On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century
"Ambitious [and] successful, precisely because it does not  idealize the  architects. They instead are placed . . . in the geographic, urban, and  intellectual climate in which they worked."  --Aaron Betsky, Progressive  Architecture"Through this look into the early lives and careers of these  architects  we come away with a more perceptive understanding of the practice of  architecture in America at the turn of the century."  --David Gebhard,  Journal of  the Society of Architectural Historians