William Rodarmor (born June 5, 1942) is an American journalist, adventurer, and translator of French literature . He is notable in the field of literary translation for having won the Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association , and the Albertine Prize .
98-578: Dwinelle Hall is the second largest building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley . It was completed in 1952. It is named after John W. Dwinelle , the state assemblyman responsible for the Organic Act that established the University of California in 1868, and who went on to serve as one of the first Regents of the University of California . Dwinelle is home to many of
196-550: A National Park Service ranger in Alaska in 1973–1975, led wilderness trips for Mountain Travel, he also worked for the U.S. State Department as a French interpreter, and in 1974 he joined a mountaineering expedition to Chile. Throughout the 1970s, Rodarmor was a freelance writer, writing on topics ranging from sailing and climbing to acupuncture and plastic surgery. He also worked as an editor for East Bay Review in
294-417: A French singlehanded sailor and popular author. Moitessier asked Rodarmor to translate his round-the-world saga, The Long Way , into English. This would be the first of over forty French-to-English book translations that Rodarmor would undertake during his decades-long career in literary translation. Inspired by Moitessier, in 1971 he sailed 30 days solo from Tahiti to Hawaii . Rodarmor worked as
392-517: A group of modernist buildings designed by Anshen & Allen , were built between 1963 and 1966 for the College of Chemistry . They joined the existing chemistry buildings Gilman Hall, Lewis Hall, and Giauque Hall. Latimer Hall, an 11-story building, was built between and to the north of Gilman and Lewis Halls in 1963. It is named after Wendell Mitchell Latimer , dean of the College of Chemistry in
490-449: A live and vital University into inflexible buildings [and] deprive it of its open spaces, its natural beauty and its true monumentality." Instead, heights would be governed by coverage (not to exceed twenty to thirty percent) and materials selection should be responsive to "the organic requirements of the occupants and ... create maximum practical internal flexibility". The 1952 plan also included high-rise dormitories, to be built south of
588-462: A master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. Rodarmor quit the law in 1970, when he was 28, and sailed from Panama to Tahiti , as a crew member on a 40-foot French ketch . This would be the first of many adventures he embarked on during the next decade; spending the 1970s rafting rivers and climbing mountains. While in Tahiti he met Bernard Moitessier ,
686-663: A multi-venue performance facility designed by Vernon DeMars, was completed in 1968. It is located west of Lower Sproul Plaza . The facility consists of two primary performance spaces: the 1,984-seat Zellerbach Auditorium, and the 500-seat Zellerbach Playhouse. William Rodarmor Rodarmor was born in New York City and pursued a bilingual education in English and French. He briefly practiced law in San Francisco but quickly abandoned it to sail to Tahiti. He then spent
784-447: A number of books by Gérard de Villiers , Tanguy Viel , and Katherine Pancol . Rodarmor concurrently pursued a career in journalism, including working as an associate editor for PC World in the late 1980s, and as the managing editor of California Monthly ( UC Berkeley 's alumni magazine) during the 1990s. In the 2000s he turned again to freelance writing. William Rodarmor was born in New York City on June 5, 1942, and attended
882-732: A number of notable buildings by early 20th-century campus architect John Galen Howard , his peer Bernard Maybeck (best known for the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts ), and their colleague Julia Morgan . Subsequent tenures as supervising architect held by George W. Kelham and Arthur Brown, Jr. saw the addition of several buildings in neoclassical and other revival styles, while the building boom after World War II introduced modernist buildings by architects such as Vernon DeMars , Joseph Esherick , John Carl Warnecke , Gardner Dailey , Anshen & Allen , and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill . Recent decades have seen additions including
980-607: A pool of "underpaid" freelance writers of varying skills. He weeded out the less-than-desirable reporters, and fought to raise the pay rate for the better ones. "Good writers are an editor's stock in trade," he says. "You have to treasure them and treat them right." In 2001, as part of the dot-com crash the publication went bankrupt, propelling him back into the world of freelance writing and editing. Rodarmor grew up in New York, and has long lived in Berkeley, California . He
1078-403: A remodeling and expansion project was completed in 1996, designed by Crodd Chin, Manville Hall was converted to offices and renamed Simon Hall; law student housing was moved to Manville Apartments in downtown Berkeley. In addition, the law building was expanded again. The modernist Biochemistry and Virus Laboratory, designed by Michael Arthur Goodman Sr., a professor of architecture, was built at
