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AT THE END OF THE CENTURY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE BEHIND-THE-SCENES SAH/SCC TOUR SATURDAY, JUNE IOTH,10AM

In conjunction with The Museum of Contemporary Art's major exhibition, "At The End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture," SAH/SCC is conducting a behind- the-scenes guided tour of the exhibition on Saturday, June 10th, from 10AM to 2PM. The At The End of the Century tour will be guided by SAH/SCC Board Member and MOCA Curatorial Associate, Cara Mullio, and will be followed by lunch in Little Tokyo. Mullio will discuss the thematic structure of the exhibition and the myriad of details involved in curating a large-scale panoramic survey on 20th-century architecture. Conceived by former MOCA director Richard Koshaiek, with design elements by architect Frank Gehry, the exhibition began its international tour in 1998 in Tokyo and then traveled to other destinations around the world, such as Mexico City, Cologne, and Chicago. "At The 7960 Malin Chemosphere House by John Lautner is featured in the exhibition 'At the End of the Century: One Hundred The End of the Century" surveys the range of Years of Architecture' at MOCA through September 24th. (Photo: lulius Shulman) 20th-century architectural culture from the macrocosm of ideal cities to urban Utopias, Rise of Theory in the 1960s and 70s, The film and video footage, and high-resolution themed environments, capitol developments, House as an Aesthetic Laboratory, and The computer films of unbuilt architectural works and the microcosm of domestic living. The Skyscraper: A 20th Century Building Type. produced by MIT's Media Lab. "At The End of exhibition is organized into 21 thematic The documentation on view shows how the Century" will be on view through September sections providing a historical context and architecture is an art of the future, dependent 24th at MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, pluralistic perspective for understanding on economic, political, social, and demographic 152 N. Central Avenue. contemporary developments. Section highlights factors as well as aesthetic and cultural ones. Tickets for this exclusive SAH/SCC tour are include: Grand Plans at the Turn-of-the- Presenting these ideas are objects ranging from limited. Cost is $40 for members, $55 for non- Century, The Russian Avant-Garde, Modern original and newly commissioned scale models members and includes the tour and lunch. Learning and Living at the Bauhaus, Mass to archival photographs, sketches, and new and Tickets must be pre-paid by mail; orders will be Housing and Villas in the 1920s and '30s, The original drawings. Appropriate to each section processed based on the postmark date. See Politics of Monumentality in 1930s and integrated throughout the exhibition are order form on Page 8. For more information, Architecture, Mass-Produced Housing and multi-media components consisting of film clips, please call Cara Mullio at 213.621.1781 or Industry After World War II, Creation of New large- and small-scale projections of historical 800.9SAHSCC. Capitals in the Second Half of the Century, The SAH/SCC NEWS is published bi-monthly by the Society of Architectural Historians/ Southern Colifomio Chapter. I see a lot of architecture each month. Nearly all of the interesting buildings I visit are not exactly new Subscription is a benefit of to me. I've usually seen them in photographs. The physical experience of visiting them becomes a membership. subconscious resolution of photographic images stored in my head and my real-life passage Editor: Julie D. Taylor through the space. Associate Editor: Linda Won There are more than 300 magazines around the world presenting architectural or interior Internet Editor: Barbara Lamprecht images on their pages each month. Entire television networks are devoted to satisfying our voyeuristic 818.794.5878; [email protected] urge to peek inside other people's homes. The race is on to discover the next new architectural image Executive Assistant: Grace Samudio and broadcast it around the world. Information and ads for the newsletter should It was a treat then, last month, to visit a great house in, of all places, Twenty-Nine Palms. be sent three weeks before the issue date. Though almost 50 years old, and recently restored and enhanced with subtle creativity, the house has Issue Deadline never been photographed. It's hard to describe the excitement of finding a house (especially one in July/ August 2000 June 10th the middle of the desert) that is one of the best looking and most interesting I've seen. September/October 2000 August 10th The best part is that the house, its garden, furnishings, and art are rigorous expressions of the person who lives tfiere. The power of such honesty and creative expression is memorable and rare. Pleose send all ad materials, notices of events, exhibitions and news—plus photographs—^to For me, it was also an adventure in discovery. But this house is extremely photogenic. How long ut in in HI tfie attention of tfie editor: can it stave off the hordes of editors and producers to remain a physical architectural experience, Z Z 2 S rather than a purely visual one? Julie D. Taylor, Editor SAH/SCC News m m in in We are all bombarded by carefully crafted architectural images. For the past 100 years, < < < < photography has been the primary way we collectively experience architecture. But times are P.O. Box 92224 Pasadena, CA 91109-2224 changing and TV is right there with us. Whether it's a show on design, architecture, or do-it-yourself 800.9SAHSCC (800.972.4722) improvement, it seems hard to escape the dizzying effect of touring a home on TV through the Newsletter telephone: 310.247.1099 moving wide-angle lens of a video camera. Newsletter fax: 310.247.8147 How effective, though, is TV at showing us what architecture is about? Are moving images Newsletter e-mail: [email protected] helping us understand our built-environment any better? So far, I don't think so. But as the technology becomes more familiar and the viewers become more demanding of new styles of SAH/SCC Executive Boord President: Ted Wells, [email protected] presentation, television producers will face new challenges in broadcasting visions of our architectural Vice President: Merry Ovnick, dreams. In the process, I hope they can begin to capture some of the spatial and experiential [email protected] excitement of architecture that can't be captured with still images. Secretary: Maria Alvarez This month, we begin a two-part lecture series in conjunction with the Museum of Development Officer: Sion Winship, Architecture that looks at how television presents architecture. Top producers and writers who create [email protected] some of the most respected architecture shows on TV (it's a short list) will discuss the challenges and Preservation Officer: John Beriey Publicist: Alison Cotter solutions they face each day in presenting architecture to the masses. What does this mean for those Treasurer: Rino Rubenstein of us who love and practice architecture? Join us on May 7th and June 18th in San Juan Capistrano to Volunteer Coordinator: Rebecca Kahn find out Advisory Board Liaison: Ezequiel Gutierrez We celebrate the spatial and personal experience of architecture with a unique series of Education Coordinator: Anthony Denzer, events. Modem Patrons, on Sunday, May 