Bernard Maybeck at Principia College
Bernard Maybeck at Principia Colleg: The Art and Craft of Building brings focus to Maybeck's late career and work outside of California and provides a reevaluation of his design approach and intentions in his more traditionally styled work. It documents Maybeck's last and longest commission, the campus plans, unexecuted projects, and built architecture for Principia.The history of Bernard Maybeck at Principia College is a story of an architect with romantic vision and matured practical experience in college planning and architecture who finds an immediate rapport with a client of extraordinary managerial abilities and insight. It was a romantic vision, conceived in spirit that evolved into an architectonic painting set among the trees above the bluffs at Elsah, Illinois, which is today recognized as a National Landmark.