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    Architect to Fill Major New Position

    Marc Fisher will join UCSB on Dec. 1.
    UC Santa Barbara has appointed Marc Fisher associate vice chancellor for campus design and facilities, a new position. Fisher, who currently serves as campus architect at UCLA, was selected from 152 applicants and will take up his new duties on Dec. 1.
    The associate vice chancellor will lead UCSB's efforts to design, build, and maintain a campus that strives to equal in its appearance and functioning the academic stature of the institution and that takes maximum advantage of its oceanside site.
    The new associate vice chancellor is responsible for the divisions of Design and Construction, Physical Facilities, and the contracting services and financial and administrative services that support those divisions, as well as Transportation and Parking Services.
    "As we are engaged in an ambitious master-planning process for the architecture and landscaping of our campus, this new position is extremely important and timely," said Chancellor Henry T. Yang. "We are delighted that Marc will be joining us."
    The capital projects budget of UCSB's Design and Construction division is currently $750 million. Several new buildings will be completed or in construction by 2007. Structures for which ground already has been broken that are to be completed in 2004 are new buildings for engineering and the sciences, marine sciences, life sciences, and intercollegiate athletics.
    "We felt it was very important for the campus to bring these many related functions together through this position," said George Pernsteiner, vice chancellor, administrative services. "We also felt it was critical to have someone with both a big vision and an eye for detail in this post, and with Marc Fisher's appointment we have accomplished that."
    Fisher has been UCLA's campus architect and director of design for the past seven years. In those positions he has been responsible for developing and maintaining the campus's evolving master plan along with the corresponding architectural, urban design, and landscape guidelines.
    When he joins UCSB, "He will be working with an amazing team of professionals from design and construction services and physical facilities," added Pernsteiner. "Jack Wolever, David Gonzalez, Anna Galanis, Alan Williams, and their staffs have provided a remarkable level of service to the campus."
    Prior to joining UCLA, Fisher was vice president of Emmet L. Wemple and Associates, a landscape architecture firm based in Pasadena, and had worked with architectural firms in Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
    "It is a great honor to accept this appointment and to join the UCSB campus community," said Fisher. "I believe that the Santa Barbara campus occupies the most spectacular setting in the University of California system. The opportunity to enhance the built environment commensurate with this setting was enticing."