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HOK-LED TEAM WINS COMMISSION 00 3EACHES, GLASS PAVILIONS, AN 03 TO DESIGN KANSAS CITY ARENA I- TIAL TOWERS ARE PART OF THE z L.E.S.' FIRST HOME TEAM LU BOUTIQUE HOTEL O 04 WINS, GEHRY O PELLI GOES SCI-FI GOES DOWN 08 After an out-and-out battle over the com• THE NEW mission for the new downtown Kansas COLLABORATIVE City Arena, a team of Kansas City-based firms, the Downtown Arena Design Team, SPIRIT consisting of HOK Sport+Venue+Event, Ellerbe Beckett, and 360 Architects rT beat Frank 0. Gehry and Associates HUXTABLE ON with Crawford Architects in the city-run R WRIGHT design competition. While the HOK team submitted a preliminary design for the 14 SHOPTALK bond-funded $250 million project, Gehry s LAIM 15 CLASSIFIEDS team did not. HOK's round glassy design promises to take advantage of the arena's waterfront site, thereby contributing to Care for a stroll under FDR Drive to a .sandy Manhattan Bridge. The plan aims to bring the area's revitalization. beach beneath the Brooklyn Bridge? This the public to this long abandoned area by The fight between the two teams got bucolic scene is just one of the possibilities recormecting it to the city under FDR Drive, ugly in mid-September when both were for the future of the East River waterfront if the elevated highway completed in 1955."We quoted in the Kansas continued on paqe 3 SHoP Architects, Richard Rogers Partnership, want to knit the waterfront to the existing and Ken Smith Landscape Architect get their urban fabric,"said SHoP's Gregg Pasquarelli. way. The team's urban design plan, now up The design team has been working for for consideration by the city, was commis• seven months on its two-phased propo.sal. sioned by the New York City Department The plan's first or "foundation" phase pro• of City Planning under Mayor Michael R. poses small scale, quickly built projects like Bloomberg's 2002 Vision for 21" Century eight 8,000-square-foot glass pavilions built Lower Manhattan initiative. If built, the directly beneath FDR Drive. The pavilions project will link Battery Park to the existing would house cultural, community, and com• Ea.st River Park situated to the north of the mercial facilities, literally continued on paqe 2

GETTY GRANTS SUPPORT PRESERVATION OF EERO SAARINEN'S LEGACY TRUSTEE DECRIES "LAMPS MADE OUT OF MELTED POLYSTYRENE CUPS" MASQUERADING AS DESIGN Saarinen Revived DYSON RESIGNS IN PROTEST On September 28, as the remnants of traveling exhibit, which will open at the JuanValdez Hurricane Jeanne pelted New York City, more Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki Citing his frustration that London's Design than 150 people crowded into the Kaufmann in 2006 and close in 2010 at Yale University, Museum now privileges flashy styling Conference Center—commissioned by Saarinen's alma mater. The Finnish Cultural and fashion over substance, James Dyson Edgar J. Kaufmann and designed by Alvar Institute in New York is also a collaborator has resigned from the board of trustees of Cafe Opens Aalto in 1964 for the Institute of International on the project. London's Design Museum. With his depar• Education—to witness the launch of Eero Saarinen, an expressive and at times ture, Dyson, an inventor and designer who Juan Valdez and his donkey have arrived: Saarinen: Shaping Postwar Culture, a multi- controversial architect who died in 1961 of is best known for his continued on paqe 2 The face of the ponchoed character who year, multi-pronged project to reintroduce a brain tumor, never lived to see his great• 1 has represented the National Federation the mid-century master to critical and pop• est works—the TWA terminal at JFK, Dulles of Colombian Coffee Growers (NFCCG) ular audiences. The effort, funded in part Airport, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis— since the 1960s is emblazoned above an by a Getty Foundation grant, will include completed. Because of that, organizers say, eponymous new cafe on 57'" Street in a complete catalogue of Saarinen's work, he wasn't around to defend his work from Manhattan. The cafe, which opened on a documentary film, a symposium, and a his critics and was soon continued on paqe 4 September 29, represents the efforts of the NFCCG to develop new markets for its coffee beans, and is the second of 300 such shops to be built across the country. I The Manhattan firm Hariri & Hariri Architects designed the cafe, which is as contemporary as its fictional namesake is rustic. A stainless steel mesh scrim covers the middle three stories of the fagade, and has the etched image of the Valdez and donkey logo. The storefront itself features a modish teak wrapper continued on paqe 2 CO f\J 3 O LU

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CO In The Fountainhead, Howard Roark defends his decision to Diana Darling on In our article in Issue 16_ 10.5.2004 announcing blow up Cortlandt Homes, a low-cost federal housing project the AIA-NY 2004 award winners, the Daiki EDITORS o Theme Park should have been credited to Ga A Cathy Lang Ho h- he agreed to design with a fellow architect, condemning his Architects, Mass Studies, and Slade Architecture. William Menking M collaborator as a"second-hander"and claiming "no work is ever ART DIRECTOR done collectively, by a majority decision." He goes on to orate: Martin Perrin LU "Every creative job is achieved under the guidance of a single

