F R A N K L L O Y D W R I G H T B U I L D I N G C O N S E R VA N C Y

2 0 1 6 C o n f e r e n C eSan francisco, California nov. 2 – 6

Wright’s Late Years: 1946-59

Wright’s Late Years

3 Conference at a Glance4 Hotel Information5 General Information7 Board of Directors9 Daily Schedule with tours and presentations14 Walton House / St. Stephen Catholic Church15 St. Elizabeth Seton Church / Wormser-Coleman House16 Marin County Civic Center17 V.C. Morris Gift Shop18 Berger House / Buehler House19 Flowers House / Feldman House 20 Chapel of the Chimes / Chick House21 Bazett-Frank House / Mathews House22 Hanna House / Hughes-van Tamelen House23 Ohta House / Fairfield House24 Walker House / Fawcett House25 Conference Attendees28 Past Conferences29 Silent Auction / Wright Spirit Awards

SponsorsSpeCiaL SponSorS

Mary and Steven Swig

Susan and John Major Donor Advised Fund

HomeoWner/Site partnerS

Jeanne Allen and Marc Grant, Chapel of the Chimes, Ken and Carrie Cox, Laurence and Oliver Frank, Foster Goldstrom, the Henderson Family, ISAIA, Marin County Civic Center, Paul and Susan Opsvig, James Rega and Eric Berger, Al and Arlyss Rothman, Gerald Shmavonian, Betty Sox and John Badenhop, Stanford University and Dr. Laura Jones, St. Elizabeth Seton Church, St. Stephen Catholic Church, Mary and Steven Swig, Mary and Jane van Tamelen, Mary and Robert Walton, William Wheeler

ConferenCe Support

J. Charles Crystalworks, John Clouse, Joel Puliatti, Scot Zimmerman

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tour SponSor SponSorS

Architectural Resources GroupCarey & Co. | A TreanorHL Company

Forderer Cornice WorksPage & Turnbull

Walker Warner Architects

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Welcome

Because of the abundance of Wright and Wright-influenced architecture in the area, it is always a pleasure to return to Northern California for a Conservancy conference. The tours and events planned by conference co-chairs Chuck Henderson and William J. Schwarz will give the op-portunity to view a range of public and private sites—some of which are rarely open to the public. I offer many thanks to them for their work.

Additionally I would like to thank conference speakers chair Richard Longstreth for putting together a stimulating series of morning lectures, board members Marsha Shyer and Scott Perkins for developing a pertinent program for the Homeowners and Public Sites Dinner, George Meyer for spearheading our enticing silent auction, Mary and Steven Swig for hosting the Leadership Circle event, and all of the homeowners opening their homes to us. We are fortunate, as well, to have a board of directors that works tirelessly to fulfill the mission of the Conservancy, and to have at our helm executive director Janet Halstead, who, together with our staff Joel Hoglund, Kristen Patzer and John Waters, ensures that the Conservancy continues to function as a respected voice in the preservation community. I also thank you as attendees for contributing your knowledge and your fellowship to our joint preservation endeavor.

Edith K. PayneBoard president

A special lineup of presentations, discoveries and experiences awaits you here in San Francisco! Thank you for being a part of this annual confer-ence. Your participation here and in our organization throughout the year helps to safeguard the extraordinary architecture that we all value.

The Conservancy is grateful to the speakers, homeowners and institu-tions who are generously opening their spaces to us, and to our sponsors for their special support. We also thank our volunteers. All of these contributions are essential ingredients in this conference and we are very grateful. We hope you have a wonderful and enlightening time.Janet Halstead

executive Director

The mission of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy is to facilitate the preservation and maintenance of the remaining structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright through education, advocacy and technical services. The Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Chicago.

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Conference Committee Patrick J. Mahoney, ChairKyle Johnson, Tim Quigley, Jack Quinan, Sandra Shane-DuBow, Larry Woodin

Conference Speakers CommitteeRichard Longstreth, ChairDavid De Long, Dale Allen Gyure, neil Levine, Jack Quinan

Chuck Henderson | William J. Schwarz Conference Co-Chairs

Local Conference CommitteeLibby Garrison, Daniel Gregory, Jan novie, Daniel Ruark, Paul V. Turner

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Conference at a GlanceNote: Italics indicate add-on events not included in the general conference fee. You must present your conference badge indicating that you have registered to attend these events.

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Wednesday, nov. 29 a.m. – 4 p.m. Pre-conference Tour: Walton House, St. Stephen Church, St. Elizabeth Seton Church

5:30 – 7 p.m. Opening Reception at Hilton SF Financial District, 4th Floor

7 – 9:15 p.m. Leadership Circle Dinner at Wormser-Coleman House

thursday, nov. 38:30 – 11 a.m. Morning Sessions • Annual Meeting of the Conservancy • Keynote presentation by Paul V. Turner • New Conservancy initiatives presentation • Marin County Civic Center presentation

11:30 – 5 p.m. Tour V.C. Morris Gift Shop, Marin County Civic Center, Berger House

6 – 7 p.m. Book signing at Hilton

6:30 – 9 p.m. Homeowners and Public Sites Dinner Meeting at Hilton

friday, nov. 49 – 11:30 a.m. Morning Sessions • Wright’s Studio in 1946-59 presentation • Wright in the Fifties presentation • Preserving Postwar Wright panel

12 – 5:30 p.m. Tour Buehler House, Feldman House, Flowers House, Chapel of the Chimes

5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Conservancy Benefit Dinner: Guy Hyde Chick House

Saturday, nov. 59 – 10:30 a.m. Morning Sessions • Wright’s circular houses presentation • Wright and Elizabeth Gordon presentation • Wright’s Calico Store Project presentation

10:50 – 11 a.m. Tour Mathews House, Hanna House, Bazett-Frank House, Hughes-van Tamelen House

7 – 11 p.m. Silent Auction, Gala Din-ner and Wright Spirit Awards

Sunday, nov. 67:30 a.m. – 8 p.m. Post-conference Tour: Ohta House, Fairfield House, Walker House, Fawcett House

Please note: Daylight savings time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday—set your alarm clock back one hour before bed.

approx. 6 p.m. First bus will stop at BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Coliseum Station for public train transfer to Oakland or SFO airports (a SuperShuttle van from Coliseum Station to SFO will also be available with prior booking through the Con-servancy office). For more informa-tion on BART visit bart.gov.

approx. 7 p.m. First bus arrives at Hilton approx. 8 p.m. Second bus arrives at Hilton. The second bus will not stop at the BART station.

Post-conference tour attendees will be assigned in advance to one of two bus departures. you must travel on your as-signed bus. if you miss your assigned departure you will not be able to take the other bus. Both buses will be full.

All morning sessions are held at the conference hotel and all tours depart from and return to the hotel.

