Robert Winter: Architecture of California (Occidental College)

Overview

ARTstor is partnering with Occidental College to share approximately 2,500 images of California architecture from the archives of Robert Winter in the Digital Library. A noted architectural historian, Winter photographed buildings and sites throughout California for over 40 years. His photographs document major 19th and 20th century styles from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, with a particular focus on the Arts and Crafts movement. In 1965, Winter co-authored the original Guide to Architecture in Southern California with David Gebhard. Revised and expanded in several editions up to the current 2003 version, it is still the standard source for the study of the architecture and built environment in the greater Los Angeles area. Winter's other publications further explored the role architecture in the history of American society and culture. These include: The California Bungalow (1980); American Bungalow Style (1996); Craftsman Style (2004); and The Architecture of Entertainment: L.A. in the Twenties (2006).

Robert Winter is the Arthur G. Coons Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus at Occidental College, where he taught for over 30 years. Now retired, Winter lives in the Craftsman style home of Ernest Batchelder (1875-1957), the subject of Winter's 1999 monograph Batchelder: Tilemaker. Located in Pasadena, CA, the Batchelder House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated by Winter as a future gift to Occidental College. Winter's images are available due to the generous donation of his slide collection to Occidental College.

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Collection information

Total size of collection* 2,500
Percentage of completion 0%

* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor’s approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.

Last updated: October 8, 2009