Outgoing

This event is in the past.It took place on February 1, 2026 at Environmental Design Library.

Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California 1
Decorative Exhibition
Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California 2
Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California 3
Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California 4
Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California 5

Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California

Southside

This exhibition finally gives six Asian American architects and landscape architects their due, tracing how they wove California regionalism into midcentury modernism. Professional drawings sit beside family portraits and wartime encampment photos, grounding their work in the messy, racialized reality of the mid-20th century.

Midcentury modernism
Architecture history
UC Berkeley archive
Asian American stories

Tips

📐free and open to the public during library hours
đŸ›ïžthe whole building is a design gem — explore Wurster Hall while you're here
đŸŽ€related symposium October 10 on Asian American identity and the built environment

Environmental Design Library

University of California, Berkeley, Wurster Hall, 210 Bauer, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

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Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California - Outgoing