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An unprecedented look at the architect's storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay Area

Two questions have intrigued observers of the Lou Henry Hoover House, built at Stanford University in 1919 by Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover and now the official residence of the university's president. Who was the building's architect? And what was the motive for its unusual, cubic, flat-roofed, undecorated form? This book answers these questions and demonstrates why the Hoover House is a remarkable example of the contribution of non-Western or...