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in the country. Not only have we sponsored more events in the past year than in any Here's a look back on the SAH/SCC events that took previous year (see sidebar), but also a greater number of those events have been free place in the past year. Thanks to all the board for our members. In addition, we are pleased to be regarded as a highly visible members for their hard work in making these tours and lectures a success. resource within the architectural and cultural communities of Southern California. SAH/SCC is healthier than ever financially, and poised to offer another year of February outstanding events. We will continue our primary focus on education. The SAH/SCC Inside Hollyhock House: Behind-the-Scenes Members-Only Jour Executive Board has agreed that education is the best form of long-term preservation of our architeaural heritage. For example, we have found that simply including a March Reconsidering Lloyd Wright Home Tour building on one of our tours bestows some legitimacy to the structure as being Mondays at the Museum—Laguna Beach worthy of recognition. The more we teach the public about the rich architectural Architectural Guild heritage in Southern California, the easier it can be to preserve these treasures. Authors on Architecture—Peter Zellner The great success of SAH/SCC can be attributed to three things: First, your April financial support through membership dues and attendance at our events; second, Inside Downtown: The DWP Building Mondays at the Museum—Lorcan O'Herlihy your moral support, encouragement, and good cheer that make planning and putting May on events worthwhile; and third, the unfailing efforts of the all-volunteer SAH/SCC Modern Patrons—Tischler House by Schindler Executive Board. In this issue of the SAH/SCC News, we spotlight our board Sundays at La Sala—The American Dream Comes members. I think you'll find they are an extraordinary group. Home: Architecture and Television Board members spend hours planning and coordinating events, maintaining the June membership roster, administrating finances, and working behind the scenes to make Modern Patrons—Marshall House by Wachsmann At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years sure our events are flawless and enjoyable. Amazingly, all our board members have of Architecture Tour full-time (or more than full-time!) careers, are active in their communities, and still Sundays at La Sala—Teach Me Tonight: devote unwavering energy to SAH/SCC. I'm proud to be a part of such a group. How TV Looks at Architectural History in addition, our board members volunteer their time to many other July organizations, and lend their support for the preservation and restoration of Modern Patrons—Clark House by Neutra Sundays at La Sala—John English important landmarks throughout our region. And new this month, visit the SAH/SCC website. You can find us at August Modern Patrons—Shulman House by Soriano www.sahscc.org. From the site, you can also e-mail any of the board members with Sundays at La Sala-^M. Charles Bernstein questions, suggestions, praise, or criticism. We encourage it all and look forward to Sundays at La Sala—Mischa Von Doring seeing you at our events, now and in the coming new year. September During the holidays, I encourage you to seek architecture that moves you Modern Patrons—Bums House by Moore Cliff May Homes and The Post-War Dream House with its spiritual power. Good architecture speaks to us with the voice of its creators. There are lessons to be learned from the silent language of November architects, builders, craftsman, and artisans whose work embodies their soul. As in Sundays at La Sala—Lamprecht on Neutra the best architecture, may your holidays be filled with enough reality to make January 2001 On Parallel Lines: The Sarasota Modern Movement them meaningful, and enough fantasy to make them memorable. — Ted Wells and Case Study Program j^^w 1^ y ]^^"%-J^ •'•
