Gregory Peck

Our campus has seen the construction of some of California’s most iconic and exemplary buildings — many of which still stand today.

While references to famed engineer Butler Lampson or physicist Barry Barish may be hard to fit into a conversation, here are a few of the best UC Berkeley alumni in the entertainment world to bring out the next time you see your high school friends.

We at the Clog love this precious platform and figured we'd join in on the fun, so we're coming at you with our favorite celebrities, campus alumni, as UC Berkeley buildings.

Theaters aren’t going anywhere, at least for Berkeley. The city’s cinema scene has managed to exist outside the typical film industry narrative.

In a day and age that seems to hold the STEM fields in ever-growing esteem while valuing the humanities less and less, the walls and halls of this building stand out, having witnessed and been part of key moments in the campus’s history. Wheeler Hall and the wild journey it sent me on serve as physical reminders of why I do what I do as an English major.