Saturday, September 28thSymposium and Home Tour
The third in a series celebrating Modern architecture in Bakersfield, Bakersfield Built: Architecture of the 1950s, will explore the most exciting decade in the city’s history. From a devastating earthquake to postwar population growth, local architects and a handful of internationally known architects transformed “America’s Newest City.”
The symposium will feature a panel of experts including:
David Coffey, of the Bakersfield Built Foundation.
Maristella Casciato, Senior Curator at the Getty Research Center,
Frances Anderton, Author and former host of KCRW's design and architecture program,
Alan Hess, noted architectural author,
Sian Winship, President of the Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter,
Volker M. Welter, Professor of Architectural History at UC Santa Barbara,
Raymond Neutra, President of the Neutra Institute for Survival Through Design,
John Berley, architectural designer involved in Neutra Institute’s property restorations and former SAH/SCC President,
This exhibition is a collaboration with the Society of Architectural Historians, Southern California Chapter and Bakersfield Museum of Art.
Whitney Biggar, Kenneth Frick Residence, 1954Photograph by Julius Shulman, 1955
Source: J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10). 2043-11K