Speech and Dramatic Arts Building -- Theater and Dance Building/Snidecor Hall

A rendering of the building looking south through the plaza towards the lagoon. The building contained a 380 seat theater, speech therapy facilities, and regular classroom and office space. It was originally designed for the emerging fields of broadcasting, mass communication, phonetics, and speech correction. The building received seismic upgrades and an addition in 2007 (Theater and Dance West) by A.C. Martin and Associates.

A. Quincy Jones (1913-1979) and Fredrick Emmons (1907-1999) were partners in an architectural firm for almost 20 years. Prior to their partnership, they both worked for well-regarded architects: Jones for Paul Revere Williams in Los Angeles, and Emmons for William Wurster in the San Francisco area. Together they designed many housing tracts and commercial buildings throughout California. At UCSB they also designed the West Campus Family Student Housing (1963), Noble Hall (1959), and Biological Sciences 2 (1969).

A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons, architects

University of California, Santa Barbara Campus Building records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

circa 1964

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