21st, and June 25th, offers members at the Patron level and [email protected] above the opportunity to visit celebrated houses with the clients who originally commissioned the Members-ot Large: John Ellis, [email protected]; architecture. This is living architectural history at its best Don't miss it Cara Muliio And wrapping it all up is a very special event on Saturday, June 24th, at the Museum of SAH/SCC Advisory Boord Contemporary Art (MOCA), organized by board member Cara Muliio. This special tour and lunch Ted Bosley, Ken Breisch, Stephen Horby, Elizabeth celebrating MOCA's newest exhibit "At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of McMillian, Rochelle Mills, Claire Rogger, Richond C. Architecture," will look at the imagery that has defined architecture in the public's mind. It's an event Rowe, Nancy Smith, Robert Winter that can only happen once every 100 years. Since we won't be around for the next one, make sure you sign up for tfiis one. Ufv Membors: Ir) the next two months, SAH/SCC is providing many opportunities to experience the visual Grant Barnes Suzarute W. McCarthy and physical forms of architecture. Maybe you'll discover, as I did last month, a bit of good Kathleen Bbder Elizabeth AAcMillian architectore that is new to you. And remember, the next time you're in Twenty-Nine Palms, kx)k for Mary Dutton Boehm Le Roy Misuroco Bill Bowling Suson W. AAonteith the best house in town. Savor it and keep it a secret Ruth Bowman Doug Moreiond Lynn AAarie Bryant Daniel Muhoz Bente Budc Mark NkM% GwaU E. buck Peter A. Nimmer — TedWelh Bonnie Burton John M. Nisiey ParT>elo Burton ThofTKis O'ConrKsr Mr. & AArs. Sam Campbell Anne Otterson Look for Ted Wells this month as he joins Hue// Howser on PBS for a week of shows where the two of Robert Joy Chattel Helen & David Palmer them visit some of the coolest pools in Palm Springs, on "Visiting with Hue// Howser," wee/cn/g/its at Sara. G. AAuHer Chemoff C.E. Parker Steve Conrter Audree Penton 7:30PM on KCET. Jeffrey Cook Standiih K. Penton Stepf>en P. Danfotth John August Reed Astrld E. Eliefsicck Ckiire Rogger Heinz E. Ellenieck Rkiwrd Cayio Rowe J. Richard Fare Jeffrey B. Samudio Donald R. Ferguson Waher B. Silber Giibett & Sukey Gorcetti Potrido Simpson For Great Rates and a Prime Audience Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Gaiger Cedlki Singer Robert Gelinos Mark Stetkin AAr. & AArs. GonJon Gillkim Jorrann Strand ADVERTISE in SAH/SCC News RoymorKi Girvigian Vem Swonsen Paul Gleye Loreruo Tedesco properties • books • collections Stepften Horby Reg Thotcfier Eugene & Shirley Hoggott M. Brian Tlcf>enor furniture • equipment • services Mr. & Mn. James Horecko Mr. & AArs. A. Tischler Ebine K. Sewell Jones Maggie Valentine display ads • display with photo Rebecco Kahn Robert D. Wallace Stephen A. Konter, MD John Womke classifieds • inserts Virginia Emit Kazor Lori Womke AAorilyn Kelk>gg Dr. Potrido A. Wonen Theodora KirxJer Ron Watson Cfwrles A. 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Honorary fAmmhmr. Robert Pierson MODERN PATRONS SAH/SCC SUNDAY TALKS, MAY 21ST, JUNE 25TH, JULY 23RD was one of the last SAH/SCC is pleased to present an unusual homes built by Schindler opportunity to understand Modem architecture before his death in 1953. from those who made it possible—the clients. This A silversmith and artist, Sunday aftemoon series will take you into the Tischler appreciates the homes of people who hired the likes of Schindler, craft and care Schindler Neutra, Wachsmann, Lautoer, and jones, and talk put into the designs, with them about how they came to buikJ their but also acknowledges houses, and how they have stood the test of time. the singular vision of Modern Patrons is reserved first for a limited the architect *With an number of SAH/SCC Patron-level and Life architect like Schindler," members. (If there is space leftover, then regular says Tischler, "you members may attend.) The series is organized by don't tell him what to SAH/SCC News Editor Julie D. Taylor, with the do." help of SAH/SCC Board Members Tony Denzer Throughout the and Rebecca Kahn. Each talk is $10, and must be years, Tischler has pre-paid by mail; orders will be processed based made some slight changes with interior

finishes, but never to Architea Konrad Wachsmann, client Hilde Marshall, and architect Curtis Fremond at Marshall the structure itself, House groundbreahng January 8, 1948. '^hen you live in a house for 50 years, you make changes," the well, the Marshall's home sports 36 feet of floor- owner says. "But i always tried to do what to-ceiling windows looking out upon the garden. I think Schindler woukl have done." The home Marshall herself has been quite involved in the was named a cultural monument in 1990. world of Los Angeles architecture. She was On June 25th, we will visit the home of Raphael Soriano's assistant, worked at Arts & HiWe Marshall, designed by Konrad Wachsmann Architeaure, and was the hostess during the in 1948, near Beverly Hills. When Wachsmann public display of the Case Study Houses. She is met the Marshalls and saw the construction plan still an active supporter of architectore, and was a they had for their site, he promptly ripped it up. member of the Citizens Committee for the Walt and pledged to design them a house. Although he Disney Concert Hall. was the president of General Panel and a On July 23rd, we will visit the Pacific Palisades proponent of pre-fabricated housing, the house home of Dr. Stuart Bailey, designed by Richard Wachsmann designed for the Marshalls was a Neutra, in 1948, as part of the Case Study House custom-built original. Wachsmann built very little program. Esther McCoy wrote in 1962: "The in the U.S., and is known for designing Einstein's redwood and plaster house has an L-shaped plan, Tischler Residence, 7949-7950. (Photo by loachim Schumacher home in Berlin in 1929. with the living room and dining bay on the south from R.M. Schindler published by Taschen) The Marshalls occupied the rear of the two- opened by glass to the social patio shaded by on the postmark date. See order form on Page 8. unit property (the front unit is a rental property) giant eucalyptos. The two bedrooms have their Each session is held from 2:30PM to 4:30PM, and since it was built From Arts & Architecture, May own intimate garden spaces on the west... will include the opportonity to view the home 1948, which featored the home: "Orienting the according to Dr. Stuart C. Bailey, the owner, it is before the talk. 2,600-square-foot structure on a building lot of still satisfactory after fourteen years of use." The first session will be held Sunday, May 6,200 square feet became quite a problem, and We'll look forward to getting an update! 21st, at the home of Adolphe Tischler, designed in the beginning it was felt that the rear apartment We've tentatively scheduled an aftemoon at by R. M. Schindler in 1949-1950 in Westwood. would have less value than the one fronting the Julius Shulman's house designed by Raphael After interviewing Richard Neutra, Schindler, and street But upon completion, it was this unit Soriano (1950) for Sunday, August 20th. Final Craig Ellwood, Tischler settled on the architect because of its simplicity and removed privacy, details will be in the next newsletter. Sign up with whom he felt the most kinship. Tischler's that seemed the most desirable to the clients." As soon, spaces are limited! See page 8.

