Lauren Weiss Bricker, Ph.D.

Associate professor of architecture at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and director of the Archives--Special Collection in the College of Environmental Design, Cal Poly Pomona.

Current Project
Lauren Weiss Bricker is working on "The Modern American House" (Norton, 2013) which is based on her earlier work "The Pragmatists".
This study describes the American response to the form and ideology of European Modernism. It includes the study of Clarence Stein and Henry Wright-----a project supported by a fellowship from the Clarence S. Stein Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies, Cornell University.

In addition, Lauren Weiss Bricker is curating a proposed exhibition "Light and Space: Ten Southern California Houses, 1940-1975" at the Kellogg Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, funded by the Getty Foundation, 2013 (in collaboration with Judith Sheine, Tim Sakamoto, Phiip Pregill, Pablo La Roche). Previously, she curated "Steel and Shade: The Architecture of Donald Wexler" (2011) at the Palm Springs Art Museum.

Published Works
The Mediterranean House in America (Abrahams, Oct. 2008).
VDL Research House: Richard Neutra's Studio and Residence video, in collaboration with Judith Sheine and Tim Sakamoto, 1997. (Neutra at one time formed a partnership with Robert Alexander, a founding architect of Baldwin Hills Village).
The Architecture of Gregory Ain (1997) in collaboration with Henriette Von Breton and David Gebhard
"Roland E. Coate: Furthering an Architectural Innheritance", an essay from Reginald D. Johnson, Gordon B. Kaufmann, Robet E. Coate--Partners in the California Style, 1992. (Reginald D. Johnson was Baldwin Hills Village's chief architect).