OCULUS an eye on architecture

The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Volume 51, Number 10, June 1989

Elevator at Place Des Antiquaires where the June 20 annual meeting of NYC/AJA will be held. Photo: Stan Ries. 2 NYC/AJA OCULUS

OCULUS COMING CHAPTER EVENTS

Volume 51, Number 10 , June 1989

Oculus Tuesday, June 6. The Corporate Acting Editor: Marian Page Art Director: Abigail Sturges Architects Committee is sponsoring a Typesetting: Steintype, Inc. tour of the New Presbyterian Printer: The Nugent Organization Hospital by Skidmore, Owings & Photographer: Stan Ries Merrill, from 5:30 to 7:30pm. Meet at The New York Chapter of the entrance driveway at 177 Fort the American Institute of Architects Washington Avenue between 165th and 457 Madison Avenue 168th Streets. Richard Thomas of New York, New York 10022 Presbyterian Hospital will be our host. 212-838-9670 There will be a $5 fee payable on site. Executive Committee 1988-89 Directions: # 1 train to 168th Street. Exit Martin D. Raab FAIA, President at 168th Street, walk one block west to Denis G. Kuhn AIA, First Vice President Fort Washington Avenue. RSVP: David Castro-Blanco FAIA, Vice President Douglas Korves AIA, Vice President 838-9670. Stephen P. King AIA, Secretary James L. Garretson AIA, Treasurer Mark your calendar for the Chapter's Wendy Evans AIA, Director annual meeting. Tuesday, 20 June. This Harold Fredenburgh AIA, Director Margaret Helfand AIA, Director year's annual meeting will be held at the Ronnette Riley AIA, Director Place des Antiquaries designed by Kohn John Winkler FAIA, Director Pedersen Fox Associates. The festivities Margot Woolley AIA, Director will begin at 6:00 pm and many of the Lenore M. Lucey AIA, Executive Director dealers will keep their showrooms open Regina Kelly, Executive Secretary for members to browse. This year the Chapter will be charging a $10 fee to Chapter Staff offset costs of the event. Christine Magnus Annemarie Malley Evelyn Romero Judith Rowe Stephen Suggs

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OCULUS, published ten times a year, September through June, is a benefit of NYC/ AIA membership, toward which $32 of membership dues are applied. New Yo rk Foundation fo r Architecture public member subscription rates: First Class Mail $45 Overseas First Class Air Mail $85, Overseas Surface Mail $45. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the Executive Committee or Staff of the NYC/ AIA. For more info rmation on professional and public memberships please call the Chapter, at 212-838-9670. JUNE 1989 3 ANNUAL From the President Notes on the Year REVIEW 88-89

by Martin D. Raab FAIA by Cathanne Piesla

In leaving the Chapter presidency one Chapter committees were back in full looks back and skeptically regards one's swing in this post-convention year, accomplishments. What comes to mind having arranged a wide variety of events, is that a year's term is too short to see seminars and tours. Chapter business at one's mark on the position rather than National, State, and City levels continues. to have the position determine one's action. The ongoing agenda of the •The chapter initiated an Institute audit Chapter, the unfinished initiatives of of the number of New York State past presidents and the year's unique members with a view toward gaining a crisis leaves little time for the initiation third regional director. With 8% of the and maturation of one's own concepts. total AIA membership, the New York Accordingly, I would suggest we review Region will soon be eligible for a third the feasibility of an extended director. We stand at 7.94%. presidential term. Such extended tenure would allow for greater leadership to be •The chapter co-sponsored, with the Los exercised and allow both the initiation Angeles Chapter, the successful and implementation of new visions. Small Practice Resolution at the St. Louis Convention. The Institute Activities of the Chapter this year have is called on to develop practice aids more been: aligned with small projects.

1. Support of the State Association in • Long in the forefront of the legislative bringing the Interior Design Licensing battle surrounding licensing of Interior -issue-closer to resolution in a manner Designers, the Chapter continued to Martin D. Raab FAIA. favorable to the position held by the help define Institute policy. Doug Korves Chapter. AIA, Chapter Vice President and NYSAA 2. Resolution of the convention Vice President of Legislative Affairs indebtedness minimizing its impact on worked long and hard on re-working succeeding years' budgets. acceptable language for introduction of legislation in New York State that would 3. Acquiring new legal counsel who can recognize individuals who have met support our nonprofit status, our minimum standards, as well as to political activities in Albany, and prevent infringement on the practice of conflicts in trusts under which we hold architecture. scholarship endowments. 4. Rethinking Oculus' direction as both Doug was also instrumental in writing an organ of Chapter activity and a voice legislation re-defining the practice of of architecture and installing a new architecture to eliminate certain editor to move us forward. ambiguities that now contribute to the difficulty in processing charges of illegal Having started with a plea for a longer practice. term of office, I conclude with what may be the singular advantage of the single • The Institute's continued investigation year term. by the U.S. Justice Department regarding possible anti-trust action which had We have benefited this year from included the New York Chapter, has of initiatives started by Gene Kohn in his late been focusing on other chapters and term which he continues to support. One we are on hold. of my initiatives, facing a deficit, centered around fund raising. Successful • Oculus, in its 50th Anniversary Year lost fund raising requires the Chapter to its editor (since 1981) C. Ray Smith FAIA, define its mission and its purpose. A task who passed away after a brief illness. force has been established to explore and state that mission. Defining the • Once again, the Chapter participated Chapter's larger mission and raising in the annual NYSAA Lobby Day in funds to support it will be a task I will Albany. Richard Beaumont AIA, Sidney dedicate myself to and I hope to be able Delson FAIA, James Garretson AIA, to call on all of you to join in its Mitchell GoldbergAIA, James C. Jao AIA, realization. Douglas Korves AIA, Denis Kuhn AIA, 4 NYC/AJA OCU LUS

Intense discussion during recent Notes on the year Executive Committee meeting.

