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PROPOSAL TO MAKE 6'" AND 7'" CO ROGERS GETS AVENUES ONE-WAY SHOT DOWN I— 08 LU TSCHUMI'S PRITZKER PARKSLOPERS PLASTIC O The English architect HAVE IT O BUBBLE has been selected as the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate. Rogers, who 12 accepted a life peerage in 1996 and is BOTH WAYS known as Lord Rogers of Riverside, will In a boisterous public meeting on March GEHRY TALES be given a $100,000 grant and a bronze 15, Park Slope residents shot down a IN CHELSEA medallion on June 4,2007, at a ceremony Department of Transportation (DOT) pro• in ' 1691 Banqueting House posal to make the 7"'Avenue retail corridor 18 in . and the mostly residential 6'" Avenue into Lord Rogers joins his compatriots one-way streets. Even though the DOT ELIOT NOYES James Sterling, the 1982 winner; his has abandoned this idea, questions per• GETS HIS former partner Norman Foster, who won sist about how civic groups in the upscale in 1999; and , who took the neighborhood will resist city efforts to DUE connect its tranquil streets to the planned honor in 2004. He gained early acclaim 06 IN DETAIL for his collaboration with Atlantic Yards arena and highrise district. 10 AT DEADLINE Even though DOT staffers said the 16 DIARY on the 1977 Centre Georges Pompidou 19 MARKETPLACE in Paris and has long been recognized as rationale behind the proposal was to 20 PRODUCTS + RESOURCES one of the most accomplished architects make pedestrians less vulnerable to cars NEW PRATT BUILDING practicing today. Rogers was awarded the in turning lanes, residents argued that INTEGRATES DESIGN Royal Institute of British Architects' Gold the city is testing ways to disperse the thousands of cars expected to come with DISCIPLINES AND CAMPUS SPACE Medal in 1985 and, last year, the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the the development. Venice Biennale. continued on page 3 Two weeks earlier, the DOT had Under One Roof announced that collision-prone 4'" Avenue needed expanded turning lanes and For students and administrators alike, floated the plan as a way to absorb traffic the patchwork nature of the Pratt from the 4"" Avenue lanes that would be Institute's Fort Greene campus has always removed. After the advocacy site been a problem. Only within the last few Streetsblog.com continued on page 2 decades has the 120-year-old institution begun to emerge from the urban fabric of Brooklyn to become a coherent campus. The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center, which will be unveiled to the public on April 17, is the first in a handful of projects in the works that are tailored to further this process. (^/V editor William Menking is a professor of urban planning at Pratt.) On its face, the slender three-story design center is little continued on page 8 DDC NAMES FIRMS PROPOSED FOR SECOND ROUND OF NEW CONTRACT PROGRAM 1960 BUILDING IN BOSTON DODGES THE WRECKING BALL DESIGN PIANO VS. EXCELLENCE RUDOLPH FIGHT TAKES ROOT CALLED OFF KNUT HAMSUM CENTER The Department of Design and It was a bad week for Boston businessman- RESURRECTED IN NORWAY Construction (DDC) released its preliminary cum-developer Steve Belkin. Belkin owns SEE PAGES list of architects selected for requirement the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Building, contracts in the second round of designed by Paul Rudolph in 1960, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's Design had planned to tear it down to make room and Construction Excellence Initiative for an 80-story tower designed by Renzo (D+CEI). With these contracts, firms are Piano Building Workshop (RPBW). not assigned a project, but prequalify for But on March 13, the Boston Landmarks DDC work over the next two years. Commission (BLC) issued a 90-day stay Of 32 firms named, 24 were selected against its demolition. Four days later, of $10 million and under, and eight for RPBW quit the project in a battle for projects budgeted between $10 and $25 creative control over the design. million. The new phase comes two years Piano said in a March 7 article in the after the pilot D-hCEl continued on page 2 New York Times that continued on page 3 CO f\J 3 O LLl

