page_title: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2625 Durant Avenue #2250, Berkeley, California, USA. This museum is part of the University of California, Berkeley. Photography was permitted without restriction in this part of the museum.
context_page_description: The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Rinder was Director from 2008 to 2020, to be succeeded by Julie Rodrigues Widholm in August, 2020. The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program.
context_section_description: The former Berkeley Art Museum building was designed by Mario Ciampi and opened in 1970. The concrete Brutalist building was deemed seismically unsafe in 1997, and iron braces were added in 2001 to improve safety. In 1999, the Pacific Film Archive moved to a temporary building across the street.
  In 2008, BAMPFA unveiled plans for a new visual arts center, to be designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito and located in downtown Berkeley, across the street from UC Berkeley's main entrance. In 2009 those plans were cancelled. Citing the weak economy and trouble raising necessary funds, BAMPFA decided to retrofit and enlarge (rather than demolish) the former University of California Press printing plant at that site, a 1939 Art Deco building on the California Register of Historic Resources and qualified to be on the National Register of Historic Places.
  In 2011, BAMPFA presented the schematic design for the $100 million transformation of the former printing plant into its new home, designed by the New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Located at 2120 Oxford Street in downtown Berkeley, the building combines the existing concrete structure with a new metal-clad, skylighted addition that includes several galleries, a 232-seat theater, a store and a learning center. Construction began in 2013. The museum re-opened to the public on January 31, 2016. The building totals 83,000 square feet, with 25,000 square feet of gallery space.
  The vacated Mario Ciampi building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014 (National Register Information System ID: 13001034). The building 
  is being "reimagined" and is projected to reopen in 2021 as Woo Hon Fai Hall, home to the new Bakar BioEnginuity Hub.
caption: Interior of the former (seismically unsafe) Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive building designed by Mario Ciampi.
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