Bernard Maybeck

Bernard Maybeck
Author: Sally Byrne Woodbridge
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-10-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0789201321

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is also enlivened by documentary photographs, by clearly drawn plans, and by several of Maybeck's dazzling, previously unpublished visionary drawings.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.

Bernard Maybeck

Bernard Maybeck
Author: Mark Anthony Wilson
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1423611802

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.

Bernard Maybeck

Bernard Maybeck
Author: Kenneth H. Cardwell
Publisher: Ancient City Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1977
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Bernard Maybeck at Principia College

Bernard Maybeck at Principia College
Author: Robert Michael Craig
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1586854569

Focusing on the unique vision of architect Bernard Maybeck, this book reveals his work on Principia College in California, using interviews and conversations as well as three hundred fascinating photographs to illuiminate this architectural masterpiece.

First Church of Christ Sci

First Church of Christ Sci
Author: Edward R. Bosley
Publisher: Phaidon
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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.

The Architects: Bernard Maybeck

The Architects: Bernard Maybeck
Author: Richard Reinhardt
Publisher: New Word City
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2018-06-20
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1640191178

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.

Blooming in Winter

Blooming in Winter
Author: Pamela Valois
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1647421179

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.

Berkeley Bohemia

Berkeley Bohemia
Author: Shelley Rideout
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781423609056

Berkeley Bohemia highlights the contributions of the eccentric residents of one of America's centers of cultural innovation, during a critical period in the development of the country's radical thought. These writers and artists included Ansel Adams, Jack London, Dorothea Lange, John Muir, Bernard Maybeck, Joaquin Miller, Ina Coolbrith, and Charles and Lousie Keeler and other colorful characters less well known today.Due to its vibrant setting as a crossroads of cultures, Berkeley continues as a fertile ground for individuality, eccentricity, and creative expression. The Berkeley legacy of scholars and visionaries has inspired three generations of men and women, who still make Berkeley a place where ordinary people can flourish creatively, and the extraordinary is welcomed.

Five California Architects

Five California Architects
Author: Esther McCoy
Publisher: Hennessey & Ingalls
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1975
Genre: Architects
ISBN: 9780275717209

"The five architects - Bernard Maybeck, Irving Gill, the brothers Charles and Henry Greene, and R.M. Schindler - whose work and lives are presented here were seminal figures in American architecture. As Californians they were less influenced than their Eastern contemporaries by the European styles that prevailed in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, and each of them devised an original style that has had a profound effect on younger generations of American architects."--The inside cover

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley
Author: Harvey Helfand
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781568982939

This book "offers an insider's view of the first school in the University of California system. The Beaux-Arts master plan by John Galen Howard created a classic setting for early buildings by Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, and Greene & Greene, and later buildings by John Carl Warnecke, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, William Turnbull, and landscape architecture by Lawrence Halprin. The campus is unique for its breadth of architectural works by California designers. [This book], featuring over 100 buildings, is fascinating to read and an easy-to-use companion for a walking tour. With a foreword by Berkeley's Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl, and striking photographs by author Harvey Helfand, this is the definitive guide to the history and architecture of the first public institution of higher learning in California"--Inside front cover.