Joseph Esherick
Joseph Esherick (1914 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - December 17, 1998) was an American architect. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937, Esherick set up pratice in the Bay Area in 1953 and taught at UC Berkeley for many years. Winner of the AIA Gold Medal.
Inheriting the Bay Area architectural tradition of figures like Bernard Maybeck and William Wurster, Esherick's designs for hundreds of houses through his career centered on attention to regional traditions, site requirements, and user needs.
In 1959 Esherick was the co-founder, along with William Wurster and Vernon DeMars, of Berkeley's influential College of Environmental Design. The CED encompassed disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, environmental planning and city planning, and served as a nexus for figures like Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, Christopher Alexander, Catherine Bauer, and Galen Cranz.
Esherick's buildings include:
- House at Kentwoodlands, Kentwoodlands, California, 1957
- Cary House, at Mill Valley, California, 1960
- Sea Ranch (in collaboration with Lawrence Halprin and Charles Moore, Marin County, California, 1967
- The Cannery, at San Francisco, California, 1968
- Monterey Aquarium, at Monterey, California, 1980 (circa)
- Garfield School, at San Francisco, California, 1981
- Silver Lake Lodge, at Deer Valley, Utah, 1982
- The Hermitage, at San Francisco, California, 1984