review committees for the University of California and The
Sea Ranch, and helped to write architectural and landscape design guidelines for Yosemite National Park from 2004 -2012. His
article, "Shifting Paradigms," written for the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design Department of Landscape Architecture
Centennial dealt with the vast changes within the field of Landscape Architecture between the 1950s to 1970s.
His professional experience includes landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental planning. After decades as a
principal of landscape planning and design projects, his efforts now emphasize design based on integrating ecological principles
and cultural factors.
Sources:
Tito Patri Collection (2016-03), Environmental Design Archives
Tito Patri, Landscapes for Living: Post War Years in Northern California, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (2015); accessed
online: https://tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/pioneers/berkeley/patri.html
S.F. Gate. Tuesday, January 17, 2006
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=162951211#sthash.mn8s0pxg.dpuf
The collection is organized into four series. Within each series, order has been imposed by the archivist as no original order
was evident.
The Tito Patri Collection spans the years 1955-2015, and is comprised of files created by Patri. The collection is organized
into four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. The collection documents Patri's
career designing landscapes for residences, businesses, and cities.
The Personal Papers series only contains. Professional Papers biographical information, correspondence from colleagues and
government officials responding to letters sent by Patri. Office records is comprised of a report on the Santa Cruz Mountains
Regional Pilot Study, as well as photocopies of covers for other reports that Patri conducted throughout his career. The Project
Records series contains photographs and drawings of Patri's design projects.
Collection was donated by the creator of the records.
For related materials to the items in this collection, please see the following finding aid:
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Landscape architects--California.
Landscape architecture--California.
Landscape architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Landscape design