Download or read book Bernard Maybeck written by Sally Byrne Woodbridge and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this bestselling volume chronicles one of the most innovative, influential, and beloved architects of the early 20th century. Gracefully written and brilliantly illustrated, this handsome new volume captures the vision, the wit, and the down-to-earth inventiveness of one of the most influential and beloved architects of the early twentieth century. Raised in Greenwich Village and trained in Paris, Maybeck spent most of his long career in northern California. An irrepressible bohemian with no desire to run a large office, he spent much of his time designing houses for friends and family, as well as for other patrons so loyal that they often hired him to design more than one house. Maybeck also created two of the most beautiful buildings in all of California: the exhilarating Church of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, and the gloriously romantic Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco. This incisive overview—the first to feature color reproductions of Maybeck's exquisite interiors and exteriors—analyzes every aspect of his life and work. Not only his architecture but also his furniture, his lighting designs, and his innovations in fire-resistant construction are thoroughly discussed and illustrated. The book is also enlivened by documentary photographs, by clearly drawn plans, and by several of Maybeck's dazzling, previously unpublished visionary drawings. Bernard Maybeck is a major study of an internationally significant architect whose environmentally responsive work has much to offer today's designers and whose houses have given enormous pleasure to those fortunate enough to visit or dwell in them.

Download or read book Bernard Maybeck written by Mark Anthony Wilson and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Bernard Maybeck has influenced generations of architects. His landmark buildings include the Palace of Fine Arts and First Church of Christ, Scientist. His emphasis on an open use of natural materials marks him as a pioneer in sustainable architecture, or “green design.” Maybeck's work achieves that delicate balance between historicism and modernism, and his buildings are still in use throughout several states on the West Coast and the Midwest. This book includes more than two dozen Maybeck buildings that have never been photographed in color in any other book, as well as several of his buildings that were never documented before. Architect of Elegance not only encompasses his most memorable works but also includes letters and drawings from the family archives never before seen by the general public. The foreward is written by Maybeck's granddaugther, Cherry Maybeck Nittler. Author Mark Wilson's 22-year friendship with Bernard Maybeck's daughter-in-law, Jacomena Maybeck, gave him unique insights into the life and work of one of America's most important architects.

Download or read book The Architects Bernard Maybeck written by Richard Reinhardt and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Maybeck's name may mean little to most Americans, but to Californians, his creations embody the eclectic spirit of its denizens and demonstrate a unique non-style produced by a self-professed non-architect, a man in search only "of beauty." Here, in this short-form book by Richard Reinhardt, is his remarkable story.

Download or read book Bernard Maybeck written by Mark Anthony Wilson and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Bernard Maybeck has influenced generations of architects. His landmark buildings include the Palace of Fine Arts and First Church of Christ, Scientist. His emphasis on an open use of natural materials marks him as a pioneer in sustainable architecture, or "green design." This book not only encompasses his most memorable works but also includes letters and drawings from the family archives never before seen by the general public.

Download or read book On the Edge of the World written by Richard W. Longstreth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-05-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Bernard Maybeck written by Kenneth H. Cardwell and published by Ancient City Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Julia Morgan pb written by Mark Anthony Wilson and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Morgan, America’s first truly independent female architect, left a legacy of more than 700 buildings, many of which are now designated landmarks, in cities throughout California, as well as in Hawaii, Utah, and Illinois. Her work spanned five decades, and the total of her commissions was greater than any other major American architect, including Frank Lloyd Wright. This book tells the remarkable story of this architectural pioneer, and features text, drawings, and photographs of the many buildings that still exist.

Download or read book Regional Garden Design in the United States written by Therese O'Malley and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1995 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased mobility, uprootedness, and the pace of change in an increasingly technological society have contributed to interest in regionalism, which places value on cultural continuity in local areas. These essays lay the foundation for examining regionalism in American garden design.

Download or read book Maybeck written by Jacomena Maybeck and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Old House Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.

Download or read book Blooming in Winter written by Pamela Valois and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pam Valois, a young photographer, met Jacomena Maybeck in 1979, she saw the woman she wanted to be in her own later years. Tarring roofs and splitting logs into her eighties, Jackie presided over the legacy of Bernard Maybeck and his clan on Berkeley’s legendary Nut Hill. The friendship between the two women led to a best-selling book—Gifts of Age, a treasury of stories about successful aging. Blooming in Winter is an intimate portrait of Jackie that gives us a paradigm for living exuberantly until the very end.

Download or read book Stochastic Models Estimation and Control written by Peter S. Maybeck and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1982-08-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume builds upon the foundations set in Volumes 1 and 2. Chapter 13 introduces the basic concepts of stochastic control and dynamic programming as the fundamental means of synthesizing optimal stochastic control laws.

Download or read book Maybeck s Landscapes written by Dianne Suzette Harris and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Maybeck's architectural career has been firmly established, little writing has discussed and analyzed his ideas about landscape: here taken to include his garden designs-by which he integrated house and land-as well as his grand landscape schemes for sites such as Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Maybeck produced stunning-and at times gigantic-pastel drawings, many of which are reproduced here in color.

Download or read book Bernard Maybeck written by Kenneth H. Cardwell and published by Hennessey & Ingalls. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bernard Maybeck and Principia College written by Charles Bridgham Hosmer and published by Principia Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book First Church of Christ Sci written by Edward R. Bosley and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Maybeck is one of the pivotal figures in the regionalist architecture of the San Francisco Bay area. He was also an architect in the tradition of the artist: versatile, colourful, inventive and eclectic. With First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley, Maybeck was drawn by his client's sincere demand to have a church which expressed the congregation's deep-seated faith, and looked not only to Romanesque, Gothic and Byzantine forms, but also to contemporary Arts and Crafts philosophies to create an edifice which would evoke the 'reinstatement of primitive Christianity', a guiding objective of Christian Science. Maybeck's design has a convincing unity which contains and far transcends its sources. Massive concrete piers are in counterpoint to large expanses of translucent industrial sash, and the rich, Medieval interior comes to brilliant life through a hierarchy of intricately applied colour. The reverence for detail is complete, from carved beams to delicate pew lamps and gilded tracery.

Download or read book Jewel City written by James A. Ganz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timed with the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) of 1915, Jewel City presents a large and representative selection of artworks from the fair, emphasizing the variety of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints that greeted attendees. It is unique in its focus on the works of art that were scattered among the venues of the expositionÑthe most comprehensive art exhibition ever shown on the West Coast. Notably, the PPIE included the first American presentations of Italian Futurism, Austrian Expressionism, and Hungarian avant-garde painting, and there were also major displays of paintings by prominent Americans, especially those working in the Impressionist style. This lavishly illustrated catalogue features works by masters such as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Paul CŽzanne, Robert Henri, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Umberto Boccioni, and many more. The volume also explores the PPIEÕs distinctive murals program, developments in the art of printmaking, and the legacy of the French Pavilion, which hosted an abundance of works by Auguste Rodin and inspired the founding and architecture of the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. A rich and fascinating study of a critical moment in American and European art history, Jewel City is indispensable for understanding both the United StatesÕ and CaliforniaÕs role in the reception of modernism as well as the regionÕs historical place on the international art stage. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibition dates: de Young Museum, San Francisco: October 17, 2015ÐJanuary 10, 2016