WAYNE MCALLISTER, 1 907-2000 in classic film noir. The Califomia architect Wayne McAllister desigr>ed ground-breaking designed classier eateries as well including play lands on the Las Vegas Strip, circular Lawry's, Richbr's, and Stears for Steaks on La kitchens, and landmark eateries such as the Cienega and expanded the Los Feliz Brown Cinegrill supper club in Hollywood and Bob's Big Derby and Atwater Village's Tam O' Shanter. Boy in Toluca Lake, which is now declared a Later, McAllister went on to design casinos Califomia State Point of Historical Interest in Las Vegas and set the trend for the Strip. He McAllister continued to work in his Alhambra real worked with Bugsy Siegel on the Desert Inn and estate sales office until his death on March 22nd designed the Sands, the setting for entertainment at the age of 92. by and for Frank Sinatra arKi Dean Martin's Rat McAllister often stated that he tried to Pack, as well as the oldest still-standing hotel design things to fulfill a need and that his eye- casinos, the Fremont and the Horseshoe. catohing futoristic buildings were "influenced by In 1956, McAllister moved to Washington, the automobile, not the architect" His work has DC, to become vice president of Marriott Corp. been praised by architectural historian Alan Hess Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, 7952. (Photo from Googie. fifties CoffeeH e retomed to Los Angeles in 1962, but not to Shop Architeaure by Alan Hess, published by Chronicle Books) in two of his books. Viva Las Vegas and Googie: architecture. Since then, he devek>ped arKJ sokl Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture. McAllister is often In the 1930s, he designed 24-hour carhop the first coin-operated copying machines, and in noted for his use of nonstop neon and restaurants such as the Pig 'n Whistle at Wikhire recent years, tract houses. streamlined buikJings that catered to the evolving and Western Boulevards, Simon's and Heberts, car culture. Source: los Angeles Times, March 37, 2000 and Van de Kamp's drive-ins that can still be seen AS FIRMITAS VENUSTAS UTILIT i; NU FIRMITAS VENUSTAS UTIL FIRMITAS VENUSTAS UTII. I, T A ST/ FIRMITAS VENUSTAS 18, Thursday 6, Saturday 10, Wednesday Movable Feasts. Leaure wirti architects Craig in ifi in Sanfa Fe Dam Recreation Area. Tour of the Decorative Arts Treasure Hunt. Party to Hodgetts and Ming Fung of Hodgetts & Fung Santa Fe area includes nature trails, huge benefit acquisition funds of the Decorative Eanr»es Office Gallery & Store, 2665 Main St., lakes with sand beaches, boating and Arts Council. LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., SM; 6-8PM; free. res. req. 310.396.5991. fishing, and lakeside trails through LA; 7-9:30PM; $75-125; res. req. immense lawns, a nature center, and one 323.857.6528. 19, Friday of the area's dams with guide Jim Cavener. Highlights of San Francisco's Financial Neighborhood Place Project; Azusa 13, Saturday District. Tour of landmark buildings in the Canyon; 2-5PM; $10; res. req. The Sensual Home. One-day program with dty, its history, architeaure, and colorful 626.448.4022. expert on psychoneuroimmunology Millicent Cappell on its application to charaaers with Valarie Huff of Hobnob Tours. California Historical Sodety, SF; 6, Saturday interior design that embraces the five bodily 10AM; $10-15; res. req. 415.357.1848. i/v;ng With Antiques. Lecture with designers senses. UCLA Extension, Schoenberg Hall, Tom Buckley, Mel Lowrance, and Darrell LA; 9AM-1PM; $35-50; res. req. SchmitL Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Air 310.825.9971. 19, Friday Center, SM; 4PM; $15 includes admission Critical Studies in Architeaural Culture. to the 2000 Los Angeles Antiques Show; 13, Saturday Graduate student symposium. UCLA, Perioff res. req. 310.423.3667. Restoraf/on Fair. Booth fair with historic Hall, Gallery 1220, LA; 10AM-6:30PM; free. preservation professionals who will offer 310.825.6335. 7, Sunday examples of their wares and demonstrate Enhancing and (Protecting Your Fine restoration techniques. Rancho Los Cerritos 19, Friday Furniture. Lecture with Valerie Newcomb Historic Site, 4600 Virginia Rd., Long Casa del Herrero. Leaure on Montedto Woods of Valerie Newcomb Woods Beach; 12:30-4:30PM; $4. 562.570.1755. estate designed by George Washington Smith Antique Restorations. Barker Hangar, Santa in the 1920s. Santa Barbara Preservation, Santa Bartwra; free; res. req. 805.565.5653. J; .1, Monica Air Center, SM; 2PM; $15 indudes 13, Saturday admission to the 2000 Los Angeles Antiques Hollywood Bowl Museum and Neighborhood. The Secr« Gardens tour w/W be hosted by Venice- Show; res. req. 310.423.3667. Tour of the rebuilt Hollywood Bowl Museum 20, Saturday 5 based landscape des^ner jay Cr/ffith on May 6f h in that holds a collection of photographs, The fames House: 50th Ann/versary S; Ven/ce. (Phoco. Diane /tozasj recordings, archival films, programs, and Seminar. Seminar to celebrate the 50th artifacts from the 70 some year history of the anniversary of the Fames House indudes a worid-fanried performance venue. tour and breakfast along with a visit to the S 5 2 5 Neighborhood Place Project; Courtyard Plaza Fames Office Gallery. Fames Office Gallery, of The Bowl Store, Hollywood; 2-5PM; $10. SM; 8:30AM-12:30PM; $300; res. req. 310.396.5991. y 626.448.4022. 20, Saturday ^ 3, Wednesday 13-21, Saturday-Sunday 7, Sunday Edeaic fag/e Rock Home Tour. First annual Oematerialized Utopias: Art@2000 Sanfa Barbara Preservat/on Week. Week- SAH/SCC EVENT home tour to celebrate the dty's history, Symposium. Lecture with architect Elizabeth long series of lectures, exhibits, tours, and character, and historic homes. The Eagle Diller. UCLA, 1473 Dickson Art Center, LA; TTie American Dream Comes receptions to promote awareness and Rock Assodation, Eagle Rock; lOAM^PM; 5PM; free. 310.825.2101. Home: Architecture and historic preservation efforts. Santa Barbara $10-12; res. req. 323.259.8372. Television. Panel discussion Preservation, Santa Barbara; res. req. 805.966.9719. 