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PARK SLOPERS HAVE IT BOTH WAYS CO This year's Pritzker Prize laureate, Richard Rogers, almost became a dentist. Diana Darling continued from front page posted the plan, TOITORS While it goes without saying that it is a profession that we can't—and O residents packed a Community Board 6 trans• Cathy Lang Ho wouldn't want—to do without, we are probably not going out on a limb to William Menking portation committee meeting where deputy say that Rogers has brought much, much, more innovation and beauty to ART DIRECTOR commissioner Michael Primeggia made a Martin Perrin LU the practice of architecture than he would have to that of dentistry. formal presentation of the idea. At the over• SENIOR EDITOR Richard Rogers was born in Florence, Italy in 1933. His parents had emi• crowded forum, Primeggia said, "I don't Anne Guiney grated to Italy, and lived there until the threat of war forced them to back want to bring non-Park Slope drivers to Park ASSOCIATE EDITOR Slope," prompting derisive calls that he was Aaron Seward London. Richard was immediately sent to a boarding school in Epsom, and ASSISTANT EDITOR speaking no English, struggled enormously in his firstencounte r with the a liar. "You mean, unless there's a game," someone yelled, referring to the Nets arena. Samantha Topol British educational system. According Roger's biographer Brian Appleyard, COPY EDITOR Those yells—and the nearly 500 residents "Academically he was progressing [at an] alarmingly slow rate," and "could Lisa Delgado spilling into the street—hinted at a deeper DESIGN AND PRODUCTION not keep up with his class in reading and writing and was unable to learn concern about Atlantic Yards. Many residents Dustin Koda anything by heart." His schoolmasters despaired of his ever passing the uni• SALES AND MARKETING DIRECTOR at the meeting said the proposed develop• versity entrance exams, and so his parents began planning a career for him Karen Begley ment, which borders Park Slope to the north, ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER as a dentist, as his grandfather had been. will overwhelm public transit and send cars Masha Panteleyeva Thankfully, Rogers discovered architecture on a trip to Italy and with into the brownstone communities around it. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT meetings with his distant cousin Ernesto Rogers (a noted Milanese mod• They were concerned at the official silence on Stephen Martin the matter. "You left out the 800-pound gorilla," EDITORIAL INTERNS ernist), and he enrolled in the Architectural Association when he returned Matt Chaban to London. The rest, of course, is history. The academic problem that Rogers Park Slope Civic Council president Lydia Carl Yost experienced as a youth and which could have derailed this path is now Denworth told Primeggia afterthe presentation. The DOT declined to say before or after the widely known as dyslexia; It is something that he still struggles with on a CONTRIBUTORS hearing whether Atlantic Yards contingencies daily basis. But among architects, he is far from alone. There are no official ALEC APPELBAUM / MARISA BARTOLUCCI / had informed the Park Slope proposal. DAN BIBB / ALAN G. BRAKE / ARIC CHEN / studies on dyslexia and architecture (at least none we know of) but anec• Sam Schwartz, a traffic consultant who has DAVID D'ARCY/MURRAY FRASER/ dotal experience would indicate that it is surprisingly common. Some peo• RICHARD INGERSOLL/JULIE V. lOVINE/ worked on Atlantic Yards-related issues, told LIANE LEFAIVRE/LUIGI PRESTINEN2A PUGLISI/ ple think that may have had the disorder, and others have AN \n an interview that he did not see a con• KESTER RATTENBURY/ D.GRAHAME SHANE/ argued that there may be a relationship between dyslexia and certain kinds nection. "Nobody from Forest City Ratner ALEX ULAM/GWEN WRIGHT/PETER ZELLNER of creativity, because the brains of those who have it are typically larger in or their consultants recommended this," said EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD the right hemisphere, which has been linked to skills in art, 3-D visualiza• Schwartz. "My understanding is that they're PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ tion, and music. In fact, in order to teach at design colleges in the England, proposing it for safety, not traffic flow." But M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ residents didn't buy it. "The city is wrong WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ new faculty are required to take a short course in the subject because so about enhancing pedestrian safety," said SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/REED KROLOFF/ many students in college suffer from the disorder. JAYNE MERKEL/LISA NAFTOLIN / SIGNE NIELSEN / Sam Moore, a 7'" Avenue resident. "Also, Rogers figuredou t how to use his strengths and obvious visual abilities HANS ULRICH OBRIST/JOAN OCKMAN/ two directions makes it easier to drive to a KYONG PARK / ANNE RIESELBACH / and developed his own ideas about the practice of architecture. He is liv• store." As a rule, merchants believe two-way TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR/MICHAEL SORKIN ing proof that dyslexia is not simply a learning disability but a different way streets facilitate parallel parking and mean• GENERAL INFORMATION: INFOdiARCHPAPER.COM of processing information. Roger's success is undoubtedly due to a num• dering on the sidewalk. 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work by one of modernism's most contro• PIANO VS. RUDOLPH FIGHT CALLED OFF con• < > PANINO SPORTIVO versial and influential practitioners is bad tinued from front page he had no issue with LU Panino Sportive demolishing 133 Federal Street, Rudolph's enough. But they are further angered because H- 26 Prince Street boxy 13-story concrete building, but was the tower would not rise directly off the O Tel: 212-431-0800 concerned with controlling the design of Rudolph footprint but instead from that of Z Designer: Studios GO his tower. "Some modifications were an adjacent city-owned parking garage. A asked for," an anonymous executive at public plaza would occupy the space where 133 Federal Street now stands. < RPBW told The Boston Globe. "We felt Ql they weren't appropriate." RPBW declined The city supports Belkin's plan to demol• A requests from AN for comment. ish Rudolph's work. "It behaves like a free• "We hired the Renzo Piano Building standing structure even with the garage Workshop to undertake a conceptual on two sides," said Kairos Shen, director CL design for our proposed tower," Belkin said of planning for the Boston Redevelopment O in a statement, but a source from the Boston Authority, which is overseeing the project architectural community suggested that for the city. "You couldn't really integrate it Piano was to direct the design throughout with another building." the process. Executive architects CBT are Sarah Kelly, director of the Boston now in charge of the design. There is no Preservation Alliance, disagrees. "We'd like word yet as to how much the project will to see a range of alternatives," she said. "No change from Piano's design. Mayor Thomas one is opposed to development, but the Menino, who vigorously supports the project should not be just new or old. I'm project, has referred to the tower as "Renzo always optimistic that we will be able to find Step into the S-foot-wide Panino Sportive on Prince Street and you Piano-inspired." a win-win situation." won't need the striiin.s of Europop to know that you've traded Nolita The BLC issued a 90-day for the demoli• One of the most popular alternatives for Italy. The brick wall.s and a tin plate ceiling immediately give way to tion of the Rudolph building because of was put forth by Tim Rohan, a professor a sleek design by the young New York-based lirm Studios GO. A bright its architectural significance. 133 Federal at the University of Massachusetts Amherst red and black cashier's counter (colors of the .soccer team A.C,\ Milan, Street is neither a historic landmark or part who is writing a book about the Blue Cross/ i>f course) creates a forced perspective, making the narrow space recede of a protected district, but the BLC reviews Blue Shield Building. The proposal draws sharply; a sculptural wall/ceiling clad in Kiioll's Exurban wallcovering all demolition permits in downtown Boston. on Rudolph's own 1987 studies for a seven- heightens the effect. "The tunnel leads people through the whole space," The stay allows preservationists to negoti• story addition to the building. explained architect Gregory Okshteyn. "We envisioned a place where ate alternatives with the developer, though Rohan is uncertain such a plan would you feel wrapped by the form." be successful without the involvement of Belkin has no obligation to alter his plans Studios (iO enclosed the paninoteca's outdoor patio, creating an open RPBW. "In a way, I would rather have seen once the stay expires. "It is certainly our kitchen and .seating area topped by a grid of skylights. The move increased Renzo Piano involved," he said. "He is a intent to sit down and listen," a spokesper• overall square footage by nearly a third. Five more Panino Sportivo outlets son for Belkin said. However, both sides great architect, and I thought it was a great are coming soon to New York, .so the firm designed typographic wallpaper have made their cases public, and seem opportunity for him to work with an existing for the minichain. Dubbed "Hunger Cues"by Okshteyn, the red and orange to expect their opponents to initiate talks. structure or a fragment of it, because he had text temptingly describes cheese and prosciutto to patrons patiently For preservationists and Rudolph fans, the been so successful with that in the past, like awaiting their grilled sandwiches. fact that Belkin wants to demolish an early at the Morgan Library." MATTCHABAN

