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Moreover, Eichler Please join the SAH/SCC for a rare opportunity to Homes were marketed learn alDOut and experience visionary developer not merely as Joseph Eichler's residential communities for residences, but as a modern living. for the Masses will "New Way of Life." be held on Saturday, September 15th, in the city In recent years, of Orange. The day will begin at 10AM with a Eichler Homes have lecture by author and noted Eichler expert Paul been rediscovered by a Adamson at Chapman College. Tour-goers will group of enthusiasts for then have the opportunity to visit the interiors of whom the Modernist multiple homes in three nearby Eichler tracts that ideas of mobility, self- feature designs by award-winning architects Jones expression, and and Emmons, Anshen and Allen, and Claude empathy with nature Oakland and Associates. The tour will be a "self- are as appropriate driving" event according to provided maps and today as during the late directions. '50s and '60s when the Eichler Homes are the rare example of homes were first built. developer-created housing that offered the Interestingly, today's opportunity to experience a modern way of life Eichler owners are a previously inaccessible to the average home new generation of the buyer. Contrary to the popular wisdom of the diverse and progressive time, Eichler sought the guidance of progressive individuals Eichler A wew of the play room in one of the Eichler Homes from the Fair Haven tract, from a brochure designers and together they created a originally marketed to. promoting the development. Current owners speak enthusiastically of the prototypical design methodology that was participants an opportunity to compare the natural sense of "community" that pervades the exceptional for being technologically inventive, evolution of plans by A. Quincy Jones, Frederick developments—often an elusive concept in climatically attuned, and socially responsive. Emmons, Robert Anshen, Steven Allen, and today's world of gated neighborhoods and new Claude Oakland. urbanism. Eichler Homes have achieved national honors, Eichler Homes are known for open plans such as the American Institute of Architects Sunset centered around generous atriums, their magazine awards of merit for outstanding design in expansive use of , the clear delineation 1956,1957, and 1959, as well as the House & between public and private zones, and the Home magazine award of merit in 1958, for their integration of the automobile. The Eichler outstanding contribution to quality housing. method—a post-and beam system Tickets for this all-day event are $35 for SAH/ atypical for residential at the time— sec members and $45 for non-members. economized on materials and proved efficient Capacity is limited, and ticket orders will be filled for the builders. on a first-come, first-sen/ed basis. The day will start To provide a context for the home tour, with a lecture, with homes open for touring Modernism for the Masses will begin afterward. Tour participants will be responsible for at Chapman College with a lecture by Paul driving themselves between open locations. Lunch Adamson. Mr. Adamson has been is on your own, with many options in the studying the Eichler communities in Northern surrounding area. Carpooling is encouraged. Mail for years and will soon publish a book in the application on page 8 to reserve your entitled Building the California Dream: The tickets. Eichler Homes. This event is being organized by SAH/SCC Featured residences on the tour will include board member Jean Baaden. For additional the finest examples of homes from all three of information contact, [email protected] or \fiew ot the oean and patio area at one of the the original architectural firms. The tour will give 800.9SAHSCC. Eichler homes at the Fair Haven tract in the city of Orange. _ • ; I N U STAq :.'Tu UTICITAE F IRMLTAS VE.NUSTAS VE VENUSTAS -I S VE.NUSTAS

SAH/SCC NEWS is published bi-monthly by the Society of Architectural Historions/ Perhaps we're all feeling a bit of museum fatigue after two astounding exhibitions earlier this Chapter. Subscription is a spring—the Getty's "Shaping The Great City, Modern in Central Europe, 1890-1937" benefit of membership. and MOCA's "The Architecture of R.M. Schindler,"—and now we have "Frank Gehry, Architect" showing this summer at the Guggenheim in New York. Editor: Julie D. Taylor Associate Editor: Linda Won With all this activity, it might be easy to overlook "L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918- Assistant Editor: Lauren Hirigoyen 1925," showing at LACMA, but this exhibition should not be missed. Administration: Arline Q. Chambers While the Swiss architect is well-appreciated for his pivotal role in the development of , with such as the Savoye (1927-29) and the seminal text Vers Information and ads for the newsletter should une Architecture (1923), the exhibit gives us the earlier development of his ideas through painting. be sent three weeks before the issue dote. /ssue Deadline In Paris, Le Corbusier, who painted under his birth name Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, joined with September/October 2001 August 10th painter Amedee Ozenfant to found the movement Purism, which sought fo portray objects in their November/December 2001 October 10th ideal or "pure" form, absent of social or emotional content. Le Corbusier was particularly compelled by obj^t types (typical objects), such as wine bottles, Please send all newsletter materials to smoking pipes, and guitars. They appealed to him because they weren't self-consciously "designed," the attention of the editor:

