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Gill Architecture Guides Wanted
Calling all Irving J. Gill and historic architecture buffs
June 2016
 SOHO is expanding our tours that present the architecture of Irving J. Gill, San Diego's pioneering modernist. We're looking for volunteer guides to be trained in June and July to start public tours in September and later.
New tours focus on the architectural details of the Marston House Museum inside and out. The house itself, designed by Hebbard & Gill, with mostly Gill hallmarks, is a tangible artifact of the master architect's work and doubles as a living history exhibition. We're also expanding our current tours of Seventh Avenue and Bankers Hill, both of which are home to a variety of important Gill and Gill-related buildings.
Tours are being developed by SOHO's education team, with Erik Hanson, one of San Diego's leading Gill experts with multiple areas of knowledge, as the team leader. Guides will explain Gill and his work in the context of the early 20th-century social, political, economic, and aesthetic conditions of his era.
The tours are one part of SOHO's programming for "Irving Gill: Progress and Poetry in Architecture." An exhibition of the same name will open at the Marston House Museum on September 24 preceded by a lecture on Gill and a tour the evening before. These and other activities are SOHO's contribution to a six-month, countywide collaboration called Irving J. Gill: New Architecture for a Great Country. In all, a dozen museums and institutions are participating. SOHO tours will be ongoing after March 31, 2017, when the collaborative events and exhibitions end.
If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out the Gill Tour Guide form.
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