John Galen Howard and the University of California

by Woodbridge, Sally B.

• ISBN13: 9780520229921
• ISBN10: 0520229924
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Woodbridge illuminates the process by which a great university campus was envisioned and its buildings brought into being by architect John Galen Howard. Howard trained at MIT and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and worked in Los Angeles and NYC before coming to Berkeley to realize the goals of the international competition for the UC campus design.

Author Biography

Among Sally B. Woodbridge's books are Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect (1992), San Francisco Architecture (1992), Details: The Architect's Art (1991), and Bay Area Houses (1988). In 1993 Woodbridge received national honors from the American Institute of Architects for her work as a writer and historian.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
The Early Years to 1888	1	(10)
Paris and New York: 1889-1895	11	(11)
The University of California and the 1898-1899 International Competition for the Hearst Architectural Plan	22	(17)
Postcompetion Reversals: 1900-1901	39	(18)
Supervising Architect for the Hearst Architectural Plan: 1901-1903	57	(11)
The Move to California in 1902	68	(6)
The President's House, California Hall, and the Hearst Memorial Mining Building: 1901-1907	74	(15)
University Work, Private Practice, and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition:1904-1907	89	(9)
Doe Memorial Library, Boalt Hall, and Sather Gate: 1907-1917	98	(14)
Expositions in Seattle, San Francisco, and San Diego: 1909-1915	112	(9)
The San Francisco Civic Center and a Trial: 1911-1913	121	(8)
A Move and the Publication of Brunelleschi: 1912-1915	129	(5)
The College of Agriculture, Sather Tower, Hilgard, Wheeler, and Gilman Halls, and Campus Landscaping: 1910-1917	134	(18)
World War I and Postwar Changes at the University: 1917-1924	152	(13)
Dismissal as Supervising Architect and a Career as Educator: 1923-1931	165	(12)
Appendix: Buildings	177	(6)
John Galen Howard
Notes	183	(12)
Selected Bibliography	195	(6)
Illustration Credits	201	(6)
Index	207