but rather they evolved over a long period of time. In Le Corbusier's mind, they had achieved their Julie D. Taylor, Editor perfect form; they were timeless. SAH/SCC News The paintings are particularly illuminating because they depict qualities he sought to achieve in P.O. Box 56478 architecture: timeless, perfect, and typical. In this same spirit, he peppered the journal L'Esprit Sherman Oaks, CA 91413 Nouveau with images of American grain . 800.9SAHSCC (800.972.4722) With great ambition, LACMA has reconstructed the interior of a portion of Le Corbusier's L'Esprit Newsletter telephone: 310.247.1099 Newsletter fox: 310.247.8147 Nouveau Pavilion of 1925. Only a smattering of photographs and a few simple floor plans remain as Newsletter e-mail: jtaylorpr(a)usa.net evidence, but the reconstruction is immensely enlightening. The bright, crisp interior would appear quite comfortably in a design journal today: a testament to both Le Corbusier's avant-gardism and Tour and Event Information: .800.9SAHSCC or our own retro-culture. visit http://www.sahscc.org. The book-length exhibition catalog also makes a significant contribution, with its first-ever English SAH/SCC ExecuHve Board translation of Ozenfant and Le Corbusier's 1918 manifesto Apres le cubisme (After ). Acting President: Anthony Denzer "L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925," runs through August 5th at LACMA . Acting Vice President: Sion Winship Membership: Merry Ovnick —Anthony Penzer Treasurer: Rina Rubenstein Members-ot-Lorge: Jean Clare Baoden; John Berley; A GRATEFUL GOODBYE TO GRACE John Ellis; Alex Meconi; Cora Mullio; Mark Nichols SAH/SCC Advisory Boord Have you ever wondered how your SAH/SCC inquiries, renewals, and event reservations get to the Ted Bosley, Ken Breisch, Stephen Horby, Elizabeth right party? For the past several years, Grace Samudio has served as our behind-the-scenes McMillian, Rochelle Mills, Claire Rogger, Richard C. administrative staffer. She has picked up the mail at our post office box, routed inquiries and tour Rowe, Nancy Smith, Ted Wells, Robert Winter reservations to the appropriate board member, sent membership renewals to the membership secretary, and forwarded payment information to the treasurer. She also retrieved and relayed Grant Barnes Le Roy Misuroca Kathleen Bixler messages left on our telephone message center. Grace has been the mainspring that makes our Susan W. Monteith Mary Dutton Boehm Douglas M. Morelond organization tick. Marie Botnick Sara. G. Muller Chemoff Grace has been conscientious, diligent, patient, and a good friend to SAH/SCC. As she leaves her Bill Bowling Daniel T. Muhoz Ruth Bowman position with us, we salute her and wish her good luck. Many, many thanks, Grace! Mark Nichols Lynn Marie Bryant Peter A. Nimmer Gerald & Bente Buck John M. Nisley Bonnie Burton Thomas O'Connor SKIRBALL CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY Pamela Burton Anne Otterson WITH DEDICATION OF AHMANSON HALL Miriam & Sam Campbell Francis Packer Wendy Carson Helen & David Palmer The Skirball Cultural Center recently celebrated its fifth anniversary with Robert Jay Chattel C.E. Partner Steve Conner the dedication of the new Ahmanson Hall designed by architect Moshe Stondish & Audree Penton Jeffrey Cook John August Reed Safdie. Adding to his master plan for the complex on the hill, Safdie Stephen P. Danforth Claire Rogger created a remarkable multi-use space that transforms from a ballroom to Astrid & Heinz Ellersieck Richard Coyia Rowe theater and back again. Most impressive is how the space completely J. Richard Fare Jeffrey B. Samudio Donald R. Ferguson opens up to the light and air, with mechanical shades that retract to Lawrence Scarpa Gilbert & Sukey Garcetti Ann Scheid uncover the skylight, and broad doors that open to a garden space. The Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Geiger Walter B. Silber building will serve as a multi-purpose facility for banquets, dinners, Robert J. Gelinas Patricia Simpson celebrations, lectures, performances, conferences, symposia, and other The Cotsen Auditorium of Gordon & Joy Gilliam Cecilia Singer Ahmanson Hall opens to light Raymond Girvigian Mark Slotkin community events. The Skirball also announced plans for the Winnick and air. (Photo: Alex VertikofO Paul Gleye Jononn Strand American Family Heritage Hall, which will house children's galleries, Andy & Lisa Hackman Vem Swonsen including outdoor excavation pits to simulate archeological digs. The Winnick structure will soon Stephen Horby Reg Thatcher break ground, with anticipated completion in 2004. —]u\ie D. Taylor Eugene & Shirley Hoggatt Roun Thorp James & Anneliese Horecka M. Brian Tichenor For Great Rates and a Elaine K. Sewell Jones Adolphe Tischler Form Zero Architectural Books + Gallery Rebecca Kahn Maggie Valentine Prime Audience Has Moved to a New Location! Diane Kane Daniel Visnich ADVERTISE in SAH/SCC News The new