Hilton San Francisco Financial District Architect: John Carl Warnecke 750 Kearny Street, 415.433.6600

Getting to the HotelAttendees must provide their own transportation to the hotel.

ParkingConference attendees staying at the Hilton automatically receive a discounted rate of $30 per night for overnight self-parking (not valet). The Hilton garage entrance is north of the hotel entrance. The discount will not apply at the garage across the street.

Where to board the busTransportation for all events will commence outside the main hotel entrance.

Breakfast and the neighborhoodBreakfast is not included at the Hilton. Coffee and tea will be served during morning sessions (please arrive on time). There are several options in the Financial District and toward North Beach, where you will also find many excellent dinner options.

Registration DeskYour first stop at the conference should be the Conservancy registration desk at the Hilton. We will be located adjacent to the hotel check-in desk in the lobby Tuesday and Wednesday, and outside the Grand Ballroom on the third floor from Thursday. Here you will receive your conference credentials and program, ask any questions and purchase available books.

Hours

Tuesday, Nov. 1 4 – 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 2 8 – 9 a.m. 1 – 8 p.m.

Nov. 3-5 8 – 11 a.m.

Hotel information

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Kearny St to union Square

Hilton financial District entrance

Chinatown

Columbus ave. to north Beach

750 Restaurant & Bar (hotel lobby) – open 6 a.m. every day

Palio Caffe (505 Montgomery St.) – open 5:30 a.m. M-F only

Proper Food (655 Montgomery St.) – open 7 a.m. M-F only

Brioche Cafe (210 Columbus Ave.) – open 7 a.m. every day

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General informationWhat To WearThe San Francisco Bay Area can have unpredictable weather. Average temperatures this time of year range from the mid 60s to low 50s in the evenings. Casual dress with light layers is recommended for the afternoon tours. All tours are rain or shine. Plan ahead with an umbrella and a waterproof jacket if the forecast calls for rain.

Please remember to wear comfortable walking shoes. Some sites have uneven, sloping or gravel terrain leading up to the house. Please do not wear high heels on any house tours or events. Shoe covers will be provided and required at several sites. You may also choose to remove your shoes.

Business attire is recommended for most evening functions. Those attending the Friday Benefit dinner should note that transportation to the dinner will commence directly after the day’s tour, so more casual dress is acceptable. Business or evening attire is recommended for the gala dinner.

LunchA box lunch and bottle of water will be provided for all general conference tour attendees as they board the bus. We will have a vegetarian option for those who indicated vegetarian for the gala dinner—please make yourself known to staff. You may bring another beverage but no glass containers.

On the Wednesday pre-conference tour a sit-down lunch will be provided at the Walton House upon arrival at approximately 12:30 p.m. On the Sunday post-conference tour a box lunch will be provided when we arrive at the Walker House. Guests are encouraged to bring snacks for the afternoon tours. AccessibilityWhile we strive to make our tours accessible to all, please be advised that the majority of the tour sites are private homes and may not be able to accommodate all visitors.

Photo PolicyExterior photography is permitted at all tour sites provided it does not interfere with the tour schedule and is for private, non-commercial use only. Staff will advise when interior photography is permitted. Failure to abide by these policies may affect future access to private sites and the Conservancy’s ability to interact productively with the owners. Thank you for your cooperation.

Security at Marin County Civic CenterEveryone must pass through security to visit the courtroom. Please do not carry a metal water bottle, lighter, matches or pointed objects on this tour.

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Frank Lloyd Wright and San FranciscoBy Paul V. Turner Keynote speaker at the conference(Yale University Press, 2016)Minimum donation: $65

Stanford University professor emeritus Paul V. Turner surveys the full body of Wright’s work in the Bay Area in this essential addition to any Wright library.

The Fantastic Seashell of the Mind: The Architecture of Mark MillsBy Janey Bennett(ORO Editions, 2016)Minimum donation: $35

Architectural historian Janey Bennett explores the architecture of Wright apprentice Mark Mills, whose work we will visit on the post-conference tour.

PlusJoyce Muns of Berkeley-based antique book dealer J.B. Muns Fine Arts Books will display a selection of rare books for sale during the book signing.

PoliciesIn general the conference morning sessions may be age-appropriate for high school students and above. Faculty and students (high school and college) with identification are admitted free to these sessions. Conservancy tours cannot accommodate children under the age of 12.

No pets are allowed at any of the morning sessions, afternoon tours or evening events. No smoking is allowed on tours or at evening events.

SchedulePlease be aware that each morning session, tour and event will start at its scheduled time. Sessions, buses, tours and events will not be delayed waiting for latecomers. Please respect your fellow conference attendees by arriving on time for bus departures, and by following the instructions of bus staff and tour docents who must maintain a strict schedule.

AIA/CES Continuing Education CreditsWe are pleased to provide AIA continuing education credits for morning sessions and afternoon tours. Please pick up Form C-1 at the registration desk, check off the attended sessions, write in your AIA number, sign the form and return it to the registration desk before 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5. Credit will not be provided if you do not return the form to the registration desk by this time, or if it is not properly completed.

Book Signing Two books will be available for a donation at the conference registration desk, and the authors will be present for a signing Thursday, Nov. 3 from 6–7 p.m. in the silent auction room on the fourth floor at the Hilton.

The nominating committee of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy proposes the following slate to the membership for election to the board of directors.

nominations for additional termsThe nominating committee proposes the following current board members for a second three-year term: Dan Chrzanowski and Vincent Michael. For a third three-year term: Edith Payne and Ron Scherubel.

The Conservancy extends its sincere thanks to Ron Burkle, Leo Koonmen and Debra Nemeth, who will be leaving the board in November. Board members continuing their terms in 2017 are: Diane Belden, John Blew, Ron Duplack, Dale Allen Gyure, T. Gunny Harboe FAIA, Chuck Henderson, Scott Jarson, Bruce Judd, Neil Levine, Patrick J. Mahoney AIA, George Meyer, Scott Perkins, Mary Roberts, Sandra Shane-DuBow, Marsha Shyer and Larry Woodin. Richard Longstreth and Lynda Waggoner are continu-ing to serve, per the bylaws, through an extension to a third term to permit the director to serve a two-year term as an officer.

new Board nominationsSusan Jacobs Lockhart served as president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy during 2009-2011, has served a combined total of 14 years on its board, and is the first executive editor of SaveWright magazine. Susan grew up in the first and second Jacobs House designed by Wright. As a member of the Taliesin Fellowship for 45 years, she worked in all areas of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s activities. She was a faculty member of the school, a graphic designer for Taliesin Architects, the director of the biannual Taliesin Day Symposium, a pianist, dancer and chef. As an artist, she currently works on commissions for architectural glass, steel sculpture and wood plate art. Her products have been licensed with Heath Ceramics, Tampopo and J. Charles Crystalworks. Her firm, Susan Jacobs Lockhart Designs, operates out of Cambridge, Massachu-setts. Currently she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Board of Governors of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

Fred Prozzillo is director of preservation for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. He directs the preservation at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prozzillo interned with renowned conserva-tion architects Sandy, Kentro & Associates, working in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, and Kathmandu, Nepal, and has worked on notable projects such as the award-winning restoration of the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prozzillo is a graduate of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, where he is currently an instructor. He has also served on the board of directors for Taliesin Fellows and the Western Chapter of the Association for Preservation Technology.

