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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
Title: Bernard Clyde Cohen Collection
Creator:
Cohen, Bernard Clyde, 1929-2019
Creator:
Levorsen, Jim, 1929-2012
Creator:
Levorsen & Cohen
Identifier/Call Number: 2020.-02
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet:
1 cartons, 2 document boxes, 1 Flat File drawer
Date (inclusive): 1956-1996, n.d.
Date (bulk): 1956-1978
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], Bernard Clyde Cohen Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Bernard Clyde Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 4, 1929, he was known by his middle name Clyde. Clyde attended
MIT and then transferred to UC Berkeley, studying under Dean William Wurster, where he obtained a master's degree in architecture.
Shortly after graduation he entered business with Jim Levorsen.
Among his noted projects, done mostly with the modernist aesthetic, Clyde designed the award-winning Red Rock Hill (1962)
condominiums in the Diamond Heights District of San Francisco. In later years he turned his attention to commercial projects,
ultimately working as a lead project architect for the City of San Francisco. His commercial work included buildings for TRW
(n.d.) and facilities within the San Francisco Airport (1996).
Sources: SF Gate: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/bernard-cohen-obituary?id=1976125
This Collection is arranged into two series: Office Records and Project Records.
The Office Records document administrative operations, public relations efforts, financial transactions, and correspondence.
Clippings from newspapers and tear sheets from magazines in which Cohen's projects were featured, and some photographs are
included.
The majority of the Projects Records series documents Cohen's projects spanning the years 1956-1978, and documents his work
through drawings, photographs and slides, and administrative files. The majority of projects are residential in nature. Major
Projects within this series include the winning entry for the Diamond Heights/Red Rock competition (1962), Bitterbrush at
Lake Tahoe (1971) and San Francisco International Airport Garage 'D' (1996), where a significant number of plans and drawings
are retained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architects -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Architectural drawings
Architectural records.
Architecture -- 20th Century -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.