address is: Stephen A. Konter, MD Robert D. Wallace 811 Traction Ave., Ste. 1A Virginia Emst Kozor John & Lori Womke properties • books • collections , CA 90013 Marilyn Kellogg Dr. Patricio A. Warren Theodora Kinder Ron Watson Telephone: 213.620.1920 furniture • equipment • services Charies A. Logreco David R. Weaver SAH/SCC members get a 10% discount at the bookstore. display ads • display with photo Ruthann Lehrer John Welbome, Esq. Pomelo Levy Dr. Robert Winter classifieds ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS!! Joyce P. Ludmer Teri Sue Wolf Please note: SAH/SCC now has a new mailing address, Randell L. Mokinson Mr. & Mrs. David Yamodo To advertise in SAH/SCC News, so please direct all correspondence to: Christy Johnson McAwDy Robert Young Suzanne W. McCarthy Joyce Zoitlin call 310.247.1099 for information. P.O. Box 56478 Elizabeth McMillian Sherman Oaks, CA 91413. Honorary: Robert Fierson A DAY IN ICONIC LA SAH/SCC TOUR: SATURDAY, AUGUST 25TH never created another building to match the On Saturday, August 25th, from 10AM to 4PM, unique creative genius of this, his first SAH/SCC will embark on a day-long adventure commission. downtown visiting four of Los Angeles' most Perhaps one of the most profound quotes iconic buildings: Union Station, City Hall, the that describe the Bradbury Building comes from Bradbury Building and the new Disney Concert an 1887 science fiction novel by author Edward Hall (currently under construction). Bellamy, called Looking Backward. Bellamy is A Day in Iconic LA will focus on buildings quoted in Iconic LA describing the Bradbury from Gloria Koenig's new book. Iconic LA: Stories Building as "a vast hall full of light, received not of LA's Most Memorable Buildings, published by alone from the windows on all sides but from Balcony Press. Each of these seminal buildings the dome, the point of which was a hundred have played a significant role in shaping the city's feet above. The walls were frescoed in mellow history and image. Koenig will begin the tour with tints, to soften without absorbing the light which a presentation about her book, which will set the flooded the interior." stage for a day filled with remarkable tales and Finally, we'll make our way to the Music great architecture. Guest speakers will be at each Center where we'll see the last LA icon of the venue to expand on the history and the present- , the new Disney Concert Hall day operational status of each of these designed by architect Frank Gehry. Currently a remarkable architectural achievements. massive and complex structural maze, the The tour will start at Union Station, designed Gehry design is fascinating—even in its early by architects John and Donald B. Parkinson, J. H. stage of construction. We are arranging a visit Christie, H. L. Gilman, R. J. Wirth, and Herman Natural light comes into the interior of the Bradbury Building with a representative of the Concert Hall to Sachs, where we'll have the opportunity to spend through the glass pane/ ceiling. (Photo: luliuf Shulman) provide the opportunity to learn more about the some time in the Grand Ticket Hall and visit the design of this icon in the making. original Fred Harvey restaurant, both closed to the From there we'll board the subway and As stated in Iconic LA: "It is unusual for a public for many years now. During our visit, we travel a quick, four stops to the Civic Center, building to achieve status as an icon before it is hope to have a representative from Catellus where we'll pay a special visit to City Hall. built, but the Disney Concert Hall has occupied Corporation, who will describe some of the plans Designed in 1928 by John C. Austin, John the center of attention since it left the drawing that have been ongoing in and around Union Parkinson, and Albert C. Martin, City Hall is one board. Beginning construction 10 years after it Station for the past decade, transforming the of Los Angeles' most recognizable buildings. was designed, the stainless steel 'sails' of Frank 1939 structure—often called the country's last Closed for a major seismic refurbishment and O. Gehry's concert hall embody the spirit, great —into a modern transportation not scheduled to open until Labor Day, the exuberance and place that is Los Angeles." center set to serve the region for the next 100 building will be made available to us for this Tickets for A Day in Iconic LA are $10 for years. tour. As the special guests of Project Restore, SAH/SCC members, $15 for non-members, and In Iconic M, Koenig describes how "Union we will gather in the Rotunda for an include subway fare (lunch not included). The Station's blend of mission and opportunity to learn from architect Chris Martin event is free to new members, enrolling with the architecture transports the modern day visitor to how this venerable structure came to be, details organization for the first time. Reservations are Los Angeles' past. When originally built, it was the of the ongoing restoration, and how the major required, as space is limited. For more epitome of modern time, welcoming passengers refitting and refurbishment work conducted information, please call 800.9SAHSCC or to an exploding metropolis full of dreams and over the past few years is set to propel the consult www.sahscc.org. promise." architectural