Bernard Clyde Cohen Collection 2020.-02
Katie Riddle; updated by Waverly Lowell and Hannah Brooks, 2023
Arrangement and description of this collection was funded by a donation from the family of Clyde Cohen.
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
December 2021
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: 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
.
Access Statement
Collection is open for research. Many of the Environmental Design Archives collections are stored offsite and advance notice
is required for use.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the
Curator.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Bernard Clyde Cohen Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Biographical Note
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
System of Arrangement
This Collection is arranged into two series: Office Records and Project Records.
Scope and Contents
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.
Related Materials
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architects -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Architectural drawings
Architectural records.
Architecture -- 20th Century -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
SERIES I. OFFICE RECORDS
1970-1996, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 2
Student Work: Civic Center for City of San Francisco
1952
Box 1, Folder 4
Levorsen & Cohen Partnership
Box 1, Folder 5
Brochure: Wong / Levorsen / Cohen
1978
SERIES II. PROJECT RECORDS, 1956-1996, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 8
Adobe Creek Bicycle Bridge (Palo Alto, CA)
1973
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Nolte, George S.
General
transportation
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 1, Box 1, Folder 9
Al Hirt's Sandwich Shop (Oakland, CA)
n.d.
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Herrington Olson
General
commercial
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Box 1, Folder 10
Bitterbrush / Lane, Gilbert (Lake Tahoe, NV)
1971
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Anthony M. Guzzardo Associates
General
residential-multi
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 3
Bridge over San Francisquito Creek (Palo Alto and Menlo Park, CA)
undated
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 2
Brown, Thomas (Bartlesville, OK)
n.d.
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 11, flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 2
Burnham, John R. (Fairfield, CA)
1965
Creator: Anshen & Allen
General
residential
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 3, Box 1, Folder 12
California Department of Transportation / CalTrans: 'M' Street Bridge (Merced, CA)
1971
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
General
transportation
Box 1, Folder 13, flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 3
California Department of Transportation / CalTrans: Putah Creek Bridge (Yolo and Solano County), n.d.
Creator: Nolte, George S.
General
transportation
Box 1, Folder 14, flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 3
California Department of Transportation / CalTrans: San Tomas-Steven's Creek Interchange (San Jose, CA), n.d.
Creator: Nolte, George S.
General
transportation
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 3
California Department of Transportation / CalTrans: San Antonio Street Bridge (San Jose, CA)
undated
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 3
California Department of Transportation / CalTrans: Chestnut Avenue Overpass (Fresno County, CA)
1974
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 3
California Department of Transportation / CalTrans: Harbor Drive Overpass (San Diego, CA)
undated
Box 1, Folder 15
California Teacher's Association Office (Burlingame, CA)
1959
Creator: Welton Becket & Associates
General
commercial
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 4, Box 1, Folder 16
Cohen, William (San Francisco, CA)
1960
Box 1, Folder 17
Competition: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
1959-1960
Box 1, Folder 18
Competition: International Monument at Auschwitz (Oswiecim, Poland)
1957-1958
Box 1, Folder 19
Competition: Masoleum of Qaide-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah (Karachi, Pakistan)
c.1960s
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 2, Box 1, Folder 20
Competition: National Cowboy Hall of Fame (Oklahoma City, OK)
c. 1955
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
General
cultural
flat-file-drawer R 22.6
Competition: Red Rock (Diamond Heights) (San Francisco, CA)
1962
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Eckbo, Dean, Austin & Williams
General
residential-multi
Box 1, Folder 21
Competition: The University Arts Center (Berkeley, CA)
c. 1965
Box 1, Folder 22
Couse Jr., Robert (Orinda, CA)
1956
Creator: King & Cohen
General
residential
Box 1, Folder 23 - 34, flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 5-5A-6
Diamond Heights low-rise and high-rise housing (Red Rock, San Francisco, CA)
n.d.