SENIOR EDITOR individual thought. An architect requires a great many men to EAST RIVER WATERFRONT RECLAIMED Anne Guiney erect his building. But he does not ask them to vote on his continued from front page ASSOCIATE EDITOR lighting up the highway's dark underbelly and Deborah Grossberg design... An architect uses steel, glass, concrete, produced by other. But the materials remain just so much steel, glass and pulling pedestrians across the barrier to the ADVERTISING SALES waterfront. Further small-scale interventions Jonathan Chaffin concrete until he touches them." include the planting of 1,000 beech trees on MEDIA ECOLOOIST Roark (or author Ayn Rand) may speak for those who believe a 27-foot-wide median connecting a new Keith Janies architecture to be a solitary profession. But architecture is waterfront esplanade to Chinatown along Pike Street. The plan also calls for several EDITORIAL INTERN collaborative from creation to reception, and defies the roman• Gunnar Hand tide pools to be cut into the waterfront and tic conception of the architect as artist—itself a relatively a reflecting pool at Peck's Slip, replicating the MARKETING INTERN Olga Korol modern idea, born with the compartmentalization of the field's shape of the historic inlet. Since presenting increasingly complex areas of knowledge. Turn-of-the-century this initial phase to Community Boards 1 and MEDIA CONSULTANT 3 last spring, the architects have moved ahead Paul Beatty architect Richard Morris Hunt famously like to dressed as the 13''^ century Florentine artist Cimabue while H. H. Richardson on developing their design. The second pha.se of the plan includes larg• liked clients to think of him a palette-wielding artist, flaunting er gestures. The team hopes to build a series his impracticality while employees in his office pounded out of slender glass towers over the expressway drawings. McKim, Mead and White were perhaps the first to just south of Fulton Street. The service cores understand the division of labor that architectural practice and piers of these buUdings would occupy the CONTRIBUTORS space between tlie highway's two roadbeds. PHILIPPE BARRIERE/ARIC CHEN/ requires. While McKim and White were out front—McKim These towers would be residential units, MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL / the hard-nosed businessman and White the artistic playboy— JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/JAMES PETO/ generating funds to finance this new ribbon LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/KESTER RATTENBURY/ Mead was in back, running the office. of open space. Though slim, the towers will D.GRAHAME SHANE/PETER SLATIN / still block some river views but the architects GWEN WRIGHT / ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER The collaborations that Andrew Yang describes in his feature ("The New, True Spirit," page 8) seem to suggest that designers believe that the area's renewed vitality would more than compensate for the lo.st views. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD are engaging m new model of working, coming together as PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ In October, the design team presented phase M. CHRISTINE BOYER / PETER COOK / equal creative leads. This trend has everything to do with the two to Community Boards 1 and 3, and are WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ growing impulse to brand projects, with celebrity architects awaiting recommendations from these and SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / lending political clout and even financial feasibility to projects other interested organizations. The final plan HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ JOAN OCKMAN / of ever-growing complexity and ambition. The difficulty of should be presented to the public next KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ February, WILLIAM MENKING TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN building in New York has made the city an incubator for this new mode of practice (World Trade Center, NYC2012, the High GENERAL INFORMATION: INFO(?>ARCHPAPER.COM EDITORIAL; [email protected] Line), and the trend is spreading, as Los Angeles' recent Grand graphics, but the general theme would remain DIARY: OlARYdiARCHPAPER.COM Avenue competition demonstrates. the same. In the last 18 months, however, ADVERTISING: [email protected] there has been a complete change of direction. SUBSCRIPTION: [email protected] The popularity of collaborations today points to an awareness It became style over substance." PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOU ARE RECEIVING that architecture's related disciplines—engineering, urban plan• While Rawsthorn has not publicly discussed DUPLICATE COPIES. ning, landscape architecture, et cetera—have grown so far apart the situation, the Design Museum has released a statement tlianking Dyson for his THE VIEWS or CUB REVIEWERS AND COLUMNISTS 00 NOT that it's impossible for any single designer to master all the skills NECESSARILY REfLECT THOSE OF THE STAFF OH ADVISORS OF role as trustee and chairman. The exhibitions THE ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER. that were once more integrated. This new collaborative spirit Rawsthorn has developed for the museum VOLUME 02 ISSUE 17. OCTOBER 19, 2004 points to a desire to bring these diverse arts together again. The since her arrival in 2001 often take a broad THE AKCHirtCrS WEWSPAPfHdSSN I3S2-60BII IS PUBLISHED 20 TIMES A YEAH, BY THC ARCHITECTS HEWSPAPtB. LLC. P.O. BOX 937. NEW YORK. 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The disagreement has been brewing for some JUAN VALDEZ CAFE OPENS continued from DYSON RESIGNS IN PROTEST continued time. Dyson said that when Rawsthorn took front page that folds around to become floor, from front page eponymous line of bagless over, she shut down the curatorial committee wall, and ceiling, and holds a bar and stools vacuum cleaners, has made his disagree• and did not allow trustees to make any signifi• that look out onto the sidev\/alk. Inside, ments with the museum's director Alice cant decisions about the mu.seum's curatorial a glistening white wall bulges out here and Rawsthom very, very public. His arguments direction. As the exhibition .schedule grew there to create seats for coffee drinkers. The are not personal, he said, nor is he looking more modish and less focu.sed on process and wall, which is made out of styrene, was hand for Rawsthorn's ouster: "Alice is very intel• problem solving, he says that he tried to discuss cut into shape, treated with a urethane ligent, very energetic, and has enormous the problem with Rawsthorn, with no results. hardener, and then assembled on site. enthusiasm for her work" Dyson, who had His first shot over the bow took the form of a "Starbucks owns the market," said part• been a trustee since 1997, and the chairman piece published on June 12 in the Times of for the last five years, says that the problem ner Gisue Hariri, "but the NFCCG doesn't London in which he wrote, "Sadly, nowhere is that the curatorial direction of the muse• is the mentality of style over sub.stance more want to be like Starbucks. They are more um has strayed far beyond its original focus evident than in the curators' choice of exhibi• interested in creating environments that, on industrial design. tions at the Design Mu.seum, of which I am like European cafes, are centers for their chairman— It focuses less on industrial communities." These cafes also give back "[Sir Terence] Conran founded the design and more on iconography." Wliile the to their own communities: For each cup of museum 15 years ago with the intent of piece caused a stir, his resignation has caused coffee sold at a Juan Valdez cafe, NFCCG focusing on industrial design and the man• Juan Valdez Cafe combines adventurous an uproar, and some members of the British growers receive approximately 4 to 5 cents, design with socially responsibility ufactured object," .said Dyson. "Occasionally, design press have been questioning the muse• which is well above the industry standard there would be lighter shows, or ones on um's future. AG of 1 cent. ANNE GUINEY other disciplines such as architecture or CO 3 O

