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Buildings and structures in the San Francisco Bay Area (22 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.
First Bay Tradition (also known as First Bay Area Tradition or San Francisco Bay Region Tradition [1]) was an architectural style from the period of the 1880s to early 1920s. Sometimes considered as a regional interpretation of the Eastern Shingle Style , it came as a reaction to the classicism of Beaux-Arts architecture .
He hired the respected architect and Wright disciple of sorts [15] Robert Anshen of Anshen & Allen to design the initial Eichlers, and the first prototypes were built in 1949. [16] In later years, Eichler built houses that were designed by other architects including by the San Francisco firm Claude Oakland & Associates and the Los Angeles firms ...
The house is on the National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco. The architecture of San Francisco is not so much known for defining a particular architectural style; rather, with its interesting and challenging variations in geography and topology and tumultuous history, San Francisco is known worldwide for its particularly eclectic ...
Jack Hillmer (1918–2007) was an American architect based in San Francisco, California.An exponent of what Lewis Mumford called the "Bay Region style," [1] Hillmer is known for his meticulously hand-crafted modernist homes built from redwood.
First Unitarian Church, Moody house, Hacienda del Pozo de Verona A. C. Schweinfurth (1864–1900), born Albert Cicero Schweinfurth , was an American architect . [ 1 ] He is associated with the First Bay Tradition , an architectural style from the period of the 1880s to early 1920s.
The native thatched roof huts were adapted by the British, who built bungalows as houses for administrators and as summer retreats. [2] Refined and popularized in California, many books list the first California house dubbed a bungalow as the one designed by the San Francisco architect A. Page Brown in the early 1890s.
Edgar Aschael Mathews [1] (September 8, 1866 – December 31, 1946) was an architect who worked in the Bay Area of California, particularly in San Francisco. He primarily designed houses but was also responsible for some Christian Science churches and commercial and government buildings.