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u^.iT^^ IK^^ASPVEWBSTA; UTI.ITAS i^^n-^: vKNurrt^i iPtTLiilN^ FII'VIITAI vtliis-flB U^^ITAI FihVr; A JXN^JSTA^WTILITAI, P "•II i^-j F.tMjf, rWtru r il. IT A ffl H M PI «I vT M*^- IJJU-IT^l FIF /ouis kahn celebration U.S. Postage o FIRST CLASS MAIL o sah/scc member's voice PAID Pasadena, CA CN Permit No. 740 o monterey musings eichler tour page 4 c UJ o 3 events calendar pages 4-5 architectural exhibitions 03 CN Portrait of architect Louis Kahn. (Photo: Robert C. Lauumn from the book. What Will Be Has Always Been. 1986.) LOUIS KAHN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION SAH/SCC TOUR: FRIDAY, JUNE 29TH THE SALK INSTITUTE, LA JOLLA Please join SAH/SCC in celebrating the life, like that. It is a creating of spaces that evoke a feeling of use; spaces which form themselves work, and ideas of architect Louis Kahn. Louis into a harmony." Kahn Centennial Celebration will be held Friday, The Salk Institute is Kahn's only California June 29th, at 3:00PM, at Kahn's Salk Institute in project, yet it represents a distillation of the La Jolla. themes he explored all his life. Rendered in a We will begin with a comprehensive tour of restrained material palette of concrete, teak, the Salk Institute, specially organized for SAH/SCC glass, and stainless steel, the building complex is by the facility's remarkable educational docents. exquisitely ordered in its massing and brilliantly After the tour, we will gather in the Salk's articulated in its details. auditorium for a round-table discussion, which Like most great works of architecture, the promises to be quite stimulating. Several Salk Institute was a collaboration between an noteworthy figures, some who practiced with inspired designer and an enlightened client. Kahn Kahn, are expected to attend. certainly appreciated this unique relationship. Louis Kahn (1901-74) elevated modern "When you ask who has been my favorite client," architecture by investing his buildings with a he remembered, "one name comes sharply to depth of humanity and feeling that is rarely mind, and that's Dr. Jonas Salk." achieved. In masterworks, such as the Richards Salk challenged Kahn to do his best work. Medical Center, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the "When Salk asked me to do the laboratories," Salk Institute, Kahn used both rhetorical and Kahn recalled, "he said that he wanted a architectural techniques to re-orient the hundred thousand square feet of space to give to relationship between man, institution, and ten scientists. Then he said, / would like to add building. By doing so, Kahn transcended the one more requirement. I would like to be able to concerns of his period and overcame many of the invite Picasso to the laboratories. That really limitations of the International Style. It is not electrified me." surprising, then, that his buildings are sometimes An exterior view of the Salk Institute. (Pfvxo. Cram Mudford from Because Kahn viewed the ocean as the the MOCA catalog, Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architeaure, 1991.) labeled "timeless." biological source of all life, he oriented the Born in Estonia, Kahn trained under the complex toward views of the ocean, making "At the Salk, the pearlescent plaza with its central Beaux-Arts architect Paul Phillipe Cret, but later manifest the relationship between the laboratory water course and radical tensile openness draws considered Le Corbusier his most important work and its larger meaning. At certain together the sea just beyond the hills and the sky influence. Like Le Corbusier, Kahn constantly transcendent moments, the sluice of water in the overhead. We lift up our eyes, and our spirit is sought to recover architecture's primitive sources; central plaza becomes seamlessly connected to made to lie down." each man drew great inspiration from ancient the ocean beyond. The event is open to everyone and is monuments and traditional buildings. Historian For Kahn, the design of the open space organized by SAH/SCC Acting President Tony Vincent Scully has argued that Kahn was indeed between the buildings was his greatest intellectual Denzer. Tickets are $15 for members; $20 for "beginning modern architecture again." challenge. After several schemes involving non-members. The event is free for new members, "If I were to try to define architecture," Kahn extensive landscaping, he called upon Mexican enrolling with our organization for the first time. wrote, "I would say that architecture is a architect Luis Barragan, who advised Kahn to Please use the form on page 8 to place your order. thoughtful making of spaces. It is not filling leave the plaza empty, as a "facade to the sky." For more information, call 800.9SAHSCC. prescriptions as clients want them filled. It is not In the poetic assessment of Michael Benedikt: fitting uses into dimensioned areas. It is nothing UTILITA&_t"IHMITA!