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Paramount
Theatre

dams. Forceful visual elements
were another signature of art
deco's impressive style. STYLE
WATCH Golden Gate Bridge
(San Francisco); goldengate
bridge.org. Paramount Theatre
(Oakland); paramounttheatre.
com. Griffith Park Observatory (Los Angeles); griffithobs.org
1950 TO 1980

Big on style and size
Hearst
Castle

flamboyant flourishes. STYLE
WATCH The Carson House
(Eureka); ingomar.org.
Winchester Mystery House
(San Jose); winchestermystery
house.com. Hotel Del Coronado (San Diego); hoteldel.com
1900 TO 1920

Craftsman, neoclassical,
Spanish colonial revival

At the start of the 20th century,
California architecture pulled

Winchester
Mystery House

away from Victorian fussiness.
Instead, there was a reverence
for simpler forms and nature,
embodied in the Craftsman
style. Powerful neoclassicism,
with hints of ancient Greece
and Rome, muscled in with the
1915 Panama Pacific Expo in
San Francisco, while the opening of the Panama Canal in
1914 spurred a Spanish
colonial revival in San Diego.
STYLE WATCH Craftsman:
Gamble House (Pasadena),
gamblehouse.org; The Lodge
at Torrey Pines (La Jolla),
lodgetorreypines.com. Neoclassicism: Palace of Fine Arts (San
Francisco); palaceoffinearts.org.
Spanish colonial: Hearst
Castle (San Simeon), hearst
castle.org; California Building
(San Diego), balboapark.org

Hotel Del
Coronado

Years of prosperity after World
War I produced new exuberance. Santa Barbara, rocked
by an earthquake in 1925,
rebuilt itself as an Andalusian
hill town, sparking the nickname "The American Riviera."
San Francisco added art deco
skyscrapers, and L.A. built a
27-story city hall patterned after
Greece's massive Mausoleum at
Halicarnassus. Nature remained
a strong influence too.
STYLE WATCH The Ahwahnee
hotel (Yosemite National Park);
yosemitepark.com. Santa Barbara
County Courthouse (Santa
Barbara); www.santabarbara
courthouse.org. Los Angeles
City Hall (L.A.); discoverlos
angeles.com

Modernism and
theme-park fantasy

During the post WWII years,
modernism flourished in openplanned houses with window
walls and equally sleek furnishings, especially in desert communities around Palm Springs.
In cities, glass-and-steel high
rises soared skyward. At the
same time, a new eclecticism developed with the rise of Disneyland and its ebullient and playful
style. STYLE WATCH Midcentury
modern: Sunnylands (Rancho
Mirage), sunnylands.org. Theme
park: Madonna Inn (San Luis
Obispo); madonnainn.com
1980 TO PRESENT

Trending toward sculpture

The end of the 20th century
ushered in bold new shapes and
building materials, with rockstar-status architects making
their marks all over the Golden

The Ahwahnee
Walt Disney
Concert Hall
1930 TO 1950

Powerful rebirth

Huge projects, many of them
government funded, gave new
hope after the ravages of the
Great Depression. The resulting
art deco style demonstrated
feats of engineering while embodying ideas of strength and
power, especially in bridges and
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State. Today, California's standout
buildings have become not just
functional structures, but outright
art pieces, with wings, spires, and
swooping curves. STYLE WATCH
Walt Disney Concert Hall
(Los Angeles); laphil.com.
Sundial Bridge (Redding);
turtlebay.org -DANIEL P. GREGORY

KODIAK GREENWOOD (2); TAI POWER SEEF; DAVE LAURIDSEN; HARRIOT MANLEY; JEN JUDGE

1920 TO 1930

http://www.goldengatebridge.org http://www.goldengatebridge.org http://www.paramounttheatre.com http://www.paramounttheatre.com http://www.griffithobs.org http://www.ingomar.org http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com http://www.hoteldel.com http://www.sunnylands.org http://www.madonnainn.com http://www.yosemitepark.com http://www.santabarbaracourthouse.org http://www.santabarbaracourthouse.org http://www.discoverlosangeles.com http://www.gamblehouse.org http://www.discoverlosangeles.com http://www.lodgetorreypines.com http://www.palaceoffinearts.org http://www.hearstcastle.org http://www.hearstcastle.org http://www.balboapark.org http://www.laphil.com http://www.turtlebay.org http://www.VISITCALIFORNIA.COM

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