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ROGERS GETS PRITZKER continued from front The Centre Georges Pompidou (1977, left) 1 page In the past he may been overlooked for established both Rogers and his then partner Renzo Piano as formidable talents; Barajas the award because he has produced fewer Airport (right) in was completed in buildings than past Pritzker winners, but 2005 and won the coveted Sterling Prize the the quantity of his production is more than following year. made up for by its remarkable quality. His portfolio ranges from a house for his parents in Wimbledon (1968), which served as a Ken Livingston's primary director of city prototype for a portable housing scheme planning, which is an unofficial post. he dubbed the Zip-Up House; the Lloyds of He is also well-known for his collaborative London Bank (1986); Millennium Dome (1999); approach to design, and in a recent interview, the Madrid Barajas Airport (2005); and the said that it is one of the things he likes most Imagine: Welsh Assembly Hall (2005). Barajas Airport about being an architect. "Architecture is received the Royal Institute of British collaborative, and an equation that takes into Your firm is awarded the design of a new project and you don't have a full team. Architects' Sterling Prize, another of the pro• consideration not only good buildings but fession's highest honors. He currently has social inclusion, public space, and social three projects underway in New York—the responsibility," he said. "Today, we must also expansion of the Javits Center, a mixed-use consider sustainability and climate change." development at Silvercup Studios in Queens, The prize comes at an auspicious time in and an office tower at the World Trade Center. the 72-year-old architect's career: His firm, It's all about people. Rogers' career has always been marked the Richard Rogers Partnership, will soon by a larger public engagement. When announce that it is changing its name to Prince Charles began to advocate against Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners in recogni• modernism in the 1980s, Rogers was at the tion of the work of two longtime collabora• Microsol Resources Placement Division forefront of the profession's response. More tors, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour. 212-465-8734 • microsolresources.com recently, he has served as the London Mayor WILLIAM MENKING

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CO On February 1, Paul Teicholz accepted the fifth Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology from the National Building Museum o in Washington, D.C. The $25,000 Turner Prize is given in recognition of achievements that have had a transformative impact on the building indus• try. Teicholz is the founder of the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering at Stanford University, a research center for developing information technology applications for the building industry. He joins I. M. Pei and engineer-builder Charles A. DeBenedittis as a recipient of the award.

