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CITY COLLEGE, AIA-NY, While New York real estate has never had a SO FAR, NEW STATE LAW AIMED AT 00 AND CITY COUNCIL SPONSOR shortage of star architects designing luxury CLAMPING DOWN ON UNLICENSED 04 apartments, middle class and affordable hous• AN IDEAS COMPETITION PROFESSIONALS HAS HAD MINIMAL ALTERNATIVES ing often goes untouched by high-minded LU FOR NEW HOUSING MODELS IMPACT ON ARCHITECTS designers. The recent competition, New —I FOR NETS ARENA Housing New York, aims to address a need o for a dialogue on the very basic component o 08 NEW of residential living in New York. The compe• EMERGING tition, which recently announced its winners, WITHOUT is billed as a "design ideas" competition, VOICES, but has its basis in three real sites in Harlem, CLASS OF 2004 HOUSING Brooklyn's Park Slope Area, and the Queens waterfront. The winning proposals, selected LICENSE 14 from 160 entries from firms small and large, NEW and from as far away as Ohio and Texas, yielded A law was passed last September that prom• RIDING THE some imaginative ideas on what apartments ised to greatly enhance the state's ability to PROUVE WAVE could be like on these separate housing sites. clamp down on unlicensed architects. But YORK Prizes were awarded in first through third now, six months after Governor George E. 16 place for each site. Choi Law/A.V.K.Group Pataki signed the legislation, it remains THE STATEN Andrew Berman's Harlem project of Irving, Texas; Arte continued on page 2 largely a dead letter, with ambiguous lan• guage in the law yet to be clarified and, ISLAND SCENE importantly, with no funding available to put the whole thing into practice. 03 EAVESDROP On September 20, 2003, Pataki conferred 15 CLASSIFIEDS his approval upon a law continued on page 7

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A dreary passage into Grand Central Station from Lexington Lampost by Mark Handforth (2003) Avenue has been brightened by the addition of a small glowing tempo• THE 72ND WHITNEY BIENNIAL OPENS THIS WEEK and concern with the state of rary pavilion. It is not just another the world. The commentaries food stand or artistic folly but a small The 2004 Whitney Biennial, including Liz Craft, Assume are presented in as many recording studio. Architect Michael opening on March 11'", will Vivid Astro Focus, and David forms and styles as there are Shuman of MASdesign designed the present the works of 108 Altmejd. artists—painting, drawing, booth for StoryCorps.an oral history artists and collaborative Many of the works in this printmaking, sculpture, project created by Sound Portraits groups. Several generations year's Biennial refer to past art installation, video, filmmaking, Productions, continued on page 7 Story time in Grand Central of artists are featured in the trends, such as the pop and photography, performance exhibition, from the accom• politically engaged work of and digital art; ethereal, fan• plished (David Hockney, the 1960s and the '70s, tastic, narrative, political, Marina Abramovic, Paul replete with psychedelic, organic, figurative, abstract. McCarthy) to the mid-career gothic, and apocalyptic results. Expect to see several works and emerging. Perhaps the The works offer a welcome that reflect on space or envi• most exciting recent addition reflection of the country's ronments, consistent with to the Biennial is the use of current political climate, which artists' continuing interest in Central Park. The outdoor echoes the unpleasant examining human experience installations are the works episodes of recent American in a changing world. Andrea of six artists who will also history. Many of the works Zittel merges practical and have works in the museum. clearly convey uneasiness existential continued on page 4 00 (\J 3 O LU

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NEW HOUSING NEW YORK continued from PUBLISHER CO On The Charlie Rose Show on February 23"', Steven Brill of the front page Architects of New York; and Diana Darling a: Brill Report asserted that Larry Silverstein has no chance of win• Blostein/Overly of Columbus, Ohio were EDITORS o awarded first places for the Manhattan, William Menking ning his suit against the Swiss Reinsurance Co. and other insurers M Queens, and Brooklyn sites, respectively. Cathy Lang Ho of the World Trade Center, and of collecting two insurance Even though the winners were mostly LU payments of $3.55 billion each rather than one. Brill says that comprised of younger architects, estab• Martin Perrin Silverstein himself wrote the policy to say that one incident is any lished firms like Deborah Berke and Mitchell Gurgiola also finished with hon• EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS number of events that take place within a 72-hour period. Brill Deborah Grossberg orable citations. James Way went on to say that the public is focused on the designs to rebuild Though jointly sponsored by CUNY, the New York Chapter of the AIA, and the ADVERTISING SALES the WTC site when, in fact, there is no money to build a new commercial tower on the site. Further, an article in the Wall Street City Council of New York, the competition Jonathan Chaffin is more concerned with sparking a public Journal on February 25"^ stated that $ 1.3 billion of the insurance dialogue on the state of affordable housing, and less concerned with commissioning Tamalyn Miller money has already been spent—far before reconstruction has new structures on these sites (though the INTERN begun—with the main beneficiaries being lawyers, lenders, and Christina Ficicchia prospect