Clarence W. W. Mayhew

Clarence William Whitehead Mayhew (March 1, 1906 – February 13, 1994) was an American architect best known as a designer of residential structures in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[2] Mayhew was subsequently hired by Miller and Pflueger and worked with that firm for six years during a time when they were designing prominent skyscrapers and movie palaces as well as taking occasional commissions for residential dwellings.

It received notice across the country for its clean, light, asymmetrical lines and its embrace of both indoor and outdoor spaces.

[8] The house contrasted sharply with existing homes on Hampton Road, and appeared to be made of rectangular shapes descending the sloped property.

The house divided into two functional groups, one for adults and one for children, with all living and sleeping rooms facing south.

Author Alan Hess wrote in 2007 that the clean abstraction of the rectilinear blocks appeared to be based on Chermayeff's Bauhaus leanings but that the casual, site-specific interaction of garden, house and modernity showed the relaxation of California living apparent in Mayhew's prior work.

[1] He volunteered with the props and sets department in at least one Grove Play: Birds of Rhiannon (1930)[17] and in 1969 he gave a Lakeside Talk.