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An architectural practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1938-1996 : oral history transcript / 1996.
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Title:

An architectural practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1938-1996 : oral history transcript / 1996

Creator/Contributor:

Esherick, Joseph, 1914-1998, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Turnbull, William.

Creator/Contributor:

Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

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.

Date:

1996 (issued)

Subject:

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Architects -- California -- Los Angeles
Architecture -- California
Architectes -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Architects
Architecture
California
California -- Los Angeles
American Institute of Architects. -- San Francisco Chapter.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Architecture.
Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis.
American Institute of Architects. -- San Francisco Chapter.
Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Architecture.
Esherick, Wharton
Wurster, William Wilson
Maybeck, Bernard R
Esherick, Wharton
Maybeck, Bernard R
Wurster, William Wilson

Note:

Joseph Esherick ; introductions by William Turnbull, Jr. [and others] ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1994-1996. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as: Phonotape 2894 C.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

biography
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 volume (xvii, 800 pages) : illustrations, portrait ; 28 cm
54 audiocassettes
1 box and 1 volume (.3 linear ft.)

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Classification:

720.973

Copyright Note:

This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.