Maybeck, Bernard (Ralph)
(1862–1957) architect; born in New York City. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and established his own office in Berkeley, California (1902). He designed mostly Bay Area suburban houses and community projects, although his best-known works include the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco (1913–15). His uniquely inventive designs drew on various traditions and showed unusual diversity of form, scale, and materials.The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
Maybeck, Bernard
(1862–1937)Designed the Christian Science Church (illus.), Berkeley, CA, in a mixture of styles. He also designed the Palace of Fine Arts (illus.), San Francisco, for the Pan Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The Exposition buildings were demolished, but the Palace remains, rebuilt out of permanent materials, an exact replica of the original structure.
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