An architectural practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1938-1996
By: Joseph Esherick ; introductions by William Turnbull, Jr. [et al] ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1994-1996. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Turnbull, William.; Riess, Suzanne B.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1996
Subjects: Esherick, Wharton.; Wurster, William Wilson.; Maybeck, Bernard R.; American Institute of Architects. San Francisco Chapter.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Architecture.; Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis.; Architects -- California -- Los Angeles.; Architecture -- California.
Description: Joseph Esherik discusses his Quaker background, his mentor uncle Wharton Esherick, and his education at the University of Pennsylvania; his wartime experience; his early clients in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects; his thoughts on the work of William Wurster and Bernard Maybeck; the Forties, the Fifties, and the Sixties; teaching at the Dept. of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley; the firm of Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis; and his philosophy of architecture.

includes biographical material, journals from World War II and a trip from Moscow to Beijing, lecture notes, articles, building projects, items relating to Wharton Esherick, and material relating to Joseph Esherick's memorial service.