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Designing with
Nature provides a vivid account of a pivotal chapter in the architectural
history of Northern California. Set in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries, the documentary examines the work of
several major architects who were influenced by Arts and Crafts ideals,
as well as by the reformist ethos of the Progressive Era. These designers
sought to create an architecture suited to the landscape, climate, and
emerging culture of the region. Rejecting Victorian excess and the
artificial separation of art and craft, they strove to create an organic
architecture based on unified design and harmony with nature. The resulting
design sensibility has become emblematic of the region and lives on
in the Bay Region Tradition. Architects
featured in Designing with Nature include Bernard Maybeck, Julia
Morgan, Ernest Coxhead, Willis Polk, A.C. Schweinfurth, John Galen Howard,
Louis Christian Mullgardt, John Hudson Thomas, and Henry Gutterson.
The influential Arts and Crafts advocates Joseph Worcester and Charles
Keeler are also discussed. Storytellers
seen in the documentary include art historians Robert Judson Clark,
Richard Longstreth, Kenneth Cardwell, and Richard Guy Wilson, writers
Leslie Freudenheim and Susan Cerny, Swedenborgian scholar James Lawrence,
architectural guide John Gaul, and home owners Carol Ann Rogers, Polly
Moore, and Marilyn Thomas. Designing
with Nature was written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning
producer Paul Bockhorst in cooperation with the Berkeley Architectural
Heritage Association. The documentary is narrated by Richard Doyle.
Original music is by Paul Morehouse. John Rogers did the principal photography.
Major funding was provided by The Ahmanson Foundation, the Graham Foundation
for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Fleishhacker Foundation.
Running time is 86 minutes. Partial list
of structures featured in Designing with Nature: Joseph Worcester Joseph Worcester House, Piedmont Emily Price
Marshall Houses and Worcester Cottage, Russian Hill, San Francisco Willis Polk Polk-Williams
House, Russian Hill, San Francisco A. Page Brown Crocker Building, San Francisco Ferry Building, San Francisco California Pavilion,
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago A. Page Brown, Joseph Worcester and Others Swedenborgian
Church, aka Church of the New Jerusalem, San Francisco Ernest Coxhead St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, San Francisco Andrew Carrigan House, San Anselmo Coxhead City House, San Francisco Coxhead Country House, San Mateo Beta Theta Pi
Fraternity, Berkeley A.C. Schweinfurth Volney Moody House, Berkeley First Unitarian
Church, Berkeley Bernard Maybeck Charles and Louise Keeler House, Berkeley Faculty Club, University of California First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley Palace of Fine
Arts, San Francisco John Galen Howard Doe Memorial Library, University of California Sather Tower, aka the Campanile, University of California Architecture Building, University of California Gregory-Howard
House, Berkeley Julia Morgan Berkeley Women's City Club, Berkeley St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley\ Suite of Craftsman-style buildings at Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove Lena and William
Dinsmore House, Pacific Grove Louis Christian Mullgardt Dormidera Avenue House, Piedmont Letitia and Ernest Evans House, Mill Valley Henry Taylor
House, Berkeley John Hudson Thomas Herbert Leo Dungan House, Berkeley Locke House, Oakland Edwin and George Peters Houses, Berkeley William and
Florence Stephens House, Woodland Henry Gutterson John and Rebecca Howell House, Berkeley Charles Mallory Dutton House, Berkeley Education Building, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley Rose Walk Duplexes, Berkeley
 Links to Related Sites Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter www.sahscc.org/site/index.php?function=video_list Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association berkeleyheritage.com/publications.html Home /
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