Environmental Design Library Fund

The Environmental Design Library is one of the premier architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning libraries in North America. The library supports the research and teaching of students and faculty in Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. The library features a rare book collection of more than 5,000 volumes, housed in the Sigrid L. Rupp Rare Book Vault. Established at the turn of the century by John Galen Howard, founder of Berkeley’s Department of Architecture, the rare book architectural collection is unsurpassed by any publicly accessible library in the western United States.