Marcel Wanders designed the FOUR YEARS IN THE MAKING, THE HOTEL hotel's first-floor restaurant and lounge; pictured is the FOR ART'S SAKE! ON RIVINGTON SET TO OPEN IN DECEMBER "Eggtrance," a large-scale Stanford University is sure on top of the latest social trends. Now that things extrapolation of his famous like civil liberties and secularism have gone the way of pashmina shawls (Why Egg Vase do so many of you still insist on wearing those? That was, like, literally eight seasons ago! Buy a jacket!), it seems university president John L. Hennessy service core pre-established. has decided to throw out artistic freedom, too. As reported earlier this month in Their biggest challenge, CL several West Coast papers, Hennessy has vetoed a planned outdoor sculpture by according to Grzywinski, O artist Dennis Oppenheim that had been approved by his own Panel on Outdoor was changing the building's Art. The 22-foot-high work, appropriately entitled Dev/ce Jo Root Out Evil, envelope to glass, which the takes the form of an inverted church with its steeple staked into the ground. architects thought would CO better exploit the fact that LU "This work frightened the university's conservative element, and the President's Office made a decision based on what the reaction might be," Oppenheim said the building has no tall > in a statement. "This is the first time that a sculpture was ever rejected by the neighbors and thus no L

CONNECTICUT THE LATEST TO USE EMINENT has been used primarily in DOMAIN FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT situations of extreme urban HOME TEAM WINS, GEHRY GOES DOWN Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes, countered blight or to make way for continued from front page City Star as that there was no such precedent. "It was public transportation proj• accusing each other of designing drab, the first stage of our contract negotiations, ects. The September ruling monotonous architecture. In a September so it was closed to secure the firms' propri• enacts the city's power to 12 Sfarstory, Gehry was quoted as describ• etary information. After the initial private Expanded seize private property that ing HOK's work as "cookie-cutter." In the meeting, we provided public question-and- stands in the way of eco• same article, Brad Schrock, lead designer of answer sessions." nomic development. the HOK team, shot back by calling Gehry's But many interested citizens saw the clo• The plaintiffs have work repetitive: "It's a simple drum with his sure of the meeting as an attempt to subdue Domain appealed the ruling, and 'stuff' attached to one end ... A leafy salad the media circus surrounding the teams' the United States Supreme attached to one side." rivalry. City officials were quoted in the Sfar In late September, the hood. The city invoked emi• Court accepted the case. As tensions heightened between the two as saying that if the hearings were made Connecticut Supreme Court nent domain to seize the If the Connecticut decision teams, even the Sfarjoined the fray. On public, the selection committee might have ruled four to three in favor property. In response, seven stands, a new national September 28, in a widely criticized county to "dumb down" their questions in order of the city of New London residents of 13 parcels of precedent could be set. court ruling, the press was shut out of the to appear tactful in direct view of the media. to proceed with the devel• land in Fort Trumbull sued At this point, only six other city's final candidate review meeting, enrag• Even the architects weighed in on the issue. opment of a 90-acre multi- the city, claiming improper states allow the power of ing the newspaper. The Sfarargued that "The Gehry camp also wanted closed doors," use waterfront complex use of the law. eminent domain to be used under Missouri's Sunshine Law, an act that said Glorioso, "though the HOK team left for economic development: the decision in the hands of the court." including a hotel, an office Federal law states that sets standards for public participation and Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, building, a museum, and eminent domain can be used transparency in government operations, the The project will break ground in the Minnesota, New York, and a park to replace the city's for reasons of health, safety, selection meeting should have been open to spring and is slated for completion in 2007. North Dakota, CM the public. Steve Glorioso, spokesman for Fort Trumbull neighbor• or welfare. Historically, it GUNNAR HAND 00 Nt 3 O LU

