Bernard Clyde Cohen Collection
Scope and Contents
The Office Records document administrative operations, public relations efforts, financial transactions, and correspondence. Clippings from newspapers and tear sheets from magazines in which Cohen’s projects were featured, and some photographs are included.
The majority of the Projects Records series documents Cohen's projects spanning the years 1956-1978, and documents his work through drawings, photographs and slides, and administrative files. The majority of projects are residential in nature. Major Projects within this series include the winning entry for the Diamond Heights/Red Rock competition (1962), Bitterbrush at Lake Tahoe (1971) and San Francisco International Airport Garage 'D' (1996), where a significant number of plans and drawings are retained.
Dates
- 1956-1996, n.d.
- Majority of material found within 1956-1978
Creator
- Cohen, Bernard Clyde, 1929-2019 (Person)
Access Statement
Collection is open for research. Many of the Environmental Design Archives collections are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the Curator.
Biographical Note
Bernard Clyde Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 4, 1929, he was known by his middle name Clyde. Clyde attended MIT and then transferred to UC Berkeley, studying under Dean William Wurster, where he obtained a master’s degree in architecture. Shortly after graduation he entered business with Jim Levorsen.
Among his noted projects, done mostly with the modernist aesthetic, Clyde designed the award-winning Red Rock Hill (1962) condominiums in the Diamond Heights District of San Francisco. In later years he turned his attention to commercial projects, ultimately working as a lead project architect for the City of San Francisco. His commercial work included buildings for TRW (n.d.) and facilities within the San Francisco Airport (1996).
Sources: SF Gate: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/bernard-cohen-obituary?id=1976125
Extent
5 Linear Feet: (1 cartons, 2 document boxes, 1 Flat File drawer)
Language of Materials
English
System of Arrangement
This Collection is arranged into two series: Office Records and Project Records.
Creator
- Cohen, Bernard Clyde, 1929-2019 (Person)
- Levorsen, Jim, 1929-2012 (Person)
- Title
- Bernard Clyde Cohen Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Katie Riddle; updated by Waverly Lowell and Hannah Brooks, 2023
- Date
- December 2021
- 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 a donation from the family of Clyde Cohen.
Repository Details
Part of the University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives Repository