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Guide to the Landscape records for the University of California, Berkeley, 1959-1969
CU-411
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Collection Title: Landscape Records for the University of California, Berkeley,
Date (inclusive): 1959-1969
Collection Number: CU-411
Creator:
Church, Thomas Dolliver
Extent:
1 box, 24 oversize folders
Repository: The
Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Thomas D Church, Landscape records for the University of California Berkeley, CU-411 Ser. [x], Fol.
[x], University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Gift of Thomas Church to The Bancroft Library in 1972; transferred to University Archives in March 1988
Thomas Church was chief landscape architect for the Berkeley Campus from September 1961 through June 1969. Church was known
for his 'user-oriented' landscaping; in addition to his Berkeley and extensive private work he also did work for the UC Santa
Cruz campus and for Stanford University.
Prior to 1961, the university had used faculty members for landscaping advice; perhaps the best known of these was John Gregg,
whom John Galen Howard was known to consult on landscaping. During the 1950s Lawrence Halprin was hired to complete a master
plan for the development of the campus, but there seems to have been a disagreement between Halprin and the university administration,
and the plan came to naught. Still the building plans set forth in the Long Range Development Plan of 1956 called for an equally
intensive analysis of the campus landscape, which Church agreed to perform.
In addition to providing landscaping for the construction projects of the 1960s, Church also devoted much of his energy to
the open spaces on campus. Areas such as Strawberry Creek became much more of a focal point under Church's plan, which sought
to maintain and even emphasize the traditional park-like atmosphere of the campus in the face of intensive building.
The collection covers the period of Church's campus landscaping and includes correspondence, reports, photographs, and landscaping
plans for building projects of the 1960s as well as for the General Campus Improvement Plan being developed concurrently.