Berkeley Rocks: Building with Nature

by Jonathan Chester, Dave Weinstein

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

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Josh Fogelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well done book entirely focused on the rocks of Berkeley, from a historic, scientific, ecological, built environment, and landscape design perspectives. By the end got a little repetitive... I don't care that much about the rocks of Berkeley, but the passion and thoroughness of this book is impressive. The writer could have focused more on the exclusionary zoning of the Berkeley hills and its legacy of creating the Berkeley hills as a white enclave for the rich. Instead the writer makes it sound like everyone living in the Berkeley hills is an aging hippy at one with their rocks... Definitely not the case!

[Ew Lake · Rating 3 out of 5]

Can't wait to see this landscape and explore these trails in person!