figurehead for the city into the next century. According to Iconic LA, landscape architect George P. Hales had this to say about the Los Angeles City Hall: "Its broad and solid base is typical of the City's firm foundation at the strategic point of the great Southwest; the flanking wings rising from the base typify to its marvelous growth from the original pueblo; while the soaring lines of the tower symbolize the indomitable spirit of its citizens that made it possible." We'll depart City Hall next for a visit to George Wyman's famous Bradbury Building built in 1893, and well known as the background setting to the movie Bladerunner and countless other noir films and television series. There are many interesting stories about the Bradbury Building in Iconic LA, including the fact that Wyman consulted a Ouija board before deciding to accept the commission. We'll take a moment to soak in the magical filtered daylight that fills the heart of this magnificent testament to the possibilities of architecture to The Disney Concert Hall designed by architea Frank Cehry as seen here in model form will be featured on the Iconic lA A photo of the Fokker Tri-motor airplane flying over the Los transform experience. Interestingly, Wyman tour. (Photo: Whit Preston) Angeles City Hall. (Photo: Tom Zimmermar) Colleaion)

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H 'SI T, UTIL!TAS FIRMITAS VENUSTA'- 7, Saturday 7,14, 21, 28, Saturday 21, Saturday SOMA-Yerba Buena Gardens. Walking Coogie Tours. Choice of The San Gabriel SumrrTer Social and Barbecue. A social tour with the Foundation for San Valley, Behind the Orange Curtain, Coffee gathering for Pasadena, Foothill, 's Architectural Heritage. Shop Modern and More, Cocktails 'N' Fernando Valley, Inland, Los Angeles, and California Historical Society, 678 Mission Coffee Shops with preservationist John Orange County AIA Chapters with an St., SF; 10-11AM; $3-5; res. req. English. $34; res. req. 213.980.3480. introduction of the newly licensed architect 415.441.3004. members and the Jean Roth Driskel 10, Tuesday scholarship winners for the year. AIA/ 7, Saturday Surviving Structures in (he Gold hiill Pasadena Foothill Chapter; Gamble House, V;//age Wa/fc/ng Tour. Walking tour of the District. Lecture with Matt Stanley. The 4 Westmoreland PI., Pasadena; 4-7PM; downtown village area of Claremont. Gold Hill Hotel, Gold Hill, Nevada; 5- $20; res. req. 626.796.7601. Historic Claremont Metrolink Depot, 200 7:30PM; $4-20; res. req. 775.847.0111. W. First St., Claremont; 10AM; $5; 21, Saturday res. req. 909.621.0848. 12, Thursday A Mid-Summer's Eve on the Colorado Street yerry hiirshtjerg—Design Designed: Bridge. A fundraising event of Pasadena 7, Saturday Creativity in Process and Produa. Leaure Heritage with live music, festive foods and L 'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, and booksigning with designer and beverages, dancing, games and aaivities for 918-1925. Course on Purism with founder of Nissan Design America Jerry children of all ages, antique cars, and more. Michele Depuy-Leavitt and a Hirshberg on his two decades at Nissan's Pasadena Heritage; Colorado Street Bridge, guided walk through of the Purism La Jolla-based design studios and his book Pasadena; 6-11PM; $10-12.50; res. req. in Paris exhibition with LACMA The Creative Priority. Museum of 626.441.6333. curator Carol S. Eliel. UCLA Contemporary Art San Diego, 700 Extension; LA; 11AM-5PM; $100; Prospect St., La Jolla; 7PM; $5-7. 21, Saturday The Chinatown An Festival will conclude with a res. req. 310.825.9971. 858.454.3541. Fashion Finale. Chinatown Art Festival 'Fashion Finale" exhibition at the Hong Fine Art Gallery concludes with an exhibition of Asian- on luly 21 SI. (Photo Courtesy ol liv Hong f/nc An Galkryl 7, Saturday 12,15,19, 22, 26,29, Thursday, Sunday inspired designs of fashion designer Peter Civic. Center Public Art lour. Tour of works Treasures of French Furniture and Lai. Hong Fine Art Gallery, 951 N. by the father of modern sculpture Auguste Decorative Arts. Lectures on 200 years of Broadway, Chinatown; 5-8PM; $30; in in Rodin, British artist , Welsh French furniture and decorative arts, from res. req. 213.680.0243. < < artists Barry Flanagan and Eduardo Louis XIV to the abdication of Napoleon, 5 7 J Chillida, and many others. Bevedy Hills including three days of on-site tours to the 21, 28, August 4, Saturday o: a- tc Art and Culture; Civic Center, City Hall, Getty Center with art specialist Consiantin Trompe I'oeil Techniques. Course on 450 N. Crescent Dr., West Lawn, BH; '/I ?. tr, Andronescu. UCLA Extension; 1010 trompe I'oeil and illusion techniques that < <

