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...important influence, acknowledged with particular reverence by Architects Clark, Wurster and Dinwiddie, is that of an 80-year-old pioneer named Bernard Ralph Maybeck, Brooklyn-born son of a German woodcarver. who went to California in 1894 and later became the founder and director of the University of California's School of Architecture. A romanticist like Frank Lloyd Wright, he was the first architect to use unfinished California redwood as a decorative element in beautiful building, the first to wed his free, unconventional designs to the mountainous beauty of the California landscape. Maybeck is principally remembered for his dreamlike...
...regents' meeting that $4,000,000 had been promised by private citizens as soon as the State gave $500,000. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst is the principal donor to the fund. She offers to give money to obtain plans by international competition and to pay Professor B. R. Maybeck, who will explain the project to eastern and European architects. Mrs. Hearst, in her letter, said it was her desire to do something as a memorial to Senator Hearst's love for the State. It is understood that she will cause to be erected two buildings as a part...