Vernon Armond DeMars
Vernon Armond DeMars (February 26, 1908 – April 29, 2005) was an American architect and professor at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. He specialized in Modernist housing projects and public housing complexes.
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Vernon Armond DeMars
- Name
- Vernon Armond DeMars
- Born
- February 26, 1908
- Birthplace
- San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Died
- 29 April 2005
- Place of death
- Oakland, California, U.S.
- Movement
- Telesis, Second Bay Area Regional Style
- Spouse
- Elizabeth "Betty" Bates DeMars (1910–1987; death)
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- architect · professor
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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. He specialized in Modernist housing projects and public housing complexes.
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• Name — Vernon Armond DeMars • Born — February 26, 1908 • Birthplace — San Francisco, California, U.S. • Died — 29 April 2005 • Place of death — Oakland, California, U.S. • Employer — DeMars & Reay, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design • Notable Works — Wurster Hall • Movement — Telesis, Second Bay Area Regional Style • Spouse — Elizabeth "Betty" Bates DeMars (1910–1987; death)
Biography
Biography
Vernon Armond DeMars was born on February 26, 1908, in San Francisco. As one of the principal members of the group Telesis founded in 1939, 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 was part of a team that designed the 12-story Eastgate Apartments faculty housing project that Architectural Record magazine called one of the 50 most significant buildings in the United States of the past century. He later assisted his former MIT colleague Alvar Aalto in constructing the library at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon. DeMars, along with his architectural partner Donald Reay, taught at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. The pair was involved with redevelopment work in Marin City, California, that won recognition from Progressive Architecture magazine in 1960. • Illustration — Eastgate Apartments, a former residence hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Illustration — Former Easter Hill Village (now Richmond Village), Richmond, California
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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1908 at San Francisco. It is also recorded that vernon Armond DeMars died in 2005 at Berkeley.
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- Architecture in Support of Citizenry: Vernon DeMars and the Berkeley Student Union, Journal of Architectural Education, 2016
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q7922105: Vernon Armond DeMars
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- 1.Noted architect Vernon DeMars dies at age 97. UC Berkeley News. May 3, 2005.
- 2.Rourke, Mary. Vernon DeMars, 97; Architect Helped Start Design College at UC Berkeley. Los Angeles Times. May 7, 2005.
- 3.King, John. Vernon DeMars -- UC professor, architect who influenced Bay Area. SFGATE. May 4, 2005.
- 4.UC Regents. Reay, Donald. CED Archives.
- 5.First Design Award: Urban Design Project. Progressive Architecture. 41. 1. 100–107. January 1960.
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Architecture in Support of Citizenry: Vernon DeMars and the Berkeley Student Union, Journal of Architectural Education, 2016Crossref registry
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