Maybeck Studio
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 | Maybeck Studio |
| Designer | Bernard Maybeck |
| Location | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Date | 1924 |
| Building Type | small house, architect's house, architecture studio |
| Climate | mild |
| Context | suburban |
| Architectural Style | Bay Area Modern |
| Street Address | 1 Maybeck Twin Drive |
| Notes | The architect's own modest but artful space. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Maybeck_Studio.html |
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Commentary
In response to rising construction costs after World War I, Maybeck designed a generic floor plan for a studio loft space in which house and garden were to be fused into "one handsomely proportioned and beautifully furnished space." Construction materials were left unspecified, to be chosen in accordance with a particular client's desires. "The Maybeck studio on Buena Vista Way had no fine finishes. In fact it was an experimental structure, as much a laboratory as it was a house."
— Darlene Levy. drawn from Kenneth H. Cardwell. Bernard Maybeck: Artisan, Architect, Artist. p214.
The Creator's Words
"Many of his original drawings, still in existence, are too bulky to lie flat in a file; among the pages are full-scale drawings of fireplaces on folded sheets of tracing paper. These were developed on the job in cardboard, and later in plywood. Maybeck often stopped construction while a carpenter held up the boards in position; if he wasn't satisfied, he restudied the design. Maybeck practiced architecture as if it were a craft, constantly revising—in order to bring closer together the possibility and the actuality. This accounts to a large degree for his successes in blending unrelated styles."
— Esther McCoy. Five California Architects. p18.
Details
Bernard Maybeck studio
2745 Buena Vista Way, Berkeley.
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Kenneth H. Cardwell. Bernard Maybeck: Artisan, Architect, Artist. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1977. ISBN 0-87905-148-5. LC 77-13773. NA737.M435C37. p214.Reprint edition: Hennessey & Ingalls, December 1995. ISBN 0912158999. — A primary resource on Maybeck. Available at Amazon.com
Esther McCoy. Five California Architects. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1960. ISBN 0-275-46690-6. LC 74-19818. NA730.C2M3 1975. p18.
Maybeck Studio drawings by Michael Wheeler, Design Integration Laboratory, University of Oregon. from model by Damon Johnstun, D.I.L., and Hedy Parks, Architecture 199, Fall 1992, with Professor Kevin Matthews. Modeled with DesignWorkshop®. drawing of south elevation. drawing of plan. drawing of longitudinal section. drawing of transverse section.
Sally B. Woodbridge. Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect. text by Sally B. Woodbridge, photography by Richard Barnes. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1992. ISBN 1-55859-280-6. NA737.M435W66 1992. exterior photo of building from Buena Vista Way, f190, p192.— Available at Amazon.com
[UO AAA Library Slide Collection, 726 Am B45h M45, 4-elevation, 6-wall detail.]
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