John Galen Howard and the University of California
Subtitle: The Design of a Great Public University Campus
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780520229921
Subjects: Individual architects; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Universities / polytechnics; 20th century; Biography; Architecture; United States - State & Local - General; Biography / Autobiography; Howard, John Galen,; California; Artists, Architects, Photographers; U.S. Architecture - General; Architecture / General; Howard, John Galen; Architects; United States; History - General; 1864-1931; Berkeley
First sentence: The streets are overrun with young, handsome, bright-eved, well-dressed men, real estate agents, I imagine, rushing from one bargain to another....
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.