PCAD - Olsen, Donald, Architect

Exterior view of Wurster Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, c. 1974. From the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), College of Environmental Design Archive (EDA), Joseph Esherick / Esherick Homsey Dodge Davis Collection

Exterior view of the Olsen House, looking north from San Diego Road, Berkeley, CA, 2025. From Google Maps/Street View, accessed 07/16/2025

Exterior view of the University of California, Berkeley, Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA, 2010. From Wikimedia Commons, photo by Michael S. Bergin

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PCAD id: 3033

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
221 Bishop Avenue House, Point Richmond, Richmond, CA	1956-1957	Richmond	CA
775 San Antonio Road, Berkeley Hills, Berkeley, CA	1952	Berkeley	CA
775 San Diego Road House, Berkeley, CA	1956
Birge, Robert W., House, Berkeley, CA	1955	Berkeley	CA
Kip, Arthur F., House, Berkeley, CA	1952	Berkeley	CA
Olsen, Donald, House, Berkeley Hills, Berkeley, CA	1954	Berkeley	CA
University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA	1964-1965	Berkeley	CA

Publications

Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "8. Two Houses 1952 & 1956", Guide to Architecture In San Francisco and Northern California, 242, 1973. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "221 Bishop Avenue House, 1957", Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, 238, 1985.