Synopses & Reviews
Architectural historian Sally B. Woodbridge illuminates the career of John Galen Howard, the University of California's first supervising architect from 1901 to 1924. Howard, a New Englander who had attended MIT and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, worked in the offices of H. H. Richardson and McKim, Mead and White and spent a year in Los Angeles before entering the 1898-99 international competition for an architectural plan for the University of California campus. The competition was sponsored by Phoebe A. Hearst, whose generous funding of it made the University of California known throughout the United States and Europe as a major public institution of higher education. Woodbridge conveys the energy of the turn-of-the-century leaders of the university who, with John Galen Howard, established the campus architecture and setting as the embodiment of their commitment to create a public university of the highest quality.
In addition to the lively story of the Hearst competition and its unexpected outcome, Woodbridge provides detailed descriptions of the major campus buildings designed by Howard and an account of his twenty-five-year career in architectural education as the founder and head of the University of California's School of Architecture. Including a chronology and an annotated bibliography, her book fills in the social context of Howard's work and the character of the campus community during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index.
Synopsis
"This book fills a large gap in the design history of Northern California by deftly and vividly tracing the life and career of classically trained architect John Galen Howard, who, more than any other individual, helped shape the early twentieth-century character of the U. C. Berkeley campus. It's a story of Beaux-Arts artistry meeting Bay Area informality to produce an early expression of environmental design."and#151;Daniel P. Gregory, Senior Editor,
Sunset Magazine"I had falsely believed the myth that the original Berkeley campus was the 'Band#232;nard plan' resulting from the Phoebe Apperson Hearst competition of 1899. Sally Woodbridge shows me how wrong I was. The actual plan was that of John Galen Howard. He was hired to carry out the Band#232;nard plan but thought it to be and#145;utterly impractical.and#8217; So he went to work in his more practical way as the campus of today so well demonstrates. With great care and a feeling of love for the subject, Woodbridge sets forth this intriguing real story from which I have learned so much about a campus that I also love so much."and#151;Clark Kerr, President Emeritus, University of California
About the Author
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
1. The Early Years to 1888
2. Paris and New York: 1889and#150;1895
3. The University of California and the 1898and#150;1899 International Competition for the Hearst Architectural Plan
4. Postcompetition Reversals
5. Supervising Architect for the Hearst Architectural Plan: 1901and#150;1903
6. The Move to California in 1902
7. The Presidentand#8217;s House, California Hall, and the Hearst Mining Building: 1901and#150;1907
8. University Work, Private Practice, and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: 1904and#150;1907
9. Doe Library, Boalt Hall, and Sather Gate: 1907and#150;1917
10. Expositions in Seattle, San Francisco, and San Diego: 1909and#150;1915
11. The San Francisco Civic Center and a Trial: 1911and#150;1913
12. A Move and the Publication of Brunelleschi
13. The College of Agriculture, Sather Tower, Hilgard, Wheeler, and Gilman Halls, and Campus Landscaping: 1910and#150;1917
14. World War I and Postwar Changes at the University: 1917and#150;1924
15. Dismissal as Supervising Architect and a Career as Educator: 1923and#150;1931
Appendix: Buildings by John Galen Howard
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index