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  San Francisco Bay Area Arts & Crafts Movement: John Galen Howard
Howard, whose entry with Cauldwell placed fourth in the competition, was appointed to the Advisory Board of Architects for the Perpetuation of the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan for the University of California.
In 1913 Howard was appointed Director of the School of Architecture at the University.
Howard was officially dismissed by the Regents of the University in 1924, and in 1926 resigned as Director of the School of Architecture.
www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Orchard/8642/jghoward.html   (751 words)

  
 John Howard (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Howard (prison reformer), was an English prison reformer of the 18th century
John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, was an English duke in the 15th century
John Howard (soldier), was a British Parachutist Major who was in command of the assault on Pegasus Bridge on D-Day
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Howard_(disambiguation)   (211 words)

  
 University_of_California,_Berkeley
The campus and its surrounding community are home to a number of notable buildings by turn-of-the-20th century campus architect John Galen Howard, his peer Bernard Maybeck (best known for the Palace of Fine Arts), and Maybeck's student, Julia Morgan.
John Galen Howard retired in 1924, his support base gone with both Phoebe Hearst's death and President Wheeler's resignation in 1919.
William Randolph Hearst, seeking to memorialize his mother, contributed to Howard's resignation by commissioning Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan to design a series of dramatic buildings on the southern part of the campus.
www.news-from-newspapers.com /en/Wikipedia.org/2005/04/15/University_of_California_Berkeley.html   (2711 words)

  
 John Galen Howard's 'City of Learning'
Howard, a New Englander who had attended MIT and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, spent a year in Los Angeles before entering the Berkeley architectural competition.
Howard developed a style of architecture that was inspired by stately classical lines.
Her book fills in the social context of Howard's work and the character of the campus community during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
www.berkeley.edu /news/multimedia/2003/03/jgh/index.shtml   (1116 words)

  
 UC Berkeley : Landscape Heritage Plan
Incorporate Howard's beaux-arts design elements, including the diameter of the Circle, topographic design implications, the framed viewshed to the Golden Gate, and a crescent shaped planter bed on the upper end framing the large round lawn panel.
John Galen Howard expressed his sensitivity to the topography in his design by taking advantage of the rise in elevation.
In Howard's Mining Circle illustrative, accent trees were shown as evergreen and columnar, a typical beaux-arts planting effect.
www.cp.berkeley.edu /lhp/concepts/mining.html   (2087 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John HOWARD1 was born between 1728 and 35 in Spotsylvania co., VA. He died on 29 Oct 1819 in Greenville co., SC.
HOWARD was born in 1767 in Greenville co., SC.
My father, Ernest Lincoln Howard (1864-1928), was a comparatively poor country boy who could not have a college education as his father had, so after completing his education in the local schools, he went to Washington to work at the Smithsonian for he was interested in science, particularly in geology.
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 Berkeley Daily Planet
The Berkeley landmark is our famous bell tower, the Sather Campanile, designed by John Galen Howard and completed in 1914 as a centerpiece for the UC Berkeley campus.
One who heard the news, presumably, was John Galen Howard, the University of California's supervising architect.
Howard’s final design for Berkeley’s campanile was about the same height and visually similar in many respects to the ill-fated Venetian campanile but sheathed in granite over steel, instead of red brick.
www.berkeleydaily.org /rediscover.cfm?archiveDate=09-21-02   (517 words)

  
 Guided Tour, Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, Boston, MA
The architect, John Galen Howard, came from the Beaux Arts School of Paris, which emphasized the importance of classical architecture as a foundation.
In fact, Howard was so dedicated to the craftsmanship of the theater, he personally oversaw the vast detailing in the interior.
Howard was also one of the first architects to explore the full flexibility of the newly invented electric lighting, integrating light bulbs into every aspect of the Majestic’s design.
www.maj.org /history/tour.html   (3344 words)

  
 UC Berkeley : Landscape Heritage Plan
It is defined on the east and west by four buildings designed by John Galen Howard - the paired groupings of California Hall and Durant Hall on the west and Doe Memorial Library and Wheeler Hall on the east.
The primary cultural significance of Sather Road is its expression of John Galen Howard's beaux-arts neoclassical design intention, seen in the confluence of the four buildings framing the intersection of Sather Road and Campanile Way.
During the Howard era, the Way was paved and brick gutters were installed that remain partly intact today in the western half.
www.cp.berkeley.edu /lhp/concepts/campanile.html   (3438 words)

  
 Environmental Design Archives: Campus Architecture
In 1924 Howard was dismissed, and in 1927 George W. Kelham, a well-known San Francisco architect, was hired as his replacement.
Brown held true to Howard's vision of classical architecture, but given the architectural styles and financial climate of the day, the buildings were minimalist versions.
Partridge, Loren W. John Galen Howard and the Berkeley Campus: Beaux-Arts architecture in the Athens of the West.
www.ced.berkeley.edu /cedarchives/campus.html   (1306 words)

