Visitors and residents alike continue to be pleasantly astonished by the rich and varied architectural heritage of the San Francisco Bay Area. This completely revised and updated guide offers a comprehensive catalog of noteworthy and representative sites, including residential and commercial buildings, parks, and public art works, each illustrated by an accompanying photograph. All are located within the major San Francisco neighborhoods as well as outlying areas. Useful maps, descriptive tidbits, and sightseeing hints embellish this densely packed volume. Whether used as the basis for a walking tour or as a reference for students and historians, SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECTURE is the definitive guide to the natural and urban development of one of the most recognized and visited areas in the world. A completely revised and updated guide to San Francisco Bay Area architecture with new entries, photographs, and maps. Illustrated with more than 600 photographs.Of the many guidebooks on the San Francisco Bay Area, this is the only one to offer a comprehensive catalog of architectural sites.
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*A completely revised and updated guide to San Francisco Bay Area architecture with new entries, photographs, and maps.
*Illustrated with more than 600 photographs.
*Of the many guidebooks on the San Francisco Bay Area, this is the only one to offer a comprehensive catalog of architectural sites.
*Illustrated with more than 600 photographs.
*Of the many guidebooks on the San Francisco Bay Area, this is the only one to offer a comprehensive catalog of architectural sites.
About the Author
SALLY B. WOODBRIDGE is an architectural historian and critic who has been writing about historic and contemporary architecture for over 30 years. She lives in Berkeley, California.
CHUCK BYRNE is a graphic designer who also teaches and writes about graphic design. He lives in Berkeley, California.
JOHN M. WOODBRIDGE is an architect who has practiced throughout the United States and Australia and has also taught at several universities. He lives in Sonoma, California.
CHUCK BYRNE is a graphic designer who also teaches and writes about graphic design. He lives in Berkeley, California.
JOHN M. WOODBRIDGE is an architect who has practiced throughout the United States and Australia and has also taught at several universities. He lives in Sonoma, California.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: San Francisco Architecture: An Illustrated Guide to the Outstanding Buildings, Public Art Works, and Parks in the Bay Area of California (Paperback)
The new edition of San Francisco Architecture is everything a portable guide to the built environment should be: organized, accessible, and with enough detail to expand one's sense of time, place, and people. Fortunately, from this reader's point of view, it was written for a lay, rather than specialist, audience; the result is neither exhaustive nor exhausting, merely highly informative. As with any reference book, it must address specific information needs of a specific audience, and, in my estimation, this guide does so very well for a reader with general interest in buildings around the Bay Area.
San Francisco Architecture is unusually well designed and produced: the photography, layout, information structure, typography and printing (espcially the halftone reproduction) are all exemplary and reinforcing of each other. Visually, it is as satisfying as it is workmanlike -- free of excess or caprice and dedicated to serving information effectively.
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San Francisco Architecture is the best field guide around if you want to find out about both old and new architecture in the Bay Area.It not only covers San Francisco,but does a a good job of tours in San Jose,Oakland,and Berkeley,and up to Sonoma, and Napa with the wineries.I took several of the tours with my friends and we all found it a very insightful and pleasurable experience that i highly recommend.It is loaded with photos to help with the selection of what you want to see and not too big and bulky to take along comfortably.I give it an enthusiastic five stars.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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The Best San Francisco Guide,
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The very best and most comprehensive guide to San Francisco Bay Area architecture. Informative for anyone who is interested in architecture. A wonderful way to see the city - have lived in this city 40 years but there was still much to discover with this guide in hand.
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