Identity elements
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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Department (fonds)
Title
Environmental Design Department
Date(s)
- 1992-2014 (Creation)
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Environmental Design became an independent department in February 1992, with Patricia Belton Oliver as the chair. Prior to that it was a program under the Industrial Design Department beginning in 1970 led by Bruce Burdick. Environmental design-related courses began as early as 1931 when the Industrial Design department began, under the leadership of Kem Weber. In the early 1960s a concentration titled "Design for Merchandising" was available under the ID Department, and by the late 1960s there was a concentration titled "Interior-space Design."
List of Chairs (including early Industrial Design Chairs):
Kem Weber (1932-1943)
George Jergenson (1947 - 1969)
Keith Teter (1969-circa 1986)
Environmental Design program
Bruce Burdick DIrector (1970-circa 1976)
Gaylord Eckles, Director (1977-1992)
Environmental Design Department
Patricia Belton Oliver (1992-circa 2002)
Peter di Sabatino (2003-2004)
David Mocarski (2004 - present)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The Environmental Design Department fonds is a top level archival unit that encompasses everything in the Archives created by the Environmental Design department. Under the fonds-level are the following collections: Environmental Design Department collection of documents and Photograph collection.
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Conditions governing access
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Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright held by Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.)
Digital materials and catalog records are made available for educational and research purposes only and cannot be reproduced, distributed, or published without written permission from Art Center College of Design.