- TILITAS rir < 'f < < »- I- h !f. y- i/} (.1 SAH/SCC NEWS is ^ ^ .J /4 'TKc^^^^a^ ^%(Mt "Pxe^cctMt published bi-monthly by the Society of Architecturol \s\ After six years on the SAH/SCC Executive Board, it's time for me to step aside. Historians/Southern California During my time on the board, I've been fortunate to work with many dedicated people who have Chapter. Subscription is a made great things happen for our organization. These efforts have continued the legacy of SAH/SCC benefit of membership. as an organization dedicated to educating the public about the unique architectural heritage of Southern California. It has been our goal to provide a greater variety of events, many of them free of Editor: Julie D. Taylor 4 charge, throughout our region. Based on the response we get from members and the public, we have Associate Editor: Linda Won 7 succeeded. Everyone in the organization must share credit for this success. Executive Assistant: Grace Samudio I look forward to seeing you all at upcoming events. Information and ads for the newsletter should — Ted Welle be sent three weeks before the issue dote. Issue Deadline July/August 2001 June 10th Thank you, Ted! Your dedication and unwavering motivation have guided the organization to the September/October 2001 August 10th O success we celebrate today. Not only have you been a truly inspiring leader but you've also been an advocate on and off duty in emphasizing the importance of our role as a local, nationally—and even Please send all newsletter materials to w-l internationally—minded organization. We are sorry to see you go! the attention of the editor: 3 - At this exciting turning point in our history, SAH/SCC will be guided by the leadership of Acting r President Anthony Denzer, whose steady and unflappable energies will give impetus to the goals and Julie D. Taylor, Editor mission of the organization. Tony is an architect with the Pasadena firm of Tolkin & Associates. He is SAH/SCC News also a doctoral candidate in architecture at UCLA, studying Gregory Ain and modern housing. P.O. Box 92224 •J SAH/SCC has a roster of exciting programs and future engagements scheduled, and the chapter's Pasadena, CA 91109-2224 800.9SAHSCC (800.972.4722) r- well-designed website {www.sah.scc.org) has been launched with an array of postings that highlight Newsletter telephone: 310.247.1099 ". lectures, special tours and publications. Newsletter fox; 310.247.8147 We want to thank Ted again for his grand influence on SAH/SCC, and of course relay a warm thank Newsletter e-mail: jtoylorpr(S)u$a.net (0 \ you to our members for their ongoing support in encouraging us to creatively pursue our educational mandate. Tour and Event Information: 1.800.9SAHSCC < < I- I- MEMBER'S VOICE: CATHEDRAL RISING SAH/SCC Executive Boord 3 D 3 ^ EDITOR'S NOTE: Member's Voice is a new column that is open to submission by all members to share insights and Acting President: Anthony Denzer delights into the built environment of Southern California. Submit your essay (with photos) to the newsletter editor Acting Vice President: Sian Winship at the address at right. To start the series, we are pleased to present Brent Eckerman's thoughts on the new Membership: Merry Ovnick Cathedral. Brent is an associate at the West Los Angeles practice of Frederick Fisher and Partners Architeas. Treasurer: Rina Rubenstein Members-at-Lorge: Jean Clare Baaden; John Berley; Early this past April, I had the opportunity to tour the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels that John Ellis; Alex Meconi; Cora Mullio; Mark Nichols has risen impressively in Downtown. Currently under construction, and about a year from being completed, the new Cathedral is truly history in the making for all the people of Los Angeles. Every SAH/SCC Advisory Board day the greatness of this new building becomes more and more evident as construction proceeds. Ted Bosley, Ken Breisch, Stephen Horby, Elizabeth The building is designed by Spanish architect McMillian, Rochelle Mills, Claire Rogger, Richard C. Rafael Moneo and controlled locally by Rowe, Nancy Smith, Robert Winter architecture firm Leo A Daly. The choice of Moneo as the design architect was a good one, Life Members: as he has already made a name for himself in Grant Barnes Elizabeth McMillian Europe doing contemporary civic designs for Kathleen Bixler Le Roy Misuraca various municipalities. His work in Europe is a