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THE HISTORIC AND MODERN SPIRIT OF VENTURA SAH/SCC TOUR: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH Ventura holds a variety of unexplored An air conditioned coach leaves from Celebrate the end of the summer on Saturday, architectural jewels. Other sites that may be Brentwood Science Magnet School at 8:30AM on September 5th, with a tour of undiscovered visited include a craftsman home by Charles and Saturday, September 5th. For lunch, tour-goers Ventura. We'll explore the history of the West and Henry Greene, a Spanish revival, a zigzag will have the opportunity to explore the the evolution of regional styles by visiting a cross Moderne structure, murals and mosaics by Millard restaurants and antique stores of downtown section of Ventura's architecture. The Historic Sheets, and much more. Ventura. The bus will arrive back in Brentwood at and Modern Spirit of Ventura is a day-long bus approximately 5:30PM. See Page 8 for order form. tour organized by SAH/SCC Board Member Sian Winship. Member price, $40; non-members $65. The third and final installment of the SAH/SCC series on undiscovered missions, this adventure puts Mission San Buenaventura in the social, historical and architectural context of the evolution of California. We'll walk through Southern California history from the days of the rancho to Pacific Rim gateway. A variety of commercial and residential sites will be visited, each illustrating an important element of architectural history. Among the sites to be visited is the First Baptist Church of Ventura, the Mayan revival fantasy designed by flamboyant architect Robert Stacy Judd in 1928-32. David Gebhard wrote in Robert Stacy Judd: Maya Architecture...the Creation of a New Style: 'This was the first ecclesiastic structure embodying Maya motifs. Although the church does encompass Maya motifs, its design is based upon the well-published contemporary Expressionist churches designed in Denmark by P.V. Klint" The accentuated verticality of this structure became one of the founding themes in American Art Deco. Stacy Judd is famous or espousing an "All American Architecture" inspired by the designs of the Maya and other Native American cultures of Meso America. The tour will explore the need for early 20th-century Californians to imbue their buildings with a sense of acquired history, as they carved the landscape of the modem West. Likewise, we will explore one of the earliest examples of California architecture at Mission San Buenaventura (1809). The ninth and last mission founded by Father Serra, it has been in continual use since its founding. The church walls of adobe, stone, and tile are six and one-half feet thick. The rafters, tile, and center aisle in the sanctuary are entirely original. Robert Stacy Judd's First Baptist Church of Ventura, built 1928-1932, is one of the architectural jewels of Ventura.. yCNUSTAS VCNUSTAS tNUSTAS
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w e're proud to let you know that the newsletter you hold in your hands is now the "award- Editor: Julie D. Taylor winning" SAH/SCC News. In May, the Public Comunicators of Los Angeles (PCLA) bestowed a Assistant Editors: Felicia Molnar; Linda Won 1998 PRo Award of Excellence to editor julie D. Taylor of Taylor & Company for the SAH/SCC Executive Assistant: Grace Samudio News. The PRo Awards competition has recognized outstanding achievements in public relations, publicity, and organizational communications since 1972. We gained first-place Information and ads for the newsletter should achievement in the category of Continuing External Publication: Not-for-Profit Organization with be sent three weeks before the issue date, /ssue Deadline Annual Budget Under $15,000. The award is given "for planning, editing, and producing and September/October 1998 August 10th ongoing publication published at least twice a year using the same format and directed to November/December 1998 October 9th external audiences." At the awards ceremony, attended by well more than 100 professional communicators, Please send all ad materials, notices of events, our mission statement was read to all, and was printed in the awards guide. Other architectural exhibitions and news—plus photographs—^to winners that evening were The Getty Center director of public affairs Lori Starr, who was the attention of the editor: awarded Most Valuable PRo Award, and Hill & Knowlton's Josh Gertler for his efforts on behalf Julie D. Taylor, Editor of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Kudos to all! SAH/SCC News —John3erley P.O. Box 92224 Pasadena, CA 91109-2224 800.9SAHSCC (800.972.4722) Newsletter telephone: 310.247.1099 Newsletter fax: 310.247.8147 Newsletter e-mail: [email protected]