21, Saturday 29, Sunday The Miracle Mile: A Walking Tour. Two- A/A/Los Angeles 2001 Home Tour Series. hour tour of the Wilshire district with Self-driving tour of homes in Bel-Wood stories behind its development and Art Hills, Westwood, Bel Air, and Beverly Deco buildings. The Art Deco Society of Hills, including homes by architects Trevor Los Angeles; 10AM; $5-10; res. req. Abramson, Mark Rios, A. Quincy Jones, 310.659.3326. and Edward Niles. AIA/Los Angeles; The Fortalezo del Morro in Havana, Cuba will be featured in the SAH Cuba Tour from December 28th IIAM^PM; $45; res. req. 213.639.0777, through January 70, 2002. rWwio; Stephen Haiby) x52. 11, Saturday A Day in Egypt. Lecture with an museum director Irini Vallera-Rickerson on Egypt's Tiles in the Capital: rich history and civilizations with an emphasis on its architecture and arts. A Monumental Legacy august UCLA Extension; 1010 Westwood October 6-13, 2001 Center, Rm 415, Westwood; 9AM-4PM; $50-75; res. req. 310.825.9971. Washington, D.C. Ongoing, by appointment 4, Saturday Architeaure Tours LA. Tours indude a Paris and 8eW/n: Two faces of McxJernity. 11-16, Saturday-Thursday A four-day symposium on American guidebook of the architecture in the Lecture with art historian Cristina Cuevas- Missions ///. Tour of five missions and Ceramic Tiles will be presented by Hollywood, Silver Lake, or Hancock Park/ Wolf on the history of the Avanl-Carde other attractions by Amtrak rail to the Bay the of the Americas, Miracle Mile areas. Architecture Tours LA; (1880-1918) that emerged in Paris during area (return by airplane). San Diego $50; res. req. 323.464.7868. the Industrial Revolution. UCLA Historical Society; $995-1,375; res. req. Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Extension; UCLA Campus, 121 Dodd 619.224.2866. American Art Museum, and the Tile Hall, LA; 9:30AM-12:30PM; $45; 1, Wednesday Heritage Foundation. The Wednesday Designer Series: How to res. req. 310.825.9971. 18, Saturday Crow, Cultivate, and Arrange Orchids. The Miracle Mile: A Walking Tour. Two- symposium will include lectures, Lecture with owner of Solarium Robert 4, Saturday hour tour of the Wilshire district with various workshops, exhibitions, self- just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts stories behind its development and Art Dyer. Pacific Design Center, 8687 guided tours, and other tile-related Melrose Ave., Blue Conference Center, in California. Tour of current exhibitions Deco buildings. The Art Deco Society of West Hollywood; 10-11AM; free; with museum educators and curators. Los Angeles; 10AM; $5-10; res. req. activities. res. req. 310.360.6425. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 310.659.3326. UCLA Campus, LA; 1PM; $3-5. For more information, call the 1,8,15, 22, 29, Wednesday 310825.4361. 18, Saturday Tile Heritage Foundation at [vening on the Roof. A fundraising C;fy Observed. Commentary by author of 707.431.8453. LA Lost and Found: An Architectural 4, Saturday reception and music performance held at History of los Angeles and Emmy Award- Civic Center Public Art Tour. Tour of the Yates Studio designed by architect Workshops winning reporter and producer at Fox works by the father of modem sculpture R.M. Schindler. MAK Center; Yates Saturday-Sunday, October 6th-7lh Television News Sam Hall Kaplan on , British artist Henry Moore, Studio, Silveriake; res. req. architeaure, planning and design. KCRW Welsh artists Barry Flanagan and Eduardo 323.651.1510. Silk Screen Images on Relief Tiles. 89.9 FM. 3:55PM. Chillida, and many others. Beverly Hills Art and Culture; Civic Center, City Hall, 19,Sunday Sunday-Tuesday, October 7th-9th 2, Thursday 450 N. Crescent Dr., West Lawn, BH; MAK Architecture Tour. Tour of homes Hands-on Architectural Ceramics. Pasadena Art Walk. Self-guided, Old 1PM; free. 310.288.2201. designed by architect R.M. Schindler, Town open house. The Armory Center for including the Cold House (1945) in Monday, October 8th the Arts; 6-10PM. 626.792.5101. 8-September 12, Wednesday Studio City, Elliot House (1930) in Los Large Scale Ceramic Wall Relief. Accessories for Residential Interiors. Feliz, and the Rodriguez House (1941) in 3-4, Friday-Saturday Course on the appropriateness, timing Clendale. MAK Center, 835 N. Kings Rd., Tuesday, October 9th Restaurant Design: An On-Site Study Tour. and function of accessories in residential West Hollywood; 11AM-5PM; res. req. Teaure for Tiles. Tour of restaurants in Los Angeles to interior design with interior designer 323.651.1510. Virginia Knight. UCLA Extension; 1010 examine the layout and design concepts Tours and Events Westwood Center, Rm. 313, Westwood; 19, Sunday with architect Michael Hricak. UCLA Wednesday, October 10th Extension; 1010 Westwood Center, Rm. 10AM-1PM; $295; res. req. Neon Cruise 2007. Bus tour of the neon Tile and Public Art: Making it Happen. 320, Westwood, Friday, 7-9PM; UCLA 310.825.9971. lights of LA'S classic neon signs and Campus, 10945 Le Conte Ave., Ueberroth contemporary neon art. Museum of Wednesday, October 10th BIdg, LA, Saturday, 8:30AM-5:30PM; Neon Art, 501 W. Olympic Blvd., LA; $195; res. req. 310.825.9971. 7:30-10:30PM; $35-40; res. req. Behind the Scenes. 213.489.9918. Wednesday, October 10th 20-24, Monday-Friday Cuastavino Dome. Cast Cement and Mosaic. Workshop with artist Dmitry Crudsky on Byzantine, Saturday, October 13th Roman, Florentine, and contemporary Tile Fe^ival and Sale. mosaic. Tile Heritage Foundation; Newaric; $330; res. req. 707.431.8453, Lectures Wednesday, October 10th 23, Thursday Lecture Series—Mercer's Rival: The Contemporary Design: The Crash Course. Enfield Pottery and Tile Works. Lecture with editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine Susan Szenasy on furniture. Thursday, October 11 th Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Lecture Series: Encaustic Tiles, the Second 700 Prospect St., La Jolla; 7PM; $5-7. 858,454.3541. Revival.

