John Galen Howard Designer of the core buildings of the Univ of Cal Berkeley
Wow, or Ow! I have been absent for over a month. I went to a great program on campus, today. that is UCBerkeley, as people here like to call it "CAL", but I do not feel that familiarity. To me, it is Berkeley. Met Alumni Robert and Nancy Mueller, who were very nice people; he is an architect and she works in real estate and they have lived here since their days at CAL. She and I were congruent in our observations during the tour. It was very creative. A professor created a course in Art History, focussing on the architect responsible for the buildings at Cal, which like the institution, itself, are diverse, and it would like to think,'democratic'. Margaretta M. Lovell, Jay D. McEvoy Professor of American Art History created the course, for undergraduates which examines the architecture of John Galen Howard. He did many other commissions in the bay area. It is phenomenal how many buildings he has done at Berkeley, and there ...