Andrea Zittel: Critical Space was named the 2006 Best Architecture or Design Show by the International Association of Art Critics. Originated by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, which received the award, and curated by Paola Morsiani and Trevor Smith, the show featured 21 of Zittel's living units and environments developed at her desert studio in Joshua Tree, California. After traveling from Houston to New York's New Museum of designed the lAC Building to resemble Contemporary Art, the show makes its final stop at the Museum of sails on the Hudson River. Realizing his vision of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where it will be on view until May 14. fluid, curving lines and billowing surfaces meant On February 21. James Dyson held a reception for the winners of his Eye for engineering a precise aluminum and glass curtain Why student design competition, cosponsored by the Industrial Designers wall system composed largely of unique panel Society of America. First place and $5,000 went to Matthew Gale, a 2006 shapes. Fitting together like a puzzle while at the graduate of California College of the Arts, for his design of the Excubo jacket. Excubo, Latin for "I sleep outside," has a system of cords and padding same time accounting for construction tolerances. that transforms it into a sleeping cocoon. Second place was shared by Joe lAC's distinctive shell brings an inspired new look to Ulrich for Check It. a glucose monitoring system, and Sluice by Brett Belock, Manhattan's West Side. which helps people with limited motion pour from beverage containers.

Guenther 5 Architects, along with Larsen Shein Ginsberg Snyder and Caldwell Wingate, received the American Society for Healthcare Transforming design Engineering's VISTA Award on March 2 for the renovation of the Maimonides Cancer Center in Brooklyn. The building, originally a bank- into reality check processing center, was transformed into the first cancer treatment center in Brooklyn. VISTA awards recognize design and teamwork. For help achieving the goals of your next project, The inaugural Latrobe Prize, a biannual award of $100,000 for research contact the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York. leading to significant advances in the architectural profession, was given by the AIA College of Fellows to "On the Water, A Model for the Future: A Study of New York and New Jersey Upper Bay" on March 12. Developed by Guy

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On March 19. Material Connexion announced the winners of its inaugural Medium Award, which recognizes innovation with materials in ten design Architect: disciplines. The winners are: for textile design, Sandy Chilewich; architecture. Gehry Partners. LLP Kennedy & Violich Architecture; edition design. Patrick Jouin; environmen• Photo©: tal graphic design, Two Twelve Associates; fashion, DDC Lab; fine arts, Eric Levin/IAC Inigo Manglano-Ovaile; industrial design. Industrial Facility; interior design, Clodagh; landscape, Cao | Perrot Studio; and for transportation. MAZDA. CO sO 3 O LU

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UNDER ONE ROOF continued from front page Pratt opened in 1887 in a seven-story loft more than a circulation space and gallery building on Willoughby Avenue. According sandwiched between two existing buildings, to Hanrahan, founder Charles Pratt hedged but the symbolic role it plays on campus his bets and planned to turn the physical is far more important. Designed by plant into a factory if the school failed. Pratt hanrahanMeyers architects (hMa)—one prospered instead, but subsequent admin• of whose principals, Thomas Hanrahan, istrators took a conservative approach to is dean of the school of architecture—the growth and expanded into more loft build• design center serves a unifying role, finally ings. The design center establishes a new connecting facilities for the four design model. "This is the first project to turn what disciplines: fashion, interior, industrial, and was the back of two buildings into the front advertising. It also reorients the complex of of a single unified one," Hanrahan said. Til .1 illccl buildings away from the street and toward The reorientation of the campus inward the tree-lined mall at the center of campus. has been a major goal of btuc 10 "Physical programming at Pratt has been president Thomas Schutte. "His vision is very organic," Hanrahan explained during a a campus, a real campus," Hanrahan said. s I u di 0 c 0II e c t i 0 n. c 0 m tour of the new building. "A fine arts studio To visually emphasize this shift, hMa here, a computer lab there, a gallery over designed a double-height gallery that can• here." He said that whenever a new building tilevers out over its entrance. Clad in black opened, departments would scramble to steel, the building's sharp, contemporary claim the space, leaving each one scattered lines create a dynamic contrast to the pre• across the campus. The new design center dominantly brick campus. To further draw will be a major boon for the students, students to the mall, the gallery's massive according to Juliana Curran Terian, who glass window features a rear-projection donated $5 million toward the project. screen that will showcase artwork and films, "It will be more of a collaborative place," turning the building's facade into a per• she said. "They're going to share a library, formance space. For the first time, all of the ASSA ABLOY is the global sponsor of the : Shaping the Future exhibition which will travel to Bloomfield Hills. Ml; Washington, D.C. take classes in different disciplines, and school's galleries are consolidated into one Minneapolis, MN: St, Louis. MO and New Haven, CT through 2010. there may be some shared studio space." place. "If the Bauhaus model is studio space, www.eeiosaarinen.net As a result, there will be more intellectual shop space, and gallery space, this completes cross-fertilization than when Terian was a that model," Hanrahan said. "The gallery ASSA ABLOY Door Security Solutions is a registered Passport Provider of student at Pratt in the late 1980s, she said. space is the third part of that puzzle." MC continuing education with the American Institute of Architects and an AAF Cornerstone Partner