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#17327971490641176-599: A series of dramatic buildings on the southern part of the campus. These were originally to include a huge domed auditorium, a museum, an art school, and a women's gymnasium, all arranged on an eastward esplanade and classically oriented towards the campanile. However, only the Hearst Women's Gymnasium was completed before the Great Depression , at which point Hearst decided to focus on his estate at San Simeon instead. Underneath UC Berkeley's oldest buildings
1274-460: A southwesterly axis pointing towards the Golden Gate ), while the southern wing is aligned with the (at the time) newer section of campus containing Sproul Hall as well as the city grid to the south. Norman Jensen oversaw the construction of Dwinelle Hall, and the same firm that constructed San Francisco City Hall , Arthur Brown, Jr., selected the company of Weihe, Frick and Kruse to construct
1372-571: A stripped neoclassical mode; in addition, the Law Building (Warren C. Perry), 1951; Cory Hall (Corlett & Anderson), 1950; Warren Hall (Masten & Hurd), 1955; and Stanley Hall (Goodman), 1952, introduced flat-roofed, modernist forms. One of the first new developments in the postwar era was Cory Hall, which houses the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science in the northeast corner of campus. Originally 4 stories, it
1470-666: A suitable degree of association" with the cosmopolitan world. However, only "two considerable buildings would be required at [this] early period": a library and general assembly hall with classrooms. The first two common buildings, completed as North and South Hall in 1873, were built approximately where Olmsted had proposed. After the College of California became the public University of California in 1868, Olmsted's plans were set aside as impractical (mainly parkland, with only two major buildings) in favor of new plans from David Farquharson in 1869, although these plans also were never fully implemented. Shortly after Daniel Coit Gilman
1568-416: A translation" and that it should read like a book the original author would have written if he were fluent in English. In consequence he takes some liberties, especially with jokes, slang, and idioms when the author agrees. "Like most translators, I’m a ventriloquist," he says, "and I work hard to make people sound like themselves, and not like me." Rodarmor has won several translation awards, most notably
1666-455: A while he will even make factual corrections (i.e. dates of historical events) with the author's assent. But he abstains when translating primary sources, in order to preserve their integrity. This was the case when he made the first English translation of the 1933 memoir of Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill . He says that his goal is "to produce a text so smooth that the reader isn’t aware it’s
1764-499: Is a 4-story concert hall, and Morrison Hall is 2 stories. Both buildings are used by the Department of Music. Hertz Hall was named for the 1915-30 conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Alfred Hertz , who left his estate to Berkeley for music. Its 678-seat concert hall hosts free noontime concerts during the academic year. The building also houses the music department's collection of historic organs. Morrison Hall
1862-580: Is a system of steam tunnels which carry steam for heat and power. During the 1960s, Berkeley students chained the doorknobs of the Chancellor's office in protest over the Vietnam War. The Chancellor, having no other way in or out of the building, used the steam tunnels to escape. Afterwards, the exterior double doors on that building were changed so they only had one doorknob, and this remains today. From 1927 until his death in 1936, George W. Kelham
1960-550: Is also one of peculiarly cheerful interest." — Frederick Law Olmsted , Letter to S.H. Willey (1866) The first 160 acres (65 ha) of farmland in Berkeley were acquired by the privately held College of California in 1858, and the site was dedicated on April 16, 1860. Frederick Law Olmsted was commissioned to design the campus in 1864. Olmsted's design followed the City Beautiful movement and
2058-443: Is named after the lawyer and politician John W. Dwinelle , who introduced the Organic Act establishing the University of California . Its rooms are strangely numbered both because Dwinelle Hall was built with entrances on different levels on a slope and because its expansions were numbered differently from the original building. Because this confusing building is host to both large lecture classes and numerous discussion classes, it
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#17327971490642156-465: Is sometimes called the "freshman maze." In 1955, to transform the A & E study into a Long Range Development Plan, the Regents appointed a Committee on Campus Planning that included Regent Donald H. McLaughlin as chairman, Chancellor Clark Kerr , and William Wurster , who was both Campus Consulting Architect and dean of the College of Architecture. The plan was published in 1956. Wurster championed
2254-412: Is thus carried but to a certain distance, especially to the westward or southward, the view is everywhere exceedingly beautiful ... Even in stormy weather, there is great grandeur in the movements of the clouds rolling over their sombre slopes and declivities, and I remember a single scene of this kind as one of the most impressive I have ever witnessed. But on ordinary occasions the view to the westward ...
