Day: Friday, May 23, 2008
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Girvetz 1106
Field trip – to the Schindler Home in West Hollywood
Saturday, May 24, 2008
9:00a.m.-5:00p.m.
Transportation will be provided
Enrollment Code: 59048
Description:
The seminar meets on two days. On the first day, we will begin with a
slide-assisted examination of early to mid-20th-century domestic architure
in Southern California. The focus of our interest will be buildings by
Frank Lloyd Wright, Schindler, and Neutra, and the history of their
preservation. We will learn about the economics and the design of early
20th-century homes, and about the history of their preservation. The second
day will be spent in Los Angeles. We will visit the Schindler home in West
Hollywood, as well as Wright’s Hollyhock house in Hollywood. We will
study the buildings and learn about their design, history of their preservation,
and current uses. I hope to be able to involve an official from L.A.’s
municipal preservation agency, in the hopes that she/he meet with us briefly.
I plan to give students group assignments, that let them search the buildings
we visit for specifically “modernist” elements.
Professor Sven Spieker, Russian, Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, teaches in CompLit, affiliated with Art History. His specialization is 20th-century modernism. He teaches courses in 20th-century Russian & Eastern European art and literature.
Email: spieker@gss.ucsb.edu
