OCULUS an eye on architecture

The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Volume 51, Number 7, March 1989

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OCULUS COMING CHAPTER EVENTS

Volume 51, Number 7, March 1989 Oculus Tuesday, March 7. The Associates Tuesday, March 21 is Architects Lobby Acting Editor: Marian Page Committee is sponsoring a discussion on Day in Albany. The Chapter is providing Art Director: Abigail Sturges Typesetting: Steintype, Inc. Gordan Matta-Clark Trained as an bus service, which will leave the Urban Printer: The Nugent Organization architect, son of the surrealist Matta, Center at 7 am. To reserve a seat: Photographer: Stan Ri es Matta-Clark was at the center of the 838-9670. avant-garde at the end of the '60s and The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects into the '70s. Art Historian Robert Tuesday, March 28. The Chapter is 457 Madison Avenue Pincus-Witten will be moderator of the co-sponsoring with the Italian Marble New York , New York 10022 evening. 6 pm. The Urban Center. Center a seminar on "Stone for Building 212-838-9670 838-9670. Exteriors: Designing, Specifying and Executive Committee 1988-89 Installing." 5:30-7:30 pm. The Urban Martin D. Raab FAIA, President Tuesday, March 14. The Art and Center. 838-9670. Denis G. Kuhn AIA, First Vice President Architecture and the Architects in David Castro-Blanco FAIA, Vice President Education Committees are co­ Tuesday, March 28. The Professional Douglas Korves AIA, Vice President Stephen P. King AIA, Secretary sponsoring a panel discussion on Affiliates Committee have organized a James L. Garretson AIA , Treasurer Educating Artists and Architects for Chapter-wide program on "Getting in Wendy Evans AIA, Director Collaboration with panelists Elisabeth Print in New York and How to Get More Harold Fredenburgh AIA, Director Egbert, artist; Melvin H. Pekarsky, Work from It." Those of you who rail Margaret Helfand AIA, Director Ronnette Ril ey AIA, Director artist/professor; and Tim Prentice FAIA, because some newspaper or magazine John Winkler AIA, Director architect/sculptor. Donald Cromley AIA, has (a) covered only the most seemingly Margot Wooll ey AIA, Director chairman of Pratt Institute's inconsequential part of your project, (b) undergraduate architecture department, mauled your building, or ( c) ignored Lenore M. Lucey AIA, Executive Director Cathanne Piesla, Executive Secretary will be moderator. 6:15 pm. The Urban your story idea, will take great interest in Center. this program. Panel members are six star Chapter Staff editors and reporters from the New York Regina Kelly Tuesday, March 21. The Religious media, whose beats vary from real estate Rosa Ri vera Judith Rowe Architecture Committee is presenting to preservation to lifestyle. They will tell Stephen Suggs the second lecture in its series on how they decide what makes a good "Sacred Architecture: Places for story for their readers, how they develop © 1989 The New York Chapter of Worship." Percival Goodman FAIA and their articles, and how they want facts the American Institute of Architects Edgar Tafel FAIA will present slides and delivered to them. Public relations All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole panels of their work and lecture on the specialists Joan Capelin and Renee or in part without wri tten permission is specific architectural attributes that give Sacks will moderate and discuss such strictly prohibited. some places of worship a certain sacred topics as how to use an article to get OCULUS , published ten times a year, quality. 6 pm. The Urban Center. For more business for your firm. Call Chapter September through June, is a benefit of reservations: 838-9670. The series will headquarters for details at 838-9670. NYC/ AIA membership, toward which $32 continue on April 18 and May 23. of membership dues are applied. New York Foundation fo r Architecture public member subscription rates: First Class Mail $45 Overseas First Class Air Mail $85, Overseas Surface Mail $45. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the Executive Committee or Staff of the NYC/ AIA. For more information on professional and public memberships please call the Chapter, at 212-838-9670. MARCH 1989 3 COLUMBUS CENTER PROJECT

Testimony prepared by NYC/AJA Columbus Center Task Force for the City Planning Commission Hearing, City Hall, New York, 1February1989: Joseph Wasserman FAlA New Columbus Center proposal as i t Terrance R. Williams FAIA would appear in contex t with ex isting Lenore M. Lucey AIA buildings and Central Park.

In 1985 The Metropolitan Transportation circulation; there was no study of a coalition of organizations filed suit. Authority and the Public Development whether in terms a building Early in December of that year Salomon Corporation issued requests for of mandated maximum FAR on this Inc. dropped out of the project. Three proposals for the sale and development unusually large site was desirable. days later the State Trial Court barred of the Columbus Circle Coliseum site. the sale of the property because of the Proceeds were earmarked for mass Fourteen proposals were submitted on mandated zoning bonus provision. transit improvements. The RFP called May 1, 1985, and Boston Properties/ for both financial and design Salomon Inc. were designated as Boston Properties entered into a series components, but stated forthrightly on developers on July 11th of that year. of discrete negotiations with page one: "The sponsor intends to sell Their architect was The Office of Moshe representatives of the coalition to the site to the applicant whose proposal Safdie. Mr. Safdie's scheme was an determine if mutually acceptable most successfully meets the sponsor's exuberant asymmetrical arrangement criteria could be established which goals, particularly the goal of realizing of towers rising out of the mandated base would make it feasible to continue. As a the highest financial return from the defining Columbus Circle. result of these and other discussions, sale." 1982 revisions to midtown zoning Boston Properties decided to continue had raised the allowable floor ratio Unanimously approved the City with the project. They retained the (FAR) for the site to a base of 15, with Planning Commission in December 1986, services of David Childs, FAIA, of optional 20% bonuses, which could bring public organizations remained Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) to the allowable maximum FAR to 18. The vociferously opposed. Although issues design a new building without the bonus, Columbus Circle RFP mandated that all such as bulk (the 20% mandated bonus), and more responsive to public criticism. competitors include the use of the 3 FAR height (925'), the resulting increase in bonus in their proposals. shadows on Central Park, and ill­ Description of Present Proposal considered site circulation were raised Totally absent was any consideration as as pertinent, any assessment of the NYC/ AlA commends Boston Properties to the kind of project which would opposition must include widespread for their good faith in realizing that the contribute most to the present and objections to the Safdie design. earlier proposal was floundering and future life of the city. The City Planning responding seriously to specific department played a minimal role Soon after the Board of Estimate criticism. The mandated bonus has been confined to pedestrian and subway approved the proposal in February 1987, removed, thereby reducing the project 4 NYC/AJA OCULUS