Mary Dutton Boehm Susan W. Monteith study in cast-in-place concrete and stone that Marie Botnick Douglas M. Moreland often provides complementary modern design in Bill Bowling Sara. G. Muller Chemoff historic medieval settings. But it is perhaps the ^''^ ^"S^''""''^^ constmaion. Ruth Bowman Daniel T. Muhoz Lynn Marie Bryant Mark Nichols timeless quality of his work that makes him ideal for designing the new cathedral. Gerald & Bente Buck Peter A. Nimmer The cathedral building is situated on the western end of the Cathedral Complex, which is located Bonnie Burton John M, Nisley on Temple Avenue between Hill and Grand. A large plaza is situated between the Cathedral and two Pamela Burton Thomas O'Connor outer buildings. Access to the site is from Temple Avenue or from a large, three-level sub-terrainian Miriom & Sam Campbell Anne Otter^on parking garage. From these entry points, two axes run off in north and west directions: one to the Wendy Carson Francis Packer main entry doors of the cathedral, and one to the statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Most of the plaza Robert Joy Chattel Helen & David Palmer is stone, with a few areas of landscaping to facilitate large groups of people in the plaza. It is Steve Conner C.E. Parker Jeffrey Cook unfortunate that access to the site should be so severely limited, as providing many points of access Stondish & Audree Penton Stephen P. Donforth John August Reed would have made the Cathedral Center and Plaza more of an urban node within the city, open all Astrid & Heinz Ellersieck Claire Rogger hours of a day. J. Richard Fore Richard Cayia Rowe Entry into the Cathedral is orchestrated through a huge opening at the south side of the building Donald R. Ferguson Jeffrey B, Samudio facing the Plaza. Bronze doors designed by artist Robert Graham will eventually fill the opening top to Gilbert & Sukey Gorcetti Lawrence Scarpa bottom. A long processional aisle, or ambulatory, runs along one side of the whole length of the Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Geiger Ann Scheid building. Beautiful colored cast-in-place concrete walls flank both sides. When one reaches the end of • Robert •'O*^,^''"°M,J. Gelinos . Walter B. Silber the aisle, one turns right, and the whole of the Cathedral nave becomes evident. This element of Gordon & Joy Gilliam Patricia Simpson Raymond Girvigian Cecilia Singer surprise was key to the architect's design and is a break from the traditional cathedral design that Paul Gleye Mark Slotkin would typically lead you directly into the nave from the main doors. This processional entry is meant Andy & Lisa Hockman Janann Strand to invoke a pilgrimage. Stephen Harby Vem Swonsen The Cathedral nave is vast and awe inspiring. The space soars to great heights as filtered light Eugene & Shirley Hoggatt Reg Thatcher comes in from the sides and high above. The ceiling varies from a low of 60 feet at the narthex to James & Anneliese Horecka Raun Thorp more than 100 feet at the altar. Raw concrete walls, stone floors, and a wood ceiling are the main Elaine K. Sewell Jones M. Brian Tichenor materials in use here. Massive angled walls and mysterious filtered light streaming in from above Rebecca Kohn Adolphe Tischler Diane Kane provide a strong spiritual, yet modern, feeling to the space. Maggie Valentine Stephen A. Kanter, MD Daniel Visnich From this experience, I cannot help but think how fortunate we are here in Los Angeles to have Virginia Ernst Kazor Robert D. Wallace such a magnificent contribution to our already rich and diverse architectural landscape. Los Angeles Marilyn Kellogg John & Lori Wamke will benefit from the permanence this new structure evokes to further dispel fading rumors of a region Theodora Kinder Dr. Potricia A. Warren of temporary, ad-hoc architecture. The new cathedral is conceived to last for at least 500 years, even Charles A. Lagreco Ron Watson employing a state-of-the art "base-isolation structural system" for operational survivability in the event Ruthonn Lehrer David R. Weaver of a massive earthquake. Pamela Levy John Welbome, Esq. Joyce P. Ludmer Dr. Robert Winter From this experience, I cannot help but be impressed with the choice of Rafael Moneo as the Rondell L. Makinson Mr. & Mrs. David Yamada Cathedral architect, whose vision is creating a powerful, monumental design for the "City of Angels." Christy Johnson McAvoy Robert Young The Cathedral he has designed impressively conveys human aspirations and the mystery and Suzanne W. McCarthy Joyce Zaitlin transcendence of faith, and I look forward to re-visiting and experiencing the completed Cathedral Complex in the coming fall of 2002. Honorary: Robert Pierson MONTEREY MUSINGS Amid the splendour of the natural and built environment of Julia Morgan's Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, I surveyed several attendees of "Design Currency: The Monterey Design Conference." The biennal architectural confab is put on by the AIA California Council. This roving reporter asked architects from across the state: What are the top three architeaural occurrences in California? here are their answers.