Society of Architectural Historians
Northern California Chapter
 
News
 
September 26-28, 2008 
  
From September 26 to September 28, 2008, the California Garden and Landscape History Society will be hosting their annual conference, Spirit of Landscape: California's Lower Owens River Valley, in Lone Pine, California. For more information, please check out their website at http://www.cglhs.org
 
 
September 6-7, 2008 
 
The NCCSAH Fall 2008 Event will consist of 'Santa Cruz Weekend'
  • Saturday, September 6, 2008: Tour of Pasatiempo - The early Thomas Church/William Wurster development of the 1930. Details for this event include:
            1:00pm - Meet at Marion Hollins House at 20 Country Club Drive (by Clarence Tantau in 1935) for a
            self-guided walking tour of the Wurster and Tantau houses.
            **Parking and directions will be sent out separately to those who sign up.**
  • Sunday, September 7, 2008: Tour of University of California Santa Cruz - Includes lecture and tour by UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Virginia Jansen about the innovative plan of the UCSC campus (1962, Thomas Church and John Carl Warnecke) and its many buildings by the major architects of the 1960s (Ralph Rapson; Hugh Stubbins; Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons; Joseph Esherick; Ernest Kump; Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull etc).
            9:30am to 10:00am - Meet for morning coffee, tea, juice, fruit, and pastries at
            Cowell College Conference Room (Rm. 132), UCSC
 
           10:00am to 11:15am - Visual Presentation & Lecture on Campus Development and
            its buildings by Virginia Jansen and Frank Zwart

           11:15am to 12:00pm - Visit Cowell and Stevenson Colleges

           12:15pm to 1:15pm - Lunch at Cowell Provost Houses

           1:30pm to 5:00pm - Walking Tour of campus ending at the Music Center by Antoine Predock.

Additional information may be obtained from our latest newsletter, click here for the July 2008 NCCSAH Newsletter.

To sign-up for the Santa Cruz Weekend, please make a check payable to "Northern California Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (NCCSAH)" for $40.00 (members) or $50.00 (non-members). Registration includes a copy of the The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture for the self-guided tour on September 6th, and breakfast/lunch on September 7th. Please send checks to:

- Rich Sucre, NCCSAH Santa Cruz Weekend, Page & Turnbull, 724 Pine Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

For more information, please contact Ward Hill at whill@pacbell.net

 
May 7-10, 2008 
 
NCCSAH co-sponsored the Vernacular Architecture Forum conference in Fresno. The tours included historic small towns of the Central Valley like Hanford and the historic buildings of Yosemite. For conference info, go to: http://www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org. Our gratitude goes out to Karana Hattersley-Drayton for organizing this event. 
 
Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 2008 
 
The NCCSAH Spring 2008 Event consisted of: 'Greene and Greene Galore + Green Gables.'  We want to express our gratitude to Ted Bosley for arranging the tour and giving the public lecture, and to the Fleischaker family for allowing us to tour the Green Gables estate.


November 10, 2007 
 
On November 10, 2007, Stanford Professor Emeritus Paul Turner led a tour for NCCSAH members of the Bazett House in Hillsborough designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939. We want to express our gratitude to Professor Paul Turner for organizing this event. For an extensive history of the house, please go to:
http://www.eichlernetwork.com/ENStry11.html
 
September 29, 2007 
 
The NCCSAH 2007 Fall Event was entitled: Midcentury Suburban Architecture: A Tour of Daly City's Westlake . The tour was scheduled for September 29, 2007 from 10:00am to 3:30pm. For information, click here for the Newsletter. Thanks to all that attended.
 
 
  
About NCCSAH
The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians was organized in 1996. The Chapter first met to hear speakers and tour the area in and around the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. Since that time Chapter members have gathered at meetings in Chico, Monterey, Oakland, Grass Valley, Sacramento, the Valley of the Moon in Sonoma County, Sausalito, Tiburon, Stockton, Alameda, and Woodland.