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FAR from 18 to 15; the reduction in bulk In an urban context a number of factors building wall around the Circle is has resulted in a concomitant reduction have contributed to the significance of extended as far as possible, fully in height, from 925' to 850'; and further, the redesign. Perhaps the single most enveloping the existing subway kiosk, to commercial square footage has been important change has been the fact that help define the presently amorphous, reduced while retail and residential massing and vocabulary have become unresolved space. square footages have been increased. distinctly New York. The complex The redesign retains 640 parking spaces, appears comfortably in context and in SOM has proposed the redesign of the considerably more than currently scale with the surrounding buildings. Circle so that it both functions as, and permitted. The building elements are suitably looks like, the major focus in the differentiated with distinct expression of cityscape that it was always This redesign means that the base must base, middle, break points, shafts, and meant to be. We strongly recommend unite all components into what can be building crowns, all of which relate well that the City implement this major legally defined as a single building in to both newer buildings on 57th Street public proposal for traffic rationalization which no residential units can be and older buildings along Central Park and urban beautification. positioned below the highest level of West. The suggested materials are warm office space. These constraints act as in color and sympathetic with In the immediate environment of the major determinants in the design. neighboring buildings; there are no large building, traffic circulation itself has expanses of glass. been handled in a felicitous manner. All Evaluations of the Present Proposal truck loading bays are located within the The architects have taken full advantage building mass at the western edge of the The SOM proposal is sensitive to of the Large Scale Development site with a complete one-way circulation virtually all the urban design issues of provisions of the Zoning Resolution to loop entered from 58th Street and context, scale, and street wall enclosure; distribute bulk in a manner creating less exiting at 60th Street. All exiting traffic and provides a fitting termination to shadow by placing the taller elements as is routed West away from the city center vistas. The designers deal successfully far to the West as possible, permitting and any involvement with Columbus with the environment, showing concern the 85' high building base to dominate Circle. A similar vehicular path is created for traffic, shadow pattern, and light and the immedaite environment of the Circle in a one-way entrance from 58th Street air, both in the immediate environment and the major North/South vistas on which bisects the site and provides a and within the building complex itself Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The spacious drop-off area in a grade level MARCH 1989 5

The Task Force is grateful to the "institutional memory" of George S. Lewis, FAIA.

Planning Commentary

The City retained able consultants who Secondjloor plan. developed specific urban design guidelines for all entrants in the original Architect/Developer competition. The guidelines were presented to local Community Boards for review and comment. Apparently the guidelines were too abstract to evoke much lay reaction at this stage. However, upon being presented with an actual design, a

.J vociferous reaction developed. There is a catch-22 in this process: as the development proposal goes through EIS and Community Review process, changes in design and even program may be considered and negotiated between the various parties. This may subject the developer to charges that the design has changed so substantially that the whole selection process should be invalidated and recommenced. Obviously this may put a considerable damper on any Third floor plan. developer's enthusiasm to embrace changes, which might be construed as invalidating their selection. In order for the post-selection process to be effective, negotiated changes mst be accommodated within the original courtyard serving both residential and abundant natural light, dramatic space, selection process. office lobbies. Again, exiting traffic is and pleasurable diversion - all very routed West away from Columbus Circle. fitting for the public character of this The Columbus Circle Coliseum RFP was important building. prepared by the part of the City Entrances, both pedestrian and Government concerned with economic vehicular, are highly visible, grandly It is too early to comment on the development. The lesson here is that the scaled events which will gracefully draw architectural treatment. Suffice it to say City, in disposing of its own land, must people into the complex. The major that the indication of detail, with a wide adhere to a higher standard than that of pedestrian entrance, which terminates variety of punched masonry wall private developers. It should consider the 59th Street vista axis, is a surfaces, intensified with larger areas of above all else what kind of project would monumental archway surmounted by a glass at appropriate juncture points, be in New York's best long-term interest. low Jeffersonian rotunda. The entrance seems entirely satisfactory - rich but Decisions of this kind should be based can be identified at ground level for the unforced in character, and with on policies which ought to be developed full length of Central Park South. suggestions for a broad palette of colors by the City Planning Department, and that get lighter and warmer in tone as that is not now the case. The new proposal retains the the building rises. extraordinary internal shopping gallery Conclusion of the earlier proposal. It runs parallel to A significant deficit in the present Columbus Circle, contains four levels, proposal is the lack of appealing internal This project is enormously important as and promises to be the most exciting connections to the subway and financial it serves as a hinge block, acting as the retail space in the City. The arcade is provisions to help pay for the northern terminus of the city's West Side interrupted near its center to permit reconstruction of the adjacent Columbus core commercial development, and as office, retail and residential tenants to Circle station. We would hope that the the gateway to Central Park and the cross between the gallery, residential Board of Estimate is able to restructure city's prime West Side residential lobbies, and escalators leading to the the deal to apportion part of the neighborhoods. This building must office cores on the level above. This proceeds specifically for improvement of speak eloquently and fluently to both merging of paths will create an the 59th Street Station. A station which constituencies. We believe that the extraordinarily lively confluence under will be much more prominent as a result present proposal does just that, and urge the great rotunda. There will be of this development. you to approve the project. 6 NYC/AIA OCULUS

The Fiftieth Anniversary of Oculus 1938-1988 A Recapitulation continued

by Marian Page

We resume our recapitulation of Oculus's first half century (see November and December 1988) with the sixties - a decade in which the AIA was not immune from student confrontations, a decade that marked the Chapter's celebration of its centennial. ...

