Architect Pierluigi Serraino: Domesticity through Julius Shulman
Organization:
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Category:
Visual Arts
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
9/11/2014
End Date:
9/11/2014
Start Time:
6:30 PM
End Time:
8:00 PM
Event
Info:
The photographs of homes shot by legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman became the symbols of an idealized life filled with comfort and possibilities. Architect and scholar Pierluigi Serraino reveals how Shulman manufactured the visual mythology of West Coast modern architecture.
Pierluigi Serraino, AIA, is an architect, author, and educator. His work and writings have been widely published, and he has authored four books, among them Donald Olsen: Architect of Habitable Abstractions, Modernism Rediscovered with Julius Shulman, and NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism, as well as numerous essays. Serraino is recipient of the 2013 Graham Foundation award for his upcoming book on architectural photographer Robert Damora (Taschen, forthcoming in 2015). He has lectured extensively on postwar American architecture, California modernism, architectural photography, changes in architectural practice, and digital design. Prior to entering his independent practice, he worked for Mark Mack, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Anshen + Allen.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism and the annual festival, Architecture in the City.
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