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ATC Speaker Series: Donna McKechnie - 12.06.09, 3:00 PM
"Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life"
Donna McKechnie is an American musical theater dancer, singer, actress and choreographer. She made her Broadway debut in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and later starred in the smash hit, A Chorus Line for which earned her the 1976 Tony® Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
McKechnie will do readings with visuals from her autobiography published in 2006, Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life, and sing "What I Did for Love" from A Chorus Line.
Nonmembers $20, ATC members $15
PRESENTING SPONSOR IS WELLS FARGO THE PRIVATE BANK
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Image: William Krisel
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1.23.10, 10 AM-12 PM
Architecture and Design Council presents: P.S. Architecture 101
Lecture Hall and site visit
$25 per person
William Krisel, AIA
Lecturer: Bill Butler, ADC Vice-chair
Krisel's reputation is well-founded by his work for the Alexanders, especially the hundreds of homes here in Coachella Valley. His impressive body of work is far greater than this and includes luxury homes, commercial work across the country, and some 30,000 homes.
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Lecturer: Greg Pasquarelli
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1.30.10, 6-8 PM
Architecture and Design Council Lecture and Reception
Greg Pasquarelli, principal SHoP Architects
Annenberg Theater and Elrod Sculpture Garden
$10 ADC members, $15 nonmembers
This lecture will focus on the current work of SHoP Architects, a New York-based architectural and design collaborative. Their current work includes the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, projects for the Fashion Institute of Technology and Goldman Sachs, both in Manhattan, and for Google in Mountain View, California. SHoP recently received the 2009 National Design Award in Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Their work is also in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
SPONSORED BY THE E. STEWART WILLIAMS MEMORIAL FUND.
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ATC Speaker Series - 01.31.10, 3:00 PM
The Contemporary Opera with Jake Heggie, Composer and Pianist
and Suzanne Guzman, Mezzo-Soprano
Jake Heggie studied composition both in Paris and at UCLA where he also studied piano. Heggie has composed the acclaimed operas Dead Man Walking, Three Decembers, The End of the Affair and more than 200 songs, concerti, orchestral works and chamber music.
Suzanna Guzman has sung regularly with the Los Angeles Opera and many major companies. She is a well-known radio host appearing on the weekly broadcast L.A. Opera Notes. Ms. Guzman will perform songs composed by Mr. Heggie.
PRESENTING SPONSOR IS WELLS FARGO THE PRIVATE BANK
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Frey House II, Albert Frey architect, 1963-64, photograph by David Glomb
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2.16.10, 2-3 PM
Architecture and Design Council Lecture
Albert Frey
Lecture Hall
FREE with museum admission or Frey House II tour ticket
Lecturer: Bill Butler, ADC Vice-chair
The focus of this lecture will be on Frey's early, formative years in Europe and New York, emphasizing the experiences and influences that would ultimately find expression in the landscape of the desert.
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2.19.10, 5:30 PM
Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
Annenberg Theater
Lecture by Frank Escher, co-curator and architect
Members-Only Event
This is the opening lecture for the exhibition Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner. Exhibition co-curator Frank Escher will provide an overview of Lautner's works, discussiong how the architect designed his buildings in concert with nature relating each structure to its particular setting. In so doing, he transformed the experience of shelter for his clients and their visitors: providing living, dynamic environments that were never static. In a career that spanned six decades and produced more than 150 built works, Lautner created an architecture that valued plasticity, transparent boundaries, freedom in form and plan, and continuity between building and landscape.
By showing your membership card, free parking is available in the garage directly across the street from our north parking lot.
SPONSORED BY LIANNE & RICHARD WEINTRAUB and KATHARINE STORY.
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Elrod House, John Lautner architect, 1968, photograph by © Julius Shulman and Juergen Nogai, 2007, Museum Commission |
2.20.10, 9 AM-6 PM
Architecture and Design Council Annual Symposium & Tour
From Frank Lloyd Wright to John Lautner and After:
Reassessing the Organic Tradition in American Architecture
Ace Hotel
$50 symposium and lunch
$200 ADC members, symposium, lunch & tour
$250 nonmembers, symposium, lunch & tour
An outstanding group of scholars and architects including David De Long, Nicholas Olsberg, Jean-Louis Cohen, Frank Escher, Frances Anderton, Wendell Burnett and Michael Rotundi, will look at the architecture of John Lautner within a national and international context. With their presentations and a panel discussion, they will review Lautner's career from his days studying with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin to establishing his practice in Los Angeles to his influence on architects practicing today. The afternoon motor-coach tour will include visits to Lautner sites such as the Desert Hot Springs Hotel and the Pearlman Cabin. To purchase tickets contact the Box Office at 760.325.4490.
SPONSORED BY GRANT MONCK & BOB FREEDMAN, PETER SHEER, NIGHTHAWK ESTATES, BARBARA & BERNIE CAIN AND THE ACE HOTEL & SWIM CLUB, PALM SPRINGS.
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Image: A Rancho Mirage property
designed by Hugh Kaptor |
2.27.10, 10 AM-12 PM
Architecture and Design Council presents: P.S. Architecture 101
Lecture Hall and site visit
$25 per person
Hugh Kaptur, AIA
Lecturer: Patrick McGrew, architectural historian
This lecture will explore the work of prolific second generation Palm Springs modernist Hugh Kaptur. You will be surprised to see that you are already familiar with many of his works, but there will also be some surprises.
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Image: Town and Country Center,
designed by A. Quincy Jones |
3.27.10, 10 AM-12 PM
Architecture and Design Council presents: P.S. Architecture 101
Lecture Hall and site visit
$25 per person
A. Quincy Jones, FAIA
Lecturer: Bill Butler, ADC Vice-chair
One of the most important of the post-World War II Southern California architects, Jones is perhaps most famous for the houses he designed for the Palo Alto builder Joseph Eichler. His work ranges from those still desirable subdivision homes to estates like Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, from restaurants like Romanoffs on the Rocks to IBM's Aerospace Headquarters in Westchester County.
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Image: Birger Sandzén, Sunset, Estes Park,
1921, oil on canvas. Nelson Krehbiel Collection,
Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery. |
4.16.10, 5:30 PM
Opening lecture for the exhibition Colors of the West:
The Paintings of Birger Sandzén
Members-Only Event
This is the opening lecture for the exhibition Colors of the West: The Paintings of Birger Sandzén. Sven Birger Sandzén (1871-1954), a Swedish-born artist, trained in Paris and participated in its famous fin de siècle milieu. In 1894 he immigrated to the United States and settled in the center of the American prairie in Lindsborg, Kansas where he was invited to become an art professor at Bethany College. Considered a post-Impressionist for his use of color and expressionist in technique, Sandzén vibrant and dynamic paintings of prairie and western landscapes from Kansas to the California coast have been relatively unknown outside the Midwest until recently.
By showing your membership card, free parking is available in the garage directly across the street from our north parking lot.
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