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coordinator of a volunteer organization in los altos that has saved a house designed in 1939 by richard noitra who is considered to be one of the most influential california residential architects of the 20th century. to raise funds for a d-a-p tabv reuse we created numerous educational programs about 20th century american and california architecture landscape and design. we've mounted a lecture series with talks by california leading architects, landscape architects and critics. we presented a film showing topics such as great california arts and crafts architects on charles and ray emes, the great modern actech turrell photographer. we sponsored modern home tours. in the summer we'll have our first design camp for eighth and ninth grade to introduce them to the disciplines. i participated in a panel on legacy, gave a talk on the history of modern residential design from 18 50 to 1950 with a c-e-q-a coming this spring. i'm the program coordinator for the lecture series, the home tours and the architecture camp this summer. it involves research and applied knowledge. while the lecture series i

pearlman by richard noitra's son. am writing in support of jonathan pearlman's candidacy as san francisco historian for the perez r vation commission. although as a physician and epidemiologist, my own career was environmental health, teaching at harvard, ucla, uc berkeley, and then for 27 years heading up environmental health research at the california department of public health. ~ i grew up with a family of architects. after my retirement, i have been helping cal poly pomona restore the historic 1932 studio residences designed by my father, richard noytra, one of the founders of california modern. i have been visiting with other historic modernist house museums around the world to learn about their restoration and programming. i was invited to serve on the program committee of the noytra house in los altos. it was originally a small residence of poet jacqueline johnson, designed by my father in the late 1930s. it has been restored and adaptively reused as an intimate conference venue. i have had the pleasure of wor