April 1965: Under the heading "Chapter Housing Seminar: Fantasy and Reality," Chapter vice president David FM. Todd is quoted as saying "Public housing in New York will not overcome March 1967: "The New York Chapter, Authority-commissioned architects. its dismaying sameness, antiseptic The American Institute of Architects, 8200 dwelling units will be involved in qualities and cookie-cutter molds unless the oldest and largest in the U.S., this low-rise low- and middle-income bold steps are taken to produce great celebrated its lOOth Anniversary on project...." Also in this issue: "... The projects through planning experiments Tuesday, March 7th at the N.Y State first Oculus [October 1938] reports on a and pilot programs." Theater, Lincoln Center. ... " Joint Committee of Architectural Societies in the Metropolitan Area. This August-September 1965: "WE ARE October 1967: ". .. .'nobody has built less effort to consolidate the various PROUD ... THAT WE NUMBER IN OUR for greatness than contemporary societies is still under consideration. RANKS THE PRESIDENT OF AIA, THE America. What is worth building holy Most architects believe that a unified TREASURER OF AIA. ..LET NO ONE places for if not religion. We don't even voice for the professions would be FORGETTHATTHESE MEN MOULDED have buccaneer robber barons - like desirable especially in relations with the AND WERE MOULDED BY THE NEW Commodore Vanderbilt who built Grand City Administration .... " YORK CHAPTER."The two were Morris Central Station - who will build Ketchum, Jr. FAIA, President; Daniel something for the future. I want great April 1968: "Part of a program of the Schwartzman FAIA, Treasurer. spaces again." This statement by Philip Chapter is to interest school children in Johnson FAIA was made at "the recent the profession of Architecture. Recently November 1965: The Chapter's 1965 International Congress on Religion, eight students from Haaren High School Award of Merit recognized David Architecture and the Visual Arts .... " visited the office of...Gruzen & Rockefeller for "demonstrating what Partners .... The boys, all from private citizens can do to give beauty, life November 1967: "After a visit to a neighborhoods where there is a dire and new hope to their cities .... " sprawling city, was asked need of improved conditions, asked how she liked it there. Her response: questions about a career in architecture. December 1965: "... one of Mayor 'There? There is no there, there.'" This They were advised that the future is full Wagner's last official acts was the signing appeared under a heading, "AS OTHERS of challenge. Community participation is of an Executive Order directing that a SEE US." the keynote of the future planning of maximum of one percent and a minimum neighborhoods." of one-half percent of the construction January 1968: "One of the most cost for the city's new public building be complex, unusual, innovative - and June 1968: "The Awards Committee is allocated to the arts .... " climaxing "a promising-arrangements in the field of preparing an awards program to seven month collaborative effort by urban redevelopment and design, the recognize environmental design - that representatives and officials of at least Model Cities Program, is off to a daring which is all around us in such items as five city agencies and 12 civic groups and start in NYC/AIA hosted parks, spaces between buildings, professional organizations, including the a seminar on the Model Cities graphics, landscaping, street furniture, New York Chapter AIA .... " Program. ... One major innovative aspect sound, the air we breathe as well as of the program was revealed in the objects or devices, which influence us in January 1966: ". .. .Ina letter to the New announcement...of the appointment of the urban scene .... " Also in this issue: York Times, Chapter President Max Gruzen & Partners, formerly Kelly & "One Architect, Richard Dattner, Urbahn continued to press for a Gruzen to act as coordinating architects co-ordinated the efforts of 13 others moratorium on the sale of city-owned for the entire project. The unusual scope working with 50 students ...to produce a land in Staten Island and a one-year of Gruzen & Partners' role can be 65 foot long study for more than 200 crash program to develop a gleaned from the fact that the Housing blocks of riverfront along the twelve comprehensive master plan by a Staten Authority has delegated to them the miles of Manhattan bordering on the Island "'Task Force' ... especially created authority to supervise the quality Hudson River.... " for this purpose .... " control of the work of some 16 Housing MARCH 1989 7

Left: Drawing by Zank on back cover of Oculus, May 1967.

Right: Drawing by Albert Lorenz in September 1977 Oculus.

November 1968: "Donald H. Elliott, Chairman of the City Planning Commission recently stated: 'We are not in the business of designing individual buildings, but we are definitely in the business of designing cities.' Hopefully for New York imaginative urban design is no longer an unrealized dream. The "We n eed improved communications. " Urban Design Group is the key to the City Planning Commission's efforts and is one of the first design-oriented planning teams in the U.S ...."

February 1969: " ... following the Chapter's Environment Awards Appropriateness applications for ( 1) an April 1971: "Political donations by Exhibit ... the Chapter and the Museum of office building above the roof of Grand architectural firms whose principals are Modern Art are jointly sponsoring a Central, and (2) an office building on its members of the NYC/AIA have been symposium on architects' expanding site .. .. The Chapter has expressed barred in what is believed to be the first role in protecting the natural opposition to any new buildings on this instance of a professional society environment .... " site since the possiblity was first made adopting self-imposed controls on such public in fall, 1967 .... " contributions .... " March 1969: ". ..George Lewis AIA was appointed .. .to the new post of Director, June 1969: "This past school year the May 1971: "Metropolitan Chapter Being Professional Affairs .... " Also in this Architects' Renewal Committee in Considered .. ... " issue: "On Feb. 6th the Student Affairs Harlem (ARCH) and the Chapter, Committee, David Glasser, Chairman, through the Equal Opportunities June 1971: "Some Members Oppose sponsored a discussion, 'AIA is Committee, have cosponsored a unique Executive Committee on Political Irrelevant!' with Columbia Professor and successful program to introduce a Contributions .. .." Mario Salvadori, Percival Goodman, and group of black and Puerto Rican young students Peter Szego and Al people to architecture ...." September 1971: "Since 1930, five New Feigenberg ....Emotion may not show in Yorkers have been President of the AIA print, but it was there." A few of the September 1969: "The Master Plan for and now, once again, we have the honor .. .. excerpts that follow suffice to show that [Battery Park City] was approved by the Max 0 . Urbahn ...will officially take office the AIA was not immune from the Planning Commission on August 20 .... " later this year.... " student confrontations of the 60s: ".. ..Feigenberg: Architects design for May 1970: "The April 5th New York October 1971: "Chapter is host to other architects, give prizes for 45° Times printed statistics showing that Russian Architects on First Part of U.S. angles. High rise buildings designed by the amount of private Tour.. .." accountants. As long as society is sick, construction in 1970 will be lowest in 15 the profession is irrelevant .... Szego: Fact years. Subsidized and public housing December 1971: "Employer-employee that profession cannot create low cost aren't doing much better. A fall report relations are undergoing a change. housing proves it is irrelevant. Dale classified 800,000 units as Pressure for this change is being [student]: New housing act was substandard-one third of all NYC generated in no small measure by the conceived by lawyers not architects. AIA housing. An estimated 30,000 units are observable movement toward the has no political power. In order to be being lost each year. A crisis does unionization of architectural effective, it must 'dirty its hands.' .. .. " The exist ....What can we do? We can make professional employees .... " last word, however, belonged to the AIA: noise! Intelligent noise! .... " "Cavaglieri: You won't be young forever." January 1972: "The Madison Avenue October 1970: Chapter members Mall, 42nd to 57th Streets, has been April 1969: ''A sell-out crowd at the Elisabeth Coit FAIA, and Roger D. approved by Community Board No. 5 by Museum of Modem Art Feb. 25 heard Glasgow AIA, were appointed to the a 13-7 vote, and at this meeting the scientist Barry Commoner tell us in the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Mayor's go-ahead is expected .... We are clearest terms how man is in the process firmly convinced of the basic validity of of making this planet uninhabitable .... " March 1971: Under the heading this proposal...." Apparently not clear enough. "CHAPTER CALLS FOR AIR QUALITY CODE," reports Oculus, "New York City June 1972: "Landmarks Preservation May 1969: "The Landmarks may yet have the nation's toughest air Commission's Constitutionality Preservation Commission held pollution code if a currently proposed Challenged ...." hearings ...on Certificate of law is enacted .... " Cont'd. p. 14 8 NYC/ AIA OCULUS

Stamford Court by developer/architect NAMES AND team of Lincoln Property Company! Gruzen Samton Steinglass. NEWS