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The design brings sense of excitement to the street In this 1959 photo of Saarinen and a model of the Yale campus, he is pointing to the Morse College and In Pelli's plan, striking recti• Ezra Stiles College, which he designed. linear forms hover above a glassed-in "museum on the street." a gesture to open the museum's experience to passersby. A six-story central glass atrium topped with a cantilevered roof is flanked on the north by an opaque boxy gallery sheathed in a 50-by- 60-foot LED screen showing flashy scientific images and LOCAL OFFICE WINS INTERNATIONAL movies. To the south, a cut• COMPETITION away glass enclosure accom• modates a greenhouse.The CESAR PELLI TO DESIGN building's opposite facade looks out over the Connecticut HARTFORD SCIENCE CENTER river, with a glass observation deck sloped inward to avoid New Haven-based Cesar Pelli of science—architecture," exposure to direct sun. "The & Associates beat out three said Chen/I A. Chase, chair north and south exhibit wings other firms—Zaha Hadid of the selection committee, have been shaped to have bold Architects, Moshe Safdie and which was advised by Robert profiles, while being sensitive Associates, and Behnisch, A. M. Stern and Ken Greenberg. to their solar orientations," Behnisch, & Partner—^to win The center's programming said Pelli. SAARINEN REVIVED ings, an effort that often donation, though not yet the competition to design the will cover biology, chemistry, Raul Barreneche, editor of continued from front page meant digging files and incorporated into the exist• new Connecticut Center for physics, earth, and space the recently published Pelli relegated to second-class correspondence out of attic ing archives, is already Science & Exploration (CTCSE), science, and emphasize inter• monograph Sections Through status by the onslaught of corners. "I concurred with being used by Yale profes• a $100 million museum to activity with displays like a a Practice (Hatje Cantz), said, postmodernism. Shaping Kevin that it would be a wise sors and students, noted be built in the heart of down• forensics lab and installations "Pelli's work has been moving Postwar Culture hopes to idea. That way the materials Robert A. M. Stern, dean of town. The competition was on light, sound, and motion. in a new direction. As younger change that. would stay in New Haven. the Yale School of judged on the basis of prelimi• "The building itself will act people in the firm take on more "Saarinen was one of the And the technology and Architecture and keynote nary designs as well as firm as an exhibit on sustainable responsibility, the designs are most unorthodox, popular, space existed at the speaker atthe project launch. credentials. "The selection design." said CTCSE spokes• getting more formally inventive." prolific architects of the 20"' archives." "Quite a few seminars are already using the drawings," process, especially the well woman Christine Moses. The design will be complet• century, and yet 50 years The project coincides with he said. "There will also be attended public presentations, "We're aiming for a minimum ed in 2005, with groundbreak• later, we only know four or a newfound appreciation of an informal showcurated had the added benefit of LEED rating of silver." CTCSE ing planned for the fall of that five of his buildings," said Saarinen by both academics by five students in the exciting our community about will announce an RFP for exhi• year It is scheduled to open Donald Albrecht, who is and practicing architects. Manuscripts and Archives one of the great applications bition design this fall. in 2007 DEBORAH GROSSBERG co-curating the project with Whereas 20 years ago no Gallery in the spring." Yale School of Architecture one would admit to even professor Eeva-Liisa liking Saarinen, today both Spring will also see the Pelkonen. "The goal of the emerging and established Saarinen symposium, to show is to reveal the full Seventy-nine-year-old German architect and structural engineer Frei Otto architects—most notably be held at Yale in early April. extent of his work and to won the 2005 Royal Gold Medal, presented by the Royal Institute of Santiago Calatrava—cite Of particular interest is the put it in the cultural context O British Architects. him as a major influence on decision to have venerable of the 1950s." their work. architectural historian and James Carpenter, innovative glass sculptor, engineer, designer, and presi• The project got its impe• "There are two things at critic Vincent Scully give the dent of James Carpenter Design Associates, was named a 2004 MacArthur tus from the 2002 donation work," said Papademetriou. keynote speech. Scully, after I all, was one of Saarinen's Fellow. The "genius" award is accompanied by a no-strings-attached of several hundred boxes of "One is a kind of accepting most vociferous critics, $500,000 grant, paid in quarterly installments over five years. Saarinen's papers and view of eclecticism and declaring soon after the drawings to Yale by Kevin visual metaphor. The other architect's death that he rep• The National Trust for Historic Preservation picked Susan Reynolds, a recent Roche John Dinkeloo and is a tolerance and reconsti- resented everything that was graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the first Associates, whose offices tution of modernism. I am wrong with American archi• Robert Siiman Fellow for Preservation Engineering. are also in New Haven. Both struck by, over the last half tecture. Whether Scully has Roche and Dinkeloo worked decade, the reappearance of changed his mind since then On September 22, the International Association for Bridge and Structural under Saarinen, and they Saarinen furniture and archi• inherited his office—and all is a question sure to be on Engineering presented its 2004 Outstanding Structure Award to Santiago tecture in popular imagery." the materials it contained— everyone's mind, CLAY RISEN Calatrava for his 2001 expansion of the Milwaukee Art Museum. The Roche Dinkeloo after his death. A separate Getty Foundation grant The Whitney Museum of American Art announced the 2004 participants in will fund the archiving of its Architecture and Urban Studies Program: Sarina Basta, Jacqueline Miro- the materials, which join an Abreu, Lize Mogel, Graham Parker, and Paul Schuette. already extensive collection "Saarinen was one of at Yale's Manuscripts and The AIA New York State chapter gave City College of New York architecture Archives department. the most unorthodox, professor Lance Brown the 2004 President's Award, and Der Scutt Architect a citation in design from the organization for its fagade restoration of 381 "Kevin Roche felt nervous. popular, prolific architects Park Avenue South. He's 82 years old now. He was concerned that there of the 20*^ century, Edward A. Feiner, chief architect of the GSA, Bruce S. Fowie, principal of Fox be a home for the materials & FowIe Architects, Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of the City University in the long term," said Peter and yet 50 years later, of New York, and Patricia J. Lancaster, commissioner of New York City's Papademetriou, a professor Department of Buildings were honored by the AIA New York and the New of architecture at the New York Foundation for Architecture at the 2004 Heritage Ball in October. Jersey School of Architecture we only know four or who is working on a critical biography of Saarinen five of his buildings," and has spent more than SUBSCRIBED ARCH PAPER.COM 20 years cataloguing Roche said Donald Albrecht. Dinkeloo's Saarinen hold• in O

LETTER DATED AUGUST 30,2004, FROM FORMER NYC LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSIONER ANTHONY M. TUNG TO CURRENT LANDMARKS CHAIR ROBERT B. TIERNEY

Dear Chairman Tierney,

I write in behalf of calendaring a designation hearing on Two Columbus Circle. A designation I do not support - in relation to the architectural aesthetics of the edifice. But a hearing whose absence damages the name of the commission for responsible governance.

Simply, in the 26 years of my involvement in preservation matters, beginning with my appointment as a commissioner by Mayor Edward I. Koch in 1979, I have never seen the commission turn its back on such a widely supported and substantive argument for a hearing.

Myriad established experts and many hundreds of New Yorkers think this structure, located at one of the city's most important crossroads, should be considered for official protection. For several years they have sought to make this case to you in a duly constituted meeting. On the public record. Before the building is destroyed. Before the eleventh hour.

Yet the commission has not consented to listen. Is the judgment of the agency, of its staff and commissioners, so inflexible that a different opinion can't be considered? No matter how well founded that different opinion might be?

The express purpose of the Landmarks Law was to create a participatory forum in which New York could weight its communal welfare. That we might benefit from our assembled intelligence. Because the issues that come before you frequently involve complex qualitative findings subject to changing cultural perceptions.

In that regard, the collective scholarly knowledge of those who defend Two Columbus Circle is far in excess of any equitable test for calendaring. In fact, a sizeable percentage of the protected structures of New York, several thousand buildings, fail to have had been as thoroughly validated upon designation.

Taking into account the membership of the advisory panels of these organizations, the proponents for a designation hearing includes an assembly of distinguished scholars, distinguished architects, distinguished New Yorkers, distinguished Americans—many of these the same individuals whose testimony forms the basis in reason for countless other Landmarks Commission rulings.

Have all of these people suddenly grown ignorant? Entered senility? Gone blind? Or is the commission being arbitrary and capricious?