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SAH/SCC Adrltoffy BoonJ Board Chair Jeff Samudio, architectural historian member to the State Historical Resources Commission; Ted Bosley, dirertor of the Gamble House; Robert J. Chattel, construction management consultant; Ezequiel Gutierrez, attorney; Claire Rogger, retired City Council Deputy; Alan H. Rosenberg, attorney; Richard C. Rowe, architectural historian and former editor of SAH/SCC News. The 'K4oorish'style Wm. F. Hold House in Redlands, huib 790,1 by arrhitea Fred S. Harris and cornraaor Louis A. Cooper. Lif«MMib«n: Grant Barnes Susan W. MonteWi KathlMn BbiWr Doug Mofekind Mary Outton Boehm Sara. G. Muller ChemoH Bill Bowttng Betsy Murafiison Ruth Bowman MaikHkhdk Lynn Marie Bryant P9t9f A. Nimm#r Barmte Burton JohnM. Nisley ^Aomd HA ft4tAt die ttMttAiomA tiU mo^ttU—
Preservation Alert was crested to inform you of local sites that are in danger. Send information on site, brief description of situation, and number to call to get invoh/ed. Photographs are always appreciated. Send to SAH/SCC News, P.O. Box 92224, Pasadena, CA 91109. UP-DATE ON GLENDON MANOR
The Mediterranean-style apartnnent building at 1070 Glendon Avenue, from the original Janss plan for Westwood Village, remains threatened with demolition in order to make room for a massive, 3,400-seat megaplex movie/retail mall with a 20-to-30-foot deep sunken plaza as proposed by deveteper Ira Smedra. While this proposal has the support of Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Feuer (CDS), it is now ^ PI vigorously opposed by 100% of the surrounding III 1i homeowners associations. To save the historic structure. Village-based preservationists have now submitted an Application for Nomination of Glendon Manor to the Califomia State Register of Historic Resources, under a relatively new program permitting individual nominations to the State Register. On May 20,1998, in response to a pro forma request from the State Office of Historic Preservation giving the local jurisdiction 90 days merit for the State Commission to determine. to comment on the proposed nomination, the line of argument the Commission firmly As reported in the January/February issue of City of Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission rejected. Commission discussion established for SAH/SCC News, the Smedra project cannot be received comment from representatives of Save the record that no decision had ever been made built without extensive amendments to the Westwood Village, historian Portia Lee, Ph.D., of on the architectoral and cultural merits of the Westwood Village Specific Plan and demolition of Califomia Archives, and representatives of the historic buikling. the Glendon Manor building. Interested SAH/SCC devebper and the Council Office. The On May 22,1998, the Commission issued members wishing to learn more about this historic devebper's attorney attempted to introduce a letter pursuant to its decision at the hearing, building and related urban issues can contact evidence disputing the buiWing's historic merit merely confirming that it has declined to take SAH/SCC Board Member, Zeke Gutierrez at and insisted to the hearing Commissioners that the property under consideration under the 562.860.7105 or Mike MetcaKe at they had previously made "findings" that the bcal ordinance, leaving the question of the 310.474.6418. —Zeke Gutierrez buikding was not worthy of historic designation, a historic buiWing's architectural and cultural REMEMBERING THE ROOSEVELT BASE HISTORIC DISTRICT Attempts have been made by preservationists Historic Preservation Act An outstanding group of landmark buikiings and from local, regional, and national groups to keep In addition to losing a significant piece of facilities, eligible for the Natioruil Register of the district arxJ, at the same time, accommodate history, Long Beach is bsing an architectoral Historic Places, b apparently about to confront various port uses, but the local authority opted for treasure and a significant wiWIife refuge. The the wrecker's ball. Ef^blished in 1940, Roosevelt port use exclusively. Several adaptive re-use district featores the international style of Base Historic DisUict qualifies for National alterr^tives were recently rejected by the Port of architecture, superbly carried out by Paul Register Status because it evokes a certain period Long Beach, and so the Roosevelt Base Historic Williams and his associates. Also, the 44-acre of history when the United States, though neutral, District will become one of the largest districts to campus includes half-century oW olive, ficus, and sought to establish a naval presence in the Pacific. meet this fate in the history of the National cherub trees, as well as tall fan palms, and has become a nesting home to Southern California's largest cobny of black-crown night herons, a protected species. What remains are memories. Paul Williams' granddaughter, Karen Hudson, has recently published a beautiful photographic account of the Los Angeles architect's work, which prominently featores some of the buikiings and facilities of the distort. The Port of Long Beach will prepare a model and a video to memorialize the landmark, in addition to establishing a fund to benefit historic fKeservation in the future. Sadly, it's the present that matters.
