1954, Peninsula, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences
Junipero Serra Blvd., Stanford
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons; Thomas D. Church, land. arch.
The perfect scholars' ivory tower built in mainstream Bay Region style and set in sensitively enhanced nature (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 160).
1954, Pacific Heights, House
301 Locust St., San Francisco
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons
From Modernistic formality to Modern Bay Region informality (Woodbridge, Woodbridge and Byrne 2005: 212).
This one-story house with its irregular brown shingle exterior is an interesting contrast to the white brick urbanity diagonally across the street [at 250 Locust St.] (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 40).
1955, East Bay, Two Cottages
1405 and 1425 Greenwood Terrace, Berkeley
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons
A pair of small shingle cottages, one of which has been considerably added to in recent years (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 258).
1958, 1965, Northern California, Capitol Tower Apts.
1500 7th St., Sacramento
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons; Edward L. Barnes; DeMars and Reay; Lawrence Halprin and Assoc., landscape architecture
Part of the Sacramento urban renewal project. The low rise units were built first, then the high rise in 1965. The tower is mildly International Style (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 413).
1958, Northern California, Pope ranch house
Madera
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons
The screened verandah of the Pope house (1958; also discussed in Chapter 4) recognizes the need for protection from bugs and rain in the hot Central Valley and at the same time is really another room without a name (Woodbridge 1988: 148).
In 1958, in Madera, Wurster's firm designed an omega to the alpha of the Gregory farmhouse. With its conscious use of vernacular materials--adobe and corrugated metal roofing--and its pointed reference to such monuments of California's Colonial past as General Mariano Vallejo's great adobe ranch headquarters near Petaluma, the building represents Wurster's mature vision of what a real regional architecture could be: a carefully referenced restatement of the past with form and materials still appropriate to the present (Woodbridge 1988: 149, 202, 204).
1958, Richmond, House
850 Camino del Mar, San Francisco
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons
No comment (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 97).
1959, Pacific Heights, House
3095 Pacific Ave., San Francisco
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons
A late Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons boxy design, more mannered than Wurster's 1930s work as in No. 33 [at 2633 Green St.] (Woodbridge, Woodbridge and Byrne 2005: 160).
1959, Peninsula, Escondido Village
Escondido Rd. at Campus Dr. East, Stanford
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons; 1964 and 1966, Campbell and Wong
Originally built as married students housing on 175 acres. A ring road serves as an access route. The first phase designed by Wurster Bernardi and Emmons with landscaping by Thomas Church is notable as an example of Bay Region Modernism, which referenced the California ranch houses with low-pitched shingled roofs and wide overhanging eaves. The 250 two-story units were clad in cement board and redwood board-and-batten with end walls of concrete block. The seven types of one, two, and three-bedroom apartments were grouped in twos or threes with shared courtyards; they were fenced to create safe playgrounds for children. Subsequent developments departed from the early work in scale and style (Woodbridge, Woodbridge and Byrne 2005: 228).
Low-rise by Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons; high-rise by Campbell and Wong (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 163).
1959, Pacific Heights, House
25 Raycliff Terr., San Francisco
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons
[One of] a catalog of two generations of local domestic architecture, none of them outstanding examples, but interesting as a group (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 43).
1959, Peninsula, Medical Plaza
Stanford University, Stanford
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons; Lawrence Halprin, landscape architecture
No comment (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 160).
