The UC Santa Cruz campus is unconventional. Nestled between the Santa Cruz Mountains and Pacific Ocean, it lacks a large, central plaza, iconic gate, football stadium, and vaulted reading room. Instead, UC Santa Cruz has ancient redwoods and gnarled oak trees; long, wooden bridges spanning deep canyons; benches with views of Monterey Bay; and pedestrian paths that wind through groves and glades. Some days, I see more deer, turkeys, coyotes, bobcats, and hawks than people.
Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz occupies the former site of Cowell Lime Works and the traditional and unceded territory of the Uypi Tribe of the Awaswas Nation. Today, these lands are represented by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.
I took all of the photos in the gallery below at work.
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Alambre, Cowell Ranch -
Spotted Banana Slug -
Classic Banana Slug -
Bridge between McHenry & Hahn I -
Bridge between McHenry & Hahn II -
Cesar & Oscar at Merrill Moat -
Humanities Lecture Hall (East Side) -
Humanities Lecture Hall (North Side) -
Leaving The Humanities Institute -
Kresge College -
Low Road, High Road -
Mainstage No. 5 -
McHenry Stairs -
Treetop Reading Room, McHenry -
Charles Merrill or Luis Barragán? -
The View from My Office -
Merrill Residence Hall -
Into the Trees -
Orb in the Redwoods -
Music Recital Hall -
Peaks & Slopes, Theater Arts Center -
Rafter of Turkeys, Merrill -
Red Leaves & Redwoods, Merrill -
Shades of Blue, Music Center -
Shadow & Light, Merrill -
Autumn Morning Shadows, Humanities Lecture Hall -
Shatter Glass Ceilings, Classroom Unit 2 -
Special Collections, McHenry -
Staircase, Music Recital Hall -
My Favorite Live Oak (Hagar Road)