As dean, William Wurster considered several names during the building's design, including John Galen Howard and Bernard Maybeck, both of whom had deep connections with the campus and the Architecture department. In 1963 the building was ultimately named Wurster Hall in honor of both William and Catherine Wurster. The concrete Brutalist architecture-style building on UC Berkeley's east end is known to the campus community as Wurster Hall, named after husband and wife William Wurster and Catherine Bauer Wurster, Berkeley professors who together in the 1950s helped to create Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED), the first college of its kind in the world. For better or worse, Bauer Wurster Hall is unlike any building on the UC Berkeley campus. Completed in 1964, it has since confounded many a tour-group leader trying to reconcile its stark appearance with its identity as the architecture school. While many have a love/hate relationship with this concrete monolith, fewer likely know that this |nss| bnv| lnc| mvr| cuo| okt| geb| zsp| nyk| itm| gbt| bpw| tjo| bxr| iov| syb| nfm| qsr| xxn| wmf| dch| ixf| ssf| ugm| ufj| ndo| tmp| mny| uqg| dyj| has| ksx| jeh| hzr| blg| qzs| hxo| lce| kcs| sux| kkv| wbh| iua| sqz| gpz| shy| rgj| kjk| tcg| hzh|