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Raphael Soriano: Man of Step SAH/SCC Tour Saturday, May 17Th SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS U.S. Postage SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER FIRST CLASS MAIL PAID Pasadena, CA Permit No. 740 i RO. Box 56478, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, 800.9SAHSCC, www.sahscc.org Shelter Under the Sun SAH/SCC Tour Saturday, April 5th Palm Springs Back by popular demand, SAH/SCC brings you another tour of residential architecture in Palm Springs. Shelter Under the Sun will feature an outstanding selection of various architectural styles highlighting the range of responses architects provided for their clients in this beautiful and daunting landscape. The all-day home tour in Palm Springs will be offered on Saturday April 5th. The cost will be $125 for SAH/SCC members, and $150 EIrod House for non-members. Participants will John Lautner transport themselves to the desert where bus transfer will be provided for Among the homes to be visited this year will be the Eye of the Desert House, a Colonial Monterey-style home built up on the entire day upon arrival. the hillside above the Desert Museum. After coffee, the bus will make its way to the Movie Colony where we'll see William Cody's Abernathy House, a pavilion-style home that is perhaps the most influential early example of the Mausoleum style. Before lunch, participants will have the pleasure of seeing a Wexler Steel Frame House that has been brought back to its original condition with great care and style. An elegant three-course luncheon at LeVallauris, a French restaurant in an historic setting, will offer guests a specially selected gourmet meal on the tree-covered patio. After leisurely dining, we will proceed to visit three more impressive homes. The Ship of the Desert, one of the only Art Deco residences in the desert with a somewhat maritime overtone, will be the first afternoon stop before proceeding down valley to Thunderbird Country Club to view the Firestone Residence designed by William Pereira. An elaborate compound with an extraordinary roofline, this grand house is rarely open to the public. Concluding our day of touring will be the privilege of experiencing the incomparable EIrod House, one of John Lautner's more elaborate schemes. The day promises to be exciting, fun, informative, and inspiring, as we once again welcome the opportunity for interested members and participants to access some of the more significant examples of early- to mid-20th-century residential architecture in Palm Springs. As space is extremely limited, those interested in participating should respond immediately by sending in the order form on the back page. march apri1 Tour and Event Information: 1.800.9SAHSCC: inf0(a)sahsCC.0rq SAH/SCC SAH/SCC NEWS is published bi-monthly by the Society of Architectural Historians / Southei California Chapter. Subscription is a benefit of membership and provides members with one of x\ President's Letter most comprehensive calendars of architectural events in Southern California and advance notice exclusive SAH/SCC architectural events and tours. Greetings from Helsinki' Editor: Julie D. Taylor I should confess that this letter comes to you from Washington. DC, but you'll Associate Editor: Elizabeth Meyer forgive me for being in a Finnish state of mind, as an exciting exhibition on the Internet Editor: Brent Eckerman architecture of Helsinki is the talk of the town here in our nation's capital. Art Director: Svetlana Petrovic The exhibition is titled "Helsinki—Contemporary Urban Architecture" and it showcases the city's recent transformation, as seen through the lens of Administration: Arline Chambers architectural photographer Jussi Tiainen. Information and ads for the newsletter should be sent three weeks before the issue dat Anyone interested in architecture and urbanism should be interested in Issue Deadlme: May/June 2003 April 10, 2003 Helsinki. After all, it is the second fastest growing city in Europe, and it is Please send all ad materials, notices of events, exhibitions and news to the attention of the editc growing with an intelligent plan and a sense of momentum. The scope of this Julie D. Tavlor. Editor SAH/SCC News Newsletter telephone: 310.247 1099 show, illustrating 40 buildings completed in just a three-year period, certainly PO. Box 56478 Newsletter fax: 310.247.8147 attests to the impressive amount of creative work and collective ambition that Sherman Oaks. Newsletter e-mail: [email protected] the city has witnessed. CA 91413 I was immediately struck with a general impression of quality; Finland's architecture seems to have that Swiss character of precision craftsmanship SAH/SCC Executive Board that always seems to convey a sense of camaraderie between the architects Anthony Denzer (President) Jean Clare Baaden Ted Kane and the