Richard Longstreth
On the Edge of the World
Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century
$35.95, £20.95 paperback
978-0-520-21415-6
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455 pages, 7 x 10 inches, 272 b/w photographs
May 1998, Available worldwide
Categories: Architecture; American Studies; Geography; Aging; California & the West; Californian & Western History
May 1998, Available worldwide
Categories: Architecture; American Studies; Geography; Aging; California & the West; Californian & Western History
"[A] thorough, thoughtful, and . . . entertaining appraisal of four architects whose early careers in California constitute the beginnings of high-style professional design in the area."—William H. Jordy, House & Garden
"Ambitious [and] successful, precisely because it does not idealize the architects. They instead are placed . . . in the geographic, urban, and intellectual climate in which they worked."—Aaron Betsky, Progressive Architecture
"Through this look into the early lives and careers of these architects we come away with a more perceptive understanding of the practice of architecture in America at the turn of the century."—David Gebhard, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"Ambitious [and] successful, precisely because it does not idealize the architects. They instead are placed . . . in the geographic, urban, and intellectual climate in which they worked."—Aaron Betsky, Progressive Architecture
"Through this look into the early lives and careers of these architects we come away with a more perceptive understanding of the practice of architecture in America at the turn of the century."—David Gebhard, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Richard Longstreth provides a detailed picture of the early careers of four architects—Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk, Ernest Coxhead, and A.C. Schweinfurth—who had a decisive impact on the course of design in the San Francisco Bay Area and who stand as significant contributors to American architecture.
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