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WINNERS OF YOUNG ARCHITECTS FORUM ANNOUNCED The best have a written text that explains THE 2007 YOUNG ARCHITECTS FORUM: how their work fits into the theme, and then Uni Architecture organized their work accordingly." Chaewon Kim, Beat Schenk Cambridge, Massachusetts It is hardly surprising that almost all the THE AMERICAN LEAGUE Aranda/Lasch firms that submitted work are actively Benjamin Aranda, Chris Lasch Out of the 85 fledgling firms that submitted the annual competition. It is open to archi• engaged with new technologies, but many New York. New York work for consideration in the Architectural tects less than ten years out of school. This fewer seemed to know how to present their PRODUCTORA League's 26'" Young Architects Forum, the six year's theme was "Proof," and the goal, as ideas. For Whiting, a successful portfolio had Wonne Ickx, Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, winning firms represent an unintended but explained in the competition brief, was to to be specific to the competition: "We were Victor Jaime Mexico City, Mexico intriguingly asymmetrical regional balance: get participants to consider the possibilities serious about the idea that proposals had Ivan Hernandez Quintela to make an effort to respond to the brief in There are two each from New York, Boston, created by new building technologies. A firm's Mexico City, Mexico and Mexico City. According to league pro• conceptual understanding of these develop• an original way. Those who just put in a SINGLE Speed DESIGN gram director Anne Rieselbach, the program's ments is important as is the way they employ poetic quote were less appealing." The six Jinhee Park mandate is to provide a forum for young peo• them architecturally. According to juror Sarah firms below did just that. For a schedule of Cambridge, Massachusetts ple who do not yet have a public presence. Whiting, "The jury was looking for practices the winners' presentations, please see Para Project that are speculative and have their own voice, www.archleague.org. Jonathan Lott, Dominic Leong, Brian Price Each year, winners from the previous year's New York, New York forum get together and develop a theme for and don't just mimic the world around them. WM

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The soon-to-open lAC/lnterActiveCorp that inspired the building's form is expe• is the fascinating fact that it was not He'll Take Manhattan headquarters in New York is primarily rienced most immediately and effectively the flexibility of the glass but the tensile being hailed as Frank Gehry's first build• by the cars whizzing by on the adjacent strength of the silicone adhesive anchor• Frank Gehry has just ing in the city, but it is so much more. highway, making the lAC the city's first ing the fourth corner of each sheet of Sited on the Far West Side in Chelsea, LA building. The pedestrian experience glass to the frame that determined completed his first the ten-story billowing glass structure, is less welcoming: sheer featureless a maximum torque (up to 4 inches). which resembles a crystalline snow walls on all three street sides with a Oddly, the best place to see the effect globe by day and a Creamsicle by night, slight bulge and no signage to speak, is on the back side, where the building building in New York, is a flagship building for the booming not even an easily discernible entrance. rotates up to 150 degrees as it rises Internet company. Yet it is also a catalyst Apparently, Barry Diller, lAC's chairman unbroken from the ground up. (A zon• and it is stopping to further development in the area that and chief executive officer, was adamant ing-mandated sixth-floor setback breaks will sooner rather than later transform that no signs should mar the structure's up the volume on the front and sides.) traffic: The cluster of the neighborhood it was designed to monolithic It-ness. Bruce Mau, hired Up close, the glass surface has a busy, complement. Right now, that neighbor• to handle graphics throughout, has pulsating pattern. Clear across each sail-like forms along hood includes truck garages and storage complied with an exceedingly diffident middle section (at a point where people warehouses, a women's prison, and, aluminum bar protuberance—a kind of of average height might stand to look the Hudson River has lately, a few chic galleries. But they serve anti-marquee—over the main entrance, out), the glass then shades gradually to the lAC building well as a gritty brick on 18"' Street. opaque white due to miniscule ceramic been beguiling drivers backdrop against which its milky white In a January 11, 2006 article in The frit dots arranged in irregular waves that slopes can swell and stand out. Wall Street Journal, Diller was quoted collect at their densest at top and bottom. The setting that shows this dynamic as saying he wanted a building that was This irregular wave patterning creates a since its structure went gem off to best advantage is changing "a wondrous environment" of its own. striated look recalling a Xerox machine fast. Across narrow 19'" Street, excava• And so it comes as a surprise that the that's running out of toner ink. The glass, up. The headquarters tion is underway for 's 20- interiors—apart from a few very glitzy like the building itself, seems intended story condo that, in renderings, appears gestures—have such a scattered look. for viewing from a distance. for Barry Diller's to be encrusted in giant mirrored Post-it The flashiest feature is the 118-foot- Studios Architecture designed the notes. Immediately behind the Gehry long video wall in the lobby (one of two interiors on all the floors except the lAC/lnterActiveCorp building, 520 West Chelsea, an 11-story envisioned by Gehry and Mau and pro• sixth, where the executive offices are condo by Annabelle Selldorf, is rising duced by McCann Systems, Trollback + located. The partnership with Gehry is about to open, and with just enough space between the two, Company, and Warren Z Productions) (who was responsible for the interior of purportedly, to squeeze in a condo-cum- powered by 18 12,000-lumen projectors the lobby and the sixth floor) is a com• Julie V. lovine takes gallery in the near future by Shigeru and streaming a collage of images of patible one, marked with a predilection Ban. Other apartments by Robert A. M. flowers, client product endorsements, for bright colors, lots of patterns, and Stern and Neil Denari are also in the and art projects. The video screen "will shiny surfaces. The glass partitions a look at the city's first works well within visual encroachment be somewhere between advertising and and doors leading to the private offices range. Such an embarrassment of rich• art," said Eric Levin, an associate director on nonexecutive floors are the color of LA building. es makes one wonder if a new zoning in the company's real estate department, Tropical Fruit Lifesavers. Austin Powers- rule stipulating only one icon per block on a recent tour that included a stop orange seating pods dot the floor, and ought to be put into effect. behind the video wall to see a sound-and- supergraphics by Mau cover the elevator The lAC headquarters has a compact, light setup worthy of a Madonna tour. landing walls. Gehry installed a rug dynamic scale that more than holds The treatment of the glass curtain wall with a tiger-striped pattern in Diller's its own against the behemoth Chelsea makes for a more contemplative but no executive suite. It all screams Piers that stretches for blocks just across less technologically daring display. Much "Youth! Creativity! Energy!" which The south facade on 18th St. (left) contrasts strikingly with a the West Side Highway. The tall-ships- has been written about how the curva• could become tiresome in the long run. neighboring factory. Seen from the West Side Highway (right), ture in the glass was achieved by cold- Attempts at unifying the interior the building resembles the sails once common on the nearby at-full-sail metaphor—an incredibly Hudson. Facing page: Detail of the western facade. romantic conceit for jaded Manhattan— bending the glass on-site. Less familiar space fall flat. Each floor has a constant