2352-653: The American Library Association for his translation of Ultimate Game , by Christian Lehmann [ fr ] . In 2017 he received the Northern California Book Award for Fiction Translation for his translation of The Slow Waltz of Turtles by Katherine Pancol . In 2021 he won the Albertine Prize for his translation of And Their Children After Them by Nicolas Mathieu . In 2023 he received
2450-531: The Berkeley Seismological Laboratory . It was named after Berkeley alumnus and former CIA director John A. McCone . A seismic retrofit and renovation was undertaken from 1997 to 1999. To reflect changes in conditions, a revised Long Range Development Plan was prepared in 1962 under the direction of an expanded Campus Planning Committee headed successively by Chancellors Glenn T. Seaborg and Edward Strong . In addition to Wurster,
2548-511: The Golden Gate Bridge . Evans Hall , a 10-story building designed by Gardner A. Dailey and completed in 1971, is the tallest instructional building on the campus and houses the offices of faculty in mathematics , statistics , and economics . It was named after Griffith C. Evans , chairman of mathematics from 1934 to 1949. It blocked the central axis and cast a tall shadow over the adjacent Hearst Memorial Mining Building, leading
2646-705: The Lewis Galantière Award and the Albertine Prize . In 1996 Rodarmor won the Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association for his translation of Tamata and the Alliance by Bernard Moitessier . The award is given biennially for a distinguished book-length literary translation from any language. In 2001 he received an honorary mention from the Mildred L. Batchelder Award , bestowed by
2744-836: The Lycée Français de New York , as well as Collège Beau Soleil in Switzerland, becoming bilingual at an early age. He enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1960, but dropped out to serve in the Army from 1961 to 1964. While in the service he learned Russian in California, and served as an Army Russian linguist in Germany. He returned to Dartmouth to earn his B.A. in 1966. After earning a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1969, he moved to San Francisco and spent one year practicing personal injury law. In 1984 he earned
2842-669: The Works Progress Administration and installed in 1936 on the Old Art Gallery, which originally served as a small utility building designed by Howard and completed in 1904. After Kelham died in 1936, the architectural duties in progress fell on his junior partner, Harry Thomsen . From 1938 to 1948, the San Francisco architect Arthur Brown Jr. , who had designed several notable buildings in San Francisco, Washington D.C., Stanford University, and elsewhere, served as campus planner and chief architect; he
2940-419: The humanities and social sciences departments of the College of Letters and Science : namely, the departments of classics , rhetoric , linguistics , history , comparative literature , South and Southeast Asian studies , film studies , French , German , Italian studies , Scandinavian , Slavic languages , Spanish and Portuguese , and gender and women's studies . Although many myths surround
3038-496: The 100s, level E of the 200s, and level F of the 300s. Cal Dining operates the Common Grounds cafe (temporarily closed) on level F of the classroom wing. 37°52′14″N 122°15′38″W / 37.87068°N 122.26044°W / 37.87068; -122.26044 Campus of the University of California, Berkeley The campus of the University of California, Berkeley , and its surrounding community are home to
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3136-491: The 1940s. Pimentel Hall, a round, 2-story lecture hall, was built north of Latimer Hall in 1964 and named after George C. Pimentel , inventor of the chemical laser. Hildebrand Hall was built in between Gilman and Lewis Halls to the south of the complex in 1966. It is named after Joel Henry Hildebrand , a long-time chemistry professor and dean, and houses the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and
3234-1086: The 1950s and 1960s. These included the Hearst Greek Theatre (1903), California Hall (1905), the Hearst Memorial Mining Building (1907), Sather Gate (1908), Durant Hall (1911), Wellman Hall (1912), the 307-foot (94 m) Sather Tower (1914; nicknamed "the Campanile" after its architectural inspiration, St Mark's Campanile in Venice), Doe Memorial Library (1917), Gilman Hall (1917), Hilgard Hall (1917), Wheeler Hall (1917), California Memorial Stadium (1923), (Old) LeConte Hall (1923), Haviland Hall (1924), and Hesse Hall (1924). Buildings he regarded as temporary, nonacademic, or not particularly "serious" were designed in shingle or Collegiate Gothic styles, including North Gate Hall (1906), Dwinelle Annex (1920), and Stephens Hall (1923). Multiple buildings and structures in
3332-517: The 1970s traveling, mountaineering, and sailing. He took odd jobs and wrote freelance. Sailing in the South Pacific, he met singlehanded sailor and author Bernard Moitessier in Tahiti . This led to Rodarmor's first book translation: Moitessier's round-the-world saga, The Long Way . He would go on to translate over forty more books, including Moitessier's popular Tamata and the Alliance , and
3430-613: The Albertine Jeunesse prize for his translation of The Last Giants by François Place [ fr ; ru ] . The Albertine Prize, co-presented by Van Cleef & Arpels and the French Embassy, recognizes American readers’ favorite French-language fiction title recently translated into English. In 2024 Rodarmor's translation of A Man with No Title by Xavier Le Clerc won the PEN Translates award,
