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Occupation
  
Architect

Died
  
April 29, 2005

Role
  
Architect

Name
  
Vernon DeMars

Practice
  

Vernon DeMars THE STUDENT UNION 1960 DESIGNED BY VERNON DEMARS DONALD HARDISON


Born
  
1908
San Francisco, California

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

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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.

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Vernon DeMars Wikipedia


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