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Editor: Julie D. Taylor HOT OFF THE PRESS Associate Editor: Linda Won y Executive Assistant: Grace Somudio Bookmarks highlights new publications about the history and architecture of Southern z California. We especially want to acknowledge books written by or about SAH/SCC Information and ads for the newsletter should members, so send notice of books to SAH/SCC News. be sent three weeks before the issue date. designs were influenced by European Issue Deadline modernist models, which brought about many January/February 2001 December 10th March/April 2001 February 10th well-known projects. Among his famous works that are included in the book are the Please send oil ad materials, notices of events, Pedregal residential complex (1945-50), the exhibitions and news—plus photographs—^to house of the architect (1947), the chapel of the attention of the editor: TIalpan (1955), and the residential complex of Los Clubes (1964). Skira, hardcover, $75. Julie D. Taylor, Editor SAH/SCC News Shigeru Ban by Emilio Ambasz and Shigeru P.O. Box 92224 Ban. The Japanese architect and SCI-Arc Pasadena, CA 91109-2224 alumnus Shigeru Ban is best known for 800.9SAHSCC (800.972.4722) building with paper and cardboard, and for Newsletter telephone: 310.247.1099 Newsletter fax: 310.247.8147 the Curtain Wall House in Tokyo currently Newsletter e-mail: [email protected] featured in "The Un-Private House" at the UCLA Hammer Museum (and gracing scores u) ^fi tri IT Tour and Event Information: 1.800.9SAHSCC < Los Angeles' landmark buildings Dagmar Richter; afterword by Anthony Vidler. Marie Botnick Susan W. Monteith Bill Bowling Douglas M. Moreland represented in the book are the Hollyhock Radically reinventing urban design is an area House, Getty Center, Case Study House Ruth Bowman Daniel T. Munoz architect and professor of architecture at Lynn Marie Bryant Mark Nichols #22, Disney Concert Hall, and Grauman's UCLA Dagmar Richter explores. She tries to Gerald & Bente Buck Peter A, Nimmer Chinese Theatre. Each of these projects discover new solutions to improve Bonnie Burton John M. Nisley reflects an aspect of our daily lives, whether it Pamela Burton Thomas O'Connor architecture and planning where she deems is Mr. & Mrs. Sam Campbell Anne Otterson is in art, identity, or architecture. 'This is a needed. Her design process is to re-structure Robert Jay Chattel Helen & David Palmer city of instant recognition, a collection of the city through editing, appropriating, and Sara. G. Muller Chemoff C.E. Parker Steve Conner images disseminated by photographs and layering. XYZ: The Architecture of Dagmar Standish & Audree Penton films that people have come to envision as Jeffrey Cook John August Reed Richter is a documentation of more than 10 Stephen P. Donforth Cloire Rogger laid-back Los Angeles, the place where Astrid & Heinz Ellersieck years of Richter's work. The edition consists of Richard Coyia Rowe movies are made and trends are tried out," J. Richard Fore a "hyper-linked" text arrangement with Jeffrey B, Somudio Donald R. Ferguson writes architect Gehry in the foreword. Ann Scheid drawings, models, and computer renderings Gilbert & Sukey Gorcetti Balcony Press, hardcover, $29.95. Walter B. Silber of more than 15 projects, urban design Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Geiger Patricia Simpson Robert Gelinas proposals, and completed projects. Princeton Cecilia Singer Gordon & Joy Gilliam Luis Barragin: The Quiet Revolution edited Architectural Press, paperback, $35. Mark Slotkin Raymond Girvigian by Federica Zanco and Emilia Terragni. The Jononn Strand Paul Gleye Vem Swonsen Mexican architect Luis Barragan is known for Stephen Harby HELP WANTED Reg Thatcher his international architecture between the Eugene & Shirley Hoggort M. Brian Tichenor SAH/SCC is looking for an organized Mr. & Mrs. James Horecko 1930s and 1970s. Through his work, Barragan Mr. & Mrs. A. Tischler Elaine K. Sewell Jones person to help assist in the day-to-day Maggie Valentine presents his interpretation of Mexican Rebecca Kahn operations of the Society and Executive Daniel Visnich structural tradition and landscape. The 550- Diane Kane Board. This is a part-time, paid position. Robert D. Wallace page book is a collection of the architect's Stephen A. Konter, MD Responsibilities include tracking and Virginia Emst Kazor John Womke work with unpublished iconographic materials routing mail, scheduling board meetings, Marilyn Kellogg Lori Wamke from his archives that analyzes his design. This taking and distributing meeting minutes Theodora Kinder Dr. Patricio A. Warren Ron Watson volume also consists of