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Private offices (left) have a modular aluminum-and-glass wall 8-foot wall that serves as a datum line haphazardness that comes across as If only the approach to the interiors system that can conform to the lAC's irregular angles, which to counteract ceiling heights that are the vigorous and dynamic. Here, attempts had been executed with the same spirit are the very elements Studios Architecture chose to plav up in 9'A feet on lower floors and the WA feet to tame irregularities merely look slip• of derring-do as the building itself, the common spaces and conference rooms (right). on upper floors. A plenum below each shod and fussy. For instance, columns lAC would be the wondrous object Diller floor slab is recessed from the angled along the perimeter are planted parallel intended. As is, passers-by—be they facade, creating space for a constant to the glass, meaning they tilt, some on foot or in a car, without much time to 4-foot-deep perimeter cove light, which as much as 20 degrees. Meanwhile, pick out details—are the ones who can accounts for the building's nighttime interior columns are straight but not best enjoy its considerable thrill. glow. A problem arises, however, at the arranged in any particular rhythm. They JULIE v. lOVINE IS AN-S ARCHITECTURE messy juncture of cove edge, private align instead with the columns above CRITIC. SHE CONTRIBUTES TO THE NEW YORK office clerestory, and tilted facade. and below on floor plates that are them• TIMES, ARTS CULTURE, ART REVIEW (XJK), At the Ray and Maria Stata Center at selves rotated. Trying to impose visual DEPARTURES, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS. MIT in Boston, which opened in 2004, order is a losing proposition here, and Gehry was allowed more latitude in aesthetically counterproductive. plugging things together with an ad-hoc Let creative impulses reign.

ELECTROSHADE SYSTEM very shortly, because the lAC is clearly not lAC HEADQUARTERS IN DETAIL MECHOSHADE the last building that will use twisted and torqued forms, MASHA PANTELEYEVA CURTAIN WALL CONSULTANT manually forced the fourth into place, literally This is Frank Gehry's first major glass build• AND FABRICATOR contorting the glass and metal and giving ing, and as it turns out, titanium and stainless STICK-BUILT WALL SYSTEM PERMASTEELISA lAC it's curvy looks. This puts enormous steel are a lot easier to make conform to his DIRTT ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS stress on each panel's perimeter seal, signature curves than glass panels. Although Frank Gehry's designs have often challenged so to prepare the units for cold warping, the solar shading company MechoShade Designing interiors to match a building by manufacturers and contractors to develop Permasteelisa specially designed each silicon had worked with Gehry Partners before Frank Gehry can be a daunting task. When new systems. In the case of the lAC/ seal with the glass fabricator. on projects like Bard College Performing DIRTT (Do It Right This Time) heard that InterActiveCorp headquarters' curtain This created an extremely rigid cladding Arts Center in the Hudson Valley and the much of the budget for the lAC building was wall, Gehry Partners and building envelope system that required construction tolerances Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, devoted to the facade, and that the custom engineer/manufacturer Permasteelisa much smaller than most contractors are "The lAC building literally presented us with scheme by STUDIOS architecture (the firm collaborated using a centralized 3D computer used to working within. According to a new twist," said company vice president in charge of the interiors) was prohibitively model to accomplish everything from the Alberto Gobbi, president of Permasteelisa, Glen Berman. expensive, the 2-year-old Canadian company design and fabrication of its panel shapes the curtain wall had only % inch of flub More than three-quarters of the unitized pitched its Stick-built modular wall system to the positioning of its anchoring system. room, whereas the concrete frame could be glass panels that make up the lAC's cladding to the construction manager. The Stick Unlike a rectilinear building whose expected to vary an inch in any direction from have a compound curve, so standard roller Built walls not only conform to the irregular curtain wall units are by and large identical, the idealize model. To address this issue, shades would never match both the window shapes dictated by Gehry's design and skinning lAC required a variety of panel Permasteelisa designed a special anchoring head and sill. In order to conform to the maintain STUDIO'S vibrant color scheme but shapes to form a tight wrapper for the system that could absorb tolerances building's irregular geometry, MechoShade they also fit the budget. "It saved them a ton design's billowing sail-like forms. The between frame and curtain wall. Composed (with the support of Studios Architecture) of money," said Akua Lesesne. The savings designers determined the shape of each of horizontal and vertical aluminum brackets, created more than one thousand custom- stem from the modular nature of the walls, panel on the model and then fed this data the anchors bolt to the slab edge and can twisted shades, all individually motorized. which are essentially a lattice of steel frames directly into an automated fabrication process slide three dimensionally until the connection "By modifying the system's hardware, into which DIRTT's or locally-sourced glass that cut the aluminum and glass. Of the point is reached. To find the connection we were able to twist the shades up to 30 can be installed. Lesesne said that unlike 1,450 curtain wall units, 1,150 are unique. point, Permasteelisa's survey team used the degrees, matching and exceeding the slight custom work, the Stick-Built Walls eliminate Permasteelisa manufactured the panels 3D model in conjunction with a GPS system twist of lAC glass panels," said Berman. "We the waste and time of cutting and disposing flat, but once on site, bent them into place, in and lasers to triangulate the exact location. developed an innovative technology for of glass on-site, or shipping it from the fac• a process called cold warping. Installers con• AARON SEWARD these types of structures." Berman hopes tory, both of which save time, money, and nected three corners of each unit first then that the new system will be ready for market the environment, MATT CHABAN lu in

