Title & Author:

An everyday modernism : the houses of William Wurster / edited by Marc Treib ; with essays by David Gebhard [and others].

Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995.

Description:

252 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 16, 1995-Feb. 11, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-243) and index.
Director's Foreword and Acknowledgments / John R. Lane -- William Wilson Wurster: The Feeling of Function / Marc Treib -- An Architectural Life / Richard C. Peters and Caitlin King Lempres -- The Nature of Restraint: Wurster and His Circle / Daniel Gregory -- Of Gardens and Houses as Places to Live: Thomas Church and William Wurster / Dorothee Imbert -- Building Design as Social Art: The Public Architecture of William Wurster, 1935-1950 / Greg Hise -- William Wurster and His California Contemporaries: The Idea of Regionalism and Soft Modernism / David Gebhard -- A Partnership: Catherine Bauer and William Wurster / Gwendolyn Wright -- Bernardi, Emmons -- and Wurster: Focus on the Younger Partners / Alan R. Michelson -- William Wurster Chronology / Alan R. Michelson -- William Wurster: Selected Writings / Edited by Marc Petr and Sabrina Owen.

Summary:

This work documents William Wurster's 50-year career and his place in comtemporary American architectural thought. Over 50 of Wurster's projects are featured here, with photographs, drawings and plans, along with essays from historians and critics providing insights into his life.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520205502
9780520205505
0918471354
9780918471352
0520221710
9780520221710

Subject:

Wurster, William Wilson Exhibitions.
Wurster, William Wilson, 1895-1973 Expositions.
Wurster, William Wilson
Wurster, William Wilson, (1895-1973) Catalogues d'exposition.
Wurster, William Wilson, (1895-1973) Critique et interprétation.
Architecture domestique États-Unis Expositions.
Arquitetura.
Architects United States 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture domestique Californie (États-Unis) Catalogues d'exposition.
Houses Architecture.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Treib, Marc.
Gebhard, David.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Houses of William Wurster

Holdings:

Location: Library main 90779
Call No.: ID PLS NA44.W968; ID:95-B4922
Status: Available