—ju/Ze D. 7ay/or, editor Andy Neumann, Andy Neumann Architect, Nick Seierup, Perkins & Will, Santa Monica— Carpinteria—Rafael Moneo's new Catholic The creation of SCI-Arc in 1974, which founded an institute that continues to develop original Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles, which is exploratory approaches to design, and has turned remarkable in terms of the atmosphere it creates out three generations of architects so far. • The and how it's integrated in an urban design bookends of Frank Gehry's architecture in LA, context. It's going to rival the cathedrals of starting with his house in 1979 as an example of Europe. It's incredible. I can't wait to go to mass introducing artistic principles in the design process there, even though I'm not a Catholic. • Paul on a very small scale, and culminating with the Tuttle—a furniture designer in Santa Barbara— Walt Disney Concert Hall downtown on a very did a little studio house for himself that has so large urban scale—and a whole career spanning much joy and has such a presence in the in between. • The Case Study Program, which landscape. It's a really special little gem, and allowed mechanization to enter into the everyone who goes there wishes they coukJ live development of residential architecture. there. • What they did for the LA Olympics was amazing. On a small budget, they created a real Tom Di Santo, Garcia Architecture + Design, sense of linkage and visual continuity in the chaos San Luis Obispo—Schindler's King's Road House of Los Angeles, with their banners and colors and really changed the way people viewed the such. building of homes in California. It's almost as if no other house had ever been built before, when he Stephan Castellanos, Department of General Moneo's Cathedral started making the connection between inside Services/Division of the State Architect, (Photo: Courtesy o( Rafael Moneo Architects) and out, and rethinking the program of the house Sacramento—The freeway molds how we view Polly Osborne, Osborne Architects, Los in a uniquely Californian way. • The Case Study the rest of the world. There are a lot of interesting Angeles—Maybeck's Unitarian Church for its houses of the '50s—particularly the work of forms and shapes and brutalist concrete that originality and use of materials, and the general Eames—had a great influence on the way informs part of the aesthetic that Californians joy with which it was designed. • Greene and suburban tract homes were built in California, grew up in. • Miles and miles of endless and Greene's James Residence on the California coast and how they were essentially different from faceless strip malls and neighborhoods seem just below Point Lobos for the way it interacts those on the East Coast or Midwest. • The Verba dehumanizing on one hand, but on the other with the landscape. • George Brook-Kothlow's Buena development in San Francisco is chartering hand, there's a certain richness to how these house in Carmel that looked like a tree house, a new course for the city. It's a very 19th-century neighborhoods really work. The little strip centers which was very inspiring to me. But nobody can city, but the results of the SFMOMA and the and neighborhood shops and coffee shops see it now, because it burned down. Center for the Arts are moving the city into a new become everyone's living room, so we have kind direction. of an urban context—even though we don't really realize it • California always has a great Ron Goldman, Goldman Firth Architecture, Ron Kappe, Kappe Architects, Mill Valley—The connection to the natural environment— Malibu—Mayor Tom Bradley's decision to put romantic Golden Gate Bridge, which is always a incredible open space, this big sky, the ocean, our mass transit into a subway system instead of a delight to cross over every time. It's always a and mountains inform who we are. monorail system was a big, big, big mistake. • Our inability to cope with urban sprawl still different exf)erience. • Post-WW II technology amazes me. Fifty years after WW II, we're still coming to architecture, like in the Case Study Michael L Waxer, Carmel Development building new towns and new communities with Houses—the California version