  
 UCBSO: UCB Historic Buildings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
UC Berkeley's architectural heritage includes one of the finest Beaux-arts ensembles in the US, part of the 1908 and 1914 Hearst Plans supervised by John Galen Howard (1864-1831; see History of Campus Architecture).
Howard wanted it to "rise with a slender stem, bursting into bloom at the summit." It is ornamented with corner obelisks topped by bronze finial flames symbolizing enlightenment.
Considered by some to be John Galen Howard's masterpiece, its corner stone ceremony on November 18, 1902 was attended by luminaries and reported on by Jack London in the Hearst paper, the San Francisco Examiner.
spectacle.berkeley.edu /ucb_sfbay/ucb_campus/campviewbldg.html   (613 words)

  
 Netsurfer Books 05.01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Beaux-Arts-trained architect John Galen Howard had a family and a successful practice in New York in 1898 when he entered the international competition for a campus design richly funded by philanthropist Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
Although Howard's design didn't win, he had the advantage over the French winner of having worked in Los Angeles and visited San Francisco in 1887-8, and practical considerations led to his appointment to oversee fitting a design to the spectacular site in the Berkeley hills overlooking San Francisco Bay.
Howard's move west was ensured by Phoebe Hearst's commission to design a campus building as a memorial to her husband.
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 Kite Aerial Photography - UC Berkeley Doe Library
John Galen Howard, the supervising architect charged with implementing the Benard plan for the campus, took advantage of his "permission to spare no expense" and developed a style of architecture that reinterpreted the grace, dignity, and austerity of classical lines to suit the California environment.
Some of the campus's most elegant and stately structures were built during Howard's tenure, among them the Hearst Memorial Mining Building (1902-7), the Hearst Greek Theatre (1903), California Hall (1905), Doe Library (1911-17), the Campanile (1914), Wheeler Hall (1917), Gilman Hall (1917), and Hilgard Hall (1918).
Visible are the original John Galen Howard structure and a recent plaza covering the largely underground expansion by Esherick, Homsey, Dodge and Davis.(May 1996, 52K jpg)
arch.ced.berkeley.edu /kap/gallery/gal026.html   (692 words)

  
 Environmental Design Archives Descriptive Narratives
John Galen Howard was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
After working in Los Angeles, Boston, and New York, Howard became the supervising architect for the design of the University of California, Berkeley from 1901-1922, as well as founder and Director of its School of Architecture from 1903-1926.
It also shows Howard's architectural influence on the UC Berkeley campus, beginning with the Phoebe Hearst Competition and continuing through his 22 years as Supervising Architect.
www.ced.berkeley.edu /cedarchives/profiles/jghoward.htm   (279 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: John Galen Howard and the University of California: The Design of a Great Public University Campus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Howard, a New Englander who had attended MIT and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, worked in the offices of H. Richardson and McKim, Mead & White and spent a year in Los Angeles before entering the 1898-99 international competition for an architectural plan for the University of California campus.
Woodbridge conveys the energy of the turn-of-the-century leaders of the university who, with John Galen Howard, established the campus architecture and setting as the embodiment of their commitment to create a public university of the highest quality.
Including a chronology and an annotated bibliography, her book fills in the social context of Howard's work and the character of the campus community during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0520229924   (608 words)

  
 Berkeley Landmarks :: North Gate Hall
The winner was the Frenchman Emile Bénard, but his conflicts with the university led to the appointment of the fourth prize winner, John Galen Howard, as Supervising Architect and Professor of Architecture in 1901.
When the College of Architecture was established in 1903, John Galen Howard was not only its head but the only teacher until 1906, when William C. Hays joined the faculty as assistant in architecture.
Howard designed this wooden building as a temporary structure rather than as a component of the campus’s “permanent” architectural plan.
www.berkeleyheritage.com /berkeley_landmarks/northgate_hall.html   (1011 words)

  
 John Galen Howard and the University of California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Galen Howard and the University of California
Architectural historian Sally B. Woodbridge illuminates the career of John Galen Howard, the University of California's first supervising architect from 1901 to 1924.
In addition to the lively story of the Hearst competition and its unexpected outcome, Woodbridge provides detailed descriptions of the major campus buildings designed by Howard and an account of his twenty-five-year career in architectural education as the founder and head of the University of California's School of Architecture.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9458.html   (666 words)

  
 Sunset: Art was the family business - Oakland and Berkeley art exhibitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The artistic contributions of one such Bay Area dynasty--the family of architect John Galen Howard (1864-1931)--are the subject of a major exhibit opening this month at the Oakland Museum.
John Langley Howard remains active as a magic realist painter.
It's titled "John Galen Howard and the Beaux-Arts Tradition." Tickets are $22.50, $17.50 for members.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n5_v180/ai_6547705   (410 words)

  
 Laying the foundation stone of HMMB
John Galen Howard’s idea that the expression of mining in architecture should be essentially elementary and primordial (and there certainly is), then the day, with its mutter of storm and clash of elements, was a most fitting day for the laying of the cornerstone.
John Galen Howard, supervising architect of the university, says, “It is the glorification of work.” We are a young people, and we are not afraid of work, nor are we ashamed of work.
Howard, the supervising architect, is to be congratulated upon the splendid site which the University of California presents for his work.
www.mse.berkeley.edu /HMMBcornerstone.html   (1364 words)