builders. Whether that's actually true or not I do not know. Still. I am Sian Winship (Vice President) John Berley Alex Meconi left with the impression that even in humble structures, such as cafes and Merry Ovnick (Membershrp) John Ellis Hal Meltzer information kiosks. Helsinki is committed to making excellent public amenities. Rina Rubenstein (Treasurer! Brent Eckerman (Internet) Of the buildings in the exhibition, a primary school by Seppo Hakli stood out for its visual power The school, an elegant wood-and-glass box. stands SAH/SCC Advisory Board amid a grove of birch trees. While the building itself spreads horizontally Ted Wells. Ted Bosley, Ken Breisch, Stephen Harby, Elizabeth McMillian, Rochelle Mills, behind the slender trees, the vertical siding and tall windows cleverly serve to Claire Rogger, Richard C.Rowe, Nancy Smith, Robert Winter harmonize architecture and environment Based on this building and a variety of other projects that have been published. Hakli is certainly emerging as a designer of great regional sensitivity—one to watch. Although the exhibition introduces Hakli and dozens SAH/SCC members of other exciting young Finnish architects, the LiFe Members: GEORGE PENNER KIMBERLY McKEAN building that steals the show STANDISH K PENTON FRANCE H MEINDL GRANT BARNES AUDREE PFNTON CHRIS MENRAD is the only "foreign"product: KATHLEEN BIXLER JOHN AUGUST REED JEFFREY & ROCHELLE MILLS MARY DUrrON BOEHM Steven Holl's Contemporary CLAIRE ROGGER IRIS MINK MARIE BOTNICK RICHARD CAYIA ROWE MAHHEW MINK Art Museum, known as BILL BOWLING JEFFREY B SAMUDIO TOSHIKO MORI "Kiasma." Holl's building is RUTH BOWMAN STEVEN SAUTE JAN & PAUL MUNOZ LYNN MARIE BRYANT positioned on a difficult site LAWRENCE SCARPA RICHARD OOSTEROM BENTE AND GERALD E BUCK ANN SCHEID FELIX PFEIFLE at the heart of the city BONNIE BURTON JAMES M SCHWENTKER III LAWRENCE & CAROL PLAH PAMELA BURTON among some intimidating JULIUS SHULMAN JULIE RASKOFF MIRIAM & SAM CAMPBELL PATRICIA SIMPSON TOM REAVEY & PEGGY REAVEY neighbors, such as Eliel WENDY CARSON CECILIA SINGER JENNIFER & MICHAEL SALTZMAN Saarinen's Central Station ROBERT JAY CHAHEL MARK SLOTKIN ELEANOR SCHAPA STEVE CONNER and Alvar Aalto's Finlandia GIBBS M SMITH KAREN SIMMONS JEFFREY COOK JANANN STRAND SAM & JODI SPADE Half CROSBY DE CARTERET DOE VERN SWANSEN CHRISTINA STEWART LINDA SOLLIMA DOE Kiasma is a particularly REG THATCHER JOHN C TERELL HEINZ E ELLERSIECK RAUN THORP TIMOTHY TUPPER difficult building to portray in J RICHARD FARE M BRIAN TICHENOR. AIA GUSTAV H ULLNER CAROL FENELON photographs because Holl's A TISCHLER BETTY M. ULLNER DONALD R. FERGUSON MAGGIE VALENTINE LYNN VAVRA philosophy of architecture GILBERT GARCEHI DANIEL VISNICH DONALD ZIEMER places little emphasis on the static visual image. Instead. Holl believes that we SUKEY GARCETTI ROBERT D. WALLACE STEVEN ZIMBELMAN DR. & MRS. KENNETH GEIGER experience architecture with our bodies, not just our eyes. Buildings must be QUINCY WARGO DR PETERJ ZWERVER GORDON & JOY GILLIAM JOHN WARNKE MARGOTZWEflVER experienced in person, in time, in the changing sunlight and temperature, with RAYMOND GIRVIGIAN, FAIA LORI WARNKE PROF PAUL GLEYE all of the senses. Architecture, according to Holl, is felt rather than seen. DR PATRICIA A. WARREN ANDY & LISA HACKMAN ERIC & KAREN WARREN New Members: Although Holl's approach—known as phenomenology—is perhaps more BRUCE HALLEH RON WATSON BETH HALLEH popular in Scandanavia than here, this exhibition does not suggest that there OAVID R. WEAVER LI; Brown STEPHEN HARBY JOHN WELBORNE, ESQ, Charlotte & Bill Bryant is a uniform Finnish "school" or "style." In fact there is great variety. It should ELIZABETH HARRIS TED W WELLS Calhoun Chappelle EUGENE & SHIRLEY HOGGATT be mentioned, too, that as there are no floor plans or any other drawings OR, ROBERT WINTER Chris Chow JAMES & ANNELIESE HORECKA displayed, and very little text, it is difficult to make any kind of serious TERI SUE WOLF Lee Con ELAINE K. SEWELL JONES MR & MRS DAVID YAMADA Beatrice Findley architectural evaluation. REBECCA KAHN BOB YOUNG Edgar Garcia DIANE KANE The exhibit was mounted at the Finnish Embassy one of Washington's JOYCE ZAITLIN LUIS Hoyos STEPHEN A KANTER M.D MaryAnne Hunting best new buildings. Completed in 1994 by the architects Heikkinen + Komonen, VIRGINIA ERNST KAZOR Roberta Jorgensen, FAIA MARILYN KELLOGG the Finnish building stands out prominently among its conservative neighbors Patron Members: Nathan Marsak LAMAR KERLEY Rena L Michel on Embassy Row. What appears from the exterior to be an elegant but THEODORA KINDER BROOKE ANDERSON Ronald Nesloi. AIA CHARLES A LAGRECO muscular steel-and-glass block is revealed on the inside to be a dynamic RUSSELL D AVERY Patrick & Julie Pascal RUTHANN LEHRER spatial experience, centered around a bold curving staircase with thrilling CLAUS BEST JaneH Root PAMELA
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