thematic essays and agendas, assisting in membership Charles A. Lagreco Ruthonn Lehrer David R. Weaver explaining his sources of inspiration, his fulfillment, and acting as communications Pomelo Levy John Welborne, Esq. conduit for the board and membership. relationships with the modern architecture of Joyce P. Ludmer Dr. Robert Winter If you are interested, e-mail Ted Wells at Mexico and North America, and his influence Randell L. Mokinson Mr. & Mrs. David Yomada [email protected], or Tony Robert Young on contemporary Mexican architecture. After Christy Johnson McAvo/ Denzer at [email protected]. Joyce Zoitlin living in Guadalajara for a period of time, his Honorary Member: Robert Pierson SUNDAYS AT LA SALA: LAMPRECHT ON NEUTRA SUNDAY TALK, NOVEMBER 5TH be informed by science to ensure human health Sah/scc and the Museum of Architecture and happiness; Neutra the artist, whose (MUSARCH) are pleased to continue the Sundays disarmingly endearing, impish, crayon travel at La Sala series with a lecture by long-time SAH/ sketches—captured in stolen moments during his sec member and Richard Neutra aficionado ceaseless globetrotting—reveal a painterly streak Barbara Lamprecht, on November 5th. This event utterly foreign to those who know only his is a special treat for SAH/SCC members because it buildings. not only previews Lamprecht's new book Neutra: But the stuff that drove that form-making— The Complete Works (Taschen), but it is also an an obsession with the human as architecture's opportunity to hear some of her unpublished raison d'etre—has been largely ignored. Neutra's comments and analyses. The lecture will be held endless curiosity about his fellow human, rather in La Sala Auditorium, at the Michael Graves- than an endless search for form, defined his designed San Juan Capistrano Library. practice. The lecture is $3 for SAH/SCC and MUSARCH It was not until I had spent time in a members; $5 for non-members. The San Juan Neutra dwelling that I understood what he was VDL—doors, windows, walls, pwnels—colluded in Capistrano Library is located at 31495 El Camino trying to accomplish. Up until that point, his encouraging me to weave my own path in and Real. For information and reservations, please call work was known to me through photographs or through the tightly knit compound of small but MUSARCH at 949.366.9660. tours. Physically experiencing a Neutra house generous buildings. It was my move (or not) to over a long time on my own terms was an kinetically exploit those latent qualities of spatial Below are some musings on Neutra by Lamprecht: entirely different matter. My conclusion was elasticity. The house, it seemed to me, assumed I that the architecture of Richard Neutra is most had a life to accomplish, and its brief was to There are many "Neutras" to consider, almost present in its absence. That is a complex engender its possibilities. too many: Neutra the technological innovator and statement, meaning this is an architecture that That realization put me in a peculiar position experimenter, his patents ranging from sleek takes away the unnecessary and leaves the when spending time in the houses of some other furniture to eccentric foundation devices; Neutra essential, and Neutra defined very clearly what architects, but especially those of Frank Lloyd the European Modernist, known for his sober, he believed to be essential. Wright Given his reputation as the cardinal classic forms; the American Neutra, master In my case, the vehicle for understanding architect of the 20th century, I felt pretentious or essayist of the relaxed suburban house; Neutra was the Neutra family home in Silverlake, the simply incapable of appreciation when I felt the resolute land economist, arguing that the size VDL Research House built in 1932 and rebuilt trapped in his famous concrete-block houses, as of the house did not have to dictate a cramped with his architect son Dion on the same though I were a bit player whose character was sense of space; Neutra the urban planner, footprint in 1964 after a devastating fire. In forced to move through cramped passages to dark, insisting on ground-floor toilets for kids on 1988, I was asked by Cal Poly Pomona, the dense stage sets. Wright's voice, unceasing and playgrounds of low-budget housing; Neutra as a new owners of the house, to take