  
 Berkeley, A City in History Chapter 5
Warming up to their task, the developers named most of the streets in the new neighborhood after California counties, and John Galen Howard was commissioned to design elaborate entrance pillars and the landscaped Marin Circle.
(A fountain designed by Howard and originally located in the circle was restored in the 1990s.) The legislature agreed to put the issue on the 1908 state ballot, but the voters decisively turned the move down, with only Alameda, San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties supporting the proposal.
In 1898 Keeler's ideas were a major force behind the founding of the Hillside Club, whose members also included John Galen Howard, fellow architect Almeric Coxhead and the Maybecks, Bernard and his wife Annie.
berkeleypubliclibrary.org /system/Chapter5.html   (4257 words)

  
 cub information,ucb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The campus and its surrounding community are home to a number of notable buildings by turn-of-the- 20th century campus architect John Galen Howard, his peer BernardMaybeck (best known for the Palace of Fine Arts), andMaybeck's student, Julia Morgan.
Much of the older campus is built in the stately Beaux-Arts Classical style, which was regarded as the most cultured, beautiful, and "scientific" styleby the cultural establishment at the time of the competition, and thus was the style preferred by John Galen Howard and PhoebeHearst (who paid his salary).
John Galen Howard retired in 1924, his support base gone with both Phoebe Hearst's death and President Wheeler's resignationin 1919.
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 Julia Morgan Center for the Arts: Julia's Story
Howard had opened an office in Berkeley after he had won the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Architectural Competition to design a master building plan for the University of California.
Quickly back on her feet, she was commissioned to lead the structural repair of Fairmont Hotel, which she completed in time for the one-year anniversary of both the fire and the originally scheduled grand opening of the building.
Work was started on St. John's Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, commissioned in 1907 after the 1906 earthquake and fire had sent many San Francisco residents across the bay looking for more stable ground.
www.juliamorgan.org /story.shtml   (987 words)

  
 LINEonline Road Trips August 2002 Puchall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Galen Howard designed the Italianate balustrade and sculptor Arthur Putnam created the original fountain at the electric streetcar turnaround above, at Arlington Circle.
McDuffie, who was also an accomplished mountain climber, recognized that it was good public relations to donate land too rocky to support development to the city of Berkeley for outdoor recreation.
There is an original signpost designed by John Galen Howard at the intersection of Indian Rock and San Diego.
www.techstrategy.com /lineonline/aug02/puchall1.html   (1515 words)

  
 American Architects' Biographies: H
Among the honors bestowed upon him were the degrees of LL.D. from the University of Liverpool and Lafayette, the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and membership in the Legion of Honor and in the Institute of France.
He was one of the leading authorities on church architecture in the world, having designed the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, now in course of construction on Morningside Heights, the Cathedral of St. Paul the Apostle, the interior of the Church of the Incarnation, and the recent alterations in Grace Church.
His design submitted in association with John Mead Howells won first place in the Chicago Tribune Competition, and the building subsequently erected was his first major commission.
www.sah.org /oldsite06012004/aame/bioh.html   (7767 words)

  
 VLN: S.F. Architecture 1925-1930
Whether or not funds would every have been provided to erect the grandiose auditorium is quite dubious, but the location of a student union building by John Galen Howard blocking the access to the auditorium site from the central campus made the completion of Maybeck's scheme improbable.
In the course of the investigation into the murder of Columbia Forrest, the investigator-protagonist John Guild asks her fiance, Charles Fremont, for the names of the victim's friends and is told: "I've told you Helen Robier lives--I'm pretty sure--at the Cathedral," Fremont said.
Designed in an "L" shape to follow the lot line, this long, horizontal, shingled house shows the degree to which the style of an eastern establishment architect [John Galen Howard] was influenced by western informality.
www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_20thc_010.html   (4749 words)

  
 CED Department of Architecture History
John Galen Howard appointed Supervising Architect and Professor of Architecture
Department of Architecture established, under the direction of John Galen Howard, University Architect.
John Galen Howard resigns as supervising architect and chair of department
www.lib.berkeley.edu /ENVI/ACH/Chrono.html   (716 words)

  
 Campus Landscape and Architecture
The Main Library (Charles Franklin Doe Memorial Library), designed by John Galen Howard in 1917, is the most powerful architectural symbol of the early campus nucleus.
Designed by John Galen Howard in 1907, Hearst Mining was meant to be both monument and workshop.
Especially noteworthy are the three pairs of golden oak doors set in their two-story arches, and the vaulted 80-foot-high central wall.
facultyguide.berkeley.edu /campuslife/faq_20.html   (530 words)

  
 UC Berkeley Buildings & Campus: A Selective Bibliography & Guide
John Galen Howard and the Berkeley campus : Beaux-Arts architecture in the Athens of the West / Loren W. Partridge.
John Galen Howard and the Beaux-Arts Movement in the United States / Joan Elaine Draper.
John Galen Howard and the University of California : the design of a great public university campus / Sally B. Woodbridge.
library.berkeley.edu /ENVI/buildingde.html   (2591 words)

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