A BUILT HISTORY OF MODERNISM BYUCSD

At just a little over 50 years old, the University of California San Diego is
one of the younger college campuses in the United States, but despite this it
is one of the most architecturally fascinating universi ties around. In the
official UCSD campus guide, Dirk Sutro emphasizes that “UCSD does not
have a s ingle example of the historicalrevival styles prevalent at other
University of California campuses… and at San Diego’s two other major
universities”. The history of UCSD architecture is one of ambition, which
has made the campus a display case of modernism in all of its forms from
the last half a century UCSD has its roots in the 1950s,
when the City of San Diego offered a large section of land to the University
of California. The new campus was positioned to include the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, which had occupied a site on the coast since
the early 20th century. What is now known as the Old Scripps Building
was de signed by Irving Gill in 1910;