a first pass at very much alive in the constantly treated surfaces, builder's builder, whose exacting and thorough inventorying its contents and to work with overpowered my own, allowing me no purchase S|jecifications for details were bound as 6V2" x 11" Neutra's widow Dione. What I walked away or means to appropriate the dwelling. Perhaps I books to eliminate the burdens of construction with two years later was this: the VDL isn't a needed such a dramatic contrast initially to start management; Neutra as verbose zealot "house" at all, if "house" is defined as an thinking about the tenor of any architect's "voice" missionary, insisting presciently that design had to enclosed space with clearly defined boundaries in one's surroundings. between indoors and out I came to understand In writing the book, many people asked me it in the terms the Neutras themselves used: an whether I was writing a biography (I would quickly environment, a habitat filled with light and point them to Thomas Hines) or whether I surrounded by greenery and water. Ultimately, believed Neutra had stolen Philip and Leah Lovell it is a series of spatial relationships and as clients. Well, sure, I have some ideas about opportunities. The VDL is an essay in that, but what seemed to be missing in many of discretionary boundaries, not an object. my own conversations about Neutra was any The more time I spent there, the more I sense about the ideas at work. I myself heard John understood the house as a canvas for human Lautner boom in his unforgettably big voice, endeavor and not its arbiter, like so many other standing at the threshold of the VDL, "You seen famous houses I had spent time in. This "canvas," one Neutra house, you seen a thousand." At first however, was not blank, or even neutral, but a this confirmed my own lack of architectural canvas "charged" and primed for my own way of eruditeness. Then the question for me became, being. The house seemed to anticipate a range of first, is it true, and second, does it matter? In the needs, whether one desired to be public and en end it was the question that drove the book, famille or to be apart and require quiet solitude, which, thanks to a remarkable publisher, turned as I knew from hauling my computer from place into something much bigger than I ever to place depending on my mood. Dione Neutra anticipated. was always near, and invariably encouraged my There was one thing I did forget in the book: free rein, so sometimes I was in the living room, That was acknowledging the role of the board and sometimes next to her bed, to which she was staff of the SAH/SCC, who are just about family to confined her last summer, often in the penthouse me. I couldn't have asked for more support or in the evenings. I was intrigued by the myriad encouragement from a finer group of people, and The VOL Research House (1932) by Richard Neutra. (Phoio: Juliusway s all the different openings in the I thank them here and now. 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Display of more than 120 pieces with gardens. works by Tatsuzo Shimaoka to represent Hayden Tract Japan's 5,000-year old, unbroken tradition San Fernando Mission Gateway Warehouse BIdg. of the art of pottery making. 15151 San Fernando Mission Blvd., 3505 Hayden Ave., Culver City. San Fernando. 818.361.0186. 310.651.1510. Museum of Contemporary Art, LA Tours of the mission founded in 1797, Heaven's Gift: Contemporary Art Tower. The Geffen Contemporary Daily, 9AM-4:30PM. through December 17, 2000. MAK Center 152 N. Central Ave., LA. 213.626.6222. exhibition on the plans to transform the www.MOCA- LA.org. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art World War II anti-aircraft tower into an Flight Patterns: Piauring the Pacific Rim. 151 3rd St., SF. 415.357.4000. international center for contemporary art, through February 11, 2001. Exhibition www.sfmoma.org. with models, illustrations, and sketches. features works by artists in California, Seleaions from the Permanent Colleaion of Australia, New Zealand, and other Asian Archileaurc and Design, November 10- Heritage Hill Historical Park Pacific countries on the tradition and March 4, 2001. Exhibition of about 100 25151 Serrano Rd., Lake Forest history of landscape representation. works acquired by the museum, including 949.855.2028. examples