—Peter Devereaux, Long Beach
EDITOR'S NOTE: For more information, contact Long Beach Heritage Coalition at 562.493.7019.
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structural oonoems. lA Forum for •0 1 w. Architecture and Urban Design; MAK 15, Saturday Center for Art and Architecture, 835 N. 'After' Party. Renewal oefebration and Kings Rd., WH; 7:30PM; members free, wine tasting with the Highland Park $5-7 odierv 213.852.7145. Heritage Tmst (HPHT) and property owner john Nese, to view new y 6, TlNirfday rehabiKtated honies. 326 North Avenue l>asadena Art Waft. Sdf-guided, CMd Town 53, Highland Parte; 6-7:30PM; $50. open house. The Armory Center for the 323.344.1646. Aiti; 6-10PM. 626.792J101. 16, Sunday 6,20,T1wnday Mud Mania; A Celebration of Adobe. 5th Annual Tour and Taste Thursdays. Tour CMxate and learn about mud—the main historic sites and eat ^ the Reaoock Cafe in^edfent of an adobe house. You can of the Afboretum. The Ariaorelum of Los stomp around in it, make a real adobe Angeles County, 301 North BaMwin Ave., brick, or discover what hides urxler layers Afcadb; 6PM; $30.626.821.3222. of mud In Che simulated archaeology pit Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site, 4600 7, Wday Virginia Rd., Long Beach; $3; Wattfes Mansion and Gardens. Walking 12:30-4:30PM. 562.570.1755. Tour. Neighborhood Place Project; I^PM; $10; res. req. 818.790.6643; leave name and addremfor brochure . Children enjcff adobe afch/f«3ure M 'Mud Mania: A Cehbration of Adobe' at Rancho Lm Cerritos Historic Ske in Long Beach on Augutt l(*h. Also enjoy evening picnicking on Thundayi, luly 16th and Augfjsi 20th. ': UTILITAS FIRMITAS VENUSTAS UTIIJJ^S TIAMIT^ VENUSTAS^TiyTAj|^F|ftM|-^S V^J^lSTAs' UTILITAS FIRMITAS VENUSTAS U TmmRi 'VV''^'P> VE »^^7A spLr I ll'J^^^ M i#»t V^^3 UTILITAS riRMITAS VENUSTAS UTVlTjtf 1>W%IT Js_^ r.^Sj^sj-'^ll ' 4^ ^ji HF'^ .iMfc --' UTILITAS riRMITAS VENUSTAS UTIlTn^^lSli^A^VENU^AS^IT™ rS^IRim T A^V^ U^T» JAB, 9 VCMUSTA* UTILITAS FIMMITAS VCNUSTAS VKNUSTAS UTILITAS FIRMITAS VCNUSTAS VCNUSTAS UTILITAS riSMITAS VCNUSTAS '» VCNUSTAS UTILITAS FIRMITAS V^NUST^ BRUCE GOFF AND Holyhock House Keith Haring, through September 6. 4808 Hollywood ihd., lA. First American retrospective of the FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT IN 213.662.7272. 1980s graffiti artist OKI-AHOMA, OCTOBER 7-1 I Tours of Frank Lksyd Wrist's Hollyhock A limited number of spaces are still House, Tuesday-Sunday, 1, 2,3PM. ;oseph Corne//: PWvate ConsteWations, available on the Society of through October 13. An exhibition of Architectural Historians (National) Oiallengine Creation, through August 31. 21 works by the artist known for two- 1998 Domestic Study tour of Bruce Exhibition by the Assodation for Women dimensional collages and small box Goff and Frank Lloyd Wright sites in in Arehitecture. constiuctions. Oklahoma. The tour will be led by Mak Center for Art and Architecture Humane Techno/pgy: The Eames Studio noted Goff and Wright scholar David Schimler Howe, 835 N. IQngi Rd., and Beyond, ongoing. Re-installation of C. De Long, who wrote the West Hoiywood. 213.651.1510. the Eameses' conference room, preeminent monograph on Goff's The Last Stop West, july 9-5eptEmber 20. additional designs and films,plu s work work, Brtice Coff: Toward Absolute Exhibition focuses on German arti'st by desigr^ers w to share the Eameses' Architecture (1988), as well as Frank Martin Kippenberger's Metro-Net series, vision. Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American whki) includes six corKeptual sculptures Landscape, 7922-7932(1996). that establish a metaphorical subway Santa Barbara Museum of Art Accompanying the lour for a short system finom the Greek islai>d of Syros to 1130 State Street, SB. 805.%3.4364. time will be Bart Prince, the architect several sites in Germany, as well as Eternal China, July 21-October 18. A who most dosely has continued the Dawson Oty, Yukon, Canada, arxl a major exhibition featuring 115 rare piece that will be unveiled at the sculptures and objects, induding one of legacy of Goff's unique work. Among Schindler House. the largest groups of life-size terra cotta the sites to be visited are the Hopewell figures ever to enter the US. Baptists Church, currently threatened The Manton House with demolition, and the Eugene and 3525 Tlh Ave, SD. 619.2963142. Carved Paper: The Art of Japanese Nancy Bavin^r House, which has /Vc%ram's war* b fMltimf M M Center's A1905 home designed by Imng Gill and WXmmonCittfy. fftoo fm Uantttt Cwtoy Ster)dl, tiirough August 9. Masterfully never been widely accessible to the William Hebbard sits upon an almost carved, these stendls on exhibit AfcMmuM: AVlMlHtaaiy.b^OmfeStaip, fmnomRkJ public Other sites to be visited five-aore estate, induding historic embody the Japanese genius for design. The Annory Omer for the Arts gardens. Tours: Friday-Surviay, indude numerous private homes that z z 145 North Raymond Ave^ Noon-3:4SPM. will be opened only to SAH tour PMidcna.«26.79U101. LICLA at the Armand Hammer IIA/face in rhe Sun: Visuafiziqg M Aib/ic Museum of Art and Cuhural Center registrants, and Wright's Price Tower in < SfMcts, through September 13. Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art, LA 10899 Wibhire Blvd., LA. 310.443.7020. downtown Bartlesville. Tour is 3 focuses on the many ways public spaces 250 S. Grand Ave., LA. 213.626.6222. Robert Adam—The Creative Mind: From $890-1,060, excluding travel to and H are created and used in Los Angeles. Ehsive Paradise: Los Aneehs Art from the the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, from Oklahoma. Call 312.573.1365. 3 3 Permanent Co/lection, mrough November tiirou^ July 12. Drawings from 18th- Art Center Coftege ai Design 14,1999. Exhibition suggests a history of century ardiited Adam and otiiers in five Wilismson Gallery important work made in or about Los themes: Adam in Italy; Country Houses; Anjgeles. 1700 Lida St, Pasadena. 626J96.2200. Town Buildings; Public Architecture; and Ardi^ram 7961-74, August 9-October 4. the Adam Office. Review ot the experimental, Bfitish Museum of San Diego History architecture group. Bafooa Parte, SD. 619332.6203. The Arch/teaure of^ /teassurance; Designing The Park, the Plans, the People: A the Disney Ttieme Parks, through August Norton Simon Museum at Art fterospectiw Exhibit of Balboa Park. 23. Exhibition follows the layout of the 411 W. Coforado Hvd., Pasadena. 7868-7998, through February 15. parks with more than 350 oojects from 626.449.6840. visual archives of Walt Disney Posters American Styk, August Oakland Museum of California Imagineering 29-OciDber 25. 1000 Oak SL 5103383200. Goki Aish/ CjJihmia's UntoM Stories. UCLA Fowler Museum The Doctor's House Museum through July 26. Exhibition explores the UCLA Campus, LA. 310306.0306. 1601 W. Mountain, Irand Paric, impad of the Gold Rush on the state From the Rainbow's Varied Hue: Textiles of Oendale. 