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A view over the school's lagoon to one of the Channel Islands Henley Gate (eastern entrance) at dawn. The University of California, Santa Barbara is located on cliffs directly above the Pacific Ocean. UCSB's campus is autonomous from local government and has not been annexed by the city of Santa Barbara.
The UCSB Libraries, consisting of the Davidson Library and the Arts Library, hold more than three million bound volumes [35] and millions of microforms, government documents, manuscripts, maps, satellite and aerial images, sound recordings, and other materials. Situated at the center of campus, the Davidson Library in June 2013 broke ground on ...
The University of California, Santa Barbara Library is the university library system of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California.The library has some three million print volumes, 30,000 electronic journals, 34,450 e-books, 900,055 digitized items, five million cartographic items (including some 467,000 maps and 3.2 million satellite and aerial images), more than ...
Kohn Hall, which houses KITP, is located just beyond the Henley Gate at the East Entrance of the UCSB campus. The building was designed by the Driehaus Prize winner and New Classical architect Michael Graves, and a new wing designed by Graves was added in 2003–2004. Kohn Hall, which houses the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
From 1969 to 1972, enrollment dropped from 13,254 to 11,828, and the political alignment of UCSB's student body rapidly shifted from the right to the left. [21] After Bank of America belatedly departed Isla Vista in 1981, [29] UCSB later bought its former building and renovated it into a state-of-the-art lecture venue now known as Embarcadero ...
Storke Tower from the point of view of the UCen Storke Plaza pond, with koi and water lilies in a partially self-sustaining aquatic ecosystem. Storke Tower is a landmark campanile (bell tower) located on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States.
Robertson Gymnasium was built in 1958 and completed in 1959. The architect responsible for creating Rob Gym was Charles Luckman Associates, who was also the main architect for the Kennedy Space Center and Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, as well as The Forum and Madison Square Garden.
Bren Hall's original location was a parking lot. All of the waste was recycled and used in the construction or elsewhere on campus. Developers designed the building to conserve power by using energy-efficient lighting, natural lighting, efficient boilers, connection to the campus's chilled water loop, and a sophisticated building automation system.