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Authors on Architecture: Stockstill & Oliver on Irvine Ranch
Authors C. Michael Stockstill and H. Pike Oliver discuss their book: Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and the Big Plan (Routledge, 2022).
Author and filmmaker Peter Wyeth provides insight and perspective about the little-known architect Jean Welz, his seminal masterpiece Maison Zilveli, and its subsequent demolition.
Authors on Architecture: Schmitzberger, Sarnitz, & McGuire on Preis
Contributing authors Axel Schmitzberger, Laura McGuire, August Sarnitz, & Christopher Long celebrate their new book, Alfred Preis DISPLACED: The Tropical Modernism of the Austrian Emigrant and Architect of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor (Doppelhouse Press, 2022).
Author Chris Lukather explores the fairytale ranch houses designed by Robert Byrd (1904-1978) and his son, Gary (1939-2008), as featured in his new book, Homes by Byrd: The Art & Architecture of Robert Byrd and His Son, Gary (The Writing Disorder, 2022).
Preserving the California Capitol Panel Presentation
Learn about the history and recent preservation challenges from speakers Dick Cowan, Wayne Donaldson, FAIA and Paula Peper, regarding California’s Capitol building in Sacramento.
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Authors on Architecture: Bingen on MGM
Film historian, author, and friend of SAH/SCC, Steven Bingen, will share his take on Culver City’s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio and transport you back in time to Hollywood’s golden age.
Noted author Frances Anderton, Hon. AIA/LA, provides a virtual tour of Los Angeles housing based on her book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles (Angel City Press, 2022).
SAH/SCC program: The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
An insightful presentation where art and architecture collide, Christine Madrid French explores how Hitchcock used architectural form to create suspense.
When Brains Meet Buildings : A Conversation Between Neuroscience and Architecture
Esteemed scientist and author Michael Arbib presents action-oriented perception, memory, and imagination as well as atmosphere, aesthetics, and emotion as keys to analyzing the experience and design of architecture.
Author Joseph Giovannini discusses his profusely illustrated and incredibly detailed book, Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde (Rizzoli, 2021).
Authors on Architecture: Golub on Russel and Mary Wright’s Dragon Rock
Author Jennifer Golub provides a special look at the home and the work of industrial designers Russel and Mary Wright illuminated in her new book, Russel and Mary Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga (Princeton Architectural Press, 2022)
A deeply researched presentation about the life and the work of architect Julia Morgan by Kimberly Perette. Morgan’s buildings not only speak as beautiful architecture, but as contributions "to women, to engineering, to grace, to beauty and to perseverance.”
Sixty-minute program on the history and evolution of urban arena design culminating with Golden1 Center, the first indoor-outdoor arena for the NBA, located in Sacramento, California.
Scholar and historian Christopher Long turns his attention to the little-known architect and designer Jock Peters (1889-1934). Discussing his new book, Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The Varieties of Modernism (Bauer and Dean, 2021)
Educator/Author, Bill (Stuart W.) Leslie presents Griffith Observatory as an enduring and iconic tribute to its founder’s vision of a truly public astronomy.
Catherine Cody, design historian Jo Lauria, and architectural historian Don Choi, authors of Master of the Midcentury: The Architecture of William F. Cody explore the legacy of William F. Cody, one of the architects who made Palm Springs a crucible of midcentury modernism.
Sian Winship presents the legacy of modern architect Richard L. Dorman, FAIA. Dorman was elevated to Fellowship for his design contributions and widely published, yet remains largely unknown.
Richard Stanley's in-depth presentation reveals how Harley Earl invented the modern design studio and is credited with bringing design to every segment of the automotive market.
Author Ken Bernstein and photographer Stephen Schafer reveal how LA\'s preservation programs saved architectural and cultural jewels of the city, revived neighborhoods and created a model for other American cities.
Author Nathan Marsak traces the architectural and cultural history of Los Angeles’ early residential neighborhood, best known for its appearance in film noirs.
Architectural historian, Sian Winship and preservation architects, EsherGunewardena, introduce viewers to the rich architectural and cultural history of the Church of the Epiphany.
Author Emily Bills examines the architectural photography of Wayne Thom and his documentation of Late Modern-style architecture in Southern California.
