Events Calendar BAHA Events Outings on Fridays Our popular series of guided architectural tours, organized by Sally Sachs, returns this spring. 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. Advance reservation required. $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. Courtesy of the Walnut Creek Historical Society   Friday, 4 June 2010 11:00 am Shadelands Ranch Historical Museum 2660 Ygnacio Valley Road Walnut Creek $15 Built by Walnut Creek pioneer Hiram Penniman, this 1903 redwood-framed house is a showcase for numerous historical artifacts, many of which belonged to the Pennimans. It also houses a rich archive of Contra Costa and Walnut Creek history in its collections of old newspapers, photographs, and government records. Lunch at a nearby restaurant 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.) ________________________________________________________ “Designing with Nature” film premiere Wednesday, 31 March 2010 Reception 7:00 pm Program 7:30 pm The Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door Speakers: Robert Judson Clark & Paul Bockhorst “Designing with Nature: Arts & Crafts Architecture in Northern California” is a new documentary written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award winner Paul Bockhorst in cooperation with the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association. The film provides a vivid account of a pivotal chapter in the architectural history of Northern California. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the documentary examines the work of several major architects who were influenced by Arts & Crafts ideals, as well as by the reformist ethos of the Progressive Era. These designers sought to create an architecture suited to the landscape, climate, and emerging culture of the region. Rejecting Victorian excess and the artificial separation of art and craft, they strove to create an organic architecture based on unified design and harmony with nature. Featured architects include Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, Ernest Coxhead, Willis Polk, A.C. Schweinfurth, John Galen Howard, Louis Christian Mullgardt, John Hudson Thomas, and Henry Gutterson. The influential Arts & Crafts proponents Joseph Worcester and Charles Keeler are also highlighted. Storytellers include Robert Judson Clark, Richard Longstreth, Kenneth Cardwell, Leslie Freudenheim, Richard Guy Wilson, James Lawrence, and Susan Cerny. To order advance tickets, please send a check made out to BAHA with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: BAHA “Designing with Nature” P.O. Box 1137 Berkeley, CA 94701 You may also order tickets online. Please specify the event and number of tickets 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 ________________________________________________________ BAHA’s Annual Spring House Tour Early Residences in Berkeley Sunday, 2 May 2010 1 to 5 o’clock Tickets $40 general; $30 BAHA members Tour docents receive complimentary admission. To volunteer, e-mail BAHA. Pre-tour Lecture Julia Morgan’s Cohorts Speaker: Inge Horton Thursday, 29 April 2010 at 7:30 pm The Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley Tickets $15 For complete information, see the 2010 House Tour page. ________________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________ Oakland Heritage Alliance Lecture Series Chapel of the Chimes 4499 Piedmont Avenue Oakland, CA, 94611 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 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. To be followed by: Berkeley Municipal Rose Garden (BAHA archives) The 75th Anniversary of the WPA in Berkeley 11 April 2010–18 Sept. 2010 Berkeley History Center Veterans Memorial Building 1931 Center Street This Berkeley Historical Society exhibitfeatures historic photographs and objects from the many Works Progress Administration (WPA) structures, art works, and projects that have become Berkeley’s legacy. Famous New Deal photographer Dorothea Lange also lived here. The exhibit explores the New Deal’s broad social policy benefiting education, recreation and the arts through its job programs and its relevance to today’s public policy. Curated by Harvey Smith of California’s Living New Deal Project and the National New Deal Preservation Association. Smith will give an overview following a brief annual meeting of the Berkeley Historical Society on Sunday, 11 April 2010 from 3 to 5 pm. Depression-era refreshments will be served. ________________________________________________________ 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.