1113,1111II, w? 3..., 3% w. 3.9 3.“.an . NW 9, M Nmmficm ma .fl 3% W1.» 3% I . k1) .1". VOL: \.l,. . J». .. , ,, V n. 1§<$491pvyililm 41%: 5f w ia @liforn lVEI'Sl 0f U11 EROSPECTUS Phebe Hearst aqrchz'z‘ecz‘aral (Plan OF THE 5 University. of California Berkeley, Cal. gémwj 2/24,, 5am: Km ML [95’4th [raw 5 .5? ‘.' ’ 5: j ' ‘ ”.5 M [I ’5“ 537% Qfifk £53?) w /, Wm, { i5 "‘ ‘~' «9.; ' -In. “14:5 .1 y“:- TILLJLLE‘ ,* mm; ' 0:500, QM:- nmw; ~ y .‘-.A.:A.<:;:-ww_ - «wm-H—woM— ,_. ‘-...__.__..—<_...__._ “v. _ Hm, ..___.~.._fi._ _-_dm. .v_“. .m._ A _r -_. A- ,_.ln- w._.~__._._._._4_. __ owl» _.._.va “— ._. ,-n—a—-—z:..a——..--._..—. .. M ‘sw-fiw-v—v—v‘j 4 ,v iww ‘7'me —— vw, “— —W;. :W‘V mm HE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA has undertaken an enterprise which it is hoped to make one of the most notable in the history of architecture; and in this hope it asks, through the wise and loving kindness of Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, the cooperation of the architects and artists of every land and clime, in the prepara- tion of a plan for an ideal home of education. The purpose is to secure a plan to which all the build- ings that may be needed by the University in its future growth, shall conform. All the buildings that have been constructed up to the present time are to be ignored, and the grounds are to be treated as a blank space, to be filled with a single beautiful and harmonious picture as a painter fills in his canvas. The University of California was founded under an Act of the Congress of the United States, passed in 1862. It received a large land-grant and subsidies, and still receives, in addition, a yearly income from the United States. The Charter of the University was granted to it by the State of California, in 1868, and a part of its income is derived from a tax of two cents on each $100 of the taxable wealth of the State, which income is, of course, constantly increasing in amount. It will thus be seen that the University has both a National and State character. Its present resources are valued at about nine million dollars and, in addition to the revenue \ M749238 derived from part of such resources, it has a yearly income of about $40,000 from the United States, and of about $250,000 from the State tax. The University has trebled its number of students in six years. It had 777 in 1891; it has 2300 now, and it will probably have 5000 after ten years, which is the number of students for whom the architectural plan should be calculated. The site of the University of California, at Berkeley, California, comprises two hundred and forty-five (245) acres of land, rising at first in a gentle and then in a bolder slope from a height of about two hundred feet above the sea level to one of over nine hundred feet. It thus covers a range of more than seven hundred feet in altitude, while back of it the chain of hills continues to rise a thousand feet higher. It has a superb outlook over the Bay and City of San Francisco, over the neighboring plains and mountains, and the ocean. It is the desire of those who have charge of this enter- prise, to treat the grounds and buildings together, landscape, gardening and architecture forming one composition, which will never need to be structurally changed in all the future history of the University. It is thought that the advantages of the site, whose bold slope will enable the entire mass of buildings to be taken in at a single coup d’oet'l, will permit the production of an effect unique in the world, and that the architect who can seize the opportunity it offers, will immortalize himself. It is seldom in any age that an artist has had a chance to express his thought so freely, on so large a scale, and with such entire exemption from the influence of discordant surround- U>~fl ~‘i .274 *' 1" ings. Here there will be at least twenty-eight buildings, all mutually related and, at the same time, entirely cut off from anything that could mar the effect of the picture. In fact, it is a city that is to be created, —-a City of Learning, — in which there is to be no sordid or inharmonious feature. There are to be no definite limitations of cost, materials, or style. All is to be left to the unfettered discretion of the designer. He is asked to record his conception of an ideal home for a Univer- sity, assuming time and resources to be unlimited. He is to plan for centuries to come. There will doubtless be develop- ments of science in the future that will impose new duties on the University, and require alterations in the detailed arrange- ment of its buildings, but it is believed to be possible to secure a comprehensive plan so in harmony with the universal prin- ciples of architectural art, that there will be no more necessity of remodeling its broad outlines a thousand years hence, than there would be of remodeling the Parthenon, had it come down to us complete and uninjured. In the great works of antiquity, the designer came first, and it was the business of the financier to find the money to carry out his plans. In the new building scheme of the Uni- versity of California, it is the intention to restore the artist and the art idea to their old pre—eminence. The architect will simply design, others must provide the cost. ~ About five million dollars have already been pledged for a beginning, and such a general desire to contribute has been manifested, that it is thought that all the funds required will be forthcoming as fast as the work can be carried on. .‘z_f rut ‘."fi~