810.242.7447. with artifocts and re-created the Southern Philippines, through August archaeologkai dig. The Fen-Whke Collection, ongoing. Family 23. Fifty rare doths for social and ritual heirlooms from the 19th-century, functions. including dothing and mementos, Silver and Cold, Cased Images of the donated to the Glendale Historical CoW Rush, ti>rough July 26. Exhibition Basketry of (he iuzon Cordillera, Society. of 150 daguerreotypes and ambrotypes Philippines, August 23-November 1. A of the faces and landscape of the Cold beautiful study in form and function, the Rush. Form Zero exhibition features 50 of the finest baskets 2445 Main SL, SM. 310.450.0222. from the Fowler's sizable collection. Kobe 7995: After (he Earthquake, through Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site 1 fill July 5. A documentation by Tokyo-based 4600 Virginia Rd., LB. 562.570.1755 Villa Montezuma, Jesse Shepard House photographer Ryuji Miyainoto, which was National historic landmark, 1844 adobe 1925 K St, San Diego. 6193393211. previously presented at the Venice and gardens. Guided tours of gardens, An 1887 Queen Anne style house Biennale. library, and archives, designed by Comstock and Trotsche for Wednesday-Sunday. the author. Tours: Saturday-Sunday, Gamble House Noon-3:45 PM. 4 Westmoreland PL, Pasadena. San Francisco Museum of Modem Art 626.7933334. 151 3rd St, SF. 415357.4000. Tours of Greene and Greene house, Do Normal: Recent Dutch Design, July Thursday-Sunday, Noon-3PM. 17-October 20. Celebrating a culture that incorporates disdplined and The J. Paul Getty Center inventive design into 1200 Getty Center Dr., LA. everyday life, this Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, by Frank 310.440.730a res. reo. exhibition features I. // Lloyd Wright, 1952-56. (Photo couitny of The Art Walker tvw: New York, july 28-October more than 200 ln%iitule of Chicago) 11. This exhibition focuses on the work the examples of design objects from the Study Tour Scholarship Available: depression-era photographer made of his The recipient of SAH's 1998 homedty. ISetherlands. Architectural Study Tour Scholarship Port and Corridor: Working Sites in l.os Rebecca M4ndez: will get tour expenses for the Goff and Angetes, August 15-October 18. Exhibition 5e/ect/ons from the Wright tour paid by the SAH. The of photographic work by Robbert Flick and Permanent scholarship does not include costs Alan Sekula, both recently in reskJence in Colleaion of associated with travel from the the Scholar's Program. Architecture and recipient's home to and from Tulsa, Design, July 17- Oklahoma. The Architectural Study Landscape Dramngs 7500-7900, through October 20. This exhibition features Tour Scholarship, awarded each year, August 23. Exhibition examines landscapes enables an outstanding student to from Renaissance throu^ 19th century. the graphics of a designer who participate in the annual SAH Makrf^ Architecture: The Getty Center from infuses her lush domestic tour. To be eligible, a Concept Through Construction, through arKl sensuous work student must be engaged in graduate December 6. Riotos, time-line, models, with a sense of work in architecture or architectural and sketches documentirtg the process with material presence. history, city planning or urban history, Rkitard Meier, Robert kwin, and or landscape or the history of Paul Klee: Travels Oinwkidie Construction. landscape design. Applicants must be Near arxi Far, through July 28. members of the SAH National. For Seyond Beauty: Antiquities as fvidence, information, call 312.573.1365. through Janutfy 17,1999. Comparative Exhibition of Applications due August 3, 1998. study of antiquities in context selection of Wee's landscapes. Major retrospective of Keith Haring's work is at the SFMOMA. BOOKMARKS: HOT OFF THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL PRESSES
