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Detail of cover of Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow by Merry Ovnick. DIALOGUES WITH DESIGN: ESTHER MCCOY LECTURE SERIES ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: BOB WINTER AND MERRY OVNICK The oracular and irreverent Robert W. Dialogues With Design was established for Winter, Professor of History Emeritus at SAH/SCC members and the public to hear about Occidental College, has dispensed knowledge and LA'S architectural history from those who made it. awakened all of us to the architectural gems (and The series, organized by SAH/SCC Board Member foibles) of California. The four editions (with Alison Cotter and SAH/SCC News editor Julie D. variations in title) of Los Angeles: An Architectural Taylor, continues throughout the year and is held Guide (Gibbs-Smith, 1994), co-authored with the end of ihc Rainho'u at the LA Central Library downtown, from 1:30PM late David Gebhard, have been, successfully, the to 3PM. The Sunday afternoon programs are free ultimate building-spotter's handbook. Among his and open to the public. SAH/SCC members can other publications are: A Guide to the reserve seats by filling out a form on Page 8, or by Architecture of San Francisco and Northern calling 800.9SAHSCC. May's program is the final Galifornia, also with Gebhard (1974, 1985), The in the spring series. Watch the newsletter for California Bungalow (Hennessey & Ingalls, 1980), upcoming Fall events. American Bungalow Style (Simon & Schuster, On May 17th, Bob Winter and Merry Ovnick 1996), and Toward a Simpler Way of Life will discuss and debate the stature of Los Angeles (University of California Press, 1997). in the canon of architectural history. They will He was one of the founders of the Southern focus on the struggles endured to establish the California Chapter of the Society of Architertural importance of the full range of LA's history—from Historians in the early 1970s, serving three years Missions to Googie. as president This year, he served as co-chair of the local committee hosting the 51 st Annual Meeting of the national Society of Architectural

Historians in Los Angeles this past April. Merry Ovnick's book Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow, Before coming to Occidental in 1963, Dr. published by Balcony Press, was called "delightful and Winter held teaching assignments at Dartmouth informative" by the LA Times.

and Bowdoin, then was assistant professor of a dual biography of tile maker Ernest Batchelder history at UCLA. He has chaired the Pasadena (who designed Winter's Pasadena home) and Alice Cultural Heritage Commission twice. For 12 years, Coleman Batchelder, and a history of Pasadena he belonged to the Cultural Heritage Board; five architecture. years as vice president, and two years as His desultory and long term-student, Merry WAY O president. In 1986, he published a monograph, Ovnick, is a lecturer in history at California State Myron Hunt at Occidental College. Dr. Winter is a University, Northridge. She authored Los Angeles: trustee of the Pasadena Historical Society and an The End of the Rainbow (Balcony Press, 1994). She advisory council member of the Conservancy and THE ARTS CRA is currently an active Board Member of SAH/SCC, the Cultural Heritage Foundation of Southern responsible for increasing the Chapter's ARCHITECTS OF CA,LIF0RN1A California. membership and organizing such tours as Spanish In 1993, he received the Donald Pflueger Romance & California Living this past March, and Award in local history from the Historical Society the upcoming Redlands Rendezvous, June 6th (see Southern California and President's Awards page 2), she also sen^^ed on the host committee for om the California Preservation Foundation and the April conference. ...ye Southern California Chapter of the American Robert Winter's book Toward a Simpler Way of Life was Call 800.9SAHSCC to resen/e your spot for Institute of Architects. His current projects include recently published by the University of California Press. Dialogues With Design. AS V yCNUSTAS VENUSTAS tNUSI AS. MTU H '.1 I VENUSTIk SAH/SCC HEWS is published bi-monthly by REDLANDS RENDEZVOUS the Sodety of Architectural Historians/ Southern California Chapter. Subscription SAH/SCC Bus TOUR: JUNE 6TH is 0 benefit of membership.

' Redlands beckons: Editor: Julie D. Taylor Saturday, June 6th. It's a Assistant Editors: Felicia Molnor; Linda Won warm and hospitable Executive Assistant: Grace Somudio p town chock full of well- p Information and ads for the newsletter should 5 maintained homes and be sent three weeks before the issue date. public structures—a Issue Deadline veritable text book of July/August 1998 June 12th •r Victorian, Mission September/October 1998 August 7th t Revival, and Craftsman Please send all ad materials, notices of events, 5 styles. Sign up now for exhibitions and news—plus photographs—to Redlands Rendezvous, the attention of the editor: : organized by SAH/SCC Board Member Merry Julie D. Taylor, Editor i Ovnick. It's $75 for SAH/SCC News SAH/SCC members; $90 P.O. Box 92224 for non-members. See Pasadena, CA 91109-2224 800.9SAHSCC (800.972.4722) Page 8 for order form. Newsletter telephone: 310.247.1099 We'll start the day with Newsletter fax: 310.247.8147 ^ juice and pastries before The A.K. Smiley Library fsans tower; is part of Redlands Rendezvous. Newsletter e-mail: [email protected] boarding our luxury tour „ , , jewel overall, and especially in its photogenic Jt'. '^^^.^l!