Bill Neuhaus AJA chairman of the Houston Chapter's "On the Boards" design awards jury, held the 1989 program at the New York Chapter headquarters. James Garrison AJA, of James Stewart Polshek & Partners, Raphael Vinoly AJA, of Rafael Vinoly Architects, and Theresa Thomas of Philadelphia served as jurors. The program was organized in three categories-architect, student, and open - and offered a "best of show" award of travel and registration expenses to the Aspen Design Conference donated by Herman Miller . .. Michael Maas FAJA retired on December 31 as Senior Managing Partner of Haines Lundberg Waehler. He will remain with the firm as a senior consultant. .. . The team of Lincoln Property Company-Gruzen Samton Steinglass has been chosen as the developer/achitect in a competition sponsored by the Stamford Urban Redevelopment Commission for the design of an $87 million mixed-use Jericho Residence .... Stephen projects that involved teamwork project to be constructed in downtown Achilles and K. Jeffries Sydness have between designers and facility managers. Stamford, CT. .. Robert Marino AIA, been named partners of John Burgee Ted Hammer AJA of HLW, will be a chairman of the NYC/ AIA Housing Architects, and R. David Harrison participant in the latter. ... "Morningside Committee Local Law 58 Task Force, and Donald W. Porter are new and Fort Greene: Neighborhood Parks" appeared on a local cable television associates of the firm. ... The Buell is the title of a lecture to be given by show, "Tenant Talk," in February. He Center for the Study of American Joseph Bresnan AJA and Adrienne represented the Chapter's viewpoint on Architecture at Columbia is hosting a Bresnan AJA on June 4 at the Museum difficulties with Local Law 58 .... symposium, American Architecture of the City of New York. It is part of a Charles Gwathmey FAJA will present and the German Connection, April 7-8. series on "The Changing Shape of New the keynote address at the opening For more information: 212-854-7374 .... York" accompanying the exhibition breakfast of Lighting World International Hugh Hardy FAJA is to be among the Calvert Vaux, Architect and on May 10 .... Richard Meier & speakers at the Ninth Monterey Design Planner. ... Stanley Salzman FAIAhas Partners have been selected to design Conference sponsored by California been named the recipient of the the new headquarters building for Council AJA It will take place at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Canal + in to house three Asilomar Lodge in Monterey, California, Architecture (ACSA) Distinguished television studios, production facilities, April 7-9 .... Boston architect Jean Paul Professor Award .... The following and administrative offices . .. . Also at Carlhian FAIA, who led the effort to promotions have been announced at Richard Meier & Partners, Robert F. save Grand Central Station, has been Haines Lundberg Waehler: Thomas Gatje, Thomas Phifer, and Donald E. named recipient of the 1989 Edward C. Del\fonse, Bohdan A. DeRosset, and Barker have joined the firm .... Cooper, Kember Award, The American Institute Norberte Misthopoulos have been Robertson & Partners have of Architects' highest service award .... appointed Senior Associates; Vivian announced the appointment of Donald Richard Gluckman AJA announced Chavez, Julian Fraser, Peter Seidel, Clinton AJA as a Senior Associate .... that David Mayner has been made an and Yu-Heng Shang have been named Construction has begun on two projects associate of Richard Gluckman Associates; Mary Jane Beatty and by Perkins Geddis Eastman: Architects . . . . Among the programs to be Dominic J. Cardinale have been extensive renovations of a former hotel part of a conference, Envisioning the promoted to Senior Staff Specialists; and in the Chelsea Historic District to Future: IFEx89, at IDCNYMay 9-11, will Harendra N. Jani, Samir H. Salif, and provide housing for 4 7 homeless elderly be International Cooperation in Robert W. Sovinski are new Staff which will be known as the Frederic Design, a case study of the working Specialists .... The Fisher Residence in Fleming House, and extensive relationship between Butler/Rogers/ East Hampton designed by Robert A.M. renovations of an 1880s Harlem Baskett and Eric Lieure Architecture Stern Architects with Armand structure to provide housing for 56 Interieurs of France; and Success LaGardeur as project architect, has homeless adults to be known as the Stories, case studies of outstanding received a Merit Award in the American MARCH 1989 9

Exhibitions Bethesda Fountain and Terrace. 1894 photograph ofJS. Johnston, in exhibition, "Calvert Vaux, Architect and Planner. "

Design for ramps for the Terrace by Calvert Vaux with details by J W Mould.

Wood Council's 1988 Wood Design Award Program. A weekend house designed by architects Bentley La Rosa Salasky in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, received an Honor Award . ... The following NYC/AIA members and member firms are participating in Design USA, an exhibit on housing sponsored by the Information Agency (see Oculus, January 1989, pg. 11): Austin Braverman Patterson; John Milnes Baker; Walter David Brown; Cooper, Robertson & Partners; Davis Brody & Associates; Fox & Fowle Architects; Michel Franck & Associates, Inc.; Peter Gisolfi Associates; Gruzen Samton Steinglass; Norman Jaffe; Johansen & Bhavnani Architects; Lee Harris Pomeroy Associates; Levenson Meltzer Neuringer Architects & Planners; Lewis and Gould Architects; M.J. Macaluso & Associates; William O'Neill RA, Architect; Ed Ozols; Pasanella & Klein; James Stewart Polshek and Robert Mills: Designs for Democracy Partners; Geraldine Pontius; at the Octagon Museum in Washington Thoresen and Linard, Architecture through April 2, features work by the and Planning; and Wechsler-Grasso­ designer of the Washington Monument, Menziuso . ... Gustafson/Ryan the U.S. Treasury and many other federal Communications - a joint venture of buildings. A protege of Thomas Jefferson Ryan Associates and the Gustafson and apprenticed in the office of Group - is providing public relations Benjamin Latrobe, Mills once warned and marketing communications services American architects to "study your to the design community, and others .. .. country's tastes and requirements, and At an awards ceremony in Boston, make classic ground here for your art." Leslie Blum AIA received a Federal The exhibition, says James P. Cramer, Design Achievement Award for the AIA Foundation president, ". .. demon­ design and development of the Sign strates architecture at its best as an Standards Manual for the U.S. Army . instrument for the public good." Corps of Engineers .. . . The Hudson­ Shatz Painting Company has The Language of Wood at the announced its search for an exterior wall American Craft Museum through suitable for the winning entry in its April 23, "celebrates the multifarious Annual Mural Design Contest. The applications of wood in Finnish art and Calvert Vaux, Architect and Planner, contest is designed to encourage New culture." Curated by Finnish architect which opens at the Museum of the City York City high school students in their Juhani Pallasmaa, former director of the of New York on April 11, will focus on the artistic and creative efforts. The winning Museum of Finnish Architecture, with ways the English-born architect's work entry will be professionally reproduced Finnish sculptor Kain Tapper and Simo reflected and affected key aspects of on the aforementioned wall ..If anyone Heikkila, leading member of the Finnish 19th and 20th-century American life. knows of an appropriate wall in any design community, the exhibition The exhibition will range from the Borough call Wendy Hamilton, Hudson­ includes furniture and other crafted villa-style architecture Vaux designed­ Shatz, 212-757-6363 . ... Oculus regrets works as well as photographs of Finnish first with Andrew Jackson Downing and the death of John F. Hennessy at 60. architecture. The latter juxtaposes later on his own - and integrated with Chairman and chief executive of Syska architecture by such turn-of-the-century its surrounding picturesque Hudson & Hennessy Inc., he supervised the figures as Herman Gesellius and Armas Valley landscape, to Central Park, engineering of Lincoln Center, the Jacob Lindgren with modern works by Alvar Prospect Park, and other green spaces K. Javits Convention Center, among Aalto, Kaija and Heikka Siren. in New York City, which he created with other landmark buildings. Frederick Law Olmsted. 10 NYC/AIA OCULUS

