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The '''College of Environmental Design''', also known as '''CED''', is one of 15 schools and colleges at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. The college is housed in Bauer Wurster Hall at the southeast corner of the main [[Campus of the University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley campus]]. It is composed of four departments: the Department of [[Architecture]], the Department of [[Urban planning|City]] & [[Regional planning|Regional Planning]], the Department of [[Landscape Architecture]] & [[Environmental Planning]], and the Institute of Urban & Regional Development.

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== History ==
The College of Environmental Design was founded in 1959, when Dean [[William Wurster|William W. Wurster]] brought together four existing campus units to create a multidisciplinary approach to the built environment: the School of Architecture (founded 1903 by [[John Galen Howard]]), the School of Landscape Architecture (founded 1913 by [[John William Gregg]]), the Department of City Planning (founded 1948), and the Department of Decorative Arts. Wurster Hall, designed by  CED faculty [[Joseph Esherick (architect)|Joseph Esherick]], [[Vernon DeMars]], and [[Donald Olsen]] to house the new college, opened in 1964; the building was renamed Bauer Wurster Hall in 2020 after archival documentation came to light revealing that the building name was intended to recognize both William W. Wurster and [[Catherine Bauer Wurster]], associate dean of the college, for their contributions to the founding of CED.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-05 |title=History of the College of Environmental Design - UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design |url=https://ced.berkeley.edu/about-ced/history |access-date=2025-05-06 |language=en-US}}</ref>

One of CED's early innovations during the 1960s was the development of the "four-plus-two" ("4+2") course of study for architecture students, meaning a four-year non-professional Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree followed by a two-year professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch) degree.<ref>{{cite web|website=ACSA|title=Architectural Education |url=https://www.acsa-arch.org/students/education.aspx|archive-date=July 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070722011233/https://www.acsa-arch.org/students/education.aspx}}</ref> The 4+2 program was meant to address the shortfalls of the traditional 5-year professional Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) program, which many architecture educators felt was too rushed and neglected the undergraduate's intellectual development in favor of a strong emphasis on practical design knowledge. The 4+2 program allowed one to receive a broader education including exposure to the liberal arts as an undergraduate and thus a deeper and more thorough education in architectural design as a graduate student. CED was also an early proponent of design for disability and green architecture, and is home to the [[Center for the Built Environment]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Design on the Edge: a Century of Teaching Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, 1903–2003|last1=Waverly|first1=Lowell|last2=Elizabeth|first2=Byrne|last3=Betsy|first3=Frederick-Rothwell|date=2009-01-01|publisher=College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley|isbn=978-0-9819667-3-1|oclc=940646191}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/aboutus/index.htm|access-date=2013-09-26 | website = Center for the Built Environment |title=About Us }}</ref>

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== Undergraduate programs ==
* [[Bachelor of Arts]], Architecture
* Bachelor of Arts, Landscape Architecture
* Bachelor of Arts, Sustainable Environmental Design
* Bachelor of Arts, Urban Studies

== Graduate programs ==
* Master of Architecture
* Master of Design
* Master of Urban Design<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/urban-design/master-of-urban-design|title = Master of Urban Design| date=11 December 2021 }}</ref>
* Master of City Planning
* Master of Landscape Architecture
* Master of Real Estate Development and Design
*[[Master of Science]], Architecture
*Master of Advanced Architectural Design
*[[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]], Architecture
* Ph.D., City and Regional Planning
* Ph.D., Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

== Alumni and faculty ==

=== Deans of the College of Environmental Design<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-05 |title=History of the College of Environmental Design - UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design |url=https://ced.berkeley.edu/about-ced/history |access-date=2025-04-04 |language=en-US}}</ref> ===

* 2021–2026: Renee Chow, Dean
* 2020–2021: [[Vishaan Chakrabarti]], Dean
* 2019–2020: Renee Chow, Acting Dean
* 2009–2019: [[Jennifer Wolch]], Dean
* 2008–2009: Sam Davis, Interim Dean
* 1996–2008: [[Harrison Fraker]], Dean
* 1988–1996: [[Roger Montgomery (architect)|Roger Montgomery]], Dean
* 1976–1988: [[Richard Bender]], Dean
* 1967–1976: William Wheaton, Dean
* 1966: John E. Burchard, Acting Dean
* 1963–1966: [[Martin Meyerson]], Dean
* 1959–1963: [[William Wurster|William W. Wurster]], Dean

