California Architecture and Design

Christina Cogdell
Design
UC Davis

With UC Humanities Network support in 2011-2012, the Consortium on California Architecture and Design is now a thriving energetic and collegial group of fourteen scholars and three graduate students from six UC campuses, all of whom research aspects on California architecture and design, broadly defined. The existence of this consortium has significantly expanded the potentials of this field of study across the UC. The project continues the mutually enriching collaborations begun in the first year by deepening  graduate student mentoring through dissertation workshopping, enhancing the quality and prestige of work in the field by UC scholars, and institutionalizing California’s contributions to architectural history by building content for a California section of Archipedia, a Society of Architectural Historians digital humanities project.