Thursday, October nth 25, Saturday Selecting and Working With a Design Leaure Series—7;/e.s of All Sorts: What Professional. Lecture on the process People Actually Saw. homeowners take to remodel their home with tips on how to find the right Thursday, October 11 th architect, what to look for in the design Lecture Series: Guastavirto and the contraa, and other helpful hints with Architecture of the American architea and interior designer Paul Bailly, Renaissance. UCLA Extension; 1010 Westwood Center, Rm, 320; Westwood; 9AM-^PM; Thursday, October 11th $60-90; res. req. 310.825.9971. Lecture Series. Contemporary Tile Makers.

25, Saturday Friday, October 12th SAH/SCC EVENT Lecture Series: 7i/e in (he United States A Day in Iconic LA. Tour of four Capitol. iconic buildings in LA, including Union Station, City Hall, the Friday, October 12th Bradbury Building, and the new Lecture Series: The Byzantine Influence in Disney Concert Hall organized by the Tiles of Mary Chase Straff on. SAH/SCC board member John Friday, October 12th Beriey. LA; 9AM-4PM; $10-15; Lecture Series: Durable, Accurate and res. req. 1.800.9SAHSCC. See Decorative Records for this Millennium. page 3 for details. Friday, October 12th 3 3 D in III I/) 25, Saturday Lecture Series: Tile and Public Art: Making Dialogues in Contemporary Art: The Ralph it Happen. Tornberg Museum Director's 2000/2007 Series. Leaure with artist David Hockney. Exhibitions MOCA; Omni Hotel Los Angeles, 251 S. Olive St., Bunker Hill Ballroom, LA; 2PM; • Artistic Imaginings in Clay free to MOCA members; $5-10; res. req. 213.621.6828. • Tile: Out of the Box

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A photo of entrants chosen for "Miss Los Angeles" at Ocean Park. California, in 7 926, is featured at The Huntington Library in 'The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West.' (Photo: Courtesy of The Huntington Library) Art Institute of Southern California Irvine Museum MOCA at The Geffen Contemporary Edward S. Curtis: Photographs of California 2222 Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach. 18881 Von Karman Ave., 152 N. Central Ave., LA. 213.626.6222. Indians, through September 30. Display of 949.366.9660. Tower 17 Bidg., 12th Floor, Irvine. A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to photographer Edward S. Curtis' work that AlP 15: Architeaure in Perspective, through 949.476.2565. Rauschenberg, From Arbus to Gober. documents more than 80 Native American J July 7. Exhibition consists of approximately 60 Masters of Landscape, through September 15. ongoing. Two-part exhibition showcases tribes with photos of Cahuilla, award-winning works chosen from more than Exhibition of paintings by Southern California the works of major artists from the past five Shoshoneans, Dieguenos, and Washo. 500 original entries by artists woHdwide that landscape painters Edgar Payne, Granville decades, including Mark Rothko, Robert represent projects both built and imagined, in Redmond, and William Wendt on California's Rauschenberg, Charles Ray, and others. Stars A( Play: Photography by Bill Anderson, ; conjunction with the Museum of Architecture. nature sceneries. ongoing. Exhibition of photographer Bill Museum of Contemporary Art, SO Anderson's photo colleaion of film California Heritage Museum LACMA 700 Prospect SL, U Jolla. 858.454.3541. celebrities as early as the 1950s, including 2612 Main St., Santa Monica. 5905 Wilshire Blvd., LA. Skeef McAuley: The Garden of Golf, through Audrey Hepburn, Kirk Douglas, Jane 310.392.8537. 323.857.6000. September 3. Exhibition of a series of Mansfield, and many others. California Tile: The Golden Era 1910-1940, i'fsprif Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-1925, images of golf courses around the world, u. u b. L. through July 22. Exhibition of hundreds of through August 5. Exhibition on classic including Pine Valley, Pebble Beach, San Diego Museum of Art individual tiles, fountains, furniture, murals, modernism, including works by founders of Augusta National, Muirfield, and others. 1450 El Prado, . K K H h flower pwts, pottery, and salesmen samples the Purist movement Charies-Edouard 619.232.7931. -i li ^ J from art tile companies, such as Taylor Tilery, Jeanneret (better known as Le Corbusier) and Design from X to Z: Jerry Hirshberg and High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters of ^ Arequipa Pottery, and many others. Amedee Ozenfant. Nissan Design International, through Haight-Ashbury; Toulouse-Lautrec and the September 3. Exhibition of complex design Cabarets of Montmanre; Japanese Fowler Museum of Cultural History The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic and engineering processes used by Nissan WcxxJblock Prints and the 1^hating World of UCLA Campus, lA. 310.825.4361. Homeland, through August 26. Display of 250 Design International team, founded by Jerry Edo, through August 19. Three-part lust Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in artworks and archaeological artifacts that Hirshberg which generates consumer exhibition of prints, including psychedelic California, through December 9. Exhibition of examine the relationship between the produces and automobiles. rock posters, 19th-century French cabaret more than 100 graphic images by 56 artists American Southwest and Mesoamerica. posters, and Japanese prints featuring that raised public awareness . Torolab: Laboratorio of the Future in the Kabuki actors. Made ;'n California: Now, through September Present, July 1-September 25. Display of Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum 9. Interactive exhibition geared toward kids works by a Tijuana-based consortium of San Diego Historical Society Museum CSU San Bernardino University of original works of art by 11 contemporary artists and designers known as Torolab, and Research Archives 5500 University Pkwy., San Bernardino. artists, including Eleanor Antin, Michael includes fine art, architecture, clothing and 619.232.6203. 