05/25/2021
Happening this week! Last lecture of Spring 2021!
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Join us ๐ง๐ต๐๐ฟ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐, ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ณ, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ญ at ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ง for our ๐๐ผ๐๐ virtual Spring Lecture. Register: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/TxNr2GN/spring21lecture0527
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Emily Bills is an author, curator, and faculty at Woodbury University. Dr. Bills has contributed essays to books on architectural and urban history, including Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America and Visual Merchandising: The Image of Selling. Her co-authored book California Captured, Mid-Century Modern Architecture (Phaidon, 2018) won a Glenn Goldman Art, Architecture & Photography Award by the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association for its perspective on the life and work of architectural photographer Marvin Rand. Her next book, Linking Up Los Angeles: How the Telephone Built a City, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
In her talk, "How They Learned About L.A." Emily will explore some of the photographs and photographers that helped bring Southern California architecture to the world's attention. The bulk of the conversation, however, focuses on her latest book Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern. A key primer to late-twentieth century Modernism, this monograph chronicles Thom's photographic practice and the architectural and urban environment in which he worked. An innovative chronicler of the booming West Coast urbanism of the 1960s and 70s, Thomโs photographs of key projects by path-breaking architecture firms such as William Pereira & Associates, Edward Durell Stone, SOM, Gio Ponti, John Portman, I. M. Pei, and A. Quincy Jones helped establish the idea of cool architectural glamour of the era.
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The Monacelli Press