San Francisco Architecture: An Illustrated Guide to the Outstanding Buildings, Public Art Works, and Parks in the Bay Area of California

by Sally B. Woodbridge

Book Overview

From San Francisco's stately Victorian homes to Sonoma's historic Mission, over 600 entries fill this convenient, information-packed gem of a guidebook to notable architectural sites around the Bay... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580086748
• ISBN13: 9781580086745
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A great guide to the architecture of this jewel of a city

The information and pictures work to help you find the most treasured pieces of architecture in San Francisco. It is a real must for anyone who wants to find treasure.

Great find!

This book will be handy for walking and biking around SF as we always want to know the details and history of all the buildings we pass by!

The Best San Francisco Guide

The very best and most comprehensive guide to San Francisco Bay Area architecture. Informative for anyone who is interested in architecture. A wonderful way to see the city - have lived in this city 40 years but there was still much to discover with this guide in hand.

a most useful guide

San Francisco Architecture is the best field guide around if you want to find out about both old and new architecture in the Bay Area.It not only covers San Francisco,but does a a good job of tours in San Jose,Oakland,and Berkeley,and up to Sonoma, and Napa with the wineries.I took several of the tours with my friends and we all found it a very insightful and pleasurable experience that i highly recommend.It is loaded with photos to help with the selection of what you want to see and not too big and bulky to take along comfortably.I give it an enthusiastic five stars.

Crisp, clear, concise

The new edition of San Francisco Architecture is everything a portable guide to the built environment should be: organized, accessible, and with enough detail to expand one's sense of time, place, and people. Fortunately, from this reader's point of view, it was written for a lay, rather than specialist, audience; the result is neither exhaustive nor exhausting, merely highly informative. As with any reference book, it must address specific information needs of a specific audience, and, in my estimation, this guide does so very well for a reader with general interest in buildings around the Bay Area. San Francisco Architecture is unusually well designed and produced: the photography, layout, information structure, typography and printing (espcially the halftone reproduction) are all exemplary and reinforcing of each other. Visually, it is as satisfying as it is workmanlike -- free of excess or caprice and dedicated to serving information effectively.