Lenore Lucey AIA, and Martin Raab FAIA the Soviet Union with a "first time ever" have been augmented by a third series trekked to the State Capitol on March 21 exhibit of student work from the "Career Opportunities in Architecture." to visit with legislators in an effort to Institute of Architecture. Funding from make the profession's position known on the National Endowment for the Arts, • The Corporate Architects Committee a full range of issues - licensing interior and the New York State Council on the sponsored three tours: The Central Park designers, statute of limitations on Arts helps keep this program running. At Zoo , Rainbow Room, and the New architectural services opposition to the the same time we have found additional Presbyterian Hospital. It also co­ OGS/FDC merger, and liability. Response sponsorship, and our first European sponsored with the Communications in from legislators has been very positive. connection, from Istituto per gli Studi the Built Environment committee the Filosofici in Milan. This added support panel discussion "Corporate • The Public Architects Committee has enabled the recent show to travel to Architectural Graphics: A Dialogue on efforts to make fellow professionals, Milan and scheduling for Frankfurt is Design." public officials, and the user public being finalized as this goes to print. aware of the benefits of good design in • Standing Room only and calls for a public spaces continue. Three events • The newly activated Associates repeat evening were the response to the sponsored by the committee - Committee surveyed Associate Professional Affiliates Committee Architects Day in Flushing Meadows­ Members of the Chapter, toward evening on "Media Opportunities, or Corona Park; the panel discussion on developing programming specific to How to Get into Print." Quality Design in Public Architecture, their interests, and assigned committee and the most recent tour ofTribecca­ members to act as liaison to all other • The Housing Committee's energies were among the most popular events chapter committees. Programs arranged were focused on Affordable Housing organized this year. have included the seminar "Aspects of issues in a special Oculus, subsequent an Unlicensed Existence" and, Robert panel discussions featuring mayoral • The Chapter's Exhibits Committee, Pincus Witten discussing Gordon candidates, and an exhibit scheduled for remained at the forefront of "Glasnost" Matta-Clark. this fall. The special Oculus was Having gained access to the work of distributed beyond our normal Russian constructivist architects I. • The very well attended Architects in subscription lists through a generous Leonidov and A Rodchenko we Training courses "Turning Designs into contribution by Rose Associates. The continued our cultural exchange with Buildings," and "Managing by Design", committee also addressed continuing JUNE 1989 5

problems with LL58-'87 NYC Handicap Building, reviewed alterations to the Douglas Haskell Award for Student Access laws in the hopes that it can Plaza Hotel as well as developing a Journalism become more equitable for all concerned. direction for the designation of those Daralice D. Boles, Chair buildings that will come of age for • The Art and Architecture Committee landmarking by the year 2000. Fellows continued its PROFILE series on Bernard Rothzeid, Chair collaborative efforts of artists and • The Presidential Decade held three architects. See the calendar for this forums defining our work with others in Oculus month's special event at the Battery the building industry and how to Marian Page, Acting Editor Park City Authority. improve those relationships. The evenings included Developers, Scholarship Programs • The Architecture for Education Consulting Engineers, and Construction John Hagmann, Chair Committee held an SRO evening on Managers. prototype schools currently being Foreign Visitors designed by member firms for the Board •The Public Sector Contracts continues Peter Heerens, Chair of Education. A special issue of Oculus its efforts to gain a more equitable city and an accompanying exhibition at the consultants contract. Urban Center featured these projects. Architectural Focus Group

• The newly created Religious Committees by Architects in Development Architecture Committee organized Fereshteh Bekhrad several evenings on "Sacred Spaces" Groupings which featured architects known for Architectural Education their work in this area such as Gunnar Professional Development Group Carl Hauser, Chair Birkerts, Norman Jaffe, E. Fay Jones, Randal Lindstrom, and Edgar Tafel. Architectural Dialogue Architecture for Education Lawrence Marek, Edward Mills Co-Chair Ric Bell, Chair • In an unprecedented "Committee of One" effort, Peter Heerens has organized Associates Communications in the Built a viable Foreign Visitors Committee. Francois DeMenil, Chair Environment Heerens has made arrangements for Leslie Blum, Chair architects from Canada, Japan, Sweden Compensation and The Netherlands to meet with Wallace Berger, Ira Grandberg, Jack Corporate Architects architects and public officials who are Suben Co-Chair Judith Solomon, Chair involved in similar professional situations in New York. Computer Applications Historic Buildings Tomas Hernandez, Chair Jonathan Butler, Chair • The Design Awards Programs committee arranged a day of three juries Intern Architects Housing to select this year's recipients in the William Stein, Chair John Ellis, Chair Distinguished Architecture, Architectural Projects and Interior Professional Affiliates Interiors Architecture programs. An exhibit of Joan Capelin, Rene Saks, Coordinators Theodore Hammer, Chair award winning projects is planned for the Fall. Public Architects Public Awareness Group Jerry Maltz, Chair • The Scholarship Fund benefited from a very successful Third Annual Heritage Art & Architecture Religious Architecture Ball held this year at the Plaza Hotel. Robert Landsman, Chair William Gati, Chair Close to $10,000 in donations were deposited in a growing Heritage • Arnold W. Brunner Grant Preservation • Scholarship program. Steven K. Peterson, Chair Planning & Finance Group

• The Historic Buildings Committee Design Awards Programs Finance continued to monitor the activities of the Michael Goldberg, Jackie Welsh, Ralph Steinglass, Chair NYC Landmarks Preservation Co-Chair Commission and the special Historic Nominating City Committee, presented testimony on Exhibits Laurie Maurer, Chair the designation of the Seagram's Bradford Perkins, Chair 6 NYC/AIA OCULUS

Notes on the year Sailboat Pavilion Project by Ean Eldred of Cooper Union, 1989 Allwork Supplemental Grant recipient.