of modernism in architecture, The Curtj;n Wall House designed by architect Shigeru Four historic buildings, including El Toro Norton Simon Museum design, digital projects, furniture, and 10 m (fl IT featured in 'The Un-Private House" a( the School, Bennett Ranch House, Serrano 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. graphic design, with works by architects 2 2 2 2 Hammer Museum through lanuary 7, 200J. Adobe, and St. George's Episcopal 626.449.6840. Ifl ifl Ul U! Aldo Rossi, Lebt)eus Woods, George Mission, that span the time of Mexican From Paris lo Pasadena: An Overv/ew of Nelson, and Frank Cehry among others. z z 7 } Adamson Home and ranchos to the beginning of the citrus Color Lithography, through January 15, > > > > Malibu Uigoon Museum industry. Tours: Wednesday-Sunday, 2001. Exhibition features 85 years of color Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Architecture Series. ^ ^. IT - 23200 Paciric Coast Highway, Malibu. 9AM-5PM. lithography from the museum's permanent Itt* 310.456.8432. November 10-March 4, 2001. Display of collection, including prints by artists such 15 works from photographer Hiroshi K i a i Tours of Adamson home and museum, Irvine Museum as Pierre Bonnard, Richard Diebenkorn, Sugimoto's series on icons of 20th-century a h. Z. u. Wednesday-Saturday, 11AM-3PM. 18881 Von Karman Ave., Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, Paul Klee, Henri I/I l/l UI Ul architecture from around the world. Tower 17 BIdg., 12th Floor, Irvine. de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. t t t t California Heritage Museum 949.476.2565. :i d d = 2612 Main St., Santa Monica. Santa Bartiara Contemporary Arts Forum El Cam/no Real: California Missions in Art. Sculptural Motives: Works on Paper and D 3 D = 310.392.8537. 653 Paseo Nuevo, SB. through January 20, 2001. Exhibition of Sculpture by Henry Moore, through 805.966.5373. The Fabulous Fifties—Furniture, Decorative works by California's Impressionist painters January 15, 2001. Display of two series Arts and Fine Art of the 1950s, Part II, Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary aaive from about 1890 to the mid 1930s, of rarely seen prints by artist Henry through January 28, 2001. Exhibition of Photography in California. November 11- including Franz A. Bischoff, Maurice Moore, including lithographs, etchings, post-war furnishings produced in the 1950s December 17. Exhibition of some of the Braun, Benjamin C. Brown, and others. and sculptural forms. by Arne Jacobsen, Vemer Panton, Hans G. most compelling photographs taken in Wegner, Finn Juhl, and others. California by 64 artists, organized by The The Judson Gallery of Oakland Museum of California Friends of Photography. Contemporary and Traditional Art 1000 Oak St., Oakland. The Doctor's House Museum 200 S. Avenue 66, LA 510.238.2200. Southwest Museum at LACMA West 1601 W. Mountain, Brand Park, 323.255.0131. Secref World of the Forbidden City: Glendale. 818.242.7447. 6067 Wilshire Blvd., LA. 323.933.4510. www.judsonstudios.com. Splendors from China's Imperial Palace. The Fell-White Collection, ongoing. Family 5anfa Clara Portraits: A Proud Tradition, Present and Past: Ttte Judson Stud/os and through January 24, 2001. Exhibition of heirlooms from the 19th century, including through January 2, 2001. Exhibition of 51 the Art of Stained Glass, through art objects from the Qing Dynasty clothing and mementos, donated to the black-and-white portraits of Santa Clara November 5. Exhibition of the history of (1644-1911) that have never been Glendale Historical Society. Pueblo potters photographed by Neil stained glass produced by the Judson exhibited in North America. Chapman. Studios, including a lecture series, tours, Docent guided tours of a restored Queen and demonstrations. Orange County Museum of Art Anne Eastlake-style home built in 1889, Southwest Landscapes by Eugene tally, 850 San Clemente Dr., Newport Beach. Sundays, 2-iPM. through January 7, 2001. Display of color LACMA 949.759.1122, photographs by engineer and resident of 5905 Wilshire Blvd., LA. www.ocma.net Lake Forest, Califomia, Eugene F. Lally on Fisher Gallery 323.857.6000. Chris Burden: A Tale of Two Cities. Southwest landscapes and the Native use Campus, Harris Hall, LA. Made in California: An, Image, and through February 11, 2001. Display American people. 