Telesis consisted of a group of architects, landscape architects, and urban planners from the Bay Area, founded in late 1939 through the merging of two groups of architects, one from San Francisco and the other from the University of California, Berkeley. Their stated aim was to research the development and implications the Second Bay Area Regional Style. Noted Telesis members included William Wurster, Catherine Bauer Wurster, Vernon DeMars, Thomas Church, Garret Eckbo, Grace McCann Morley, Geraldine Knight Scott, Joseph Allen Stein, Jack Hillmer, Francis Violich, and T. J. Kent, Jr. In addition to internal research and working groups that investigated such topics as speculative housing, industrial design, and the relationship of the physical environment of the San Francisco Bay Area to indigenous architectural styles, the group also organized several influential exhibitions on contemporary architecture and planning with the support of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Professional and personal papers from many of Telesis's members are collected in the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley.Additional Descriptive Notes: 6 total Goals and Roles recordings.
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Notes on original boxes: Telesis II -- Goals and Roles Reel 1: Reibsamen/Simmonian, 1/I Reel 2: Reibsamen/Simmonian, 1/II Reel 3: Schwartz/Alexander, 2/I Reel 4: Schwartz/Alexander, 2/II Reel 5: Gordon=/Weisbach/Cardwell, 3/I Reel 6: Discussion 3/II
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