Griffith Observatory: Hollywood’s Celestial Theater

Presented by the Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter Zoom Presentation Join SAH/SCC for another exciting Zoom presentation by favorite speaker SAH/SCC Member William “Stuart” Leslie. This time, Leslie will talk about the architecture of a Los Angeles icon: Griffith Park Observatory and Planetarium (John C. Austin and Frederic M. Ashley, 1935; Levin and Associates […]

Jock Peters and the Classical Revival in Germany

Please note Pacific Standard Time Christopher Long, Guest Lecturer 1 AIA CES Learning Unit|Elective Free for ICAA Members $20 General Public REGISTER Registration will close 1 hour prior to the event. Please join scholar and historian Christopher Long as he discusses the life and career of the German-born architect and designer Jock Peters. Born in […]

Rose Standish Nichols: Garden Designer and Writer

Please note Pacific Daylight Time Judith B Tankard, Guest Lecturer Free for ICAA Members $20 General Public REGISTER Registration will close 1 hour prior to the event. Rose Standish Nichols was among an elite group of East Coast women who took up residential garden design in the early 1900s when the profession of landscape architecture […]

Race and the Historiography of American Architecture

Presented by the Society of Architectural Historians 12:00-1:30 PM PDT / 2:00–3:30 PM CDT Free and open to the public Virtual Event on Zoom REGISTER This program will be recorded and video will be available online after the event. This publication workshop for a co-edited book project will examine the role of race in the […]

Architecture, Interiors & Landscape: The Power of Creative Collaboration

Please note Pacific Daylight Time Scott Sottile and  Andrew Oyen, Guest Lecturers 1 AIA CES Learning Unit|Elective Free for ICAA Members $20 General Public REGISTER Registration will close 1 hour prior to the event. For more than thirty years, Ferguson & Shamamian Architects has been one of the country’s leading residential architecture firms, renowned for […]

Master Architects of Southern California 1920–1940: Paul R. Williams

Please note Pacific Daylight Time Marc Appleton, Stephen Gee & Bret Parsons, Guest Lecturer Free for ICAA Members $20 General Public REGISTER Registration will close 1 hour prior to the event. Paul R. Williams’ trailblazing career as an architect defied the odds. The orphan son of an African-American fruit and vegetable merchant, Williams overcame widespread […]

Cairo: Architecture and Artists

Please note Pacific Standard Time Caroline Williams, Guest Lecturer 1 AIA CES Learning Unit|Elective Free for ICAA Members
 / $20 General Public REGISTER Registration will close 1 hour prior to the event. Please join scholar Caroline Williams in a discussion of Medieval Cairo which is without peer in the Islamic world. It survived the Mongol […]