909.880.7373. Asher, Jacob Hashimoto, and others. graphic design. Treasures Uncovered: Trade and Exchange Hellenistic Antiquities from the I. Paul Getty at the San Diego Presidio, through July 31. Museum, through August 15. Exhibition of A Century of Fashion, 1900-2000, through Museum of Photographic Arts Exhibition of artifacts uncovered during the about 30 pieces of Creek Hellenistic art from January 5, 2003. Exhibition features more 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park, SD. excavation of Presidio Hill. 330 BC to 30 BC. than 130 costumes from the museum's 619.238.7559. permanent collection on how fashion Inside Out: 50 Years of Colleaing, through San Francisco Airport Museum The J. Paul Getty Center society and shapes the image of the ideal July 22. Exhibition of collected photographs United Terminal Concourse, SF. 1200 Getty Center Dr., LA. woman. from the George Eastman House, organized www.eamescollector.com. 310.440.7300. into six thematic sections: exploration, fames Conneaions: The Work of Designers Illuminating Color, through August 26. Display MAK Center for Art and Architecture tourism, news reporting science, snapshots, Charles and Ray Fames, through August 20. of many artists' work throughout the Middle and art photography. Exhibition of designers Charies and Ray Ages and Renaissance on the use of color. 835 North Kings Rd., West Hollywood. Fames' work. 323.651.1510. Natural History Museum of LA County Walker f vans and Company, July 10- In Between: Art and Architecture, through 900 Exposition Bkd., Exposition Park. San Francisco Museum of Modem Art September 16. Exhibition of photographer September 2. Exhibition on the idea of the 213.763.3466. 151 3rd SL,SF. 415.357.4000. Walker Evans' work, which merged European Schindler House as an experimental A Communion of the Spirits: African- 010101: Art in Technological Times, through modernism with American culture through architectural space that generates and is American Quilters, Preservers, and Their July 8. Exhibit of new developments in photography. animated by artistic and intellectual activity. Stories, through September 3. Exhibition on contemporary art, architeaure, and design the significance of quilts in African- influenced by digital media and technology. The American Tradition and Walker Evans: In Between: Outdoors, July 20-Seplember 2. American culture, with photographs, quilts, Photographs from the Getty Colleaion, July Display of sound and sculpture installations and quilted mattes. : Wit and Word Play, through 10-October 28. Display of photographers by artists Jorge Pardo, Steve Roden, and Septemt)er 4. Exhibition of 15 works by work as early as the 1900s, including images Ifiigo Manglano-Ovalle. Oakland Museum of California Swiss artist Paul Klee that explore his sense by Walker Evans, the Langenheim brothers of 1000 Oak St., Oakland. 510.238.2200. of humor, witty imagery, and subtle nuances Philadelphia, , and others. Mingei International Museum A Legacy of Early California Paintings: The of his titles. Plaza de Panama, 1439 El Prado, Shumate Collection, through August 5. Hollywood Heritage Museum Balboa Park, SO. 619.239.0003. Exhibition of paintings from medical doctor Revelatory Landscapes, through Oaober 14. 2100 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. Kay Sekimachi—An Intimate Eye, through and history enthusiast Dr. C. Albert Off-site exhibition on works that range from 323.874.2276. September 23. Display of artist Kay Shumate's 19th-century art collection, large-scale reclamation and When Hollywood Was Still in Hollywood, Sekimachi's work on woven and paper including works by more than 40 artists that projects to small installations and gardens by through August 30. Display of historic photos objects. documented Califomia's history and artistic architects and artists, including Kathryn of film pioneers and their productions, life between 1816 and 1916. Gustafson, George Hargreaves, Mary- including the homes where they lived, and Glass and Des/gn in a World Perspeaive, July Margaret Jones, and Tom Leader. the Hollywood streets where they shopped, 22-January 6, 2002. Exhibition on the work Made in Oakland: The Art Furniture of Garry dined, and attended premieres. of the Venini faaory in Venice that features Knox Bennett, through September 2. California Pottery: From Missions to art glass by contemporary artists, including Display of 45 works by fumiture designer