AROUND THE CHAPTER

process and the relationship between been apprised of the situation, and you NYC/AIA Presidential the developer and the architect. Our will soon be hearing about fundraising Decade consultants will be the focus of the third initiatives. Forum. A panel of structural and by Lenore M. Lucey AIA mechanical engineers, lead by Irwin Members can help us meet our Cantor and Marvin Mass, promises a commitment to the Institute through the The NYC/ AIA Presidential Decade was spirited discussion of the problems and timely payment of all invoicing. Prompt established in 1987 by A. Eugene Kohn potential of the architect-consultant responses to invoicing for individual FAIA. At that time, as Chapter President, relationship. dues, sustaining member firm dues, Gene sought to tap the vast reservoir of documents accounts, and others, not knowledge available from the Chapter's Future Presidential Forums will focus on only contributes to a positive monthly leadership. The Presidential Decade, a the press, the real estate community, cash flow, it also enables us to earn committee of the ten most recent NYC building process, NYC agencies, modest additional interest income which Past-Presidents, was developed as a way interior design, and public facilities can be used to pare the debt. In to return to the Chapter the expertise development. In 1989 the Decade will particular, those of you who have not yet of those who have served the open membership to include all previous responded to the invoicing for membership. Presidents of the Chapter. By enlarging outstanding Convention Assessment are the committee, it is our hope to expand urgently requested to finalize those The Decade, meeting over the past year the utilization of the body of knowledge payments. and one half, has established itself as an and expertise, which the Chapter has invaluable resource for the President built over the years. Admission fees for open meetings, tours, and the Executive Director. Decade and fundraising events are among the members have served on special ad hoc items being considered by a Financial task forces on significant Chapter Convention De-Briefing Needs Task Force appointed by positions and policy; and have President Raab. Needless to say, established the Presidential Forum, a Members of the Chapter's Convention individual or firm contributions are series of informal meetings with our Steering Committee have submitted always acceptable. - LML colleagues in the profession, which seeks final reports to the Chapter for inclusion to discuss ways in which we can all work in a required "de-briefing" for the together more effectively. Institute. Each Host Chapter presents a report on its activities, which becomes Grassroots '89 The first Presidential Forum, held in the part of the information supplied to Spring of 1988, brought the heads ofNew subsequent Host Chapters. Our report, The Institute's annual convention of York's six largest Construction/ on the singularly largest and most Chapter Presidents, Presidents-Elect, Construction Management firms successful convention the AIA has ever and Executives took place again in together with the Executive Committee, held, may also hold the record for depth January in Washington, D.C. An intense the Presidential Decade, and the of detail and delay in presentation. three and a half day round of seminars, Convention Steering Committee. This Wrapping up the details after hosting panel discussions, round tables, and dialogue, held in the Kohn Pedersen close to 16,000 architects, students, breakfast, lunch, and dinner meetings, Fox-designed executive offices of Mutual guests, and allied professionals last May GRASSROOTS is designed to give Of New York, was a direct challenge to was truly a Herculean effort. component leaders the skills they need the participants to improve the working during their terms of service. relationship between the architect and Contributing to the difficulty was the construction manager in order to better fact that the Chapter incurred a Martin D. Raab FAIA, Denis Glen Kuhn serve the client. Representatives of significant debt in fulfilling its Host AIA, and I attended for the Chapter. NYC/AIA and CAGNY (Construction Chapter assignments. NYC/ AIA owes the Other NYC/ AIA members participating Association of Greater New York) are Institute approximately $90,000 due to were: Michael Maas FAIA, NY Regional planning a series of seminars on working shortfalls in revenue. Prominent causes Director on the AIA Board; Laurie together to improve the construction of the revenue shortfall were the fact Mutchnik Maurer FAIA, Chair of the process. that less than 35% of the Chapter Affordable Housing Task Force; Douglas Membership actually attended and paid Korves AIA, NYSAA Vice President for In the winter of 1989 the second and the registration fee; and that the ticket Legislative Affairs; Paul Segal FAIA, third in the series reach fruition. In price for the Gotham Gala was below seminar facilitator; Laura Horstman AIA, February, George Klein, of Park Tower actual cost. We have finally negotiated Vice Chair of the national Corporate Realty, was the first developer to meet an extended payment plan with AIA. Architects Committee; and Regina Kelly, with the Decade and its guests. Mr. Klein, However, we are now fac·ed with staff administrator. the recipient of a Chapter Special approximately $30,000 of non-budgeted Citation in June 1988, lead a candid debt to repay each year for the next GRASSROOTS '89 featured speakers conversation on the development three years. Committee Chairs have were Amy Freeman Lee, Ph.D., and MARCH 1989 11