3528-503: The CED faculty. The building was originally named Wurster Hall for William Wurster, dean of the School of Architecture and its successor, the College of Environmental Design (1950–62), and his wife, the public housing advocate and lecturer Catherine Bauer Wurster . The Chemical Biodynamics Lab, located east of Bauer Wurster Hall, was designed by Michael Arthur Goodman Sr., who had also designed
3626-555: The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library. Etcheverry Hall, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , was built in 1964. It was the first building built by the university on the north side of Hearst Avenue. The building was named after Bernard A. Etcheverry, a professor of irrigation and drainage from 1915 to 1951. Its basement housed the Berkeley Research Reactor from 1966 to 1987, and it now houses
3724-516: The Departments of Mechanical, Nuclear, and Industrial Engineering. Birge Hall, a 9-story building designed by John Carl Warnecke , was completed in 1964 to provide more space for the Department of Physics. It was named for Raymond Thayer Birge , who had been a professor of physics for 45 years (including 22 as department chair) when the new building was named in his honor. Bacon Hall, the university's elegant library and art gallery built in 1881,
3822-546: The Energy & Resources Group. On November 18, 2020, campus officials announced their decision to remove the name of Barrows Hall, due to David Prescott Barrows' history of white supremacy. Until a new name is chosen, it will be referred to as the Social Sciences Building. From 1915 to 1932, the site contained a cinder running track with wooden bleachers designed by John Galen Howard. Zellerbach Hall ,
3920-674: The Engineering Materials Laboratory, 1931 (later replaced by Davis Hall); and the Men's Gym, 1933 (remodeled and now named Haas Pavilion ). Bowles Hall is California's oldest state-owned dormitory and is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Perry is credited with designing Edwards Stadium , 1932. Two mosaic murals by Helen Bell Bruton ( Sculpture and Dance ) and Florence Alston Swift ( Music and Painting ) were commissioned by
4018-699: The Residence Halls in Southside were also built during this time. For the first time, large-scale demolition claimed buildings dating back to the 1880s. Hertz and Morrison Halls, both designed by Gardner A. Dailey & Associates, were completed in 1958. They are located south of the Faculty Club near the southeastern edge of campus and connected to each other by a covered walkway. Both buildings have gable roofs, and compared to other post-War developments, both are relatively small in size: Hertz Hall
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4116-720: The Victorian Second Empire-style South Hall (1873, Kenitzer and Farquharson) and Piedmont Avenue (Olmsted) being notable exceptions. What is considered the historic campus today resulted from the 1898 "International Competition for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California," funded by the wealthy eponymous philanthropist mother of William Randolph Hearst and initially held in Antwerp ; eleven finalists were judged again in San Francisco
4214-720: The Water Resources Center Archives. McCone Hall, a 7-story building designed by John Carl Warnecke , was built in 1961 across from the Doe Memorial Library on the northern side of Memorial Glade and adjoined to the western side of Hesse Hall. It was originally called the Earth Sciences Building, and now houses the Departments of Earth & Planetary Science and Geography, the Earth Sciences and Map Library, and
4312-756: The Worth Ryder Art Gallery, and the Anthropology Library. On January 26, 2021, Berkeley officials announced the removal of the name Kroeber Hall, citing Kroeber's unethical actions toward Native American communities. The original Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building, owned by the ASUC Auxiliary, was constructed with funds gained from the sale of the Cal sports teams to the university in 1959. The original building
4410-565: The Year in higher education reporting for "TKO in Sociology," the story of French sociology professor Loïc Wacquant who spent four years studying boxers in the Chicago ghetto. After a decade at California Monthly , Rodarmor accepted a position as the top editor of a web-based business publication, Links to Solutions . He found the new position to be challenging but exciting, starting with
4508-530: The brilliant translation of journalist William Rodarmor." A. Bowdoin Van Riper in reviewing The Fate of the Mammoth by Claudine Cohen [ fr ] said of the translation that it "reads smoothly and introduces only occasional infelicities." Multiple reviewers praised Rodarmor's translation of Nicolas Mathieu's bestseller And Their Children After Them , especially for his ability to translate
4606-406: The building, to view five staircases, two elevators, and four hallways. The office wing consists of seven floors, A (bottom) through G (top). There are exits on levels A and B. Level B has access to Ishi Court, a courtyard in the center of the office wing. Offices have four-digit numbers. The 1000s are located on level A, the 2000s on level B, the 3000s on level C, etc. There is also an attic area in
4704-400: The building. The construction site was initially intended for two separate buildings, and the annex was to be built with lower ceilings, and simple heating and ventilation systems, because it was designed to house offices rather than classrooms. Reinforced concrete was used in construction because "granite was no longer a viable facing option." The Dwinelle Expansion Project began in 1996 and
4802-461: The campus at UCLA in 1925. During his tenure, Kelham never prepared an overall campus plan update, which fell instead on Warren C. Perry , who had succeeded Howard as the head of the School of Architecture. Kelham designed several individual buildings, including Bowles Hall , 1928; Valley Life Sciences Building , 1930; International House , 1930; Moses Hall , 1931; McLaughlin Hall, 1931;
