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Campus Built Form

Originally known as Orange County State College, Cal State Fullerton was founded in 1957 on a site of former citrus groves. Several structures that date to the late 19th and early 20th centuries and prior to the University’s founding exist on the campus today. Of historical significance from this period include the Titan House, Golleher Alumni House, and the Heritage House. Currently located in the Arboretum, the Heritage House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Cal State Fullerton has a rich architectural history related to its academic buildings as well. Approximately 40 percent of the campus’ current building stock was constructed during the heyday of New Formalism, Brutalism, and Late Modernism between 1960 and 1974.

Because this development occurred in a relatively short period of time, Cal State Fullerton’s campus exhibits several distinctive representations of the New Formalism style in particular, and the collection of these structures and the landscape and hardscape that surrounds them created a unique and unified architectural character and style across the campus. The earliest grouping of buildings comprise the Historic Campus Core and include McCarthy Hall, Clayes Performing Arts Center, Pollak Library, the Humanities and Social Sciences Building, and Langsdorf Hall.

The campus has continued to expand over the years and recent additions include Mihaylo Hall and the Titan Student Union, among others. Future additions to the built environment should strive to create cohesion with the existing campus buildings while meeting program needs. Built-form goals for the campus include creating a vibrant, active and livable campus whose buildings provide formal and informal learning spaces, support a 24/7 campus, and connect to green and open spaces. The following pages describe the Physical Master Plan build-out.

CAMPUS BUILT FORM GOAL

To create a vibrant, active and livable campus where people want to be to learn and grow.