^ c^ ll^^^ details. And even the missing tower will be there SAH/SCC Executive Board D day films set in Southern Califomia. The real fun in slides and, soon, in fact: a Smiley Library Tower President: John Beriey begins when we arrive in Redlands. Vice President: Nancy Smith & Building Fund has been established to Redlands was a citrus boom town of the 1880s. Recording Secretary: Jennifer Minasion reconstruct it to its original glory. Your ticket Newcomers hoping to make it rich in the citrus Membership Secretary: Merry Ovnick includes a donation (tax deductible) of $25 toward Devctepment Officer: Sian Winship business built Victorian houses, churches, and that project Preservation Officer: Grant Taylor businesses among the orange groves and on the We'll also hear Dr. Kenneth Breisch, author of Publicist: Alison Cotter downtown blocks. Some of them did get rich, and Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Treasurer: Rino Rubenstein their Victorian extravaganzas are something to Library in America (M.l.T. Press, 1997) on the late Volunteer Coordinator: Rebecca Kohn behold. (And we will!) By the 1890s, Redlands was 19th-century revolution in functionalist library Internet Editor: Bort^aro Lomprecht drawing wealthy Eastemers as a winter paradise. 818.794.5878; [email protected] design, of which this library is a great example. Member at Large: Rochelle Dynes Mills Substantial mansions sprang u(>—among them the We'll enjoy box lunches in Smiley Park and a kx)k French Chateau-style Kimberly Crest (1897; Member at Large: Ted Wells at the Lincoln Shrine (1932; Elmer Grey) with its Dennis & Farwell), which we'll tour. murals by Dean Cornwell (who also did murals in The romance of Southern California, illustrated http :/Avww. cacr. ca Itech. edu/~ mac/soh/i ndex. htm Los Angeles Central Library). After lunch. Dr. on local growers' orange crate labels, saw Burgess will guide us on a bus tour to the SAH/SCC Advisory Boord architectural expression in Redlands' Mission highlights of Redlands architecture, including the Board Chair Jeff Samudio, architectural historian Revival style, which Gebhard and Winter's Guide campus of the University of Redlands, founded in member to the State Historical Resources Commission; calls "among the most spectacular remaining in Ted Bosley, director of the Gamble House; Robert J. 1907 with Beaux Arts buildings by Norman Marsh Califomia." One of the grandest examples Chattel, construaion management consultant; (also known for his design of Venice, CA). Bring anywhere is the A.K. Smiley Public Library (1897; Ezequiel Gutierrez, attorney; Claire Rogger, retired T.R. Griffith). your cameras! City Council Deputy; Alan H. Rosenberg attorney; We'll conclude with a reception in an 1890 Dr. Larry E. Burgess, the library's director, will Richard C. Rowe, architectural historian and former home still set among its original citrus grove-a editor of SAH/SCC News. give us the library's design history—including the gracious step back into time. And then we'll return 1937 removal of its landmark tower. The library to LA, film-entertained along the way. Life Members: has just been renovated and is at its best—a real Grant Barnes Susan W. Monteith Kolhleen Bixler Doug Morekind Mary Dulton Boehm Sara. G. Muller Chemoff INDUSTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS Bill Bowling Betsy Murchison Rufh Bownvin Mark Nichols Lynn Marie Bryant Peter A, Nimmer Bonnie Burton John M. NisJey The Initiative for Architectural Research (lAR) was established in 1997 as a joint effort of the Miriam Campbell Thomas O'Connor Sam Campbell Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), American Institute of Architects (AIA), and Anne Otterson Robert Jay Chattel Dovid and Helen Palmer Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), in an effort to provide a singular voice advocating Jeffrey Cook C.E. Parker Stephen P. Donforth for the varying complexity and breadth of research being conducted by architectural practitioners, Audree Penton Tim Day academics, and members of the building industry. lAR has three primary objectives: to serve as a Stondish K. Penton Astrid E. Eilersiedc John August Reed powerful and active advocate for architectural research; to serve as a clearinghouse for information Heinz E. Ellersieck Claire Rogger about architectural research; and to facilitate research efforts that address specific needs of the J. Rtehord Fore Richard Coyio Rowe Donald R. Ferguson architectural profession. The lAR website (http://www.architectureresearch.org) includes listings of Jeffrey B. Samudio Gilbert and Sukey Garcetti Wolter B. Si«)er educational programs and research centers, grant and conference opportunities, links to related Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Geiger Potrido Simpson Gordon GHIiom organizations, and (in the future) a search engine directed toward A/R: Architecture/Research, a Cecilia Singer Joy Gilliam Mark Slotkin PoulGleye compilation of architectural research projects. Jononn Strand Stephen Horby Vem Swansen Eugene Hoggatt Lorenzo Tedesco Shirley Hoggon Reg Thatcher The James Marston Fitch Charitable Trust will award a $20,000 research grant to mid-career Ekiine K. Sewell Jor>es M. Brian Tichenor professionals who have an advanced or professional degree and at least 10 years' experience, and an Rebecca Kohn Stephen A. Konter, MD Mr. & Mrs. A. Tischler established identity in one or more of the following fields: historic preservation, architecture, Virginki Ernst Kazor Moggie Volerrtine Harriette von Breton landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, archaeobgy, architectural history, and Marilyn Kelkjgg Theodora Kinder Robert D. Wolkxe the decorative arts. Other smaller grants up to $10,000 are made at the discretion of the Trustees. Charles A. Lagreco John Wamke The grants are intended to support innovative original research and creative design that advances the Ruthonn Lehref Lori Wamke Joyce. P. Ludmer Dr. Patricia A. Wanen practice of preservation in the United States. These grants are partially made possible by the Randell L Makinson Ron Wotson generosity of the Kress Foundation. For information and applications, contact Morley Bland, The Christy Johnson McAvoy DovW R. Weaver Suzanne W. McCorthy John Welbome, Esq. James Marston Fitch Charitable Trust, Office of Beyer Blinder Belle, 41 East 11th St., New