Tim Quigley, AIA, is principal of Quigley Architects, a Minneapolis-based residential firm. Previ-ously, he taught architectural studio and history courses for 20 years as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and Ball State University. He is a former board president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, board vice president (and founder) of the Minnesota chapter of Docomomo and former board president of the Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota. He recently co-authored, with Jane King Hession, the 2015 book John H. Howe: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design (University of Minnesota Press).

annual meeting

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Conference FellowshipsThis year’s conference will welcome the first recipients of the John G. Thorpe Young Professionals and Students Fellowship, established in memory of our longtime board member, architect and preservation advocate John G. Thorpe. In recognition of John’s extraordinary contributions to Wright’s built legacy, the Conservancy board set up a program in John’s name to underwrite costs for young practitioners or graduate students in architecture and related fields to attend the annual Conservancy conference. This year’s fellows are Suzan Ozcelik of Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects and Matthew Palmquist, a first-year Master of Architecture student at the University of California, Berkeley. We are also proud to welcome Arianna Urban as recipient of a fellowship from Keepers Preservation Education Fund. Please join us in making this next generation of preservationists feel welcome.

Board of Directors

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executive Committee PRESIDEnT Edith K. Payne Owner, Richardson House Retired Judge, Superior Court of new Jersey

FIRST VICE PRESIDEnT Ron Scherubel Retired Vice President and General Counsel, Sara Lee Foods Retired Executive Director, Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy

SECOnD VICE PRESIDEnT Richard Longstreth Director, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, George Washington University

SECRETARy Lynda S. Waggoner Vice President, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Director, Fallingwater

TREASURER Mary F. Roberts Executive Director, Martin House Restoration Corporation

Chuck Henderson Owner, Mrs. Clinton Walker House

Larry Woodin Executive Director and Founder, EcoHome Foundation President, Gold Standard Capital Group

members at Large

Diane Belden Senior Sales Representative, Tai Ping Carpets Americas Inc.

John Blew Retired Partner, K & L Gates LLP

Ron Burkle Chairman, The yucaipa Companies

Daniel Chrzanowski Owner, John J. and Syd Dobkins House Visual Artist

Ronald P. Duplack Partner, Rieck and Crotty, PC

Dale Allen Gyure Professor of Architecture, Lawrence Technological University

T. Gunny Harboe, FAIA Founder and Principal, Harboe Architects, PC

Scott Jarson Co-founder and President, azarchiteture/Jarson & Jarson Real Estate

Bruce Judd Senior Preservation Architect, Quinn Evans Architects

Leo Koonmen Commercial Real Estate Investment Consultant

Neil Levine Emmet Blakeney Gleason Research Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Patrick J. Mahoney, AIA Vice President, Graycliff Conservancy Lauer-Manguso & Associates Architects

George Meyer Vice President, Operations, Irvine Company Commercial Property Management Executive

Vincent Michael Executive Director, San Antonio Conservation Society

Debra Nemeth Owner, Guy C. Smith House Design Director, Swimmer Design Associates

Scott W. Perkins Director of Preservation, Fallingwater

Sandra Shane-DuBow Member, Board of Directors, Taliesin Preservation Inc. Member, Board of Governors, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture

Marsha Shyer Owner, Brandes House Marketing and Communications Professional

Honorary Board Vincent Scully Eric Lloyd Wright Thomas Wright

executive DirectorJanet Halstead Staff Joel Hoglund Communications and Events Manager Kristen Patzer General Manager John H. Waters Preservation Programs Manager

Thank you to Our Volunteers!Many people you will encounter during the conference are volunteers generously donating their time and talents to support the Conservancy. Be sure to thank them for their hard work!

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pre-Conference tour*Not included in general registration.

Wednesday, Nov. 2

Hilton, lobby level4–9 p.m. Conference Registration

Stop by and pick up your registration bag or ask questions. See full registration desk hours on p. 4.

Tuesday, Nov. 1

Daily Schedule

Hilton, lobby level8–9 a.m. Conference Registration

8:45–9 a.m. Bus loading Bus departure 9 a.m.Two buses will load outside the Hilton main entrance.

9:45–11:30 a.m. Tours of St. Stephen and St. Elizabeth Seton

12:30–2 p.m. Picnic lunch and tour at the Walton House

Lunch will be served on the Walton House lawn while the house is open to roam. Bus departure 2 p.m.

4 p.m. Arrive at the Hilton

Hilton, fourth floor silent auction5:30–7 p.m.Opening Reception

All general conference registrants are invit-ed to join us for drinks (drink tickets will be provided) and hors d’oeuvres in the silent auction room to kick off the conference. The silent auction will be open for bidding.

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Leadership Circle Dinner*Not included in general registration. By invitation only.

Hilton, main entrance6:35–6:45 p.m. Bus loading Bus departure 6:45 p.m.

Leadership Circle members and their guests who have RSVPed to attend board the bus at the main hotel entrance.

Wormser-Coleman House7–9:15 p.m. Dinner Hosted by Mary and Steven Swig

Enjoy dinner and wine in the landmark 1876 Victorian home of Mary and Steven Swig. Bus departure 9:15 p.m.

9:30 p.m. Arrive at the Hilton

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Thursday, Nov. 3Hilton, third floor8–11 a.m. Conference Registration

Hilton, Grand Ballroom, third floor8:30 a.m. Annual Meeting

Board President Edith K. Payne reports on the Conservancy and leads board elections.

9–9:05 a.m. Announcements

Speakers Committee chair Richard Longstreth introduces the speakers.

9:05–9:55 a.m. Keynote Presentation: Frank Lloyd Wright and the San Francisco Bay Area

Stanford University Professor Emeritus paul V. turner, author of the new book Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco (yale University Press) discusses Wright’s

built and unbuilt works created for the Bay Area—the perfect introduction to our tours of all of Wright’s existing structures in the region.

9:55–10:05 a.m. Break

10:05–10:20 a.m. Our Mission and the Wright Building Database

Learn more about how the Conservancy saves Wright as Preservation Programs Manager John Waters discusses the new Wright Building Database initiative.

