King Gillette Ranch and plein air sketching

Please join us Saturday, June 8th, for a walking tour and plein air sketching at the King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas led by David Rinehart. The King Gillette Ranch, completed in 1929, was designed by renowned Southern California architect Wallace Neff for safety razor mogul King C. Gillette and his wife Alanta. The residence is the culmination of the first decade of Neff’s career and is an exceptional example of the architect’s unique Southern California style of architecture.

The group will meet at and tour the Ranch’s stables building, which is now the visitor center for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The tour will then proceed to the grounds surrounding the main residence. Please note that the residence’s interior is not open to the public, so the tour will be limited to the exterior of the property. Following the tour, which will last approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, the group will return to the visitor center for a BYO picnic lunch, after which the instructor will guide the group in plein air sketching.

David Rinehart is a Los Angeles-based architect with broad experience in the design of multi- and single-family residences, mixed-use developments, institutional buildings, as well as master planning and urban design. Prior to his individual practice, Mr. Rinehart worked at Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists in Pasadena, CA, and Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York.

He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Environmental Design degree in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Urbanism from Yale University, where he was awarded a Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscript Library Fellowship and served as a curatorial assistant for the Yale School of Architecture. Mr. Rinehart is a registered architect in the State of New York, a member of the Society of Architectural Historians, and a Fellow of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, where he has served as an Instructor since 2015. He has taught workshops on classical architecture at universities across the country and has been a lead instructor for the ICAA’s Regional Intensive and Summer Studio in Classical Architecture.

ICAA Members, $75
NON-Members, $90

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