Marc Treib Collection, 1959-2012
Scope & Contents note
The Marc Treib collection spans the years 1959-2012, and is organized into five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, Project Records and Posters. The Collection documents his career including his education, writing, speaking, architecture, landscape, graphic, book, and exhibit design and teaching.
The Personal Papers series is divided into five subseries. The majority of this section includes some examples of student work from high school through graduate school, including his Fulbright Fellowship in Finland. There are few examples of his early artwork and photographs of his Berkeley home.
Professional Papers is the largest series in the collection. The first subseries includes one folder of professional correspondence. The following three subseries consist of correspondence, drafts, and research materials related to Treib’s writing projects including articles, essays, chapters in books, monographs, lectures, and conferences. The correspondence, plans, and drawings for exhibitions designs demonstrate the range and depth of Treib’s research interests and his contributions to the profession. Also included in this series is information on his involvement in various professional organizations, reviews of his work and honors he has received. Faculty Papers includes teaching materials, slides, samples of student work and records documenting his involvement in the department.
The Project Records series contains drawings and plans for architecture and landscape projects and competition entries, as well as records pertaining to book and graphic design. The final series, Posters, is primarily flat folders of the posters Treib designed throughout his career, mainly for lectures in the Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, and the Department of Dramatic Arts, UCB.
Dates
- Creation: 1959-2020
Access Statement
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the Curator.
Biographical note
Marc Treib (1943- ) was born in New York, NY; he later moved to Miami, Florida where he attended high school. During high school he began his study of architecture and design, laying the foundation for his career. After graduating from Miami Beach High School in 1961, he attended the University of Florida, receiving his Bachelor of Architecture in 1966. That same year he was awarded a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship in Architecture and Design for study in Finland. Treib describes this experience as “broadening his understanding of [the] relationship of architecture and culture, sensibility, and the pervading power of language.” He continues to travel throughout the world expanding his interests and research in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and design.
Following the completion of his fellowship, he attended the University of California, Berkeley and received a Master of Architecture in 1968 and his Master of Arts (Design) the following year. He joined the UCB Department of Architecture in 1969 and taught there for nearly 40 years before becoming professor emeritus. Honors include Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Finland (1982) and Western Europe (1992), the Distinguished Teaching Award (1987), Advanced Design Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (1985), and a Japan Foundation Professional Fellowship (1987). His courses included topics on architectural design, graphic design, drawing, architectural history, and Japanese architecture and gardens.
Treib has been a prolific writer and speaker. In addition to numerous books, his book reviews, essays, his articles on architecture, landscape architecture, graphic design, architectural history, and design theory have appeared in Idea, Print, Progressive Architecture, Design Book Review, Landscape Architecture, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and foreign journals. Treib has served as a contributing editor for Print Magazine and on the editorial boards of Design Issues, AIGA Journal, Places, Design Book Review, Landscape Journal, Journal of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Research. Among his books are: A Guide to the Gardens of Kyoto (1980); Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Pavilion; Le Corbusier; Edgard Varèse (1996); An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster (1995); and Drawing/Thinking: Confronting an Electronic Age (2008). His contributions to publishing are not limited to the works he has authored and edited, but also include work as a book designer and contributor to numerous collected works. He has lectured at colleges, universities, professional organizations, and conferences around the world on a range of architectural and design topics.
In addition to writing, speaking, and teaching Treib has maintained a design practice. IN earlier years he participated in landscape and architecture design competitions and worked as a graphic designer focusing on poster and book design. His curatorial and exhibition design includes An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster (1995) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Garret Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living (1997) at the University Art Museum, Berkeley. There have also been several exhibitions of his own design work. Marc Treib continues to live and work in Berkeley, CA.
Sources:Pertinent Biographical Data. Marc Treib Collection, [2012-5] Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Extent
41 Linear Feet: (19 cartons, 2 document cases, 1 oversize document case, 1 tall half document case, 1 flat box, 5 flat file drawers, 4 tubes, models, mounted photographs)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection spans the years 1959 to 2012 and consists of five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, Project Records, and Posters. His student work and his extensive career as an author, lecturer, and book, exhibit, and graphic designer make up the majority of the collection.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into five series. For a majority of the collection original order has been maintained. An order has been imposed on those sections where no original order was evident.
Custodial History
The collection was located in Treib’s home until its acquisition in 2012.
Accruals
Treib donated additional materials in 2020
- Title
- Marc Treib Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jessie Durant
- Date
- 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Arrangement and description of this collection was funded by an anonymous donor.
Repository Details
Part of the University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives Repository