10:25–11 a.m. Marin County Civic Center Historical Films Presentation

Marin County Civic Center Consulting Architect William J. Schwarz, aia, and Marin County Historian and Archivist Laurie thompson present a recently discovered

1963 documentary on the Marin County Civic Center by Welsh journalist Colin D. Edwards, followed by a brief film clip docu-menting a 1961 meeting on the construc-tion site of the Civic Center. Both films are from the collection of the Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library.

11:25–11:40 a.m. Bus loading Bus departure 11:30–11:40 a.m.Box lunches and bottled water will be dis-tributed while boarding the bus. A vegetar-ian lunch option will be available for those who ordered vegetarian for the gala dinner. Please arrive on time for boarding. Buses will not be held past 11:40 a.m.

11:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Tour Marin County Civic Center, V.C. Morris Gift Shop, Berger House (see archi-tecture notes on p. 16-18).

5–5:15 p.m. Arrive at the Hilton

Hilton, fourth floor6–7 p.m. Book Signing

Authors paul V. turner and Janey Bennett will sign copies of their new books, avail-able for a donation to the Conservancy (see p. 6). The silent auction will be open for bidding until 8 p.m.

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Hilton, Grand Ballroom, third floor6:30–9 p.m. Dinner, PresentationsSupported by Susan and John Major Donor Advised Fund

Owners of Wright houses and staff/volun-teers at Wright public sites meet over drinks and dinner (wine is available at the tables plus a cash bar) at this annual gathering.

Speakers Laura Jones (University Archaeologist and Director of Heritage Services at Stanford Uni-versity) and mary roberts (Executive Director, Martin House Restoration Cor-poration) discuss useful topics around the theme Landscape and Frank Lloyd Wright Structures.

Friday, Nov. 4Hilton, third floor8–11 a.m. Conference Registration

Hilton, Grand Ballroom, third floor9–9:10 a.m. Announcements Dale Gyure introduces the speakers.

9:10–9:30 a.m. The Workings of Wright’s Studio: 1946-59

tim Quigley (Architect, Quigley Architects) examines Wright’s architecture practice during his productive late years.

9:35–9:55 a.m. Wright in the Fifties: Fine Tuning the Photo-graphic Image of the Man

Jack Quinan (Distinguished Service Profes-sor Emeritus, University at Buffalo) explores Wright’s use of the television medium in the ’50s, including his appearance on the Faye Emerson Show.

9:55–10:05 a.m. Break

10:10–11:30 a.m. Preserving Postwar Wright: Restoration, Rehabilitation and Maintenance

ann abernathy (Abernathy Architects, Kalita Humphreys Theatre), Scott ambler (Ambler Architects and Director, Price Tower Arts Center) and Chuck Henderson (owner of the Mrs. Clinton Walker House) discuss their experiences restoring and maintaining their associated Wright build-ings. Jeffrey Herr (Curator, Hollyhock House) moderates.

11:55–12:10 p.m. Bus loading Bus departure 12–12:10 p.m.

12–5:30 p.m. Tour Buehler House, Feldman House, Flowers House, Chapel of the Chimes (see architec-ture notes on p. 18-20).

afternoon tour

Homeowners and public Sites Dinner*Not included in general registration.

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Those who have registered to attend the Benefit Dinner will be directed to board one of two buses. Dinner attendees will travel directly to the Benefit following the last tour of the day.

Please note that the Buehler House will be an exterior-only tour. Shuttle vans will be used to bring people to the Feldman and Flowers Houses. The Bernard Maybeck-designed First Church of Christ, Scientist, heralded as Maybeck’s masterpiece, will be open for viewing while waiting for the shuttle transfer to the Feldman House.

6:15–6:30 p.m. Attendees not going to the Benefit arrive at Hilton

5:30–7:30 p.m. Benefit Dinner

After the last tour of the day Benefit attendees will travel to the Bernard Maybeck-designed Guy Hyde Chick House (see architecture notes p. 20) in Oakland for dinner and fine wines amidst the owner’s world-class art collection.

Approx. 8 p.m. Benefit attendees arrive at Hilton

Conservancy Benefit*Not included in general registration.

Saturday, Nov. 5Hilton, third floor8–11 a.m. Conference Registration

Hilton, Grand Ballroom, third floor9–9:10 a.m. Announcements

Jack Quinan introduces the speakers.

9:10–9:30 a.m. Master of Earth and Sky: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Circular Houses

michael Desmond (Professor, Louisiana State University) examines Wright’s increas-ing use of circles and circular arcs in resi-dential design from the late 1930s to the end of his life through the study of a series of largely unbuilt house designs.

9:35–9:55 a.m. Leveraging Wright: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautifuland the Quest for an American Style

monica penick (Assistant Professor, Design Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison) explores the role of Elizabeth Gordon, the influential editor of House Beautiful maga-zine for more than 20 years, as a major sup-porter of Wright and a champion of educat-ing the American public about design and new American architecture.

10–10:20 a.m. Weaving Together East and West, Culture and Com-merce: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Calico Store Project

Daniel Williamson (Professor of Architec-ture History, Savannah College of Art and

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Sunday, Nov. 6

Please note: Attendees will be assigned to one of two bus departures based on the order in which you registered and whether you are traveling onward to the airport. Both buses are sold out and if you miss your assigned departure you will not be able to take the other bus.

Also note: Daylight savings time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday—set your alarm clock back one hour before bed.

7:20–7:30 a.m. Group 1 bus loading Group 1 Bus departure 7:30 a.m.

8:20–8:30 a.m. Group 2 bus loading Group 2 Bus departure 8:30 a.m.

9 a.m.–4 p.m. (Group 1) 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (Group 2) Tour Ohta House, Walker House,

Fairfield House, Fawcett House (see architecture notes on p. 23-24)

Box lunches will be served at the Walker House to picnic there or take for the drive. Driving times between stops are between one and 2.5 hours. Light refreshments will be served at the Fawcett House before the drive back to the hotel.

approx. 6 p.m. Group 1 bus stops at BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Coliseum Station for public train transfer to Oakland or SFO airports.

A SuperShuttle van from Coliseum Station to SFO will be available with prior booking through the Conservancy office). For more information on BART visit bart.gov.

approx. 7 p.m. Group 1 bus arrives at Hilton. approx. 8 p.m. Group 2 bus arrives at Hilton. Group 2 bus will not stop at the BART station.

post-Conference tour*Not included in general registration.

Design) looks at Wright’s late-career philoso-phy through an unbuilt project in Ahmed-abad, India, designed in 1946.

10:45–11 a.m. Bus loading Bus departure 10:50–11 a.m.

11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tour Mathews House, Bazett-Frank House, Hanna House, Hughes-van Tamelen House (see architecture notes on p. 21-22).

