8 pioneering modern California architects not named Schindler
Northern California
Beverley David Thorne
Rowan Maiden
Albert Henry Hill
Don R. Knorr
Southern California
Bill Cody
E. Stewart Williams
Sim Bruce Richards
John Rex
15 buildings that have won AIA California Council’s 25 Year Award
St. Francis Square, San Francisco / Marquis and Stoller
Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael / Frank Lloyd Wright
Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco / Wurster Bernardi and Emmons
Sea Ranch, Northern California / Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker
Oakland Coliseum and Arena, Oakland / Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Eames House, Pacific Palisades / Charles and Ray Eames
UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley / Mario Ciampi
Kappe Residence, Pacific Palisades / Raymond Kappe
Crown Zellerbach Building, San Francisco / Skidmore Owings & Merrill
V.C. Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco / Frank Lloyd Wright
Kaufmann House, Palm Springs / Richard Neutra
Case Study House 21, Los Angeles / Pierre Koenig
Eichler Homes, throughout California / Anshen + Allen
Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz / Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker
Art Center, Pasadena / Craig Ellwood & Associates
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4 California buildings that have won AIA National’s 25 Year Award
Baldwin Hills Village, Los Angeles / Reginald Johnson, WM&A, Clarence Stein
Eames House, Pacific Palisades / Charles and Ray Eames
Sea Ranch, Northern California / Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker
Salk Institute, La Jolla / Louis Kahn
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California Modern building on the National Trust’s 2005 World’s Most Endangered Sites List
Ennis-Brown House, Los Angeles / Frank Lloyd Wright
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4 California preservation organizations with Modernism agendas
Los Angeles Conservancy’s Modern Committee, Los Angeles, www.modcom.org
Preservation Action Council of San Jose, San Jose, www.preservation.org
California Preservation Foundation, San Francisco, www.californiapreservation.org
DOCOMOMO, Northern California, www.docomomo-us.org
What DOCOMOMO stands for
DOcumentation and COnservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighborhoods of the MOdern MOvement.
www.docomomo-us.org
Big box versus modern icon
IBM Building 25 in San Jose, designed by John Bolles, FAIA, in the late ‘50s, is the subject of a California Preservation Foundation lawsuit against Lowe’s, which plans to demolish the structure. Bolles is also the architect for Candlestick Park and the AIACC’s first president (1946). All outgoing AIACC board members receive the John S. Bolles, FAIA, Fellowship in his honor.
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3 books on California Modernism written by AIACC practitioner members
NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism, Chronicle Books 2006, Pierluigi Serraino (Anshen + Allen Architects)
Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream, Gibbs Smith 2002, Paul Adamson (Hornberger + Worstell Architects)
Paffard Keatinge-Clay: Modern Architecture / Modern Masters, Actar 2006, Eric Keune (Skidmore Owings & Merrill)
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2 licensed architects who are also realtors specializing in California Modernism
Brian Linder / The Value of Architecture, Keller Williams Realty, www.tvoa.net
Erik Lerner / Real Estate Architects, Mossler Deasy & Doe, www.realestatearchitects.com
$68
What a four-inch-high, stainless steel, reproduction Neutra house number sells for today.
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Modern subscribers
Dwell, the San Francisco based magazine whose byline is “At Home in the Modern World,” has a circulation of over 269,000 readers. By comparison, Metropolis has a circulation of only 45,000.
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Originally published 3rd quarter 2006 in arcCA 06.3, “Preserving Modernism.”
