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The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Volume 53, Number 7, March 1991 2 NYC/AIA OCULUS

Cover and rear cover: "Tracked Housing," Michael Sorkin's proposaljor a rapid solution to the 60th Street Yards; Kent Hikida, assistant. Photos. Kent Hikida (front) and Dorothy Alexander (back).

Volume 53, Number 7, March 1991 artistic responsibilities. Now there is From the President dramatically less money to be had, but that Editor: Suzanne Stephens might compel us to examine where we have Deputy Editor: Andrea E. Monfried John H. Winkler recently been, and where our profession Editorial Consultant: Alex Cohe n should be going. Art Director: Abigail Sturges Copy Editor: Beth Kugle r We would sincerely like to hear from you Typesetting: M&M Typographe rs, Inc. concerning your feelings about Oculus. I You seem anxious to put on a brave face Printer: The Nugent Organization have heard to date from only a small, very and continue the jolly party. I would prefer Staff Photographer: Dorothy Alexander vocal group. Actually, two small groups - to join Suzanne Stephens as she makes a one in support and one not in support. serious attempt to analyze our present The New York Chapte r of Each group is very outspoken, but neither condition. the American Ins titute of Architects represents a statistical viewpoint as each 457 Madison Avenue Herbert B. Oppenheimer, FAIA New York, New York 10022 one is a small minority when one looks at 212-838-9670 the total membership. We would like you Oppenheimer, Brady & Vogelstein, AIA to tell us how you feel. We want every one Executive Committee 1990-1991 of you to realize the conduit for forwarding John H. Winkle r FAIA, President information to Oculus is not stopped or Service Lit Frances Hals band FA IA, First Vice President even slowed. John Ellis AIA, Vice President The Restoration Directory Donald P. Ryde r FAJA , Vice President Please take the time to think about what Douglas Kor ves AJA , Secretary James L. Garre tson AIA, Treasurer you believe and let us know by answering The fifth edition of the Restoration Bronson Binge r AJA, Director the survey included with this edition. One Directory, published by the New York Margaret Helfand AIA, Director of the issues before us involves your Landmarks Conservancy in 1990, is an Laurie Maure r FAIA, Director perceived lack of Chapter participation excellent sourcebook for the specialized Judith Solomon AIA, Director in the direction of Oculus. Others of you disciplines required in historic preservation William Stein AIA, Director believe Oculus has never been more projects. The Directory has been expanded Gerard Vasisko AJA , Director interesting or vital for the Chapter and its considerably since the last printing in 1987, members. The issues before us cannot be and many new entries have been added Lenore M. Lucey AJA, Executive Director addressed unless we hear from you. I under various headings such as Restoration Regina Ke lly, Executive Secretary promise I shall answer every letter with Consultants, Professionals, and General Oculus Advis ory Board a note of sincere gratefulness. We look Restoration Contractors. Trades, such as James Franke l forward to your response to the survey. Roofers, Metalworkers, and Stained Glass Harold Fredenburgh AIA Restorers, are also included. Two clearly Frances Halsband FAIA useful new categories are Architectural Margaret He lfand AJA Salvage and Substitute Materials. Bartholomew Voorsanger FAIA Views J ohn H. Winkle r FAIA To Lenore Lucey (re: her column in Up to three representative projects are Chapter Staff Oculus, November 1990, p. 12.): described under each firm or contractor. Corane Hinc kson Please count my vote against your plea for But in the next edition, the category of Christine Magnus "boosterism" and your vision of rescue for "Engineers" should be expanded and Judith Rowe our profession from the European subdivided into structural, mechanical, and Stephen Suggs Economic Community or reversion of Hong other disciplines. Providing information Kong. such as the size of the professional firms © 1991 The Ne w York Chapter of the Ame ri can and adding a contact person for each entry Institute of Architects. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without Your faith in international consumerism would make this comprehensive reference written permission is stri ctly prohibited. might have been appropriate ten years ago even more helpful. The Directory can be for our big commercial firms and some ordered from The Princeton Architectural OCULUS , published ten times a year, architectural superstars. I doubt it will Press, 37 East 7th Street, New Ycirk, New Se ptembe r through June, is a be nefit of NYC/ work for them in this decade, and it has York , 10003 for $2 7.9 5. AJA membership. Public me mbe rship is $54. A never worked for those of us with small -Jean C. Parker, Chairman of the year's subscript ion to Oculus is $25. offices. NYC/AIA Historic Buildings Committee For more information on professional and public membe rships, pl ease call t he Chapter, at Fifteen years ago we were doing badly, but 212-838-9670. we did not have the critical shortage of Corredions housing that has caused the visible despair The views expressed in this publicat ion are of the homeless. We did not have the Nominating Committee ballots were mailed not necessarily those of the Executive arrogant greed and contempt for urban with incorrect information about Margot Committe e or Staff of the NYC/AIA. planning that was expressed by Donald Woolley. Ms. Woolley is Vice President for Trump's agent in Oculus. We did not have Design at New York City's Publi c The Chapte r is now accepting Visa a nd the present level of deterioration in our Development Corporation. Mastercard payme nts fo r dues and docume nts. schools and jails or on our streets. Oculus reported that Roxanne Warren & During these fifteen years there has Associates was "designing" the new certainly been some prosperity and some Kingsbridge Bus Depot fo r the ew York fin e architecture, but I wonder if we have City Transit Authority. Ms. Warren says the not slighted our primary professional and building is already under construction. MARCH 1991 3

NEVIS NOTES Who is doing what nearby

Philip Johnson in MoMA garden Un isa shop, Morr i son Murakami Architects MoMA's Expansion Close to Home

The latest revelation that The Museum of A Dutch-Revival structure built in 1929 in Modern Art is contemplating expanding its Chelsea has just been renovated for elderly gallery space by building under the garden homeless residents by Perkins Geddis would sound fine - fo r any other museum. Eastman. The seven-story building, But the garden happens to be the only real notable for its thickly textured brick walls architecture the museum now has. The and limestone trim, had once been a design, executed by Philip Johnson in 1954, women's hotel, but was abandoned in the has long been recognized as a rare and late 1970s. Under a New York State special oasis in midtown; the trees, program, Trinity Church and housing sculptures, and reflecting pools have a development consul tant Howard Burchman beauty, serenity, and timeless simplicity decided to turn the house at 443-445 West that make the garden a work of art. Yet the 22nd Street into The Frederic Fleming Modern has not been known for treating its Residence . . . . .On the other side of the architecture like art. In 1984 its expansion city, the country's first mixed-use, HUD­ and renovation encroached on the garden subsidized elderly housing project will be with the two-story restaurant wing built at built from scratch in Chinatown at Walker the eastern end, and with the inclusion of and Centre streets. The Chung Pak the glass escalator core on the north wall Building is to be realized under HUD's of the museum proper. Even though the Section 202 program. Judith Edelman expansion and renovation that wer of the Edelman Partnership is designing undertaken by Cesar Pelli (who has shown the eleven-story tower that contains 88 himself very sensitive in other projects) apartments and sits on a two- and three­ managed to sweep away the born-to-be­ story base of community and commercial Bauhaus character fo r which the Modern space. The base is being designed by had been famous since 1939, one at least Charles Lauster of Anschuetz, Flem ing Resi d ence, Perkins Geddis Eastman hoped the museum would finally call it a Christidis & Lauster. Edelman is the day. No more talk of expansion for at least architect of record for the entire building; principals: Catherine Morrison was most several decades. It is only seven years later. Lauster is the author of the feasibility recently with I. M. Pei and Johnson/Burgee; study that first proposed this mix of Jun Murakami also worked for Johnson/ The museum says it is weighing other uses ....This spring Byard and Platt Burgee . .. .F rederic Schwartz, a principal expansion options. However, one realizes Archit ects is resubmitting its South of Ande rson/Schwartz, was the set going underground is cheaper and easier. Street Seaport proje ct to the Landmarks designer for dancers Ruby Shang and The museum says it would put Johnson's Preservation Commission. The scheme for Company's appearance at the Joyce garden back just as it was. For his part, 250 Water Street being developed by Theater in January. He created fo ur Johnson was reported in the New York Milstein Properties (Oculus, November hanging screens from synthetic and natural Times as being against the scheme and 1989) didn't make it through its last round. materials, such as fu scia-colored plastic telling his colleagues on the museum's But now the design has been fix ed up to tubing, thick natural rope, chrome-plated board of trustees that it was not "a good meet the concerns LPC had about its attic chain, and 1,000 feet of Christmas tree idea to go down 30 feet to an important level, the way it fits into the district, and lights. "It had to be low-budget, and it gall ery. " Johnson now says, "The trees, the placement of certain materials. "These had to be from Canal Street," Schwartz the water, the paving are sacred. It would are delicate changes," Platt says. "It was says. The ordinary materials were each all go back. It is not as bad as it sounds." very nice before, and it is even nicer transformed into diaphanous, suspended now. "... Meanwhile Byard and Platt, with curtains about 4 feet wide and 22 feet high While MoMA would not make public the new partner Ray H. Dovell, are currently following the proportions of Oriental scroll underground scheme by Alexander Cooper working on the reconstruction and paintings as sets for the premier of "Yell ow of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, one does expansion ( 100,000 square feet ) of Punk Dolls." .. .The NYC/AIA's New York have to wonder if Johnson is being a Chanel's manufacturing plant in Foundation for Architecture has named smidge too disingenuous. Somewhere there Piscataway, New Jersey. Byard and Platt Roann Barris, a graduate student of art is going to have to be a way of getting have also begun work on the master plan of history at the University of Illinois, down to the galleries. Would it be in the the Department of Music at the Champaign-Urbana, as the winner of the garden? Would not there be an escalator - University of Connecticut in Storrs. The Douglas Haskell Award for Student with a skylight (perhaps a pyramidl )? What proj ect involves 60,000 square feet of Journalism. Her article, "Peter Eisenman about additional skylights to introduce renovation and 15,000 of expansion .... A and the Erosion of Truth," appeared in the some sort of daylight to those dreary, new shoe store at 701 Madison for Unisa, a Spring 1990 issue of 2011, published by the cavernous, loftlike spaces the museum South American company, opened earlier School of Art and Design at the University would be saddled with - and which the this winter. The design by Morrison of Illinois-Chicago campus. Jurors led by museum already has enough of downstairs Murakami Architects has a spare white Charles Hoyt of the Architectural Record and upstairs in the "new" building? interior with a second color introduced also included Stanley Abercrombie, through the extensive use of natural shoe editor of Interior Design, architect The Modern says it needs more space for leather. The look is certainly appropriate. Harold Fredenburgh, and David larger artworks. Even more, it needs to The sleek, crisp fittings fo r the small, 828- Morton, the architecture editor at Rizzoli. preserve its own very large and fragile square-foot store give some strong clues According to hearsay, the jury's decision wo rk of art called the garden. about the backgrounds of the two for the $1,000 award was unanimous. The 4 YC/AIA OCULUS