of "worker" Company, Carmel—Carmel Mission, because it all the same issues and problems. • The Noguchi housing. • Disneyland has had a major impact. has a lot of history to it, it set up a methodical Sculpture Garden in Costa Mesa is such a It's an offshoot of Hollywood. system, and to this day it's very pleasing to look beautiful gem. Our man-made environment upon. It achieves its goals quite well, both should have more of those. externally and internally. • The Crystal Cathedral. I have not personally visited it, but many people I've talked with are very inspired by it, so it seems to accomplish its goal quite well. • With a little hesitation, I'll say the brand-new Redding City Hall. Although it's very well done, it does kind of look out of place right now relative to the rest of Redding. But it starts to put Redding on the map. With this inspiration, you're going to see quite a bit of new development. It's a good example of how one building like that can start a redevelopment. Erik Stefan Rogers, Jordan Woodman Dobson Architecture, Oakland—The fires in '06 and a few years ago that wiped out most of the East Bay in San Francisco started a lot of construction there. • The Modernist movement in the '40s and '50s in Southern California. • The Salk Institute. Disney's Land (Illustration from Walt Disne)' Imagineering, published by Hyperion. 199b.) UTILITAS Ml I S FIRMITAS VENUSTAS U TI L. IT FIRMITAS VENUSTAS UTILIT FIRMITAS VENUSTAS FIRMITAS VENUSTAS 10, Thursday 17, Thursday Lecture Series. Lecture with founder of Films: A Celebration of Chairs. Exhibition strategy and communications firm of Eamcs 16mm films about Fames chairs, AdamsMorioka Sean Adams. Museum of including Soft Compact, The Lounge Chair, Contemporary Art, San Diego, and San Soft Pad, Herman M/7/er at the Bnjssels Diego Chapter of AIA; Museum of World's Fair, and The Fiberglass Chairs. Contemporary Art, San Diego, 700 The Fames Office Gallery and Store, 2665 Prospect St., La Jolla; reception, 6PM; Main St., SM; lecture, 7PM; $5-7. 858.454.3541. 6-8PM; free; res. req. 310.396.5991. 10, Thursday George H. Scan/on foundation Lecture. 17, Thursday Lecture with professor of art theory and Art Talks. Lecture with MOCA chief criticism at UNLV Dave Hickey. Otis curator who organized the Public Offerings College of Art and Design; Pacific Design exhibition Paul Schimmel on work by 25 Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., Silverscreen young artists, who graduated from leading Theater, West Hollywood; 7-10PM; free. art schools in Los Angeles, New York, 310.665,6867. Beriin, London, and Tokyo. MOCA at The Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central 12, Saturday Ave., LA; 6:30PM; $4-6. 213.626.6222. A Walk on the West Side. Jour of offices 17-20, Thursday-Sunday on the West Side, including the Getty Spanning California's History. Annual Image designed by Gensler, US Bank by California Preservation Conference on Carmen Nordsten Igonda, and IBM by architectural history and preservation tools in 1/1 HOK, AIA/LA interiors Committee Tour; with journalist and keynote speaker Hue!! 9AM-12:15PM; $25-40; res. req. Howser, California Preservation Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's AnAdventure will visit the newly re-opened Japanese American 213.639.0777. Foundation and Save Our Heritage National Museum on May 31s(. (Photo: Counesyolthe Muteum of Contemporary Ati San Diego) Organization; San Diego; res. req. 12, Saturday 510763.0972. 5, Saturday A Day in Florence. One-day seminar with Medieval tnvironments: An introduaion. art museum director Irini Vallera-Rickerson 17-22, Thursday-Tuesday Lecture with medieval art historian on Florentine architecture and arts during California Gold Country: Gold I. Tour 337 U. U. Ii. L. Katherine Dimitroff on the popular themes the Italian Renaissance in Italy. UCLA miles between Oakhurst and Vinton, the of the Middle Ages, including the may Extension, 121 Dodd Hall, LA; 9AM--tPM; Gold Highway, and California Route 49. decoration of castles and cathedrals. UCLA J -I J J $50-75; res. req. 310.825.9971. San Diego Historical Societv Tours; Extension, 175 Dodd Hall, LA; 9:30AM- $695-845; res. req. 858,453.3950. 1:30PM; $50; res. req. 310.825.9971. 2, Wednesday 12, Saturday Wednesday Designer Series: How Designers Sympo5/um on (he Archaeo/ogy of the 19, Saturday 5, Saturday Can Use the Internet to Generate Business. Coachella Valley. Coffee reception and Architeaural Alchemy. Lecture with Home Tours. Tour of the Walker House Lecture with president and founder of seminar with noted anthropologists, architect Eric Nasland at Studio E. Friends (1935) and the Droste House (1940) by HauteD6cor.com Anthony Dunne. Pacific archaeologists, and Native American of San Diego Architecture; Newschool of architect R. M. Schindler. Los Angeles Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., Blue authorities on the history, prehistory, and Architecture, 1249 F St., San Diego; Conservancy and MOCA; LA; 9:30AM- Conference Center, West Hollywood; cultural traditions of the Coachella Valley. 