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Environmental Design 6B notes from Tony Ds lecture Spring Quarter 1980 UC Berkeley. Tony would always do his presentation slide show lecture holding a cup of coffee. Also a concept thumb nail sketch for the project.
me in my office in Giannini Hall at UC Berkeley, in 1999, the year i did most of my initial research at Point Reyes National Seashore -- and i'm still working on it (wrote several paragraphs for the last chapter of the book manuscript this morning) sixteen years later. but not for much longer, i hope!
posted for throwback thursday
Centennial year!!
"To Rescue for Human Society the Native Value of Rural Life".
What a motto, in one of the most densely populated urban areas of the States! (The structure opened as part of the Agriculture complex.) There are interesting stories connected with this old building on the Berkeley campus, if you care to read them. . . see related. The close-up of the doorway in the attached article gives the full glory of the detail. And the story of how this motto was chosen is likewise intriguing. 1917.
noehill.com/alameda/nat1982004647.asp
From Waymarking.com: "Many people forget that U.C. Berkeley was founded as a land grant college. Wellman Hall, Hilgard Hall, and Giannini Hall form part of the original agricultural "quad" of the campus."
The clocktower at UC Berkeley that towers over the landscape. I've never been up it. Apparently, on a clear day, it gives you an amazing 360 degree view of the San Francisco Bay Area. Sketched the week before classes begin. Bye, bye summer.
UC Berkeley campus, Eucalyptus Grove.
Cow parsnip, a dramatic plant. One that I want to worry about every time I see it, wondering whether it is the poisonous giant hogweed. But surely it is not. The latter can become truly giant.
A great comparative chart supplied to me by another Flickr member last year--
www.dec.ny.gov/animals/72766.html
And:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_maximum
According to this, the "harmless" one can also cause dermatitis.