NEWS NOTES

Just in: The short list for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago includes one New Yorker, Emilio Ambasz, along with Fumihiko Maki and Tadao Ando, Morphosis, Josef Paul Kleihues, and Christian de Portzamparc. Bill Lacy and Ada Louise Huxtable are the coordinators of the selection committee .. . .

winning essay was reportedly clear and insightful (a rare combination today). In spite of the psychological drift of its title, the essay deals with architectural issues, not personal ones . . . .Director of the City Planning Department Richard Schaffer recently appointed Rosina Abramson as the department's executive director. She replaces Con Howe who, it is speculated, Before: Townhouse, 14 East 81 st Street After. Bu ttrick White & Burtis is being given a special position in City Planning. Until recently Abramson was feet of law offices for Chadbourne and postwar office building in which they have president and chief executive officer of Parke . .. .Architects Buttrick White & created a two-story lobby, coating it with Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation Burtis have completed the restOration of three types of stone, stainless steel, and and is a lawyer with a long track record in three townhouse buildings in the Upper sandblasted glass. A new, sleekly fitted real estate, administrative, and municipal East Side Historic District. One for art glass-and-stainless-steel curtain wall will law. .. .It is not going to be so easy to figure dealer Richard Feigen has already won a sheathe the otherwise ordinary, blocky out who did what in the new Henri Restoration Award from the Friends of building .... Meanwhile a lobby Fifield Bendel store opening up behind the the Upper East Side Historic Districts. Piaker renovated at 215 Park Avenue restored, landmarked Rizzoli and Coty . The design involved exterior restoration of South, which had a long, twisting corridor, Building facades at 712 -716 Fifth Avenue. the neo-Georgian landmark at 49 East 68th just won a New York State AIA award. The Involved in the store's design is a team that Street, which was designed in 1914 by firm has made the procession through the not only includes architect Christopher Trowbridge & Livingston. Buttrick White space dramatic by designing an entry with Barriscale of Beyer Blinder Belle as & Burtis also redesigned the interior, a brushed copper barrel-vaulted ceiling associate partner in charge of design previously gutted, as an understated and limestone walls ... .Douglas Korves (along with John Beyer as partner-in­ setting ( exposed brick walls, polished has recently finished the two-year charge and Richard Southwick as project granite floors) for Feigen's galleries and renovation and restoration of the exterior manager), but also James Mansour of offices. Another project, a neo-Renaissance and public spaces of the Beekman Tower the Limited Store's planning department townhouse at 35-37 East 62nd Street, Hotel at 49th Street and First Avenue. The (which is owned, as is Bendel's, by Leslie designed in 1905 by George Keller, is building, originally known as the Pan­ Wexner ), French designer Fran~ois being restored and renovated for offices for Hellenic House, was conceived and Catroux, who has designed four boutiques Revlon Inc. The third project, a private developed by a woman, Emily Eaton in the new store, and Marie-Paule Pelle, townhouse at 14 East 8lst Street, has Hepburn, as a hotel for college sorority creative director of the Conde Nast received an entirely new French women. It was designed by a man, however, Traveler magazine. The store, which eighteenth-century provincial facade of John Mead Howells, who with Raymond occupies 79,000 square fe et of space in the limestone. The previous facade of stucco Hood had won the famous Chicago Tribune shadow of the Kohn Pedersen Fox tower, had been added in 1930 by Frederick Tower competition in 1922. But by the time actually fills the two buildings mentioned Rhinelander King to the original building he was designing the Pan-Hellenic, as above plus a newly built townhouse that designed in 1883 by Thom & Wilson . . Thomas van Leeuwen points out in his forms a low-scale row along Fifth. A four­ Fifield Piaker & Associates, the book, The Skyward Trend of Thought story atrium designed by Beyer Blinder architects who designed the new ( 1986 ), Howells was inspired by the Belle in collaboration with Marie-Paule undisputed hub of SoHo, the Dean & second-place scheme for the Chicago Pelle will serve as the central space in DeLuca food store at Prince and Broadway, Tribune, the tower designed by Eliel which the famous Lalique windows, now is working on several other projects. In Saarinen. Since the hotel's exterior is restored, will be seen. . .Swanke Hayden SoHo, at 500 Broome (at West Broadway), pending landmark designation, Korves Connell Architects is currently designing the architects are converting an 1874 cast­ consulted with the Landmarks office space for Time Warner Books that iron structure, once a spice-packing plant, Preservation Commission about the totals 150,000 square feet in the headquarters into space for retail shops, offices, and removal of certain elements that had at the Time-Life building. The firm is also artists' living lofts . .. .At 800 Second become accreted to it over the years, the programming and designing 200,000 square Avenue the firm is renovating a gray-brick restoration of such materials as iron-spot