Gunther Klaus, Ph. D., President, Institute for Advanced Planning. Dr. Lee, David F.M. Todd FAIA Membership Renewal an artist, critic, and Board Member of the Named Landmarks Chair Deadline Texas Society of Architects, challenged us with a warm, witty, and wide-ranging Former Chapter President David Fenton The Institute asks us to remind you that discussion of architecture. ''Architects Michie Todd FAIA was named in January March 31st is the cut-off date for are dancing on the edge of mystery" she to New York City's top landmarks payment of membership dues. Members said, and while not the "mother" of all position. Mayor Edward I. Koch who have not paid by the end of the the arts, architecture was the most appointed David, currently serving as a month are considered in default and will complex. ''Architects have to know commissioner, as Chair of the Landmarks be suspended. Your prompt payment of everything, and that is very difficult. . .it Preservation Commission, succeeding dues is imperative at this time. In is probably why you fail so often." Dr. Gene A Norman who resigned in particular, if you are planning to attend Lee urged us to make a better world, by December to head the Harlem the Convention, May 5-8, in St. Louis and making it "more humane, more loving." International Trade Center. have not paid your dues, you will not be eligible for the member registration, may Gunther Klaus faced a daunting David, a member of the Commission not be eligible to serve as a delegate, and prospect in the last session of since 1984, has also served this past year may miss valuable mailings. GRASSROOTS: 500 architects pretty on the Historic City Committee, whose much thinking only about beginning report on the Landmarks Commission If your dues invoice is still awaiting their journey home. He began by eliciting was issued in February. He served as processing, please take a few minutes from the audience the names of famous President of NYC/AIA in 1969-70, and now to complete it and sign the check. leaders. After compiling the list, which has served on various Chapter and State And . . .if your Chapter and State dues are included Ghandi, Churchill, Kennedy, Association Committees. David became also awaiting payment, now is the time Hitler, and Caesar, he discussed the a Fellow in 1968, and has served as Chair to complete them as well. Non-payment common traits of those proposed: almost of the AIA Jury of Fellows, the Housing of local and regional dues may also cause all had a military background, all were Committee, and the Resolutions your membership to be suspended. male, all were dead, and most had died Committee. He has been a member of by violent means. "Think about that," he the AIA Housing Policy Task Force and said, "are you really telling me that is the Documents Committee, as well as Twenty Largest Firms what you want to be as a leader?" Dr. several other committees in a career that Klaus went on to use his own list of well spans over four decades. He has a long Based on paid sustaining member firm known leaders to demolish several standing interest in housing, and has dues as of Jan. 31. myths about leadership and followed practiced as a principal of his own firm with the three traits that make a leader: since 195 7 when he became a partner of Skidmore Owings & Merrill 232 • a clear vision of where to go, Ballard, Todd and Snibbe, (formerly I.M. Pei & Partners 164 • able to make it clear what makes it Harrison, Ballard and Allen), where he Kohn Pederson Fox Associates 141 worthwhile for the followers, and had been employed since 1946. By 1967 HLW 106 • can get you where you want to go. the firm had evolved to David Todd and Swanke Hayden Connell Associates, and in 1987 became David Architects 105 In applying his rules for an audience of Todd Architect, as David became an Beyer Blinder Belle 77 architects he noted that each and every Emeritus Member of the AIA. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer 70 person in the firm should have the same William N. Bodouva Architect 63 clear vision of where the firm is going. The Chapter looks forward to working Emery Roth & Sons 61 That everyone should have a stake in the with David Todd as he charts a new John Burgee Architects PC 58 success of that vision. And that it is course for this most important City Taylor Clark Architects, Inc. 56 acknowledged that you are the person commission. Our congratulations and James Stewart Polshek and who can and will make the firm's vision best wishes to David, and his wife Partners 54 attainable. Dr. Klaus also distinguished Suzanne, on this exciting new The Ehrenkrantz Group between leaders and bosses. ''A leader is assignment. - LML & Eckstut 52 a person who people want to follow, a Edward Larrabee Barnes/ boss is someone they follow because John M. Y Lee PC. 47 they had no other choice at the time." Fox & Fowle 39 He noted that the Berlin Wall is the only Philip Birnbaum & Associates 36 wall in history built to keep people in. Perkins Geddis Eastman 32 Every other wall has been built to keep Butler Rogers Baskett 32 people out. "What does that tell you? It William B. Tabler Architects 29 tells you that their rulers are bosses, not Brennan Beer Gorman/ leaders. If you want your firm to succeed Architects 25 you must be a leader, not a boss." LML 12 NYC/ AJA OCULUS

AROUND THE CHAPTER

I invite you to attend the upcoming AIA National Convention Fellowship Nomination presentation sponsored by this in St. Louis Committee and the Art and Architecture The Chapter's Committee on Fellows is Committee on "Educating Artists and Nearly two centuries ago, St. Louis meeting to select the Chapter's Architects fo r Collaboration," Tuesday became America's jumping-off point­ nominees for consideration by the March 14, 1989 at 6:15 p.rn. at the Urban the point at which Americans heading National Jury on Fellows. Our committee Center. I will look forward to meeting you for parts unknown to seek their manifest will meet to identify individuals then and discussing your interests in destinies on a frontier they knew exhibiting "outstanding achievement" in architectural education. absolutely nothing about-except that one or two of the following areas as set it held the promise of the future. forth by the Institute: Design, Science of Dutch designers will visit Construction, Literature, Education, In May 1989, at the AIA National Service to the Profession, Public Service, New York and Chicago Convention and Design Exposition, St. Historic Preservation, Research, Urban by Peter Heerens AIA, BNA Louis becomes the jumping-off point Design, Government or Industry, or again-only now the new frontier we're Architectural Practice. A group of about 50 Dutch designers embarking toward is the next century. (architects, interior designers, urban The committee will present its list of planners, landscape architects, and The AIA is interested in the future of nominees at the June executive consulting engineers) will visit New York American architecture and for that committee meeting. Once the executive and Chicago early in May. In New York reason is inviting every newly-registered committee approves the nominees they will visit NYC/AIA headquarters and architect in the nation to attend this AIA selected, the summer months are spent the Department of City Planning, where Convention without any convention­ working with the nominees to prepare they will receive an introduction to registration charge hoping they will binders that must be submitted, by an urban design in New York City. Also on learn at this convention that AIA October 1 deadline, to the National AIA. the agenda will be a tour through membership and the convention itself Rockefeller Center, visits to several new can be of tremendous benefit to them If you know of a Chapter member who projects including the World Financial throughout their professional lives. warrants consideration, please send a Center in Battery Park City and the letter and a brief resume to the Chapter's South Street Seaport, a walking tour The AIA is interested in the here and Committee on Fellows right away through Central Park with a visit to the now, too, and will prove it with hands-on, Central Park Zoo. In Chicago they will real-world seminars on everything from visit O'Hare Airport and the "Loop." low-cost GADD to desktop publishing, Architects in Education from project management to firm The visiting Dutch designers work in the management, from strategic planning to by Carl Hauser AIA so-called Federatie "O", founded in 1974 beating the competition. And it is allfree by the Royal Institute of Dutch to every architect who registers for this The New York Chapter has established Architects (BNA) , Dutch Society of convention. an Architects in Education Committee Interior Designers (BNI), Dutch with its primary goal to create a dialogue Institute of Urban Planners (BNS), It's vitally important that all AIA with the five schools of architecture in Dutch Society of Landscape Architects members have a chance to experience the City and its practicing professionals. (BNT), and the Dutch Society of the convention, because nothing else Consulting Engineers (ONRI), to work conveys the sense of purpose, and unity, There is widespread interest in the together to create a Dutch urban and fellowship that is the very reason for education of architects with the control environment of the highest quality. The being of the American Institute of of registration and licensing through the "O" in Federatie "O" stands for Ontwerp, Architects and certainly the reason for State Board of Architecture, and AI.A's Omgeving & Ontmoeting, which belonging to it. charge to identify the unique needs and translates as Design, Environment & interests of architects employed in Professional Exchange. academic institutions. The Dutch designers are interested in The Chapter has a strong commitment meeting American colleagues to to the future of the profession, and it is exchange views and experiences, and our belief that this Committee can would like to establish a permanent strengthen all of our concerns. Many exchange between Dutch and American existing Chapter committees have designers. education sub-committees dealing with their specific areas of interest; this offers For further information please contact a unique opportunity to collaborate in me at 300 East 59th Street, Box 605, NYC those shared areas of interest. 10022. 212-371-6681. MARCH 1989 13

