Events Calendar BAHA Events February 2012 Fireside Lectures Join us for a series of illustrated talks on three successive Thursdays in February 2012. All lectures will be presented at BAHA’s McCreary-Greer House, 2318 Durant Avenue, and will begin at 7:30 pm. Seating is limited to 30, and advance ticket purchase is required. Admission $10 per lecture. Call (510) 841-2242 or e-mail baha@berkeleyheritage.com to reserve your seats. Mail check to BAHA, P.O. Box 1137, Berkeley, CA 94701, or pay via PayPal to expedite your order. See instructions for using PayPal (a handling charge will be added). Western Hills cemetery (courtesy of Foster Goldstrom) 9 Feb. 2012   Sold Out Maybeck & Morgan: An Enduring Association Speaker: Daniella Thompson The two titans of Bay Area architecture maintained a career-long friendship and collaborated on various projects—including several financed by the Hearst family—over a period that spanned 45 years. Editor of the BAHA website and author of the article series East Bay: Then and Now, Daniella Thompson will review the history of Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan’s association and collaborations from the mid-1890s until 1940. The talk will be illustrated with rarely seen images. Ruth House by Donald Olsen (photo: Dave Weinstein) 16 Feb. 2012   Sold Out Berkeley: A Modern Mecca Speaker: Dave Weinstein Berkeley may be better known for brown-shingle bungalows than for flat-roofed, glass-walled, open-planned houses, but few cities anywhere boast an equal wealth of modern dwellings. Dave Weinstein, author of Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area, It Came from Berkeley: How Berkeley Changed the World, and the text for Berkeley Rocks, and senior writer for CA Modern magazine, will conduct an informal pictorial tour of the greatest modern residences in and around Berkeley. We’ll see houses by Richard Neutra, Roger Lee, Henry Hill, and other masters, both well-known and little-known. We’ll see how many of these buildings pay homage to Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, and other Bay Area innovators from an earlier generation. As a bonus, we’ll see some of the great, though often neglected and sometimes vilified, modern buildings on the Cal campus. 50 Poppy Lane, designed by Katharine Gibbs Underhill (courtesy of Ann K.U. Tussing) 23 Feb. 2012   Sold Out Family Stories: Living the Arts and Crafts Life in Berkeley Speaker: Ann K. Underhill Tussing Ann K. Underhill Tussing was born and raised in Berkeley, living her childhood in a house designed by her mother, Katharine Gibbs Underhill, a graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts. Ann’s Gibbs and Underhill grandparents settled in the Berkeley Hills in houses designed, wholly or in part, by Bernard Maybeck, a family friend. Architectural plans of Maybeck’s Underhill House #2, Rose Walk, and two of Katharine Gibbs Underhill’s houses will be shown, as well as some exterior and interior photos. Ann’s childhood was full of beauty and creativity, the natural setting of her home on a hillside lot with its redwood groves, dance lessons at the Temple of Wings, neighborhood theatrics, parties with the C.S. Forester family, learning to swim at the Berkeley Women’s City Club. There will be photos shown of these and other important parts of her families’ lives. Now she lives “East of Eden” in Syracuse, NY, where she has given this illustrated talk several times to the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York. She is delighted to give it here, where it all began. ________________________________________________________ Upcoming events (details to be announced) Spring Preservation Workshop Annual House Tour, Sunday, 6 May 2012 Annual Meeting & Preservation Awards, Thursday, 24 May 2012 ________________________________________________________ Other Events 2012 California Preservation Conference Old Roots, New Growth—Cultivating Communities Thursday, 3 May – Sunday, 6 May 2012 Oakland Marriott City Center More than 30 sessions, tours, and workshops on issues facing California’s historic, cultural, and natural resources—taught by over 100 expert speakers. Continuing education units are available for AIA, ASLA, USGBC, MCLE, and AICP. Exclusive tours that highlight Oakland’s architecture, landscapes, history, culture, and more. Special events at some of Oakland’s most historic and architecturally significant venues—including CPF’s signature event, the Three-Minute Success Stories. For complete information, see the CPF website. ________________________________________________________ American Decorative Arts Forum lectures The American Decorative Arts Forum (ADAF) is a support group of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Forum dedicates itself to the study, understanding, enjoyment and preservation of American fine and decorative arts from their earliest beginnings to the present. The Forum sponsors monthly lectures on a variety of topics by prominent scholars. A mini-exhibit precedes each lecture where members and guests display examples of decorative arts from their own collections. The lectures are presented at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park