{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/27f1cd9c-cc60-4d57-a179-576b950c61ed/manifest","label":"lawrence_simons","metadata":[{"label":"City or Town","value":["Santa Rosa"]},{"label":"Geographic Metadata Source","value":["GNIS"]},{"label":"Country","value":["United States"]},{"label":"State or Province","value":["California"]},{"label":"California County","value":["Sonoma"]},{"label":"Street Address","value":"Santa Rosa, California"},{"label":"Latitude","value":"38.4468158"},{"label":"Geocoding Status","value":["Approximate geocoding"]},{"label":"Maps/StreetView","value":"Find Lawrence Simons' Sonoma County connections in <a href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4468158,-122.7061362,13z\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps</a>"},{"label":"Map Zoom Level","value":["13"]},{"label":"SC Local Arts Artist ID","value":["lawrence_simons"]},{"label":"Digital Archives Area Group(s)","value":["Local Arts"]},{"label":"Longitude","value":"-122.7061362"},{"label":"Author Birth Date","value":"1937"},{"label":"Author Last Name","value":"Simons"},{"label":"Author Name","value":["Lawrence Simons (1937-)"]},{"label":"Author First Name, MI","value":"Lawrence"},{"label":"Search Author in WorldCat","value":"Search for Lawrence Simons's author profile in <a href=\"https://worldcat.org/identities/find?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:identity&rft.namelast=Simons&rft.namefirst=Lawrence\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat Identities</a>"},{"label":"Author Genre(s)","value":["Architecture","Autobiography"]},{"label":"Author Profile","value":"Born in Iowa in 1937, Simons was raised in Los Angeles, where his mother was a beauty operator and his father worked in a defense plant. 'When I started college at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, I was thinking of becoming a civil engineer. I'd taken a couple of years off to work, because I needed the money, and my first job was as a design draftsman on hydraulic machinery for the Atomic Energy Commission. Design: That was my love. George Hasslein, who'd just started the School of Architecture at Cal Poly, changed my life. It was quite a mixed class in those days -- young kids right out of high school, older veterans from the Korean War -- and it was an exciting time and place to be. I was in my element. The school of architecture there, by the way, has become one of the finest in the world!' After graduating with a degree in architecture engineering, Simons went to work at a number of architectural firms before settling at a small Palo Alto firm. 'I was working with a fellow by the name of John Miller; he moved north and later suggested I locate my own office in Santa Rosa. I thought I might be big fish in a small pond, since there wasn't much going on up there. Indeed, when we moved to Santa Rosa in 1966, there were only seven architect firms in Santa Rosa. Today, there are whole columns in the phone book devoted to architectural firms.' For Simons, the allure of the North Bay is the terrain. 'There isn't a more beautiful place in the world to be,' he says with unbridled glee. 'The terrain, the trees, the creeks, the rivers' -- this is heaven. Of course, it took me three years to put up my first building. I was 29 years old when I moved here with a wife and 6-month-old son and just $6,000 to my name. I was very naive. I had an old Volkswagen and went out knocking on every real estate door I could find trying to drum up business. I went up to Cloverdale, where I met Harry Merlo, who later became president of Louisiana Pacific. Twenty years later, he flew me up to Tahoe in his jet and hired me to design the golf club house at Northstar! But the first dollar I earned here was for doing colored renderings of prefabricated houses that his company manufactured for $125 apiece.'"},{"label":"Search SCL Digital Archives for this Author","value":["Simons, Lawrence, 1937-"]},{"label":"Search Author or Book in Library Catalog","value":"Search for works by Lawrence Simons in the <a href=\"https://find.sonomalibrary.org/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=%22Simons%2C+Lawrence%22&te=&rt=false%7C%7C%7CAuthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">library catalog</a>"},{"label":"Author Website","value":"View <a href=\"http://www.simonsandwoodard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal or professional website</a> for Lawrence Simons"},{"label":"Search Author in Open Library","value":"Search for works by Lawrence Simons in <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Simons+Lawrence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Library</a>"},{"label":"Author's Place(s) of Residence","value":["Santa Rosa"]},{"label":"Sort Title","value":"Lawrence Simons (1937-)"},{"label":"Significant Title","value":"The Architecture of Lawrence Simons F.A.I.A., Sonoma County 1966 to 2007"},{"label":"Digital Archives Identifier","value":"lawrence_simons"},{"label":"Digital Archives Collection Name(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Date Added","value":"2017/01/13"},{"label":"Filename","value":"lawrence_simons.jpg"},{"label":"Title","value":"Lawrence Simons (1937-)"},{"label":"Item Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Item Format or Genre","value":["Biography files","Bibliographies","Portraits","Photographs"]},{"label":"Search SC Local Arts for this Author or Artist","value":"<a href=\"https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents?filter_363=lawrence_simons&applyState=true\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawrence Simons (1937-)</a>"},{"label":"Collection(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Author Name (Controlled)","value":["Lawrence Simons (1937-)"]}],"description":"Lawrence Simons (1937-)","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/27f1cd9c-cc60-4d57-a179-576b950c61ed/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Lawrence Simons (1937-)","height":450,"width":448,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/27f1cd9c-cc60-4d57-a179-576b950c61ed/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/27f1cd9c-cc60-4d57-a179-576b950c61ed","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1]}]},"height":450,"width":448},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/27f1cd9c-cc60-4d57-a179-576b950c61ed/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/27f1cd9c-cc60-4d57-a179-576b950c61ed/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/27f1cd9c-cc60-4d57-a179-576b950c61ed/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/logo"}