Governmental Group

Legislative Affairs Douglas Korves, Chair

Public Sector Contracts Michael Ressner, Chair

Events

Annual Meeting Regina Kelly, Coordinator

Architectural Heritage Ball Denis Kuhn, Chair

Planning Day Regina Kelly, Coordinator

Scholarship Task Force

A special task force was called on to review the Chapter's endowment funds toward developing a plan of distribution for those that can be awarded at the Chapter's discretion and to revitalize those that have such restrictive conditions that the pool of eligible This year's jury, chaired by Daralice D. The Chapter administers the fund individuals has diminished. The task Boles, Sr. Editor, Progressive through its Scholarship Committee and force report is currently being studied Architecture includes Deborah Kirk, annually accepts applications from by the Chapter's legal counsel and a Editor, Elle; David Morton, Senior Editor, students selected by the nine accredited reorganized program will be announced Architecture, Rizzoli International schools in New York State. This year next season. Publications; Herbert Muschamp, students were eligible to receive over Program Director, Architecture and $18,000 in base grant awards and Design Criticism, Parsons Institute; compete for a supplemental grant of Douglas Haskell Award for Ellen Posner, Architecture Critic, The $1500. Ean Eldred of Cooper Union Student Architectural Wall Street Journal. The jury is meeting presented work that the committee felt as this issue goes to press. exhibited the most promise and was Journalism selected out of twelve competitors. This awards program was established in Eleanor Allwork/Women's Arnold W. Brunner Grant honor of the late Douglas Haskell FAIA, Architectural Auxiliary the noted critic and editor for many years of Architectural Forum. The Scholarship The Arnold W Brunner Grant was program is made possible through the founded in his memory by his widow generous support of Doug's widow, In 1977, the Chapter was willed a sum of Emma, through a bequest to the Chapter. Helen Haskell, and other contributors to money from the estate of the late Ronald Its purpose is to further the development the fund. Founded to encourage fine Allwork which was intended to endow a of architecture in the . The writing on architecture and related substantial scholarship program. Mr. Chapter bestows an annual award "for design subjects, and to foster regard for Allwork wished, through his bequest, to advanced study in some special field of intelligent criticism among future memorialize his wife, Mrs. Eleanor architectural investigation, which will professionals, the Chapter invites Allwork, and also to call into most effectively contribute to the students and schools from around the remembrance the work that she and the practice, teaching or knowledge of the country to submit their work or journals Women's Auxiliary of the New York art and science of architecture." for consideration by a jury of renowned Chapter did for many years in raising architecture journalists. funds for deserving students. The 1988 Jury including Thomas Beeby JUNE 1989 7

Letters

The 1988 Jury including Thomas Beeby morning seminars and workshops, such Dear Editor: AIA, Dean, Yale University School of as an introductory GADD workshop, ... .Th e New York Times has not stated, Architecture; J. Max Bond, Dean, City "GADD Systems Management, and Legal as you suggest, that Emilio Ambasz is a College School of Architecture; John Q. Aspects of Computers in the registered architect. To make such a Hejduk FAIA, Dean, The Cooper Union Architectural Practice." statement would indeed contradict the Irwin Chanin School of Architecture; realities of the fact that Mr. Ambasz is Paul Heyer AIA, Dean, Pratt Institute The Committee also sponsored the 2nd not officially licensed to practice School of Architecture; Robert M. Annual Computer Images of architecture in the State of New York. Maxwell RIBA, Dean, Princeton Architecture exhibit hosted at the We do not agree, however, that the use University School of Architecture; and, Parsons School of Design Gallery in of the word "architect" can and should Stuart Wrede, Director, Department of October 1987. Over 30 individuals and be limited to those people who are Architecture and Design MOMA, firms were represented. A highlight was licensed by the state. None of the reviewed some 50 applications and a specially edited video showing a dictionaries we have consulted make selected Michael Sorkin to receive the compilation of 27 animations and such a limitation on use of this word, and 1988 $12,000 award. Sorkin will develop demonstrations of computer generated we do not choose to do so, either. Mr. zoning regulations for the "ideal" city. architectural and interior models. Ambasz is not a licensed architect, true, but he is an architect by profession, by Albert S. Bard Awards The 1988 Seminar Series presented virtue of the degrees he holds from three speakers with very different Princeton and other universities, and by Among the 1989 Albert S. Bard Award experiences. Hans-Christian Lischewski virtue of the judgment of the curators winners for Excellence in Architecture of Russo + Sonder spoke on "The and officers of the Museum of Modern and presented in May Impact of High-Tech Design Tools on Art. We will not call Mr. Ambasz a included: The North River Water Architectural Visualization;" Sam Haffey "licensed architect" or a "registered Pollution Control Plant by C. Theodore presented the cutting edge innovations architect" but we will not refuse to him Long for Associate Engineers; Public of his firm, where the drafting boards an architect, either. School P-234 by Richard Dattner have been replaced with work stations; Architects; Mercantile Exchange and Barry Milliken of Skidmore, Owings Architecture Critic Building by R.M. Kliment and Frances & Merrill demonstrated advanced Halsband; Path Station Improvement techniques of GADD graphics linked to Ed. note: The above was received by a Program NYC Stations-Christopher extensive databases as applied in the chapter member in response to a Street, 9th Street, 14th Street, 23rd Merrill Lynch Headquarters project. complaint to The New York Times Street, by The Port Authority of New regarding its credit for the MOMA York & New Jersey-Rail Transportation On the national level, the Committee exhibition of Mott!Ambasz. Department; The Police Building by the sponsored the lecture series "Advanced Ehrenkrantz Group & Eckstut; the John Systems Integration for AEC Firms" at Jay College of Criminal Justice By the 1988AEC EXPO at the Javits Center. Dear Editor: Ralphael Vinoly Architects; the As moderator, I invited participants TWo articles appear back to back in the Community Church of Astoria by Alfred from planning, engineering, interior current issue of Oculus that have an De Vido Associates. Citations went to design, and construction management. ironic twist to them (do I detect the South Cove, Battery Park City by the editor's hand at work?): "NYC/ AIA Public Ehrenkrantz Group & Eckstut; and For next year the committee is planning Sector Contracts Committee Hosts Koch Steinhardt Conservatory, roundtable discussions on computer use Aides" and "Quality Design in Public Botanical Garden by Davis Brody & in small and mid-size firms , as well as Architecture." What is ironic is the fact Associates. lectures by leaders in the computers in that the former mentions the single most architecture field on their research or critical factor in quality design that the Computer Applications company's work. A survey will be latter curiously omits, i.e., that there is a Committee conducted to get a profile of current relationship between what one pays and computer use by the Chapter what one gets, in this case, architectural by Tomas Hernandez membership. A 3rd Annual Exhibit of the services. Seven years the Computer Applications latest and greatest in computer Committee was formed, their goal: to generated work is under consideration. Architects, sadly, seem embarrassed by bring an awareness of computers to the All Chapter members are invited to join this fact, or rather, seem to prefer to deny architectural profession. Today, the the Committee and help share the future. that this relationship even exists. It's one committee has diversified to explore of the great myths: good design does not options such as Intergraph, AutoCAD, Tomas Hernandez has served as cost money. It simply isn't so. Why do we Arris, Macintosh and the possibilities of Chairman of the Computer find it so difficult to deal forthrightly desk top publishing. Applications Committee since 1986. with this issue? He is the Director of Computer J. Arvid Klein We sponsor a number of Saturday Services at Kohn Pedersen Fox. Pasanella +Klein 8 NYC/AIA OCULUS