York, NY EloDobeth McMiUkin Dr. Robert Winter 10003; tel. 212.777.7800; fax 212.475.7424. Postmari< deadline: August 15,1998. Le Roy Misuroco Mr. & Mrs. DovkJ Yamodo Robert Young Honorory Member: Robert Pierson SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: 200 YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE SAH/SCC TRAIN AND GUIDED TOUR: MAY 23RD populations that could support and promote the The architectural charm of San Juan Capistrano is building of missions. The Franciscan padres admired for its quaintness and commitment to were drawn to the area for its vast resources of adobe and Spanish architectural detailing. Most Indian converts as well as the fresh-water fertile buildings in the community, with rare exception, land that would support crops and commerce follow the strict architectural guidelines. necessary for the survival of the missions and However, a design competition for the new their important work. library netted a new approach. Designed by The Capistrano Valley, blessed with an award-winning architect Michael Craves, the San abundance of all three—Indians, water, fertile Juan Capistrano Library has earned the title of land—garnered the attention of the "the first post-modern building in town," and missionaries, and on November 1,1776, Padre created a new interest in the architecture of the Junipero Serra founded Mission San Juan area. Join SAH/SCC for San Juan Capistrano: Capistrano, the seventh of 21 missions. By 200 Years of Architecture, a day-long guided 1796, the mission boasted a thriving industry in tour on Saturday, May 23rd, organized by agriculture and livestock, as well as weaving and SAH/SCC Board Member Rochelle Mills. The cost tanning. The mission's growth and prosperity is $50 for SAH/SCC members; $65 non- continued well into the 1800s. members; see Page 8 for order form. In 1833, the Secularization Act was passed to reduce the mission's stronghold in land ownership. However, despite the Act's good intentions, the Natice Indian families did not benefit from the land grants. Instead, the land grants helped establish the Rancho system, putting large quantities of land in the ownership of powerful men and families. As a direct result, the Mission of San Juan Capistrano began to lose its footing as the community leader. After The San Juan Capistrano Library courtyard. (Photo: Ted Welh) being declared a pueblo by the Mexican government in 1845—as opposed to a religious which was easily transferred to the stuff of early parish—the mission itself was sold to an The San ]uan Capistrano Library designed by award-winning Hollywood. The community began again to grow Englishman, John Forster (also known as Don architea Michael Craves has earned the title of "the first post• with new stores, a hotel, and locally raised cattle Juan Forster) for $710. Forster, who married the modern building in town." (Photo: Ted Wells) that were driven north to prospectors and sold at governor's sister, eventually owned more than large profits. The Homestead Act encouraged The Tour will meet at Union Station in Los 250,00 acres, indicative of the impact the Easterners to venture West in search of the Angeles at SAM for the 8:20AM train to San Juan Secularization Act had on the wealthy American Dream, and rapid growth followed. Capistrano. Those who join the train will enjoy a landowners. Not surprisingly, the population of Board and batten homes were being built discussion of the history of the train route and San Juan Capistrano began to decline. The adjacent to earlier mission-era adobes in the Los cities we pass along the way. We welcome our Mission remained in private ownership until Rios area. In 1887, with the arrival of the guests to join in and share their stories of train 1865 when it was returned to the Catholic California Central Railroad, a land boom once rides and knowledge of tJie area as well. We Church by none other than Abraham Lincoln. again flourished. arrive in the SJC station at 9:48AM. (Those coming from the South may meet us at the Despite the growth in San Juan Capistrano's historic train station at 10AM.) We will begin our economy and population, at the turn of century, day by walking to the Mission to look at the the mission impact was largely ineffectual. However, in 1939, a live radio broadcast centuries-old structure, the ruins from the quake discussing the swallows' annual return to the of 1812, and look into the restoration efforts. mission brought a new notoriety to the Then, it's fast-forward to the present for a community that to this day is now as famous as guided tour of the San Juan Capistrano Library the Mission itself. with the Friends of the SJC Library. Afterwards, guests can relax on the Library grounds and enjoy their own picnic lunches, or visit one of the many Tou:R DETAILS nearby eateries. Following lunch, we will take a walking tour of the downtown areas, as well as The outdoor walkway of fhe Mission San Juan Capistrano. step back in time on a stroll through Los Rios, (Photo: Ted Welk) California's oldest neighborhood and home to the • Mtset at Union Statiofi/ downtown lA After the victory over Mexico in 1848, original mission families. After a few moments of • $50 SAH/SCC members; $65 non-nnembers California was made a state. San Juan shopping and wandering on your own in the inciudes round-trip train fare to and from Capistrano—with a location halfway between town, we will re-board the Amtrak at 4:20PM to Los Angeles, admission to the Mission, and the larger cities of San Diego and Los return to Union Station at 5:50PM. a gift to the Friends of the SjC library who Angeles—became as well known for its bandits, The year 1776 is known to most primarily as have g^nett)usly volunteered to serves as squatters, and other unsavory residents and the year of the Declaration of Independence. docents for our group drifters, as for its former Mission and thriving However, out West, in the area of the Mexican • Tour price without train fare: $35 SAH>$CC economy. With the migration of folks to the territory that would one day become Southern members; $50 horj-members north in search of promises of gold, a legacy of California, the American Revolution could not • NOTE; History discussions will take place drunken brawls, stage coach robberies, and have been more irrelevant. That is because aboard train mayhem became San Juan Capistrano's legend. Spanish missionaries were busy seeking sites and c., Vlilili^TAS UTIl riAS I-IMMITAS V K, N 1.1 3 I'A 5:

