$Kings Road House \/ The Next 100$

Join us for a virtual conversation on plans to preserve the Kings Road House as we discuss our Conservation Master Plan (CMP).
About this Event

*This is a virtual event, time noted in PDT. Zoom link will be sent prior to the event.

Kaitlin Drisko, Drisko Studio Architects
Frank Escher, Escher GuneWardena Architecture
Cathy Garrett, PGAdesign Landscape Architects
Kyle Normandin, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates

Moderated by Chloe Cuffel

Chloe Cuffel is a Planner for the City of Glendale who is a regular volunteer with Friends of the Schindler House. She studied Urban Planning and Heritage Conservation at USC and loves living and working in LA.

Kaitlin Drisko is a Los Angeles historic preservation architect dedicated to innovative strategies for conservation of our heritage resources. Trained in both architecture and engineering, Kaitlin has practiced in the field of preservation for over 30 years on large and small projects, studies, and documentation - and in roles as lead design team manager or as a technical consultant to other architects. Centering collaboration as an essential part of successful endeavors, Kaitlin serves on the Friends of the Schindler House Preservation Committee to help the organization steward Rudoph M. Schindler’s Kings Road House for the benefit of future generations.

Frank Escher has been in partnership with Ravi GuneWardena at Escher GuneWardena Architecture since 1995. The firm’s work, ranges from residential to commercial and institutional projects. It includes collaborations with contemporary artists (including Mike Kelley, Stephen Prina, and Sharon Lockhart), art-related projects (Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles) and numerous exhibition design projects internationally including the current Jeweled Isle exhibition at LACMA. Preservation-related projects encompass works by Schindler, Neutra, A. Q. Jones, Lautner, Eames and Paul R. Williams. Having edited the first comprehensive monograph on architect John Lautner, Escher has served on the boards of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, the John Lautner Foundation, and the Julius Shulman Institute. He co-curated Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles).

Cathy Garrett, ASLA LEED AP, is the president of PGAdesign inc., a firm of landscape architects in Oakland, CA. Prior to settling in California in 1993, she practiced landscape architecture in New York, England and her native Australia. Ms. Garrett specializes in preservation landscape architecture, having initially focused on Olmsted parks throughout the US when based on the east coast. Over the last 30 years she has collaborated on preservation projects throughout California. Cathy is working with the team to develop the Conservation Master Plan for Rudolf Schindler’s experimental and innovative house on Kings Road in West Hollywood. Amongst her current and recent modernist landscape projects are Ted Osmundson’s Kaiser Roof Garden at the Kaiser Center (Welton Beckett) and the collection of Wurster Bernardi and Emmons structures at the Marin Art and Garden Center in Ross. Cathy is a past president of the California Preservation Foundation, a founding chair of the Northern California chapter of the Historic American Landscape Survey, former board member of the National Association of Olmsted Parks and has served on the Historic State Capitol Commission in Sacramento.

Kyle Normandin, FAIC, FAPT, is a Principal at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. where he has over twenty years of experience in historic preservation. Kyle is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP where he received his MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University GSAPP. His research has focused on architectural conservation of historic building materials. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the College of Environmental Design at University of California at Berkeley. Kyle was formerly a Senior Project Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute where he worked under the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative. He has contributed many technical papers on architectural conservation of cultural heritage, and he now serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Architectural Conservation by Taylor & Francis. Kyle is a member of the Association for Preservation Technology College of Fellows and is a Fellow member of the American Institute for Conservation. He serves on the Bureau of ICOMOS ISC on Twentieth Century Heritage and is a member of International Specialist Committee on Technology for Docomomo International.