ARCHITECTURE IN CALIFORNIA 1868–1968
David Gebhard and Harriette Von Breton
David Gebhard and Harriette Von Breton: ARCHITECTURE IN CALIFORNIA 1868–1968 ORGANIZED BY DAVID GEBHARD AND HARRIETTE VON BRETON TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENNIAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE ART GALLERIES. Santa Barbara: The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968. First edition. A good soft cover book with thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear including fore edge wear and a creased corner on the back cover. Former owner's bookplate on the FEP. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8 x 10 soft cover book with 34 pages followed by 146 black-and-white illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name: The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara [April 16–May 12, 1968]. Includes an essay by David Gebhard and a bibliographic index.
Architects include Samuel and Joseph Newsom, Bernard Maybeck, Ernest Coxhead, Charles and Henry Greene, Irving J. Gill, George Washington Smith, Julia Morgan. R. M. Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard J. Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Gregory Ain, Wurster, Bernardi, and Emmons, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Lloyd Wright, Charles Eames, Erich Mendelsohn, Craig Ellwood and Assoc., Ernest Born, John Lautner, Joseph Esherick and Assoc., Louis I. Kahn, Charles Moore, and Agora Group among many others.
David S. Gebhard (1927 – 1996) was a leading architectural historian, particularly known for his books on the architecture and architects of California. He was a long-time faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was dedicated to the preservation of Santa Barbara architecture.
Gebhard was born and raised in Minnesota; he received his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1958. He served, for six years, as director of the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico, before moving to UC Santa Barbara in 1961. As a teacher he inspired many students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to his long teaching career, he served as director of the University Art Museum for twenty years, building a small gallery into a significant accredited university museum. In this position, he initiated the Architectural Drawings Collection, now one of the leading West Coast repositories for architectural materials. With Robert Winter he co-authored guides to architecture in northern and southern California.
Gebhard was also active in service to his community, serving for many years on the Santa Barbara County Architectural Board of Review. He was active in the Society of Architectural Historians, and served a term as its president in the 1980s.
The David Gebhard Memorial Lecture Series is an annual event sponsored by Pasadena Heritage, an architectural preservation organization in Pasadena, California. [Wikipedia]