4900-492: The campus into four pieces: the park-like west side, as a buffer to the city of Berkeley; the central core, with its monumental buildings; the hilly east, "a majestic natural background and climax to the composition"; and the south, given to athletic pursuits. With the support of University President Benjamin Ide Wheeler , Howard designed more than twenty buildings, which set the tone for the campus up until its expansion in
4998-472: The campus that remain were built in the Beaux-Arts Classical style in the early 1900s, which was the style preferred by John Galen Howard and Phoebe Hearst (who paid his salary). This area is now referred to as the "classical core" of the campus. Howard reoriented the main campus axis to its present-day alignment along Campanile Way, as a continuation of the line of Center Street. This divided
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#17327971490645096-543: The classical core are listed as a single aggregated California Historical Landmark (no. 946) and also are listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places : John Galen Howard retired in 1924, his support base gone with both Phoebe Hearst's death and President Wheeler's resignation in 1919. William Randolph Hearst, seeking to memorialize his mother, contributed to Howard's resignation by commissioning Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan to design
5194-616: The committee included Consulting Landscape Architect Thomas Church , Campus Architect Louis A. DeMonte of the Office of Architects and Engineers and four other university officials. The new plan related to the California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960, which established the roles of the public junior colleges, state college system, and the University of California, and the subsequent University Growth Plan prepared by President Clark Kerr to guide academic development of
5292-507: The constrained site was inadequate to handle the forecasted explosive growth in enrollment, and he resigned his post in 1948. At Berkeley, he designed many of his last works, including the Cyclotron Building, 1940; Sproul Hall, 1941; Minor Hall, 1941; Donner Laboratory, 1942; and Bancroft Library (originally Doe Annex), 1949. After Brown's departure, the university's Office of Architects and Engineers (A & E), which
5390-435: The development of high-rise buildings to ensure that open spaces could be preserved, codifying the 25% coverage ratio, which also would "restore the campus to its old sculptural form." He also retained Brown's shortened main axis and first proposed the development of what would become Memorial Glade, north of Doe Library; in the immediate aftermath of the war, that space was occupied by temporary buildings. Student circulation
5488-510: The former committee chairman Donald H. McLaughlin to remark that it had become "painfully intrusive". A recent campus development plan lists Evans Hall as a candidate for demolition within the next fifteen years. Bauer Wurster Hall, a building for the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design , was completed in 1964 northwest of the Law Building. It was designed by Joseph Esherick , Vernon DeMars, and Donald Olsen , members of
5586-583: The general campus orientation initially proposed by Olmsted and followed by his successors has persisted, with the main axis of the campus running uphill from west to east along what is now Campanile Way. For the first half of the 20th century, Berkeley campus architecture was led by a series of three notable Bay Area architects famed for their work in San Francisco: John Galen Howard (1901–1924), George W. Kelham (1927–1936), and Arthur Brown, Jr. (1938–1948). The oldest parts of
5684-640: The heart of campus, after students barricaded themselves in Sproul during the 1964 Free Speech Movement . (Today, Sproul Hall houses Student Services and the Admissions Office, and Sproul Plaza is the center of student activities.) The northeast quadrant of campus, north of Strawberry Creek and east of Doe Memorial Library, was the site of the most active development during the 1960s. Several buildings were constructed for math, science, and engineering departments. Latimer, Pimentel, and Hildebrand Halls,
5782-706: The landscaping for Wurster Hall. During the 1960s, 17 major buildings were constructed on the central campus. Several more were developed on the peripheral sites, including Etcheverry Hall, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Unit 3 Residence Halls, and several parking structures. The upper hill was developed with two buildings by Anshen and Allen, Lawrence Hall of Science and the Silver Space Sciences Laboratory. The administration moved out of Sproul and into California Hall, situated in
5880-606: The late 1970s. In 1982 he went back to school, to pursue a master's degree in journalism at University of California, Berkeley , graduating in 1984. He said he especially enjoyed learning broadcasting from Bill Drummond and long-form writing from Bernard Taper and David Littlejohn. In 1983 Rodarmor published one of his more notable articles, an investigative piece that brought to light allegations of sexual abuse by guru Muktananda , titled “The Secret Life of Swami Muktananda" in CoEvolution Quarterly . He
5978-508: The main campus. Lawrence Halprin was retained as a consulting landscape architect and submitted a master plan in 1954, but it never was followed. The large building program of the immediate postwar years produced Lewis Hall (E. Geoffrey Bangs), 1948; Mulford Hall (Miller & Warnecke), 1948; the LeConte Hall addition (Miller & Warnecke), 1950; and Dwinelle Hall (Weihe, Frick & Kruse), 1952, which were all designed in
