A life in architecture [electronic resource] : Indian dancing, migrant housing, Telesis, design for urban living, theater, teaching : oral history transcript / Vernon Armand DeMars ; with an introduction by Francis Violich ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1988-1989.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

A life in architecture [electronic resource] : Indian dancing, migrant housing, Telesis, design for urban living, theater, teaching : oral history transcript / Vernon Armand DeMars ; with an introduction by Francis Violich ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1988-1989.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755239394

DeMars discusses his California boyhood; Panama-Pacific Exposition, Indian dance performances; UC Berkeley School of Architecture, 1931; Telesis; various competitions and building designs; creativity studies with architects; figures in the profession: Eric Mendelsohn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Nat Owings, Ralph Rapson, Carl Koch, Don Reay, John Wells, Lawrence Halprin; includes joint interview with Jack Kent.

Transcript: 1 v. (xvi, 614 p.): ports. (col.) ; 29 cm.Supplementary material: 1 box (.2 linear ft.)

OCLC Econtent Synchronization Program

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8136029

OCLC Econtent Synchronization Program

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

Kent, T. J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jd507z (person)

T.J. Kent, born in 1917, was a pioneer in city and regional planning in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was a founding member of Telesis and the founding professor of the UC Berkeley department of City and Regional Planning. In 1964 he published The Urban general plan. He was also president of People for Open Space. He died in 1998. From the description of T.J. Kent papers, 1910-1993. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 40310914 ...

Riess, Suzanne B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6639ph4 (person)

Harry L. Sanders was the first full-time director of planning at Stanford University. He joined the Planning Office in 1956, was appointed director in 1960, and retired in 1976; during his tenure, Stanford experienced its greatest period of development since its opening in 1891. Thomas D. Church, a prominent landscape architect in the San Francisco Bay Area, was the landscape consultant for Stanford University and a member of its Architectural Advisory Council. From the description o...

Wurster Hall (Berkeley, Calif.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60055fm (corporateBody)

Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62845mv (corporateBody)

According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....

DeMars, Vernon, 1908-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d235qv (person)

Vernon Armand DeMars was born in San Francisco, California, in 1908. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1931. After jobs with the National Park Service and travel in the U.S. and Europe, DeMars worked from 1936- 1942 as district architect for the Farm Security Administration's regional office in San Francisco. In 1939, DeMars co-founded Telesis, a city and regional planning organizatio. He married Betty Bates in the same year, with whom...

Buechi, George

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt315n (person)