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AKA: Monterey Peninsula Junior College, Theater, Monterey, CA
Structure Type: built works - performing arts structures - theatres; built works - public buildings - schools - university buildings
Designers: Barnes, Edward Larabee, Architect (firm); De Mars and Reay, Architects (firm); Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons (WBE), Architects (firm); Edward Larrabee Barnes (architect); Theodore C. Bernardi (architect); Alexander Cooper Jr. (architect); Vernon Armand DeMars (architect); Donn Emmons (architect); Donald Patterson Reay (architect); William Wilson Wurster (architect)
Dates: constructed 1968-1970
Building History
Alexander Cooper, Jr., was the Edward Larrabee Barnes, Architect, Project Architect for the Monterey Peninsula Junior College, Student Union-Theatre-Amphitheatre. Two firms--Keeble and Rhoda and Douglas Barker--served as CA-based Associated Architects.
Building Notes
Architect Edward Larabee Barnes stated of this project: "The campus is bisected by a ravine. The student union and theater are at its head with the amphitheater between them. The ravine is now an artery and the amphitheater a campus center." (See Edward Larrabee Barnes Architect, [New York: Rizzoli, 1994], p. 242.)
Drawings and other records for this educational project in Monterey were placed in the Edward Larrabee Barnes Collection, Harvard University Library, Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design. See 28 Presentation Drawings in Tube A093; Project Files are located in Folders B072 and B073; photos, negative and slides are located in Folders C316-C321, C620, C669, and D102. Clippings on the work at the Monterey Peninsula College were locate in Folder F044.
Tel: 831.646.4000 (2011).
PCAD id: 4086
