UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

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**UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design**

Established	1959^[2]
Type	Public Professional School
Endowment	$1.72 million^[1]
Dean	Harrison Fraker
Faculty	116
Students	1038^[1]
Undergraduates	660^[1]
Postgraduates	378^[1]
Location	Berkeley, California, USA
Admissions	M.Arch (19.44%); MLA (23.94%); MCP (13.38%)^[3]
Website	www.ced.berkeley.edu

The College of Environmental Design (CED) of the University of California, Berkeley is located in Wurster Hall on the main Berkeley campus. It is composed of three departments: Architecture, City and Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. It is one of the largest such colleges nationally.

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The CED is known for having a diverse faculty and broad curriculum that does not excessively favor any one particular line of thought, in line with peers such as the Yale School of Architecture and the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Indeed, one of the CED's early innovations during the 1960s was the development of the "four-plus-two" ("4+2") course of study for architecture students, meaning a four-year non-professional Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree followed by a two-year professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch) degree.^[4] The 4+2 program was meant to address the shortfalls of the traditional 5-year professional Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) program, which many architecture educators felt was too rushed and neglected the undergraduate's intellectual development in favor of a strong emphasis on practical design knowledge. The 4+2 program allowed one to receive a broader education including exposure to the liberal arts as an undergraduate and thus a deeper and more thorough education in architectural design as a graduate student.

The CED also has a large and well-respected library. Its collections include 178,000 volumes, 1200 serials, 200,000 slides, 40,000 photographs, and 8,500 digital images. It has a substantial rare book collection and subscribes to numerous indexes and references.^[5]

[edit] Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cal Profiles, "College of Environmental Design": http://calprofiles.vcbf.berkeley.edu/
^ The CED traces its history back to architecture instruction by Bernard Maybeck in 1894, landscape architecture instruction in 1913, and city planning instruction in 1948. However, the CED as a cohesive college was founded in 1959 to bring together all three programs.
^ Cal Profiles, 2005-2006, "Architecture," "Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning," and "City & Regional Planning": http://calprofiles.vcbf.berkeley.edu/
^ ACSA Architecture Education brief: https://www.acsa-arch.org/students/education.aspx
^ "2004-2005 Bulletin: CED Overview" page 6: http://cougar.ced.berkeley.edu/forms/bulletin.pdf