=== Notable alumni ===
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* [[David Baker (architect)|David Baker]]
* [[Kofi Bonner]]
* [[Alice Ross Carey]]
* [[Yung Ho Chang]], architect and former head of the [[MIT architecture|Department of Architecture]] at [[MIT]]
* [[Vishaan Chakrabarti]], architect
* [[Thomas Church (landscape architect)|Thomas Church]]
* [[Edward Cullinan]], 2008 recipient of the RIBA [[Royal Gold Medal]]
* [[Charles M. Eastman]], pioneer of [[Computer-aided design|CAD]] and [[building information modeling]] systems for architecture.
* [[Hans Hollein]], ''[[Pritzker Prize]] Laureate''
* [[Walter Hood]]
* [[Norman Jaffe]]
* Jim Jennings
* [[Wes Jones]]
* [[Ray Kappe]], founder of the [[Southern California Institute of Architecture]]
* [[G. Albert Lansburgh]]
* [[Gertrude Comfort Morrow]]
* [[Irving Morrow]], designer of the [[Golden Gate Bridge]]
* [[Robert Murase]], noted landscape architect
* [[Eric Owen Moss]], director of the [[SCI-Arc|Southern California Institute of Architecture]]
* [[Vladimir Ossipoff]]
* [[Margaret Read]]
* [[Ananya Roy]]
* [[Robert Royston]]
* [[Stanley Saitowitz]]
* [[Frederic Schwartz]]
* [[Barbara Stauffacher Solomon]]
* [[Edwin Lewis Snyder]]
* [[Marilyn Jordan Taylor]], chairman of [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]] and dean of the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design]]
* [[Bing Thom]]
* [[Peter Walker (architect)|Peter Walker]]
* [[Alan Wanzenberg]]
* [[Harvey Wiley Corbett]]
* [[Gwendolyn Wright]]
* [[Michael Woo]], dean of the [[Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design]], and current Los Angeles planning commissioner.
* [[Ridwan Kamil]], 15th Governor of [[West Java]], [[Indonesia]]
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=== Former faculty ===
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* [[Donald Olsen]]
* [[Nezar AlSayyad]]
* [[Christopher Alexander]], Professor Emeritus and developer of the [[Pattern Language]]
* [[Donald Appleyard]]
* [[Catherine Bauer Wurster]]
* [[Charles Benton]]
* [[Jean-Paul Bourdier]]
* [[Denise Scott Brown]], partner in [[Robert Venturi|Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates]]
* [[Gary Brown (professor)|Gary Brown]]
* [[Vishaan Chakrabarti]]
* [[Mary Comerio]]
* [[Vernon DeMars]]
* [[Neil Denari]]
* [[Penny Dhaemers]]
* [[Anthony Dubovsky]], Professor Emeritus
* [[Charles Eames]]
* [[Garrett Eckbo]]
* [[Joseph Esherick (architect)|Joseph Esherick]], 1989 recipient of the [[AIA Gold Medal]]
* [[Norma Evenson]]
* [[Richard Fernau]]
* [[Paul Groth (geographer)|Paul Groth]]
* [[Peter Hall (urbanist)|Sir Peter Hall]]
* [[John Galen Howard]], founder of the Department of Architecture
* [[Sara Ishikawa]]
* [[Allan Jacobs]]
* [[Spiro Kostof]]
* [[Lars Lerup]]
* [[Donlyn Lyndon]]
* [[Aaron Marcus]], graphic designer
* [[Clare Cooper Marcus]]
* [[Richard L. Meier]], sustainable planning expert
* [[Bernard Maybeck]]
* [[Mike Martin (professor)|Mike Martin]]
* [[Erich Mendelsohn]]
* [[Roger Montgomery (architect)|Roger Montgomery]]
* [[Charles Willard Moore|Charles Moore]], 1992 recipient of the [[AIA Gold Medal]]
* [[Richard Peters (professor)|Richard Peters]]
* [[Jean-Pierre Protzen]]
* [[Horst Rittel]]
* [[Stanley Saitowitz]]
* [[Geraldine Knight Scott]]
* [[Daniel Solomon (architect)|Daniel Solomon]]
* [[Claude Stoller]]
* [[Jill Stoner]]
* [[Stephen Tobriner]]
* [[Marc Treib, Professor Emeritus]]
* [[Dell Upton]]
* [[Sim Van der Ryn]]
* [[William Wurster]], 1969 recipient of the [[AIA Gold Medal]]
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== Affiliated Research Centers ==
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* Terner Center for Housing Innovation
* [[Center for the Built Environment]]
* Center for Environmental Design Research
* Center for Cities + Schools

== References ==
;Notes
{{Notelist}}

;Citations
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/}}

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