Bernard Maybeck

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Bernard Maybeck lived a colorful and innovative life, quietly dramatic, and comfortable in his surroundings, like the buildings he designed. In this new book 4/4(11). Bernard Maybeck lived a colorful and innovative life, quietly dramatic, and comfortable in his surroundings, like the buildings he designed.

In this new book 4/5(12). Bernard Maybeck, in full Bernard Ralph Maybeck, (born Feb. 7,New York City, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct.

3,Berkeley, Calif.), American architect whose work in California (from ) exhibits the versatility attainable within the formal styles of early 20th-century architecture.

Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (–86), Maybeck worked briefly in New York. Bernard Maybeck book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. The work of Bernard Maybec k has influenced generations of architects.

His /5(8). Bernard Maybeck book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Now available in paperback, this bestselling volume chronicles one of the /5(22). The foreward is written by Maybeck's granddaugther, Cherry Maybeck Nittler.

Author Mark Wilson's year friendship with Bernard Maybeck's daughter-in-law, Jacomena Maybeck, gave him unique insights into the life and work of Brand: Smith, Gibbs Publisher.

Bernard Maybeck, February 7, –October 3, Independent, visionary, dramatic, eclectic — Bernard Maybeck is a luminary of American architecture whose work is particularly prized in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the majority of his masterworks can be found.

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is also enlivened by documentary photographs, by clearly drawn plans, and by several of Maybeck's dazzling, previously unpublished visionary drawings.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 Author: Sally Byrne Woodbridge. Bernard Maybeck () Bernard Ralph Maybeck was born in New York City and moved to Paris at the age of nineteen to enroll in the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

After finishing his coursework, Maybeck returned to New York City and worked for Carrère & Hastings. Aug 9, - Explore nevets8's board "Bernard Maybeck", followed by people on Pinterest. See more ideas about Architecture, Arts and crafts house and Craftsman style pins. On a tree-shaded lot in Forest Hill, the three-story Erlanger House at Castenada is the invention of famed turn-of-the-century architect Bernard Maybeck whose work includes the Palace of Fine.

Get this from a library. Bernard Maybeck: visionary architect. [Sally Byrne Woodbridge] -- 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.

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Bernard Maybeck: Architect of Elegance - Ebook written by Mark Anthony Wilson, Bernard R. Maybeck. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Bernard Maybeck: Architect of Elegance.3/5(1).

Praise for Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect: "One of the unclassifiable originals in American architecture--along with Frank Furness, Bruce Goff, and, today, Frank Gehry--Bernard Maybeck Likewise, Sally B.

Woodbridge's sympathetic text shows considerable understanding of this Whitmanesque figure.". Built in for clothing magnate Leon Roos, the book Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect () details the Presidio Heights home’s half-timbered design: Panels of mauve plush edged with gold Author: Brock Keeling.

According to the book Bernard Maybeck: Architect of Elegance, the couple desired an English-style home similar to a grand 14th-century manor house they came across in the Lancashire village of Samlesbury.

One of the home's many stunning features is its cathedral-like living area with exposed redwood beams rising over 20 feet. A large red-brick. The foreword is written by Maybeck's granddaugther, Cherry Maybeck Nittler.

Author Mark Wilson's 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.

Mark Anthony Wilson has a BA in history and an MA in history and media/5(7). Built in (although city records inaccurately date it to ) for clothing magnate Leon Roos, the book Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect lays out the power and the glory of the house.

The Simple Home is a book length ode to the work of Maybeck and, alas, a manifesto for an architectural road not taken. Somehow we ended up with a world full of parking garages and mini malls. Somehow we ended up with a. The foreward is written by Maybeck's granddaugther, Cherry Maybeck Nittler.

Author Mark Wilson's 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 : Gibbs Smith.Here Bernard Maybeck, practical designer of great dreams, sits, wearing a linen duster, and an old, soft hat, punched full of holes near the top, and drums on the board top of his sawhorse-supported drawing table with deft, pudgy fingers.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.