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#17327971490646076-590: The next year. This unprecedented competition came about from one-upmanship between the prominent Hearst and Stanford families of the Bay Area. In response to the founding of Stanford University , the Hearst Family decided to "adopt" the fledgling University of California and develop their own world-class institution. Although Émile Bénard , a Frenchman, won the competition, he disliked the "uncultured" San Francisco atmosphere and refused to personally revise
6174-407: The northeast corner of campus, where he had planned library and mathematics buildings. In addition, he designated uses for the unused northwest (forestry, agriculture, and home economics) and southeast (jurisprudence, anthropology, and arts) corners. The final version of the 1944 plan reduced open spaces on campus to a minimum, as maintaining the Beaux-Arts precedents using low, sprawling buildings in
6272-410: The northern office block of Dwinelle is often referred to as the "Dwinelle Annex," it should not be confused with the Dwinelle Annex, which is a wooden building located to the west of Dwinelle Hall. The Dwinelle Annex was designed by John Galen Howard and built in 1920. Until 1933, it was used for military science , after which it was used for music from 1933 to 1958. During these periods of use, it
6370-435: The odd construction of the building, Dwinelle Hall was designed by Ernest E. Weihe, Edward L. Frick, and Lawrence A. Kruse, with landscape artists Eckbo Royston & Williams. Construction was completed in 1953, with expansion completed in 1998. The southern block of Dwinelle Hall contains three levels of classrooms as well as four lecture halls, and the northern block houses seven stories of faculty and department offices. While
6468-486: The office wing. The classroom wing consists of five levels, B through F. There are exits on levels C and D; level B is underground. Levels C, D, and E in the classroom wing connect to levels C, D, E, and F in the office wing. Level F in the classroom wing connects directly to level G in the office wing. Classrooms have two- or three-digit numbers. Classrooms on level B have numbers beginning with "B", such as B55. Classrooms on level C have two-digit numbers. Level D consists of
6566-456: The old Stanley Hall, and completed in 1964. The Chemical Biodynamics Lab director was Melvin Calvin , the biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle , until his retirement in 1980, at which point the building was renamed the Melvin Calvin Laboratory in his honor. It continued to function as a laboratory until fall 2012, when it began to be repurposed as the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing , which opened in 2013. The renovation
6664-429: The original." Nancy Cirillo, in reviewing the translation of Stéphane Dufoix's [ fr ] Diasporas , said that "Rodarmor's translation is seamless, rendered with that appearance of effortlessness that only the most gifted and painstaking translators can accomplish." William Scherman, writing about Moitessier 's Tamata and the Alliance , called it a "runaway bestseller (...) available in English through
6762-416: The plan to the site. He was replaced by fourth-place winner John Galen Howard , who would become UC Berkeley's resident campus architect in 1901. Only University House , designed by architect Albert Pissis and completed in 1911 as a residence for the President of the University of California, was placed according to the original Bénard plan; today it is the residence of UC Berkeley's Chancellor. However,
6860-460: The pleasures of creative writing, and you never have writer’s block." His loyalty as a translator is to both the author and the reader, "but in a pinch, I try to help the reader," prioritizing their experience over producing a word-for-word translation. Along these lines, he favors the "stealth gloss," the practice of discreetly inserting a word or two to clarify an otherwise obscure passage. Similarly, he may expand obscure abbreviations. Once in
6958-405: The postmodernist Haas School of Business by Charles Willard Moore , Soda Hall by Edward Larrabee Barnes , and the East Asian Library by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects . Much of the UC Berkeley campus, including the major landmarks, is in the city limits of Berkeley. A portion of the UC Berkeley property extends into Oakland . "... the fact will be observed that if the range of the eye
7056-583: The site of what is now Stanley Hall in 1952. The building received a merit award from the American Institute of Architects in 1954. It was renamed the Molecular Biology and Virus Laboratory in 1963, and renamed again as Stanley Hall after the biochemist, virologist, and Nobel Prize winner Wendell Meredith Stanley upon his death in 1971. In 1997, it was rated seismically poor, and it was demolished in 2003. The new, current Stanley Hall
7154-550: The slang-rich book into American vernacular. Joshua Armstrong writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books said that "veteran translator William Rodarmor does a good job capturing this tone, deftly transposing the slangy French dialogue into its 1990s English equivalent." Similarly, Boyd Tonkin writing for the Financial Times notes that "Rodarmor’s salty and supple translation lends to Anthony and his pals
7252-490: The smartass, vulnerable voices of American, not British, rust-belt teens." O'Keeffe writing for The Times Literary Supplement said "Mathieu’s handling of quotidian and often gritty subjects is disconcertingly lyrical, and it is rendered well by William Rodarmor’s translation." On the other hand, Thomas Chatterton Williams writing for The New York Times deemed that the narrative had been "somewhat ineptly translated." Rodarmor has said that literary translation "has all
