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Save the Date! Sept. 27, 2012
Claremont Modern Symposium
Claremont Heritage is proud to announce an event focused on exploring the rich mid-century cultural and architectural resources that exist in Claremont.
Claremont Modern Symposium
will take place on
Thursday, September 27th from 5:30 - 7:30
at the
Claremont University Consortium (CUC) Administrative Campus Center
101 South Mills Ave. (at First Street).
Speakers include:
Barbara Lamprecht - Noted Author and Historian
Alan Hess - Noted Author and Architect
Hicks Stone - Noted Author and Architect
OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
Suggested Donation $10
Claremont Heritage Members/Students $5
Seating is limited: Please RSVP to
Ninneman/Paglia House by Richard Neutra Photograph by Louie Rios Claremont was fertile ground for the new thinking in art and design in the years after World War II. Hidden among the Victorian and Arts & Crafts-era homes are modernist masterpieces by the likes of Richard Neutra, Cliff May, A. Quincy Jones, and Buff and Hensman. Edward Durrell Stone designed a number of buildings for the Claremont School of Theology including the famed Kresge Chapel. Distinguished local architects and designers such as Millard Sheets, Theodore Criley Jr., Foster Rhodes Jackson, Fred McDowell, Rufus Turner and Everett Tozier produced outstanding examples of mid-century design including homes and commercial buildings. Claremont was also a hotbed of innovative art and craft during the mid-century that included artists such as painter Karl Benjamin and ceramicist Harrison McIntosh. The remarkable confluence of art and architecture had a profound and lasting impact upon the broader movement of Southern California Modernism. Few places of such small geographic area have produced such a plethora of outstanding work across so many disciplines as did Claremont in the 1940s, '50s and 60's.
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