Oculus New York Chapter the Ameri Ca N Institute of Ar C Hitects November 1964

OCULUS NEW YORK CHAPTER THE AMERI CA N INSTITUTE OF AR C HITECTS NOVEMBER 1964 CHAPTER FALL DINNER MEETING: AWARDS AND CITATIONS House Competition Awards Ulrich Franzen and Associates World's Fair Pavilions The New York Chapter has an won an Award Citation for an ad Honored by Chapter nounced four awards in its Fourth dition to an old cottage. Though Also on the agenda of the Fall Din Annual House Competition at its totally different in design, the new ner meeting was the presentation Fall Dinner Meeting held at the wing and old are given unity by by the Chapter of Citations for Architectural League on N ovem use of the same materials, gray "Excellence in Design" to the ber 10. clapboard siding and sloping representatives of the Denmark, William Rupp, Sarasota, Fla. ; shingle roofs. Spain, New Jersey and I.B.M. Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Washing Entries in the house competition buildings. Commendations were ton, D.C.; and Ulrich Franzen and included new houses, alterations to addressed to the architects of the Associates, New York City, were houses and groups of houses, ac pavilions of Ireland, Venezuela, the award recipients. Mr. Jacob cording to William A. Hall, chair Maryland, New York State, Chry sen won two awards. man of the Chapter's House Con sler, Scott Paper and Westing First Award Citation went to sulting Committee. house. The pavilions were selected Mr. Rupp for a studio house which by the Chapter's Award Commit is made up of a ground floor sleep tee under Chairman John G. ing area isolated visually and Faron. acoustically both from the outside The presentation of the scrolls and the floor above,. and an upper by President Wilson highlighted floor living space, high, open and the Fall Dinner event organized by transparent. The upper floor is in George J. Schwarz Chairman of the effect a vast wooden aerie resting Meetings Committee. on the masonry mass of the lower floor. The upward and outward SHELTER DESIGN thrust of the upper space culmin COMPETITION AWARD ates in a crow's nest 19 feet above Hanford Yang, Professor of Archi grade from which there is a strik tecture and Graphics at the College ing view in all directions. J. G. F. of the City of New York and his Farrell was associate architect. team of eight CCNY Students were Hugh Newell Jacobsen received presented with a Department of an Award Citation for his design Defense Certificate for placing of a year-round vacation house on third among competitors in this an inlet of the South River near area in the recently concluded Na Annapolis. Semi-enclosed in heavy tional Community Fallout Shelter woods, the house was designed so Design Competition. Theirs is the that all rooms look out on the rear sole winning team in the State of having a view of the woods and Judges for the competition were: New York. water beyond. Mr. Jacobsen also Lewis Davis, a member of the Mr. William D. Wilson, Presi received an Award Citation for re Chapter's Executive Committee; dent of the New York Chapter, designing a row house in Washing John M. Dixon, associate editor of American Institute of Architects, ton, D.C. The remodeling and addi Progressive Architecture mag had called a meeting of the Chapter tion done on the 1885 Georgetown azine; Jan Hird Pokorny, of the at which Major General Robert E. home was subject to restrictions of Columbia University School of Condon, Director of Civil Defense the Old Georgetown Act which re Architecture ; Stanley Salzman, of for the City of New York form quires all new construction to con Pratt Institute; Edgar Tafel, chair ally presented the A ward to Pro form to the character of the orig man of the Chapter's Aesthetics fessor Yang for his team. The inal houses in the area. The rear Committee; and Frederick J. Wood ceremonies were held at the N.Y. was redesigned in modern style bridge, F .A.I.A. former president Chapter's offices on October 21. and opens to the garden. of the Chapter. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 2 OCULUS IMPROVING NEW YORK BRUNNER SCHOLARSHIP Applications are being accepted for VOL 37 - Number 2 From a recent Editorial in the the $6,000 Arnold W. Brunner Scholarship grant, offered annually AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS New York Times: NEW YORK CHAPTER by the New York Chapter, A.I.A. CAN NEW YORK PLAN? The Brunner award, which up to MARGOT A. HENKEL, Executive Secretary The need for New York City to 115 East 40th Street now had been $5,000, was raised New York, N. Y. 10016 plan its development was specific by $1,000 to provide additional MUrray Hill 9-7969 ally recognized in the 1936 City funds to make possible broader WILLIAM D. WILSON .............................. President Charter, but a comprehensive de programs of study. DAVID F. M. TODD ........••.....•....••.. Vice President sign for the future remains an ELLIOT WILLENSKY ................................ Secretary Open to active architects and H. DICKSON McKENNA ........................ Treasurer elusive mirage of good intentions. The magnitude of New York is so those in related fields, it calls for BOARD OF EDITORS study in an area which will contri Charles E. Thomsen, Chairman & Editor overwhelming that it is easy to despair. But if there was ever a bute to the advancement of the Neil Berzak Sheldon Licht architectural profession. Each can John M. Dixon Alexander Sanko time in the last twenty-five years Georges M. Knafo __ Carlos R. Sanz when there was reason to be hope didate is free to choose his subject of study, according to Dean Mc EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD ful that planning might be realized, Jo E. Carroll Solomon Sheer it is now. Clure, chairman of the Brunner Estelle Dodge Edgar Tafel Scholarship Committee. A recent city planning sym posium, called "The Future by De Applicants are required to state LANDMARKS PRESERVATION sign," brought together several choice of subject with an outline of At the October 15 meeting of the hundred people, including planning proposed studies, research and officers and directors of the Fine experts from all over the country necessary travel. A candidate selec Arts Federation of New York, and even abroad, government offi ted for a grant is asked to complete Frederick J. Woodbridge, Presi cials, and some leading interested the program within one year. dent of the Federation, reported citizens. The very fact that this Application forms and further in that the Enactment Law of the symposium was held at all is highly formation can be obtained from the Landmarks Preservation Commit significant. It means that the Plan Chapter Office. Application dead tee unfortunately had not been ning Commission itself, now under line: January 15, 1965. accomplished during Landmark the leadership of Chairman Wil Scholarships previously have Preservation Week. The measure liam F. R. Ballard, is thinking been granted to test motion pic introduced by Councilmen Boyers, ahead to its larger responsibilities. tures as a means of analyzing en Bloom and Aldrich is now before The symposium was permeated, in vironmental factors, for a study of the Council. The Federation urged every session, with a recognition city residential neighborhoods, and that both individuals and constitu that New York is at a now-or for an examination of the use ent societies should indicate their never crossroads of urgency. of legislative action as it affects support of this legislation by writ Mayor Wagner has given his architectural and urban design in ing the Honorable Seymour Boyers, blessing to the planning function. Europe. Other scholarships have Chairman of the Codification Com A former commission chairman been awarded for the compilation mittee, City Hall, to request copies himself, he bears the political re of a guide to contemporary Europ of Landmark Law 779. sponsibility now for translating ean architecture and the develop ideas into fact. The truth is that ment of a traveling architectural CHRISTMAS GIFTS ... the Planning Commission is or exhibit for high school students. PROBLEM AND SOLUTION should be constantly the torch bearer for new challenging ideas Every year the problem of Christ STEWARDSON FELLOWSHIP mas presents from contractors to and principles; it is the official embarrased architects! OCUL US conscience in many ways, and often The Chapter is now accepting ap would like to suggest that the al comes off second best when elected plications for its Fifth Annual ternative proposed by the N.Y. officials get to work at City Hall Stewardson Fellowship, a $2,000 Chapter in 1960 be reinstated. The and cut dreams down to size. The grant made possible through a be Chapter had extended invitation to Planning Commission can propose, quest to the Chapter by James all contractors and suppliers to and does. The disposition rests Stewardson, an architect and citi send such favors in the form of with others. zen of England who spent most of contributions to the Scholarship If Mayor Wagner is looking for his professional career in New Funds. These funds are admin an inspiring program to keep him York. The Fellowship is awarded istered by the Chapter and could be busy through his present term, to "a worthy architectural drafts given in the names of the donor and and the possible fourth he speaks man" who has not previously had would-be recipient. Such donations of, he will find it in the minutes of a travelling fellowship. Deadline should be sent to the: the last meeting-the symposium for submission of applications is New York Chapter, A.I.A., that told so much of what is wrong December 1st. Scholarship Fund with New York, a city simultan Previous grants were used for 115 East 40th St., eously booming and declining for the study of Asian,.

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