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1/1 U) tfl AIA/IA 7998 Spring Home Tour Series. 9, Saturday 16, Saturday < Featuring homes in Manhattan and Old Pasadena. Walking tour. Pasadena Historic Downtown Long Beach. Walking tour. Hermosa Beaches by Dean Nota, Alison Heritage; Arroyo Seco Building, 117 5. Long Beach Heritage Coalition; Hisioncal Wright, Rockefeller Hricak, and Sara Colorado; 9-11:30AM; $5; res. req. Society of Long Beach, 418 Pine Ave., LB; Warshaw. AIA/LA, 8687 Melrose Ave., LA; 626.441.6333. 10AM. $3, res. req. 562.493.7019. 10AM-4PM; $25-40. 310.785.1809. 12, Tuesday 16, Saturday 3,Sunday The frescoes of Diego Rivera. Film of the Archaeo/ogy Symposium. A panel of scholars Hillwood Museum and Gardens: The Mexican painter's life. Palm Springs share their findings from the Coachella Valley. Home of Marjorie Mem weather Post, a Desert Museum, 101 Museum Dr., PS; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Annenberg Collector With a Passion for Beauty. Noon. 760.325.7186. Theater, 101 Museum Dr., PS; Noon. Lecture with Hillwood Museum direaor 760.325.7186. Frederick J. Fisher, with special guest 12, Tuesday actress Dina Merrill, sponso'ed by Los The Landscape Architecture of the Getty 16, Saturday Angeles Design Croup. LA Antiques Museum. Lecture with landscafse architea S»ena: Sites and Insights. William Keighley Art Show; Barker Hanger, Santa Monica Air Andrew Spurlock. AIA/San Diego; and Architecture Lecture with art historian Jane Center, 3021 Airport Ave., SM, Noon. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Friedman. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 213.653.9338. 700 Prospect SL, La Jolla; 7PM; $7-10. Bing Theatre, Wilshire Blvd., LA; 1PM. Ift Ifl 0) 619.232.0109. D 3 3 r/)e garden landscape designer jay Griffith's home 213.857,6512. Z Z 7. ^ in Venice is featured in the fourth annual 3, Sunday U Ul u benefit > > > > walking tour is on May 30th. (Photo. Steven Cunther) Garden Lecture. Slide lecture with garden 14, Thursday 16-28, Wednesday-Thursday writer Christopher Lloyd. The Huntington Travertine Stone at the Getty Center. The Art, Architecture of Burgundy, Paris, and Library, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino; Perspectives on designing and building the Loire Valley. 14-day study tour of France $10; res. req. 818.405.2100. the Cetty Center with scientist Eric with artist Judith Corona. UCLA Extension, Doehne Cetty Center, Cetty Center Dr., 10995 Le Conte Ave., l^; $3,850. (/] U) ID < < < 3,Sunday LA; 6:30PM; free; res. req. 310.825.9061. K H (- m a Chamber Music in Historic Sites: 310.440.7722. 1- t- I- y Chanticleer. Mexican Baroque concert at 17, Sunday - 1, Friday Mission San Cabriel. Da Camera Society; 14, Thursday The 9th Annua/ Museums of the Arroyo Day. Decorative Arts at the J. Paul Cetty 5PM and 7PM; $27-30; res. req. History Alive! Chautauqua—Governor Pio Festival along the historic Arroyo Seco. Museum. Lecture with Cetty decorative 310.954.4300. Pico. Catalina Island Museum Society, Heritage Square Museum, 225 S. Lake Ave., arts curator Gillian Wilson, sponsored by Avalon Schools Auditorium, Santa Pasadena; 11AM-5PM; free. 626.844,9194. Los Angeles Design Croup. LA Antiques 3,10,17,24, 31, Sunday Catalina Island; 7PM; free. 310.510.2414. Show; Barker Hanger, Santa Monica Air Pacific Heights Walking Tour. The 17, Sunday Center, 3021 Airport Ave., SM; 2PM. Foundation for San Francisco's 14-17, Thursday-Sunday Early California Days. Experience life in the 213.653.9338. Architectural Heritage; 12:30PM; $5. Bridges: A/A National Convention and 1840s. Rancho Los Cemtos Historic Site, 4600 415.441.3004. Expo. In San Francisco, the convention Virginia Rd., LB; 12:30-4:30PM; $3. 1-2, Friday-Saturday includes keynotes, meetings, workshops, 562.570.1755, Homes Architects Des/gn for Themselves 4, Monday seminars, product expo, and tours. Tour of leading-edge LA projects with Wet and Wild. Program on lighting for 202.626.7395. 17, Sunday architect Michael Hricak. UCLA Extension; water environments. Designers Lighting Seminar Highlights: Pride and Perseverance: An Historical Overview Friday Orientation, 7-9PM; Saturday Tour, Forum of LA; 6PM; $5-10. 562.989.3843. • Bridge to Education, 5/14. Keynote with of the Vernon-Central Community. Exhibition 8:30AM-6PM. $150. 310.825.9414. Peter Lawrence, Glen H. Hiner, and opening reception The Dunbar Economic 5, 7, 9, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Jeffrey Pfeffer. Development Corporation; Dunbar Hotel, 2, Saturday Coronado Touring. Walking tours every • Pathways to Leadership—Women in 4225 S. Central Ave., LA; 1-3PM, A Day in Florence. One-day seminar on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Architecture, 5/14. 213.234.7882. Florentine architecture with gallery Clorietta Bay Inn; 11AM-12:30PM; $6. • The National Historic Preservation director Irini Vallera-Rickerson. UCLA Cerry MacCartee, 619.435.5892/ System, 5/14. 17, Sunday Extension, Westwood; 9AM-4PM; Nancy Cobb, 619.435.5993. • Designing Green for Fun and Profit, 5/14. fam/7y Festival. Music and artmaking. Museum $45-75. 310.825.9414. • Bridge to Leadership in the Community, of Contemporary Art, 250 S. Grand Ave., LA; 6, Wednesday 5/15. Keynote with Richard Farson. 1-5PM. 213.621.1712. 