1, 2, 3: The Place Des Antiquaries by Kohn Pedersen Fox w here the NYC/AJA holds its NAMES annual meeting on June 20. AND NEWS

The team of HNTB-Mitchell/Giurgola Bard Steering Committee and the City Architects New York has been Trustees, reflected on the evidence that commissioned to prepare a master plan the projects selected over the years and and design for a convention center the process and ceremony of recognizing complex for Onondaga County in them have made substantial Syracuse, New York. The project will contributions to the betterment of New include a convention hall, a 275-room York .... R.M. Kliment & Frances hotel and parking .... The Brooklyn Halsband Architects have been Botanic Garden is hosting a two-day commissioned to design the new Alvin symposium, "Conservatories for the 21st Ailey American Dance Theater and Century" (Oct. 15-17, 1989) to look at Dance Center in ..... John the dreams and the issues, the obstacles Burgee FAJA was honored as "Man of and the successes of planning, building, the Year" by the New York Club of the managing and using modern and University of Notre Dame for his restored conservatories. Architects, architecture, which has "influenced and landscape architects, and landscape improved the community in which we designers who have built or designed for live ," at Notre Dame Night on April conservatories, or plan to do so are 6 .... Barbara Nadel AJA has joined invited to present papers. For more Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. information: 860-6868 .... Richard G. as associate and director of health care Morris AJA, has been named senior vice facilities design for its New York president of business development for office .... Howard Zimmerman AJA was a The Eggers Group .. .. The fourth annual speaker at a recent seminar sponsored Domino's Pizza Frank Lloyd Wright by LePatner, Gainen & Block on Symposium to be held in Ann Arbor controlling the costs of capital July 26-30, will be hosted by the National improvements, complying with Center for the Study of Frank Lloyd government regulations, and avoiding Wright at Domino's Farms in conjunction contract disputes .... Henry C. Clark AJA with the College of Architecture and has recently established his architectural Urban Planning, the University of practice, Henry C. Clark Architect, at 160 1. Michigan. E. Fay Jones FAJA will be Fifth Avenue .... Perkins Geddis agencies in the State of New York being among the speakers at the symposium. Eastman has been retained as architect recognized for its important historic For more information: University of and interior designer for new preservation work in the city of New Michigan, Extension Service, headquarters in Yonkers for Consumer York .... In addition to the summer's Conferences & Institutes, 200 Hill Street, Union, the nonprofit organization that program being offered by the Harvard Ann Arbor, MI 48194-3297; 313-764- publishes Consumer Reports .... Arthur University Graduate School of design, 5305 .... A. Eugene Kohn FAJA spoke at F. Foran IIIAIAjoined the new firm of award-winning architects Charles the Union League in Philadelphia on Ricci Associates as Senior Associate .. .. On Gwathmey FAIA, Helmut Jahn AJA, "Understand Your Losses" inApril .... The June 3 the New England Real Estate Eugene Kohn FAIA, and Cesar Pelli Grad Partnership has designed a new Journal is publishing its first monthly FAJA are participating jointly in a late 1.2 million square foot twin tower office New York edition-the New York Real June course that focuses on their design builidng, which will also house Seton Estate Journal. The new Journal will practice. For a catalog and application Hall University's new 200,000 square foot provide a forum for comprehensive press contact the Professional Development Law School. The two-phased project will coverage of the New York AJA increasing Program, Harvard University Graduate be built on the 4-acre site of the existing recognition of its members in a School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, law school in downtown Newark .... David competitive market.. .. Robert Geddes Cambridge, MA 02138. 617-495- Estreich AJA has announced that the FAJA, former Dean of the Princeton 9340 .... Fredric M. Bell AJA and firm, David Estreich, Architects, has School of Architecture, has been named Richard A. Fox have been elected moved to expanded quarters at 210 E. to the Henry R. Luce Professorship in partners of WBTL Architects .... Eugene 52 Street.. .. "Buildingthe Octagon," an Architecture, Urbanism and History at Kohn FAIA, FAJA, and exhibition which opens on August 1, New York University. ... The Department Romaldo Giurgola FAJA are keynote 1989 at the Octagon in Washington, DC, of General Services has been selected to speakers at the New Zealand Institute of will feature one of the last surviving receive one of the Public Trust Awards Architects Conference, August 10-13 in buildings of the early city. .. .A gala for 1989 from the Preservation League Wellington, New Zealand .... Following an ceremony in May marked the twenty-fifth of New York State for its Landmarks invited international architectural anniversary of the Bard Awards of the Public Buildings Program. Commissioner competition Richard Meier & City Club of New York. Bard Awards Hadley W Gold and Deputy Partners have been selected as Chairmen John Ellis AIA and Lee Commissioner Rudolph Rinaldi, RA architects for a new mixed-use project Harris Pomeroy FAIA, along with the accepted the award, as one of ten public in Montpelier, France. JUNE 1989 9

