The Berkeley hills offer great natural beauty and sensitive landscape design that skillfully incorporates the architecture into the natural environment. In the early 20th century, architects inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement worked to integrate the hills’ large outcrops of rock (known to geologists as Northbrae rhyolite) into the city’s development. At once a historical architectural reference and a captivating art book, BERKELEY ROCKS documents the unique harmony between Berkeley’s distinctive geography, homes, and local ideals.
Reviews “The book is indeed rife with gorgeous images, but it’s also much more.“-San Jose Mercury News and Oakland Tribune
Berkeley Rocks reveals many of these hidden rocks for the first time, showing how they have been incorporated into home and landscape design by visionary architects and developers like Julia Morgan, Mark Daniels, John Spring, Duncan McDuffie, and others.
The book’s hundreds of glorious photographs are woven with authoritative text to show how this landscape marked by fire and flow has become a unique site for intelligent and imaginative architecture and landscape design. At once a local history and a captivating art book, Berkeley Rocks brilliantly conveys the harmony between Berkeley’s geography, homes, and local culture. Though now out of print it is readily available on the second hand market.
