[photo credit: Pasadena Public Library]
This living architectural tradition will be explored Saturday, September 27, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lamanda Park Branch Library in Pasadena in a presentation by Dave Nufer, a docent and program developer with Pasadena Heritage and the LA Conservancy.
American architects like Bertram Goodhue and Wallace Neff developed a new synthesis of these design vocabularies in the early 1900s, creating Spanish Colonial Revival.
This style quickly dominated Pasadena construction in the 1920s and 1930s, producing landmark buildings including the original Caltech Quad, Pasadena Central Library and City Hall.
The style has continued evolving, particularly since the 1980s.
This “Neo Hispanic Fusion” style has quietly become perhaps the dominant current Pasadena building style, with examples including Moule & Polyzoides’s Del Mar Station and Spanish-inflected multistory apartment buildings throughout the city.
It’s sponsored by The Friends of the Pasadena Public Library.
Hispanic “Fusion Architecture” Has Shaped Pasadena will run on Saturday, September 27, at 3 p.m. Lamanda Park Branch Library, 140 S. Altadena Dr., Pasadena. For more information, call (626) 744-7266 or visit https://www.cityofpasadena.net/library/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D188835363. Ticket prices: Free.
