Wheeler Hall U.C. Berkeley: home of the English Department.

Most campuses provide opportunities to duplicate Renaissance spaces for performance uses. The resemblance of the Berkeley campus to French Renaissance building results from its design originating from Emile Bénard of Paris with an elaborate plan in the formal Beaux Arts neoclassical style. Photograph © 2003 by Alan Nyiri. No restriction is applied to the use of this photograph in University of California publications or Web sites.