PCAD - De Mars and Hardison, Associated Architects

View of the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Student Center, Commons Building, in the background of a public speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Berkeley, CA, May 17, 1967. From KQED Television, San Francisco State University (SFSU), Bay Area Television Archive

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Vernon Armand DeMars, Donald Leigh Hardison

Active 1950-1954, 1958-1962

Building Notes

This association of two architects lasted between 1950 and 1954, during the design of the Easter Hill Village Public Housing development in Richmond, CA. The two also collaborated on the design of the UC Berkeley's Student Union (1958-1961) and Zellerbach Hall (1962).

PCAD id: 4419

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Richmond Housing Authority, Easter Hill Village, Richmond, CA	1954-1955	Richmond	CA
Richmond Plaza Town Houses, Richmond, WA		Richmond	CA
University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Student Center, Commons Building, Berkeley, CA	1960	Berkeley	CA
University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Student Center, Union Building, Berkeley, CA	1959-1960	Berkeley	CA

Publications

Dober, Richard P., "2 Student Center, University of California, Berkeley", Campus Planning, 102-103, 1963. "The patio town house can look different from its neighbors...and offer better indoor-outoodr living than many a detached house", House and Home, 134-135, 10/1957.

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California Student Center/Lower Sproul Plaza, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California, Historic Structure Report

De Mars and Hardison, Associated Architects (Association)

Buildings and other works

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