Maybeck was selected as architect in the fall of 1909. The first services in the new structure were held in August, 191l. Clark will discuss the choice of architect--and the collaboration between the committee members, builders, and crafts people who produced this audacious landmark of modern eclecticism. Reception to follow.
Robert Judson Clark is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He received his BA from the University of California. While still a student there he was drawn to Maybeck's Church. His books include The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916. Robert serves on the Board of the Friends of First Church, and is their expert consultant on the architectural history of the Church. Currently he is writing books on architects in California and Germany, while continuing his research on the Church.

Our Program Includes: Our wonderful 1953 Austin Organ, Organist William Ludtke, Soloists Kathleen Moss, Nanette McGuinness, and Paul Murray. Michael Jones and Stephan Levintow, Violinists, and Paul Rhodes, cellist, with David Auerbach accompanying. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Chamber Choir and Handbell Quartet.

To celebrate the upcoming centennial of our church home, our organist, Mr. William Ludtke, has composed a Christmas Cantata based on writings related to Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy.

Donations to begin restoration of our 1953 Austin Organ will be gratefully accepted.

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Who but Maybeck could so deftly conjure the antique echoes of Romanesque and Gothic traditions in creating a wholly original church with modern materials? Bosley explores Maybeck's innovative and confident method, focusing on the courageous use of modern building materials to express ancient ideals.

Edward R. Bosley is Director of the Gamble House in Pasadena, California - a landmark designed by Greene & Greene. He has a degree in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied first-hand the legacy of Bernard Maybeck. He has written the only book published on the Maybeck Church, First Church of Christ, Scientist Berkeley, published in l994. It is the standard reference on the Church. Recently he has written, along with Anne Mallek, a new book: A "New and Native" Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene".

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Up and Down, Inside Out: A New Dynamic of Religious Space. Marquand suggests that in interpreting the design of First Church Berkeley it is too easy to focus on Maybeck’s remarkable inventiveness. Seen in the context of other churches, he shows how the design is a new configuration of space, structure, and light that sets aside time-honored assumptions of heaven and earth. Reception to follow.

William Marquand, AIA is an architect, and is the Founder of the Maybeck Foundation. While obtaining his Masters in Architecture at Yale, he wrote the first academic thesis on the architecture of First Berkeley in an interdisciplinary program between the School of Architecture and the Divinity School. While Director of the Maybeck Foundation, he began the restoration effort for First Church Berkeley with an Historic Structure Report on the building. He currently serves on the Board of the Friends of First Church.