Creator: Aero Photographers
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 6A
El Monte Gardens INC. [Lots 11, 12, 13, 14] (San Francisco, CA)
1961
Project Type:
residential-multi
Box 1, Folder 35
Fallis, A.F. (Sunnyvale, CA)
1957
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 7
Fields, Michael (Atherton, CA)
1970
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 36
Gavello, E: Glen Model AA-909 (Sunnyvale, CA)
1956
Creator: Anshen & Allen
Creator: Gavello, Elmer
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 37 - 38
Gavello, E. (Atherton, CA)
1957
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 8
Gavello, Elmer & Nerli, Bill proposed tract houses (Lake County, CA)
1961
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 9
Golden Mountain Apparel Center & Hotel (San Francisco, CA)
1963
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 9, Box 1, Folder 39 - 40
Hoyt, Raymond (Belmont, CA)
1959
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 41
Kriss, J. (Stanford, CA)
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 42, flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 10
Lane-Tahoe Inc. / Bitterbrush (Incline Village, NV)
1971
Creator: Anthony M. Guzzardo Associates
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Lane, Gilbert P. [see Bitterbrush]
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 2
Larson, John W. (Ross, CA)
1974
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Kawamoto, Casey A. (1919-2010)
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 12
M' Street Bridge (Merced, CA)
1971
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Nolte, George S.
Project Type:
transportation
Box 1, Folder 43
MacDonnell, Gordon and Barbara (Diamond Heights, San Francisco, CA)
1966-1969
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 44
Marin Land Co. / Harbor Point Beach Club (Tiburon, CA)
1966
Box 1, Folder 45
Meding, Virginia
1972
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 46
Metric Prototype House
n.d.
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Wong, Robert K.
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 47
Milbrae, City of Fire Station No. 2 (Milbrae, CA)
c. 1974
Box 1, Folder 48
Mobil Gas Station
c. 1959
Box 1, Folder 49
Portugeis, Bert M. [California and Spruce Medical Center] (San Francisco, CA)
n.d.
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Project Type:
medical
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 11-12, Box 1, Folder 50 - 52
Roland, Dr. and Mrs. Sam (Atherton, CA)
1959
Creator: Wertheim, Ernest
Project Type:
residential
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 2
Roland, Dr. S. California Ave Stores (Palo Alto, CA)
1960
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 13, Box 1, Folder 53
Rossi, Tony (Millbrae, CA)
1960
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 54
San Francisco International Airport Garage 'D' (San Francisco, CA)
1996
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Box 1, Folder 55
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency: Golden Mountain (Chinatown, San Francisco, CA)
n.d.
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Chu, Mike H. T.
Project Type:
residential-multi
Box 2, Folder 1, flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 16
San Francisco Unified School District: Portable Classrooms (San Francisco, CA)
1969-1972
Box 2, Folder 2 - 5
San Francisco Unified School District: Daniel Webster Elementary School (San Francisco, CA)
1975
Project Type:
educational
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 14, Box 2, Folder 6
San Francisco Unified School District: Frank McCoppin Elementary School (San Francsico, CA)
1975
Creator: Lee, Melvin
Project Type:
educational
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 15
San Francisco Unified School District: George Peabody Elementary School (San Francisco, CA)
1975
Project Type:
educational
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 17, Box 2, Folder 7
San Francisco Unified School District: Relocatable Modular School Structures (San Francisco, CA)
n.d.
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Wong, Robert K.
Project Type:
educational
Box 2, Folder 8
San Francisco Unified School District: Sutro Elementary
Creator: Moss Photography
Creator: Robert Reinhardt
Box 1, Folder 56
San Francisco, City of Public Works; Departmet Headquarters at Pump Station No. 1 (San Francisco, CA)
1992
Creator: Wong-Cohen & Associates
Project Type:
governmental
Box 1, Folder 57
Schwartz, Paul, & Meyer (San Francisco, CA)
1962
Creator: Fein, Philip
General
residential
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 2, Box 1, Folder 58
Steinberg, Merrill (San Francisco, CA)
1963
Creator: Anthony M. Guzzardo Associates
Creator: Aero Photographers
Project Type:
residential
Box 1, Folder 59
TRW Micro-electronics Research and Development Building (Manhattan Beach, CA)
n.d.
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 2A, Box 1, Folder 60
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 2
Unidentified dorm and gym
undated
flat-file-drawer R 22.6, Flat-File 18, Box 1, Folder 61
United States A.I.D. and Nicaraguan Government: Four Libraries (Nicaragua)
n.d.
Creator: Levorsen & Cohen
Creator: Bermudez,, Humberto E.
Project Type:
educational