of winning proposals coming to TECHNICAL CONSULTANT real estate developers. fruition is not out of the question). "We Keith James Brill speculates that Silverstein will simply walk away from the wanted to do this thing quickly," said Carmi project (with tidy $800 million payday). But does this mean that Bee, a juror and one of the members of the steering committee. "We didn't want the the competition (and the complex public proceedings) that contestants to be bridled with too many real-world constrictions even though we CONTRIBUTORS ultimately produced David Childs' Freedom Tower design has PHILIPPE BARRIERE/ARIC CHEN/ been a charade? Will city officials try to fmd another developer gave them a lot of restrictions. But where MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL/ appropriate, we told them to break them. JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/ or attempt—as Robert Moses surely would if he were still alive— Maybe this will tell us something about the JAMES PETO/LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/ to do it themselves? restrictions." Bee is a principal of Rothzeid KESTER RATTENBURY/D.GRAHAME SHANE/ Kaiserman Thomson and Bee architects. ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER New York City is a place where most development has been led "We were looking for design with a by real estate developers. But the land under the WTC is owned by capital D," said Bee, who juried the com• EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ a public entity, the Port Authority, and many hoped that this would petition with architects Greg Pasquarelli, M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ prompt a different process of planning, designing, and building Hugh Hardy, as well as Metropolis editor WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ Susan Szenasy, among others. "Housing SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ on the site. Early on, in fact, many challenged Silverstein's right to in New York is looked at as a commodity. 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I appreciate the mous interest in architecture several days, I sent numerous, were Borough President I— may change is fantastic." high level of architectural dis• that the Center has helped to urgent requests to Mr Bell and James P. Molinaro and Council i— generate. Additionally, it should others at the AIA New York Members James Oddo, Indeed, the potential that this design LU course that your paper gener• ally offers and the contribution be appreciated that although the Chapter, asking for the chance to Andrew Lanza, and Michael ideas competition could provoke discus• that it is making to the design Center provides a new focus present the story to them before McMahon. sion of housing in New York City seemed to communitY. However, as the for the architectural community, It was printed. Unfortunately, Are you aware that it was be the most exciting part of the experience. past Vice President for Public working there is like working in no one chose to respond. former AIA Staten Island (AIA- "I thought the competition spoke to a void," Outreach of the AIA New York a fish bowl. What may have Sl) President Robert Englert, said architect Andrew Berman, a second- and a current board member of seemed to be a snub was most NEVER TOO LATE... with the assistance of the place winner for the Manhattan site. Berman the New York Foundation for likely an attempt to stay focused We wanted to pass on belated AIA-SI Board of Directors, who was impressed that academic, civic, and Architecture, I am outraged by on the many activities of the congratulations on launching actually did most of the work professional organizations were "con• your accusation that Rick Bell Center, Instead of spreading The Architects Newspaper. It in writing the Task Force cerned about generating quality architec• would have snubbed Pritzker false innuendo, maybe its time has filled a much-needed void recommendations ture," he said. "While we know that they Prize-winner Kevin Roche to give Bell some credit for and happily the articles have In the past several years, appreciate it, they also have to promote it." when he arrived early for a helping to revitalize the AIA as ranged from the informative to AIA-SI has become a strong The competition winners will be on view presentation at the Center well as an interest in architec• the witty to, at times, the intel• voice for better design stan• at the Center for Architecture through the ture in New York. dards on Staten Island, and Knowing Rick the way I do, lectually brilliant. end of March, ANDREWYANG both our Task Force involve• I can honestly say that there is MARKSTRAUSS. AIA. 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The architects who live at 475 Dean Street vaunted green space and pedestrian prom• NEIGHBORS OF PROPOSED NETS ARENA HAVE DESIGN IDEAS OF THEIR OWN in Brooklyn know what to do with the pro• enade. Shimmy and Shrink, responses to posed Frank Gehry-designed Nets arena concerns about the proposal's scale, lowers that threatens to supplant their home:Take the tower heights and redistributes building Plan "B" (for Brooklyn) it and shove it... onto an elevated platform space horizontally to reflect the modest above the trafficky thoroughfare adjacent to townhouses on adjacent streets. Shifting the planned site, and on the existing Atlantic the arena over Atlantic Avenue is a feasible, City mall, owned by arena-backer Bruce if fantastic, design solution. But Towers Ratner's development company. emphasized that the plans are intended more as a critique