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Wood Auditorium 113 Avery Hall 31-10 Thomson Ave., 530 West 22nd St. 113 Avery Hall www.arch.columbia.edu Long Island City www.sikkemajenkinsco.com www.arch.columbia.edu www.aiany.org Shaun Donovan, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alex Katz David Burney Richard Meier, Paul Alexander Calder, Donald 6:30 p.m. New Housing New York Rosenblatt, Nicholas Judd, Bruce Nauman, Parsons the New School 6:00 p.m. Koutsomitis, Gerry Gurland, Pipilotti Rist, Piotr Uklanski, for Design Center for Architecture Annette Blaugrund etal. Tishman Auditorium 536 LaGuardia PL Arthur Rosenblatt The Shapes of Space 66 West 12th St. www.aiany.org Memorial Lecture Solomon R. 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and articles about New an industrial designer who Canaan modern houses worked for Noyes during from the late 1940s to the mid- the last decade of his career, 1950s, and informal glimpses interviewed many of his con• of the Noyes office in the temporaries. Their remem• 1960s. Bruce tracked down brances flesh out our views of Noyes' work for Cummins Noyes and how he interacted Engine and shows that with his peers. Cummins chairman J. Irwin What is puzzling is that the Miller, patron of architecture publisher, Phaidon, invested in Columbus, Indiana, com• in such gorgeous design and missioned Noyes to design superb illustrations, but did engines and an airplane inte• not give equal attention on rior at the same time. the editing. There are some Tracing two intertwined confusing captions, incom• themes, Bruce finds a way plete footnotes, and images to connect what appear to that are never discussed in be discreet aspects of Noyes' the text. But these errors are life. He makes the point that forgivable in the face of such NOYES the Bauhaus-oriented archi• a wealth of information on a tectural education at Harvard undervalued master.

