Join
SAH/SCC for the first annual Merry Ovnick Fellowship Fundraiser Lecture. One
hundred percent of the proceeds will benefit the Fellowship, which supports
travel and attendance by a Southern California graduate student at the SAH
International Conference in Atlanta, April 30-May 4, 2025. Our first lecture
will be given by architectural historian Daniel Paul, a former student of Dr. Ovnick’s.
During “Sun,
Space, Self,” Paul will present four wildly divergent, regionally rooted
spiritual properties in Southern California: Krotona Court & Grand Temple
of the Rosy Cross (Mead and Requa; Alfred and Arthur Heineman, 1912-1914), the New
City of Mentalphysics (Lloyd Wright and others, 1947-1961), The Integratron in Landers
(Howard P. Hess and others, 1960), and the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove (Johnson/Burgee
Architects, 1980; Johnson Fain, 2019).
As Dr. Ovnick’s Los Angeles:
The End of the Rainbow makes clear, a context of benign climate, and
openness of land and culture both, informs Southern California architecture. Paralleling
those frameworks, Southern California’s atmosphere of light and space, or
as genius loci, also informs its architecture, if not these
spiritual practices. In Dr. Ovnick’s words, Los Angeles was “a city built of
dreamstuff.”
That these diverse sites coexist within
Southern California against a legacy of pragmatism and the presence of mainline
religions, speaks to the true heterogeneity the region affords.
Sun, Space, Self —Saturday, January 25, 2025; 11 AM-1 PM
Pacific; Neutra Office Building, 2379 Glendale Blvd., LA; $20. Go to www.sahscc.org and pay via PayPal; or
mail in order form with check; Zoom link sent upon registration.
