Cultural Historian Dave Nufer, will give a guided tour through the Caltech campus featuring the work of Bertram Goodhue. 

Bertram Goodhue began his architectural practice designing primarily Neo-Gothic churches with his partner Ralph Cram in New York. He co-wrote an illustrated a 10 volume work on Spanish Colonial Architecture in the Western Hemisphere which was the standard reference on the topic for decades. 

He was architect for the 1915 San Diego-Panama Exposition, and his work there is widely credited with defining and igniting the 1920’s California “Spanish Colonial Revival” style. In 1916 he became architect of record for Caltech, and over the next 15 years his firm designed almost a dozen buildings that defined the architectural style and character of the campus, with low-rise Spanish and Mediterranean quadrangles, built around lush garden and water elements. 

Goodhue was possibly the most skilled architect of his day in successfully combining the elements of many architectural traditions, as he did so masterfully on the Caltech campus.