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Ansel Adams' Lens into LA Architecture
By
Scott Craig
Here is a of the video.
, an architectural and design historian, analyzes Los Angeles architecture through photographs Ansel Adams took on assignment there in the 1940s in a free public lecture titled 鈥淟ooking at Ansel Adams Looking at LA鈥 on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 4 p.m. at the 黑料百科 Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. No RSVP is necessary for the lecture, which will last an hour. Light refreshments will be served.
Doordan, professor emeritus of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, said Adams did not appreciate the so-called 鈥渄uck鈥 architecture, buildings shaped like the product or service sold inside, that later became popular during postmodernism in the 1960s.
On assignment in Los Angeles in the 1940s, Adams wrote: Fortune magazine 鈥渨anted pictures of the exotic (local) architecture such as the Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood. There were many such awful examples around Los Angeles, and I drove hundreds of miles in pursuit of them.鈥
Doordan, who graduated from Stanford University before earning a doctorate in the history of architecture from Columbia University, is a commissioner for Santa Barbara鈥檚 Historic Landmarks Commission.
He authored a historical survey, 鈥淭wentieth Century Architecture,鈥 and serves as a co-editor of the journal Design Issues.
鈥Beyond the Wilderness: Ansel Adams in 1940s Los Angeles鈥 is on view at the museum through March 28.