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Dennis Doordan, an architectural and design historian, analyzes Los Angeles architecture through photographs Ansel Adams took on assignment there in the 1940s in a free public lecture titled “Looking at Ansel Adams Looking at LA” on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 4 p.m. at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. No RSVP is necessary for the lecture, which will last an hour. Light refreshments will be served.
Doordan, professor emeritus of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, said Adams did not appreciate the so-called “duck” architecture, buildings shaped like the product or service sold inside, that later became popular during postmodernism in the 1960s.