Modernism, July 20-October 14. Exhibition Hong Fine Art Gallery Louis Comfort Tiffany, Laura and Alessandro and sculptor Gary Knox Bennett, including of approximately 180 commercially 951 N. Broadway, Chinatown. Diaz de Santillana, and Paolo Venini. large-scale desks, trestle tables, playful produced pottery tableware and home 213.680.0243. docks, lamps, and more. accessories made in Califomia during the Chinatown Art festival, through July 22. MOCA at Califomia Plaza first half of the 20th century. Exhibition of paintings by more than 100 250 S. Grand Ave., LA. 213.626.6222. Palm Springs Desert Museum Califomia artists on Chinatown's culture www.moca.org. McCormick Gallery UCLA at the Armand Hammer and historic struaures. A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to 101 Museum Dr., Palm Springs. Museum of Art and CuKural Center Rauschenberg, From Arbus to Gober, 760.325.7186, ext. 116. 10899 Wilshire Blvd., lA. 310.443.7020. The Huntington Library ongoing. Two-part exhibition showcases Stephen Willard: California Desert Chris lohanson, through July 29. Exhibition of 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino. the works of major artists from the past five Photography, through August 12. Exhibition San Francisco-based artist Chris Johanson's 626.405.2100. decades, including Mark Rothko, Robert of landscape photographer Stephen new works that were inspired by skateboard The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs Rauschenberg, Wallace Berman, Robert Willard's desert environment photographs and graffiti culture and urban life in San of the American West, through September 9. Irwin, and Charles Ray in California, including the Joshua tree Francisco. Exhibition of approximately 60 historic and woodland, desert fan palm oases, sand contemporary images that examine the David Hockney Retrospective: Photoworks, dunes, badlands, and the desert's steepest Henry Matisse; Works on Paper from the relationship tjetween panoramic photographs July 22-October 21. Exhibition of British peak Mt. San Jacinto. Grunwald Center Collection, through July 29. and the American West from the 1850s to the artist David Hockney's photographs of Display of graphic artist Henry Matisse's work, present, including works by photographers colored paintings and drawings. including prints, book illustrations, drawings, Carieton E. Watkins, William H. Jackson, paintings, and sculptures that illustrate his Eadweard Muybridge, Skeet McAuley, and sense of style and technique. others. EXPLORE CUBA WITH SAH SAH NATIONAL TRAVEL TOUR DECEMBER 28,2001 - JANUARY 10,2002

The two-week visit will be equally divided Please contact Angela Fitzsimmons at the SAH Initial plans for this exciting tour were revealed at between Havana and other cities of colonial office in (312.573.1365) for the the annual SAH meeting in Toronto. Details origin that will take travelers from one end of the procedure to reserve a spot in anticipation of the regarding pricing and Treasury Department island to the other. Baracoa, generally visited by confirmed itinerary and pricing. CNote.- Please do Licensing are still pending, but the SAH is taking only the most intrepid, will be the final stop. Our not call SAH/SCC.) reservations on a first-come, first-served basis as local leaders will be Eduardo Luis Rodriguez, substantial interest has already been expressed in author of many recent books on Havana's 20th- this tour. Coordinating the tour is SAH/SCC Life century architecture, and Professor Isabel de Member Stephen Harby. Rigol of the School of Engineering of Jose The 700-mile-long island nation of Cuba Antonio Echeverria Higher Polytechnical possesses an intensely rich and layered Institute. In each city, tour-goers will meet architectural heritage made so first by its individuals active in the local efforts of historically important role in the Spanish Colonial preservation and historical study. world and then by a continuing vital role in trade At this time prices, airline schedules, and other and tourism throughout the 19th and 20th details have not been published for next centuries. When the 1959 revolution ended these December. Based on pricing that was in effect trends, the island's heritage remained preserved last year, the 15-night tour is likely to start at in a richly layered time warp that is still intact $3,000 (including flight between Cancun and today. The architectural contributions of the Havana), but indications are that there will be revolution are relatively limited, but interesting, significant price increases in 2001. Also, US and the social and economic situations remain a travel restrictions are in flux at this time. While unique if sobering contrast to much of the rest of the SAH is applying for a specific license to the world. Most recently, there has been a conduct this tour, granting of this has not been directed effort to preserve and restore the colonial assured, and it may be necessary for individuals heritage for its obvious tourism potential. to qualify for a general license to travel to Cuba. Cuba's National Art Schools (School of Plastic Arts). (Photo: lohn Loomis) BOOKMARKS-WHAT'S NEW

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