Due to road restrictions in the vicinity of the houses, on this day we will be traveling in smaller buses that do not have onboard restrooms. Please be sure to use the rest-room before boarding the bus. Tours will include a midday restroom stop at the newly restored Rinconada Library, designed in 1958 by Edward Durell Stone, in Palo Alto.

Approx. 6 p.m. Arrive at Hilton

Hilton, fourth floor 7–8 p.m. Silent Auction Reception

Hors d’oeuvres, bar and final bidding on 170+ auction items.

Hilton, Grand Ballroom8–10:30 p.m. Gala Dinner and Wright Spirit Awards presentation

10:30 p.m. Auction checkout

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Wright was known to encourage clients to “go out as far as you can, and then go 10 miles farther” in selecting a home site. The Usonian Walton House is still on the agricul-tural fringe of Modesto. Wright’s plan for the 3,500-square-foot concrete-block house com-prises a central living area and a wing of four bedrooms and a playroom connected by a long gallery. Wright oriented the house on a north-south axis, set far back from the road for pri-vacy. Central air conditioning and heating were installed rather than radiant heating because of the Central Valley climate. Between design and the completion of construction in 1961, six units were added between the workspace and first children’s bedroom for a second study and extra bathroom. Wes Peters supervised construction. A pool was added several years later, redesigned by Mary’s brother. Wright

designed light-stained mahogany furniture for all of the rooms, including straight-back chairs, tables, ottomans, shelves and bunk beds for the smaller bedrooms. The Waltons are among the group of original Wright homeowners who still reside in their house. English-born Robert Walton studied at Stanford University, where he learned of Wright’s Hanna House. Growing up in Michigan, Mary had seen several Wright houses and first met Wright at Taliesin in the late 1940s when her brother, Douglas Lee, was a Wright apprentice. Their father Edgar Lee commissioned Wright to design a house in 1953 that was never built. Soon after the Waltons purchased the rural lot in 1955, Mary Walton wrote to Wright asking him to design a house for them. Today, the Walton House is largely without modification. – Bill Orr Thank you to Mary, Robert and Betsy Walton

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The first of four parish churches designed by Aaron Green for the Roman Catholic Oakland Diocese, St. Stephen departs in form from traditional basilica-type churches as an architectural response to changes that the Second Vatican Council of 1962–65 meant to bring to the experience of the Catholic mass. Building forms derive from the new functional-ity that Green determined would be facilitated by a fan-shaped nave. At the room’s geometric focus, the specially designed church taber-nacle is set into an inclined supporting mast from which are suspended the sheltering roof and roof-wall elements. An electronic organ speaker chamber is accommodated behind the crucifix that hovers above the sanctuary. A freestanding altar enables the celebrant to conduct rituals while in eye contact with his parishioners. – William J. Schwarz, AIAThank you to St. Stephen Catholic Church

St. Stephen Catholic Church(aaron Green, 1969) Walnut Creek • Wednesday, Nov. 2

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This San Francisco landmark, located in an en-clave of architecturally significant 19th-century structures, was constructed in 1876 for Isaac Wormser, a pioneering San Francisco merchant, who lived in the house from 1877 to 1895. In 1895 the house was sold to John C. Coleman, a successful miner who was born in England and came to California with his brother Edward. The brothers discovered gold in Grass Valley, California, and developed the Idaho Mine. John also owned the Morning Star Mine at Iowa Hill. When he moved to San Francisco in 1893, Coleman became active in the develop-ment of a number of public utilities. After pur-chasing the Wormser House, he remodeled it to accommodate his large family and added to the site by purchasing a strip of land with a 50-foot frontage to add to the original 87.5-foot lot. The additional land was used for open space and gardens. Mary and Steven Swig acquired the house from the Coleman estate in 1984.

The three-story wood frame house contains 20 rooms, an elegant reception room, a library, a grand staircase at the front of a large stained

glass window, fine woodwork and carved fireplaces. Marble steps lead to the front porch, framed with paired columns. The tower has curved bay windows and is surmounted by a conical steep pitched roof. Its lookout room has an aerial view of the gardens. A 19th-cen-tury wrought iron fence encloses the property.

Wormser-Coleman House (1876)San Francisco • Leadership Circle Dinner

The main church of the St. Elizabeth Seton parish represents a second completed element of a master plan by Aaron Green, following the earlier construction of a secondary chapel. Primarily hexagonal, with seating for 800, its base is constructed of split-face concrete ma-sonry. A shallow copper-roofed dome shelters the assembly space and is intersected by a tall, copper-roofed pyramid split down the center by a broad skylight. Diffused daylight highlights the altar as the center of liturgical movement. The “theater-in-the-round” configuration em-bodies post-Vatican II aspirations for a less in-

sular clergy. Attending parishioners enjoy clear sight lines across the nave and altar, fostering a connectedness to each other as well as to the celebrant. A strong axis is maintained through the church, from entry at the narthex to the choir area opposite, allowing the celebrant a high degree of flexibility for liturgical furnish-ing arrangements and processional movement before the congregation. Taliesin Fellow artist Heloise Crista created the bronze sculpture of St. Elizabeth Seton at the base of the church prow. – William J. Schwarz, AIA and Jan Novie Thank you to St. Elizabeth Seton Church

St. elizabeth Seton Church (aaron Green, 1990)Pleasanton • Wednesday, Nov. 2

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The Marin County Board of Supervisors commissioned Wright to develop a master plan for a 140-acre site north of San Rafael with the intention of centralizing 13 widely dispersed county departments. Wright designed the master plan and preliminary plans for the Administration Building and Hall of Justice in 1957, initialing and dating them that Decem-ber. He presented the design to Marin County in late March 1958, and preliminary plans for a theater, an auditorium, a fairground pavilion and a lagoon were completed later that year. Because the start of construction coincided with Wright’s death in 1959, William Wesley Peters of Taliesin and Aaron Green, a San Fran-cisco architect and Wright associate, took over as project directors.

Wright’s plan specified a 584-foot-long Admin-istration Building and an 880-foot-long Hall of Justice that would bridge the valleys between three adjacent hills. The focal point and center of the plan was a flattened dome, 80 feet in diameter, crowned by a 172-foot-tall gold tower encasing a smokestack. The Administra-tion Building houses offices as well as a domed, circular county library and the Anne T. Kent

California Room. The Hall of Justice, com-pleted in 1969, contains circular courtrooms, offices, a cafe and the original county jail.

Wright planned the building’s central atriums to be open to the sky, but practical consider-ations prompted a change to barrel-vaulted skylights after his death. The exterior screen walls are divided into rhythmic arcades and circular openings that shade the buildings’ interiors while framing views of the surround-ing hills. The circular motif is continued in the grillwork and gold-anodized aluminum spheres rimming the roof edge. The buildings were constructed of precast, prestressed concrete and steel at a cost of $16.7 million. Segmenta-tion and the use of expansion joints allow the buildings to withstand seismic shock. The site includes a post office (the only Wright-designed U.S. government facility ever constructed), which continues the use of circular forms, and a fourteen-acre lagoon with an island. Later construction on the site includes the 2,000-seat Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium by Taliesin Associated Architects, a 22,500-square-foot exhibition hall and fairgrounds.