A Few of the Individuals in Support of a Hearing for Two Columbus Circle: • Robert A.M. Stem Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, author of NY 1880. NY 1900. NY 1930 and NY 1960 • J. Carter Brown former Director of the National Gallery of Art and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts • Barry Bergdoll Chair of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology • Wrtold Rybc2ynski Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, author of City Life • Giorgio Cavaglieri award-winning New York-based conservation architect • Tom WoHe author of From Bauhaus to Our House • Elliott Sclar Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation • Thomas Mellins author of Gotham Restored; and co-author New York 1930 and New York 1960 • Stanislaus von Moos Professor of Art History at Zurich University author of Le Corbusier • Dr. Jeffrey Kroessler author of New York. Year By Year • Herbert Muschamp architectural critic for the New York Times • Kyle Normandin President, Northeast Chapter of the Association for Preservation Technology • Michael Sorkin Contributing Editor of Architectural Record and Metropolis • James Zemaitis Director of Sotheby's 20th Century Design Department

A Few of the Organizations in Support of a Hearing for Two Columbus Circle: • NationalTrust for Historic Preservation: which has declared 2CC one of the "11 Most Endangered Historic Places" in the United States • Preservation League of New York State • Municipal Art Society of New York • Historic Districts Council of New York • Hne Arts Federation of New York • Women's City Club of New York • New York Landmarks Conservancy • LANDMARK WEST! • Coalition for a Lroable Westside • DOCOMOMO US

As a student of international urban preservation, it is my understanding that in contemporary democratic societies, by legal definition, landmarks are those structures protected forever by the reasoned consent of a city's inhabitants. But how may such reasoning occur when government rejects responsible debate?

At some point in the evolution of this matter, as the list of scholars and experts continued to mount, the Commission's refusal to calendar a hearing could no longer be convincingly ascribed to a difference of judgment, or deafness - but began to border on misfeasance. It is a fundamental statutory obligation that the Landmarks Preservation Commission not evade timely discussion of creditable and broadly supported candidates for designation.

Please reconsider your position.

Respectfully, Anthony M. Tung

A "Silent Mqlority" of over 1,000 individuals wants a public hearing for 2 Columbus Circle! The failure of the NYC landmarks Preservation Commission (IPC) to hold a put>iic liearing to consider designating 2 Columbus Circle as an official Landmark places this 1964 building designed by pioneer Modernist architect Edward Dureii Stone in clear and present danger. The Museum of Arts and Design plans to strip and gut the building as soon as they obtain titie from the City. Milll This could happen at any time.

Silent no morel Help us urge the U>C to schedule a public hearing. Send emails or faxes TODAY to the important contacts below. Tell them that 2 Columbus Circle, whether you love it or hate it, deserves the chance for survhral tfwt a fair and due process is supposed to provide.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg - go to http://nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html and enter your message, or 212-788-2460 (fax) LPC Chair Robert B. Tiemey - [email protected], 212-669-7955 (fax) Council IMember Gale A. Brewer - [email protected], 212-513-7717 (fax) MAO Director Holly Hotchner - [email protected], 212-459-0926 (faxi

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LU MORE THAN ZERO cost per square foot of the average HUD REFORMULATES HOUSING SUBSIDIES HUD subsidies were mostly luxury tower in New York, though On October 6, Larry Silverstein restored—set at 97 percent inside sources were quoted in China's agreed to pay Daniel Libeskind a set• of 2004 rent levels—which Economic Observer as saying the tlement of $370,000 for Libeskind's HOUSING TAKES means that the New York actual figure is nearly double that < work on the Freedom Tower through City Housing Authority LU estimate due to a higher earthquake 2003, putting to rest the suit brought It has been a turbulent yearfor a line item to completely and the Department of proofing requirement. by Libeskind against Silverstein three the Department of Housing change the housing assis• Housing Development months ago. The settlement splits the and Urban Development tance program, known as and Preservation are now difference between Sllverstein's origi• HIGH ROLLING (HUD). With war-related Section 8 vouchers. The receiving a combined nal offer of $225,000 and Libeskind's HIGH LINE commitments helping to budget called for the current amount of $52.1 million for push the 2005 federal budget funding level for Section 8 vouchers in the New York $843,750 demand. Said Libeskind, On October 6, Mayor Michael deficit to $521 billion, the vouchers to be reduced City region. "I am pleased that we have put these Bloomberg announced a $27.5 million Bush Administration began by$1 billion while simulta• HUD also announced a issues behind us so that we can move increase in the city's funding commit• to look for savings at home, neously rolling it into a new reformulation of the Fair forward without distraction on the ment for the planned conversion of and HUD programs were flexible voucher program. Market Rent (FMR) rate. The critical tasks ahead." the L5-mile elevated rail running among the domestic agen• The flexible voucher pro• FMR is the amount of money through the Meatpacking District, cies identified for significant gram would turn Section 8 that would cover rent plus West Chelsea, and Hudson Yards into TERMINAL cuts. HUD itself also pro• into a block grant to local vital utilities on 40 percent a public park. Of the $60 to $100 CONDITION posed a series of significant housing authorities instead of subsidized housing units. million that Friends of the High Line On September 27, the reinforcement changes to the way funds of indexing individual Section 8 tenants pay 30 has estimated necessary to realize cage at the construction site for the will be distributed, and this vouchers for inflation and percent of their income to the project, the city has committed expansion of the Dubai International has housing agencies all market fluctuations. Critics, rent, and then the federal $43.5 million to date. The new funds Airport collapsed killing eight people. over the country crying foul. such as the analysts at the government foots the rest of are designated for planning, design, Aeroports de Paris, the company that "Like hurricanes in the Center on Budget and Policy the bill up to the FMR. The engineering, and construction, manages airports in and around Paris, Atlantic, assaults on the Priorities, say that block FMR is calculated every year therefore helping to ensure that the designed the collapsed expansion. housing voucher program grants are historically much through random digit dialing project will go ahead. A team led by Reports have not yet confirmed the by the Bush Administration more likely to fall victim to surveys and the most recent Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + cause of the collapse or who was at have been unrelenting," said budget reductions than census data, in this case Renfro was selected in August to fault. Aeroports de Paris also managed Sheila Crowley, president indexed vouchers. 2000. Usually announced in design the project. The park is cur• the expansion of Charles de Gaulle of the National Low Income The late release of the the spring to allow ample rently slated to open in late 2005. International Airport, where a similar Housing Coalition, an advo• budget led to a scramble response time, this year's collapse in May killed four people. PARSONS cacy group. for funds, because housing FMR was released on the When the Bush authorities had very little final due date, July 30. The PLAGIARIST RESIGNS PLANNING UPDATE Administration released time to contest the numbers. new FMR altered the geog• Roger Shepherd, a professor of fine its 2005 budget in February, In response, a nationwide raphy of the data by lump• On October 4, Amanda Burden, direc• arts at Parsons School of Design, four months after the stan• coalition of housing author• ing suburban areas in with tor of the New York City Department resigned from his post on September dard October deadline, it ities banded together and cities, as well as the rate at of City Planning, announced a plan to 17 due to a plagiarism scandal. effectively attempted to lobbied against the Bush which large apartments are extend mixed-use zoning in the Port Shepherd stands accused of copying overhaul all HUD programs. Administration's proposal. billed. In urban high rent Morris neighborhood of the South passages from Meredith L. Clausen's Within this measure was In August, they won, and areas, this put a strain on Bronx. The rezoning will triple the book, Pietro Belluschi: Modern area of the mixed-use district, which American Architecture (MIT Press, has attracted residents to the formerly 1995) as well as three Princeton Does Paris, a city filled with architectural industrial area after it was rezoned in LE CERCLE ROUGE Architectural Press titles in his work, landmarks, have room for one more? In 1997. Much of the land to be rezoned Structures of Our Time: 31 Buildings (ET BLEU, JAUNE, VERT ..) January, a new monument will rise less is currently vacant or underutilized, That Changed Modern Life (McGraw than two miles from the Champs-Elysee. according to City Planning. Under the Hill, 2002). MIT Press is currently But unlike the squat and weighty Arc de rezoning, 400 new residential units ••4 suing McGraw Hill for damages. Triomphe nearby, this new structure will would be created. On the same day. fly light and high. The winner of an inter• City Planning's Greenpoint-Williamsburg ICA BREAKS GROUND national competition to design an Land Use Waterfront Plan, a massive The Institute of Contemporary Art Olympic marker—Paris is among the bid• overhaul of zoning on Brooklyn's (ICA) in Boston, designed by Diller ders for the 2012 games—the 260-foot- western shore, began the Uniform Land Scofidio + Renfro, broke ground on tall tower of helium rings, designed by Use Review Procedure, a process that September 15. French architects Yves Pages and Benoit is expected to take seven months. Le Thierry d'Ennequin, will flex with the NEW AUTHORITY PARIS JUMPS wind. A stationary platform situated below the flexible donuts will serve as a CCTV BACK In late September, Governor George THE GUN/^j new public space. ON TRACK E. Pataki nominated Kenneth J. After a year and a half delay due to Ringler, Jr., for the job of director ERECTS Colored to match the Olympic rings, budget constrictions, construction of the Port Authority of New York the structure will be illuminated at night on Rem Koolhaas' structurally daring and New Jersey. Ringler currently OLYMPIC • and visible from across the city. It will be headquarters for state-run CCTV in serves as the New York State Office LANDMARK sited in the heart of Paris' planned Beijing began in late September. The of General Services Commissioner. Olympic village in Les Batignolles. Juror design is costing the Chinese govern• The Port Authority must approve the IN JANUARY Jean Nouvel said, "The selected project ment $602.4 million, four times the nomination by October. evokes a light symbol of optimism." DC

