Events Calendar BAHA Events   Outings on Fridays Our popular series of guided tours, organized by Sally Sachs, returns this spring and summer. The tours take place on the first Friday of the month. Meet at 10:45 am. Lunch is optional and not included in the tour price. $15 per tour ($20 for Contemporary Jewish Museum) or $45 for the series Photo: Luis Maturana   Friday, 5 March 2010 11:00 am Grace Cathedral 1100 California Street San Francisco $15 Designed by U.C. graduate Louis P. Hobart in French Gothic style, Grace Cathedral (1928–1964) is a sumptuous building. The main doors are bronze replicas of Lorenzo Ghiberti ’s “Gates of Paradise,” made for the Baptistry in the Duomo of Florence. The church features eight murals and seven altar panels by Jan Henryk de Rosen; 32 stained-glass windows fron the Charles Connick Studio of Boston; a magnificent choir; needlepoint kneeling cushions; two labyrinths; a Keith Haring AIDS Chapel altarpiece; a 44-bell carillon and three organs. Lunch at a nearby restaurant. Photo: Todd Lappin   Friday, 2 April 2010 11:00 am The Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street San Francisco $20 One of the most talked-about new museum buildings, the 63,000-square-foot CJM was designed by Daniel Libeskind and occupies Willis Polk’s 1907 Jesse Street Power Substation, whose brick façade, trusses, and skylights were preserved. Lunch at a nearby restaurant.   Friday, 4 June 2009 11:00 am $15 To order tickets, print and fill out the ticket order form and mail it with made out to BAHA and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: BAHA Outings on Fridays P.O. Box 1137 Berkeley, CA 94701 You may also order tickets online. Please specify your outing date[s] in the Description line. (See instructions for using PayPal.) ________________________________________________________ Berkeley Daily Planet Benefit Tours Proceeds to benefit the Planet. Please e-mail the BAHA office for tickets. Photo: Daniella Thompson Maybeck Country Tour guide: Jane Edginton A walking tour of Buena Vista Hill with an expert on this district. Saturday, 10 April 2010 at 10:30 am $15 per person Maximum 20 participants Photo: Daniella Thompson Hidden Berkeley—Peralta Park to Northlands Tour guide: Susan Cerny A walking tour through two quiet North-Central Berkeley neighborhoods with the author of Berkeley Landmarks and An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Thursday, 22 April 2010, 5:00–7:00 pm $15 per person Maximum 20 participants Photo: Daniella Thompson Explore Berkeley’s Creeks Tour guide: Carole Schemmerling A car-pool tour, surveying Berkeley’s daylighted creeks with a co-founder of the Urban Creeks Council. Saturday, 24 April 2010, 4:00–6:00 pm $15 per person Maximum 10 participants ________________________________________________________ Other Events Courtesy CED Stock Options: Houses for Everyone 28 January 2010–10 April 2010 Environmental Design Library 210 Wurster Hall University of California campus Not many American homes are designed by architects. Most owe their layout and appearance to stock plan catalogs and house plan books rather than custom architect designs. Stock plans are generic, pre-drawn building plans that can be ordered from a catalog, magazine, or recently, the Internet. House pattern books and plan publications include images and plans for houses, but usually do not offer them for sale. “Stock Options: Houses for Everyone” is an exhibit of historic house pattern books and stock plan catalogs featuring rare and original materials from the Environmental Design Library and Environmental Design Archives. ________________________________________________________ Courtesy of Victoria Kastner Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck, and the École des Beaux-Arts Tuesday, 9 February 2010 Koret Auditorium at the de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Speaker: Victoria Kastner, Hearst Castle, San Simeon $15 general; free for ADAF members The legacies of Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck are evident in many California buildings, most notably in the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, the buildings on and near the University of California campus in Berkeley, and William Randolph Hearst’s San Simeon estate, Hearst Castle. What connects Maybeck and Morgan is the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where these architects pursued their education. Victoria Kastner will discuss the program at the Paris School of Fine Arts, its influence on Maybeck and Morgan, and the ways in which their studies affected the architectural landscape of California. The lecture is sponsored by the American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California. ________________________________________________________ Oakland Heritage Alliance Lecture Series Chapel of the Chimes 4499 Piedmont Avenue Oakland, CA, 94611 11 February 2010 Gray Brechin: The New Deal and its Impact on the East Bay . Popular lecturer Gray Brechin will once again highlight the New Deal's cultural and historical contributions to the East bay landscape. 11 March 2010 Martin Meeker: The Oakland Army Base Oral History Project Historian Martin Meeker will share some highlights of his book on The Oakland Army Base Oral History Project. The Project is based upon in-depth, interviews with individuals who were affiliated with the base during its period of operation (1941–1999). For additional information, visit the OHA website. ________________________________________________________ Photo: Daniella Thompson First Church of Christ, Scientist, Centennial Lecture Series First Church of Christ, Scientist 2619 Dwight Way Berkeley, CA 94704 Tickets: $15 at the door 7 March 2010 3:00 pm Edward R. Bosley: Modern Materials Echo the Ages: Building First Church Berkeley Edward R. Bosley is the director of The Gamble House in Pasadena and the author of numerous books, including Greene & Greene. 11 April 2010 7:00 pm Wiliam Marquand: Up and Down, Inside Out: A New Dynamic of Religious Spaces Wiliam Marquand, AIA, is the owner of Marquand Design/Clarity Digital Structures, founder of the Maybeck Foundation, and a board member of Friends of First Church. These lectures are sponsored by Friends of First Church. ________________________________________________________ Berkeley in Conflict: Eyewitness Images 18 October 2009–27 March 2010 Berkeley History Center Veterans Memorial Building 1931 Center Street This Berkeley Historical Society exhibit features previously unexhibited works by photographers John Jekabson, Dan Beaver, and Lydia Gans, whose photographs portray confrontations and demonstrations from the 1960s to the recent standoff of the Marines vs. Code Pink. Regular exhibit hours are Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 1 to 4 pm. Info: (510) 848-0181. Opening reception on Sunday, 18 October 2009 from 3 to 5 pm. ________________________________________________________ Guided Tours of the Paramount Theatre Public tours of the Paramount Theatre are given on the first and third Saturdays of each month, excluding holidays and holiday weekends. No reservations are necessary. Tours begin promptly at 10:00 am at the Box Office entrance on 21st Street near Broadway. The tour lasts about 2 hours and provides a full and informative view of the Theatre. Cameras are allowed. Admission is $5.00 per person. Children must be at least 10 years old, and adult chaperones are required. Please note that some areas of the tour are not wheelchair accessible. ________________________________________________________ Your donations to BAHA are tax-deductible. Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association 2318 Durant Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 841-2242 Copyright © 2010 BAHA. All rights reserved.