UC San Diego. Office of the Assistant Vice Chancellor, Facilities Design and Construction. Camp Matthews Photographs, 1964 - 1967 (RSS 4025)

Camp Matthews was established in 1918 as a U.S. Marine rifle range under the command of Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego. It was called the Marine Rifle Range, La Jolla from 1918 until 1942, when it was renamed Camp Matthews after Brigadier General Calvin B. Matthews. In 1964 the Camp Matthews land was transferred to the University of California. The University's initial plans for Camp Matthews area included the use of permanent buildings as temporary administrative offices and the construction on the site of the new School of Medicine. The Office of Architects and Engineers coordinated the work on the first building in 1965. Campus administrative offices, principally housed in Building B of First College, moved to the Matthews area in 1965, except for the Office of the Chancellor.

The Office of Architects and Engineers was responsible for the overall coordination of the building program from the time a project is assigned a priority in the University's statewide building program to the time it is completed and equipped. The office opened in 1957 under the direction of J.W.Tippetts, Building Program Coordinator and head of the department. He was replaced by Mac Alfred Cason, Chief Architect for Los Angeles County in 1960, as Chief Campus Architect.

Beginning in the mid-1970s with the reorganization of campus planning and building, the Office of Architects and Engineers was absorbed into Facilities Design & Construction unit and overal campus planning. The Facilities Design and Construction office is the primary service provider charged with the implementation of the Capital Improvement Program including project programming, planning, schematic design, design development, construction documents, and construction administration for all capital improvements.