4, Thursday with producers and writers of 20, Saturday Defining the Digital Print. Symposium with Greystone Communications Movie Pa/ace in Transition: The Historic Graham Nash and Mac Holbert of Nash 14,Sunday Calvert Theater. Tour of historic movie Editions; art critic of LA Weekly Peter Frank; Group on the effects of Monrovia Old House Preservation Croup place and other historic sites of Old Town art and technology historian Patric Prince; television on how we view Tour. Tour of six homes indudes the Lompoc. Santa Barbara Preservation; Santa and digital artists Victor Acevedo and architecture at Sundays at La Idlewild House and the Craftsman, an 1887 Queen Anne Victorian Cottage, an 1893 Barbara; free. 805.736.3888. Michael Write to explore digital print as a Solo. La Solo Auditorium, San fine art. LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., LA; Viaorian showplace known as The Burr Juan Copistrono Library, 31495 20, Saturday 7PM; $10-15; res. req. 323.857.6558. House, two fully-restored Craftsman homes El Comino Real, Son Juan from 1908 and 1911, and access to the A Century of Restoration. Tour of 10 homes ranging from aaftsman to colonial styles. 5, Friday Copistrono; 4PM; $3-5; Anderson House and museum. Monrovia Redondo Beach Historical Sodety, Morrell Antiques in the 21st Century: Buying A Se//;ng res. req. 949.366.9660. See Old House Preservation Group, $6-15; House, Heritage Court, 109th St. and Antiques on the Internet. Lecture with res. req. 626.358.0811. page 7 for details. Flagler Lane, Dominguez Park; 10AM-4PM; representatives from Orcline, Sotheby's, and $12.50-15; res. req. 310.372.0197. Butlerfields, moderated by Taylor 8. Williams. 14,Sunday Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Air Center, SM; 8, Monday Historic Trinity Episcopal Church. Walking 2PM; $15 includes admission to the 2000 LA Monday Night lecture Series. Lecture with tour of the English Gothic style church 20, Saturday Antiques Show; res. req. 310.423.3667. architecture professors Marcos Novak of designed by architea Philip H, Frohnrwn. Wallace Neff. Leaure and tour with the University of Texas and Karamjit Gill of Santa Barbara Preservation; 1500 State St., architea Stefanos Polyzoides on Wallace 5-7, Friday-Sunday the University of Brighton. UCLA, 1473 Santa Barbara; 12PM; free. 805.966.9719. Neff's residential projects in the French Dickson Art Center, LA; 6PM; free. vernacular revivalist style. F^sadena The 2000 Los Angeles Antiques Show. Show 310.825.2101. Historical Museum, Court of Appeals BIdg., to benefit the Women's Guild of Cedars- 15, Monday 125 S. Grand Ave., Courtroom 3, Pasadena; Sinai Medical Center. Barker Hangar, Santa Tour Casa del Fierrero. Tour of Montecito 10:30AM; leaure, $20-25; leaure and Monica Air Center, SM; Fri. and SaL, 8, Monday estate designed by George Washington Smitii tour, $35-45; res. req. 626.577.1660, x14. 11AM-8PM; Sun., 11AM-5PM; $15. Spring Lecture Series. Lecture with director in the 1920s. Santa Barbara Preservation; 310.455.2886. of the Advanced Studies Program at Santa Barbara; res. req. 805.565.5653. Harvard University's Graduate School of 20, Saturday 6, Saturday Design K. Michael Hays on the effects of 15, Monday Ocean Park and California Heritage Museum. The fames House: 50fh Ann/Versary Seminar. modernization on architectural thought (Design Leaure Series 2000. Lecture with Tour with guide Jim Cavener of Viaorian-era Seminar to celebrate the 50th anniversary of and production. UCLA, 1302 Perioff Hall, Sheila Levrant De Bretteville, professor and and Craftsman bungalows in Ocean Park, as the Fames House includes breakfast, tour, LA; 6:30PM; free; res. req. 310.825.6335. director of graduate studies at Yale well as the museum that houses pottery, quilts, and a visit to the Fames Office Gallery. University School of Art. SFMOMA, Verba surf boards, and furnishings from various eras Fames Office Gallery, SM; 8:30AM- 8, Monday Buena Center for the Arts Theater, 700 in California history. Neighborhood Place 12:30PM; $300; res. req. 310.396.5991. Design Lecture Series 2000. Lecture with Howard St., SF; 7:30PM; $15-20; res. req. f^ojea; California Heritage Museum partner at Asymptote Architecture Hani 415.978.2787. Courtyard, 2612 Main St., SM; 2-5PM; $13; res. req. 626.448.4022. 6, Saturday Rashid working in diverse disciplines of A Day in Florence. Seminar on Florentine architecture and technology. SFMOMA, 16, Tuesday architecture and arts during the Italian Verba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, Forty-First Annual Architectural Guild Dinner. 20-21, Saturday-Sunday Renaissance with expert Irini Vallera- 700 Howard SL, SF; 7:30PM; $15-20; Dinner party to honor architea Edward A^aire in the Gardens. Sidewalk sale of Rickerson. UCLA Extension, 121 Dodd Hall, res. req. 415.978.2787. Killingsworth as the 2000 distinguished historical photos, postcards, and LA; 9AM-4PM; $50-75; res. req. alumnus. USC, Town & Gown, LA; 6PM; memorabilia for framing on Santa Monica 310.825.9971. 9, Tuesday res. req. 213.743.4454. Boulevard and Rodeo Drive. Beveriy Hills AIA/MCA Lecture Series. Lecture with Historical Society, Beveriy Hills; 10AM- 6PM; free. 310.246.1914. 6, Saturday principal Ted Flato of Lake Flato Architects. 16, Tuesday Secret Gardens of Venice. Sixth annual Museum of Contemporary Art, 700 The Life, Times, and Works of Leonardo da walking tour with Venice-based landscape Prospea St., La Jolla; 7PM; $5-7; res. req. Vinci. Leaure with art historian Ellen Dryer 21, Sunday designer Jay Griffith includes homeowners 858.454.3541. Kaplan on Leonardo da Vmd's life, the Preservation Week Historic Homes Tour. and designers such as Griffith, Nancy Powers, Annunciation. Adoration of Magi, The Last Tour of five homes tiiat represent rich and Barry Campion, and others. Neighborhood 9, Tuesday Supper, and the Mona Lisa. UCLA varied architeaure of Santa Barbara Youth Association, 717 California Avenue, Book Talk: L.A. Writers on Architeaure and Extension, LA; 6:30-9:30PM; $45; res req. indudes a mix of Tudor Revival, Mission Griffith's studio, Venice; 10AM-5PM; $50; Urbanism. Lecture with architects and 310.825.9971. Revival, Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, and res. req. 310.390.6641. authors Mary-Ann Ray and Robert Mediterranean Greco-Roman Revival styles. Mangurian on their new book Wrapper: 40 16, Tuesday The Pearl Chase Society, Santa Barbara; 6, Saturday Possible City Surfaces for the Museum of Book Talk: L.A. Writers on Architecture and 11AM-4PM; $35; res. req. 805.961.3938. Living With Antiques. Lecture with author of jurrasic Technology. LA Forum for Urbanism. Leaure with authors Peter Modern Antiques for the Table and Antiques Architecture and Urban Design; MAK Zellner on his book Hybrid Space; New 21, Sunday for the Table Sheila Chefetz. Barker Hangar, Center, 835 N. Kings Rd., WH; 7PM; $5- Forms in Digital Architecture and Peter Museums of the Arroyo Day. The eleventh Santa Monica Air Center, SM; 2PM; $15 7. 