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RECONSIDERING LLOYD WRIGHT SAH/SCC HOME TOUR SATURDAY, MARCH 25TH , 1PM

In conjunction with UCLA's exhibition and symposium on the work of Lloyd Wright, SAH/ sec is conducting a half-day self-driving tour. Reconsidering Lloyd Wright, on Saturday, March 25th, starting at 1 PM. Tour-goers will be treated to interior and exterior views of three exclusive Lloyd Wright homes on the West Side. Organized by SAH/SCC Board Member Tony Denzer, the tour is $25 for members, $50 for non-members, or free for new members (a great opportunity to encourage your friends and colleagues to join!). Tickets are limited, and must be pre-paid by mail; orders will be processed based on the postmark date. See order form on Page 8. Denzer, along with David Salomon, organized the UCLA exhibition "Performing Landscapes: Lloyd Wright and Los Angeles," on view March 8th through April 7th at Gallery 1220, Perloff Hall (see Exhibitions, Page 6, for details). "Lloyd Wright was a musician and he associated closely with a wide circle of performance artists," notes Denzer. The idea of performance became one of the central themes of his architectural work." Wright was also trained as a landscape architect, which—combined with his father Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas— The 7950 Shulman Residence will be featured in the Reconsidering Lloyd Wright tour on March 25th. (Photo: Alan Weintraub) made him especially sensitive to the work follows four major themes, which will be human activity. "Emptiness and Silence" relates dramatic potential of illustrated in the home lour, exhibition, and to music, in that Wright believed the interval landscape design. symposium: "A Culture of Performance" "in between" constituted the dominant He worked in the pertains to Wright's more public projects, character of the physical space. Olmstead office, as which emphasize the social dimension of A symposium, "Reconsidering Lloyd well as that of Irving performance. "Performing at Home" speaks to Wright," will be held at Gallery 1220 on Gill. Wright's tendency to treat domestic activities March 8th at 6PM, followed by the exhibition According to as occasions for display. "Staging Nature" opening reception at 7PM (see Events, Page 4, Denzer and corresponds to the architect's penchant to use for details). The discussion will include Lloyd Salomon, Wright's plantings and site design to choreograph Wright's son architect Eric Lloyd Wright • ttoyd Wr/g/if SAH/SCC NEWS is published bi-monthly by the Society of Architectural Historians/ Southern Chapter. What makes good architecture? Lots of things, but here are six that particularly appeal to me: Subscription is a benefit of membership. /. Good architecture makes demands. Simplistic architecture is comforting since you can make a judgment immediately. Good architecture makes you think to Editor: Julie D. Taylor experience it fully. Associate Editor: Linda Won Z 2 / Internet Editor: Barbara Lomprecht 818.794.5878; [email protected] 2. You can surrender to the space. Good architecture engenders a loving trust Executive Assistant: Grace Samudio versus submission, which implies a superior/inferior relationship. You are encouraged to express emotions while experiencing good space. Information and ads for the newsletter should be sent three weeks before the issue date. Issue Deadline 3. You learn something about yourself. Good architecture can teach you things March/April 2000 February 10th about yourself and how you relate to nature, others, and life. May/June 2000 April 10th < < < < I-1- I- t- lA V) l/i lA 3 3 S 3 Z 2 2 2 Please send all od materials, notices of events, bJ UI tU U 4. Solitude is encouraged. Good architecture allows, and may demand, > > > > exhibitions and news—plus photographs—to introspection. Solitude is not loneliness, since loneliness is needy. Solitude the attention of the editor: implies that you already have what you need—you are just able to relish S K IT S Julie D. Taylor, Editor iZ iZ iZ iZ in the experience. iTi U) ir. i/i SAH/SCC News < < •« 4 P.O. Box 92224 5. Good architecture has many moods. Like good people, good architecture Pasadena, CA 91109-2224 changes its character depending on the time of day, weather, and use. 800.9SAHSCC (800.972.4722) Newsletter telephone: 310.247.1099 Newsletter fox: 310.247.8147 6. Good architecture evokes other places, experiences and people. It's Newsletter e-mail: [email protected] evocative, and transports you to times, places, and people of your past and future. It encourages both memories and dreams. SAH/SCC Executive Board President: Ted Wells, [email protected] Vice President: Merry Ovnick, But how often do we think in these terms when describing or appreciating architecture? [email protected] Secretary: MoHa Alvorez During these two months, SAH/SCC is hosting a series of events that captures the soul of architecture. Development Officer: Sian Winship, We're kx)king at architecture in a deeper, more personal way. [email protected] Preservation Officer: John Beriey On March 25th, we are honored to present a tour of the work of Lloyd Wright. Burdened with the Publicist: Alison Cotter Treasurer: Rino Rubenstein legacy of a famous father, Ltoyd Wright searched for understanding and appreciation of his work on Volunteer Coordinator: Rebecca Kahn his own terms. Finally, his work is getting its proper due and we are pleased to be showing his work, Advisory Board Liaison: Ezequiel Gutierrez first hand, to our members. Education Coordinator: Anthony Denzer, tdenzer@ucla .edu Last month, an editor from New York asked me why the best architectural work in Southern Members-ot Large: John Ellis, [email protected]; California seemed to be happening south of Los Angeles. I hid my surprise at the question and Cora Mullio decided to find out for myself if it's true. So on March 6th, we continue our series, Mondays at the Museum, in conjunction with the Museum of Architecture. I'll introduce you to a panel of honorees SAH/SCC Advisory Boord Ted Bosley, Ken Breisch, Stephen Harby, Elizabeth from the recent Laguna Beach Architectural Guild Awards. These innovative designers are doing McMillian, Rochelle Mills, Claire Rogger, Richard C. inspiring things, and their approach to work and architecture—and life—will surprise you. Rowe, Nancy Smith, Robert Winter

And at Mondays at the Museum on April 3rd, I am very pleased to hear from one of my favorite Life Members: architects, Lorcan O'Herlihy. He'll been talking about his work and signing his new monograph. The Grant Bomes Suzanne W. McCarthy peaceful, yet exciting, qualities of his work continue to inspire me. Kathleen Bixler Elizabeth McMillian Mory Dutton Boehm Le Roy Misuroca Bill Bowling Susan W. Monteith Our Sunday afternoon series. Authors on Architecture, begins again in March at a new venue—Form Ruth Bowman Doug Moreland Zero bookstore in Santa Monica. Our theme for this season's events is "innovation" and we'll be Lynn Marie Bryont Daniel Muhoz Bente Buck Marii Nichols meeting some of the most intriguing people presenting architecture in book form. Gerald E. Buck Peter A Nimmcr Bonnie Burton John M. Nisley Pamela Burton Thomas O'Connor I hope these, and many other events in March and April, help inspire you to experience architecture Mr. & Mrs. Sam Campbell Anne Otterson in a new, more personal way. Good architecture is ail around us. We sometimes have to look for it Robert Joy Chattel Helen & David Palmer Sara G. Muller Chemort C.E. Parker with something other than our eyes. Steve Conner Audree Penton Jeffrey Cook Stondish K. Penton John August Reed — Ted Welle Stephen P. Dantorth Claire Rogger Astrid E. Ellersieck Richard Coyio Rowe Heinz E Ellersieck Look for Ted Wells on selected Sunday and Wednesday evenings on House and Garden Television's, Jeffrey B. Samudio J. Richord Fare "America's Homestyles." Walter B. Siiber Donald R Ferguson Potricio Simpson Gilbert & Sukey Gorcetti Cecilio Singer Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Geiger Mark Slotkin Robert Gelinas Jonann Strand For Great Rates and a Prime Audience Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Gilliom Vem Swonsen Roymond Girvigian Lorenzo Tedesco ADVERTISE in SAH/SCC News Paul Gleye Reg Thotcfier Stephen Harby M. Brion Tichenor Eugene & Shirley Hoggott Mr & Mrs. A. T^ler properties • books • collections Mr. & Mrs. James Horecko Maggie Valentine Elaine K. Sewell Jones Robert D. Wallace furniture • equipment • services Rebecca Kohn John Wamke Stephen A. Kanter, MD Lori Womke display ads • display with photo Virginio Ernst Kozor Dr. Patricia A. Warren Marilyn Kellogg Ron Wotson classifieds • inserts Theodora Kinder David R. Weaver Charles A. Lagreco John Welborr>e, Esq. Ruthonn Lehrer Dr. Robert Winter To advertise in SAH/SCC News, Pomekj Levy Mr. & Mrs. David Yomada Joyce. P. Ludmer Robert Young call 310.247.1099 for information. Rondell L. Mokinson Joyce Zoitlin Christy Johnson AAcAvoy Honorary Member: Robert Pierson INSIDE DOWNTOWN: THE DWP BUILDING SAH/SCC TOUR AND LECTURE, APRIL 15TH

employees and centralizing the administrative SAH/SCC is pleased to present a behind-the- offices and services of the DWP. At the time, scenes look at the Los Angeles Department of DWP employees were scattered in more than six Water and Power headquarters—the 17-story buildings in downtown Los Angeles. glass, steel, and concrete Modern icon designed The DWP building is situated on a 16-acre site by A. C. Martin and Associates in the heart of identified as Water and Power Square at the Downtown. With its delicacy of form and western end of the Los Angeles Civic Center, subdued elegance, this classic of Modern design across from the Music Center. The steel-framed serves as a beacon (literally, as it is illuminated tower is finished in opalescent, olive-black granite nightly) of architecture that grows more refined veneer with wide horizontal canopies of off-white with age. quartz mosaic. The exterior walls consist of heat- Inside Downtown: The Department of Water resistant glass set in aluminum frames. and Power Building tour and lecture will be held There is a water conservation garden, outdoor on Saturday, April 15th, from 2PM to 4PM, at the eating patio, 500-seat auditorium, and a water Department of Water and Power, at the northwest laboratory where water samples are analyzed as comer of South Hope and West First Streets. part of the careful system to protect the purity and Tickets are $15 and include the tour, a brochure quality of the Los Angeles water supply. on the Department of Water and Power, and a House designed for Adolphe Tischler by Schindler. (Photo: Perhaps most notable to the viewer are the reception. Tickets are limited, and must be pre• joachim Schumacher, from R.M. Schindler, published by Taxhen) exterior canopies, which are cantilevered beyond paid by mail; orders will be processed based on the exterior columns, and serve as a continuous 'PATRONS' PREVIEW the postmark date. See order form on Page 8. The 15-foot overhang for the metal-and-glass curtain- event is organized by SAH/SCC Board Member wall panel facade. While architecturally striking, iVe are pleased to announce a new series of John Ellis. the canopies function primarily to minimize the talks called Modern Patrons. The talks explore David Martin, FAIA, will lead the tour. He is amount of direct sunlight falling upon office those who hired the great Modem architects in the grandson of the building's architect, A. C. windows. This results in considerably less heat , and who still reside in the Martin Sr., as well as co-chair and design partner load placed on the air conditioning system. homes. Each month, we will visit a house and talk of Albert C. Martin and Associates. Also joining us Architectural design, engineering and planning with the original homeowners about how and will be two representatives from the Department have combined their efforts to create this Modem why they chose their architects, what they love of Water and Power, Corporate Assets Director glass tower that appears as an illuminated—almost about their houses, and what they've learned Ron Merlo (who has been with the DWP since transparent—box to the drivers on the freeways about them throughout the years. 1968), and Craig Short, who oversees the daily below. This very special program is reserved first for a operation of the building's mechanical operations. Albert C. Martin and Associates' influence on limited number of SAH/SCC Patron-level and Life The all-electric building was constructed in the cityscape of Los Angeles is immense. Since the members. (If there is space leftover, then regular 1965 at a cost of approximately $32 million as early 1900s the firm has built such significant members may be put on a waiting list). The series part of a downtown civic center revitalization buildings as City Hall, Million Dollar Theatre, is organized by SAH/SCC News Editor Julie D. effort It was built almost simultaneously with the Atlantic Richfield Plaza, Sanwa Bank Building, Taylor, with the help of SAH/SCC Board Members Music Center. The structure was also designed Wells Fargo Building, and May Company Building, Tony Denzer and Rebecca Kahn. Each talk is $10, with the intent of providing office space for 3,200 among others. • and must be pre-paid by mail; orders will be processed based on the postmark date. See order form on Page 8. The first session will be held Sunday,

of Mr. Adolphe Tischler, designed by R. M. UI lij lu Ul Schindler in 1950. According to James Steele, who writes in R.M. Schindler (Taschen): The Tischler House presents an inscrutable face to the street, a wooden gable roof bisected by a thin vertical skylight, all riding on an inverted T-shaped stucco base with doors into the garage at street level, underneath what appears from Greenfield Avenue to be a compact three-story unit, but is actually just the beginning

1 1) III ill of an extended horizontal plan, which rotates < < < 180° at its center to relate to a garden view. The gable roof once again seems to float above the walls, especially since Schindler used translucent blue fiberglass panels to allow light to filter through the rafters in one of his most expressionistic details near the end of his career." On Sunday, June 25th, we'll visit the home of Hilde Marshall, who lives in one of the very few panel houses built by Konrad Wachsman in 1948. In the ensuing months, we'll visit other homes by such architects as Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, John Lautner, J. R. Davidson, A. Quincy Jones, and others. • A C. Martin's Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building. (Photo: courtesy Department of Water and Power)

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13, Monday 22, Wednesday Winter Leaure Series. Leaure with Rethink, Reinvent, Reaa Leaure Series— architects and SCI-Arc instruaors Danelle Ang+Kishi. Leaure with architects Gin Wah Guthrie and Tom Buresh. UCLA, 1302 Angof GIN+Design Workshop in Singapore s. J, Perioff Hall, LA; 6:30PM; free. and Waro Kishi of K Assodates in Japan. SCI- 310.825.7857. Arc, 5454 Beethoven St., LA; 7:30PM; free. 310.574.1123. 14, Tuesday A/A Lecture. Leaure with architea Max 23, Thursday Levy of Max Levy Architects on current Tradngs, Lines, and Conditions. Leaure with projects. AIA; Museum of Contemporary architea Jay M. Reynolds. Woodbury Art, 700 Prospea SL, La Jolla; 6PM, University, 7500 Glenoaks Rd., Burbank; reception; 7PM, leaure; $5-7. 5PM. 818.767.0888. 619.232.0109. 23, Thursday in ifl (/I 16, Thursday Sites of Seduaion: 18th Century French ^ One era Sodety; Second Church of Christ, discussion with Greg Hise, Steven Erie, and Bo lemian household of Bloomsbury. The Coulee and Bonneville dams on the Sdentist, 948 W. Adams Blvd., LA; lecture, Joel Kotkin moderated by Gloria Ricci Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Columbia River and their construaion 2:15PM; perfomiance, 3PM; $28-35. Lothrop. Los Angeles City Historical Society; Marino; 2:30PM; $6-8. 626.405.2141. history during the 1930s. The Huntington 310.954.4300. Centra Library, Mark Taper Auditorium, LA; Library, 1151 Oxford Rd., Friends' Hall, 2PM; free. 213.228.7000. 5,Sunday San Marino; 7:30PM; $6-8. 626.405.2100. 18-19, Saturday-Sunday Chamber Music in Historic Sites: Monty 20th Century Design Shew and Sale. Exhibit 29, Wednesday Alexander Trio. Old-time band unites three and sale of fifties moderne art deco items. 11, Saturday Shake Rattle & Roll: West Coast Designers in experts to perform in the Main Concourse of Modem Times; Glendale Civic Auditorium, Preserving History Under Your Own Roof: the New Millennium. Presentation by West a Modeme landmark. The Da Camera 1401 Verdugo Rd., Glendale; 11AM-6PM, Brick, Tile, and Concrete. Workshop with Coast designers from LA to Seattle on their Society; Union Station, 800 N. Alameda St., Satunday; 11AM-4PM, Sunday; $6. demonstrations on historic restoration for work and whether or not there is a design lA; 3PM; $27-34. 310.954.4300. 310.455.2894. homeowners by a specialized professional. sensibility that is distinaive in working on the Rancho Los Cerritos, 4600 Virginia Rd., Left Coast. Organization of Black Designers; 19, Sunday 6, Monday Long Beach; 10AM-12PM; $4. NeoCon West; LA Convention Center, LA; Laguna Artists' Studios, lour of artists' studios Transit That Works: Can Los Angeles Learn 562.570.1755. 9AM-12PM and 2-5PM; $20; res. req. including Conway Griffith, Henri DeKruif, From Brazil? Lecture and symposium on 800.677.6278 or www.neoconwesLcom. the role of transit in shaping our cities with 11, Saturday Elanor Colbum, Ida Randall Bolles and many more. Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Dr., Governor of Parana, Brazil, Honorable Evolution Through Practice: SO-Arc Alumni Uguna Beach; 11AM, 12PM, 1PM, 2PM; iamie Lerrier, Mayor of LA Richard at Work. Opening reception and exhibition $40; res. req. 949.494.8971. Rk>rdan, LA County Supervisor Zev of alumni's student work and current Yaroslavsky, ar>d odiers. USC, Davidson projects. SCI-Arc, 5454 Beethoven St. Confcjrenoe Center, LA; 5:30PM; $25-75. Front Gallery, LA; 8PM. 310.574.1123. 213.743.4454. 29, Wednesday environments into the next millennium. LA I, 4, 6, Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday 16, Sunday LA 72+72+72. Panel discussion Convention Center, LA; res. req. Coronado Touring. Walking tours every Chamber Music in Historic Sites: Magellan moderated by Bernard Zimmerman 800.905.1314 or http://www.altoffice.com. Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Clorietta String Quartet. The 1998 Naumburg Award features three participants from each Bay Inn; 11AM-12:30PM; $6. Geny winners debut in two performances to generation, including Tony Lumsden, 31, Friday MacCartee, 619.435.5892/Nancy Cobb, celebrate the restoration of John Lautner's Roland Coate, Cesar Pelli, Eric Owen Moss, New Blood 707. Leaure with architea 619.435.5993. architeaural masterpiece. The Da Camera Michael Rotondi, James Stafford, Julie Richard Meier. New Blood 101 Society; Harvey Aluminum House, LA; 2PM Eizenberg, Michael Maltzman, and Pierre Symposium; Pacific Design Center, Green 2,9,16,23,30, Sunday and 3:30PM; $45-73. 310.954.4300. Koenig. WestWeek 2000; Pacific Design Theater, 8687 Melrose Ave., West PaoTic Heights Walking Tour. The Center, Center Green Theatre, 8687 Hollywood; 9-10AM; free. 310.657.0800. Foundation for 's Architeaural 17, Monday Melrose Ave., West Hollywood; 9:30- Heritage; 12:30PM; $5. 415.441.3004. Spring Lecture Series. Leaure with professor 11 AM. 310.657.0800 or www.p

SAH/SCC continues its co-sponsorship this season • Micha Von Doring, owner of Zeitgeist of the Museum of Architecture's Mondays at the Furniture, who specializes in furniture for Museum lecture series. The events are held at the sacred spaces and has built several gallery Museum, located at 525 N. El Camino Real, San interiors at Bergamont Station in Santa Clemente. Mondays at the Museum lectures are Monica;

$3 for SAH/SCC and MUSARCH members and $5 for non-members. For more information, call • Ted Wells, SAH/SCC president, and 949.366.9660. Laguna-based architect with Ted Wells The first event of the series is on Monday, Mark Noble, will moderate the discussion. March 6th at 7PM. Four honorees from the Laguna Beach Architectural Guild Awards will On Monday, April 3rd at 7PM, Lorcan discuss their work, and where they think O'Herlihy of Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects in architecture is headed in the future. The panelists Culver City will present his work. His architecture include: has emerged as a new modern voice in Southern • Horst Noppenberger, founder and California, expressing construction and craft He principal of Horst Architects, whose apprenticed with I.M. Pei and Steven Holl in New single-family residences are frequently York before opening his own practice. His work published and display a clarity and has been widely published and has received simplicity that is welcome in residential numerous awards. Following his lecture, he will housing; sign copies of the new monograph of his work, part of the Contemporary World Architects Series • jim Ettinger, principal at Kim Ettinger published by Rockport Publishers. The book Design, a graduate of SCI-Arc who includes several built and unbuilt residential and designs and builds contemporary furniture; commercial projects, as well as paintings and furniture by the architect • O'Herlihy's R&B Deli, Santa Monica. (Photo: LOH/Conrad lohnson) AUTHORS ON ARCHITECTURE PETER ZELLNER: SUNDAY, MARCH 12TH AT FORM ZERO ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS + GALLERY, SANTA MONICA

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Los Angeles-based Morphosis, Marcos Novak, Peter Zellner will be featured at the first Authors who are merging local needs and vernacular tradi• and Greg Lynn/FORM—showing both the on Architecture to be held at its new location, tions with styles that are international and excit• computer-generated designs and the actual built Form Zero Architectural Books -f- Gallery at 2433 ing. Each office is profiled in photos, drawings, work. By breeding ideas with form—^the real and Main Street in Edgemar Plaza in Santa Monica. sketches, and text that demonstrate the cross- the virtual—these architects create hybrid spaces The talk is Sunday, March 12th, at 2PM. Contact cultural aspects of Pacific Rim architecture, as it that challenge long-held conventions of space, Form Zero for information at 310.450.0222. spans from the edge of Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, architecture, and time. and on to southeast Asia with Australia, New Zellner's newest book. Hybrid Space: New Zellner, who currently teaches at SCI-Arc, pre• Zealand, and Oceania in between. Some of the Forms /n Digital Architecture, relates the work of viously published Pacific Edge: Contemporary Ar• architects profiled are Miller/Hull Partnership from those architects who use the computer not only as chitecture on the Pacific Rim. Looking at the work Seattle, TEN Arquitectos in Mexico City, Morpho• a tool of convenience, but also as a medium of of 33 international cutting-edge architecture and sis from Los Angeles, and Toyo Ito in Tokyo. Addi• creativity. He takes an in-depth look at the work design studios, Zellner shows the importance and tional essays by Aaron Betsky, Davina Jackson, of 12 international architecture studios—including dynamism of a new generation of creative talents and Akira Suzuki put the work in context •

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