UCSB Design Review Committee Directory

Definition
The Design Review Committee (DRC) is a committee comprised of faculty, staff, and student representatives as well as consulting architects that operates jointly under the aegis of the campus administration and the Academic Senate and reports directly to the Chancellor on issues of architectural and landscape design at UCSB. It considers Campus Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and the Integration of Art into the Campus Landscape.

Mission
The Design Review Committee is responsible for assisting the campus in achieving design of the highest possible quality for UCSB. This includes the design of buildings, siting and arrangement of buildings and other features, circulation, landscape, and other environmental matters. The DRC will be attentive to balancing the interests of individual building projects with the need for a well-planned campus as a whole. Periodically the DRC will review campus design guidelines and master planning. The Committee will make its recommendations to the Chancellor, and will also forward its reports to the Campus Planning Committee.

The Office Budget and Planning will consult with the DRC on campus design matters, although the Office of Budget and Planning will be responsible for the preparation of physical planning documents, including environment impact reports, long range development plans, area plans, transportation plans, design guidelines, landscape plans, and other campus plans.

Small matters of design may be dealt with by the staff of Design and Construction, Budget and Planning, and the co-chairs of the DRC, although some issues small in scope or budget may be directed to the full committee if the design significance of the matter is deemed especially important by either of the co-chairs. Composition of the DRC

The DRC shall consist of twelve members:
• 3 - consulting architects (one a landscape architect)
• 1 – Associate Vice Chancellor for Design, Construction, and Facilities Management (the AVC)
• 4 – faculty appointed by the Committee on Committees; at least three shall be members of the Senate’s Committee for Capital Projects
• 2 – student representatives (one undergraduate, one graduate)
• 1 – staff representative
• 1 – public arts representative, ordinarily the director or one of the curators of the University Art Museum The committee shall be headed by co-chairs, one the AVC, the other a member of the Senate. In addition, the chair of the Committee on Capital Projects will be an ex-officio member of the DRC.

Note: The designation of three faculty appointments being members of the Committee for Capital Projects may be changed when the Academic Senate reviews its committee structures in 2000-01.

Funding and Staffing
Staff support is provided by the office of the AVC. Funding for the consulting architects is provided indirectly by the building projects themselves, and consulting architects receive a standard honorarium per meeting of $1,000 (plus expenses).
The consulting architects are appointed for a term of three years each and their terms are staggered in order to ensure continuity.
The consulting architects are of international stature, among other reasons, in order to stimulate the architects who are designing projects for the campus to do their best work. The consulting architects are expected to attend the meetings regularly, which are ordinarily monthly, and to develop a fairly deep knowledge of the campus.

Position within the Decision-making Process
While the DRC offers its advice directly to the Chancellor, it also reviews the projects before they are presented to the CPC (Campus Planning Committee) so that the latter also has the benefit of the DRC’s recommendations. The recommendations of both the DRC and CPC are submitted to the Chancellor together.
Attached are 2 graphs depicting the campus planning and design review processes for major capital projects. The first deals with the planning process, whereby decisions are made about the basic concepts for new major capital projects and site selections; the second depicts the process of design review itself.
The DRC planning stage review focuses on the relationships of the proposed building to its site and the fabric of the campus, both in plan and in three dimensions.
With regard to the design review process for major capital projects, each project has a building committee, composed in part of users, that works closely with the architects in developing a design that responds to program requirements. The DRC is the entity that is concerned with design review. The DRC sees each project at three stages: the conceptual stage; at the completion of 50% schematics; and at 100% schematics. Review by DRC frequently continues into the design development phase for such elements as landscape design.

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Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Professor Sociology, 2844 Ellison
(805) 893-3240
(805) 893-3324 FAX
Bhavnani@soc.ucsb.edu

Puck Erickson
Arcadia Studio
202 East Cota Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 962-9055
(805) 962-5658 FAX
cpe@arcadiastudio.com

Marc Fisher
Associate Vice Chancellor
Campus Design & Facilities
(805) 893-5883
(805) 893-2848 FAX
marc.fisher@fm.ucsb.edu

Judith Green
Professor, Education, 2219 Phelps
(805) 893-4781
(805) 893-4515
(805) 893-7264 FAX
green@education.ucsb.edu

Kathryn Kanjo
Director, University Art Museum
(805) 893-4564
(805) 893-2951
(805) 893-3013 FAX
kkanjo@uam.ucsb.edu

Narain Kumar
Student Representative
naraink@as.ucsb.edu

Dennis McFadden
CO Architects
5055 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 525-0500
dmcfadden@COArchitects.com

John Douglas (Doug) Moore
Professor, Mathematics
6714 South Hall
(805) 893-3688
moore@math.ucsb.edu

Marcos Novak
Professor MAT/Art
(310) 383-8555
marcos@mat.ucsb.edu

Barton Phelps
Barton Phelps & Associates, Architects and Planners
5514 Wilshire Blvd, 10th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90036-3829
(323) 934-8615
(323) 934-3289 FAX
bphelps@bpala.com

Harry Reese
Professor, Art
(805) 893-7554
(805) 893-7206 FAX
reese@arts.ucsb.edu

Ben Stockey
Pres. Graduate Student Assoc.
Grd S Assoc Rm 2502 Ucen 6085
president@gsa.ucsb.edu

Open Staff Position

Staff Support

Wendy Meer
Executive Assistant to AVC Fisher
Campus Design and Facilities
(805) 893-5813
wendy.meer@fm.ucsb.edu

Jack Wolever
Director, Design and Construction Services
Campus Design and Facilities
(805) 893-4581
05) 893-2848 FAX
jack.wolever@dcs.ucsb.edu