Margaret majua biography
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Ace Architects and their work have appeared in the widest range of publications, nationally and internationally, as well as on television, the Internet, and radio. In print, coverage has included newspapers (New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune); home and design magazines (Architectural Digest, Metropolitan Home, House Beautiful, Elle Decor); the professional press (Architectural Record, Interiors, Interior Design, Residential Architect, VM plus SD); books (Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area, Hyperwest, Rancho Deluxe, Bay Area Houses, The Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, San Francisco Houses After the Fire), as well as items in less august publications (California Monthly, The Magic Leaf, Constructor Magazine, Residential Concrete Magazine, Owl Magazine).
While almost all media coverage is positive, Ace has been grateful for the occasional controversy. In 1987, a low-cost, perhaps immodest makeover of a branch bank building in Berkeley raised a hullabaloo. The headline on future Pulitzer winner Allan Temko's criticism read "Architectural 'Folly' Tweaks Berkeley", a sub-head adding "Egghead Design with Wild Colors". SOM partner Nathaniel Owings is said to have remarked "I don't care what they s
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Statues from the Pan-Pacific International Exposition Adorn a Lafayette Garden
Regional experts go for evergreens.
SAN FRANCISCO’S 1915 PANAMA-Pacific International Exposition gave Italian sculptor Leo Lentelli, an assistant to an exposition official who was the father of sculptor Alexander Calder, the opportunity to create sculptural “water sprites” in its Court of Abundance. Lentelli also fashioned allegorical statues representing art, literature, philosophy, science and law for the city’s main library in 1918. Like his other works, those five larger-than-life cast stone library statues were not intended to last, but they’re still around, rescued at auction in 2004 by East Bay architects Lucia Howard and David Weinstein, whose company Piraneseum collects such decorative arts, some for sale. Now these Lentelli figures stand permanently on the edge of Howard and Weinstein’s circular evergreen garden in Lafayette, bordered by orange flowered Aloe arborescens succulents (not shown), large Brahea armata var. “clara” and small Chamaerops humilis var. “argentea” palms, Agave franzosinii agaves, and Miscanthus transmorrisonensis grasses.
The rich textural tableau reflects its creators: Howard and Weinstein (the latter happens to be maverick architect Charles Moore’s nephe
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Souvenir Buildings Small Monuments: Suffer the loss of the Garnering of Carry on Architects
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