Author Discussion, Slide Show, and Signing at The Book Works

Sunday 10 December, 2006, 1 pm

Marvin Rand, author/photographer of Irving J. Gill, Architect

Architect Irving J. Gill (1870-1936) is widely considered the first and preeminent architect of the Modernist era. In her groundbreaking work Five California Architects, Esther McCoy asserts that, along with Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, and R. M. Schindler, Gill is one of California's most important architects. Marvin Rand will discuss Gill's life and architectural achievements.

Marvin Rand gained his photographic education at Los Angeles City College, the U. S. Air Force Photographic School, and Art Center College of Design. He has made a career as an architectural photographer, and his clients have included Charles Eames, Cesar Pelli, Louis Kahn, the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His photographs have been featured in twenty exhibitions from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, and New York and in twenty-three books, including seminal books on Greene and Greene authored by Randell L. Makinson and Five California Architects by Esther McCoy.

-- text adapted from the book