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8.B. - Page 36 of 66 William Kostura, Historic Resource Evaluation for 970 Edgewood Road shopping centers and the 750 -unit Hillsdale Garden Complex for David Bohannon. In 1951, after 25 years of apprenticeship, schooling, and working for others, he opened his own office in Menlo Park. In this city in 1970 he designed his own award-winning office building, at 1300 University Drive. He is best known for designing custom-designed houses, including more than 40 pole houses, which are notable for allowing houses to be built on hillsides without extensive grading. He won AIA residential design awards for three Peninsula -area houses, including two pole houses, one of which was his own residence. That was built over a ravine and a creek, which he channeled to form waterfalls that were visible through a glass floor in his living room. Besides pole houses, he designed over 150 other houses as well as about two dozen churches of various denominations, and commercial office buildings. For the town of Woodside, he was vice-chairman of the Planning Commission for three years, and vice-chairman of their Architecture and Site Review Board for five years. He explained that "he refuses the job of chairman whenever possible, hence the vice -chairmanships." (Marshall, 1978) In 1973 he moved to Coronado in southern California to retire, but nevertheless continued to take on work around the state. He also became the president of Coronado Beautiful, a citizens' committee, by which he was active in efforts to preserve that town's historic buildings, especially its downtown Classical Revival buildings. The landscape architect, Geraldine Knight Scott (1904-1989) She was born in Idaho and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area as a youth. From high school she wanted to become a landscape architect. Toward this end she first attended the College of Agriculture at the University of California in Berkeley, where she gained a Landscape Architecture degree in 1926, and then Cornell University, to 1928. After her degree she worked in Los Angeles for A. E. Hansen. She spent 1930-1932 in Europe. There, she studied Italian villas and gardens in France and Spain; and studied housing in Austria and Germany through the Sorbonne, in Paris. Returning to California, she studied further at the University of California; worked in Marin County for Helen Van Pelt; and studied color theory at the famous Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco. In Los Angeles, she became interested and involved with public planning that revolved around social issues. For the rest of her career public policy and public landscape architecture remained her main foci. She was the first female member of the Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission. In 1941 she and her husband Mellier Scott moved to Berkeley, and she served on the San Francisco Planning Commission. They were also active in the San Francisco Telesis Group, "designers and planners interested in the social impacts of architecture and landscape design." (Wikipedia) 11