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Book Available at RegistrationAn Architecture for Democracy: The Marin County Civic Center By Aaron Green (Grendon Publishing, 1990, new/sealed)Minimum donation: $20Donor: Jan NovieLearn more about the Civic Center in this account by Wright’s associate Aaron Green, who oversaw its completion.

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Wright rejected all conventions of ground-level retail display windows in his design for a gift shop for California businessman V.C. Morris. The street side is an imposing masonry facade that recalls the influence of Louis Sullivan. The solid brick curtain wall, which rises dramatically from the street, is pierced by two slender strands of illuminated glass that converge at the arched opening and barrel-vaulted entryway. The composition is an elegantly conceived interplay of solid and void, light and shadow, angle and curve.

Wright intended the mysterious reticence of the facade to entice passersby through the tunnel-like entrance to the interior, which is an expansive, light-filled space well suited to the display of art and decorative wares. A curvilinear ramp leads to the up-per level and provides additional display areas along its path. The ramp walls contain circular recesses for the display of goods, as well as openings that offer views to the other levels of the store. The curvilinear theme extends to the custom black-walnut display cases, tables, seating and built-in cabinetry included in Wright’s designs for the space.

Similarities between the design of the store and Wright’s concurrent work on plans for the Guggen-heim Museum are obvious. They even extended to an earlier, unexecuted design for Morris: a cylindrical cliffside house whose three tiers were accessible by a series of ramps. Occupied by successive retailers after Morris’ death, including Xanadu Gallery from 1997–2015, the building was acquired for retail leasing by a new owner in 2015. Italian menswear brand ISAIA is expected to open in the space in late spring 2017.

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Designed at its owner’s request as a low-cost and expandable home, the Berger House was constructed on a hilltop site almost entirely by its original owner, an engineer and professor at the College of Marin. Its main living space is a large hexagon and was constructed of form-cast walls of 14-inch-thick desert rubblestone using concrete and native rock. A triangular deck juts off the main living area. Construction began in 1953. The Bergers built it themselves, one wheelbarrow-full at a time. By 1957 the core living area was complete and the couple and their four children were able to move in, camping in sleeping bags until the bedroom wing was finished two years later. Young son Jim wrote to Wright in 1956 requesting a design for a doghouse. Wright responded with a plan for a triangular doghouse that the family built. It was discarded in the 1970s but rebuilt by Berger sons Jim and Eric in 2010. When Mr. Berger died in 1973, Gloria Berger hired a professional carpenter to finish the house, including the construction of additional Wright-designed furniture. She remained a dedicated Wright homeowner until her death in 2011. The house was sold by the family in 2013 and restored by the new owner. – Bill Orr Thank you to James Rega

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Sited on a 3.5-acre site with a green-house, tea pavilion and beautiful Japanese-style grounds by landscape architect Henry Matsutani, who de-signed the Japanese Garden in Golden Gate Park, this L-shaped Usonian has an octagonal living room whose roof slopes up from 2 feet to 14 feet and is inset with gold leaf that reflects the natural light. The main wing consists of three bedrooms, a den, dining room, living room and kitchen. The smaller wing is a machine shop Mr. Buehler, a tool engineer, used to pro-duce gun accessories. Wright-designed furniture for the house was crafted by Manuel Sandoval, who also made the

cabinetry and furniture for the V.C. Morris Gift Shop. Wright apprentice Walter Olds supervised construction. In 1957, Olds also designed a guest house to the southwest of the original residence along the stream. In 1994, a fire destroyed the entire bedroom wing, carport and main kitchen wall and charred the living room. Olds was enlisted again to reconstruct the house after the fire. The kitchen, hallway, study and master bedroom were enlarged slightly, and the roof was covered in copper shingles. Following the Buehlers’ passing, the house under-went a $900,000 renovation. – Bill OrrThank you to Gerald Shmavonian

robert and Gloria Berger House (Wright, 1950)San Anselmo • Thursday, Nov. 3

Katherine and maynard Buehler House (Wright, 1948)Orinda • Friday, Nov. 4

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Originally designed for a site in Los Angeles (Wright called the plan Hillcrown), this Uso-nian house was re-sited for the Berkeley Hills and built in 1974 for Joe and Hilary Feldman by Taliesin Associated Architects. The plan is a large hexagon with an elongated hexagon attached to the side. When constructed, the original Wright plan was flipped to better conform to the Berkeley site, engineered to meet seismic codes and built with a basement that was not part of the original design. A smaller wing contains two bedrooms and a bathroom while the larger contains a living and dining room and a hexagonal brick fireplace. A compact workspace is tucked behind a

patterned screen. The living area opens to a generous terrace with panoramic views of Sather Tower on the University of California at Berkeley campus and the San Francisco Bay in the distance. By the time the house was completed in 1976, Mrs. Feldman had accepted a teaching position at Oxford and moved to England. Mr. Feldman lived in the house for only a few months while it was on the market. The house has been owned since 1980 by the current owners. Wright-designed furniture that had been previously donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum was returned to the house in 2011. – Bill OrrThank you to Jeanne Allen and Marc Grant

Charles Warren Callister (1917-2008) staked out a unique position during the creative flowering of mod-ern architecture in the mid-20th century. He embraced the term “eclectic” affirmatively. The Flowers House exemplifies his ability to bridge many aspects of mod-ernism. Curtains of steel sash pay homage to Bernard Maybeck’s earlier innovations. The sloping roof, wide wooden decks and railings reflect Callister’s apprecia-tion of Japanese architecture, as do rhythmic grids of wood, glass and spandrels expressing the wood structure. Simple volumes and a broad, windowless street facade are vernacular barn plain. Callister com-bines these elements distinctively. For example, delicate lines of a tree in its planter serve as counterpoint to the street’s blank wall. The interior exploits the site’s slope to create multiple levels, tied together by the remarkable central stair hall—a tour de force bringing together structure, circulation space, wood joinery and natural light. Typical of Callister’s artistry are the serene interiors—not abstracted minimalism, but richly textured spaces characterized by rugged brick and con-crete elements and the gnarled oak branches framed by steel sash windows and doors. – Alan HessThank you to Paul and Susan Opsvig

Leslie and iris flowers House (Charles Warren Callister, 1958)Berkeley • Friday, Nov. 4

Joe and Hilary feldman House (1974; from Wright’s plans for Lewis n. Bell House, 1939)Berkeley • Friday, Nov. 4