Landmarks Preservation Top 1\venty Sustaining Corrections Commission Firms as of 5/1/89 Oculus regrets the omission of the name The New York City Landmarks Firm Sustaining members of Daniel Rose, the Rose Associates Preservation Commission unanimously principal responsible for the generous voted to designate as an individual Skidmore Owings & Merrill 232 donation which permitted printing landmark the Gustave A Mayer House I.M. Pei & Partners 164 additional copies of the April issue. located at 24 75 Richmond Road on Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates 141 Staten Island. Originally built between HLW 106 In the May issue of Oculus, pg. 12, Rafael 1855 and 1856 by an architect and/or Swanke Hayden Connell Architects 105 Vinoly Architects should be the third of builder unknown today, commissioner Beyer Blinder Belle 77 the three final candidates for the Leland Weintraub, a resident of Staten Hellmuth Obata Kassabaum 75 renovation of Higgins Hall at Pratt Island, who made the motion to Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer 70 Institute. designate the Mayer house said: "Among Davis Brody & Associates 68 the first rural residences in the Italianate William Nicholas Bodouva Our apologies to Andrew Moore who style built on Staten Island, The Gustave & Associates 63 should have been credited for the A Mayer House is a rare survivor among Emery Roth & Sons 61 photograph of the Octagon on the cover the city's non-urban homes. In its siting John Burgee Architects 58 of the May 1989 issue. and architecture, the virtually intact Taylor Clark Architects, Inc. 56 house exhibits the picturesque theories Robert AM. Stern Architects 56 of Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew James Stewart Polshek and Partners 54 Jackson Downing. The architecturally The Ehrenkrantz Group & Eckstut 52 distinctive and symmetrically-ordered Gruzen Samton Steinglass 50 two-and-a-half story frame building is Edward Larrabee Barnes/ characterized by its full-width porch, John M.Y Lee P.C. 47 consistently fine detailing, and square Castro-Blanco, Tiscioneri belevedere." and Associates, Architects, P.C. 45 Fox & Fowle Architects, P.C. 39 10 NYC/AIA OCULUS

A Final Recapitulation Fiftieth Anniversary, 1938-1988

by Marian Page Here we complete the briefnotes taken from Oculus'sfirst 50 years beginning in 1938 and ending in 1988. There were ups and downs throughout the years depending on wars, depressions, and the economics of the times. The preservation ofhistoric buildings, the . ~ = :=_ __ :.o= ~~~~= --.-=....:.:.- - --· question of Broadway theaters, the _-.=------.- - ~~.. ------·· -. ·-- · ~: ===- -: · - -·~..:...-- --·=-======--. ·---- - '---~~~~~~ . :-~- · :--_=-_--::-_-~~- ~=~ =--~~--~-- -- -_----=::._ ----· construction of Battery Park City are ------·- - -· - ·------======but a few examples of the Chapter's -·····------·- . -----­ dedication to the city and the - -- ·- ·· ------· profession ofarchitecture reported in - ·------··--·--- ·------· - Oculus throughout the half century. (See also the November 1988, 1. December 1988, and March 1989 issues of Oculus). extension and refinement of William van to slow down development on the East Alen's original lighting proposal...." Side and encourage development on the December 1980: "The Exec_utive West Side. They also felt that the zone Committee has been debating whether November 1981: " .... The announcement should be extended beyond Eighth or not to reaffirm the Chapter's 1976 by St. Bart's rector and vestry of their Avenue. And there was a minority report position supporting Westway. This highly developer-architect team and the that thought the issue of residential complex and emotional issue divided building design proposed for the site of construction should have been Chapter members then and is doing so the landmark Community House, addressed - that there should have now. ... " reports George Lewis. terrace, and gardens, has guardians of been an incentive for residential the city's heritage and cultural fabric in construction.... " Quoted from Edward January 1981: "The Executive the trenches .... " After the issue had been Larrabee's statement during a panel Committee on December 4 by 8-4 vote printed but not yet mailed, a new discussion of the Proposed Midtown reaffirmed the Chapter's 1976 position wraparound STOPPRESS cover was Zoning Regulations presented by the Bar supporting Westway. .. " added: ".... Details of the announcement Association and reported in Oculus. from St. Bart's on 29 October 1981 April 1981: " ... an all-important overall include the selection of British May 1982: "Crisis in Preservation" fact: All of Midtown must be full of life developer Howard P. Ronson and a reports a panel discussion at the Bar and vigor. If a midtown development building design by Edward Durell Stone Association, which had as its subject the strategy is to work it must on the East Associates. The proposal of this team is Upper East Side Historic District. Side encourage the maintenance of fine, for a $110 million office tower-59 "Several panelists spoke also on the small-scaled buildings and elegant street stories or 745 feet high - containing crisis in the preservation movement .... " character, and on the West Side it must 760,000 square feet.. .. " seek out the positive elements of June 1982: " .... It was decided to form a theaters, restaurants, tourism, and its December 1981: Re St. Bart's: "Alan group that will pursue the matter of characteristic residential neighborhoods Melting, chairman of the Chapter's nuclear disarmament. The group will be to create a real alternative within a special committee, testified at a called 'Architects for Social revitalized West Midtown commercial Community Board 5 hearing November Responsibility' to press the governments core .... " Quoted from a three-page report 19 that 'the proposal to redevelop any of the United States and the Soviet entitled "Midtown Development: portion of the landmark church, Union toward nuclear disarmament." Comments on the City Planning community house, terrace or garden is Department's Draft Report/June 1980." totally inappropriate to their historic designation and to landmark law.'" May 1981: Under the heading "Forty­ Second Street Development Project," January 1982: "Romaldo Giurgola wins George Lewis reports "UDC and AIA Gold Medal for 1982." "Gwathmey Alexander Cooper of Cooper/Eckstut Siegel & Assoc. Win AJA Architectural Associates presented plans at an open Firm Award." meeting April 23rd .... " March 1982: "The proposed zoning October 1981: Oculus begins a new changes have had the scrutiny of phase under the editorship of C. Ray architects and real estate developers. Smith with a drawing on the cover Architects have generally supported the showing the Chrysler Building's night proposals but felt that the FAR lighting, which " ... turns out to be an differentials still were not great enough 2. JUNE 1989 11