was a constant guide for how SUSAN C. SOLOMON, THE AUTHOR Noyes advocated the use of OF LOUIS I. KAHM'5 TRENTON MAKER design to orchestrate a total JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER environment. By presenting AND AMERICAN RLA YGROUNDS: REVrTALIZING COMMUNITY SPACE, Eliot Noyes his subject as an influential IS PRESIDENT OF CURATORIAL Gordon Bruce transmitter of Bauhaus ideas RESOURCES £ RESEARCH. , $75.00 to general and corporate audiences, Bruce sets the A full-scale plaster model of Noyes' Iconic Selectric stage for the argument that typewriter (above left), which he was a natural educator. he designed in 1961, is in his shots of Noyes' exhibits, Gordon Bruce's new book sertation ("The Redesign of family is currently seeking the Noyes exercised this passion family archive, as is his cover on the architect Eliot Noyes Design," , best way to ensure the house including 1940's Useful in such unexpected venues design for the catalogue (below) provides a comprehensive 2006) that contains informa• will remain intact and possibly Objects of American Design as the educational TV show of Organic Design In Home overview of his multidimen• tion on Noyes' innovative available to the public.) Under $10and the landmark Omnibus and in his interac• Furnishings, an exhibition he mounted at MoMA in 1941. sional career and arrives at work for IBM. William D. Eads' By showcasing other facets Organic Design in Home tions with IBM president an excellent moment. Noyes handsome book. The Harvard of Noyes' accomplishments, Furnishings he mounted the Thomas Watson, Jr., whom he • had extraordinarily varied Five in New Canaan (Norton, Bruce expands our knowledge following year. When Noyes convinced that good design talents that included every• 2006), documents some of midcentury modernism. became an architecture critic could be beneficial for business, thing from residential archi• of Noyes' domestic efforts He illuminates how Noyes' at Yale in 1948, he applied tecture and curatorial work to along with those of his fellow early career, particularly the some of his MoMA strategies The text is largely an anno• industrial and graphic design. Harvard-educated colleagues three years when he was the to the Yale Art Gallery. Bruce tation to Noyes' own words • 1^ 1 Recent scholarly research and including , first director of the Industrial includes marvelous photo• from lectures, speeches, and publications for a broad audi• Landis Gores, John Johansen, Design Department at the graphs of Modern Design: The letters, and so provides a ence have tended to focus and . In August Museum of Modern Art Search for Appropriate Form, clear picture of the designer's thoughts. Since the Noyes on a single aspect of Noyes' 2006, Alexandra Lange wrote (1940-1946, interrupted by a 1949 exhibit in New Haven. family currently retains its achievements, which is why a highly informative and military service), shaped There are many other visual own private archive, Bruce's this book is such a welcome comprehensive article for American perceptions of mod• delights in this book. Among book offers many extraordi• volume for those who have Metropolis magazine on the ernism and had a profound them are personal photos of nary examples of primary always admired him. John uncertain future of Noyes' effect on Noyes' own profes• Noyes' 1935 trip to Persepolis material that is not yet Harwood, who teaches at own house, which was com• sional trajectory. Bruce pres• and a return visit in 1972, available elsewhere. Bruce, % 1 Oberlin College, wrote a dis• pleted in 1955. (The Noyes ents wonderful installation reprints of house tour guides

ance, and opportunity, they can also breed insight that participatory forms of government poverty limits one's freedoms. As one person poverty, exploitation, and social fragmenta• foster healthy and vibrant urban environments. noted after his lecture, how can one exercise DEMOCRACY tion. Appeal to self-interest works when short- He is also right to note that the concept of one's freedom if one does not have access to term individual needs are concerned, but not democratic urbanism—so closely associated food or shelter? In his lecture. Sen also did not AND THE CITY when it comes to constructing social policy. with the Greek po//s—is not a uniquely define sufficiently what tolerance can mean As Sen argues in Development as Freedom European phenomenon. Under Cyrus, the in practice, which is an important question The Urbanity of Calcutta (Anchor, 2000), the "market mechanism is Persians produced the first known human in the light of critiques of tolerance that have Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism, geared to private goods (like apples and shirts), rights document; the Indus basin gave rise to been leveled by such figures as Jacques City College of New York rather than to public goods (like the malaria- some of the earliest expressions of systematic Derrida. Tolerance is a great ideal, but in prac• March 12 free environment)." Capitalism only func• town planning; Islamic scholars of the Arab tice it often rests on facile notions of identity tions effectively when the use of markets is Near East did more to cultivate humanism than and cultural difference that exclude as much What role do freedom and human rights have coupled with "freedoms of other kinds (dem• any other civilization during the Middle Ages. as include. I have no doubt that Professor to play in global capitalism? This is the depar• ocratic rights, security guarantees, opportuni• Finally, and most importantly. Sen offers an Sen would agree: As he put it in a fascinating ture point for Nobel Prize-winning economist ties of cooperation, and so on)." alternative to the prevailing market funda• question and answer session the next day, Amartya Sen, who delivered the Lewis In his lecture, "The Urbanity of Calcutta," mentalist attitudes toward planning and social the true objects of his criticism are the theses Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at The City Sen argued that the continued vibrancy of change, which have had an indelible affect of those like Samuel Huntington, whose College of New York earlier this month. The cities such as Calcutta rests on their long-stand• on architects and designers over the last half- Clash of Civilizations (Simon & Schuster, series, initiated by Michael Sorkin and CCNY's ing traditions of tolerance and social diversity. decade. One of the dominant themes in Bruce 1996) argued that cultures can be reduced Graduate Program in Urban Design, invites As a port city, Calcutta has been an active Mau's Massive Change (Phaidon, 2004), for to immutable essences, and that the essences leading intellectuals and activists to speak player in global trade since at least the 2"" example, is the view that for-profit entrepre- of Western and Islamic cultures are distinct. about the city's relationship to social and century B.C.E. It enjoys a high level of social neurialism is more adept at tackling issues Nonetheless, if transcending stereotypical political life. stability and freedom despite its exceedingly of sustainability and social awareness than notions of identity is Sen's goal, it would be fruitful to consider new strategies for under• Sen is an economics professor at Harvard high poverty rate because it is an inclusive public agencies, civic bodies, and nonprofit standing cultural difference that get beyond University whose recent research focuses society that allows its people, men and women institutions. such problematic terms as "tolerance." on the intersection between philosophy, eco• alike, to participate in the city's affairs. By Having said that. Sen's theories about

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