Set for Ruby Shan g and Company by Frederic Schwartz

Henri Bendel, Beyer Blinder Belle MARCH 199 1 5

M ass1· m a Vi gnelli

North Coast Harbor of Lake Erie, will be something of a mecca for museum traffic because of an aquarium and a science and industry museum also being planned there. The only trouble is that the city's design guidelines for the area were drawn up before the R&R Hall of Fame decided on the move. Now new guidelines need to be adopted by Cleveland's city planning department. Jon Barne tt is advisor to the brick, and the recasting of certain stone city and to the North Coast Development panels. Korves also redesigned the lobby, Corporation for a master plan of the area designed the new restaurant, the Zephyr in which the Pei contingent may be involved. Grill (once Peartrees), and installed Meanwhile the extra space is going under meeting rooms on the site of La Petite the building lobby, an option that evidently Marmite. The interiors are intended to was physically impossible to carry out on evoke the period with deep, muted colors the original site . . .. and geometric motifs in the design of the stainless steel rails, trim, mahogany, and pommele veneers. While the client, Manhattan East Suite Hotels, used in­ Inside Media house designers for the bedroom suites, there is still a little more for Korves to do. Architectural Record has turned to Not to be forgotten is the famous, tatty old Massimo Vignelli of Vignelli Associates cocktail lounge at the top of the Beekman. to re-redesign the magazine that was redesigned last year. The decision came Korves hopes it is next. Zephy r Gri ll at Beekman, D ouglas Korves about because the magazine felt it too thought was to convince the developers should reduce its pages from 9 by 12 inches and the city to compromise on a lower to 9 by 11 inches, following the direction Follow-up building (yet one higher than current taken by PIA with its July 1990 issue and zoning would allow), and then take the by Architecture this past January. Printers Beyer Blinder Belle is still at work on the unused air rights, for which there are not for the large-sized format are becoming too master plan fo r the restoration of the too many receiving spots available, and scarce and too expensive. Grand Central Terminal. Now that the transfer them to a state trust where they plan has been adopted by the MTA, the would go unused. There are knots in this With the move to downsizing, Editor architects are going ahead with the various idea that need to be untangled. Travelstead Stephen Kliment says that last year's parts of the scheme as they get funding. in the interim has been bought out of 383 design, initiated in January 1990 by graphic They are focusing first on the restoration of by First Boston. Yet he is currently suing consultant Nancy Butkus, didn't work the waiting room, while continuing to test the city for not letting him use the air with the new proportions. As Kliment and to explore the restoration required for rights he had contracted to purchase from explains it, the thinking last year (before the ceiling in the main hall, and to Penn Central for 383. While that is being he arrived as editor) was based on the idea undertake studies for the access from the combed out, the MTA observes Travelstead of making the magazine more like popular north. Meanwhile the MTA, as has been also has an agreement with Penn Central to magazines and therefore using larger type reported, is trying to buy Grand Central allow him to build over the terminal if 383 and different caption sizes. The design by Terminal or at least get a long-term lease Madison doesn't work out. (He would still Butkus, the former art director for before embarking on the $400 million have to take that tower through some Manhattan, Inc. , was received with renovation. As a tenant, the MTA rents the tortuous reviews.) Penn Central is anxious extremely faint praise in the architectural station for its Metro-North commuter to sell its air rights, which it is finding community - although Klim ent doesn't say railroad from Penn Central Corp. Penn difficult to unload. MTA, which now owns that had anything to do with the decision. Central owns the 1.6 million to 1.9 million 341, 345, and 347 Madison, doesn't want At any rate, Massimo Vignelli, who had square fe et of air rights, which the MTA any for a new office building there - in redesigned Record in the early 1980s, doesn't want since it jacks up the price of this market. So in the meantime MTA is reappeared. Vignelli has come up with a Grand Central. This is why MTA has been looking into fund-raising. In addition Grand design that Kliment says helps separate the supporting G. Ware Travelstead and Central will lose more railroad passengers three parts of the magazin e - front, center, First Boston, developers of 383 Madison in mid-1991 when Penn Central moves its and back - more clearly, especially the Ave. (between 46th and 4 7th streets), in Amtrak operations to Penn Station . . .. The front that will have a yellow tint to it. The their efforts to purchase 1.5 million square second, larger version of the Rock and new design will also feature a smaller logo. feet of the air rights. The developers would Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Ironically the first issue is about apply 800,000 square feet of that amount Cleveland, Ohio, being designed by I. M. preservation. But whoever said it had to to the 650,000 square feet they have as-of­ Pei (that's right), is expected to go into its apply to graphics. right on the site in order to create a super­ schematic design phase this month. The tall 72-story building. Designed by museum will be modified according to the architects Kohn Pedersen Fox, the tower desire of the R&R Hall of Fame to expand Out of Town was turned down by the City Planning the exhibition space from 100,000 to Commission when Sylvia Deutsch was its 140,000 square feet and to relocate to Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are head (Oculus, November 1989, p. 6). MTA's another site. The new location, on the currently designing a residential college 6 NYC/AIA OCULUS

Mt. Jefferson residential college, U of Va., Williams Tsien and Assoc. for the University of Virginia, in only hope that the city itself responds in association with VMDO Architects of BIDding for Success kind so that the BIDs are not the only safe Charlottesville. The 180,000-square-foot commercial oases in the city. project involves seven separate buildings by Andrea Monfried on a ten-acre site, with a total of 526 rooms, plus faculty apartments, reading What Mayor David Dinkins can't or won't URBAN CENTER BOOKS' TOP 10 rooms, and dining facilities for 670 do for the City of New York, groups of As of January 29, 1991 students .. . .At Yale University the firm is businesspeople and merchants can and the architect for the graduate school of will. Those who will profit most from a new 1. The Details of Modern Architecture, nursing, a 50,000-square-foot building in a and better New York are banding together Edward R. Ford (MIT Press, cloth, medical complex near Frank Gehry's new to form Business Improvement Districts $55.00). Yale Psychiatric Institute. Meanwhile (BIDs), a state-legislated method of taxing 2. New York Architects 3, Livio Dimitriu Williams and Tsien have just finished the building owners in an area to fund a variety (USA Books, paper, $45.00). master plan for the Phoenix Art Museum of changes - physical, cosmetic, and 3. On Broadway: A Journey Uptown and Lit tle Theater (Oculus, February social-service - that will benefit them Over Time, David Dunlap (Rizzoli, 1990, p. 5). The firm is designing the directly. cloth, $65.00). project, which includes 75,000 square feet 4. Interior Design with Feng Shui: The added to 186,000 square feet, with Lescher Started in 1977, Fulton St. Mall was the Chinese Art of Placement, Sarah & Mahoney Architects of Phoenix. first BID in the city, and Grand Central BID, Rossbach (Penguin, paper, $9.95). initiated in 1985, has been the largest and 5. Adopt-a-Mural, Phyllis Cohen most elaborate. Currently there are twenty (Municipal Art Society, paper, $3 .00). in existence and twelve in the process of 6. Conscience of the Eye, Richard Events formation throughout the five boroughs. Sennett (Ranrlom House, cloth, $24.95). The formation of a new BID for the 34th 7. Women in Architecture, Clare Lorenz The Shape of the City: Conversations Street area, from Park to Tenth avenues (Rizzoli, cloth, $29.95). with Paul Goldberger at the YMHA and generally from 31st to 35th streets, was 8. Michael Graves: Buildings and by Kelly Shannon announced in November. Projects, 1982-1989, eds. Karen Vogel Nichols, Patrick Burke, and Caroline In a conversation on January 3 with Paul Hancock (Princeton Architectural Goldberger at the 92nd Street Y, Stanton The 34th Street area BID will be Press, paper, $34.95 ). Eckstut offered comments on public administered by the staff that runs the 9. AD 60: Urban Concepts, Denise Scott participation in architecture: "Battery Park Grand Central Partnership; not only have Brown (Academy Editions/St. Martin's City, especially the South Cove, would not they "learned so much about how to do it," Press, paper, $19.95). have happened if we had a public review." says Arthur Rosenblatt, Vice President for 10. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd However, he did say, "I am glad the public is Capital Projects, but they will be able to Wright: A Guide to Extant getting involved in the Penn Yards eliminate a layer of administration and Structures, William A. Storrer (Storrer Development," the controversial project associated costs - after all, the group is Publications, paper, $11.95). designed by Eckstut's former partner, also working on the successful and nearly Alexander Coope r, now of Cooper/ complete restoration of Bryant Square Robertson. "The project will no doubt Park behind 42nd Street's New York Public RlllOLI BOOKSTORES' TOP 10 profit from the process," he remarked after Library. While it is far too early to discuss As of January 28, 1991 a little prodding from Goldberger. concrete proposals, Rosenblatt says this district will probably be much more 1. Richard Meier (Academy Editions/St. On January 9th Tod Williams and Billie difficult to work with because of its Martin's Press, cloth, $49.50). Tsien presented their New York City tougher social problems. 2. Decorative Style, Kevin McCloud projects, both speculative and realized. As (Simon & Schuster, cloth, $39.95). Williams said, "Many layers are being The BID will certainly have support from 3. Private New York, McLean Irvine thought about in our work. But we are the area. Already a group of budget hotel (Abbeville Press, cloth, $50.00). attempting to be specific to the place." owners has formed their own group to 4. The New Japanese Architecture, Tsien added, "Our projects are not driven clean up and police their 31st Street Botond Bognar (Rizzoli, paper, $35.00). , by theory, but driven by life. Many of our locations. Manager Abraham Puchall of the 5. Between Silence and Light: Spirit in thoughts come from living with our six­ Herald Square Hotel has also performed a the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn, year-old son, not by theory or historic major exterior restoration and interior John Lobell (Shambala, paper, $15.95). precedents." renovation of the building, which was built 6. Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Works, in 1893 by Thomas Hastings and John Francesco Dal Co and Giuseppe On January 24th the automobile was the Mervin Carrere as the home of the original Mazzariol (Rizzoli, cloth, $50.00). focus of Paul Rudolph's thoughts: "The Life magazine. Featuring the magazine's 7. Richard Meier, Architect (Rizzoli, way yo u get there is as important as the first symbol, the "Winged Life" child, as paper, $45.00). architecture .... The East Rive r Drive serves well as Charles Dana Gibson's prints and 8. Tadao Ando, Architectural this purpose extremely well - it not only reproduction magazine covers throughout, Monographs 14 (Academy Editions/St. covers the 'awful machine,' but provides the hotel hopes to capitalize on the historic Martin's Press, paper, $24.95 ). excitement in getting there and unifies nature and the present commercial 9. London Living Style, Leslie Astaire architecturally the diverse buildings capacities of the area. (Rizzoli, cloth, $40.00). above." Rudolph himself lives in one of 10. New York 1930, Stern, Gilmartin, those "diverse" buildings overlooking the Clearly private initiative to improve New Mellins (Rizzoli, cloth, $75.00). East River Drive. York is coalescing where it counts. We can MARCH 1991 7 Hunters Point: The Debate A debate sponsored by the New York Architectural League examined economic, political and urban design issues of the mixed-use project

