The Architecture and Design Collection at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara is one of the largest architectural archives in North America. More than 250 collections and archives make up the ADC, a portrait of design in the region through the work of well-known figures such as Irving Gill, John Byers, Roland Coate, Sr., George Washington Smith, Myron Hunt and Harold Chambers, Robert Stacy-Judd, R. M. Schindler, Lutah Maria Riggs, Thornton Abell, Gregory Ain, Julius R. Davidson, Kem Weber, Whitney Smith and Wayne Williams, Edward Killingsworth, and Barton Myers, among others.
The exhibits, collections, and items featured on this website are a small sampling of the materials archived at the ADC. Please visit the Online Archive of California for a full list of our collections' finding aids.
Featured Item
Lutah Maria Riggs: Jefferson card room (Montecito, Calif.)
Mr and Mrs Percival Jefferson owned the 1916 Reginald Johnson-designed house, Miraflores. After her death in 1950, Mr.s Jefferson's friend and…
Featured Collection
Steven Ehrlich Architect 1979-2015
Steven Ehrlich was born on June 12th, 1946, in New York City and grew up in Radburn (Fair Lawn), New Jersey. In 1969 he graduated from Rensselaer…
Featured Exhibit
Lucile Lloyd: A Life in Murals
Drawn from the Lucile Lloyd Papers at the University of California, Santa Barbara Architecture and Design Archive, Lucile Lloyd: A...
Recently Added Items
675 W. Kendall St. Biotech Research Laboratory,
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
The Kendall Square Biotech Lab is comprised of medical research laboratories, offices, support spaces and ground level retail. Completed in 2003, the…
Windward Circle Development, Venice (California)
The Windward Circle Development in Venice (California) was completed in 1989. It includes three buildings designed by Steven Ehrlich: the Ace Market…
700 Palms, Ehrlich Residence #2, Venice (California)
700 Palms (Ehrlich Residence #2) is located in Venice (California), and was completed in 2005.
ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Phoenix (Arizona)
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism is part of the Arizona State University. It is located in downtown Phoenix and was completed in 2008.