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Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - university buildings
Designers: Halprin, Lawrence and Associates, Landscape Architects (firm); Mayhew, Clarence W.W., Architect (firm); Vaughan and Vaughan, Landscape Architects (firm); Lawrence Halprin (landscape architect); Clarence William Whitehead Mayhew (architect); Hollingsworth Leland Vaughan (landscape architect)
Dates: constructed 1952-1953
University of California Berkeley Professor H. Leland Vaughan (1905-1974) collaborated with the young landscape architect, Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009), on the landscape design of Alumni House Hall in 1954.
Progressive Architecture magazine awarded the University of California, Berkeley, Alumni House, an award citation in its First PA Design Awards, 1954. The Jury for this award program included: Victor Gruen, Eero Saarinen, George Howe, and Fred N. Severud. Manuscript information and drawings on this building have been archived in the "H. Leland and Adele W. Vaughan Collection, 1931-1956," at the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Environmental Design Archives.
PCAD id: 615