Boo/cmarics highlights new publications about the Johnson Fain Partners: The Masters of Architect history and ardiitecture of Southern California. Series. A 256-page book acknowledges the We especially want to acknowledge books written complexities of the urban landscape as by or about SAH/SCC members, so send notice of interpreted by Johnson Fain Partners, who find books to iAH/SCC News. opportunities in each project to detail signature environments. The Images Publishing Croup. Borderline; Lebbeus Woods and Ekkehard Rehfeld, editors. This 108-page book presents Richard Keating: The Masters of Architect essays and projects by leading thinkers and Series. A 256-page book focuses on Richard architects addressing the contemporary problems Keating's work projects illustrating the authority of tumultuous and paradoxical regions. Borderline and elegance expected by the principal of is the first Research Institute for Experimental DMJM/Keating. The Images fhjblishing Croup. Architecture Concepts publication, edited in part Potatisakem. A 128-page, full-color book studies by SCI-Arc instnjctor Lebbeus Woods. Springer- John Laiitner, Architect; Frank Escher, editor. one of the challenges faced by the architectural Verlag Wien, paper, $19.50. This 296-page paper-back edition contains 400 firm Moore Ruble Yudell. The challenge was to black-and-white photos and 100 color create an urban design that linked waterfront to photographs of the quintessential Los Angeles the adjacent community and the city beyond, architect, John Lautner. Many of his houses— along an undeveloped tract of land separating perched on hillsides with sweeping glass walls Sweden from Denmark. The result was that overiooking the valleys bebw—are icons of the traditional elements were featured in form and drama and exuberance of the best of Southern materials reflected in a nearby curving streetscape Califomia architecture. Princeton Architectural together with 16-unit villas that recalled the rich Press, paper, $45.00. architectural and landscape traditions of Skane. n m. m m mm ^ The Images Publishing Croup, paper. AJ. Lumsden: The Masters of Architect Series. schindler This 256-page monograph covers the career and R.M. Schindler; judith Scheine, editor. A 256- consistent excellence of one of America's little page book presents more than 70 works and known icons, and former design principal of projects, with a large number of photographs and DMJM. The Images Publishing Croup. drawings specially produced for this edition of the output of one of the most important architectural Eric Own Moss: The Future of the City, by pioneers of this century. Editorial Gustavo Cili, James Steele. A 160-page, full-color book paper, $25.00. examines a new model for the direction of the global urban environment In Culver City, Eric R.M. Schindler. 10 Houses; judith Scheine, Moss—in partnership with patron Frederick editor; essay by Margaret Crawford; contributions Smith—is incrementally realizing an alternative by Enric Miralles and Michael Rotondi. Grant urban model of his own on the abandoned lots Mudford photographs document 10 LA houses by that Smith owns. The Images Publishing Croup, this very important California architect. Editorial paper. Gustavo Cili, paper, $37.50.
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