1. "Untitled" by Tim Prentice, Oculus,June 1983

2. Drawing by James Rossant, Oculus, September 1983.

3. Diagram ofproposed restoration of the Statue of Liberty, Oculus, October 1983.

4. Music Box theater accompanying George Lewis's "Saving the Broadway Theaters: The Great Debate," Oculus, November 1983.

December 1982: ".. .. Landmark making use of air rights to underwrite churches and - like financing productions .... A special landmark office buildings such as the Chapter committee, Stuart Pertz, Woolworth Building, Lever House and chairman, has been meeting to express others-should not be destroyed simply opinions which should be useful to the because bigger and more profitable Theater Advisory Council .... " reports structures can be put in their places George Lewis. unless it can be proven in an appropriate public forum - the Landmarks September 1983: ".... A big giveaway by Commission - that they are no longer the City in development rights the economically viable in their existing "jail-wall of office buildings to the west" form .... " Quoted from an article by Ralph of the South Street Seaport, "they are C. Menapace, Jr. against the campaign to present witnesses to the sad fact of how remove all religious buildings from little the City gives to a worthy cause in landmarking consideration. In the same comparison with how much it takes for 3. issue, an article by George J. McCormack itself.. .. " Excerpt from an editorial, which Tiffany. Failing the possibility I might criticizes ".... the New York City landmarks accompanied articles and interviews recommend that bright fell ow - the law" because it "has no meaningful about the just-opened South Street special effects man from 'Star Wars' .... " criteria for determining what is of Seaport. In the same issue: "The Chapter has landmark quality ... " not seen the proposal development plan November 1983: Toward the end of a for four sites at the south end of Times February 1983: Charles K. Hoyt 6-page article "Saving the Broadway Square, but it has become well known presents the Chapter's "support" for "the Theaters: The Great Debate," George that demolition of the Times Tower is proposed designation of the Lever Lewis writes: ".... Underlying all this is the contemplated. This would be a decision Building, 390 Park Avenue, .... a generally shared recognition that saving which the Chapter would oppose .... " This definitive landmark of modern the buildings and enhancing the district is paired with excerpts from a statement architecture on an international level.. .. " is not enough: the theaters must have by John Burgee Architects with Philip Hoyt's statement is paired with an legitimate plays in them; the theater Johnson: "In our Master Planning efforts, excerpt from the "White Paper: the business must prosper, or else the we have come to the conclusion that it Redevelopment of 390 Park Avenue for district will become a largely empty is essential to create a more open Times Fisher Brothers prepared by Swanke shell .... " Square - which is the result of the new Hayden Connell Architects ... .We towers surrounding it - than to conclude that...Lever House lacks January 1984: Under the heading "A preserve a building that has been sufficient 'interest or value' as a FreeWill Offer to St. Bart's," Percival entirely reconstructed .... " structure to offset the negative effect of Goodman explains his drawing on creating a landmark in its site .... " Oculus's cover as showing St. Bart's May 1984: "When, on December 20, in "framed and protected by a vast dome the sudden glare of a high-powered press March 1983: In his column "Chapter (almost twice that of Hagia Sofia), above conference, New York was presented Reports," George Lewis writes: "Prior to it rises an office building covering the with the prospect of four huge offic e the Board of Estimate's hearing on entire site .... Who would create what buildings clustered around a patch of whether it should uphold the Landmarks could be the greatest decoration of our ground from which the Times Tower had Commission's designation, the Chapter time? If I were asked, and they were still vanished, alarms went off in many sent letters to each member...as alive, I might propose a team-Giovanni planning-oriented organizations around follows .... : 'By almost any standard Lever Battista Tiepolo and Louis Comfort town. It wasn't as though buildings of House is a landmark .... Our city is a storehouse of great architecture. We can not afford to lose what is recognized world-wide as a turning point-a landmark-in architectural history"

May 1983: "Preservation of the Theatre District...has been a very live issue since the controversy of demolition of the Morosco and Helen Hayes - and since the enactment of the Midtown Special Zoning District which, as presently written, forbids theatre demolition. The theater owners object to the latter because they say it deprives them of 4. 12 NYC/ AIA OCULUS

Fiftieth Anniversary, 1. Percival Goodman's proposed sardonic alternate scheme for the "protection" of 1938-1988 St. Bart's on cover ofOculus, January 1984

