Founding member, Telesis, San Francisco, CA, 1939. The American Planning Association (APA) awarded national historical landmark status to the Telesis group designating it as “The first volunteer-based group to bring multiple fields together successfully in a comprehensive approach to environmental development in a regional context”. (See "In Memoriam," University of California, Berkeley (UCB)Accessed 02/21/2014.)

Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA; Chairman, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1962-1964. Violich retired from teaching in 06/1976.

National Planning Pioneer, American Institute of Planners (AIP), 1992. Distinguished Alumni Award, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), College of Environmental Design, Berkeley, CA, 1999.

Graduate, Lowell High School, San Francisco, CA. B.S., Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1934; Graduate coursework, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Graduate coursework, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA.

Violich was born in San Francisco, CA.

His father emigrated from Dalmatia in 1889. At his death in 2005, he was survived by a sister, Clementine Nelson of San Francisco, and by a brother, John of Marin County, CA, who, at the time, was one of the oldest survivors of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.

Violich married Mariantonia Sanabria (d. 1989) of Caracas, Venezuela, while he was on his 1941-1942 research trip in Latin America.

Three sons and two daughters survived him: Antonio Violich of Watsonville, CA; Frano Violich of Boston, MA; Mario Violich of Venice (Los Angeles County), CA; Carmen Violich Goodin of Berkeley, CA; and Francesca Violich Arango of Coconut Grove, FL.

Violich traveled to Yugoslavia in 1937 to learn about his own Dalmatian heritage. He studied urban planning in Latin America during 1941-1942 on a research grant.

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