2, Saturday Collaborations. Lecture with architects • The High-Performance Workplace, 5/15. SOA^A-Verba Suena Gardens. Walking tour Tom Buresh, Danelle Cuthrie, and Robert • Bridging the Landscape Between 17, Sunday with the Foundation for San Francisco's Miliar about Water Works, A W T.P. Education and Praaice, 5/15. SAH/SCC EVENT Architectural Heritage. California Barnsdall Art Park, Callery Theatre, 4800 • Community Activism, 5/15. Dialogues With Design: Historical Society, 678 Mission St., SF; Hollywood Blvd., LA; 7:30-9PM; free. • The Preservation Process, 5/15. 10-11AM; $35; res. req. 415.441.3004. 213.913.4157. • Bridge to the Global Marketplace, 5/16. Architectural History. Discussion Keynote with Lester Thurow. with Occidental College professor 2, Saturday 6, Wednesday • 21st-century Mega Cities, 5/16. and prolific writer Bob Winter and Claremont Walking Tour. Tour of village I OS Angeles: City of the Future. Leaure • Housing Design Response to Emerging SAH/SCC Board Member and UC area, historic Viaorians, college, and with Caltech history professor William Issues, 5/16. Northridge lecturer Merry Ovnick, commercial buildings with Claremont Deverell. Caltech, Beckman Auditorium, " Solar Electric Buildings, 5/16. Heritage. Meet at Sumitomo Bank, 102 Michigan Ave., Pasadena, 8PM; free. • Community Leadership, 5/16. author of Los Angeles: The End of Yale Ave., 10AM-Nkx)n; $5; res. req. 626.395.4652. • Bridge to Sustainable Values, 5/17. the Rainbow. LA Central Library; 909.621.0848. Keynote with Randolph R. Croxton. 1:30-3PM; free; res. req. See Page 7, Thursday " Community Design Charettes, 5/17. 1 for details; see Page 8 for order 2, Saturday Pasadena Art Walk. Self-guided, Old • Collaborative Strategies for Partnerships form. 800.9SAHSCC. Eclectic Ml. Washington. Walking tour of Town open house. The Armory Center for in Education Between Praaices and historic area and homes, including the Arts; 6-10PM. 626.792.5101. Schools, 5/17. Lautner's Mauer House. Highland Park Tour Highlights: 17, Sunday Heritage Trust, LA; 10AM-3PM; $10. 7-9, Thursday-Saturday • San Francisco City Tour. Murals of Asian-American LA. Bus tour of Asian- 213.255.2849. New Perspectives on Preservation. 23rd • Sonoma Wine Experience. American communities and art in LA. SPARC, annual conference of California • Painted Ladies With Tea and Cookies. 685 Venice Blvd., Venice; $20-25; res. req. 2, Saturday Preservation Foundation, co-hosted by • San Francisco Civic Center. 310.822.9560. Historic Downtown Alhambra. Walking Berkeley Architectural Heritage " Escape to Alcatraz. tour with Jim Cavener. Neighborhood Association. Berkeley City Club and Hotel • Historic Berkeley: Maybeck and Morgan. 19, Tuesday Place Project; 1-4PM; $10; res. req. Durant. CPF; $110-140. 510.763.0972. • Verba Buena Gardens. 39th Annua/ Architecture Guild Dinner. 818.790.6643. Conference Tracks: • Stanford University Campus, Honoring architect Pierre Koenig. USC, Town • Nuts and Bolts: Identification, • Market Street Corridor. and Gown, LA; 6PM; res. req. 213.740.6680. 2, Saturday Evaluation, Registration, Planning, • Monterey Peninsula. LA Lifestyle Discussion with interior Protection, Mitigation, and Treatment Special Event Highlights: 21, Thursday designers moderated by LA Times home of Historic Resources. • AIA/CC Awards Presentation, 5/14, Before the Getty Center; Monumental Los design editor Barbara Thornburg, " Documentation and Preservation of Cultural • Preservation Breakfast, 5/15. Angeles, Built and Unbuilt. Perspectives on sponsored by Los Angeles Design Croup. Landscapes. • Sole Practitioners Breakfast, 5/16 designing and building the Getty Center with LA Antiques Show; Barker Hanger, Santa • Building Bridges and Broadening historian Thomas S. Hines. Getty Center, Cetty Monica Air Center, 3021 Airport Ave., Constituencies. 15, Friday Center Dr., LA; free; 6:30PM; res. req. SM; 2PM. 213.653.9338, • Bringing the Past into the 21st Century: Twilight Walking Tour. Historical Society of 310.440.7722. Integrating New Technology and Modern Long Beach meets at the WPA mural. Third St. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Saturday Program Requirements with Preservation. and Promenade, LB, Long Beach Heritage 21, Thursday Downfown M. Walking tours of various • Architectural History. Coalition; 5PM; $3; res. req. 562,493.7019. Masters of Architeaure. Lecture with architect downtown landmarks. LA Conservancy; Michael Rotondi, FAIA. AIA/LA; LA County lOAM-Noon; $5; res. req. 213.623.2489. 8, Friday 16, Saturday Museum of Art, Bing Theatre, LA; 6:30PM; Elysian Park, Dodger Stadium, and Nearby Frontiers of Archaeology. Course explores $5-12; res. req. 310.785.1809. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Saturday "Rural" Areas. Walking tour. issues and techniques at forefront of Turistorica. Walking tours with Neighborhood Place Projea; 2-5PM; archaeology. UCLA Extension, Fowler Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara. $10; res. req. 818.790.6643. Museum, Westwood; 9AM-4 30PM; $55-95 City Hall Steps, De La Cuerra Plaza, SB; 310.825.9414. 10AM-tskx)n; $5. 805 965 3021. 23, Saturday 6,13,20,27, Saturday 18, Thursday Downfoivn IA Walking tours of various Summer Fvening Picnicking and House SAH/SCC TOUR downtown landmarks, LA Conservancy; Tours. Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site, Son Juon Capistrano: 200 Years of lOAM-Noon; $5; res. req, 213,623.2489 4600 Virginia Rd., LB; 5-7:30PM; free, Architecture. Tour of missions and 562.570.1755. modern buildings with SAH/SCC 6, 13,20, 27, Saturday 18, Thursday Board Member Rochelle Mills. Turistorica. Walking tours with Good Design Good Business, Leaure with Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara architect Lance Bird, AIA/LA Design 8AM-6PM; $50-65. See Page 3 and Citizens Planning Foundation of Santa Committee; 6:30PM; free for AIA members for details; see Page 8 for order Barbara. City Hall Steps, SB; lOAM-Noon; and students, $5 for others; res, req, form. 800.9SAHSCC. $5. 805,965.3021 or 805,965,6307. 310.785,1809.