7350-689: The stories of sailing adventures with Tamata and the Alliance in 1995 and A Sea Vagabond’s World in 1998. Between 2014 and 2016, Rodarmor reeled off five spy thrillers by Gérard de Villiers , whose CIA contractor hero Malko Linge has been compared to that of Ian Fleming 's James Bond . Rodarmor has also translated a series of time-travel books by Guillaume Prévost [ fr ; fa ; it ; pt ] and novels by Katherine Pancol . Reviewers have called Rodarmor's translations "elegant" and "smooth." The Wall Street Journal in its review of de Villiers ' The Madmen of Benghazi said that Rodarmor's English translation "is actually better than
7448-432: The sunshine, just in time for graduation." As it was constructed on a slope, there are separate entrances to the building that connect directly to the first, second, third, and fourth floors. Classrooms require higher ceilings than offices, so the two wings' floors do not match up. On every floor, there is a hallway or staircase to connect the classroom wing to the office wing, and it is possible, positioned in certain areas of
7546-495: The university. Enrollment levels were established with a maximum at Berkeley of 27,500 projected for the mid-1960s. The revised plan also included the use of Strawberry Canyon and the hill area, as well as outlying campus properties not previously considered, and incorporated several landscaping proposals prepared by Church for the central campus, most notably the Springer Memorial Gateway on the west side and
7644-504: Was an associate editor for PC World magazine from 1986 to 1989, then the managing editor of California Monthly (U.C. Berkeley's alumni magazine) until 1999. During this time he wrote on a broad array of subjects, ranging from computers to medicine, but with a frequent focus on law. During his tenure at California Monthly , he received the Council for Advancement and Support of Education 's 1993 gold medal for Best Article of
7742-484: Was appointed during the planning phase for Stern Hall and the Administration Building, which would later be renamed Sproul Hall. Brown's Beaux-Arts credentials had been established with the design of San Francisco City Hall (1915). With his 1944 general plan, Brown broke the long east–west cross-campus axis that dated back to the earliest plans by Olmsted; he shortened it to terminate just before
7840-692: Was called the Military Sciences Building and the Music Building. Some remodeling was done in 1933 to accommodate the music department, and in 1949, it was enlarged to include a music library. Dramatic Arts and Comparative Literature moved into the building in 1958. More recently, the College Writing Program occupied the top floor. The annex is currently occupied by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies . The location and design of Dwinelle Hall
7938-409: Was chosen to allow easier access for the expanded student body after World War II , as well as for faculty after the center of campus shifted southward towards Sather Gate. Dwinelle's odd shape was not created on a whim or by accident. The north wing and office block are aligned with Berkeley's older buildings like California Hall , Wheeler Hall , and Doe Memorial Library (which are all aligned along
8036-451: Was completed in 1998. The project included the addition of two new floors to the office block, cost $ 10 million, expanded the building about 20%, and required the temporary removal of the roof. Dwinelle is frequently referred to as the "Freshman Maze" because of its confusing architecture. Soon after the building's construction, according to author William Rodarmor , students would "enter Dwinelle in their freshman year and emerge, blinking in
8134-610: Was considered, with a ten-minute class change time proposed. Thomas D. Church succeeded Halprin as consulting landscape architect for the campus in 1957, and oversaw the removal of most vehicle traffic through campus. Initial development under the new plan included Morrison and Hertz Halls, the Anthropology and Art Practice Building, the first phase of the Student Center, Campbell Hall, O'Brien Hall, and McCone Hall. University Hall on Oxford Street and first two units of
8232-800: Was demolished to provide space for construction. Davis Hall, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , was built in 1968 to the west of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building. It was named for Professor Raymond Davis, who spent 50 years on the Berkeley faculty and developed the Engineering Materials Laboratory into one of the world's finest. Davis Hall houses the offices of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, including its structural and earthquake engineering labs and teaching facilities. The building's ground-floor “structures bay” rises two stories, providing space for testing many types of materials and designs, from scale models of California highway overpasses to segments of
8330-402: Was designed by Vernon DeMars , professor of architecture. It contains an information center, multicultural center, lounges, a bookstore, restaurants and a pub, an art studio and computer lab. The Chavez Student Center was built in 1960 and named in honor of Cesar Chavez , the founding president of the farm workers' union. The building was once mainly a dining commons and lounge, but in 1990 it
8428-443: Was designed by Will G. Corlett & Arthur W. Anderson Architects and built in 1950 north of Hearst Memorial Mining Building . The building was named after Clarence Cory , who became the first professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Berkeley in 1892. Several renovations have been performed since then, including the addition of a distinctive fifth floor, designed by Crosby Thornton Marshall Associates, in 1985. Cory Hall