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Bernard Maybeck (1862-1957) was a prolific American architect whose eclectic style com-bined Spanish mission, Gothic and Japanese influences. He designed many of the Bay Area’s most treasured buildings, including the Palace of Fine Arts (1913) in San Francisco and the First Church of Christ, Scientist (1910) in Berkeley. He was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1951, two years after Wright. The Guy Hyde Chick House in Oakland is one of his finest residential works. It was built for civil engineer Guy Chick and his wife Cora, both members of the Hillside Club with Maybeck, who designed

the group’s original clubhouse in 1906. (The club’s mission was “to protect the hills of Berkeley from … the building of unsuitable and disfiguring houses.”) Maybeck designed a two-story, six-bedroom shingle house with a gabled roof, set in a canyon amid a grove of California oaks, for the Chicks and their five children. The current owner, an art dealer who showcases numerous works of art in the house, moved in in the late 1970s and returned the remodeled kitchen back to its original Craftsman style. The rest of the house is largely original. Thank you to Foster Goldstrom

A columbarium and chapel were originally established on this site in 1909, but it wasn’t until 1928 that an expanded facility, designed by architect Julia Morgan, was dedicated as Chapel of the Chimes. Within the shell of an impressive gothic-inspired concrete edifice, Morgan created a peaceful and serene environment of skylit gardens and intricate, multilevel arrangements of courts and niche-filled alcoves for housing cremat-ed remains. In 1955, following Morgan’s retirement, Aaron Green was retained as architect for a succes-sion of additions that would span the next 40 years. The additions continued the Gothic-influenced theme, updated along a simpler, modern aesthetic. Green’s additions were spacious volumes carved from mono-lithic cast-in-place concrete and marble, often two stories high with generously sized light well openings between floors, and roofs penetrated by large glass tent-like skylights. Green designed all features within these spaces, including two-story murals of patterned precast concrete and glass mosaic tile in geometric relief, as well as original fountains placed within land-scaped indoor planting areas. – Daniel Ruark Thank you to Chapel of the Chimes

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Chapel of the Chimes (Julia morgan, 1926-30; aaron Green additions, 1957-97)Oakland • Saturday, Nov. 5

Guy Hyde Chick House (Bernard maybeck, 1914)Oakland Hills • Conservancy Benefit Dinner

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The very rarely seen Mathews House is on a heavily wooded, secluded lot framed by sculpt-ed oak trees. The raked brick, U-shaped Uso-nian was built on a diamond module, similar to the Berger House and more easily constructed than the earlier hexagonal Hanna and Bazett-Frank houses nearby. The Mathews House is comprised of equilateral parallelograms wrap-ping around a central triangular patio terrace. The house was designed with a wood shingle hip roof that is currently being faithfully rebuilt. The public facade has a series of soffit and awning windows to provide cross-ventila-tion. The private facade of the living wing and dining area frames a spacious terrace with a wall of windows. The dining room opens with

glass doors onto the terrace. The living room is rotated 120 degrees from the dining space and also opens onto the terrace. The sleeping wing consists of two bedrooms separated by a bath and the master bedroom suite, forming the other leg of the U. Interior paneling and partitions are board and batten redwood. Aaron Green supervised the construction. The proposed cost of $25,000 doubled to approximately $51,000 by completion, according to Mathews’ letter to Wright, in which he called the house “mag-nificent.” Arthur Mathews and his wife Judith were in their twenties with a one-year-old child when they moved in to the house. They sold it as their family grew. – Bill OrrThank you to Betty Sox and John Badenhop

Wright used a hexagonal unit system similar to the Hanna House when designing this house for Sidney and Louise Bazett. The plan is a V with a loggia at the juncture of the living and bedroom wings. The walls are made of raked red brick and redwood. The private facade of the living wing is an undulating honeycomb of cells comprised of wood-latticed, floor-to-ceil-ing windows. The back of the main living area has long built-in seating and bookshelves. A geometric lightscreen pattern adorns the clere-story windows. A small workspace is tucked behind the massive chimney. The hexagon unit even carries over into the custom stainless steel

tub-showers. Original Wright apprentice Blaine Drake supervised construction. The Bazetts lived in the house for only a short time. Betty and Louis Frank purchased the house in 1945, only two years after completion. To move into the house, the Franks had to evict its renter—future famed midcentury developer Joseph Eichler. In 1954, the Franks asked Wright for more room. A playroom was added to the original guest room for the growing boys. This was later converted to a studio and master bedroom when the boys moved out. The Frank family continues to own the house. – Bill OrrThank you to Laurence and Oliver Frank

Bazett-frank House (Wright, 1939)Hillsborough • Saturday, Nov. 5

arthur mathews House (Wright, 1950)Atherton • Saturday, Nov. 5

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Designed for a Stanford University professor and his young family, the National Historic Landmark Hanna House exemplifies Wright’s first exploration of abandoning the square or rectangle in favor of the hexagon as a basic unit for the grid and plan. Wright found a new freedom that translated into a remarkable de-gree of flexibility and spatial continuity. Walls joined at 120 degrees create an interior of fluid space and unrestricted views, further extended by large expanses of glass that open out to the terraces and hillside. Given the hexagonal grid, it was nicknamed the Honeycomb House. Even in its initial design, the house greatly exceeded the Hannas’ proposed budget of $15,000 and continued to grow through successive additions

to encompass 4,825 square feet. In 1950 the Hannas added a wing, separated from the main house by the carport, that included guest quar-ters and a workshop. In 1957 they again turned to Wright, asking him to remodel the three chil-dren’s bedrooms into a new master bedroom and to convert the original into a library/office. While generally considered a Usonian, the even-tual size and cost of this dwelling far surpassed the means of the typical Middle American. But the reliance on a grid in the development of the plan, interior and exterior board-and-batten walls, and central location of the kitchen are characteristics shared with Wright’s Usonian designs elsewhere. Thank you to Laura Jones and Stanford University

This brick, redwood and plaster house next to a nature preserve was an early independent Bay Area project by Aaron Green. Originally built for Green’s clients the Hughes family, it was sold within 10 years and had fallen into disrepair when Eugene van Tamelen, a Stanford chemistry professor, bought it in 1968. He soon had his entire family sanding off paint to re-store the redwood. Mary van Tamelen, former mayor of Los Altos Hills, worked tirelessly to preserve the rural character of the area. Green was a master of light. Mitered glass windows bring the outside in, and reflections of the pool water dance across the living room ceiling. The roof seems to float and interior spaces flow seamlessly into the garden. An inviting sunken conversation pit is the focal point of an open living area and was the center of many soirees attended by Nobel laureates, political figures, and wild teenagers. – Jane van TamelenThank you to Mary and Jane van Tamelen