23, Saturday 6,13,20, 27, Saturday 19, Friday Black Historical Tour of Los Angeles. Guided Gopgie Tours, Choice of The San Gabriel Getting Ready for a Facilities Project. A tour of Sugar Hill, Central Avenue, and The Valley, Behind the Orange Curtain, Coliee half-day facility-planning workshop Island Neighborhood. KEP Tours, 5150 Shop Modern and More, Cocktails 'N' designed for organizations. National Candlewood St., Lakewood; 9AM-1PM; Coffee Shops with preservationist John Association for African American Heritage $17.50-24.50; res. req. 562 461.9956. English, $.34; res, req. 213.980.3480, Preservation, Regal Biltmore Hotel, Downtown LA; 8AM-12PM, $25, 23, Saturday 7, Sunday 888.358.8388 Monrovia Nursery Tour. Azusa tour. American Architectural Home Tour. Brentwood Society of Landscape Architects. 9.30AM. Historical Society, 11820 San Vicente 19-21, Friday-Sunday 714.838.3615. Blvd,, LA. 310.472.8034. Historic Black Las Vegas, Tour of the African American community of Las Vegas including 28, Thursday 7, Sunday the African American Cultural Center and the Good Design Good Business. Leaure at Collaborations. Lecture with architects Moulin Rouge, Las Vegas' oldest casino. architecture firm RTKL. AIA/LA Design Anne Zimmerman and Xavier Mendoza National Association for African American Committee; 6:30PM; free for AIA members Michael Rotondi of ROTO Architects speaks at about Pico Aliso Housing. Barnsdall Art Hentage Preservation; $250, 888.358.8388. and students, $5 for others; res. req. the Masters of Architedure Leaure, May 21 si. Park, Gallery Theatre, 4800 Hollywood 310.785.1809. Blvd., LA; 3^PM; free. 213,913 4157. 19-21, Friday-Sunday Los Ange/es'A/rican American Heritage Tour. 4, Thursday 7,14, 21,28, Sunday Tour of areas closely associated with black 30, Saturday Architecture Lecture. Program with Pacific Heights Walking Tour. The history, such as Central Ave, historic district. Joseph Cornell. Course examines the work of architect Dagmar Richter. Department of Foundation for San Francisco's Watts, black Pasadena, Crenshaw distria, the assemblage artist with art historian Joanna Architecture and Urban Design, School of Architectural Heritage; 12:30PM; $5. and "Bronzeville" the former black district of Roche. UCLA Extension, 3273 Dickson Art the Arts and Architecture, UCLA, 1302 415,441,3004. downtown LA. National Associabon for Center, Westwood; 9:30AM-12:30PM; $45. Perloff Hall, Westwood; 6:30PM. African American Heritage Preservation; $35. 310.825.9414. 310.825.7858. 9, Tuesday 888.358.8388 Architecture Lecture. AIA/San Diego; 30, Saturday 4, Thursday Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 19-21, Friday-Sunday Secret Gardens of Venice. Fourth annual Designing and Building the Getty Center. 700 Prospea Si, La Jolla; 7PM; $710. The Art of Paul Williams. Tour of the homes benefit walking tour hosted by landscape Perspeaives on the Getty Center with 619.232.0109, and buildings designed by architea Paul designer Jay Griffith. Neighborhood Youth photographer Joe Deal. Getty Center, Williams, National Association for African Association, Venice; 10AM-4PM; $50. Getty Center Dr., LA; free; 6:30PM; 10, Wednesday American Heritage Preservation; $50, 310.390.6641. res. req. 310.440.7722. Last Remaining Seats: Classic Films in 888,358.8388, Historic Theaters. "Lost Horizon" at the 30, Saturday 4,6, 8, Thursday, Saturday, Tuesday Palace Theatre, designed by G. Albert 20, Saturday Journey Through the Chateaux of France. Coronado Touring. Walking tours every Lansburgh, 1911. Los Angeles Historic Downtown Long Beach. Walking One-day seminar traces the development of Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Glorietta Conservancy. $15-65, 213,896.9114. tour. Long Beach Heritage Coalition; French elegance of chateaux interiors, with Bay Inn; 11AM-12:30PM; $6. Geny deisigner Jody Greenwald. UCLA Extension, MacCartee, 619.435.5892. Historical Society of Long Beach, 418 Pine 10-14, Wednesday-Sunday 147 Dodd Hall, Westwood; lOAM-4:30PM; Ave., LB; 10AM; $3; res, req, 7998 Annua/ Meeting of the Victorian $45-75. 310.825.9414. 4-7, Thursday-Sunday 562,493.7019, Society in Amerfca, Five days of tours, Capistrano Antiques and Garden Show. presentations, and feasts in Iowa and 24, Wednesday 30, Saturday International exhibitors and guesi Nebraska. Victorian Society in America. Last Remaining Seats: Classic Films in Old Towne Picnic and Preservation Awards. speakers, benefiting Reeve-Irvine Research 215.627 4252, Historic Theaters. "The Women" at the Los Celebration of Preservation Awards winners. Center at UCJ, Camino Health Center, and Angeles Theatre, designed by S. Charies Old Towne Preservation Association, Hart Boys & Girls Club of Capistrano Valley. 11, Thursday Lee and S. Tilden Norton, 1931. Los Park Bandshell, Orange. 714.639.6840. Decorative Arts Villa, 31431 Camino Designing and Building the Getty Center. Angeles Conservancy $15-65, Capistrano, SJC; 714,488.2627 31,Sunday Perspectives on the Getty Center with 213.896.9114. AIA/LA 7998 Spnng Home Tour Series. curator Donald Albrecht. Getty Center, 6, Saturday Featuring projects in Marina del Rey and Getty Center Dr,, LA; 6:30PM; free; 26-27, Thursday-Friday Venice by Lise Matthews, Michael Sant, and SAH/SCC TOUR res, req, 310,440,7722. Mchitectural Drawing and Rendering. Barbara Coffman. AIA/LA, 8687 Melrose Redlands Rendezvous. Tour of Workshop. UCLA Extension, Westwood; 10AM-4PM, 310.825.9414, Ave., LA; 10AM-4PM; $25-40. Redlands with SAH/SCC Board 13, Saturday Old Pasadena. Walking tour. Pasadena 310.785.1809. Member Merry Ovnick. $75-90. Heritage; Arroyo Seco Building, 117 E. 26-July 10, Thursday-Thursday See Page 3 for details; see Page Colorado; 9-11:30AM; $5; res, req. 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Making Architecture: The Getty Center San Francisco Museum of Modern Art From Concept Through Construction, 151 3rd St, SF. 415.357.4000. PRESERVATION through December 6. Photos, time-line, Keith Haring, May 8-September 6. First 'i: J, models, and sketches documenting the American retrospective of the 1980s ALERT process with Richard Meier, Robert graffiti artist. Irwin, and Dinwiddie Construction. Preservation Alert was created to AC. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent inform you of local sites that are Beyond Beauty: Antiquities as Evidence, Visions, through June 23. Works in danger. To submit sites for through January 17,1999. Comparative created by reclusive San Francisco study of antiquities in context. draftsman, 1930-1970. listing, send information on site, brief description of situation, and Hollyhock House Lorraine Wild: Selections from the number to call to get involved. 4808 Hollywood Bkd., LA. Permanent Collection of Architecture. 213.662.7272. through June 23. Exhibition of works of Photographs are always Tours of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock LA-based graphic designer. appreciated. Send to SAH/SCC vt m in House, Tuesday-Sunday, 1, 2, 3 PM. Fine Arts Seismic Facility, U.C Riverside, Paul Klee: Travels Near and Far, through News, P.O. Box 92224, through May 22. FVojea by Israel Callas July 28. Exhibition of selection of Klee's Pasadena, CA 97 709. Sites will Shortridge Associates, Annie Chu, landscapes. be listed as space allows. Ifl'J. ui Dagmar Richter, Pamela Burton & Co., and Fields & Devereaux, Joseph Cornell: Private Constellations, through October 13. An exhibition of Although they tout the Cinerama A skefch fantasylarid in Pans by Ahmad jafari from Challenging Creation, June 7-August 31. 21 works by the artist known for two- 'The Architecture of Reassurance' at the Armand Exhibition by the Association for Women dimensional collages and small box Dome as "the only theater of its >- H K Hammer Museum. (Photo: Wilt Disney /magineering in Architecture. constructions. lA lA in kind in the world," and "a 0 O D Collection OOisney) famous architectural landmark z z z Helen Lindhurst Architecture Gallery Humane Technology: The Fames Studio U ui lu Design Showcase Houses use, Watt Hall, LA. 213.740.2097. and Beyond, ongoing. Re-installation of and Hollywood icon," Pacific 5 Pasadena Showcase House of Design, Class of 1998, May 8-15. Bachelor and the Eameses' conference room, Theaters still sees room for 1 through May 17. Presented by Pasadena Master candidates work additional designs and films, plus work "improvement." Their proposed 2 Junior Philharmonic; benefits Los Angeles by designers who share the Eameses' ;i Philharmonic, Music Mobile Program, Los Angeles County Museum of Art vision. development plan will: eliminate Concerts for Youth at Pasadena Civic 5905 Wilshire Blvd., lA. 213.857.6000. the street-level entrance, lobby, Auditorium, Pasadena Instrumental Hirado Porcelain of japan from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and marquee for a restaurant and p Competition. Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday Kurtzman Family Collection, through 1130 State Street, SB. 805.963.4364 => 9:30AM-4PM; Wednesday-Friday June 22. Carved Paper: The Art of Japanese stores; encase the remaining 9:30AM-8PM; $18-20. 626.792.4661. Stencil, through August 9 Masterfully structure within a seven-story The Marston House carved, these stencils on exhibit parking garage and retail mall; Villa Toscana, through May 17. Presented 3525 7th Ave., SD. 619.298.3142. embody the Japanese genius for design. by ASID/Orange County; benefits A 1905 home designed by Irving Gill and remove the rear of the Dome for Philharmonic Society of Orange County. William Hebbard sits upon an almost UCLA at the Armand Hammer a 15-screen multiplex and Lemon Heights; Tuesday, Wednesday, five-acre estate, including historic Museum of Art and Cultural Center Friday-Sunday, 10AM-4PM; Thursday gardens. Tours: Friday-Sunday, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., VA. 310.443.7020. escalator; install a dropped 10AM-8PM; $15-20. 714.840.7542. Noon-3:45PM. Robert Adam—The Creative Mind: From ceiling to cover the interior the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, geodesic structure; gut the Silver Showcase: A Dutch Colonial Revival. Museum of Contemporary Art, LA through July 12. Drawings from 18th- through May 31. Benefits San Diego 250 S. Grand Ave., lA. 213.626.6222. century architect Adam and others in five auditorium and convert the two Historical Society. The Reynolds House, American Vernacular, through June 21. themes: Adam in Italy; Country Houses; seating levels into one; and 532 Marina Ave., Coronado. Town Buildings; Public Architecture; and Exhibition explores the reality and replace the "Cinerama" curved Tuesday-Thursday 10AM-4PM; Friday mythology of the built environment. the Adam Office. 10AM-8PM; Saturday-Sunday screen with a smaller flat screen. 11AM-4PM; $15. 616.533.7355. Oakland Museum of California The Architeaure of Reassurance: Designing The smaller screen would be 1000 Oak St., Oakland. the Disney Theme Parks, May 13-August positioned further into the Design House '98, through May 31. 510.238.2200. 23. Exhibition follows the layout of the Benefits New West Symphony. Camarillo; Cold Rush! California's Untold Stones, parks with more than 350 objects from auditorium, changing the Wednesday-Saturday 10AM-4PM; through July 26. Exhibition explores the visual archives of Walt Disney configuration from semi-circular Sunday Noon-4PM; Fridays 5:30-8PM impact of the Gold Rush on the state Imagineering. $16. 805.655.5613. with artifacts and re-created to square, and what's left of the archaeological dig. UCLA Fowler Museum Cinerama Dome will become a The Doctor's House Museum UCLA Campus, LA. 310.206.0306. box. To lend your support in 1601 W. Mountain, Brand Park, S/7ver and Cold, Cased /mages of the from the Rainbow's Varied Hue; Textiles of Clendale. 818^42.7447. Cold Rush, through July 26. Exhibition the Southern Philippines, May 10-August preserving the Cinerama Dome, The Fell-White Colleaion, ongoing. Family of 150 daguerreotypes and ambrotypes 23. Fifty rare cloths for social and ritual contact LA Councilwoman of the heirlooms from the 19th century, of the faces and landscape of the Gold functions. 