works/sectors issue 06.4 architecture california the journal of the american institute of architects california council UC Berkeley’s Classical Core The UCs Landscape Heritage St. Basil’s Catholic Church AIA San Francisco: Rethinking Design/Build Celebration and Collaboration “Duke” Oakley: an Interview Why Not Fresno? Discovering the DNA of a Campus arcCA works / sectors issue 06.4 The UCs Content Campus Snapshots 14 ➔ Tim Culvahouse, FAIA UC Berkeley 16 ➔ Tim Culvahouse, FAIA UC Davis 18 ➔ Wendy Kohn UC Irvine 20 ➔ John Chase, AIA UC Los Angeles 22 ➔ John Chase, AIA UC Merced 24 ➔ Paul N. Halajian, AIA UC Riverside 26 ➔ Tim Culvahouse, FAIA UC San Diego 28 ➔ Eric Naslund, FAIA UC San Francisco 30 ➔ Steve Wiesenthal, AIA UC Santa Barbara 32 ➔ Dennis M. Whelan UC Santa Cruz 34 ➔ John Chase, AIA Charles “Duke” Oakley: an Interview 37 ➔ Kenneth Caldwell Campus Buildings 41 Under the Radar 54 ➔ Eric Naslund, FAIA Book reviews: NorCalMod 56 ➔ John Parman Component Feature: AIA San Francisco 59 ➔ Anne Laird-Blanton, AIA 05 Comment 07 Contributors 13 Correspondence 40 ... and Counting 64 Coda 3 Cover photo: Charles C. Benton arc 06.4 CA arcCA is published quarterly and distributed to AIACC members as part arcCA, the journal of the American Editor Tim Culvahouse, FAIA of their membership dues. In addition, single copies and subscriptions Managing Editor Laura Schatzkin are available at the following rates: Institute of Architects California Culvahouse Consulting Single copies: $6 AIA members; $9 non-members. Group, Inc. Subscriptions (four issues per year): $24 AIA members; Council, is dedicated to exploring $15 students; $34 non-members, U.S.; $38 Canada; $42 foreign. 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Gaudineer, AIA AIACC Staff Vice President of Cynthia Easton, AIA John S. Miller, AIA Executive Vice President Communications/Public Affairs Virgil C. Hancock, AIA AIA Redwood Empire Paul W. Welch, Jr., Hon. AIA Thomas M. Anglewicz, FAIA AIA East Bay Charles L. Beavers, AIA Director of Marketing and Communications Executive Vice President Bonnie Blake-Drucker, AIA AIA Santa Barbara Lori Reed Paul W. Welch, Jr., Hon., AIA Kristin Story, AIA 4 Comment First things first: a neglected acknowledgment. Caught up in the events of the AIA National Convention described in last quarter’s Comment, I set aside an earlier draft of the Comment and with it went the recognition that Lauren Bricker, who prepared a wonderful article for the “Preserving Modernism” issue, also helped tremendously in fram- ing the topics that we covered. I am very grateful to her for her insightful guidance. A colleague of mine from my days on the East Coast once observed that a messy desk has its own order, if not a visibly obvious one. Certainly, I know people whose desks are, to my eye, impenetrably cluttered, but who can nevertheless lay their hands on a particular item with no problem at all. The amazing thing to me about some of these desks is that they seem to remain at the same steady level of clutter, unchanging, month in and month out, while projects smoothly proceed. My mode is different. My desk piles up to a certain point and I have to stop what I’m doing and clean it up, or I simply can’t go on. I suppose it’s a mild form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but I find it useful. Whatever time I lose tidying is quickly made up in the more productive pace of work that follows. And getting the small, lin- gering tasks out of the way makes room for more important ones. Here at the end of 2006, I’ll pause to take care of two things that I should have been doing all along, but haven’t. Fellow Bay Area architect Bob Hermann, FAIA, has pointed out to me that, while we list our authors’ email addresses, my own has been difficult to find. (It’s been buried in the masthead.) So, here it is, below; I invite you to use it. (Remember: the editor’s garret is a lonely place.) I can also share our editorial calendar for the coming year. Our first quarter (professional practice) issue will be on patronage—from the classic, individual patron/architect relationship, like that between Phoebe Hearst and Julia Morgan, to institutional structures like the GSA’s Design Excellence program. The second quarter (archi- tect in the community) issue will look at the many forms, motivations, and consequences of design review. In the third quarter (AIACC Design Awards) issue, we’ll compare a range of awards programs, teasing out the divergent values represented in them. And our fourth quarter (works/sectors) issue will be on prefabrication. The first quar- ter issue is pretty well assigned at this point, but if you have suggestions for the others, please let me know. And I must correct three errors from arcCA 06.3, “Preserving Modernism.” The most significant of these, which I very much regret, was attributing the very fine article on the AIA Sierra Valley Chapter to Christina D. B. Frankel, AIA, and Mark Hart, AIA, whereas, in fact, Ms. Frankel was the sole author. Our apologies to her. Two errors in captioning require notice, as well. The photos on pages 24 and 25 of that issue are of Paffard Keatinge Clay’s San Francisco Art Institute addition, not his San Francisco State Student Union. And the captions on page 48 are reversed; the top image is 10th Street Place, and the bottom image is the Dean DeCarli Waterfront. Now I’m ready for the New Year. Happy holidays, Tim Culvahouse, FAIA, editor [email protected] 5 Contributors Kenneth Caldwell is a writer and communications Design Review Board for lower downtown. She taught John Parman writes for AIA San Francisco’s LINE consultant based in San Francisco. He may be reached urban design at the University of Colorado and directed (www.linemag.org) and other publications. He may be at [email protected]. the first Colorado Tomorrow conference on sustainable reached at [email protected]. urbanism. She currently writes about cities and archi- John Chase, AIA, is the Urban Designer for the tecture and consults on architectural development. She Dennis M.