How Father Won the War

Kenneth Harvey Cardwell, former Lt., US Army Air Force, received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service in the Pacific during WWII. Born in Los Angeles in 1920, he attended Occidental College and, after the war, graduated from UC Berkeley. A Bay Area architect and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he taught architecture at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design for over 30 years. He is the author of Bernard Maybeck: Artisan, Architect, Artist. Now professor emeritus, he and his wife, Mary Elinor (Sullivan) Cardwell, still live in Berkeley in the Maybeck house into which they moved in 1948.