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On the Edge of the World Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century

Richard W. Longstreth • University of California Press • ISBN Not provided

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On the Edge of the World Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century

Richard W. Longstreth • University of California Press • ISBN-13 9780520214156

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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.

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Publisher: University of California Press

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Contributor: Richard W. Longstreth

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Category: American ArchitectureCategory: Architectural HistoryCategory: Biography Of ArchitectsCategory: Regionalism In ArchitectureCategory: San Francisco ArchitectureCategory: Bay Area ArchitectureCategory: First Bay TraditionCategory: Bernard Maybeck

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