Panelists: Jordan Gruzen, Gruzen Samton Steinglass, architect for General Project Plan John H. Beyer, Beyer Blinder Belle, architect for General Project Plan Saskia Sassen, professor of urban planning at Columbia University and author of The Global City: New York London Tokyo (due out in late spring from Princeton University Press) Richard Ravitch, former head of HRH Construction, head of UDC, the MTA, candidate for mayor in 1989, now with the Blackstone Group and member of Citizen's Budget Commission Model, Hunters Point General Plan, Long Moderator: Island Citg, bg Gruzen Suzanne Stephens, chairman of Public Samton Steinglu11/BeJJer Policy Committee for The Architectural Blinder Belle, Auocia.ted League Planner• and Architects

Suzanne Stephens: We are taking advantage of the breather we have - local since parks and streets are owned by the Opponents, led by the Hunters Point economic and global political conditions city. Coalition, have had some objections, being what they are - to analyze a including the fear of the Manhattanization significant major development planned for Gruzen Samton Steinglass and Beyer of Queens. Three of the buildings are the western edge of Hunters Point in Long Blinder Belle were commissioned to draw 38-story towers and the surrounding Island City, across the East River from the up the General Project Plan. The $2.3 community has a low density, although the United Nations. billion project of 9 million square feet has architects say the FAR for the project is 7.5 6,385 apartments, with 10 percent in the net. In spite of the added acres of open The primary aim of the evening is twofold: first phase designated for below-market space, Marcia Reiss of the Parks Council to see what we might expect in terms of rents. (Of these half will be for community has pointed out that there are only 1.28 the project's urban design, planning, and residents displaced by the project and half acres of park per 1,000 residents, under the architectural intentions, and to look at the for senior citizens.) city standard of 2.5 per 1,000. proposal within the larger framework of New York City's economic, social, and Then there are 2.35 million square fe et of But as usual there are many ways of looking political needs and desires. The design of commercial space, including a 350-room at the plan. The NYC/ AIA endorsed the any large project like this becomes a model hotel, an elementary school, a community plan. Its president, John Winkler, wrote that so to speak for other such developments, center, parking garages for 5,353 cars, 19.24 "the planners have chosen the best from and we hope to discuss this project in acres of parks, including a 12.8-acre Battery Park City and Roosevelt Island." terms of the city's changing economy, esplanade stretching along several miles of demographics, and trends in the ways land on the East River. Let's look briefly at the community of people live and work. Hunters Point to see why some people find The project, endorsed in concept by it so ideal for this kind of mixed-use large­ The project began to come to life in 1982 Queens's Community Board 2, was rejected scale project while others do not. In the with the city's Waterfront Revitalization by the board in April 1990. But in July it early eighties Hunters Point struck Program that enabled legislation for the was voted in by the City Planning planners as being part of New York 's Hunters Point Waterfront Project to be Commission and approved by the Board of "decaying" waterfront. It is dominated by passed in 1984 with the Port Authority of Estimate in its last meeting in August. light industrial and manufacturing uses, New York and New Jersey and New York Modifications were made to the plan to which have often been considered - City's Public Development Corporation as respond to community input, reflected inaccurately according to some - not its sponsors. The Port Authority, PDC, and in the numbers above. The modifications important to New York 's service-based the Department of City Planning went ahead included an on-site school for 650 pupils, economy in the late twentieth century. with the $155 million work for planning, a community center, and an agreement to Ironically, in the eighties Long Island City environmental studies, site acquisition, and provide 10 percent of the intended "up to has been undergoing a certain amount of infrastructure improvements. In 1989 the 20 percent" below-market housing units in growth. Small and medium-sized New York State Urban Development the first phase. In addition several more businesses have been moving there as Corporation became the lead agency under parks were added, which meant the removal rents go up in Manhattan; for example, the the New York State Environmental Quality of an apartment building in the southern air cargo business is expanding, as are Review Act, and it was allowed to exercise section, and seven acres of parkland were other light industrial businesses. Its artist powers of condemnation and zoning reserved for active open space. Other population has also become slightly heftier override in order to implement the project. changes included the reduction in height because of the location of PS 1 to show the This meant ULURP applications could be of the street wall for buildings along work and because rents in SoHo and withdrawn, except for r e mappin~ review Fifth Street. TriBeCa are soaring. It is estimated that 8 NYC/AJA OCU LUS

Hunters Point: The Debate S ite pla n , Hunters Poin t, Long I sland City , Gruzen Presentations by Jordan Gruzen and John Beyer explored S a mton Steinglass!B eyer aims and goals of the general design proposal Blinder B elle, Associated Plann ers and A rch itects

Northern Residential Area

Continuou s Public Esplanade 20,000 people wo rk in Hunters Point and Jordan Gruzen: We first want to thank 5,000 people live there now, mostly in 40 team members Michael Kazan and Crystal blocks adjacent to the proposed proj ect Sitkowski for their contribution to the plan. and within the boundaries of the Special Hunters Point Mixed-Use District. Unlike some large-scale planning projects such as Trump City, Hunters Point was not Naturally this kind of growth is different developer-driven. This project was guided from that occurring in Long Island City, by three agencies carrying out the mandate especially with the completion of the of the last administration to move back­ Citicorp building at the northern end of this office space out of Manhattan into the Gateway Area development. People have been buying real boroughs. It was also shaped by a task estate and until recently real estate prices force of about twenty or thirty people, I have tended to go up with the expectation representing city planning people ana that office buildings were to come. With community planning groups who met more Citicorp-type development, planners weekly for several years. Abeles, Philips, Preiss & Shapiro have estimated in an article in City Limits that John Beyer: Hunters Point's history is a somewhere around 2,300 businesses, of microcosm of the evolution of the New York which three-quarters pay rent, would feel City waterfront. In the seventeenth century pressure to leave. there were Dutch farms; in the eighteenth century it was largely composed of The community also says one-third of the residential communities. By the nineteenth 2,100 households in the area risk being century, the area had become commercial, displaced through gentrification. There with landfill expanding into the river. This would be other changes: the 13 ,500 new commercial era peaked in the 1920s and Commercial Core residents would require police, fire , and '30s and soon deterioration set in. sanitation, all taxing the city's system. Subway systems are crowded. LIRR has The site two stations, but service is infrequent. City Hunters Point is a very dramatic location in Limits reports that even the PDC admits the New York landscape. It is staggering to public costs could exceed the city's be on the site and realize this place exists a estimated $155 million now budgeted. quarter of a mile from the Manhattan shoreline, with marvelous historic We have two visions for this area. The first remnants of transportation and industry, is to bolster it as a light industrial, such as the gantry by the water's edge and manufacturing area in which surplus space the railroad cut that goes through the site. can be used by artists, and the moderate and middle-income community remains It was important to play up the irregular intact. The second is to have it be a chip off configuration of the river's edge and the Southern of Manhattan, where there could be the enormous, wonderful views. Residential Area kind of city-within-a-city we see at Battery Park City that has been so successful in Area as it exist s today attracting businesses and residents. We The existing communities in the north of want to discuss further whether the two the proj ect area are very different from visions can be reconciled, and, if the those in the south. In the northern section Hunters Point project goes ahead as of Hunters Point, residential, commercial, planned, whether it would truly be able to and industrial uses currently prevail. To the accomplish its intended goals. south are industries and railroad yards that offer an opportunity for future The three agencies and the team of development. In the center is a complex of consultants say they are starting to work residential and commercial uses where the on detailed Design Guidelines, both for the IRT subway is located - one stop away entire site and parcel by parcel. The from Grand Central. provide large, flexible office space at agencies want to move toward developer competitive rents. selection and start the Request for General plan Proposal process soon. While a consortium The many design principles we evolved Street syst em and boulevard of private developers, led by William with the participants in the plan relate to Fundamental to the plan was the extension Zeckendorf, owns some parcels and has extending the street system - providing a of the east-west grid system of streets, indicated interest in developing Hunters north-south boulevard, enhancing the which doesn't exist today. The water's edge Point, there are no private developers water's edge, maximizing features of the is cut off by an industrial wasteland. We involved yet. The immediate future is site, and responding to the existing want it to be a public place. bound to be determined by the economic community. climate. We also fe lt it was important to have a The plan we drew up with the city and our north-south boulevard so the entire site So now is the time to talk. sponsors calls for a mixed-use residential could be connected east and west and and commercial deve lopment that would north and south. The boulevard should MARCH 1991 9