213.740.4561. Identity, through February 25, 2001. consists of a miniature reconstruaion of www.usc.edu/fishergallery. Display that addresses the relationship two city-states at war, using more than Southwest Museum at Mt Washington use Collects California, through November between the arts and popular culture and 5,000 war toys from the United States, 234 Museum Dr., lA. 323.221.2164. 4. Display of images and art in California, as Califomia's evolving image over the past Japan, and Europe. from Eanh, Fire, and Spirit: Historic Pueblo well as murals and art pieces by artists century. Pottery, through June 17, 2001. Exhibition Maynard Dixon, julius Shulman, Claire Palm Springs Desert Museum features 100 masterworks by the Pueblo Falkenstein, and others. Laguna Art Museum 101 Museum Dr., Palm Springs. Indians of Arizona and New Mexico in 307 Cliff Dr., Laguna Beach. 760.325.0189. various styles and traditions. Form Zero Architectural Books and Gallery 949.494.8971. www.psmuseum.org. Edgemar 2433 Main St, SM. LA Freewaves at LAM, November 5- Duane Hanson: Vinual Reality, through UCLA Hammer Museum 310.450.0222. January 7, 2001. December 31. Exhibition of atxjut 25 10899 Wilshire Blvd., LA. Letters on America, through November 26. life-size sculptures by Duane Hanson cast 310.440.7000. Exhibition of original photographs and Long Beach Museum of Art directly from models and completed in The Un-Private House, through January 7, lettering by graphic designer Edward Fella. 2300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach. polychromed fiberglass on bronze, 2001. Exhibition of 26 contemporary homes 562.439.2119. adorned with real clothing and by a diverse group of international architects, Fowler Museum of Cultural History Rooms With a View, through March 18, enhanced by accessories and props, including Neil Denari, Shigeru Ban, Guthrie UCIA Campus, LA. 310.825.4361. 2001. Exhibition of paintings and which portray American narratives and -^ Buresh Architects, Xaveer de Ceyler, and Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural sculptures by international artists, such as social types. many others. Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Alexej Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Cradles, through January 14, 2001. Lyonel Feininger, Laszio Moholy-Nagy, Pasadena Historical Museum Live Dangerously, through January 7, 2001. Exhibition of 40 colorful Kiowa and and Oskar Fischinger. 470 W. Walnut St, Pasadena. Display of models and drawings of design Comanche historic lattice cradles. 626.577.1660. projects by UCLA faculty members Dana MAK Center for Art and Architecture Tour of Fenyes Mansion, Thursday- Cuff, Wes Jones, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, The J. Paul Getty Center 835 North Kings Rd., West Hollywood. Sunday, 1-4PM; guided tours, 1, 2, Dagmar Richter, Robert Somol, and Anthony 1200 Getty Center Dr., LA. 323.651.1510. 3 PM. Vidler, curated by Sylvia Lavin. 310.440.7300. res. req. Frederick J. Kiesler: Endless Space, www.getty.edu/museum. December 6-Febmary 25, 2001. Planners and Developers Gallery Villa Montezuma, Jesse Shepard House Raphael Drawings from Windsor Castle. Exhibition of architect Frederick J. Kiesler's use Campus, Lewis Hall, LA. 1925 K St, San Diego. 619.239.2211. through January 7, 2001. Display of 66 work, including the Endless House (1959). 213.740.0350. An 1887 Queen Anne-style house designed drawings selected from Old Master drawings People Live Here: Every Place Within by Comslock and Trotsche for the author and watercolors on loan from Her Majesty Corridor, December 13-February 11, Hoover-Jefferson-Vermont-Adams. Jesse Shepard. Tours: Saturday-Sunday, Queen Elizabeth II. 2001. Exhibition of the Corridor projects in through November 15. Display of Noon-3:45PM. airports in LA and Vienna, which focus on photographs that surround the University The Getty Research Institute various issues, such as the erosion of the Park Campus, including homes, Workman and Temple Family 1200 Getty Center Dr., LA. boundaries between art, architecture, and businesses, churches, and alleys, taken Homestead Museum 310.440.7300. res. req. design. by a use alumnus Fernando Samayoa. 