Day: Friday, 5/22/09, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Girvetz 1106
Saturday, 5/23/09, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Girvetz 1106, Field trip to Schindler Home (W. Hollywood)
Transportation will be provided.
Enrollment Code: 26609
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 Europe and the United States. Then, we will assess some buildings on the UCSB campus for their “modernist”
elements. On the second day, the focus of our interest will be buildings by Frank Lloyd
Wright, Rudolf Schindler, and Richard Neutra, all of whom were active in L.A. in the first half of the 20th century. We will learn about the economics and the design of early 20th-century homes, and about the history of their preservation. Time will be spent at the Schindler archive at UCSB where much of the famous architect’s archive is preserved. The students will learn what role archives such as this one can play when it comes to preserving architecture. They will also be able to interact with some more unique materials preserved on our campus. We will visit the Schindler home in West Hollywood,
as well as Wright’s Hollyhock house in Hollywood, and Richard Neutra’s VDL research house. We will study our buildings and learn about their design, history of their preservation, and current uses. I hope to be able to involve and official from L.A.’s municipal preservation agency in the hopes that he/or she meet with us briefly. I plan to give the students group assignments that lets them search the buildings we visit for specifically “modernist” elements.
Professor Sven Spieker, Russian, Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, teaches in GSS and CompLit, affiliated with Art History. His Specialization is 20th-century modernism. He also teaches courses in 20th-century Russian and Eastern European art and literature.
Email: spieker@gss.ucsb.edu