2. Height as required by expansion, by Percival Goodman on cover of Oculus, March 1986

3. FLW 1943 Preliminary Version, by Percival Goodman, Oculus, March 1986

that density were unexpected ... .It was In the same issue, George Lewis more a matter of surprise: the four reports on St. Bartholomew's: "At the buildings minus the Times Tower, as Landmarks Commission hearing designed by John Burgee Architects January 29 on the revised proposal for a with Philip Johnson for Park Tower new high-rise building on the site of the Realty, had quite a different look from Community House, Terrance what the Guidelines had led everyone to Williams ... testified on behalf of the expect, and there had been no public Chapter in opposition. He stated: 'It is review while the plans were being obvious that the revised scheme still developed .... " begins a two-page article presents a significant increase in bulk "Lively Times in Times Square" by over what exists, an increase which will George Lewis. greatly modify the spatial quality of the complex.'" Calling attention to how the June 1984: ".. .With the intent of Church has maintained that it needs mounting a biennial exhibition of income from a new building to 1. contemporary architectural drawings of administer charitable programs in other November 1985: "The Liability the highest level...the Chapter's areas of the city, he said, 'For midtown Insurance Crisis continues to be, and will Architectural Drawings Competition has to be afflicted with additional mass and continue to be the No. 1 Chapter been inaugurated this year.... " bulk to finance charitable activities far concern.... " afield flies in the face of all generally November 1984: ''A Board of Estimate accepted urban design principles, January 1986: ".... On August 6, 1985, hearing October 25 .... will likely be one of principles which have as their purpose the Executive Committee of the the most clamorous in memory. It will be the maintenance of a civilized urban NYC/ AIA approved a statement as the final hearing on the 42nd Street environment.'" follows: 'The Board of Directors of the Development Project, and the Board and AIA believes that the proposed addition the Mayor will have the final say. May 1985: " ....Of the twelve winners of to the Whitney Museum raises an Opposition will come from many 1985 AIA Honor Awards, four are New important policy issue for the Landmarks directions .... " begins an article "42nd York offices: Richard Meier & Partners, Preservation Commission and all others Street Times Square A Project in Mitchell/Giurgola, I.M. Pei & Partners, concerned with the architectural Trouble" by George Lewis. and Robert AM. Stern Architects." heritage of this city. This issue is, should buildings that meet most or all criteria December 1984: "Waterfront September 1985: George Lewis reports for designation be excluded from careful development is the next frontier for on the Chapter-sponsored open meeting Landmarks Preservation Commission architects and offers opportunities to in the Donnell Library auditorium "to see review merely because they are not old raise public consciousness about the the plans and hear them explained" of enough for formal landmark designation? design of our city spaces and Michael Graves' proposed addition to the It is the belief of the Board that this buildings. -John Belle" Breuer-designed Whitney Museum. building more than meets the criteria for " ... .Implicit throughout the Chapter's designation and that proposed changes January 1985: ".... Although our culture involvement in this affair as described to this - and buildings less than 30 years places a high value of 'thinking big,' here was the Chapter's firm policy that old of comparable quality-should be practical development of waterfronts design review is not its business. In the evaluated with the same care as seems to dictate the opposite .... " writes case of the Whitney, the sole justification buildings that have passed this arbitrary Cooper, Eckstut Associates in an article, for a Chapter position would have been chronological milestone.' ...." ''A Philosophy for Waterfront Planning." the proposal's effect on the present building, and on this point there is March 1986: Once again Percival February 1985: "1985 marks the clearly a wide ranging difference of Goodman adds levity to a building twentieth anniversary of New York City's opinion." debate - this time, the Guggenheim Landmarks Law ... " addition, for which he offered three October 1985: " .... Suddenly, this drawings suggesting possible March 1985: "Most remarkable and long-seeming anomaly-the 20th alternatives. unbelievable at Battery Park City so far century Gothic Cathedral-was at the is the progress on the World Financial center of community action, like its April 1986: ". ... The people now who Center. It seems like no time has passed medieval predecessors ...." writes C. Ray argue in the name of Frank Lloyd Wright since Cesar Pelli was announced as Smith in reporting a Chapter-organized for context, accommodation, and architect for the Olympia & York tour of the Cathedral of St. John the preservation have no understanding of development. Yet already two of the four Divine led by "The Very Rev. James Parks what that man was about, and what it towers are nearly finished, the steel of Morton, Dean of the Cathedral, who has felt like to hear him and .. .be in his the Winter Garden greenhouse-public master-minded the program of presence. I believe that because of the space is all in place .... " completing the building .... " loss of nerve exhibited by the American JUNE 1989 13