9:30-11:30AM; $3. 619.287.0050 3:30PM; $20-25; res. req. 213.623.2489. 10-11AM; free; res. req. 310.360.6425. Coachella Valley Archaeological Society; Palm Springs Desert Museum, 101 20,Sunday 5, Saturday 2-6, Wednesday-Sunday Museum Dr., Annenberg Theater, Palm Third Annual Tour of Historic Homes. Tour Venice Garden lour. Self-guided lour of Art Alive 2007. Opening gala and fund-raiser Springs; 9:30AM-4PM; $3.50-7.50. of seven Santa Barbara homes, including gardens by local landscape designers, such event features leaures, luncheons, and 760.773.2277. the Dickerson House by architect William as Jay Griffith, Barry Campion, Russ Cletta, works by floral designers, such as Juan Poole, the Palmer House by Soule, Murphy, Hope Alexander, and others, to benefit Sinchez Cotin. San Diego Museum of Art, 12, Saturday and Hastings, and others homes. Peari the Neighborhood Youth Association's Las 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park. 619.232.7931. Chula Vista Historic Home Tour. Tour of Chase Society; SB; $35; res. req. Doradas Children's Center and the at-risk seven Craftsman and Spanish Revival 805,961.3938. yf)uth they serve in Venice's Oakwood 2,9,16,23, 30, Wednesday historic homes in Chula Vista from 1910 area. Neighborhood Youth Association; Jay C;fy Observed. Commentary by author of M to 1929. Chula Vista Heritage Museum, Griffith's Studio, 717 California Ave., Lost and Found: An Architeaural History of Chula Vista; 10AM-4PM; $15-20; res. req. Venice; 10AM-5PM; $50; res. req. Save the Date! los Angeles and Emmy Award-winning 619.557.4544. 310.390.6641. reporter and producer at Fox Television "Eichlers in Orange" Tour News Sam Hall Kaplan on architecture, 12, Saturday 5, Saturday planning, and design. KCRW 89.9 FM. Qu;7f Show. Show and sale of antique September 15, 2001 Civic Center Public Art Tour. Tour of works 3:55PM. and new handmade quilts held in the by the father of modern sculpture Auguste historic Chula Vista Woman's Qub Rodin, British artist Henry Moore, Welsh 3, Thursday (1927). Chula Vista Quilters' Guild; artists Barry Flanagan and Eduardo Ca/a Preview. Opening preview of the Los Chula Vista Heritage Museum, 360 Third Chillida, and rriany others. Beveriy Hills Art Angeles Antiques Show to benefit the Ave,, Chula Vista; 10AM-4PM; $15-20; and Culture; Civic Center, City Hall, 450 Women's Guild of Cedars-Sinai Medical res. req. 619.557,4544. Center. Santa Monica Air Center, Barker N. Crescent Dr., West Lawn, BH; 1PM; free. 310.288.2201. Hanger South Field, 3021 Airport Ave., SM; 13,Sunday 7PM; S250; res. req. 310.423.3667. Chamber Music in Historic Sites: Marcus 5,12,19, Saturday Roberts Trio. Musical trio performs styles Trompe /'Oe/7 Techniques. Three-day 3, Thursday from Nat Cole and Oscar Peterson to A front view of Marc and Tracy Ittinger's course with painter and principal of The Patrons and Collectors II Lecture Series: Ahmad Jamal at the Union Station by home in the city of Orange. (Photo: Oakhurst Studio Barbara Ann Grosberg on Queen Viaoria and the Prince Consort. Pari UTILIT 'AS VENUSTAS in in tti in < < < < Mingei International Museum Natural History Museum of LA County m in in ui Pla/a de Panama, 1439 El Prado, 900 Exposition BK'd., Exposition Park. Balboa Park, SD. 213.763.3466. 619.239.0003. www.nhm.org. Da/7y Arts of India, through May 31. A Communion of the Spirits: African- Exhibit of objects of daily use, ritual, and American Qu/'/ters, Preservers, and Their ceremony, including textiles, terra cottas, Tories, through September 3. Exhibition bronzes, toys, and kites, from the many on the significance of quilts in African- cultures of India. American culture, with photographs, quilts, and quilted mattes. The MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center Oakland Museum of California 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood. 1000 Oak St, Oakland. 213.626.6222. Photographer Laura Hull's 'Listening' is among the works exhibited at Craig Knill Callery at Bereamot Station 510.238.2200. through May 12th. (Photo: laura Hull) www.moca.org. www. museumca .org. Superflat. through May 27. Exhibit Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California California Heritage Museum Irvine Museum organized by artist Takashi Murakami on Photography, 1850-2000, through May 2612 Main SL, Santa Monica. 