323.852.7145. Lunenfeld on Snap to Grid; A User's Guide annual museums tour to celebrate the includes admission to the 2000 Los Angeles to Digital Arts. LA Forum for Architeaure architeaure and history of the Arroyo Seco Antiques Show; res. req. 310.423.3667. 10, Wednesday and Urban Design; MAK Center, 835 N. includes The Gamble House, Heritage Square serv.o. Opening reception and exhibition Kings Rd., WH; 7PM; $5-7. 323.852.7145. Museum, Lummis Home and Garden, of architects' work including David Pasadena Historical Museum, and the Erdman, Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika KaHsson, Southwest Museum. Museums of the Arroyo; and Chris Perry. UCLA, Decaff, Perioff 11AM-5PM; free. 213.740.8687. Hall 1302, LA; 6PM; free. 310.825.6335. 21, Sunday 1, Thursday 10, Saturday Sola. La Sola Auditorium, San Los Angeles Modern Auaions. Auction Pasadena Art Walk. Self-guided, Old Town SAH/SCC EVENT Juan Capistrano Library, 31495 featuring 20th-century design furniture open house. The Armory Center for the includes Qiarles Eames' children's furniture, Arts; 6-10PM. 626.792.5101. At The End of The Century: One El Camino Real, Son Juan Harry Bertoia sculpture, and more. Los Hundred Years of Architecture. Capistrano; 4PM; $3-5; Angeles Modem Auctions, 8057 Beverly 3, Saturday Tour with SAH/SCC board res. req. 949.366.9660. See Blvd., LA; preview dates, May 16-20, Tues.- South Pasadena Street Party. Fund-raising member and MOCA Curatorial page 3 for details. Sat., 11AM-5PM; auction, 2PM; free. event to benefit contemporary ceramic Associate Cora Mullio of MOCA 323.904.1950. acquisitions at LACMA. Decorative Arts 21, Wednesday Council, Home of Lynn and Jerry Myers, architectural exhibition. MOCA Last Remaining Seats: An American in Paris. 1501 Chelten Rd.; book signing, Home of at The Geffen Contemporary, 21, Sunday Screening of the classic film and live Lois and Bob Boandman, South Pasadena; SAH/SCC EVENT 152 N. Central Ave., LA; 10AM- entertainment hosted in the Los Angeles 5:30PM; $100; res. req. 323.857.6528. Modern Patrons: Schindler. 2PM; $40-55. res. req. Theatre auditorium designed by architect S. Tour and talk at the Tischler 213.621.1781. See page 1 for Charles Lee in 1931. Los Angeles 3.10.17.24, Saturday details. Conservancy; Los" Angeles Theatre, 615 S. House designed by R. M. Coogie Tours. Choice of The San Gabriel Broadway, LA; 8PM; $12-15; res. req. Schindler in 1950. 2:30- Valley, Behind the Orange Curtain, Coffee 213.430.4211. % Shop Modern and More, Cocktails 'N' 12, Monday 4:30PM; $10; res. req. Design Lecture Series 2000. Lecture with Coffee Shops with preservationist John 22, Thursday 800.9SAHSCC. See page 3. English. $34; res. req. 323.980.3480. architect Michael Graves. SFMOMA, \erba Art Talks. Discussion with landscape Buena Center for the Arts Theater, 700 architect Mia Guttfreund Lehrer. MOCA, 22, Monday Howard St., SF; 7:30PM; $15-20; res. req. 4, Sunday Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central 5pr/ng Lecture Series. Lecture with Toronto 415.978.2787. AlAjLos Angeles Home Tour. Tour of lavish Ave., LA; 6:30PM; $4-6. 213.621.1767. architect Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutdiffe Malibu homes by architects Ron Goldman, Architects on solutions to architectural David Hertz, Glen Irani, Richard Landry, 13, Tuesday 23, 24, 25, Friday, Saturday, Sunday problems from landscape to interior design John Staff, and Antoine Predock with AIA Design Awards. Awards ceremony to Dufaoce Park. Tour of park between Mint to furniture. UCLA, 1302 Perloff Hall, LA; explanations on their design strategies by acknowledge architects. Museum of Hill and The Castro to see the tree-lined 6:30PM; free; req. req. 310.825.6335. volunteer docents. AIA Los Angeles, LA; Contemporary Art San Diego, 700 streets of the Duboce Triangle and $45; 11AM-4PM; res. req. 310.785.1809. Prospect SL, La Jolla; 7PM; $5-7; res. req. architecture from every era that was not 23, Tuesday 858.454.3541. destroyed during the 1906 earthquake and Soofc Talk: LA. Writers on Architeaure 4, Sunday fire. California Historical Society, SF; 10AM and Urbanism. Lecture widi editors of MUSARCH Lecture Series. Lecture with San 14, Wednesday and 2PM; $15-20; res. req. 415.357.1848. Everyday Urbanism John Chase, Mar^ret Diego architect Ted Smith. Museum of Last Remaining Seats: Phantom of the Crawford, and John Kaliski. LA Forum for Opera. Screening of the 1925 classic film Architeaure, San Juan Capistrano Library, 24, Saturday Architecture and Urtan Design; MAK and live entertainment hosted in the 31495 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano; Treasures of the South Bay. Bus tour of Center, 835 N. Kings Rd., WH; 7PM; $5- Orpheum Theatre auditorium designed by 4PM; $5. 949.366.9660. historic sites in Long Beach and Wilmington 7.323.852.7145. architect G. Albert Landsburg in 1926. Los including Rancho Los Cerritos, Rancho Los Angeles Conservancy; Orpheum Theatre, 4.11.18.25, Sunday Alamitos, the Queen Mary, and the Banning 26, Friday 842 S. Broadway, LA; 8PM; $12-15; Pacific Heights Walking Tour. The Residence Museum with Neighborhood and Highlights of San Francisco's Financial res. req. 213.430.4211. Foundation for San Francisco's Historic Preservation Officer of Long Beach Distria. Tour of landmark buildings in the Architectural Heritage; 12:30PM; $5. Ruthann Lehrer. California Preservation heart of the dty and its history, architecture, 14-17, Wednesday-Saturday 415.441.3004. Foundation, Long Beach, 9AM-5PM; $75- and colorful characters with Valarie Huff of Facing West: The Arts & Crafts Movement in 100; res. req. 510.763.0972. Hobnob Tours. California Historical Society, 6, Tuesday America From Boston to Pasadena. SF; 10AM; $10-15; res. req. 415.357.1848. Conference on the progress of the American Gamble House and Caltech. Tour of the 24, Saturday with guest Gamble House designed by Greene & The Work of Charles and Ray Fames: 27, Saturday speakers Beveriy K. Brandt, Richard Guy Greene in 1908 and the original Caltech Celebrating the Legacy. Symposium with Children's Workshop: Cold Fever. Wilson, David Gathers, Kenneth R. Trapp, campus designed by architect Bertram architect Craig Hodgetts, graphic designer Workshop for children ages six and up William Porter, and many others. New York Goodhue. L.A. Today Custom Tours; Deborah Sussman, and Eames Office where participants can read some of the University School of Continuing and Gamble House, 4 Westmoreland Ave., director Eames Demetrios moderated by original documents as they explore the Professional Studies; Sessions at: The Pasadena; IOAM-3:30PM; $49. writer Michael Webb. LACMA, 5905 Land of Co/den Dreams exhibition. The Huntington Library, LACMA, and the 310.454.5730. Wilshire Blvd., Bing Theater, LA; 9:30AM- Huntington Library, Art Collections and Neighborhood Church of Pasadena; $445; 4PM; $15-20; res. req. 323.857.6528. Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Rd., San 7, Wednesday res. req. 212.998.7130. Marino; 9-11:30AM; $12 includes one last Remaining Seats: The Time Machine. 25,Sunday free admission for accompanying adult; 15, Thursday Screening of me classic film and live Los Angeles Modern Auaions. Auction res. req. 626.405.2128. Film Making in Beverly Hills. Lecture with entertainment hosted in the Los Angeles featuring 20th-century design furniture Beveriy Hills historian Marc Wanamaker of Theatre auditorium designed by architect includes Charies Eames' children furniture, 27, Saturday Bison Productions. Beveriy Hills Historical 5. Charles Lee in 1931. Los Angeles Harry Bertoia sculpture, and more. Los Claremont CollegeslNew Pomona College Society; Beveriy Hills Library Auditorium, Conservancy; Los Angeles Theatre, 615 S. Angeles Modem Auctions, 8057 Beverly Student Center. Jour with guide Jim 444 N. Rexford Dr., Beveriy Hills; 6:30PM; Broadway, LA; 8PM; $12-15; res. req. Blvd., LA; preview dates, June 20-24, Tues.- Cavener through Claremont College and free. 310246.1914. 213.430.4211. Sat., 11AM-5PM; auction, 2PM; free. the New Pomona College Student Center 323.904.1950. to see public art, cozy courtyards, and 8, Thursday 16, Friday Ralph Cornell's landscape design. Art Talks. Discussion with architect and Arts and Crafts Lectures. Lecture series Neighborhood Place Project; Pomona professor at Princeton University Beatriz features objects from the Palevsky 25, Sunday College, Pomona; 2-5PM; $10; res. req. Colomina on current exhibitions. MOCA, colleaions and includes gallery tour. SAH/SCC EVENT 626.448.4022. Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central Ave., LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Bing Theater, Modem Patrons: Wachsmann. U) tf) U) 2:30-8PM; LA; res. req. 323.857.6528. 3 D 3 LA; 6:30PM; $4-6. 213.621.1767. Tour and talk at the Marshall z z z 30, Tuesday UJ u ul Residence designed by Konrod > > > Boofc Talk: L.A. Writers on Architeaure 9,10,11, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 17, Saturday and Urbanism. Lecture with author of Nihonmachi. Tour of the heart of the The Miracle Mile: A Walking Tour. Two-hour Wachsmann in 1948. 2:30- Union Pacific: Berlin's Neue Mitte Dave Japantown area Nihonmachi with Gary L. tour of the Wilshire district with stories 4:30PM; $10; res. req. J z z r Hullfish along with author Jack Burnett- Holloway. California Historical Society, SF; behind its development and 800.9SAHSCC. See page 3 for Stuart on Shifting the View: 10AM and 2PM; $15-20; res. req. buildings. The Art Deco Society of Los details. Documenfaf/on of the Commonplace. LA 415.357.1848. Angeles; 10AM; $5-10; res. req. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design; 310.659.3326. 28, Wednesday MAK Center, 835 N. Kings Rd., WH; 10, Saturday Last Remaining Seats: Gilda. Screening of 7PM; $5-7. 323.852.7145. Richard I. Neutra. Lecture and tour of the 17, Saturday the classic film and live entertainment Beard House with author Barbara Bamboo Festival and Conference. Lecture hosted in the Orpheum Theatre 31, Wednesday Lamprecht on architect Richard Neutra's with guest speakers, tours of The auditorium designed by architect G. Albert Last Remaining Seats: My Little Chickadee. work. Pasadena Historical Museum, Court Huntington Library's collection, reception, Landstnirgh in 1926. Los Angeles Screening of Che classic film and live of Appeals BIdg., 125 S. Grand Ave., and festival activities. The Huntington Conservancy; Orpheum Theatre, 842 S. entertainment hosted in the Palace Theatre Courtroom 3, Pasadena; 10:30AM; lecture, Library, Art Collections and Botanical Broadway, LA; 8PM; $12-15; res. req. auditorium designed by architect G. Albert $20-25; lecture and tour, $35-45; Gardens, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino; 213.430.4211. Landsburgh in 1911. Los Angeles res. req. 626.577.1660, x14. conference, 8:30AM-5PM; $65; res. req. Conservancy; Palace Theatre, 630 S. 626.405.2160; festival, 10:30AM-4:30PM; Broadway, LA; 8PM; $12-15; res. req. free. 626.405.2100. 213.430.4211. 18, Sunday

SAH/SCC EVENT J, u, Teach Me Tonight: Architectural History and TV. u n e Lecture with president of Springboard Productions Barbara Rulond on the power of 1, Thursday 10, Saturday television to educate and Hillside Memorial Park and Nearby Rubel's Castle in Upper Glendora. Tour of One of the homes featured in A Century of Restorduon Fisherman's Village. Tour with guide Jim castle designed by Michael Clarke Rubel persuade at Sundays at La Cavener of the gravesites of Ida and Eddie Historical and Architectural Home Tour on May 20th. < with tour guide Jim Cavener. Neighborhood (Covnesy of the Redondo Beach Historical Society) Cantor, Max Factor, Michael Landon, and Place Project; Live Oak Ave. and Palm Dr., UTILITAS FIRMITAS VENU otiiers. Neighborhood Place Project; S UT Glendora; 2-5PM; $10; res. req. UTILITAS FIRMITAS VE Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 Centinela 626.448.4022. UTILITAS FIRMITAS VEf^S Ave.; 2-5PM; $10; res. req. 626.448.4022. UTILITAS FIRMITAS VEN 5 TAS UTILITAS FIRMITAS VENUSTAS AS UTILITAS FIRMITAS VENUSTAS UTIL AS UTILITAS FIRMITAS VENUSTAS TAS UTILITAS FIRMITAS VENUSTAS DTIL u) m m n) The Age of Piranes;: Print making in Italy in Palm Springs Desert Museum the Eighteenth Century, througji May 14. 101 Museum Dr., Palm Springs.

Wenna and Design, through Petersen Automotive Museum June 25. Display of Jugendstil (youth 6060 Wilshire Bhrd., LA. style) design through book arts, textiles, 323.964.6356. and artwork from Germany and Austria. %vww.petersen.org. Arte y Estilo: The Low Riding Tradition. A Bold Aesthetic: Textile Arts of Centra/ through May 28. Display of more than 20 Asia, through July 31. Exhibition features lowrider cars from the classic 1930 to 1940 ill a) V: 60 examples of textile art from western models known as "bombs" to the pop>ular Central Asia including dresses and Chevy Impalas of the late 50s and 60s. jewelry. Rancho Los Alamitos Edward Ruscha: Editions 7959-7999, June 6400 Bixby Hill Rd., Long Beach. 4-August 27. Exhibition of graphic artist 562.4313541. Edward Ruscha's complete book projects Tours of historic site induding an adobe LU 111 lU that illustrate his experimentation with a house and bams, Wednesday-Sunday, myriad of printmaking media. 12:3O-4:30PM.

