The Pasadena Public Library hosts Dave Nufer, program developer and docent with Pasadena Heritage and the Los Angeles Conservancy, in a virtual webinar from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, where he explains how Spanish-influenced architecture has become one of the greatest Latinx contributions to American culture.
Nufer will also present how Hispanic architecture — with millions of examples from California to Florida built by tens of millions of people over the last 400 years — has helped shape Pasadena’s cityscape.
The presentation focuses on how the Spanish/Hispanic/Latinx architectural design vocabulary evolved over 1,000 years on four continents, and how it has been employed in Pasadena. It examines numerous local examples, including the San Gabriel Mission, Castle Green, the Caltech campus, the Civic Center, the 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival houses built by George Washington Smith, Wallace Neff, and many others, along with more recent Hispanic inflected projects such as the Del Mar Station.
Dave Nufer has previously given talks at the Pasadena Public Library on the architecture, history, and cultural contributions of other Pasadena ethnic communities. Among these talks are “200 Years of Black History in Pasadena and Los Angeles” and “The Asian Roots of Pasadena’s Arts and Crafts Architecture.”
The presentation on Wednesday will be on Zoom.
To sign up, visit https://pasadena.evanced.info/
For more information, call (626) 744-4066 or visit www.cityofpasadena.net/
