This event is in the past.It took place on February 1, 2026 at Environmental Design Library.


Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California
Southside
This exhibition finally gives six Asian American architects and landscape architects their due, tracing how they wove California regionalism into midcentury modernism. Professional drawings sit beside family portraits and wartime encampment photos, grounding their work in the messy, racialized reality of the mid-20th century.
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Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California
Southside


This exhibition finally gives six Asian American architects and landscape architects their due, tracing how they wove California regionalism into midcentury modernism. Professional drawings sit beside family portraits and wartime encampment photos, grounding their work in the messy, racialized reality of the mid-20th century.
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