13th District Jackie Goldberg, including clothing and mementos, Rush. donated to the Clendale Historical Villa Montezuma, Jesse Shepard House who controls the project approval Society. Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site 1925 K St., San Diego. 619.239.2211. process, at 200 N. Sprir\gSl., Los 4600 Virginia Road, Long Beach. An 1887 Queen Anne style house Angeles, CA 90012, and write a Dunbar Hotel 562.570.1755 designed by Comstock and Trotsche for 4225 S. Central Ave., lA. 213.234.7882. National historic landmark, 1844 the author. Tours: Saturday-Sunday, letter to the editor of your local Pride and Perseverance: An Historical adobe and gardens. Guided tours of Noon-3:45PM, newspaper. For more Overview of the Vernon-Central gardens, library, and archives, information, please call the Community 1928-1948, May 17-)une Wednesday-Sunday. 30. Exhibition about the community Friends of Cinerama message line curated by Rick Moss, including at 213.960.5045 and visit their photographs, maps, oral histories, and artifacts, coordinated by the Dunbar web site at http://pw1 .netcom. Economic Development Corporabon. com/~woodpssy/Savethedome. html. Form Zero 2445 Main SL, SM. 310.450.0222. Kobe 1995. After the Earthquake, May 8-July 5. A documentation by Tokyo- based photographer Ryuji Miyamoto, VOLUNTEERS WANTED which was previously presented at the FOR SCHINDLER Venice Biennale. HousE/MAK CENTER Gamble House Friends of the Schindler House and the 4 Westmoreland PI., Pasadena. 626.93.3334. MAK Center for Art and Architecture are Tours of Greene and Greene house, seeking volunteers to act as docents for Thursday-Sunday, Noon-3PM. the house—an architectural landmark— and for the contemporary art exhibitions The J. Paul Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Dr., lA. that the MAK Center stages there. 310.440.7300. res. req. Docents are asked to contribute one-half Landscape Drawings 1500-1900, June 9- day a month in addition to a training August 23. Exhibition examines landscapes session, as well as assisting at special from Renaissance through 19th century. events. For more information, contact Sketch design for a church in the style of Kelso Abbey by Kotxn Adam at ttie Armand Hammer Museum. Angelica at 213.651.1510. (Photo: Collection Sirlohn Soane s Museum. London. England) SAH/SCC MEMBER PROFILE: KATHRYN A. SMITH

more than two decades. She served on the When Kathryn A. Smith served as one of Otis Art Institute and Art Center College of faculty of History and Theory at SCI-Arc SAH/SCC's board members in the mid-1970s she Design. Her scholarship has concentrated on between 1986 and 1996. She also taught at became the creator of the SAH/SCC News. "We Frank Lloyd Wright and his California sent out monthly meeting notices," said Kathryn. contemporaries R.M. Schindler, Lloyd Wright, "So, I thought, why not just turn the notice into a and Richard Neutra. Her major publications newsletter that could provide another way for include: fran/c Lloyd Wright, Hollyhock House those in the chapter to be informed of upcoming and Olive Hill; Projects and Buildings for Aline events and also keep up with news of each Barnsdall, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and other." Her idea came at a time when the group Taliesin West. Two new titles will be published was hoping to expand its membership, and it this year by Abbeville Press, Frank Lloyd Wright : became the perfect vehicle for reaching a broader Master Architect and Tiny Folio: Frank Lloyd audience. Wright. Kathryn is also active in local preservation To simplify design, Kathryn decided to use issues. She was a founding board member of the "SAH/SCC" in the newsletter's title instead of the Friends of the Schindler House and served as chapter's full name. Much to her surprise, the Chairman of the Schindler Centennial in 1987. As term was greeted as a welcome change. a consultant to Brenda Levin Associates and Peter Ultimately, it succeeded in establishing a more Walker and Partners, she co-authored the contemporary image for the organization — Historic Site Survey of Barnsdall Park. "Historic another boost for membership. The newsletter, preservation in Los Angeles can be very subsequently taken over by board member frustrating, even heartbreaking at times," Kathryn Richard Rowe, and now produced by Taylor & remarks. "But when certain buildings survive, and Company, has become one of the design even thrive, like the Los Angeles Public Library, or industry's best sources of news and events. the Schindler House, it can be very rewarding." Kathryn has taught architectural history for Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West by Kathryn Smith was published in 1997 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. —A//son Cotter BOOKMARKS: HOT OFF THE ARCHITECTURAL PRESSES

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Michele Saee: Buildings -i- Projects introduction by Thorn Mayne; essays by Aris janigian, Fr^^hc Migayrou, and Michele Saee. A 160-page book of Michele Saee's residential and commercial work in LA examining his imagination through project sketches, models, text, Women and the Making of the Modern House by and photos. Included are photographs by Marvin Rand, Alice T. Friedman. Women commissioned avant-garde and several excerpts from Saee's sketchboob. Rizzoli architects to design homes that would agree with their International Publications, paper, $35. design and lifestyles, however unconventional. This 240-page book focuses primarily on six houses, Painting the Towns: The Murals of California by including two in Southern California: Wright's Robin). Dunitz and James Prigoff. This book escorts the Hollyhock House in LA, and Richard Neutra's reader through the state, showing some of the most Constance Perkins House in Pasadena. Harry N. beautiful murals, and giving them little stories about Abrams, Inc., hardcover, $39.95. the mural or artist. It is meant to whet our appetite so we can then turn to the lengthy bibliography at the end of the text for more information. For mural lovers, this

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