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This past summer. Sir Richard Rogers disbanded last summer after 37 years of arrived in New York, where his firm, Richard practice, partner Hugh Hardy named his new Rogers Partnership, had just been awarded venture H^ Hardy Collaboration. "We're not a contract to redesign New York's East River making an exclusive practice of just working Waterfront from Battery Park to the with other architects. We think of collabora• Lower East Side—a commission landed tion as a big idea," said Hardy, who is with SHoP Architects. "We're not really working with Frank Gehry on a new theater about conquering," he told The Architect's for the Brooklyn Academy of Music cultural Newspaperat the time. "We're more about district, as well as entering into a competition collaboration." Rogers, whose first major with Enrique Norten for a new theater at project was a collaboration with Renzo Piano Ground Zero. "The collaboration involved to create the Centre Georges Pompidou, with each project—even when it's your own Is echoing a level of openness that has firm project—involves everybody—clients, helped his 30-year-old practice integrate its consultants—everybody." resources with the young upstart SHoP, an The close circles of the architecture office that is less than ten years old and profession often dictate the many recipro• heavily influenced by new technologies. cal relationships that now crowd the As the competition for plum projects competition scene. While Ben van Berkel becomes more cut-throat, firms are increas• and Caroline Bos have built their practice, ingly taking less of a divide and conquer UN Studio, on a model of collaborations attitude, and opting for an approach that is between various specialists for years, the more open to exchange and sharing— United Architects team is one of the most everything from office space to design fees. visible and memorable collaborative efforts Since the competition to design Ground within recent years. The relationships Zero resulted in uber-teams like Steven Holl, among its members—which include New Richard Meier, and Peter Eisenman; United York-based designers Reiser+Umemoto and Architects (UN Studio, Foreign Office Kevin Kennon and Mikon von Gastel of the Architects, Greg Lynn), and THINK (Frederic motion-graphics studio Imaginary Forces— Schwartz, Rafael Vinoly, Shigeru Ban), SHoP had been in place for many years when and Rogers is only one of many high-profile they all decided to participate in the WTC design teams that have emerged to take on competition together. "In our case, we were large, complex public projects. When com• teaching and became friends, and slowly peting for large-scale urban redevelopment began to influence each other's work," undertakings such as the High Line, the East explained van Berkel. Some members of the River Waterfront, speculative projects for group had met at a conference years ago New York's Olympic bid, and others, pooling that was organized by Jeffrey Kipnis at Ohio talent has become de rigueur, if not en vogue. State University. "There were heavy brain• The idea that architecture is shaped by storms of the quality of each other's work," one all-powerful creative genius—such as said van Berkel. The relationships were the mighty hand of Corh—is slowly starting beginning to form. "Nobody knew it at that to dissipate as built realities become more time, but we called ourselves 'The Ohio scape architect Margie Ruddick for the Zaha Hadid Architects with Balmori complicated. While contributions to large Group.' We were invisible at the time." Queens Plaza project earlierthis year. Associates, Skidmore, Owings and projects have always necessitated a variety Meanwhile, SHoP's partnership with Landscape architect Diana Balmori, Merrill, and Studio MDA's finalist design of different players— structural engineers, Rogers' firm resulted from a simple cold a finalist for the High Line competition, a for the High Line competition (top). architects of record, lighting specialists, call. According to Chris Sharpies, one of the team consisting of Zaha Hadid, Skidmore, The Arnhem Central Station by UN Studio and engineer Cecil Balmond interior designers, graphic design consult• five partners of SHoP, the firm had wanted Owings, and Merrill, and Studio MDA, (below). ants, landscape architects, et cetera— to go after the East River project, but did not warned that working relationships need to never before has the role of design lead have enough significant civic projects under be carefully considered, and that collabora• been so open to interpretation by designers its belt. SHoP had always wanted to work tions often don't work the way they seem themselves. with Rogers. So they called London, and to. Speaking from her own experiences, she said, "Right now, the model is very different The practice of stacking a team to include the rest is becoming history. than it was in the past [for landscape archi• the expertise or profile required by a partic• Regardless of how collaborations are tects]. Collaboration didn't work—and Collaboration Elaboration ular RFQ or RFP is nothing new. It's also formed, many architects are finding the To make architectural magic, architects doesn't work," she said, since most collab• common for firms with international work to experience rewarding. Since winning the echoed a few points to keep in mind if orations come in the wake of a scramble for bring on local partners to help realize projects job earlierthis year, both SHoP and Rogers you, too, are to avoid a catfight of the RFPs that doesn't allow the time for proper Libeskind-Childs magnitude. in contexts with which they are unfamiliar. have learned to integrate their operations, exchange. Teams are built for the sole After winning the competition to design the despite the dramatic difference in each purpose of assembling an image, and "that Be honest about who you can work with new headquarters for The New York Times, office's size. "We've gained a tremendous really doesn't give you the time to put the "We get asked to team a lot more than we Renzo Piano tapped Fox & Fowie Architects amount of knowledge working with their different pieces together" do. The chemistry has to work, and for its experience building skyscrapers in team," said Sharpies. "There's a lot in their sometimes, it doesn't."—Bruce Fowle New York City (Fox & FowIe is behind many partner structure that we'd like to integrate The High Line project, which was eventu• of the tall buildings in Times Square, includ• Know what you're getting into into our office in the future"—for example, ally awarded to the formidable team of Field ing the Conde Nast Building, not far from "A successful collaboration has to do with weekly directors' meetings (at Rogers, Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Olafur The New York Times site). When the two early negotiations."—Diana Balmori partners are titled directors) to review each Eliasson, Piet Oudolf, and Buro Happold, firms started working together, "the project other's projects. was heavily sought after by teams that Negotiate a fee that is fair and takes all really started over again," explained Bruce However, not all collaborative relation• consisted of not only structural engineers factors into consideration Fowle. As the firm began to integrate Piano's ships are as rewarding and collegial as they and landscape architects but also graphic "How famous and well known and experi• design with the restraints of New York's enced your office is—it's all is going to may seem. There have been several reports designers, artists, and consultants for eleva• Byzantine building codes, the design altered tors, lighting, and historic preservation. affect the fee structure as well as who has that, within both the Holl/Meier/Eisenman the burden of day-to-day responsibilities." drastically. Along with other details, a dra• "The High Line was one of those rare cases, and United Architects teams, one architect's —Chris Sharpies matic cantilever in the base was eliminated a very satisfying experience," said Balmori. vision eventually came to dominate that in favor of a more realistic structure. "As a team, we were able to put the pieces of the others. The issue of credit, too, is (as Be interested in exchange together and start integrating something Previously, many collaborative arrange• it's always been) a potential minefield, with "The give and take is great fun. It gets the with much greater vision. The problem is, ments have seen one firm leading the others, participants—and perhaps more problemat• juices flowing, and usually you get better we lost the competition before we got to results. Ideas can come from anywhere." and the others working in the service of the ically, the media—eager to point out individ• that part." In the end, she reflected, "the —Hugh Hardy lead firm. The nature of collaborations might ual contributions. There's also the threat of be shifting, however, with firms seeking architecture remained totally by itself and we one party running off with the commission, Work more collaborations not out of necessity but out were never able to put it in the big image." or controlling it to the extent that it can "It's more work and more complication, of desire to enrich their own design processes dump other collaborators—something Image, however, might have everything to and it doesn't always mean a better and, ultimately, the final product. that architect Michael Sorkin unfortunately do with trend toward collaboration. Beyond product."—Ben van Berkel When the firm Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer experienced when he teamed up with land• the expectation of super-teams producing LU O OH r-

