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Francis Violich, 94, passed away Aug. 21, 2005 of natural causes at his home in Berkeley, Ca. Violich graduated from Berkeley with a bachelor?EUR??,,????'???s in landscape architecture in 1934 and earned a fellowship for graduate studies in city planning at Harvard University and MIT in 1936. He joined the landscape architecture and city and regional planning faculties at U.C. Berkeley in 1941 and served as chair of the department of landscape architecture and environmental planning from 1962-1964. Violich retired from Berkeley in 1976.
In the late ?EUR??,,????'???40s and 1950s, Violich helped found Telesis, a volunteer-based environmental development group awarded national historical landmark status by the American Planning Association.
Violich is the author of Cities of Latin America: Planning and Housing in the South; Urban Planning for Latin America: The Challenge for Metropolitan Growth (co-written with Robert Daughters); and The Bridge to Dalmatia: A Search for the Meaning of Place.
Violich was recognized as a National Planning Pioneer by the American Institute of Planners in 1992 and given the Distinguished Alumnus award by the College of Environmental Design and its alumni in 1999.
Violich is survived by his sister, Clementine, a brother, John, his three sons?EUR??,,????'??+Antonio, Frano and Mario?EUR??,,????'??+and daughters?EUR??,,????'??+Carmen and Francesca.
He also leaves behind 13 grandchildren. His wife, Mariantonia, passed on in 1989. The couple was married for 43 years. Source: UC Berkeley News
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