18881 Von Karman Ave., Japanese art, animation, fashion, and 27. Exhibition of 200 photographs from 310.392^537. Tower 17 Bidg., 12th Floor, Irvine. graphic design that tends toward two- the museum's permanent collection, California Tile: The Golden Era 1910-1940. 949.476.2565. dimensionality through work by 19 artists, including works by photographers Ansel through July 22. Exhibition of hundreds of A Woman's View, through May 19. including Chiho Aoshima, Borne, Hiro Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Richard Misrach, 1^ individual tiles, fountains, furniture, murals, Exhibition of paintings by women artists in Sugiyama, Koji Morimoto, and many and others. flower pots, pottery, and salesmen samples California during the early prt of the 20th others. from art tile companies, such as Taylor century, including works by Eleanor After the Storm; Boh Walker and the Art of Tilery, Arequipa Pottery, California Colburn, Mabel Alvarez, Meta Cressey, MOCA At California Plaza Environmental Photography, through June Faience, and many others. Helen Forbes, Donna Schuster, and Elsie 250 S. Grand Ave., LA. 24. Exhibition of work by photographer J! 1/: Palmer Payne. 213.626.6222. and activist Bob Walker, along with other CSU Northridge University www.moca.org. Performing Arts Center Lobby Callery work in the context of the environmental Craig Krull Gallery The Arch/fecriyre of R.M. Schindler. 18111 h4ordhoff St, Northridge. movement by artists Ansel Adams, Phillip Bergamot Station through June 3. Exhibition of Vienna-born 818.677J2156. Hyde, Eliot Porter, and Robert Dawson. 2525 Michigan Ave., BIdg. B3 Schindler's early years in Vienna, his Assignment LA. through June 3. Display of Santa Monica. 310.828.6410. experiences in the office of Frank Lloyd A fegacy of Early California Paintings: The photographer Boris Yaro's work during his Listening, through May 12. Exhibition of Wright, and his mature work in California. Shumate Colleaion, May 26-August 5. !J 35-year career at the LA Times. photographer Laura Hull's large-scale color I- Exhibition of paintings from medical photographs on suburban domesticity. A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to z CSU San Bernardino University doctor and history enthusiast Dr. C. Albert Rauschenberg. From Arbus to Gober, Shumate's 19th-century art collection, ^ Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum Recent Terrains, through May 12. ongoing. Two-part exhibition showcases including works by more than 40 artists 5500 University Pkwy., San Bernardino. Exhibition of photographs by Laurie Brown the works of major artists from the past who document California's history and 909.880.7373. of landscapes in Southern California after five decades, including Mark Rothko, artistic life between 1816 and 1916. Hellenistic Antiquities from the I. Paul they have been demolished for suburban Robert Rauschenberg Wallace Bcrman, Getty Museum, through August 15. housing development. Robert Irwin, Charles Ray, among others. Exhibition of about 30 pieces of Creek Made in Oakland: The Art Furniture of Garry Knox Bennett, June 9-September 2. Hellenistic art from 330 BC to 30 BC. lACMA MOCA at The Geffen Contemporary Display of 45 works by furniture designer 5905 Wilshire Blvd., lA. 152 N. Central Ave., LA. Eames Office Gallery and Store and sculptor Gary Knox Bennett, 323.857.6000. 213.626.6222. 2665 Main St., Santa Monica. including large-scale desks, trestle tables, www.lacma.org. www.moca.org. 310.396.5991. playful clocks, lamps, and more. The Max Palevsky Colleaion of Japanese A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to www.eamesoffice.com. Woodblock Prints, through May 15. Display Rauschenberg. From Arbus to Gober. Palm Springs Desert Museum Charles and Ray Eames Designs, ongoing. of works from Palevsky's collection of ongoing. Two-part exhibition showcases McCormick Gallery Exhibition of furniture and designs, plus woodblock prints from the Golden Age of the works of major artists from the past 101 Museum Dr., Palm Springs. other modernism materials. Japanese printmaking the late-18th to mid- five decades, including Mark Rothko, 760.325.7186, ext 116. 19th century, Robert Rauschenberg, Wallace Berman, The J. Paul Getty Center www.psmuseum.org. Robert Irwin, Charles Ray, among others. Stephen Willard: California Desert 1200 Getty Center Dr., U. t'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1916- 310.440.7300. Photography, through August 12. 