For decades, the University of California, Berkeley had a well-deserved reputation as a place for radical ideas and progressive culture. But these days, its wooded campus—nestled along the rolling eastern shore of San Francisco Bay—is less a hotbed of political activism than a bucolic backdrop for nurturing some of the country’s brightest students. And when it comes to campus architecture, the university’s all-powerful Board of Regents has become increasingly conservative. For the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, located at the campus’s Classical core, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects faced an unyielding set of design constraints, imposed on the project well into the more than decade-long effort to get it realized.
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