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super-projects, a star-studded team is Sharpies. "If we were working with some• The New York Times a marketer's (and developer's and politi• one with a strong style, they would want to headquarters has been a collaborative cian's) dream. Never mind the actual make sure that their style is in there." They effort by Renzo results. A project could be considered a found a perfect match. According to Ivan Piano Building blockbuster on the basis of its cast alone Harbour, a director at Richard Rogers Workshop and Fox (think of Ocean's Eleven). Partnership, "Our approach is very fluid— & Fowie Architects. A less skeptical reading of this trend, it's not 'We want this, this, and this.'" however, is the genuine interest that many This collaborative mode of practice architects express in expanding process may not be possible or even desirable and sharing ideas. The assembly of for every project—"I don't think you'll be architects as a true union of peers is a putting together five architects to design heartening development in a field where an Alessi teapot," joked van Berkel, who a big ego is a survival tool and in a world is working with engineer Cecil Balmond that has not yet lost its taste for signature on the Arnhem Central Station. However, architecture. For some, eschewing the there is an increased demand and "star vehicles" of the past in favor of col• conscientiousness on the part of the laboration is the best expression of the bal• client, according to van Berkel. "Now ance of ideas that design should embody. we've noticed that clients are becoming Since the High Line experience, Balmori more sophisticated. They have their own has made a permanent commitment specialists, including marketing people," of sorts to working with architect Joel said van Berkel. As long as they get a Sanders to pursue projects, an effort that good product, he explained, "they don't has required reorganizing each office. Their care about how many names they have first joint project was the design of an to put on the press release." equestrian center for New York's Olympic "This is really about creating ways to bid. The alliance between a landscape allow the profession to evolve," said architect and an architect is hardly unusual Sharpies, who, along with his colleagues, but this sustained and equal collaboration set out as young architects to explore is telling of how Balmori and Sanders the feasibility of a decentralized five-way approach their work. They see context— partnership. "We're finding that [in larger how a building fits into its surroundings— projects], it requires a collective enter• as a paramount concern and don't regard prise." Given all the factors now at play in one aspect of a project as any more or less design—technology, sustainability, con- important than another. textualism—the answer is rarely going Collaborations must be carefully con• to come from one place. "And that's sidered, however. "Because we're not a how architects have to sell themselves," style-based practice, we're not trying to he said. ANDREW YANG IS A CONTRIBUTOR protect something or impose something TO AN, AND ALSO WRITES FOR WALLPAPER*, on a project that doesn't want it," said DWELL, AND THE NEW YORK TIMES. ID STONE NEW ARCHITECTURE IN CONCRETE CERAMIC TILES OF ITALY DESIGN June 19, 2004 - January 23, 2005 COMP 2005 The Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design at the National Building Museum Competition, nciw in its twelfth year, ^l^^outstanding achievement by North American architects or interior designers using Italian ceramic tile in commercial, institutional or residential installations. Projects are r judged on their creative attributes as well as how they meet their functional and technical requirements. Domestic and international new construction and renovation projects are eligible.