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2. 3. architectural community today, a graduate architects with up to 3 or 4 any city in the United States .... " begins disoriented youth, preservationists on years experience to help them be more an article on "Restoring City Parks" by the rampage, more damage is being done productive and effective in the New York Jean McClintock Gardner. to architecture in the name of history environment.. .. " Also in this issue: "The New York than ever was done by the brave gestures Chapter/ AIA endorses the certification of Frank Lloyd Wright. I believe in fact September 1986: "George Lewis of Interior Designers rather than that Charles Gwathmey's and Robert Retires." licensing .... " writes Lenore M. Lucey in a Siegel's building is not arrogant enough. 3-column statement on "Licensing of It is not in fact taking a stance that December 1986: ".... Public Architecture Interior Designers." Wright would have taken if he had been is ... the focus of this special issue of asked to come back and fulfill this Oculus. It is dedicated to the architects May 1987: As a member of the 1987 commission. I believe that what they who make it happen - private Distinguished Architecture Awards jury, have done is brave, but not arrogant....! consultants, agency administrators, Cesar Pelli comments ". .. we noticed two want to applaud the right of any artist planners, project managers, and interesting things in the total set of to engage in a dialogue with any in-house designers ... " presentations: First, a lack of new and art .... there is nothing sacred on this earth fresh ideas. The best works were mature but living and life. New living means new January 1987: "The New York Chapter work or reiterations of ideas that had stones .... " This is excerpted from the is going to host the American Institute already been resolved or presented or statement made by Peter Eisenman, of Architects National Convention in enunciated-some for many years .... " which is included in Oculus's report of May of 1988 .... The details of the final The second point ". ..is that although the Chapter-sponsored presentation by Convention theme are still being there appears to be superficially a great Gwathmey Siegel & Associates of their developed; however, the general theme deal of freedom and many possibilities proposed addition to the Guggenheim will encompass Architecture and the to do whatever one pleases - the range Museum building. Arts .... " begins a column by John H. of forms - stylistic choice was Winkler. extraordinarily restrictive, perhaps even May 1986: Two comments by members more restrictive than fifteen years ago ...." of the jury for the Chapter's 1986 February 1987: " .... Above all there are Distinguished Architecture Awards: some signs that the historicist/revisionist September 1987: "... .I look forward to ".... The media has become so strong that approach previously assumed with such formalizing a current informal gathering there is a certain deja vu to the whole confidence is beginning to falter. It of some previous presidents ihto a thing," says U.S. architect Charles Moore. seems at times to be degenerating into council of presidents .. ..to continue "... .As a jury we were all critical of the puerile forms of self parody and assisting the Chapter... ." says A Eugene general standard of communication. If pastiche-revival. The piling up of Kohn in his Installation Address as architects have to indulge in such pseudoclassical elements into Chapter president. obscure language to communicate with gargantuan skyscrapers no longer seems their peers, then how will they ever get to possess the courage of its own October 1987: "An Oculus Celebration" across to their real audience - the convictions ...." is excerpted from heralding the beginning of Oculus's 50th people out there? ... "says British Kenneth Frampton's "General year includes the remembrances of some architect Norman Foster. Comments of the Jury" for the 1986 of its early editors. Architectural Projects Awards "What June 1986: In George Lewis's column Might Be." December 1987: ". .. .I am concerned "Notes on the Year": ". ...The Chapter that our profession is hurting itself by initiated, and Gerald Hallissy and Denis March 1987: "New York City possesses excessive competition ... .If we give away Kuhn organized, training courses for the most diversified natural landscape of our best talent, sometimes for very little 14 NYC/AIA OC ULUS

Fiftieth Anniversary, 1938-1988

money, sometimes for a loss, then we are Pittsburgh, 5 March 1988, and excerpted giving away that very talent that is the in Oculus. cornerstone of our profession. Design - the creative effort that makes us May 1988: "... .We certainly do not want special-is what justifies our profession, a city that is frozen in time. We have to our usefulness to society.. .." says A. find a balance between growth and Eugene Kohn when interviewed by creativity and the development potential Oculus on "The Validity of Architecture of New York-all the while preserving Competitions." In the same issue , its history. We believe that is perfectly former Oculus editor Denis Glen Kuhn possible in this big city, and without the notes "... .In June of 1978 I received the friction we have been having on that Chapter's Harry B. Rutkins Award 'For subject .... " Excerpted from an interview the liveliness he has brought to Oculus, with William J. Conklin FAIA on "The a news filled yet irreverant commentary Commission to Study The Landmarks on Chapter events.' .. .. " Commission."

February 1988: '"By Jove-she's got June 1988: " .... What made it a very it!' sings Professor Higgins about Eliza special year for me was the realization Doolittle in My Fair Lady when she that being active in the Chapter, working finally masters The King's English. That alongside many fine architects (instead sums up nicely the Parks Council's of under normal circumstances where reaction to the restaurant and kiosk we are competing for a project), was not design proposals submitted by the only an enjoyable experience but a very Bryant Park Restoration Corporation worthwhile and productive one ... ." and the architectural firm of Hardy Excerpted from the address by outgoing Holzman Pfeiffer Associates ... ." This president A. Eugene Kohn FAIA. C. Ray Smith begins the Park Council's "statement to the New York City Landmarks September 1988: ". ..I intend to pursue Preservation Commission, September our commitment to our society. As 22, 1987," one of several statements architects we stand as the gatekeepers included in this issue of Oculus by of the social needs of our fell ow citizens. organizations concerned about the We embody and are responsible for both Bryant Park Restoration. the dreams and the realities of our society. Our fell ow citizens have March 1988: ". ... New York is not a city confidence in the decency of the goals of nostalgia; it is a vibrant and moving of this profession. We must capitalize on town, constantly. The lesson perhaps is this and act as both the social conscience that nothing can stay the same no matter and the advocates of those goals .... " how much we would hope that it Excerpted from "Remarks of the would!. .. " Quoted from a statement by Incoming President" by Martin D. Raab Peter Eisenman, one of several included FAIA. in Oculus from those presented at the January 14th public hearing about the October 1988: "... One never quite knew Board of Standards and Appeals' what C. Ray was going to spring, but one previous approval of the plan to expand thing was constant: he was ever the Guggenheim Museum. determined to make Oculus unambiguously lively and pertinent," April 1988: "... .when talking about wrote George Lewis in the issue, which remaking cities or bringing new served as a memorial for C. Ray Smith, economic life to certain parts of them, its editor from 1981-88, and which we must never forget that at the heart marked completion of Oculus's 50 years. of the question is the human individual: a person who is more thanjsut a cog in a gigantic utilitarian machine; someone who responds, often subconsciously, to things of the spirit as well as of the material...." Quotes from an address given by HRH the Prince of Wales at the "Remaking Cities" Conference, JUNE 1989 15 OCULUS NYC/AIA JUN 89

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