Letters

Dear Editor: Lobby Day As one whose experience spanned those times, I've been reading the Oculus It is time again to remind you of the "Recapitulation 1938-1988" with importance of your attendance at pleasure in the Chapter's Architects Lobby Day in Albany. We accomplishments and sadness in its ask that you give one day each year to failures. Of particular interest to me was increase the visibility of the architecture the December 1961 entry "Chapter community with our legislators. Even if Proposes a Midtown Pedestrian Mall." It you have written or visited your local happens that I was personally involved representative this year your attendance in that notable effort and thought that is needed. We cannot emphasize how the Oculus might be interested in a impressive it is to the legislators and first-hand account. their staffs to see great numbers of architects in the hall and in their offices. The original Chapter proposal for a IfNYSAA's legislative programs are to be vehicular street between 5th and 6th effective, we need your participation. So Avenues was made just after the turn of please mark your calendar now! the century when the Library was built on the site of the Proposed pedestrian mall by Pomerance March 21, 1989 former reservoir. It was an appropriate & Breines reprinted from the New York Architects Lobby Day in Albany time to suggest that the 900-foot block Herald Tribune, November 20, 1961. between the two avenues be intersected The Chapter will be providing bus by a new street running north to Central Plaza north and south. But, apparently, service, leaving HQ at 7 am and returning Park. I remember hearing the project without a Bob Moses a project like this in ~!'le early evening. No prior experience described by Harvey Corbett and Ralph gets lost in the City's beaurocracy. necessary! Just make your bus Walker. There was a published report Ironically, a small segment of the reservation and we will do the rest. illustrated by Hugh Ferris showing a row strollway was actually realized in the Remember, its your profession that is at of tall, romantic towers connected by mid-block pedestrian passage from 42nd stake in Albany: statute of limitations, "skyways." The difficulties in assembling to 43rd street under the City University licensing, and liability. Plan now to join a right-of-way and the advent of World of New York Building. Imagine what it us on Lobby Day. War I put this project on the shelf. would have meant to mid-town Manhattan to have had such a public In November 1961, my firm Pomerance space all the way up to Central Park. Plywood Siding Alert and Breines offered an up-dated version A Chapter member informs us that the of the earlier Chapter concept. But, Simon Breines FAIA American Plywood Association has instead of adding another vehicular changed its recommended protection street to Manhattan, we proposed a techniques for plywood siding. The pedestrian way. A pedestrian way was Dear Editor: revised guidelines, which call for feasible whereas a full-fledged street in I am seeking information about a door protecting the plywood with a coating the 1960's no longer was. We had knocker that I own. It was on the front that provides ultra-violet protection enthusiastic response from institutions door of a mansion on or near Fifth (such as paint or solid color stain), are and property owners. The Museum of Avenue in Manhattan. The mansion was quite a change from the originally Modern Art indicated an interest in demolished between 1935-194 7. I believe advertised "no-maintenance" natural having its garden related to the strollway it was the residence of one of the finish of certain plywood products. Face and the Donnell Library explored the Vanderbilts, but am not positive. It is a veneer of unprotected plywood siding, possibility of an adjoining, outdoor renaissance style solid bronze door particularly Western Red Cedar, is reading place. knocker in the shape of a cupid with fig susceptible to rapid deterioration when leaf. [Note: full specifications of the installed on sun-exposed facades The Chapter formally endorsed the writer's request are available for (American Plywood Association, Pomerance and Breines proposal and it review at the chapter. ] "Weathering and Erosion of Plywood," was made public at a press conference August 10, 1978). You may wish to review in our former headquarters at the Any information that you can supply any project in which you specified Architectural League. would be greatly appreciated. I wish to naturally finished plywood siding with thank you in advance for your anticipated your specifier and insurance carrier. The proposed strollway, popularly helpfulness in this matter. known as 5 1/2 Way, was also endorsed by Mayor Wagner and his planning Richard Brill commissioner James Felt. In effect, 5 1/2 9926 Walker House Road, Apt. 3 Way would have extended Rockefeller Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879 14 NYC/ AIA OCULUS

Fiftieth Anniversary, Drawing by Albert Lorenz in October 1977 1938-1988 Continued Oculus.

Cont'd from p. 7

December 1972: ". ... George Lewis, speaking for the official Chapter position supported the establishment of a 'Special Parks District' in Tudor City, thereby opposing the building of a huge apartment tower there .... "

April 1973: "'The Architect and the Energy Crisis: Architecture as an Energy User' ... a public-oriented exhibit ... at the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Exhibition A single brick rightly envious of the attributes of an arch. Center.... was organized by the Natural Environment Committee .... " architects and architectural groups in March 1978: "Landmarks Commission September 1973: "The recent our area ....Reinvestigate ethics standards Ruling On Grand Central Station Goes designation of the Cast Iron Historic concerned with direct participation in Before U.S. Supreme Court....An adverse District stands as a significant building ...." decision could undermine the accomplishment of the Landmarks Landmarks Law to which the Chapter is Preservation Commission ....The Chapter May 1976: "Chapter's 1976 Economic very strongly committed." may take credit for its contribution, as Survey Indicates 36.4% Drop in Total channeled through its Historic Buildings Personnel of Chapter Offices .... " December 1978: "Brendan Gill Talks Committee, chaired by Denis Kuhn .... " about His Latest Book - Summer November 1976: "The New York Places, the Guggenheim and the January 1974: "Major amendments to Chapter represented by Denis Glen Beauborg, and Foresees the Possibility the New York City Landmarks Kuhn spoke in favor of the Villard of Lower Manhattan Becoming an Preservation Law were passed by the House/Palace Hotel project by Emery Intellectuals Disneyland .... " City Council on November 27th. Under Roth and Sons, Architects, at the Oct. 21 the changes the Landmarks Commission Board of Estimate hearing .... " January 1979: ,'I.M. Pei to Receive AIA will now have the power to hold public Gold Medal...." hearings at any time on proposed new January 1977: "Chapter Votes in landmarks and historic districts. Support of Westway. ... " April 1979: "Chapter Economic Survey Previously the Commission had been Shows Continued Upturn and Optimism permitted to have six months of February 1977: ''Anguish over our city's Sustained into '79 .... " designation hearings at three-year problems should not obscure a project intervals. Also, the amended law will now that will greatly enhance this region's January 1980: Andrew MacNair, who authorize the Commission to designate life: the Gateway National Recreation with this issue, took over the editorship interior landmarks 'customarily open or Area. This is a national park right at our of Oculus begins an Editor's Note with accessible to the public.' ... " own harbor, for which plans are rapidly these words: "Considering the position proceeding .... The park has been that architects face today with a future February 1975: "Battery Park City: A approved by Congress - the Chapter of cutbacks and shortages, it becomes Slumbering Giant Awakens .... " lobbied strongly for it through the AIA more critical than ever that the New York in Washington .... " Chapter of the American Institute of March 1975: ''Architects in Industry: A Architects muster up its forces for not New Committee .... " April 1977: "Residential Plaza only a program of survival but also Guidelines Supported .... " proliferation .... " The issue also includes January 1976: "Ad Hoc Committee On two columns by Jaquelin Robertson Status of Profession Makes First May 1977: "Professional Liability explaining Oculus's "new look" and Report....Plans for follow-up activities to Insurance Discussed at Office Practice "new editorial format; an "Update" on be begun within the next four to six Committee Meeting .. .." "Mayor Koch's 18 month weeks include: The development of a Action Plan ... to improve the physical unified and coordinated Chapter December 1977: ".. .the Chapter may condition of Times Square .... "; an article position on all aspects of building .... The join with the Municipal Art Society and by Bill Slopsin on "The Urban Center," formulation of a continuing set of certain other organizations to take space with the subhead "Our Headquarters: A coordinated Chapter activities designed in the north wing of the Villard Houses .... " History. ... " to help our profession re-establish itself on an effective and respected basis .... For February 1978: "Philip Johnson to to be continued example, we should: Work with all Receive AIA Gold Medal...." MARCH 1989 15 OCULUS NYC/AIA MAR 89

