BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4842ee1efad51fb10d1119366d65aff81373 CATEGORIES:Carmel Village SUMMARY:AIAMB Series - George Brook-Kothlow, Architect DESCRIPTION:
AIAMB Lecture Series
AIAMB had a great start
to our 2020 Arts + Architecture Lecture Series Creating the Arc
hitecture of the Monterey Peninsula with a wonderful wine and fo
od filled reception sponsored by the Carmel Heritage Society. Tickets are
required.
With Deference to the Terrain: The Regionalism of G
eorge Brook-Kothlow, Architect.
Of the reported 5.8 million sightseers
who in recent years traveled the 100 miles of coastal highway between Carm
el and Hearst Castle, the percentage of those who failed to register any of
the multiple George Brook-Kothlow-designed houses that are in fact within
eye-shot of Route 1’s natural spectacle would have to be great. Of course,
for Brook-Kothlow, the late Carmel Valley architect (1934 - 2012), a leadin
g figure, along with Mark Mills and Mickey Muennig, of the Santa Lucia Rang
e’s consummate yet little-known example of Organic Modernism, this was alwa
ys the absolute intention. Similarly, Brook-Kothlow, in his near 50 years o
f practice, routinely aimed to keep himself out of the spotlight. Unlike ma
ny architects of his generation, he did not write and publish on the subjec
t of his work, nor was he generally keen on self-promotion. This despite ha
ving created, starting in the late-1960s, one of the Central Coast’s most t
hrilling architectures, the fully evolved bridgetimber house. Uniquely suit
ed to the region’s rugged coastal sites, Brook-Kothlow’s monumental heavy-t
imber architecture, with its characteristic light-filled, flowing skeletal
spaces, is an idiom that, tellingly, held supreme interest to other artists
. Throughout the 1970’s, it promptly secured him a string of successive cus
tom-house commissions, typically on the most visually arresting but challen
ging of sites, including in Pebble Beach for the Monterey Peninsula’s most
high-profile resident. Indeed, for too long, George Brook-Kothlow, his cont
ributions to the architecture of the region, has warranted a reappraisal, a
closer look.
Followed by reception at First Murphy House, NW corner of Lincoln and Sixth, Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Speaker
Formerly the Se
nior Architecture Editor for Architectural Digest and a veteran ed
itor of New York architecture-book publishing, Richard Olsen is a Los Angel
es-based architectural writer-photographer and the author of both the 2012
Rizzoli book on 1960’s-70’s counterculture architecture, Handmade House
s, which includes multiple Brook-Kothlow works, as well as the forthco
ming Rizzoli book California Green: Houses of Environmentalism, wh
ich again looks closely at the houses of Brook-Kothlow.
Pleas
e go to the web link below for more information and tickets!
ARTS + ARCHITECTURE 2020 LECTURE SERIES https://www.artsandarchitect
ureaiamb.com/