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The four men who are the subject of this book were all trained in the traditional European mode, but in transferring their ideas from Europe to the American West, they incorporated rustic vernacular precedents and local materials to create the distinct style of the San Francisco Bay area.
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"Before modern architects began coating the earth's surface with a Pepto-Bismol of homogenous glass, steel, and concrete buildings, their forebears often concocted regional brews mixing local building traditions, European precedents, and indigenous materials with new technologies. Historian Richard Longstreth focuses on the intoxicating contributions of four architects Ernest Coxhead, Willis Polk, A C. Schweinfurth, and Bernard Maybeck."--"Vanity Fair"
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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 around 1900. Their work sought a balance between tradition and innovation, between academic classicism and the asymmetry and informality championed by proponents of the arts and crafts movement.
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- PublisherMIT Press
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 026212100X
- ISBN 13 9780262121002
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages350
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On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco At the Turn of the Century
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ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(-). Small quarto with grey cloth boards and green spine title; pictorial grey and blue DJ; xiv, 455 pages: illustrations; 27 cm. Contains a postcard. This book covers 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. Contents: Academic eclecticism: the question of style. Training: London, New York, Paris. San Francisco: the modern cosmopolis. Transition: a few young men. Coxhead and Polk: the rustic city house. Coxhead and Polk: rustic suburban and country houses. Coxhead and Polk: large city and country houses. Coxhead and Polk: civic projects. Schweinfurth: the cause of regional expression. At the turn of the century: the new San Francisco. Maybeck: the struggle for brief moments of eternal conciliation. A near fine(-) copy with clean pages and solid binding; small dent to top edge of front board; in a near fine jacket with light sunning to spine. In mylar First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Seller Inventory # 103481
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