8526-587: Was done by Studios Architecture, a San Francisco firm founded in 1985. The Social Sciences Building, a 10-story modernist building designed by Aleck L. Wilson & Associates, was completed in 1964. Until 2020, it was named Barrows Hall after David Prescott Barrows , political science professor and president of the university from 1919 to 1923. It houses the Departments of Political Science, Sociology, African American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies, Native American Studies, and Gender & Women's Studies, along with
8624-458: Was established in 1944, assumed supervisory responsibility for campus planning and development. Under the direction of chief architect Robert J. Evans, the office produced a Campus Plan Study in 1951, departing from the Beaux-Arts designs championed over the past fifty years: "blindly following policies and concepts of monumentality unsuited to contemporary requirements ... would straight-jacket
8722-477: Was initiated in 1959, by Boalt Hall alumni who helped raise funds for building the Earl Warren Legal Center. At the same time, the university drew plans for additional classroom, office, and library space. A seven-story high-rise law student dormitory, Manville Hall, was made possible through gifts of other friends of the school. The three-part project was scheduled for completion in 1967. After
8820-815: Was married to novelist Thaisa Frank with whom he had a son, Casey Rodarmor (b. 1983), a UC Berkeley graduate in computer science known for his blockchain expertise. Rodarmor and Frank divorced in 2002. While studying law at Columbia in the late 1960s he forged a life-long friendship with his classmate Toby Golick (who later became a law professor). Later in life they renewed their romantic relationship. Together, Golick and Rodarmor won The New Yorker cartoon caption contest in 2010. Since 1970 Rodarmor has translated over 40 books and screenplays from French to English. Among his numerous authors, Rodarmor has translated several more than once. He started with Bernard Moitessier ’s round-the-world saga The Long Way [ fr ] in 1973, and continued
8918-605: Was named Boalt Hall, carried over from the prior building, but the name was stripped in January 2020 after the racist views of its namesake, prominent local lawyer John Henry Boalt , became public. In 2017, it was discovered that an 1877 speech by Boalt published by the California State Senate on "The Chinese Question" later was used to support the passage of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act . A four-story expansion, designed by Wurster , Bernardi, & Emmons,
9016-607: Was named after May T. Morrison, class of 1878, who left money for this building in her will, as well as for the Morrison Library in Doe. A 6-story building designed by Gardner A. Dailey was built east of the Law Building in 1959. Until 2021, it was named Kroeber Hall after the anthropology professor Alfred Kroeber . It houses the Departments of Anthropology and Art Practice along with the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology ,
9114-550: Was named the president of the University of California in 1872, William Hammond Hall wrote to Samuel F. Butterworth , a regent, and proposed to design the campus without remuneration for his services. Hall presented his final plan in February 1874; it was adopted and implemented slowly over the next twenty-five years, generally following Olmsted's ideas. Very little of these early University of California campus design implementations ( c. 1868–1903 ) remain, with
9212-435: Was opened in 2007. Dwinelle Hall was designed by Weihe, Frick and Kruse, architects, with Eckbo Royston & Williams, landscape artists. It was built in 1953 north of Sproul Plaza, to the west of Wheeler Hall. Expansion was completed in 1998. The southern block of Dwinelle Hall contains three levels of classrooms as well as four lecture halls, and the northern block houses seven stories of faculty and department offices. It
9310-399: Was renovated to house various student services. A modernist 3-story building designed by Van Bourg & Nakamura was built in 1959 adjoined to the eastern side of Hesse Hall. In 1968, it was named after Morrough Parker O'Brien , who spent two decades as an engineering professor before serving as dean of the College of Engineering from 1948 to 1959. It houses environmental engineering and
9408-439: Was sensitive to the natural topography, including Strawberry Creek , which ran through the site, and proposed an east–west axis aligned with the Golden Gate . If Olmsted's plan had been implemented, the campus would consist of student villages for living and learning, linked by meandering paths and surrounded by parks. He praised the site's distance from burgeoning San Francisco, providing both "a suitable degree of seclusion and
9506-558: Was supervising architect for the campus; Kelham previously had arrived on the West Coast in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and remained there to design notable replacement buildings, including the San Francisco Public Library that was integrated into Howard's Beaux-Arts design for the city government complex at Civic Center . Subsequently, he was appointed the supervising architect of
9604-580: Was the only site bombed twice by the Unabomber , in 1982 and 1985. A new building for the School of Law designed by Warren Charles Perry was dedicated in 1951, in the southeastern corner of campus at the intersection of Piedmont Avenue and Bancroft Way. The School of Jurisprudence originally had been in what is present-day Durant Hall (1912). The site of the new building followed the Brown plan. The building
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