J ohn Beyer

Jordan Gruzen

by Cooper/Eckstut at Battery Park City. At meant to unify the project and guarantee Hunters Point a landscaped esplanade runs that each developer conforms to a set of one and one-quarter miles along the objectives along various points. The waterfront, opening it up to public use. guidelines call for a street wall 85 feet high Along the inland side, the western - lower at the water's edge - plus boundary of the site is intended to fo rm a setbacks of ten feet and retail spaces. friendly edge to the existing community. Here the buildings would be stepped down The commercial center is denser and will to a height of fo ur, five, and six stori es. have more intense activities day and night. The articulation of facades, the use of Placement of activities and uses balconies, color, a variety of stone and At the core of the development are about brick, and forms to animate masses are 2.1 million square feet of office space, things we want to encourage. Traditional and flanking it are two residential bay windows one sees on the Up per West neighborhoods to the north and south. The Side, grade-level setbacks, landscaping larger residential area is situated to the strips, and a zone with entrances to doctors' north because the land formation allowed it offices or stoops would also be used. \'rrnun - Jadomn to be focused on a major park inspired by Suh•11j l'lat• hnJlfO\f'llH"llls - the planning for Forest Hills in Queens. To We are going to mandate signs, lighting, the south the large circular architectural building entrances, and openings in the form is generated by the shape of the land street wall to allow safety and the visual mass as well, and it is organized around an penetration into lobbies. We are going to open space. The south residential encourage an active retail base to allow neighborhood provides a real opportunity stores to pop out with store windows and for density since it is further away from marquees, and a whole variety of possible existing residential neighborhoods. We commercial uses including street-side obviously looked to Bath, England, for the restaurants. concept of the urban form. Both passive recreational space and a second active We are concerned with the buildings' ball.field would occur in this area. profiles, since the buildings will be seen clearly from Queens and from Manhattan. We have three tall residential buil dings: one We will attempt guidelines mandating on either end and one in the middle of interesting building groups, tops, and Hunters Point. The high-rise buildings are silhouettes. carefully placed. We tried to allow fo r a ~;; u variety of building types and differently [Moderator: Question about the desig11 sized structures so the whole wouldn't guidelinesjor Hun ters Point and their Credits: become monotonous or congested. relationship to the current scheme ] John H Bey er, partner, Beyer Blinder, B elle Jordan L. Gruzen , partner, Center Beyer: The plan as approved included Gruzen Samton Steinglass The first phase of the development is a general guidelines as mandated in the UDC Michael A. Kazan, project manager neighborhood planned around the gantry plan that are equivalent to zoning controls. Crystal Sitkowski, project designer and an open space. At the center of the site We have not started on the next phase, Richard Peterson, planner are the commercial core and the Gateway design controls, which will be much more H alina Starewicz, designer Plaza. The existing bulkheads, rip-rap, specific. Nina Gladstone, planner platforms, and the large gantry are to be Ross Muir, techni cal support restored. The LIRR railroad cut is Gruzen: What you saw here is not specific Vollmer Associates, traffic, transportation, civil engineers developed both as an access to the design: these towers could take many other EDAW, I nc., and Si gne Nielsen, thoroughfare and as an active recreational forms in general envelope. The developer lan dscape arch i tects area. The cut would be the maj or gateway and the architects can have their own to the site and would become a park as variations. well as recreation space fo r connecting the twist around to generate a series of angles development with the surro unding [Moderator: Question about opposition's that would relate to the views, somewhat community where traditionally there has allegation about Hunters Point creating like Broadway. The angles and scale of the been an imposing barrier. a wall ] ensemble should create interest and excitement along the boulevard. The plaza is intended to be a nautically Beyer: As a program requirement we were themed, hard-surface space, with water­ to provide corporate back-office space fo r The forms of buildings allow the street oriented activities and festivities. It would which a large building footprint was system to extend to the water's edge, have retail shops and services for the required. The best place to locate that is where accessibility is clearly delineated community. The commercial core of offi ce next to industrial uses, and these tend to and the park becomes a destination point. buildings and a hotel would be in the fall in the southern end of the site. In center of the site where we are also placing the long term, the railroad yards wi ll Water's edge a mandatory, covered pedestrian space. be developed - so this is a logical place The handling of the water's edge was for further offic e development. inspired by the great precedent established Jordan Gruze n: The design guidelines are 10 NYC /AIA OCULUS

Hunters Point: The Debate

Comments by Saskia Sassen and Richard Ravitch highlighted economic and political questions, and statements from the audience focused on community concerns Richard Ravitch

Saskia Sassen

[Moderator: Question about economy of networks that allow direct trading. But The real city is open-ended: its the city and how this project.fits into the even if the stock market becomes a smaller architecture is open, its planning is open, larger picture] operation with a smaller role in the so that much can just happen from the economy, other dimensions will expand. We ground up. Richard Ravitch: It is hard not to be still need a central business and finance Cassandra-like and to say there is no reality center with a whole telecommunications Beye r: The economic aspect of Hunters to any of this because of the economy, the structure. Insofar as the global economy is Point is undeniable. There is much glut of office space, the dearth of public dependent on communication and because difficulty building anything unless you have subsidies to bring rents down. Having said of the way telecommunications capabilities a certain amount of construction to justify that, I should add that this situation is are distributed spatially, such centers for its cost and to begin to create amenities. temporary. Lots of things can happen. The finance and business have a built-in Back in the day when the city's grid was population is increasing and with it the advantage. They seem to promise an laid out [ 1811] and the city paid for the demand for residential space. But we have immense concentration. And therefore New infrastructure, the developer didn't have to a miserable history in terms of planning. In York City will have an economy to sustain worry about building a park, school, or times of prosperity, when resources are this kind of project. streets. He just built houses. Today he is available, the mulitiplicity of planning faced with a monumental challenge. How reviews makes the gestation period of one The Hunters Point project is viable. But can you afford to build anything? The of these projects so long that economic whereas the 1980s was a decade dominated density is unavoidable if to we are to plan .situations change. So therefore it is worth by finance, now New York needs to develop for quality and amenities. doing now. an integrated urban economy. We need to support that development with technical New York City is a city of streets, and with This is a part of the city that should be training. Relying only on financial services this density of buildings most activities of a rebuilt. But I question this kind of density or communications and ignoring industry public nature occur on the streets. Our in an area that does not lend itself to the and manufacturing is a mistake. Hunters Point plan extends the grid system repetition of that amount of density. One of from the community behind it to the water. the major values of public investment in I see two potentials in the project. First One thing you will see is an unbelievable large-scale residential projects is to there should be a connection to the variety of buildings, of uses, of edges. The stimulate private investment in adjoining manufacturing base in this city. We need mixed-use nature of what we have here will properties. But this project strikes me as that sector, for small-scale manufacturing contribute to the vitality and potential of out of character with the surrounding area. units are actually a part of the global what will be to some degree an elitist­ I also wonder about the financing and economy. And we have the potential for looking community. marketability tests. There will always be that kind of district in this project. The pressure on the developer to increase manufacturing sector occupies the district Ravitch: I am a little concerned about the density, particularly with the commitment that lies behind Hunters Point. Yet there ratio of open space to apartments. Few of public funds to the infrastructure. does not seem to be a connection to it. We residential projects have this size and Because of the legal problems in the way, have to strengthen that link. complexity, except Battery Park City. The the ,gestation period will be long. public amenities are relatively low per unit. The imagery of the Hunters Point project At this point in the process you are setting Then too there might be foundation looks like a postindustrial corporate city. a framework: that you shouldn't make too problems for towers that size. I assume The project seems to create a wall, visually many compromises until they are forced on their piles may be deep and might run into as well as operationally, between this you. The real world will do that in spades. subways. corporate-style design with its high-income population and the nearby manufacturing Gruzen: I live on the water at Battery Park On the other hand, the plan is attractive. district. City. Because of their frenetic pace of life, There is no way to create a new residential New Yorkers need that. The water is a neighborhood and pay its costs and Second, the project does represent a calming place. Battery Park City has 25 interest rates unless there is enough mass. location for growth that should happen. It acres of open space for 13,000 residents. To make it marketable, yo u must make it is in a borough. There is too much But it has plenty of open space because unusually attractive in its living spaces and concentration in Manhattan, and there is a of the water. You don't need space always open spaces. We learned a lot from distortion in real estate prices. This project under your feet, for there yo u have it in Roosevelt Island, and it has been displaces that growth to a borough. front of you. The water's edge is a logical successful. That plan was thoughtful and place to create density. serious. This is better. But the imagery makes it look like an extension of Manhattan instead of [Moderator: Question about the trendfor [Moderator: Question about New York's something that connects to the borough. At high-income city-within-a-city, floating place in the global economy and this the fo rmal level the images capture only in a sea of poverty, not unlike the development's assumption of that one part of what is extraordinary in the increased privitization of new and strength] city. Yet there are so many good elements exclusive suburbs on golf courses with in the project. The design shows a potential security guards] Saskia Sassen: We all know New York is fo r encouraging growth and the connection sinking a little now. But if we look at how it to the manufacturing sector as well as to Sassen: This kind of city-within-a-city is organized, one thing emerges. There is a the boroughs. But we have to ask how can does force some sense of privatization. continuing mood for its being an we transcend its imagery as a high-income Cities have ways of constructing invisible international center of business and project? It is almost too pretty. walls. We don't need to build them. You finance. The stock market will probably can see this on East 96th Street. lose its significance because of electronic MARCH 19 91 11

