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Visionary Leader, Modernist Matriarch: The Life of Jean Roth Driskel

Start
March 11 @ 8:00 am
End
April 30 @ 5:00 pm
Cost
Free
Organizer’s Site
https://www.fortla.org/

This FORT: LA Trail highlights Jean Roth Driskel, a pioneering modernist architect whose work helped shape Pasadena and beyond. She was the first woman elected as an officer of the California Council of the AIA and one of the earliest women to earn the FAIA designation. Driskel’s newly uncovered archives, uncovered and explored by FORT Fellow Heather Goers, reveal her groundbreaking career as one of California’s earliest FAIA-recognized female architects, making this Trail Map a significant contribution to architectural history. This self-guided Trail Map showcases her enduring legacy in Los Angeles.

 

 

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Jean Roth Driskel
FORT Fellow Heather Goers
FORT Fellow Heather Goers

Organizer

Fort Los Angeles
Phone
310-209-5302
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