at 8:00 pm, usually on the second Tuesdays of each month. All lectures are free to ADAF members and $15 to non-members. Tuesday, 10 January 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Modernizing the Traditional: Furnishing the Sophisticated Garden in the 1920s and ’30s Lecturer: Margaret Lidz, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE Mini-Exhibit: 7:15 pm with Botanical objects and garden images Location: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. Tuesday, 21 February 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Youthquake: High Style in the Swinging Sixties Lecturer: Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, New York, NY Mini-Exhibit: Anything Mod (clothing, photos, record albums, posters, lamps) starts at 7:15 pm Location: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. Tuesday, 13 March 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Wedded Perfection: Two Centuries of Wedding Gowns Lecturer: Cynthia Amneus, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 7:15 pm with wedding pictures and wedding accessories. Wear white! Note Different Location: Legion of Honor Museum. Tuesday, 10 April 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design Lecturer: Jeannine Falino, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 7:15 pm with hand-crafted items. Location: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. Tuesday, 8 May 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Carved, Curved, Classical: Baroque Furniture and Architecture in Eastern Virginia, 1710–60 Lecturer: Sumpter T. Priddy, Alexandria, VA Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 7:15 pm. Members will bring their favorite objects that relate to this period. Location: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. Saturday, 9 June 2012 at 1:30 pm Topic: The Cult of Beauty: British and Japanese Influences on the American Aesthetic Movement Lecturer: Hannah Sigur, Berkeley, CA Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 1:00 pm with aesthetic and Japanese objects Note Different Location: Legion of Honor Museum. Note: Guided Tour of “Cult of Beauty” exhibit at 2:45 pm Tuesday, 10 July 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Panorama of the American Campus over the Centuries Lecturer: Paul V. Turner, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 7:15 pm with college memorabilia. Location: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. Tuesday, 14 August 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Thomas Chambers, American Marine and Landscape Painter Lecturer: Kathleen A. Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 7:15 pm with landscape images. Location: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. Tuesday, 11 September 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Bringing the Outdoors In: Cottage and Wicker Furniture for House and Garden Lecturer: Brock Jobe, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 7:15 pm with Vernacular Victoriana Note Different Location: Disney Museum Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Black and White All Mixed Together: The Hidden Legacy of Enslaved Craftsmen Lecturer: Daniel Ackerman, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, NC Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 7:15 pm with African-American images Location: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. Tuesday, 13 November 2012, at 8:00 pm Topic: Kenneth Jay Lane: American Jeweler to the World Lecturer: Curt DiCamillo, DiCamillo Companion, Boston, MA Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 7:15 pm with costume jewelry. Location: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. Tuesday, 11 December, 2012 Topic: The Glamour of Glory: War of 1812 Commemorations Lecturer: Ann Wagner, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE Mini-Exhibit: Beginning at 7:15 pm with trophies, medals, and presentation silver Location: Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum. Entry: For the Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: Enter from Level B Contact: Rob Speaks at (415) 609-1657 and speaksr@aol.com, or Gordon Fine at (415) 346-4856. Additional information at adafca.org. ________________________________________________________ Guided Tours of the Paramount Theatre Public tours of the Paramount Theatre are given on the first and third Saturdays of each month, excluding holidays and holiday weekends. No reservations are necessary. Tours begin promptly at 10:00 am at the Box Office entrance on 21st Street near Broadway. The tour lasts about 2 hours and provides a full and informative view of the Theatre. Cameras are allowed. Admission is $5.00 per person. Children must be at least 10 years old, and adult chaperones are required. Please note that some areas of the tour are not wheelchair accessible. ________________________________________________________ Your donations to BAHA are tax-deductible. Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association 2318 Durant Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 841-2242 Copyright © 2012 BAHA. All rights reserved.