Jerrold Nadler

Elizabeth Thom.son

visibility, then public purpose has no economic reality. Yet we need to create a certain density to justify development. We Hunters Point Waterfront Esplanade could create a huge park. But long-term planning calls for continued growth and In this site there is a way of opening up incorporates the different economic attractiveness not only to residents but to that city-within-the-city. And already this sectors within its boundaries. We could use people coming from outside. Change and design avoids the pitfalls of suburbs with a development such as Hunters Point to development has to be part of public strip developments. This city-within-a-city promote and develop a dynamic economy purpose, and inevitably it will be is a better version of a suburb. that includes a massive industrial sector, a controversial. Nobody wants change. Ever. massive service sector, and a massive Except backwards. But cities evolve. But there are two lost opportunities. First, manufacturing center - such as an Planning is destructive to what exists. its corporate-city form offers a wall of tall electronic high-tech industry. Then we buildings where there is going to be an could link all this to the world economy. Elizabeth Thomson, co-chair, NYC/ AIA invisible wall anyway. Can we develop Japan has found a way to protect its Housing Committee: An integrated visual forms that open up the project manufacturing. community should be encouraged here more? The design both enhances its along with social services, schools, and urbanity and its association with a Ravitch: There has to be fundamental affordable housing. Also you should look at protected suburb. economic need for manufacturing. It is not the new and unexplored typologies of going to occur because planners say it's housing. The community should be able to Gruzen: We needed a heart in the project, good. Economic energy created a Chinese transform the scheme to make it relevant and we looked into several options. First garment industry in New York that didn't and touch the lives of people around this we considered a bio-medical center. But exist six or seven years ago. No planners development. consultants said that right now there planned for it, but it occurs all over the should be more housing. Our first phase is city. This kind of spontaneous economy is Tom Paino, Hunters Point Community based on housing so that something else not going to be in heavy manufacturing. Coalition: We have serious questions could happen. Whether three office buildings Light manufacturing will take place where about height, density, and the transition or something else will bring further life to people are willing to take economic risks. made from the project to the existing the area, only time will tell. Perhaps with manufacturing and residential the Astoria studios' sound stage nearby Sassen: In the 1980s New York spent neighborhoods. To visualize the project's this part of Queens could be a motion considerable money upgrading itself to image the Coalition commissioned a picture center. become a corporate center. If you put up computer-generated simulation video to be the money in advance you can attract a made with funding from Open Space Jerrold Nadler, Assemblyman: Luxury highly skilled manufacturing base. It Institute through the J. M. Kaplan Fund housing and commercial development are doesn't have to be sweatshop. The city can and the Vincent Astor Foundation. A video going to raise land values and price the allocate resources and very modern, small was to be shown in this program, and at the 40,000 manufacturing jobs and the 20,000 manufacturing businesses can take many last minute it was taken out. We are not ancillary blue collar jobs that are located forms. It is very important to advance and sure of the reason, but for those of us who within a mile and a half radius of the compete in this area in the world market. saw it, it reveals the project's overwhelming project out of existence. effect on the surrounding community. Linda Davidoff, Parks Council: If you Industrial jobs from lower Manhattan have take a colossus and put it at the waterfront, Also the old railroad cut is a 200-foot swath been relocating to this area in recent years. barring access to land, and put a beautiful of greenery forming a visual axis to the river. But manufacturing cannot compete with skin and gorgeous fig leaf on it, it is still a This project cuts into it by 100 feet and commercial uses. colossus. The architects have an arresting puts buildings there that will visually block concept at Hunters Point: empty out the off the waterfront from the community. The City Planning Commission should center. We at the Parks Council say build study zoning protection for industry. high at the center and allow community Marcia Reiss, Parks Council: I am struck Mixed-use zoning now means you cannot access to the waterfront all around. by how often Battery Park City was held up convert manufacturing to residential use as a model for Hunters Point. What as-of-right, but you can convert Philip Howard, lawyer for Hunt ers occurred to me today is that we need some manufacturing to commercial use as-of­ Point Community Coalition: Manhattan new pictures and new images - and not right. In the absence of zoning that rules derives its strength from diversity and an just fo r housing. We also need the vitality of industrial space has to remain industrial anarchy in the character of its buildings. manufacturing and should put some money space, a project of this nature is a death This project is not Manhattanization. It is into that search for new images for the sentence to jobs. Saskia Sassen is right: Roosevelt-Islandization. waterfront. Now we have no idea how to you need manufacturing as well as financial create new manufacturing on the jobs. Since nothing is going to get built in 1991, waterfront. The Parks Council has been we can ask what public purpose is to be involved in the design of parks combined Sassen: When we talk about the served by this project? Shouldn't it be with manufacturing uses - the Greenwood importance of manufacturing, we need to something to make the city stronger? Will section of Brooklyn, which is used by see it as part of an overall economy. people come to New Yo rk for this? employees and neighborhood residents. Manufacturing has its own offices and its This is a tiny example of something we see own corporate sector. It need not be in a Beyer: If public purpose isn't to encourage on larger scale. ghetto. 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The pros complete reference guide for architects, and cons of all these methods need to be Deadline for entries in the Metropolis Magazine/ interior designers, specifiers, and evaluated both for their impact on the firm Parson School of Design Competition for: How Will We Live in 200}? For information contact woodworkers. It features complete product and on the client's perception. 722-5050. and service listings of AWI member firms. The new edition is available free to AWI MAY 10 Final competition deadline for the 1991 William members and qualified design Van Alen Architect Memorial Fellowship - East professionals. Contact Elaine Ferri, AWI, DEADLINES Meets West: An Institute of Anthropology in 2310 South Walter Reed Drive, Arlington, Istanbul. Contact the National Institute for MARCH 1 Va. 22206-1199, 703-671-9100. Architectural Education, 30 W. 22nd St., New Entry deadline for the Philip N. Winslow York , N.Y. 10010, 924-7000. Landscape Design Award for design excellence Designing to Sell in public open space. Write The Parks Council at MAYll The second edition of Designing to Sell, 457 Madison Ave ., New York, N.Y. 10022, or call Deadline for submissions for the American 838-9410, ext. 233 for additional information Institute of Architecture Students Competition: published by McGraw Hill, explains how to and entry forms. "The Next Age of Discovery" for a U.S. Pavilion integrate a store's environment and for Expo '92 in Seville, Spain. Registration merchandise to improve sales. It features Final deadline for first of two stages in the 78th deadline is May 1. Contact AIAS, 1735 New York Paris Prize Architectural Design Competition: Ave. , NW, Washington, D.C. 20006. 202-626-7472. floor plans, interior themes, merchandise Arrival to the City. Contact the National display elements, materials and finishes, Institute for Architectural Education, 30 W. MAY 17 storefronts, and lighting. It is available for 22nd St., New York , N.Y. 10010. 924-7000. First-stage submission deadline for a civic $49.50 from 1-800-2-MCGRAW center masterplan and City Hall for Santa Applications due for grants from the Clarita, California. For information and Architecture, Planning, and Design Program of competition program, contact William H. the New York State Council on the Arts. Call Liskamm, Competition Advisor, Santa Clarita 614-2962 for information. · City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Suite 300, Santa Interiors Committee Meeting Clarita, Calif. 91355. 805-259-2489. Deadline for entries in the 1991 National AIA On Fee Structuring Architectural Photography Competition. Entry deadline for the Waterfront Center's fifth Professional photographers are not eligible. For annual awards program for completed information, contact St. Louis Chapter AIA, 911 by Barbara McCarthy waterfront projects and comprehensive Washington Ave. , #225, St. Louis , Mo. 63101- waterfront plans. Contact Susan Kirk or Ginny 1203. 314-621 -3484. Murphy at 202-337-0356. The NYC/AIA Interiors Committe e , MARCH 25 under the leadership of Jonathan Butler, Nomination deadline for the Waterfront Center JUNE 14 is focusing on broad administrative issues contest for the ten most influential urban Final submission deadline for the 1991 Design that affect many firms, such as waterfront planning and development America Accessible Student Design milestones. There are no time or geography Competition: A Cottage for Beethoven. Contact compensating staff and hiring and limits. Contact the Waterfront Center, 1536 44th the National Institute for Architectural retaining the best employees. St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20007. 202-3 37-0356. Education, 30 W. 22nd St., New York , N.Y. 10010. 924-7000. In the January 15 meeting, the subject, MARCH26 Deadline for registration in the American Entry deadline for the 12th Annual Renovation which was addressed in theoretical terms, Institute of Architecture Students competition: Awards Competition, sponsored by Commercial was fee structuring, that is, the establishing Where Sight Lines Meet. Deadline for Ren ovations. Contact Dale G. Burrier, Awards of the value of work to be performed and submissions is March 29. For information and Chairman, Design Awards Competition, 20 E. entry forms contact AIAS, 1735 New York Ave. , Jackson Blvd., Suite 700, Chicago, Ill. 60604. the method of compensation. Margaret NW, Washington, D.C . 20006. 202-626-7455. 312-922-5402. Sedlis and Bruce Nelligan led the discussion on various methods of MARCH29 evaluating a project and determining the Entry deadline for Progressive Architecture's Affordable Housing Initiative Competition. Do You Read Oculus? appropriate fee. Contact Affordable Housing Editor, PIA, 600 Summer St., P.O . Box 1361, Stamford, Conn. Do you like it? Dislike it? Do you care one Once the monetary value has been 06904. 203-348-7531. way or the other? This is your chance to let us know. Fill out the survey accompanying determined for the scope of the work MARCH 31 involved, the next step is to devise a Submission deadline for the Lucy G. Moses this issue. method of compensation and fee structure Excellence in Architectural Restoration Awards, acceptable to the client. The architect must sponsored by the New Yo rk Landmarks 14 NYCIAIA OCULUS

