Foreword / Donlyn Lyndon -- Introduction : A professional life 1917-1973 -- The houses of William Wurster : 1925-1931 : The early years : Gillespie House ; Smith House ; W. Gregory Farmhouse ; Kellam House ; Hagar House ; Hollins House ; General manager's house (Kaplansky-Howes) ; Sloss House ; Mackenzie House ; Berry/Lombardi House ; Church House ; Voss House -- 1933-1938 : Middle phase : Benner House ; Butler House ; Kenyon Cottage Apartments ; Miller House ; Dondo House ; Jensen House ; Hamill House ; Mendenhall House ; Clark House ; Green Camp -- 1939-1963: The late era : Gerbode House ; Grover House ; Chckering House ; S. Pope House ; Wolski House ; Walters House ; Heller House ; Coleman House ; G. Pope House ; W. Henderson House ; Baer House
Summary:
Over the course of a career that spanned forty-five years, William Wilson Wurster (1895 1973) designed hundreds of residences up and down the West Coast. Like Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, with whom Wurster maintained a close professional exchange, Wurster blends modernism with the vernacular. Wurster described these homes as "frames for living": spaces that could be fully transformed by the occupant to meet their needs and desires, well-designed canvases for homemaking. Authors Caitlin Lempres Brostrom, AIA, and Richard C. Peters, FAIA, draw upon extensive historical research as well as personal relationships with Wurster to tell the story of his career, including both residential and institutional building. The Houses of William Wurster features new and archival footage of thirty-three of the architect's best-known houses and includes a foreword by Donlyn Lyndon. -- Book Description.