Send Oculus Calendar information to: SATURDAY4 TIIDRSDAY 16 New York Chapter/AJA, 457 Madison Avenue, NY. 10022. A.R.E. CLASSES EXHIBITION Oculus welcomes information for the Review classes begin for Building Design New Projects by Architects. Drawings by calendar pertaining to public events Section of Architects Registration Exam. Ricardo Bofill, Zaha Hadid, Arata Isokaki, about architecture and the other design Institute of Design & Construction. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumy, etc. Max professions. It is due in writing by the 1st 718-855-3662. Protetch, 560 Broadway. 966-5454. Closes of the month for the following issue. May 13. Because of the time lag between LECTURE information received and printed, final TUESDAY 7 Alan M. Hantman AIA on "Rockefeller details ofevents are likely to change. It is i Center - the Design and Evolution of a II recommended that events be checked with NYC/AIA PANEL National Historical Landmark" in Pratt's sponsoring institutions before attending. A discussion on Gordan Matta-Clark visiting lecture series. 6 pm. Higgins Hall sponsored by the Associates St. James Place & Lafayette Ave.', .' 'I Committee. 6 pm. The Urban Center. 718-636-3405. II (See Coming Chapter Events.)

CONTINUING EVENTS WEDNESDAYS TUESDAY21 EXHIBITION ARCHITECTS LOBBY DAY Erik Gunnar Asplund. Max Protetch, 560 SEMINAR In Albany. Buses leaving the Urban ' Broadway. 966-5454. Closes March 11. Movement Joints in Brickwork. 11:30 am. Center at 7 am. 838-9670. Glen-Gery Design Center, 211 East 49th EXHIBITION Street, 319-5577. Robert Mills: Designs for Democracy. The NYC/AIA LECTURE Octagon Museum, Washington, DC. URBAN GENEALOGY "Sacred Architecture: Places for 202-638-3105. Closes April 2. First of 4 Wednesday classes on How to Worship." 6 pm. The Urban Center. Conduct Architectural Research with (See Coming Chapter Events.) EXHIBITION Anthony Robins, Director of Survey, NYC Emilio Arnbasz and Steven Holl AIA, fourth Landmarks Preservation Commission. of five exhibitions in MOMA's Gerald D. 6-7:30 pm. The Urban Center. To register: Hines Interests Architecture Program. Theresa Coxfield 935-3960. . Museum of Modern Art. 708-9400. Closes WEDNESDAY 22 April 4. SEMINAR Brick Veneer over Metal Studs. 11:30 am. EXHIBITION THURSDAY9 Frederick Kiesler Retrospective. Whitney Glen-Gery Design Center, 211 East 49th Museum of American Art. 570-3633. Closes LECTURE Street, 319-5577. April 16. James Rouse on "Housing for the Poor -A National Disgrace" in Pratt's visiting lecture EXHIBITION series. 6 pm. Higgins Hall, St. James Place The Language of Wood. Applications of wood & Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. 718-636-3405. ITUESDAY 28 in Finnish art and culture. American Craft Museum. 956-3535. Closes April 23. LECTURE SEMINAR I Gwendolyn Wright, director of the Temple "Stone for Building Exteriors: Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of Designing, Specifying and Installing." American Architecture, Columbia U. will 5:30-7:30 pm. The Urban Center. discuss "The Greatest Machines: Ea~ly 838-9670. (See Coming Chapter WEDNESDAY 1 Modern Architects Confront the American Events.) EXHIBITION City." Second in the Whitney Museum's I New York on the Edge. Photographs of New Distinguished Lecture series. 8 pm. The Asia ' York's waterfront by Charles Traub and Jerry Society. 725 Park Ave. Tickets available at NYC/AIA PROGRAM Gordon in a joint exhibition sponsored by the Whitney's Sales Desk. 570-3633. Chapter-wide program on "Getting in MAS and the NYC Department of Parks and Print in New York and How to Get More Recreation. "City on the Edge" at the Urban Work from It" sponsored by the Center; "Parks on the Edge" at the Arsenal Professional Affiliates Committee. Gallery in Central Park. 935-3960. Closes TUESDAY 14 838-9670. (See Coming Chapter f Events.) March 31. NYC/AIA PANEL ''Art/Artist in Architectural Education:' 6:15 pm. The Urban Center. (See Coming Chapter Events.) THURSDAY30 THURSDAY2 LECTURE . Franz Schulze, Professor of Art at Lake LECTURE Forest College, will discuss "Signs of an Old Professor Jay Kappraff, NJ Institute of WEDNESDAY 15 Century: Eleven years from the Millennium," Technology, on "Mathematical Constraints in Whitney Museum's series. 8 pm. The Asia on Man-made and Natural Design" in Pratt's EXHIBITION Society, 725 Park Ave. Tickets available at visiting lecture series. 6 pm. Higgins Hall, Retrospective of the work of the Russian the Whitney's Sales Desk. 570-3633. St. James Place & Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. Constructivist Liubov Popova ( 1889-1924 ). 718-636-3405. Museum of Modern Art. 708-9400. Closes May 30. The New Turk Chapter A-J Contracting Co., Inc. of the American Institute of Architects Carnegie Fabrics is grateful to the following Contract Distributors, Inc. for their sponsorship of OCULUS Domestic Marble & Stone Facilities Resources Inc. Furniture Consultants, Inc. GE Lighting Herbert Construction Company MaharamNertical Surfaces Morse/Diesel Inc. National Reprographics

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