15415 E. Don Julian Rd., City of Industry. www.getty.edu. 626.968.8492. Mexico: From Empire to Revolution, through The Marston House Rancho Los Alamitos www.homesteadmuseum.org. January 21, 2001. Exhibition of photographs 3525 7th Ave., San Diego. 6400 Bixby Hill Rd., Long Beach. Tours of the Workman House, Tuesday, 1- that portray Mexico's past between the 619.298.3142. 562.431.3541. 4PM, Saturday-Sunday, lOAM^PM; closed 1860s and 1910s. A 1905 home designed t»y Irving Gill and Tours of historic site, including an adobe fourth weekend of each month. William Hebbard sits upon an almost five- house and barns, Wednesday-Sunday, acre estate, including historic gardens. 1-5PM. Tours: Friday-Sunday, Noon-3:45PM. SAH/SCC EXECUTIVE BOARD FOR 2000-2002 The new slate of officers for the next term has been decided by the Executive Board. Board members are volunteers with the Society, and organize and produce SAH/SCC-sponsored events. Being on the Board is a great way to learn more about the architecture and heritage of the region, and share this knowledge and discovery with others. If you are interested in becoming a member, call 800.9SAHSCC. This term, we are pleased to welcome brand new board members Jean Baaden and Alex Meconi. We also say farewell to long-time board member Rebecca Kahn, who served as Volunteer Coordinator.
President: Ted Wells Development Officer: Taschen's new release, Ted Wells is the principal Sian Winship California Interiors. As an of his self-titled design firm A freelance strategic planner SAH/SCC Board Member, "I located in Laguna Niguel, for the past 10 years, Sian am given the opportunity to CA. The firm's work Winship has provided indulge in what I love, includes new construction marketing research and experiencing great and the restoration of branding assistance to some architecture and homes, offices, restaurants, of the largest and most participating in the dialogue gardens, churches, and progressive companies in that revolves around the monasteries throughout the US. He has been America. A forth-generation native Californian, design, context, and history president of SAH/SCC for the past two years and a Sian is "on the SAH/SCC board because I enjoy that makes southern board member for four years. He is also a trustee creating opportunities for modern architecture California unique," says John of the Museum of Architecture. Ted conducts enthusiasts to experience and discuss Southern workshops on the deeper meaning of home, and California's unique modernist legacy." She Member-at-Large: is a frequent lecturer in the US and Europe. curated several successful SAH/SCC events, Alex Meconi including fx/7es -f Emigres, Architecture Alex Meconi received his Vice President/Secretary: Anthony Denzer of Ojai, and Historic and Modern Ventura, and the Masters degree in Anthony Denzer is an January 2001 travel tour. The Sarasota Modern Architecture from SCI-Arc associate architect at Tolkin Movement and the Case Study House Program. in 1988 while working for & Associates in Pasadena. Morphosis and Frank O. He is working toward a Preservation: Gehry. After a time in Ph.D. in architecture from Ezequiel Gutierrez Europe, he began his own UCLA, focusing his research Ezequiel (Zeke) Gutierrez is private practice in New on Gregory Ain and modern an attorney whose practice York City, and has recently housing in Los Angeles. concentrates on land use, come back to Los Angeles to continue his work, Tony is also an architecture architecture and the which reflects a strong modernist and minimalist instructor at UCLA construction process, as well approach. Alex is involved in the Society because Extension. "As an as consulting to law firms "there is such a wonderful architectural legacy in organization dedicated to and architectural firms on Southern California, and it's a joy to celebrate this educating the general public aboui architectural these issues. He holds and share it with others." design, SAH/SCC is unique," says Tony. "Our degrees in architecture and culture ought to be much more concerned with urban planning along with Member-at-Large: Cara Mullio the design quality of new buildings than with the his law degree. Zeke is legal counsel to the SAH/ Cara Mullio has recently joined the MAK Center indiscriminate sentimentalizing of old buildings." sec board, and is a member t)ecause he feels for Art and Architecture LA as curator of that historic