King Gillette Ranch Walking Tour & Plein Air Sketching

Please join us Saturday, April 25th, for a walking tour and plein air sketching at the King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas led by ICAA Instructors David Rinehart and Jim Coyle. 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 30 minutes, the group will return to the visitor center for a BYO picnic lunch, after which the instructors will guide the group in plein air sketching.

2.0 credits towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture: The Study of Precedents – Analytical Drawing

David Rinehart is an architect at Ruard Veltman Architecture + Interiors in Los Angeles. Prior to joining RVAI, 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.

Jim Coyle is a licensed architect in the State of Florida. He earned a B.Arch degree from the University of Notre Dame, where he participated in the Rome Studies Program. He has contributed to commercial and residential projects in classical and traditional styles at ADAM Architecture in Winchester, England, Fairfax & Sammons and Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York, and Tim Barber Architects in Los Angeles. Jim was a member of the Board of ICAA Southern California in 2024 and 2025, having previously joined the SoCal Neoclassicists in 2019. He has volunteered with New Heights since 2020. In 2023, Jim was awarded the Christopher H. Browne Scholarship and attended the ICAA Drawing Tour in Newport, RI. He is a docent at both Hollyhock House and the Schindler House.

$65 for ICAA members.
$90 for Non-Members.

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