Clarkson Chair Planning Research Guide: 2019 Spring Clarkson Chair Lauren Weiss Bricker
Lauren Weiss Bricker
Lauren Weiss Bricker, PhD, is professor of architecture and director of the Archives-Special Collections in the College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Dr. Weiss Bricker is Chair of the State Historical Resources Commission in California and co-chair of the Commission’s Committee on the Cultural Resources of the Modern Age. She is a co-author of the forthcoming Mediterranean Revival House (Abrams), and is currently working on “The Pragmatists,” a study of the American response to the form and ideology of European Modernism, supported by a fellowship from the Clarence S.Stein Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies, Cornell University.
Books
- The Architecture of Gregory Ain byCall Number: APL: NA737 .A37 A4 1997ISBN: 0940512068Publication Date: 1997-08-01An exhibition organized for UCSB Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, January 4 through February 10, 1980.
- Design and Historic Preservation byCall Number: APL: NA2500 .D47 2009ISBN: 9780874138313Publication Date: 2009-03-01This collection of papers addresses two questions central to design and historic preservation: what are the parameters of 'compatibility' in the design of additions to historic buildings and of new infill buildings in historic districts and landscapes. Presented at the 'Third National Forum on Historic Preservation Practice: A Critical Look at Design in Historic Preservation', held at Goucher College, the authors include practicing and academic historic preservationists, architectural historians, architects, landscape architects, and engineers. Organized under the themes of 'Melding Contemporary and Historic Design', 'Design Standards in Changing Environments', 'Modernism and Post modernism in Preservation Design', and 'Engineering and Preservation', issues of compatibility are explored through diverse projects in locations across the United States from historic Charleston, SC to downtown Los Angeles.
- The Early Years of Art History in the United States byCall Number: Lockwood Library: N385 .E27 1993ISBN: 0691036454Publication Date: 1994-03-10Art history became established as an academic discipline in the United States between 1865 and 1895, when courses were introduced not only at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard, but also at Vassar, Syracuse, Wellesley, Rockford Female Seminary, Radcliffe, and Bryn Mawr. The prominent early role of the women's colleges and smaller universities is just one of the areas investigated in this volume on the genesis and early development of art history in the United States. Other essays focus on single departments of art history, examining the early subjects and methods of American art history and the way in which its practitioners responded to and assimilated contemporary developments in other fields, particularly history, the sciences, and philosophy. A final section examines some of the great scholarly personalities that dominated the field in the early years of this century. The volume includes a complete reprint of E. Baldwin Smith's 1912 survey The Study of the History of Art in the Colleges and Universities of the United States (Princeton). The contributors include Pamela Askew, Lauren Weiss Bricker, John Coolidge, Julius Held, Sybil Kantor, George Kubler, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Phyllis Williams Lehmann, Hayden Maginnis, Agnes Mongan, Henry Millon, Donald Preziosi, Michael Rinehart, Linda Seidel, Claire Richter Sherman, Craig Hugh Smyth, Mary Ann Stankiewicz, David Van Zanten, and Edward Warburg.
- Johnson, Kaufman, Coate byCall Number: Annex: NA730 .S942 J64 1992ISBN: 0884963535Publication Date: 1992-01-01
- The Mediterranean House in America byCall Number: APL and Hayes Hall Reading Room: NA7205 .B73 2008ISBN: 9780810972858Publication Date: 2008-10-01Inspired by the romance of Italian villas, Spanish farmhouses, and Moorish courtyards, the Mediterranean Revival style became an archetype for sophisticated suburban homes throughout America in the early 20th century. The characteristic white stucco house, roofed with terra-cotta and ornamented with ironwork, decorative tiles, and fountains, remains the dominant style for new residences in California, the Southwest, and Florida. The Mediterranean house’s longevity is rooted in an overall simplicity and an emphasis on the outdoors. Its central courtyard, terraces, and loggias provide a fluidity between interiors and exteriors equally prized by the architects of ancient Pompeii and groundbreaking modernists. The Mediterranean House in America provides the first comprehensive survey of this popular style, beautifully illustrated in full-color photographs by Juergen Nogai, archival photos, and drawings.
- Preservation Education byCall Number: ebookISBN: 1611685958Publication Date: 2014-09-02Book Chapter: Kapp, Paul Hardin, Lauren Weiss Bricker, and Luis Hoyos. 2014. "Documentation and design in association: Historic preservation design using social history, advocacy, and drawing in the architecture design studio."
- Steel and Shade byCall Number: APL and Hayes Hall Reading Room: NA737 .W475 A4 2011ISBN: 3868281916Publication Date: 2011-03-22A comprehensive overview of an architectural practice in Palm Springs that spanned over 60 years during the 'golden age' of Californian architecture. Wexler's practice began with the design of prefabricated houses and portable classrooms constructed of light gauge steel. The extremes of the desert forced Wexler to create a specific type of sustainable architecture, which he applied to projects commissioned by people like Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, the Alexander Construction Company and Walt Disney World Resort. This is the first monograph on his work.
Articles
Bricker, Lauren Weiss. 2017. "Architect O'Neil Ford's Exploration of the Solar House in Texas." APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology 48 (2-3):21-28.
Bricker, Lauren Weiss. 2009. "Western Pragmatists and the Modern American House." Southern California Quarterly 91 (4):413-427.
Bricker, Lauren Weiss. 2004. "History in motion: a glance at historic preservation in California." Future Anterior 1 (2):4-13.
Bricker, Lauren Weiss. 1990. "The writings of Fiske Kimball: A synthesis of architectural history and practice." Studies in the History of Art 35:215-235.