On the Edge of the World

by Longstreth, Richard W.

• ISBN13: 9780520214156
• ISBN10: 0520214153
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(4)
Foreword	xiii
Introduction	1	(8)
I Academic Eclecticism: The Question of Style	9	(31)
II Training: London, New York, Paris	40	(27)
III San Francisco: The Modern Cosmopolis	67	(15)
IV Transition: A Few Young Men	82	(25)
V Coxhead and Polk: The Rustic City House	107	(35)
VI Coxhead and Polk: Rustic Suburban and Country Houses	142	(47)
VII Coxhead and Polk: Large City and Country Houses	189	(32)
VIII Coxhead and Polk: Civic Projects	221	(37)
IX Schweinfurth: The Cause of Regional Expression	258	(38)
X At the Turn of the Century: The New San Francisco	296	(16)
XI Maybeck: The Struggle for Brief Moments of Eternal Conciliation	312	(45)
Notes	357	(44)
Bibliography	401	(18)
List of Buildings and Projects	419	(26)
Index	445