'AdamsMorioka. AICA Orange County: 2 Partners, 2 Views, 2 Design' is featured ir »ne Permanent Colieaion s z s s Color and Fire: [Defining Moments in Rancho Los Cerritos of Architeaure and Design; AdamsMorioka exhibition at SFMCMA through June 20th. (Courtesy: SfMOMA} K K a e Studio Ceramics 7950-2000, June 4- 4600 Virginia Rd., Long Beach. U. k. U. U. 562.424.9423. Banning Residence Museum The Edible Monument, through May 21. September 17. Exhibition of 200 works 401 E. M St., Wilmington. 310.548.7777. Tours of an 1840s adobe furnished as it Exhibition of Europe's 17th- and 18th- that examine the major stylistic ' Tour of fully restored Victorian-era mansion, might have been in 1870, along with an century edible art from the court of movements in ceramic history during the ; Tuesday-Thursday, 12:30PM, 1:30PM, exhibit of costumes from 1830 to 1930, Versailles to the aristocratic tables of last half of the 20th century. Wednesday-Sunday, 12:30-4:30PM. 2:30PM; Saturday-Sunday, 12:30PM, Naples. 1:30PM, 2:30PM, and 3:30PM. The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A San Diego Historical Society Museum Haas-Lilienthal House Legacy of Invention, June 25-September California Heritage Museum Casa de Balboa 2007 Franklin St, SF. 11. Exhibition explores the career and 2612 Main St, SM. 310.392^537. 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. 415.441J000,ext 11. continuous impact of Charles and Ray The Fabulous Fifties—Furniture, Decorat/Ve 619332.6203. Haas-Lilienthal House. Tour San Eames' work woridwide. Arts and Fine Art of the 1950s, through July www.sandiegohistory.org. Francisco's only Queen Anne Victorian 16. Exhibition of post-war furnishings 27fh Annua/ Showcase House, through May open to the public as a house museum to The Marston House produced in the 1950s by Charles and Ray 29. More than 20 spaces within the explore the city's architectural and 3525 7th Ave., SD. 619.2983142. Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Thomas L. Shepherd-designed home will historical past. Docents are being A 1905 home designed by Irving Gill and Russell W/right, Eero Saarinen, and others. be decorated by local designers. recruited. William Hebbard sits upon an almost five-acre estate, including historic San Fernando Mission The Doctor's House Museum Heritage Hill Historical Park gardens. Tours: Friday-Sunday, Noon- 1601 W. Mountain, Brand Park, 15151 San Fernando Mission Blvd., 25151 Serrano Rd., Lake Forest 3:45PM. Glendale. 818.242.7447. San Fernando. 818361^)186. 949.855.2028. The Fell-White Collection, ongoing. Tours of the mission founded in 1797, daily. Tour of four historic buildings including El Monterey Museum of Art Authentic Viaorian home furnishings and Toro School, Bennett Ranch House, 559 Padfic St, Monterey. artifacts, including a medical practice, San Francisco Museum of Modem Art Serrano Adobe, and St. George's 831J723477. donated to the C endale Historical Society. 151 3rd St, SF. 415357.4000. Episcopal Mission, Wednesday-Sunday, Weavers of Tradition: California Indian www.sfmoma.org. 9AM-5PM. Basketry, through May 14. Exhibition of Decent guided tours of a restored Queen the history and diversity of traditional Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, through May Anne Ea^ake-style home built in 1889, 30. Exhibition of four decades of work by Heritage House Califomia basketmaking curated by the pioneer of conceptual art Sol LeWitt Sundays, 2-4PM. 8193 Magnolia Ave., Riverside. Ohione basketweaver and historian Linda including wall drawings, structures, works 909.689.1333. Yamane. on paper, photographs, and books from the Eames Office Gallery Tours of a Queen Anne-style Victorian austere, and reductive aesthetics of the 2665 Main St, SM mansion built in 1891, Sunday, Noon- Museum of Contemporary Art, LA 1960s to the sensual and boldly colored 310396.5991. 3:30PM; Tuesday and Thursday, Noon- The Geffen Contemporary works of more recent years. www.eamesofrice.com 2:30PM. 152 N. Central Ave., LA 213.626.6222. New Gallery Show, June 15-September 30. wwwA10CA-lA.org. Struaure and Surface: Contemporary Exhibition of never-before-seen paintings of Heritage Walk Museum At the End of the Century: One Hundred Japanese Textiles, through June 20. Display Ray Eames. 321 N. Broadway, Escondido. Years of Architeaure, through September of contemporary Japanese textile artists and 760.743.8207. 24. Exhibition organized in 21 sections to designers' work including textile designer Fowler Museum of Cultural History Museum tour including the 1888 Santa Fe offer a historical context as well as a gbbal DCIA Campus, LA. 310.825.4361. Reiko Sudo and traditional artisans Cniaki train depot and blacksmith shop in historic perspective to understand the Muffler Men, MuDecos and Other Welded and Kaori Maki. Grape Day Park. contemporary developments and how the Wonders, through May 28. Display of 32 field of architeaure has changed in contemporary sculptures called murtecos by Selections from the Permarjent Collection of The Huntington Library response to sodal, cultural, intelleaual, the mechanics who sculpted them. Architecture and Design: AdamsMorioka, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino. political, ecorxjmic, and demographic through June 20. Exhibition of Los Angeles- 626.405.2140. faaors during the century. based designers Sean Adams and Noreen Gallery 1220 Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Morioka's graphic design work. Perloff Hall Gold Rush Decade, 7848-7858, through Natural History Museum of LA County UCLA Campus, LA. 310.825.6335. September 10. Exhibition of original 900 Exposition BKd. 213.7633466. Student Ca/tery Competition, through May materials including journals, letters, www.n hm.org. Paul Klee: Recent Acquisitions of the 5. Display of student competition entries. drawings, lettersheet engravings, and El Nuevo Muiido: The Larniscape of Djerassi Collection, through Oaober 24. artifacts from the Gold Rush period. iat/no ios Angeles, through July 16. Exhibition of figure drawings to watercolor serv.o, May 8-June 2. Exhibition of Display of photographs that exptore LA's landscapes of places familiar and fantastical colleaed by Dr. Cart Djerassi, induding the architects' work including David Erdman, Helen Lindhurst Architectural Gallery growing Latino community induding Bauhaus promotional cards in its complete Marcelyn Cow, Ulrika Kartsson, and Chris Watt Hall, use Campus, lA. homes, work places, neighborhoods, ar)d unit for the first time. Perry from their Sample 4 collection. 213.740.2097. borders by sociologist and photographer Bachelor and Master Cand/dates Work, Camilo Jos6 Vergara. Gamble House Southwest Museum at LACMA West May 12-19. Exhibition of work from the 4 Westmoreland PI., Pasadena. 6067 Wibhire Bhrd., LA 323.933.4510. Class of 2000. Padftc Design Center, 626.793J334. 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood. Down From the Shimmering Sky: Masks of Tours of Greene and Greene house, the Northwest Coast, through May 6. LACMA 310.657.0800. Exhibition of about 150 historic and Thursday-Sunday, Noon-3PM. 5905 Wikhire BKd., LA. Millennium Models, through June 1, contemporary First Nations' face masks that 3234)57.6000. Center Blue Lobby. Exhibition of 101 New have been for centuries used to reflea their The J. Paul Getty Center www.lacma.org. Blood rrKxiels. 1200 Getty Center Dr., LA. Robert Therrien, through May 7. Display relationship to the cosmos. 310.44a7300. res. req. of Robert Therrien's work that transforms 72+72+72, through June 30, Feldman www.getty.edu/museum. elements from popular culture and Gallery. Exhibition on the work of the LA From Earth, Fire and Spirit: Historic ft/eh/o Carleton Walkins: From Where the View everyday life into forms that have the 12 + 12+12. Pottery From the Southwest Museum, June Looked Best, through June 4. Exhibition of darity of myths and folktales. 24-January 2, 2001. Display of 100 American photographer Carteton Watkins' mastervt^rks from the museum's Puebto work from the 19th century American pottery collection by the Puebto Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. BOOKMARKS: HOT OFF THE PRESS West Coast Rooms by Edie Cohen. An Wright, and Bruce Coff. "Prince embodies in his Historic Preservation: An Introduction to its exploration of indoor and outdoor living in the life and ideas the mythic struggles of the American History, PrirKiples, and Practice by Norman West Coast, this 192-page book features current experience between nature and culture, pastoral Tyler. This book serves as a reference guide to projects from 41 top interior designers and ideals and industrial realities, self-reliance and students, homeowners, kx:al officials, and architects including Barbara Barry, David Hertz, social responsibility," comments Mead. Norton & community leaders on historic preservation issues. Stephen Kanner, james Cutler, and Kelly Company, hardcover, $60. 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Batchelder first started Historical Building Construction: Design, his own school and factory with the goal of Materials & Technology by Donald Friedman. establishing a West Coast guild of craftsmen This 238-page book is a guide to the physical united by the Arts and Crafts ideal of dignity in construction of buildings from the 1840s to the hand labor. His clients ranged from restaurants to present through narrative, drawings, and churches to high-rise offices, yet he is best known photographs. Friedman provides case histories to for tile fireplaces gracing American bungalows. illustrate how applying the specifics of obsolete Balcony Press, hardcover, $29.95. construction can help architects and designers in building renovation and preservation processes through actual projects ranging from brownstones to skyscrapers. Norton & Company, hardcover, $48.

