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Download or read book San Francisco City Hall Competition written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Public Works
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Program of the Competition for the Selection of an Architect for the City Hall, San Francisco, California, April 6, 1912 ... written by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Department of Engineering
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Program of Conditions and Instructions to Govern a Competition to be Held for the Purpose of Selecting an Architect for the San Francisco State Building for the State of California to be Erected in the City and County of San Francisco, California written by California. Department of Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. State Board of Control
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Program of Conditions and Instructions to Govern a Competition to be Held for the Purpose of Selecting an Architect for the San Francisco State Building for the State of California written by California. State Board of Control and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Haas
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 194890814X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)
Download or read book The San Francisco Civic Center written by James Haas and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco is known and loved around the world for its iconic man-made structures, such as the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Transamerica Pyramid. Yet its Civic Center, with the grandest collection of monumental municipal buildings in the United States, is often overlooked, drawing less global and local interest, despite its being an urban planning marvel featuring thirteen government office and cultural buildings. In The San Francisco Civic Center, James Haas tells the complete story of San Francisco’s Civic Center and how it became one of the most complete developments envisioned by any American city. Originally planned and designed by John Galen Howard in 1912, the San Francisco Civic Center is considered in both design and materials one of the finest achievements of the American reformist City Beautiful movement, an urban design movement that began more than a century ago. Haas meticulously unravels the Civic Center’s story of perseverance and dysfunction, providing an understanding and appreciation of this local and national treasure. He discusses why the Civic Center was built, how it became central to the urban planning initiatives of San Francisco in the early twentieth century, and how the site held onto its founders’ vision despite heated public debates about its function and achievement. He also delves into the vision for the future and related national trends in city planning and the architectural and art movements that influenced those trends. Riddled with inspiration and leadership as well as controversy, The San Francisco Civic Center, much like the complex itself, is a stunning manifestation of the confident spirit of one of America’s most dynamic and creative cities.
Author : American Institute of Architects. San Francisco Chapter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Report of the Civic Center Committee, San Francisco Chapter, American Institute of Architects, and Reply of the Consulting Architects, City of San Francisco written by American Institute of Architects. San Francisco Chapter and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021313508
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (135 download)
Download or read book San Francisco City Hall Comeptition written by Anonymous and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive look at the design process for one of San Francisco's most iconic buildings. With detailed drawings and plans, San Francisco City Hall Comeptition provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of architecture and design. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alison Isenberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691264546
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Designing San Francisco written by Alison Isenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. Previous accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs—put simply, development versus preservation—and have followed New York City models. Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful, pioneering, and contentious San Francisco, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square, Golden Gateway, and the Transamerica Pyramid. When large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, builders, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, alternative press writers, and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city, regional, and national planning and shaped novel projects across urban, suburban, and rural borders. San Francisco’s rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal era—especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism’s impact in the 1970s. An evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.
Author : Jack L. Nasar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521444491
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (444 download)
Download or read book Design by Competition written by Jack L. Nasar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What meanings do buildings and places convey to the people who use and visit them? Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. How can sponsors and clients get more meaningful results? In answer to these questions, Dr Nasar, supported by riveting studies of competitions and Peter Eisenman's competition-winning design for the Wexner Center at the Ohio State University, suggests the use of pre-jury evaluation (PJE). He shows the potential value of this approach as well as visual quality programming for many kinds of environmental design for which the client wants to convey certain desirable meanings. The studies, from those specific to the Wexner Center to those covering the scope of history, point to an alternative method for shaping the visual form of buildings, places and cities.
Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year ... written by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Gilliam
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0307779424
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The San Francisco Experience written by Harold Gilliam and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco experience is not an encounter you can enjoy in an hour or a day or at a particular time or location. It is a composite of innumerable experiences over long periods of time in the entire region around the bay. San Francisco as a social and cultural entity long ago spilled over the political boundaries that were drawn up a century ago for another era. Nearly one-third of the people who during the day work and shop within the city limits go home at night beyond the bay or down the Peninsula. Nearly all of the tourists and visitors who come to the city also visit the far shores. Even the relatively few who do not venture across the bridges experience something of the far shores when they gaze across the bay from Nob Hill or Russian Hill or through the big windows at the Top of the Mark or the Crown Room of the Fairmont. —from the Preface
Author : Joan E. Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The San Francisco Civic Center written by Joan E. Draper and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Architect and Engineer of California, Pacific Coast States written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Architectural Advisory Panel Evaluation Report written by San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Municipal Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Department of Engineering
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Program of Conditions and Instructions to Govern a Competition to be Held for the Purpose of Selecting an Architect for the Library and Courts Building and the Office Building for the State of California to be Erecrted in the City of Sacramento, California written by California. Department of Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Therese Poletti
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568987569
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Art Deco San Francisco written by Therese Poletti and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2008-09-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castro Theatre, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Headquarters, 450 Sutter Medico-Dental Buildingthesemasterpieces of San Francisco's Art Deco heritage are the work of one man: Timothy Pflueger. An immigrant's sonwith only a grade-school education, Pflueger began practicing architecture after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake. While his contemporaries looked to Beaux-Arts traditions to rebuild the city, he brought exotic Mayan, Asian, and Egyptian forms to buildings ranging from simple cocktail lounges to the city's first skyscrapers. Pflueger was one of the city's most prolificarchitects during his 40-year career. He designed two major downtown skyscrapers, two stock exchanges, several neighborhood theaters, movie palaces for four smaller cities (including the beloved Paramount in Oakland), some ofthe city's biggest schools, and at least 50 homes. His works include the San Francisco Stock Exchange, the ever-popularTop of the Mark, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and the San Francisco World's Fair. It is a testament to his talentthat many of his buildings still stand and many have been named landmarks. Therese Poletti tells the fascinating story of Pflueger's life and work in Art Deco San Francisco. In lively detail, she relates how Pflueger built extravagant compositions in metal, concrete, and glass. She also tells the story behind the architecture: Pflueger's commissioning and support of muralist Diego Rivera, his association with photographer Ansel Adams and sculptor Ralph Stackpole, and his childhood friendship turned to adulthood sponsorship with San Francisco Mayor James "Sunny" Rolph Jr. Beautiful archival photography mixes with stunning new photography in this collection of a truly Californian, but ultimately American, story.
