Local News in Brief : Countywide : UCI Architect to Leave for Post at Stanford

David Neuman, the architect who presided over UC Irvine’s shift from a uniform building style to diverse and sometimes controversial designs by internationally known architects, will leave UCI for a new post at Stanford University.

Neuman, 42, has coordinated UCI’s $350-million expansion, a project expected to add more than 20 major complexes to the campus by 1992. The new buildings, which contrast with the modernistic concrete boxes that formed the early nucleus of the campus, include the Italianate-style Alumni House, the Cubist Student Services Building and the Pop-Modernist Graduate School of Management.

As university architect at Stanford, Neuman will oversee design of campus buildings, including a plan to add more than 2 million square feet of space over the next decade.