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SUNDAYS AT LA SAL A ARCHITECTURE AND TELEVISION, MAY 7TH AND JUNE 1 8TH who bring architecture into our homes. viewers' desire to be entertained? Ruland has and the Museum of Architecture SAH/SCC The American Dream Comes Home— been the producer and writer of sonie of the most (MUSARCH) are pleased to present two lectures Architecture and Television: Hear from some of original and well-crafted architectural and discussions examining how television plays the top television producers and writers documentaries for PBS. Her most recent an increasing role in defining architecture. These presenting images of architecture and design on production, "Irving Gill: Fundamental Tmths," inaugurate our new series, Sundays at La Sala, Sunday, May 7th. aired last fall to widespread critical acclaim. which replaces Mondays at the Museum. The The panel includes producers and writers The San Juan Capistrano Library offers an discussions will be heki in La Sala Auditorium, at Louis Tarantino, Brian Coughlin, Bonnie Brennan, enchanting kx:ation for lectures and discussion. the Michael Graves-designed San Juan and Lauren Herz of Greystone Communications When Graves designed the buikiing he kx)ked to Capistrano Library (1982), at 4PM. Group, Inc. Greystone produces television the nearby Mission and vemacular buikiing of At the beginning of the 20th century, the programs for A&E, HGTV, The History Channel, early California for inspiration. He added his advent of photography changed the way CBS, NBC, ABC, UPN, and Lifetime. For HGTV, unique mix of Post-Modemist features and Americans \ooked at architecture and interiors. Greystone has completed a one-hour architecture created an icon reflecting a popular architectural Now, at the start of the 21 st century, a special, "The Shape of Things to Come," and is aesthetic of the 1980s. Though this architectural proliferation of television shows and entire producing the third season of "America's style lost its luster a decade ago, the spaces at the networks, are devoted to showing us how Homestyles." The panelists will present video library work well. Many areas exploit the Americans live, and how we wish to live. clips to illustrate how our perception of relationship between the reading rooms and This new way of looking at architecture is in architecture is destined to change in the future. courtyard gardens. The domestic scale of the its infancy. The quality of the information and Teach Me Tonight—How TV Looks at interiors provides an intimacy rarely found in images presented in these shows varies. What Architectural History: The power of television to public buikiings. effect will this have on architecture, its history educate and persuade is the topic for the second Each discussion is $3 for SAH/SCC and and its future? How are subjects chosen and discussion on Sunday, June 18th. Barbara Ruland, MUSARCH members; $5 for non-members. The what makes the final cut? How can the unique president of Springboard Productions will look at La Sala Auditorium is located at the San Juan characteristics of video be used to educate and the educational role of television and how it is Capistrano Library, 31495 El Camino Real. For inform a public eager for architectural images? often at odds with the producers' and networks' information and reservations, please call How does this way of kx)king at architecture bottom-line. How is television's portrayal of MUSARCH at 949.366.9660. Reservations are shape the American Dream? These discussions history affected by the quest for ratings and the preferred. are a rare opportunity for a look at the people UTILITM FIR^^V^M||U-A5MJ||^IT|« FJ^fffJ^^lltmflt/smASUf^rt^^tgf^ NUSTAS ENUSTAS NUSTAS 8 U TILDAS MR MWAS VE^UST/S UTILITAS FIRTTTAS VTNUSTAS UTiLITAb f i~^ VENUSTAS Welcome New SAH/SCC Members MOCA Takes Over PDC's Feldman Gallery Beginning this fall, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Nancy B. Helton NEW PATRONS Downtown will present exhibitions at the Pacific Design Center. The Christine M. LeGate M. Douglas Ernest & Weldena Lightner museum has engaged in a five-year agreement to take over the center's Carol Fenelon Lawrence F. Meyer Feldman Gallery in an effort to expand its architecture and design Robert & Jacqueline Justman Susan W. Murphy exhibition program to the Westside showcase. MOCA hopes to bring the Chris Menrad John James Oddy Westside audience closer to their residential neighborhoods with this Janet Travis Alex Pierson arrangement Victor Regnier The 3,000-square-foot, two-floor gallery will have a lineup of David Ross NEW MEMBERS exhibitions with featured works by "the most advanced artists in the Christopher St. James fields of architecture and design," said MOCA director Jeremy Strick. The Robert A. Anderson Cari Shaffer museum will need more time to organize its first major show at the Arline Chambers Janet Shulman Feldman Gallery, so the opening event will most likely feature objects John Chase Dona Slowson from the museum's permanent collection. The museum will also present Flora Chou Jill E. Smith public programs in the center's 385-seat theater. Lawrence Culver Caroline Vassollo Strick credited Charles S. Cohen, president of the PDC, with Gary Freund Michael Webb facilitating MOCA's new partnership. Cohen purchased the PDC in Enid Freund William Wynne October with Stanley V. Cheslock of Cheslock-Bakker Associates, a private equity firm in Connecticut SAH/SCC PUBLICATIONS Source; Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2000

For those of you who missed out on recent SAH/SCC tours, or would like more information for your reference, here's an opportunity to get your hands SAH/SCC ORDER FORM on the publications printed especially for SAH/SCC events. Don't let another Modern Patrons: Tischler House — May 21st chance pass you by. ticket(s) $10 each Cool Pools: booklet and cassette tape from at $10 each At The End of The Century: 100 Years of "Reflections on Water: Cool Pools Along members Architecture Tour — June 10th Sunset Boulevard." at $15 each non-members ticket(s) $40 members; $55 non-members = $

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David Gebhard Annual Review: essays on the at $ each = $ Worb Project Administration by Robert W. Winter, (membership category) Oreille O. Clarke, Jr., and Mitzi March Mogul. at $5 each TOTAL: $

Irving Gill: Fundamental Truths: fold-out map listing Gill's buildings in La Jolla and San Diego, Street Address with essays on Gill by Bob Winter and John Berley. at $5 each

City Prices include sales tax. TOTAL: $

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E-mail Ciiv Make checks payable to SAH/SCC State Zip Send this form to: SAH/SCC HI III Daytime Phone P.O. Box 92224 Pasadena, CA 91109-2224 Evening Phone Questions? Call 800.9SAHSCC Make checks payable to: SAH/SCC P.O. Box 92224, Pasadena, CA 91109-2224

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