Main entry:

Woodbridge, Sally Byrne.

Title & Author:

John Galen Howard and the University of California : the design of a great public university campus / Sally B. Woodbridge.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.

Description:

vii, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index.
The early years to 1888 -- Paris and New York: 1889-1895 -- The University of California and the 1898-1899 International Competition for the Hearst architectural plan -- Postcompetition reversals: 1900-1901 -- Supervising architect for the Hearst architectural plan: 1901-1903 -- The move to California in 1902 -- The President's House, California Hall, and the Hearst Mining Building: 1901-1907 -- University work, private practice, and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: 1904-1907 -- Doe Memorial Library, Boalt Hall, and Sather Gate: 1907-1917 -- Expositions in Seattle, San Francisco, and San Diego: 1909-1915 -- The San Francisco Civic Center and a trial: 1911-1913 -- A move and the publication of Brunelleschi: 1912-1915 -- The College of Agriculture, Sather Tower, Hilgard, Wheeler, and Gilman Halls, and campus landscaping: 19101̧917 -- World war I and postwar changes at the University: 1917-1924 -- Dismissal as supervising architect and a career as educator: 1923-1931.

Summary:

"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 & 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 Apperson 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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520229924 (alk. paper)
9780520229921 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Howard, John Galen, 1864-1931.
Howard, John Galen.
University of California, Berkeley Buildings.
University of California, Berkeley. Buildings.
University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley (Calif.) University of California.
Architects United States Biography.
Architecture California Berkeley History.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture Californie Berkeley Histoire.
Architects.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Architektur
Geschichte
Architecture California Berkeley.
Architects United States 19th century Biography.
Architects United States 20th century Bibliography.
California Berkeley.
United States.

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225525
Call No.: NA44.H849.26 U5 2002
Status: Available