Jean and paul Hanna House (1936)Stanford • Saturday, Nov. 5

Hughes-van tamelen House (aaron Green, 1953)Los Altos Hills • Saturday, Nov. 5

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Born and raised in Arizona, Mark Mills spent four years as an apprentice to Wright, begin-ning in 1944. After leaving Taliesin, Mills would go on to build the Dome House in Cave Creek, Arizona, with fellow Wright apprentice Paolo Soleri. After relocating to San Francisco to join the architectural firm of Anshen & Al-len, Mills was approached by contractor Miles Bain to work as a carpenter on Wright’s Walker House in Carmel. Mrs. Walker then hired Mills to build two spec houses on side-by-side lots she owned in Carmel. The Fairfield House, also known as the Tipped Gable, was Mills’ second house for Mrs. Walker. Its roof is a gable of

two unequal legs, tilted, its ridge considerably off center so that one side of the ridge comes down steeply, held in place by a massive wall of desert masonry. Integrated rafters turn 90 de-grees to become vertical supports and mullions for the doors. The final distance of the Chero-kee red steel roof dematerializes into glass, and a skylight zone in the roof lets daylight flood in. There’s a strong homage to Taliesin West, both in the desert masonry and the 120-de-gree parallelogram grid underlying the plan. – Excerpted from The Fantastic Seashell of the Mind by Janey BennettThank you to Al and Arlyss Rothman

Fairfield House, The Tipped Gable (Mark Mills, 1952)Carmel • Sunday, Nov. 6

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An exceptional example of the many fine organic houses Aaron Green built throughout the Bay Area is the Victor and Virginia Ohta House, built for the family of a physician who also commissioned a medical clinic from Green, though it was never built. With a sensational 10-acre wilderness site, the Ohtas wrote an elo-quent request to Green, characterizing the sort of environment in which they hoped to live. Mentioning views, intimacy, and sun patterns, they declared, “We want to feel glorious in the kitchen.” The house sits among redwoods on a ridge overlooking Monterey Bay, deftly wedded to its isolated site. The spacious 3,800-square-foot house of Arizona sandstone, teak,

redwood and glass features several juxtaposed, intersecting axes with multiple glass prows thrusting out from an anchoring stone fire-place. Each prow is further extended by a deck or terrace so that outdoor living spaces could also capture the views. Outside, an intricate redwood and stone trellis frames a free-form swimming pool, linked to the kitchen and din-ing areas through floor-to-ceiling glass walls. A Japanese garden completes the tranquil setting. Green was assisted by John Howe, Wright’s former chief draftsman. Howe produced an aerial rendering of the house, published in House Beautiful in 1965. – Tim Quigley Thank you to Bill Wheeler

Victor and Virginia ohta House (aaron Green, 1965)Soquel • Sunday, Nov. 6

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The Fawcett House is located on 80 acres of rural farmland. An expansive five-bedroom design on a triangular grid, it is constructed of battered concrete block with wings at 60/120 degree angles and cedar patterned clerestories. Both wings flow from the large living area just inside the main entry. The main living space is anchored by a walk-in fireplace. The southwest wing comprises four bedrooms and three baths with the master bedroom at the end. The south-east wing consists of the workspace and large playroom. A large carport extends from the northeast corner of the house with a tool shed at the far end. The yard is landscaped with a Koi pond and swimming pool. Original owners “Buck” and Harriet Fawcett met Wright while taking an architecture class at Stanford Uni-

versity. Buck was a football star drafted to the NFL, but he returned to work his father’s farm when he became ill. A decade later the couple sought out Wright to design their family home. Initially reluctant, Wright commented, “Not much beauty there.” Fawcett responded, “The Central Valley of California is the most fertile agricultural land in the world, and you should consider it an honor to build a house there.” Wright apprentice Robert Beharka supervised construction. New owners restored the house beginning in 2012 and realized unconstructed features of the original plans, including a spiral caldron in the main fireplace, another fireplace in the master bedroom and a fountain with a waterfall according to original plans. – Bill Orr Thank you to Carrie and Ken Cox

Harriet and randall fawcett House (Wright, 1955)Los Banos • Sunday, Nov. 6

Occupying a rocky promontory overlooking Carmel Bay, the Walker House is the only Uso-nian design completed by Wright in a coastal environment. It has an irregular, arrow-shaped plan with the head of the arrow expressed as a hexagonal roof form resting on triangular-shaped, Carmel stone walls that resemble a ship’s prow projecting into the ocean. The 1,200-square-foot house’s most prominent fea-ture is its hexagonal living room space framed in reverse-stepped glass panels that afford pan-

oramic views of the coastline. Bedroom spaces are located in small wings toward the rear. A large, boxy chimney punctures the hexagonal living room roof. The interior has Carmel stone walls, cedar wood paneling, red-tinted hexago-nal concrete flooring and built-in furniture. In 1960, Mrs. Clinton Walker’s grandson, archi-tect Sandy Walker, built an expanded master bedroom addition from plans Wright designed for a studio addition in 1956.Thank you to the Henderson Family

mrs. Clinton Walker House (Wright, 1948)Carmel • Sunday, Nov. 6

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Wednesday, nov. 2 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, nov. 3 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Silent auction receptionSaturday, Nov. 5 7 p.m. Bidding, hors d’oeuvres, bar

8 p.m. Auction close

10:30 p.m. Auction check-out

Silent auction The silent auction is one of the Conservancy’s most important fundraising events of the year. Thanks to our generous auction donors, all proceeds go directly to funding the Conservancy’s mission to facilitate the preservation and maintenance of the remaining structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Refer to the auction catalog for all auction items and procedures.

fourth floor at the Hilton

Introduced in 1991, the Wright Spirit Award recognizes efforts of extraordinary individuals and organizations who have preserved the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright through their tireless dedication and persistent efforts. Recipients will be recognized during the gala dinner on Saturday. Congratulations to this year’s honorees (pictured counter-clockwise from top).

PETER MAUnU AnD IRMI MAUnU-KOCIAnPrivate Category

GLEnCOE HISTORICAL SOCIETyPublic Category

JOHn G. THORPE*Professional Category

*Presented posthumously

JEFFREy HERRSpecial Honors

WILLIAM J. SCHWARZSpecial Honors

Wright Spirit awards

upcoming events

We have exciting events in the works for 2017. Our annual spring event, Out and About Wright, will tour a number of Wright works in the region surrounding Chicago, and our annual conference will feature an extended symposium held at the Museum of Modern Art with more than a dozen renowned speakers from the United States and abroad addressing Wright and his legacy during the 150th an-niversary year of his birth. The conference is timed to coincide with MoMA’s major new exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive.

Out and About Wright: Chicago points Westapril 28-30, 2017oak Brook, illinois

annual Conference and SymposiumSept. 13-17, 2017new York City

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