Bay Area Style: San Francisco Bay Region Houses
The Bay Area is famous for breathtaking beauty, which over the years has been incorporated into great architectural works, including the houses featured in this book. The Bay Area aesthetic is one that places great emphasis on nature, the out-of-doors, and informality. Natural materials, local woods, and great craftsmanship are exhibited in harmonizing these homes with their natural environments. Yet the architecture is quite unique in its own right, with California-based architects exhibiting an eclectic sense of style and place. From Berkeley Hill to San Mateo, San Francisco Bay to Big Sur, great design is blended into the area's natural beauty. The variety of styles and settings include hillside homes, a studio, a lodge, and Arts and Craft homes with a studied informality or modern and progressive styles in a picturesque context. The photographs feature interiors and challenge one to draw the lines of residential boundaries.Vernon FordCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved