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The Modern Patrons program will continue relationship to nature that strove to always make once again, on Saturday afternoon, Ortober 20th, the outdoors available and accessible. from 2PM to 4:30PM, this time in Redlands with More from Lamprecht: a visit to Mary Jane Auerbacher's residence "When I went to visit Mary jane Auerbacher designed by in 1953. and her house for the first time, I learned that she and her husband Frederick had considered hiring The event is $10 and open to Life and as an architect, although I Patron-level members of the SAH/SCC (the don't recall whether that pertained to their house program will only be available to the general or to the splendid mountain lodge Neutra membership in the event there is space available). designed for them the year before in 1952. I also If you are a Life member or Patron and would like discovered why they chose Neutra. We started to attend, fill-out and mail the order form on Page talking about Falling Water, and she said an 8. Space is limited. extraordinary thing. 'If Neutra had designed In her book, Neutra: Complete Works, Falling Water, you would have been able to see published last year by Taschen, former SAH/SCC the stream, to be involved with the stream. You board member Barbara Lamprecht writes that the would not be cut off from it' Auerbacher residence "demonstrates Neutra's "The house is not well known, but it is one of ideas on the role of peripheral vision in accessing Neutra's masterpieces in its thoughtful integration nature." Accessing nature was a vitally important of layout and sequence of spaces, its use of warm part of Neutra's work. Neutra understood the but cleanly detailed woods, and the creative way benefits of nature and human interaction and nature is brought into the living environment For developed a "house as membrane" architectural example, some of the interior walls perpendicular to the longitudinal rectangle that describes the Room.'; with an outdoor connecf/on are pivotal in the house terminate in glass, elongating space and Auerbacher residence as seen above. (Photo, lulius Shulman) heightening the sense of peripheral visual access to nature. Neutra paid close attention to the "Other interesting features include the short needs of Mary Jane, a musician, organist and wall behind the dining room table, mirrored so mother. Off to one side of the living room, away that those seated with their backs to the view from the long length of glass opening to the patio, could still participate in it The kitchen sink is he created a special place for the organ and the classic Neutra, centrally placed to reflect his belief piano and specialized cabinetry for sheet music that a family sink was kind of a 'command post' and instrument storage. What he also designed, where a mother could keep her eye on the however, was the ergonomically refined ease children indoors and out" between sitting at the organ and reaching for the Born in 1892, raised and trained in Vienna, music and good ambient day lighting from the Neutra came to in 1925 and clerestories facing the street and the short walls of established his practice while living with Rudolph floor-to-ceiling glazing behind the organ that Schindler on Kings Road. His reputation was restricts glare. Frederick Auerbacher's particular established immediately with the superb siting and requirement was a tranquil resting place away pioneering use of steel in the Lovell Health house. from family noise and two daughters rapidly In the course of his life he would produce a evolving, or devolving, into teenagers. Thus, the significant body of work executed primarily in master suite is located at the far end of the house, Southern that exemplifies the brilliant while the kitchen and play room are at the other. adaptation of design to natural surroundings. As one steps into this refuge, the eye is pulled Our afternoon at the Auerbacher residence A detailed view of the kitchen in the Auerbacher residence in toward the diagonal corner, which dissolves into will be an opportunity to experience the house Redlands, designed by architea Richard Neutra. (Phoio: luHus glass and a small rock garden and pool and share the perspective of the owner who Shulman) surrounded by dark green landscaping. commissioned the architect. II.ITAS FIKMITi^S VENUSTA FIRMITAS VENU^TAS UTILlTAS PiPMlTA-^ VrNIJ!;. IAS VENUSTAS VE-t JUSiTA«3 •

SAH/SCC NEWS is /4 ^TKe^^^i^ ^%Mt tAe 'P%e^cte^ published bi-monthly by the Society of Architectural Historians/Southern Californio Did you know that Griffith —just where Riverside Drive bends around the horse stables and Chapter. Subscription is a antique railroad cars—was covered with Quonset huts in the late 1940s and early '50s? benefit of membership. It was known then as Rodger Young village, a temporary settlement for veterans, an emergency Tour and Event Information: 1.800 9SAHSCC response to the post-war housing shortage. The whole village, 750 Quonset huts for 1,500 families, or visit http://www.sahscc.org. was erected in just two months. Eventually the fX)pulation of this provisional city topped 5,000; it supported its own grocery store, school, and newspaper. Editor: Julie D. Taylor The story of Rodger Young village is just one of the important contributions of Dana Cuff's new Associate Editor: Undo Won book, The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism. This is essential reading Assistant Editor: Lauren Hirigoyen Administration: Arline Q. Chambers for anyone interested in the social meaning of mid-century , or in the historical forces that determined the form of our city. Information and ads for the newsletter should In The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism, Cuff argues that Los be sent three weeks before the issue date. Angeles is continually disrupted by large-scale acts of "convulsive urbanism." The modern city doesn't Issue Deadline grow or evolve: it explodes. And sometimes its inhabitants become its victims as the pattern repeats November/December 2001 October 10th January/February 2002 December 10th itself: Aliso Village, Westchester, Chavez Ravine. The analysis concludes with a current example of convulsive urbanism: the Playa Vista projea, which seems to demonstrate a new brand of public Please send all newsletter materials to skepticism for architecture writ extra-large. the attention of the editor: The rare achievement of The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism is Julie D. Taylor, Editor that it properly places architecture and urban design in larger social, political, and philosophical SAH/SCC News contexts. The dynamics of real estate and property law, so frequently missing from the architectural P.O. Box 56478 Sherman Oaks, CA 91413 discourse, are carefully examined throughout this book. We learn, for example, that post-war tract 800.9SAHSCC (800.972.4722) developments typically maintained racial covenants in order to "protect" property values, even though Newsletter telephone: 310.247.1099 Rodger Young village had been racially integrated, and its members sometimes held "impromptu civil Newsletter fax: 310.247.8147 rights demonstrations" (without intending it) by trying to dine together at local restaurants. Newsletter e-mail: [email protected] While The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism is remarkable for its breadth, covering millions of acres of sprawl, D.J. Waldie's Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (1996) is SAH/SCC Executive Board Acting President: Anthony Denzer its perfect companion, a book that feels as intimate as a bridge game, but miles deep. Acting Vice President: Sian Winship Waldie's book rewards re-reading; it seems to get better and better. He has brilliantly overlaid the Membership: Merry Ovnick history of Lakewood, a suburb near Long Beach, with his own history growing up there. In Treasurer: Rina Rubenstein astonishingly sparse prose, the story folds open through a series of historical episodes. Soon it subtly Members-at-Large: Jean Clare Baaden, John Berley, folds back upon itself and Waldie peels away the walls of these tract homes, finding additional layers Brent Eckerman, John Ellis, Alex Meconi, Cora Mullio of unexpected emotional power. It's great history and great literature. SAH/SCC Advisory Boord Ted Bosley, Ken Breisch, Stephen Harby, Elizabeth — Anthony Penzer McMillion, Rochelle Mills, Claire Rogger, Richard C. Rowe, Nancy Smith, Ted Wells, Robert Winter

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Come one, come all to the annual SAH/SCC "Both houses Members Celebration. This free event is put on were built of reinforced for all members to show appreciation for your concrete, but they had support throughout the year. It's a great way to little in common. The meet other members, and usher in the holiday Dodge house was a season. magnificent rock, while Schindler used masonry On Sunday, December 2nd, from 2PM to walls of 4-foot tapered 5PM, we will gather at the famed Schindler panels. In constructing House on Kings Road, home to the MAK Center the Schindler house, for Art and Architecture. Refreshments and low wooden frames conversation will abound in the concrete halls of and reinforcing rods Schindler's masterpiece of 1921. were placed on the To get you in the mood, let's revisit the slab floor, and the history of the house from Esther McCoy's Five concrete wall panels California Architects. This seminal book from were poured in a 1960 was republished by Hennessey & Ingalls in horizontal position. 1987. In this excerpt, we meet up with Schindler Some of the 3-inch a year after he came to Los Angeles: spaces between the The Members Celebration is held at the MAK Center/Schindler House on Kings Road on "That fall, while he and his wife were on a wall panels were filled December 2nd. (Photo: Gerald Zugmann) vacation in Yosemite Park, Schindler made the with concrete, others decision to open his own office. There in the "The clerestories served not only as a left open for glazing—'to permit light to filter deep woods the idea of a combined home and ventilating system, a light source, and a view through the joints.' office began to emerge. The theme was based on opened up to the tree-tops, but were handled as "The heart of the difference between the one of the park camp sites, which had heavy a space form in movement. two men lay in Schindler's use of glass. From protecting walls at the back and a light screen at Two paired redwood beams, 2 by 6 inches, the first he was concerned with movement and the front. which sprang from the concrete wall and cut depth rather than mass; he treated masonry as a "When Schindler returned to Los Angeles he across the studios to the patio wall, brought into unit through which space could flow. wrote Wright that he had decided to set up intimate relation the solemnness of the masonry "The traditional method by which structural practice alone. But soon after that he and a and the casualness of the canvas doors. The members of the house are covered, onion-like, friend, Clyde Chace, temporarily joined forces in beams, 7 feet above the floor, might have been with layers of finishing materials is abandoned,' a project to build a house for their families. disturbing on paper but in actuality they carried Schindler wrote in his summary on the Kings "When the plans were submitted to the a burden of design responsibility; while the Road house. He described the house as 'a Building Department for a permit, word came clerestories raised the interior height, the beams simple weave of a few structural materials which back that it had been denied. Schindler made the brought down the horizon of the room and retain their natural color and texture first of a long series of trips to the City Hall. After increased its spaciousness. Between the paired throughout.' They were gray smooth concrete; hearing him out, the Building Department finally beams were sliding light fixtures; the space was natural red-brown redwood, wirebrushed to granted a temporary permit, which meant that it also intended to be a (XKzket to receive panels for accentuate the grain; tan insulating board with reserved the right to halt construction at any room divisions. the roughness of a textile; glass; and canvas. stage. "Because of the incongruity of canvas and "There was a remarkable continuity in the "The house was started in 1921, with Chace concrete it might appear that the design plan, which moved in an S-shape around the acting as contractor. The two men did part of the conception began with either the concrete walls flat lot, gathering garden spaces within construction work themselves so that the or with the canvas doors. But the two elements protecting walls and setting up barriers against Schindlers could move in before the birth of their were gathered so successfully into one frame that the street. Exterior walls became interior walls son, Mark. it must be assumed they were conceived for outdoor living rooms; the plan of the house "The site was on Kings Road in West simultaneously. divided the garden into three intimate areas, Hollywood, a leisurely, small suburban "Today the shell of the Kings Road house is each with an outdoor fireplace. settlement. A block and a half away, on the intact, but it has been considerably altered. In "Instead of the customary living room, each opposite side of the street, was Gill's Dodge the early thirties, when Schindler separated from family had two private studios facing onto a house. It represented Gill's final development in his wife, the house was divided. Schindler took shared garden room. Each family also had an style, a that was wholly western. He over the two studios to the south for his open porch on the roof for sleeping, which was 46 years old residence and office. In the rest of the house the Schindler called 'sleeping baskets.' when it was built, at redwood and concrete were painted, the canvas "In the house he combined a number of the peak of his doors were replaced by glass ones, and plywood architectural features which later became creativeness but at the wainscoting was added in one studio. Although distinguishing marks of California modern end of his success. Schindler requested in his will that his quarters architecture: the concrete slab level with a 'Thus today 'be kept true to their origin,' the redwood and garden; the glass walls with sliding canvas doors within a few hundred concrete were later painted there also." to the patio; the shed roof with wide overhangs; feet of each other, on Come to the Members Celebration to see the clerestories; the movable non-bearing Kings Road, are two Schindler's House restored to its original state. partitions. The patio walls were also self- landmarks of modern The event is free, but reservations are required. supporting screens, composed of wooden California Use the form on Page 8, call 800.9SAHSCC, or skeletons filled with glass, panels of wood, or architecture. e-mail [email protected]. insulating board. R. M. Schindler I'TIL U7ILITA KIPMITAS VtNUJSTAS UT L nUMiTA;-: VCNUSTAS UTlLiT klTIL ITA •i rircMITAS VrMJ^=iTAS 1/1 IT 0! «!

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Photogravures by Dr. Karl Blossfeldl are featured at the Modern Times 20th Century Design Show at the Clendale Civic Auditorium on OcTober 20th and 21st. (Photo Courtp^y oi Mark lager Antiques a. (t s 13, Thursday 29, Saturday Urban Motif: Large-Scale Works on Paper. 2007 /eitlin Lecture. Artist |im Dine discusses Reception with artist Mario M. Muller, the importance of drawing in his work. who debuts in LA his work that celebrates University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach, and investigates the nature of urban 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach; ';-6PM; September free; res. req. 562.985.5761. landscape and its relation to the people inhabiting it. SPF Gallery, 3384 Robertson PL, LA; 6-9PM; 310.558.0902. 30, Sunday 1, Saturday 2, 9,16, 23, 30, Sunday The Modern Arroyo. Tour of Modernism in Village Walking Tour. Walk led by a Pacific Heights Walking Tour. The 13, Thursday Mt. Washington and Pasadena, with homes Claremont Heritage guide includes a 1V*- Foundation for 's Architectural Gallery Tour. Walk-through of Shaker by architects Joseph Putnam, James de Long, hour tour of the village area, historic Heritage; 12:30PM; $5. 415.441.3004. exhibition with curator Carolyn Peter. Donald Hensman, and Harwell Hamilton Victorians, college, and commercial UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 Harris, among others from the 1940s to buildings. Claremont Heritage; Claremont 5,12,19, 26, Wednesday Wilshire Blvd., LA; 7PM. 310.443.7000. 1960s. AIA/Pasadena and Foothill and Metrolink Depot, 200 West First St., City Observed. Commentary by author of Highland Park Heritage Trust; 10AM-4PM; Claremont; 10AM; $5; res. req. LA Lost and Found: An Architectural 15, Saturday $25-$30; res. req. 626.796.7601; 909.621.0848. History of Los Angeles and Emmy Award- www,aiapf.org. winning reporter and producer at Fox SAH/SCC EVENT 1, Saturday Television News Sam Hall Kaplan on Modernism for the Masses. 30, Sunday In Between: Metropolis. Self-driving tour architecture, planning, and design. KCRW Lecture and self-driving tour of Balancing Ecosystems: Three National . 89.9 FM. 3:55PM. offering artist Steve Roden's perspective on homes in three Eichier tracts in Lecture on John James Audubon's northeastern LA sites that resist the trend the city of Orange. 10AM- interpretations of natural habitats, with toward replication and mass production. 6, Thursday Academy of Natural Sciences Fellow Robert MAK Center; Schindler House, 835 N. Modernism Reborn: Mid-Century American 5:30PM; $10-15; res. req. McCracken Peck, National Parks Kings Rd., WH; 11 AM^PM; $40; res. req. Houses. Lecture with author Michael 1.800.9SAHSCC. See page 7 for representatives, and Autry Managing Curator 323.651.1510; www.makcenter.com. Webb. Pacific Design Center, 8687 details. Michael Duchemin, Autry Museum of Melrose Ave,, Blue Conference Center, Western Heritage, Wells Fargo Theatre, 4700 1, Saturday WH; 10AM-11AM; $3; res. req. 21, Friday Western Heritage Way, LA; 2PM; $4-$5; Civic Center Public Art Tour. Tour of works 310.360.6425. (See Bookmarks, Page 7, Long Beach Twilight Walking lour. res. req. 323.667.2000. by the father of modern sculpture Auguste for review.) Walking lour of historic downtown Long Rodin, British artist , Welsh Beach. Long Beach Heritage; WPA 30, Sunday artists Barry Flanagan and Eduardo 6, Thursday Mural, 3rd St. and the Promenade, LB; Visionary Gifts: The Shakers in 19th- Century Chillida, and many others. Beverly Hills Pasadena Art Walk. Self-guided, Old Town 7PM; $5; res. req. 562.493.7019. America. Lecture with American Folk Art Art and Culture; Civic Center, City Hall, open house. The Armory Center for the Museum director Gerard Wertkin. UCLA 450 N. Crescent Dr., West Lawn, BH; Arts; 6-10PM. 626.792.5101. 23, Sunday Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., LA; 1PM; free. 310.288.2201. Harrison Albright, Coronado Public and 7PM. 310.443.7000; www.hammer.uda.edu. 8-9, Saturday-Sunday Private. Lecture on design of Albright, 1,4,6, Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday Hand-Building and Carving on Large Tiles. who worked in San Diego in the early Coronado Touring. Walking tours every Kenyon Lewis teaches both high and low 20th century, taught by Coronado Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday. relief sculptural carving as well as glazing, Museum of History and Art director Clorietta Bay Inn; 11AM-12:30PM; $6. drying, and firing techniques. Tile Heritage Cynthia Malinic k. San Diego Historical Gerry MacCartee, 619.435.5892/Nancy Foundation, Cloverdale; $165; res. req. Society; Marston House, Balboa Park, Cobb, 619.435.5993. 707.431.8453. SD; 2PM; $12-$15; res. req. 619.298.3142. 1,8,15, 22, 29, Saturday 8, 22, Saturday Downfown LA. Walking tours of various 1 ong Beach fasf V/7/age Arts District lour. 27, Thursday downtown landmarks. L.A. Conservancy; Walking tour introduces guests to the Shaker-Lip. Lecture on the Shaker lOAM-Noon; S8; res. req. 213.623.2489. community's spirit of creativity. Long Beach aesthetic in architecture, with Studio Heritage; in front of the WPA Mural, LB; Works architects Robert Mangurian and 1,8,15, 22, 29, Saturday 10AM; $5; res. req. 562.493.7019. Mary-Ann Ray. UCLA Hammer Museum, Historic Downtown Walking Tour. Tour of 10899 Wilshire Blvd., LA; 7PM. downtown Santa Barbara. Architectural 9, Sunday 310.443.7000; www.hammer.ucla.edu. Foundation of Santa Barbara; City Hall, One Hour/One Painting: A David Hockney De La Cuerra Plaza, Santa Barbara; Photograph with Peter Clothier. Art critic 29, Saturday 10AM; S5; res. req. 805.965.6307. and writer Peter Clothier stimulates deep Contemporary Discovery II. Full-day seeing and sustained contemplation of one symposium exploring the role of drawing 1,8,15, 22, 29, Saturday work featured in the exhibition. Museum of in the 21 St century. University Art Coogie Tours. Choice of The San Gabriel Contemporary Art at The Geffen Museum, CSU Long Beach, 1250 Valley, Behind the Orange Curtain, Coffee Contemporary, 152 N. Central Ave., LA; Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach; 10:3()AM- Shop Modern and More, Cocktails 'N' 3PM; res. req. 213.621.1745; 4:30PM; free; res. req. 562.985.5761. Coffee Shops with preservationist John www. moca-la.org. English. $34; res. req. 323.666.9623. 29, Saturday 13, Thursday Main Event: Last of Eden. Fundraiser event 1,15, Saturday Milton Claser: Art is Work. Reception, for SCI-Arc student scholarships includes a Long Beach Downtown Tour. Walking tour lecture, and book signing with Glaser, dinner, music, and silent auction of original highlighting the rich history and whose graphic art has influenced the history artwork by well known architects and architeaural landmarks of Long Beach and of international design. American Institute artists. SCI-Arc Alumni Association; SCI-Arc, the downtown area. Long Beach Heritage; of Graphic Artists/LA; Santa Monica Freight Yard, 350 Merrick St., LA; 6:30- The Dubnoff Residence in Pasadena designed by the Willmore Hotel Building on 3rd St just Museum of Art, Berganx)t Station, 2525 11PM; $135; res. req. 213.613.2200. architeaure firm Buff & Hensman in 7965 is featured west of Cedar Ave., LB; 10AM; $5; res. req. Michigan Ave., BIdg. G1, Santa Monica; on the Modern Arroyo Tour on September 30th. 562.493.7019. 6:30PM; 310.586.6488; www.smmoa.org. (Photo: lulius ShulmanI 15-16, Monday-Tuesday 25-28, Thursday-Sunday Identification and Management of 2007. A Historical Odyssey. The California Traditional Cultural Places. National Council for the Promotion of History's Preservation Institute seminar with (CCPH) annual meeting, with sessions on Thomas F. King Ph.D., or Claudia Nissley history through theme parks, family October on "traditional cultural places" (TCPs) and history-local history, and how to work their role in community cultural traditions, with historical consultants. California Council for the Promotion of History; 6-13, Saturday-Saturday beliefs, and activities. National 1, Monday Queen Mary, Long Beach; res. req. Tiles in the Capital: A Monumental Legacy. Preservation Institute; San Francisco. Contracting (or Cultural Resources Tasks. 916.278.4296; www.csus.edu/org/ccph. National Preservation Institute seminar Four-day sym(X)sium on American ceramic 703.765.0100; www.npi.org. with Janet Friedman, Ph.D., examines the tiles, including leaures, workshops, 27, Saturday procurement process for work in historic exhibitions, self-guided tours, and other 18, Thursday Whittier Historic Neighborhood preservation and archaeology in the tile-related activities. Art Museum of the What's Shakin': New Architecture in LA. Association Home and Garden Tour. Tour public and private sectors. National Americas, Renwick Gallery of the Informal discussion regarding current of six vintage homes, including a Colonial Preservation Institute; Sacramento. Smithsonian American Art Museum, and exhibition about architeaural projects still Revival, a two-story California bungalow, 703.765.0100; www.npi.org. the Tile Heritage Foundation; Washington, under construction in LA, with architect D.C; res. req. 707.431.8453. Eric Owen Moss. Museum of three Craftsmen, and a Victorian cottage Contemporary Art at The Geffen garden. WHNA Tour, P.O. Box 754, 2, 4, 6, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Contemporary, 152 N. Central Ave., LA; Whirtier; 10AM-4PM; $8-$10; res. req. Coronado Touring. Walking tours every 6,13,20, 27, Saturday 6:30PM; $4-6. 213.621.2766. 562.698.1457. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Historic Downtown Walking Tour, lour of Glorietta Bay Inn; 11AM-12:30PM; $6. downtown Santa Barbara. Architectural 28, Sunday Gerry MacCartee, 619.435.5892/Nancy Foundation of Santa Barbara; City Hall, 19, Friday What's Shakin': New Architecture in LA. Cobb, 619.435.5993. De La Guerra Plaza, Santa Barbara; Tong Beach Twilight Walking Tour. Informal discussion regarding current 10AM; $5; res. req. 805.965.6307. Walking tour of historic downtown Long Beach. Long Beach Heritage; WPA exhibition about architectural projects still 3, Wednesday under construction in LA, led by MOCA 6,13,20,27, Saturday Mural, 3rd St. and the Promenade, LB; Wednesday Designer Series: Non- curator of architeaure and design Brooke Turistorica. Walking tours with 7PM; $5; res. req. 562.493.7019. Traditional Table Settings for tt»e Holidays. Hodge. Museum of Contemporary Art at Lecture with Tesoro owner Marlene Architectural Foundation of Santa Barhiara 19, Friday The Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central Riceberg. Pacific Design Center, 8687 and Citizens Planning Foundation of Santa Maya Mexico: Yesterday and Today. Ave., LA; 3PM; $4-6. 213.621.2766; Melrose Ave., Blue Conference Center, Barbara. City Hall Steps, De La Guerra Enrollment deadline for nine-day www.moca-la.org. WH; 10-11AM; free; res. req. Plaza, SB; lOAM-Noon; $5. (December 19-27) travel study tour 310.360.6425. 805.965.3021 or 805.965.6307. highlighting many significant historic sites 28,Sunday Chamber Music in Historic Sites: Amati 6,13, 20, 27, Saturday of southern Mexico, led by Associate 3,10,17,24, 31, Wednesday String Quartet. Performances of Haydn Coog/e Tours. Choice of The San Gabriel Professor of UC Riversi'de's Department of City Observed. Commentary by author of and Shostakovich by Swiss quartets at Valley, Behind the Orange Curtain, Coffee Anthropology Karl A. Taribe, Ph.D. UCLA LA Lost and found: An Architeaural Silvertop, designed by John Lautner Shop Modern and More, Cocktails 'N' Extension; $260 enrollment fee; res. req. History of Los Angeles and Emmy Award- (1957). The Da Camera Society; Silvertop, Coffee Shops with preservationist John 310.825.2272. winning reporter and producer at Fox LA; 2PM and 3:30 PM; $40-70; res. req. English. $34; res. req. 323.666.9623. Television News Sam Hall Kaplan on 310.954,4300. architecture, planning, and design. KCRW 20, Saturday 89.9 FM. 3:55PM. 6, 20, Saturday The Miracle Mile: A Walking Tour. Two- Long Beach Downtown Tour. Walking tour hour tour of the Wilshire district with stories behind its development and Art 4, Thursday highlighting the rich history and Deco buildings. The Society of Pasadena Art Walk. Self-guided, Old Town architectural landmarks of Long Beach Los Angeles; 10AM; $5-10; res. req. open house. The Armory Center for the and the downtown area. Long Beach SAVE THE DATE!!! 310.659.3326. Arts; 6-10PM. 626.792.5101. Heritage; Willmore Hotel Building on 3rd St. just west of Cedar Ave., LB; 10AM; $5; Membership Celebration 4, Thursday res. req. 562.493.7019. 20, Saturday Beyond Paper and Curtain: Works and SAH/SCC EVENT December 2, 2001 Humanitarian Activities. Tokyo architect 10, Wednesday Modem Patrons: Neutra in What's Shakin': New Architecture in LA. and SCl-Arc alum Shigeru Ban speaks Redlands. Lecture and tour of about his paper projects, among others. Informal discussion regarding current Mary Jane Auerbacher's In an effort to thank all of our A\A/LA; Los Angeles County Museum of exhibition about architectural projects Art, Bing Theater; 6:30PM; $5-12. still under construction in LA, with Leo residence designed by architect SAH/SCC members for their Marmol, Ron Radziner, Eric Johnson, 213.639.0777. Richard Neutra. 2-4PM; $10- ongoing support and contributions, Keven Sved, and Johnathan Williams. 15; res. req. 1.800.9SAHSCC. Museum of Contemporary Art at The we are having our annual 4- 7, Thursday-Sunday See page 1 for details. ios Angeles Arts of Pacific Asia Show. Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central membership celebration at the Exhibition and sale of rare and ancient Ave., LA; 6:30PM; $4-6. 213.621.2766; 20-21, Saturday-Sunday MAK Center in West Hollywood. artifacts and antiques, including furniture, www.moca-la.org. Modern Times: 20th Century Design, Art dothing, and decorative objects, as well as The event is on Sunday, December Deco, '50s, Moderne Show and Sale. High contemporary art from Asia. Santa Monica 10-12, Wednesday-Friday design and pop culture artifacts, art, 2nd, from 2PM to 5PM. Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St., SM; Section 706: An Introduction. National media memories, and suburban "almost Thursday, 6-9PM {preview opening); Preservation Institute seminar with See Page 3 for details. The antiques" featuring furniture by Fames, Friday, 11AM-8PM; Saturday 11AM- Thomas F King, Ph.D., or Claudia Nissley Paul Laszio, and Heywood Wakefield, event is free to all members. Please 7PM; Sunday, 11AM-5PM; $10-40. about project review under Seaion 106 of among others. Glendale Civic Auditorium, 310.455.2886. the National Historic Preservation Act. reserve your spot via phone at 1401 N. Verdugo Rd., Glendale; National Preservation Institute; San 800.9SAHSCC, e-mail at •n

At press time, a few tickets were still available "Joseph Eichler for the SAH/SCC lecture and home tour, was a visionary," says Modernism for the Masses: Joseph Eichler, on SAH/SCC executive Saturday, September 15th, from 10AM to board member and 5:30PM, in the city of Orange. The day will Eichler tour organizer begin with a lecture by author and Eichler expert, Jean Baaden. "He hired Paul Adamson. Tour-goers will then have the some of California's opportunity to visit a total of eight Eichler homes most distinguished in the Fairmeadow, Fairhills, and Fairhaven architects to realize his tracts, including residences still occupied by their dream of making original owners. modernism affordable Eichler Homes are the rare example of for everyone. These developer-created housing that offered the architects helped define opportunity to experience a modern way of life the post-war modern previously inaccessible to the average home lifestyle that became buyer. Contrary to the popular wisdom of the synonymous with time, Eichler sought the guidance of progressive Southern California." designers and together they created a prototypical Plans by all of the design methodology that was exceptional for key Eichler architects, A brochure promoting the development features a mother and her children in an f ichler home including A. Quincy being technologically inventive, climatically at the Fairhaven traa. attuned, and socially responsive. Moreover, Jones, Frederick Eichler Homes were marketed not merely as Emmons, S. Robert Anshen, William S. Allen, pioneered in the 1930s by the leaders of the residences, but as a "New Way of Life." and Claude Oakland will be featured on the modern movement." tour. Eichler Homes are known for open plans ,, Tickets for the all-day event are $35 for SAH/ centered around generous atriums, their expansive Adamson, noted author and keynote speaker ^^^^^ j^. „o„.^embers. use of glass, the clear delineation between public for the upcoming lerture, adds The way of livmg ^.^1^^^ ^^^^^ ^.,1 ^^ f.,,^ ^ ^ Eichler Homes represented, and sought to and private zones, and the integration of the first-come, first-serve basis. Lunch is on your own promote, was an outgrowth of the leading social automobile. The Eichler construction method—a and carpooling is encouraged. Orders must be and design ideas of their time. Ideas such as the post-and-beam system atypical for residential received by September 8th. Please contact building at the time—economized on materials open plan, indoor-outdoor living, and the [email protected] for reservations and and proved efficient for the builders. automobile-based suburb that had been availability. BOOKMARKS-WHAT'S NEW Modernism Reborn: Mid-Century American Route 66; The Best of the Mother Road by Alan Houses by Michael Webb. This book belongs on Rider. From the Automobile Club of Southern every Modernist's shelf, and will infuse every California's "GreatestHits Maps" series, this Modernist's dreams. Through Webb's deft writing, laminated full-color reference guide details the he takes the reader to each home, and shares the highlights of famed Route 66. This map informs story of its loving rebirth. Each project is detailed users that whether they will follow this with its history and story of the current restoration, "quintessential American two-lane" all the way giving due credit to owners and architects who from Los Angeles to Chicago, or only experience preserve and update the spirit of Modern living. its wonders for minor detours, any exposure will The 233-page book is chock-full of color photos of prove satisfying. With suggestions for how to get both interiors and exteriors, mostly by the most out of such journeys, six separate road photographer Robert Strauss III. The introduction trips—complete with roadside eateries, historic is a lively and concise primer on Modern motels, trading posts, ghost towns, and natural architecture. To organize the wealth of wonders—are outlined for those eager to expbre. information, Webb categorizes the projects into Automobile Club of Southern California, $7.95. these chapters: Brave New World, Fusing Craft and Innovation, Machines for Living, Embracing Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies the Landscape, Secular Temples, One Architect- Modernism Reborn by Michael Webb by Reyner Banham. With a new introduction by Three Strategies (on Neutra), and More Second Pasadena Sketchbook by Joseph Stoddard. This Anthony Vidler, this reprint of Banham's book Acts. The geographic span encompasses the US, 105-page art book and guide invites users to examines the built environment of Los Angeles by giving readers glimpses at Modernism in Des rediscover the history and beauty of the Crown focusing on its manifestations of popular taste and Moines, Detroit, Schaumburg, and Philadelphia. City. With more than 80 drawings and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional Of course, there are the familiar Southern watercolors taken from graphic designer modes of residential and commercial building. California projects we've always loved, and now Stoddard's personal sketchbooks, the reader can Banham shares his discovery that Angelenos relate know more about, including Eames House/Studio, follow a logical path from Old Pasadena to Eaton differently to each of their four ecologies: beach, Case Study #21, Goldstein House, and Kaufmann Canyon. Stops along the way include full-color freeways, flatlands, and foothills. Banham also House, among many others. Local hero architects renditions of the Green Hotel, Santa Fe Depot, classifies the architecture of these regions, shown include Lloyd Wright, Harwell Hamilton Lake Avenue, California Institute of Technology, identifying genres as "Exotic Pioneers," Harris, Pierre Koenig, R.M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, and Vista del Arroyo. Historical Society of "Fantastic," "The Style That Nearly...," and "The and John Lautner. Universe Publishing, paperback, Southern California/Vroman's Bookstore, Exiles." University of California Press, paperback, $39.95. — Julie D. Taylor paperback, $39.95. $17.95.

•[Ml NH:-. I Welcome New SAH/SCC Members ATTENTION ALL SAH/SCC MEMBERS! UPGRADED LIFE MEMBER We are looking for SAH/SCC Life Member Walter B. Silber. The address and telephone number we have for him are no longer valid. If you know his current Lamar Kerley whereabouts, could you ask him to call the Membership Chair Merry Ovnick at 818.363.9326 or 800.9SAHSCC. PATRON MEMBERS Vitus & Shannon Matare Eleanor Schapa CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline: January 15, 2002 NEW MEMBERS John Bidasio Harvey Stark Pamphlet Architecture (a publication series from Princeton Architectural Press) is Lorna Cordrey Donald & Mia Tschirhart sponsoring a competition open to any practicing or aspiring architect with concepts John Frank Elizabeth Angres Vaughn in architecture today. Two semi-finalists will be awarded a stipend of $2,500 to Roger Hong Wendell Vaughn further develop a project into a Pamphlet Architecture publication. One winning Diana Johns Sandy & David Wasco project will be chosen to be published as a volume in the Pamphlet Architecture Sherry Manello Keith Williams series, and the runner-up will have his/her project posted on the Pamphlet web site. Chuck Smith Cindy Wu For more information, please call 212.995.9620, x213, or visit Jill Smith www.papress.com/pamphlet. Our thanks to Vitus & Shannon Matare and to Eleanor Schapa for upgrading to Patron Members, and to Lamar Kerley for becoming a SAH/SCC PUBLICATIONS Life Member of SAH/SCC.

For those of you who missed out on recent SAH/SCC tours, or would like more SAH/SCC ORDER FORM information for your reference, here's an opportunity to get your hands on the publications printed especially for SAH/SCC events. Don't let another chance pass Modernism for the Masses: Joseph Eichier — you by. September 15th

Cool Pools: booklet and cassette tape from "Reflections at $10 each member ticket(s) at $35 each = $ on Water: Cool Pools Along Sunset Boulevard." members non-member ticket(s) at $45 each = $_ at $15 each non-members Modern Patrons: Neutra in Redlands — October 20th member ticket(s) at $10 each =$ Sarasota: 26 page, full-color brochure of works by Sarasota school architects from "On Parallel Lines: The Sarasota Membership Celebration — December 2nd Modern Movement 1948-1966." at $10 each member ticket(s) FREE Resen/ations required either by mail, e-mail Reconsidering Lloyd Wright: 21-page, four-color booklet (info(a)sahscc.org), or call 800.9SAHSCC. from "Reconsidering Lloyd Wright House Tour." at $10 each SAH/SCC Membership Benefits: Redlands Rendezvous: 12-page handbook by Merry • Subscription to bi-monthly SAH/SCC News Ovnick with history and tour notes of Redlands. at $4 each • Member prices for SAH/SCC events • 10% discount at Form Zero Architectural Books + Union Station and MTA Transit Center: a two-fold map Gallery for a self-guided walking tour including historical facts and Membership Categories: photos. at $2 each $35 Member (Si 5 for each additional name at same address) $20 Student (with copy of current I.D.) Spanish Romance: tour brochure of San Marino and $100 Patron (up to 2 names at same address) Pasadena, visiting historic landmarks such as the Mission $500 Life Metnber (one-time contribution) San Gabriel, El Molino Viejo, Mrs. Ethel Guthrie's House, $750 Friend of SAH/SCC (one-time contribution, one name) and Mrs. Grace A. Ohimund's House. at $2 each $1500 Corporate Sponsor (annual contribution; call 800.9SAHSCC for specific sponsorship opportunities) Eagle Rock — LA's Home Town: 17-page handbook with history and self-guided tour of Eagle Rock, by Jeff Samudio. at $4 each SAH/SCC Membership at $ each = $ David Gebhard Review: essays on the Works Project (membership category) Administration by Robert W. Winter, Orville O. Clarke, Jr., and Mitzi March Mogul. at $5 each TOTAL: $

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