architecture, as a chronicle of our architecture. Cara received her graduate degree past, should be preserved and studied. Membership: Merry Ovnick at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Merry Ovnick has been teaching History and architectural theory and history, and Humanities—primarily Los Angeles Cultural Member-at-Large: Jean Clare Baaden undergraduate in interior architecture. She Heritage and History—for 25 years. She holds a Jean is currently a project manager at Pueblo served as curatorial associate for five years at Ph.D. from UCLA, and is currently an Assistant Contracting Services, a small construction firm, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Professor at California State University, where she has worked on projects involving participating in the organization of numerous Northridge. Merry's book, los Angeles: The End of various city-owned historic structures. She was exhibitions, including "At the End of the Century: the Rainbow (Balcony Press), was called formerly a project manager at Marmol and One Hundred Years of Architecture." Currently "delightful and informative" by the Los Angeles Radziner. She is an Advisory Board Member for she is working on a book on 20th-century Times. She has been a member of SAH/SCC since Friends of the Gamble House, and has been a architecture for Taschen, and curating an 1977, and is on the SAH/SCC Board "because I docent for SAH/SCC, Los Angeles Conservancy, exhibition on Los Angeles architecture. have organized the membership renewal system and AIA/LA. Jean has given several seminars and and by continuing to manage it I can make myself demonstrations on restoration and preservation. Member-at-Large: Mark Nichols useful to an organization I believe in." Mark Nichols is general manager of the Shubert Member-at-Large: Theatre in Century City. Prior to the Shubert, he served as director of production and general Treasurer: John Berley manager for Radio City Productions. In 1990, Rina Rubenstein "Architecture is primarily Mark began his career in live theatre in Los Rina grew up in Los experiential," says long• Angeles at Center Theatre Group. Outside of his Angeles as a second- time board member John professional life in the theatre, his personal generation Angelena. She Berley. "You have to passion has always been architecture and design. studied archaeology and experience architecture to He has completed coursework at FIT in interior worked on excavations in truly understand it. No design and at UCLA in renovation and Israel during 10 years there, photograph can fully remodeling. Mark has t>een a Life Member of and has dabbled in various convey the sensations of SAH/SCC since 1997, and serves on the Board of arts over the years. She light, scale, material and Governors for the Century City Chamber of lives in a 1913 Craftsman volume that one perceives when moving though a Commerce and Theatre house in historic West Adams, all of which adds building. This, combined with insights into the up to an obvious predilection for old buildings ideas, technologies, and processes of making and things. Professionally, most of her experience architecture is what the SAH/SCC is all about" Position Open: Public Relations is in libraries and cataloging as well as in John studied architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, SAH/SCC Executive Board is looking for a board bookkeeping and helping run small businesses. and works at Frederick Fisher and Partners. memL)er to take on the position of Public "I care about Los Angeles, its history, and its Relations Representative. You would be involved architecture," says Rina, "and the more I Member-at-Large: John Ellis in shaping the public image of the Society, as well participate in the inner workings of SAH/SCC, the As an architectural photographer, John a is regular as alert the media of upcoming SAH/SCC events more I learn, both from our activities and from contributor to Los Angeles Times Magazine, and promote the Society's benefits and features to the other Board members, who are, without Echoes, Departures, and House and Garden, and the media and public. If interested, please call exception, fascinating and talented people." most recently garnered the cover image of 800.9SAHSCC.
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