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Shaking it up at the NYC/AJA: Matchmakers' Ball, March 5; Earthquake Regulations, March 12; Life Beyond the Design Press, April 2

Ken Frampton March 13

George Ranalli Federal Hall, closes April 26 March 21 Send Oculus calendar information to New York Chapter/AJA, 457 Madison Avenue, New SUNDAY3 FRIDAY 8 York, NY 10022. LECTURE LUNCH LECTURE Oculus welcomes information for the Style at its Best. Given by Bradshaw and Fernando Ferrer, Bronx Borough President. calendar pertaining to public events about DePalma, interior designers. 3:00 pm. Museum Sponsored by the City Club of New York. 12 architecture and the other design.professions. of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. noon. CUNY Graduate Center, 33 W 42nd St., Information is due in writing by the.first of Reservations and information, 534-1672. $7 fee 17th fl oor. Reservations 92 1-9870. the monthfor thefollowing issue. ($5 Museum members). Because of the time lag between when the SATURDAY9 information is received and printed, final TUESDAY 5 details of events are likely lo change. We FORUM recommend that you check events with EVENT Probing the Issues of the Brooklyn sponsoring institutions before attending. Matchmakers' Ball: A Collaborative Environment, Housing IV: What Will Future Workshop for Artists and Architects. Housing Look Like? With Karen Burkhardt, Sponsored by the NYC/AIA Art & City Planning, Brooklyn; Christopher Havens, CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS Architecture Committee. 6:00 pm. The BEC New Communications; and Ron Shiffman, Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave. Pratt Institute Center for Community and A Design of Public Open Spaces for Reservations and information 838-9670. Environmental Development. Sponsored by the TriBeCa. Proposals by Karahan/Schwarting $10 fee. Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment. Architecture Company. Sponsored by the 1: 00 pm. Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Municipal Art Society. The Urban Center, 457 LECTURE Plaza Auditorium. Reservations and information Allan Greenberg. With Paul Goldberger. 8:00 718- 788-8549. Madison Ave. 935-3960. Closes March 6. pm. 92nd St. Y, 1395 Lexington Ave . 996-1100. $15 fe e. Ageless Perceptions IV: Senior Women in MONDAY 11 Architecture. Drawings and photographs. SYMPOSIUM Soho20, 469 Broome St. 226-4167. Closes March Examining Postmodernism: Images/ 9. EXHIBITION AND LECTURE Premises. With cri tics A. D. Coleman, Max Works by Stan Allen. Lecture, 6:30 pm. South Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Shelley Rice, and Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia Un iversity. 854- The Drawings of Iakov Chernikhov. Arthur psychoanalyst Martin S. Bergmann. 3414. Exhibition closes Ap ril 20. Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia Moderator: Lynn Stern. Sponsored by the University. 854-3414. Closes March 8. Photographic INsight Foundation. 6:00 pm. LECTURE Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway. Itsuko Hasegawa, Architect. 400 Level Andrew Reicher, Urban Homesteading Reservations 787-4028. See March 7 for part Assistance Board. Sponsored by the NYC/ Gallery, Ave ry Hall, Columbia University. 854- two. 3414 . Closes March 15. AIA Housing Committee. 6:00 pm. The Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave. Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse. Information, Liz Thomson 309-9545. $5 fee. Steelcase Design Partnership, 305 E. 63rd St. WEDNESDAY6 755-6300. Closes March 22. LECTURE TUESDAY 12 Bedrooms. Site-specific installations. Snug The Renaissance Garden as Architecture/ Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Architecture as Garden. Given by Michael PROGRAMS Staten Island. 718-448-2500. Closes March 24. Schwarting, Karahan/Schwarting. 6:30 pm. Color Day. Sponsored by Contract magazine American Academy in Rome, 41 E. 65th St. and the Color Association of the United States. Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935. Metropolitan 517-4200. $7.50 fee. 9:00 am. ID CNY, 29- 10 Thomson Ave. , Long Museum of Art, 82nd St. and Fifth Ave. 879- Island City. Information and registration, 718 - 5500. Closes March 24. TOUR 937-74 74. Inside the New York Public Library. 6:30 pm. Liubov Popova. Museum of Mod ern Art, 11 W Sponsored by the 92nd St. Y. 996-1100. $15 fee. Earthquake: How Safe is New York? Local 53rd St. 708-9400. Closes April 23. and National Trends in Seismic Design Regulations. Sponsored by the NYC/AIA Federal Hall: Washington's Capitol. Federal THURSDAY7 Building Codes Committee. 6:00 pm. The Hall National Memorial, 26 Wall St. 344 -3830. Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave. Closes Ap ril 26. LECTURES Reservations 838-9670. $5 fee ($10 non­ The Architecture of Public Works. members). Art of the Forties. Museum of Modern Art, 11 Sponsored by the Architectural League. 6:30 W 53rd St. 708-9400. Closes April 30. pm. The Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave . Public Relations: An Effective Marketing Reservations 980-3 767, information 753- 1722. Tool. With Bruce Ross, Bruce Ross Associates. $5 fee ( non-League members). Sponsored by the Society of Architectural Administrators. 6:00 pm. Law offices of Shea & FRIDAY 1 Recent Work. Given by Dan Hanganu, Gould, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 45th floor. Montreal architect. Sponsored by the Pratt For information call Fran Brill, 489-4 74 7. $15 fee LUNCH LECTURE Institute. 6:30 pm. Higgins Hall, St. James Place (AJA members $10 ). Alaire Townsend, publisher, Grain's New York and Lafayette Ave ., Brooklyn. 718 -636-3405. Business. Sponsored by the City Club of New York. 12 noon. CUNY Graduate Center, 33 W Writer's Talk: Robert Adam on Classical WEDNESDAY 13 42nd St., 17 th floor. Reservations 921-9870. Architecture: A Comprehensive Handbook to the Tradition of Classical Style. 12 noon. The EXHIBITION Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave. Reservations Nicholson Reiser Umemoto: Selected SATURDAY2 935-3960. Projects. National Institute fo r Architectural Education, 30 W 22nd 924-7000. Closes April 19. FORUM SYMPOSIUM Social Responsibility and the Design Examining Postmodernism: Images/ LECTURE Professions. Coordinated by Susana Torre. Premises. Wi th cri tics A. D. Coleman, Max Kenneth Frampton on "Homage a Scarpa." Sponsored by Architects, Designers, Planners Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Shelley Rice, and 6:30 pm. Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia for Social Responsibility. 9:00 am. New School soc10logist Todd Gitlin. Moderator: Lynn University. 854-3414. for Social Research, 65 Fifth Ave. Information Stern. Sponsored by the Photographic !Nsight Donna Lewis, 334-8104. ' Foundation. 6:00 pm. Tisch School of the Arts SEMINAR 721 Broadway. Reservations 787-4028. ' Exterior Paving with Brickwork. Sponsored by Glen-Gery. 11: 30 am. Glen-Gery Brickwork Design Center, Amster Yard, 211 E. 49th St. Reservations 319-5577. MARCH 1991 15

