Vernon DeMars

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Vernon Armond DeMars (February 26, 1908 - April 29, 2005) was an American architect and professor at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design.

Biography[]

As one of the principal members of Telesis, he helped develop what Lewis Mumford called the Second Bay Area Regional Style. He, along with Joseph Esherick, designed Wurster Hall, Sproul Plaza and the Student Center at the University of California, Berkeley. While working as a visiting professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), DeMars co-directed a student research project that led to a 12-story faculty housing project that at the time Architectural Record magazine called one of the 50 most significant buildings in the United States over the past century. He assisted his former colleague Alvar Aalto in his construction of the library at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon.

DeMars, along with architectural partner Donald Reay, taught at the UC Berkeley School of Environmental Design. The pair designed the Golden Gate Village complex in Marin City, California, which won recognition from Progressive Architecture magazine in 1960. That location has come under more interest as of late as gentrification threatens its destruction rather than rehabilitation.

References[]

• http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/vernonarmanddemars.htm
• http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/03_demars.shtml

External links[]

• Finding aid to the Vernon DeMars Collection at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley

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