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it in the context of the late 1940s and 1950s. and built in phases from 1913 to 1922, is no While Wright's Autobiography is out of mere gloomy pile as some contend after print, the older biographies are incomplete, looking at photographs of the now-destroyed and his late work remains elusive, Ada building. Mysterious indeed, it was the WRIGHT crucible for Wright's experiments in diagonal Louise Huxtable's new biography fills a void with her primer on America's most geometry. Designing hundreds of patterns— famous architect. Undoubtedly the greatest generically dismissed as ornament by mod• ON architectural critic working in this country in ernist polemicists—allowed a revolution to the last 40 years, Huxtable brings to Wright emerge in his design processes as seen in a sagacity and grace that combines deep his early projects of the 1920s. Wright added insight into architecture with elegant prose. diagonal planning to his compositional Without bogging down in tedious archival methods while retaining rectilinear formats details or taking on the burden of charting and the use of the grid as an organizing ele• new ground, she has created the best avail• ment for both. Now that ornament is return• Frank Lloyd Wright: A Penguin Life able synthesis of much of the most important ing to architectural discourse such work may Ada Louise Huxtable recent scholarship on Wright and provided provide a rich trove of new design insights. (LipperA/iking, 2004), $19.95 Wright at Taliesin In 1936 a highly readable book for a public at large. That Huxtable's biography is state of the Huxtable's approach is to juxtapose art does not mean that art won't progress. Three biographies have been written about of Architectural Forum, the experienced Wright's retrospective accounts with more Still, much needs to be done for a more thor• Frank Lloyd Wright since his death in 1959 critic made extensive discoveries of new factual explanations of his life and his archi• ough biography similar to those appropriate a few months prior to his 92"" birthday. His material about Wright's life, but sadly his tecture, and to let the reader savor the differ• for other major figures of modernism, such own Autobiography, published in three edi• premature death intervened and the book ences. We read of many familiar accounts as John Richardson's multi-volume studies tions from 1932 onward, provided the core was never completed. of Wright's upbringing, but Huxtable also of Pablo Picasso. Our grasp of the last 20 material for his biographers but was more Wright's late work and the details of his updates the documentation on Wright's years of Wright's career—some of the most about his life than his work. Robert Twombly's burgeoning career still elude adequate involvement with feminism and the idea of prolific and complex of his career—involves Fran/c Lloyd Wrigtit:An Interpretive Biography evaluation. Olgivanna, Wright's widow marrying for love, not social obligation, which not only numerous unbuilt projects but his (1973) was the first history to look at Wright who presided over the Frank Lloyd Wright I introduced in my own book, Frank Lloyd largest foray into domestic architecture and critically, but Twombly did not have access Foundation and died in 1985, kept tight Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922. published the dispersal of his ideas through the mass to Wright's archives. Brendan Gill, The New control on access to his work up to that in 1993. Focusing on several of Wright's well media with widespread imitation, reinter- Vbr/cerwriter, had access to both the archives point. His vast correspondence only became known built works, she balances her biogra• pretation, and misinterpretation. Pushing and surviving members of Wright's Taliesin available for research three years later phical accounts with concise and perceptive scholarly work on Wright is difficult as a cot• fellowship to mine for information. Gill very when Garland published my five-volume descriptions of his buildings. Fortunately, tage industry of picture books gluts the market much identified with the huckster in Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Index to the Taliesin she explains how the programmatic concept and seduces even once serious researchers and his book, /Wany A/7as/fs(1987), did its Correspondence. And many of his visionary of the Guggenheim Museum—intended to join the commercial fray. Eventually, the best to sensationalize him. Meryle Secrest's projects were only published in the late 1980s for a fixed collection of "non-objective" or lacunae in Wright's life and work will be filled. Frank Lloyd Wright (^S92) covered much the when Wright's archives became formally abstract art—was altered in purpose and use, Meanwhile, Huxtable's book is the best intro• same ground, but a grasp of Wright's archi• organized. Critics tend to dismiss his late and the resulting changes led to the subse• duction to the architect currently available, tecture and its modernist context eluded her. architecture as Jetson-like, utterly fantasti• quent complaints about the building's viabil• providing an elegant and balanced view of With the sanction of the Frank Lloyd Wright cal, and totally out of synch with an evolving ity as a conventional museum. the man and his myths.

Foundation, William Marlin finally launched modern architecture. But they have tended So correct in so many ways, Huxtable's ANTHONY ALOFSIN IS ROLAND ROESSNER serious research on what was intended to be to view the work through a tightly focused biography needs only a few points of clarifi• CENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE AT Wright's definitive biography. Former editor modernist lens, and have failed to measure cation. The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, designed THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN.

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