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Center, 457 Madison Ave. Reservations 980-3767, Enigmas in Architecture. Give n by Paul THURSDAY 14 information 753-1722. $5 fee ( non-League Rudolph. Sponsored by the Pratt Institute. 6:30 members). pm. Higgins Hall, St. James Place and Lafayette LECTURE Ave., Brooklyn. 718-636-3405. The Architecture of Public Works. The Colonial Era: 162 4-1776. Given by Barry Sponsored by the Architectural League. 6:30 Lewis, architectural historian. Sponsored by Peter Eisenman on "Weak Form: Architecture pm. The Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave. the 92nd St. Y. 6:30 pm. Park East Synagogue, in a Mediated Environment 2 - The Conditions Reservations 980-3 767, information 753-1722. 164 E. 68th St. 996- llOO. $15 fee. of Presence: Immanence, Arbitrariness, and $5 fee ( non-League members). Excess." 6:30 pm. Wood Auditorium, Ave ry Hall, The Colonial Revival Comes to Wall Street : Columbia niversity. 854-3414. 1900-1940. Given by William B. Rhodes, art FRIDAY 15 historian. 12: 15 pm. Federal Hall National Memorial, 26 Wall St. 344-3830. LUNCH LECTURE APRIL Prema Mathai-Davis , commissioner, New York Writer's Talk: George Ranalli on George Department for the Aging, and Jacob Ranalli: Bui ldings and Projects. 12 noon. The Reingold, executive vice president, Hebrew Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave . Reservations Home fo r the Aged at Riverdale, on Being 935-3960. MONDAY 1 Elderly in New York. Sponsored by the City Club of New York . 12 noon. CU NY Graduate LECTURE Center, 33 W 42nd St., 17th fl oor. Rese rvations FRIDAY22 Peter Eisenman on "Weak Form: Architecture 921-9870. in a Mediated Environment 3 - The Event of LUNCH LECTURE Architecture: The Trace of Presentness." 6:30 SEMINAR Wilbur (Bill) Woods, director, Waterfront and pm. Wood Auditorium, Ave ry Hall , Columbia 1991 Masonry Codes, Concepts, and Open Space Planning, Department of City Unive rsity. 854-3414 . Construction: Productive New Changes for Planning. Sponsored by the City Cl ub of ew a Proven System. Sponsored by the ew York York. 12 noon. CU Y Graduate Ce nter, 33 W State Concrete Masonry Association. 8:30 am. 42nd St., 17th floor. Reservations 921-9870. TUESDAY2 60 East Club, Lincoln Building, 60 E. 42nd St. Registration NYSCMA, 6 Airline Drive # lll, PANEL DISCUSSION Albany, N.Y. 12205-1095, 518-869-3953. $55 fee MONDAY2S Life Beyond THE Design Press. With Phil ($38 in advance). Schreiner, Building Design & EXHIBITIONS Construction, Mitch Ronda, Builder, Judy Avery Library Centennial Drawing Archives Schriener, ENR , and Roger Yee, Contract. SATURDAY 16 Exhibition. Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Sponsored by the NYC/AIA Marketing and Buell Hall , and Wallach Gall ery, Schermerhorn Public Relations Committee. 5:30 pm. TOUR Hall. Closes Ap ril 26. McGraw-Hill Auditorium, 1221 Avenue of Row House Living: Windsor Terrace. Given the Americas. Registration 838-9670. $15 by John J . Gallagher. Sponsored by the Yemen: A Culture of Builders. 100 Level fee ($10 members ). Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment. Gallery, Avery Hall , Columbia University. 854- 1: 00 pm. Bartell Pritchard Circle, 15th St. and 3414. Closes Ap ril 26. Prospect Park West. Reservations and WEDNESDAY3 information 718 -788-8549. $6 fee. LECTURE Peter Eisenman on "Weak Form: Architecture LECTURE in a Mediated Environment l - From Gae Aulenti on "Recent Work ." 6:30 pm. Wood TUESDAY 19 Interpretation to Mediations: Icon and Index." Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University. 6:30 pm. Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia 854-3414 . SYMPOSIUM Unive rsity. 854-3414. Design Narrative : Nature 2000. Sponsored by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the New York THURSDAY4 Chapter of the Industrial Design Society of TUESDAY26 America. 6:30 pm. The Spence School, 22 E. 9l st LECTURES St. $8 ($10 non-members, $4 students). EXHIBITION Architecture in Search of an Ethic. Given by The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Moshe Safdie. Sponsored by the Pratt Resource. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 2 E. 9l st St. Institute. 6:30 pm. Higgins Hall , St. James Place WEDNESDAY 20 860-6868. Closes Summer 1992. and Lafayette Ave. , Brooklyn. 718-636-3405. SEMINAR Peter Eisenman on "Weak Form: Architecture Grooming the Next Generation of Stars . WEDNESDAY 27 in a Mediated Environment 4 - Weak Form as With Janet Goodman Aubry, Aubry Architects, Urban Architecture." 6:30 pm. Wood Auditorium, Diane Creel, Earth Technology Corporation, EVENT Ave ry Hall, Columbia Un iversity. 854-3414 . Barry LePatner, LePatne r Block Pawa & CSI Product Show. Sponsored by the Rivelis, and Martin D. Raab, Haines Lundberg Metropolitan New York Chapter of the Waehler. Sponsored by the New York/ ew Jersey Construction Specifications Institute. 11 :00 am. Chapter of the Society for Marketing ID CNY Center One, 29-10 Thomson Ave. , Long Professional Services. 9:00 am. CUNY Graduate Island City. Information and registration, 718- Center, 33 W. 42nd St. Registration and 937-7474 . information, 354-5656. $75 fee ($95 non­ members). LECTURE Leon Krier on "A n Architectural Paradigm." TOUR 6:30 pm. Wood Auditorium, Av ery Hall , Columbia Do not forget Gracie Mans ion and Environs . Given by University. 854-3414 . Justin Ferate, architectural historian. Sponsored by the 92nd St. Y. 9:45 am. 996-llOO . to send in your $15 fee. THURSDAY28 LECTURES Oculus Survey THURSDAY21 The Architecture of Public Works: William Morrish, director, Urban Design Program, LECTURES University of Minnesota. Sponsored by the by March 21. The Architecture of Public Works: Albert Architectural League. 6:30 pm. The Urban Appleton, Commissioner, New York Department Center, 457 Madison Ave. Reservations 980- of Environmental Protection. Sponsored by the 3767, information 753- 1722. $5 fee (non-League Architectural League. 6:30 pm. The Urban members). The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is grateful to the following for their sponsorship of OCULUS AJ Contracting Company Forest Electric Corp. George Kleinknecht, Inc. Nastasi White, Inc. Nordic Interiors, Inc. Jaros, Baum and Bolles Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc. Syska & Hennessy