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The condemnation of decades of random development in the wake of the Loma Prieta earthquake leads to a renewed order envisioned for the campus.
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PLAN '96: Stepping Stones Build Willy-Nilly Haphazard development in the 60’s eschewed the formal master plan of 1937. Architecture had moved on, beaux-arts formal geometry and axis/symmetry was no longer in vogue. What happened to the Berkeley High School campus in the 60's (besides protests and sit-ins)?
And then the ground shookOn October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 pm, The Loma Prieta earthquake shook the Bay Area with a 6.9 magnitude. How did Berkeley High School survive the earthquake and what long term facility issues arose?
Float that BondThe Berkeley Unified School District, with state funding drying up, decided to take actions into their own hands. Proposition A was passed in 1992 and allowed for a $150 million bond issuance. This bond was utilized throughout the district, allowing for construction or renovation at each of the schools in the district. How did BUSD spend the Proposition A money at Berkeley High School?
Five Year Action Plan Understanding that a plan was needed to appropriately allocate the remainder of money funded through Proposition A, BUSD initiated a Request for Proposal process to select a Planning Firm to develop a new MasterPlan.. The District selected Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris (SMWM) to develop the 1996
BHS Master Plan, known as the Five Year Action Plan. "The 1996 BHS Master Plan had the authority which the '93 plan had lacked. There was no subsequent clamor for master planning for several years. The Milvia Street building is the "bricks and mortar" outcome of these sessions." excerpted from http://www.busduse.org/oldgym/
Resources Interview with ELS Architects, September 24, 2003 Interview with Judson Owens of the BUSD, September 30, 2003 Berkeley High Master Planning Archive, 1993-Present Berkeley Daily Planet article, May 7, 2001, on plans to completely demolish building B Berkeley Daily Planet article, Jan 19, 2001, on efforts to get students to eat on campus |