1925, through August 5. Exhibition on Museum of Contemporary Art, www.getty.edu. Exhibition of landscape photographer classic modernism, including works by Downtown Shaping the Great City: Modern Stephen Willard's desert environment founders of the Purist movement Charles- 1001 Kettner Blvd.,SD. Architeaure in Central Europe, 1890- photographs in California, including the Edouard Jeanneret (better known as Le 858.454.3541. 1937, through May 6. Exhibition of the Joshua tree woodland, desert fan palm CortHJSier) and Am4d^ Ozenfant. Books, Bytes, and Mortar: New Visions for political, social, and cultural tensions that oases, san dunes, badlands, and the San Diego's Libraries, through June 19. shaped the Austro-Hungarian Empire desert's steepest peak Mt. San Jacinto. A Century of fashion, 1900-2000. Exhibition of study models and drawings during the turn of the century, when the through January 5, 2003. Exhibition for San Diego's new main library designed Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts demands of modernization and features more than 130 costumes from by Rob Quigley of the San Diego-based Pasadena. 626.792.4661. urbanization coincided with the empire s the museum's permanent collection on joint venture of Rob Wellington Quigley, Pasadena Showcase House of Design aspirations for cultural innovation. how fashion mirrors society and shapes FAIA/Tucker, Sadler and Associates. 2001. through May 20. Tour of the 22- the image of the ideal woman. room Italianate-style mansion designed by Augus< Sander: German Portraits, 1918- Museum of Contemporary Art, SD Garrett Van Pelt of Marston and Van Pelt 1933, through June 24. 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Angela Bulloch from Great Britain; Atelier Johnston Marklee: The Early Years, through School, Bennett Ranch House, Serrano 323.857.6000. van Lieshout from Holland; and Clay May 11. Exhibition of work by architects Adobe, and St. George's Episcopal www.lacma.org. Ketter from Sweden. and founders of Johnston Marklee and Mission—span the time of Mexican Made in California: Now, through Associates Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, ranchos to the beginning of the citrus September 9. Interactive exhibition geared 5keef McAuley: The Garden of Golf, including drawings and models. industry. Tours: Wednesday-Sunday, toward kids of original works of art by May 13-September 3. Exhibition of a 9AM-5PM. eleven contemporary artists, including series of images of golf courses around the Eleanor Antin, Michael Asher, Victor world, including Pine Valley, Pebble The Huntington Library Estrada, Jacob Hashimoto, and others. Beach, Augusta National, Shinnecock 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino. 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Exhibition on the idea of photographs from the George Eastman 213.680.0243. the Schindler House as an experimental House, organized into six thematic Chinatown Art Festival, June 23-July 22. architectural space that generates and is sections: exploration, tourism, news The famous poster of Jane Avril by Henri de Toulouse- Exhibition of paintings by more than 100 animated by artistic and intellectual reporting science, snapshots, and art Lautrec is featured al the 'High Societies" exhibition California artists on Chinatown's culture activity. photography. at the San Diego Museum of Art from May 26th and historic structures. through August 12th. BOOKMARKS Frank O. Gehry Outside In by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. This 49- page children's book illustrates the childhood and adult career of architect Frank Gehry. Frank O. Gehry Outside In offers a glimpse into the imagination, mind, and design techniques of LA's architectural titan. 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The collection of vintage postcards captures the luxury and beauty of Exhibition on the history of Huntington Revelatory Landscapes, May 5-October the island and how it has survived ecologically and culturally. Heckman's Park through photographs by USC School 14. Off-site exhibition on works that of Architecture seniors Pablo Garcia and collection documents the residents and visitors of the island as well as the range from large-scale reclamation and Maya Konieczny. urban design projects to small installations events that influenced its development. Arcadia Publishing, paperback, and gardens by architects and artists, $18.99. San Diego Museum of Art including Kathryn Custafson, George 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park. Hargreaves, Mary-Margaret Jones, Walter • Old Los Angeles and Pasadena by C. Milton Hinshilwood and 619.232.7931. Hood, and Tom Leader. High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Elena Irish Zimmerman. 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