than counterproposal, Architects Joel Towers, Karia Rothstein, a way to open discussion about the neigh• and Salvatore Perry of SR + T Architects borhood's future. developed a trio of "rhetorical" plans, which they are calling Shift, Shimmy, and Shrinl<, They are not alone in their efforts. District as alternatives visions of how to insert a Councilwoman Letitia James with architect 800,000-square-foot arena (not a much Marshall Brown have organized a workshop, larger stadium as some critics of the devel• set to take place at the end of February opment contend) and a 6.8 million square- (before press time) that will invite local foot mixed-use complex into the heart of community groups to discuss further alter• downtown Brooklyn. Although the project natives. Said Brown, who lives in nearby could bring great economic gains to the Fort Greene, "Participants will develop a area, now substantially occupied by the menu of options addressing two key ques• Brooklyn Atlantic Rail Yards, it is being criti• tions: What programs would make the best cized for the negative impact it could have use of the site? And, if the arena comes to on everything from traffic to pollution. Most Brooklyn, how should it come?" controversially, if built as planned, the Philip Truscott, a market researcher who $2.5 billion development would uproot lives on 6th Avenue and Carlton, envisions hundreds of local residents. a thriving artist's market built over the "There is an underlying ethical principle sunken rail yards. His website (httpV/nosta- at stake and that is the abuse of eminent dium.homestead.com) also depicts an domain—the state taking property from image of open-air basketball courts, a con• private owners and transferring to another cept for a public athletic facility attributed private owner," said Towers, a member of to Patti Hagan of the Prospect Heights a community opposition group Develop Action Coalition. To Councilwoman James, The plans are intended Don't Destroy. "It's unconstitutional and the need for affordable housing is the area's unethical." number one issue. more as a critique Shift reshuffles the elements of Gehry's Tabitha Rivera, a bartender at Freddy's, master plan to avoid building on the residen• a bar on the same endangered block as the than counterproposal, tial blocks between Pacific and Dean Streets. architects' loft building, knows what she'd The plan also preserves Pacific Street like built on the rails: "A park, with a hell a way to open between Carlton and Vanderbilt avenues, of a lot of trees." As for new development, consistent with the developer's plan's much- she said, "I'd like to see concerted efforts discussion about the Brooklyn-based SR + T Architects propose to seize abandoned buildings and build an alternative (left, above) to Ratner's plan, those back up. Use eminent domain for neighborhood's future. which includes a new arena and several that, for chrissakes." Bruce Ratner declined hiqhrise buildings (left, below). to respond to this article, ABBY RABINOWITZ in 3 O LU

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The New York office of law firm Thelen Reid & Priest LLP won the 2003 survey of all accredited professional architecture programs in Award for Excellence in Design/Construction of a New Facility from the the United States and Canada. An invaluable reference to the Greater New York Chapter of the International Facility Management prospective student, graduate student, educators, administra• Association. tors, counselors, and practitioners, this nev^ly revised edition The 2004 AIA Young Architect Awards were chosen in February. Five of the Guide contains descriptions of all 125 full and candi• architects, all outside New York, received the award: John Burse of Mackey date member schools in US and Canada, as well as over 100 Mitchell Associates in St. Louis; David Y. Jameson of David Jameson Architect in Alexandria, VA, Donna Kacmar of Architect Works in Houston; additional programs worldwide. Janis LaDouceur of Barbour/LaDouceur Architects in Minneapolis; and Kevin G. Sneed, of Brennan Beer Gorman Monk Architects & Interiors in Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Washington, D.C. so O LU

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LU NEW SYRACUSE DEAN COOPER-HEWITT NEWS VILLAGE PEOPLE FORMER MAYOR AIDE Mark Robbins was named dean of the Sarah D. Coffin joins Cooper-Hewitt On March 10", NYC2012 will unveil the five JOINS SOM Syracuse University School of Arcfiitecture. National Design Museum as curator of winning Olympic Village Design Competition Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has appointed CX Robbins, director of design for ttie National 17" and 18" Century Decorative Arts. In entries in an exhibit at Grand Central Lee Bey as director of media and govern• < Endov/ment for tfie Arts from 1999 to this newly created position. Coffin will Terminal. Morphosis, Henning Larsens mental affairs. Bey was the former deputy LU 2002, is a visiting critic at Harvard propose and organize exhibitions, publica• Tegnestue, Zaha Hadid, MVRDV, and a chief of staff for planning and design for University and will replace current tions, and education programs, as well as team including Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and an Syracuse dean Bruce Abbey in tfie fall. oversee the development of the Product Ralph Lerner, Shigeru Ban, and Julie award-winning architecture critic for the Design and Decorative Arts collection. Bargmann will present images of their Chicago Sun-Times. visions. The Olympic Village is sited for DESIGNING KMART'S development on 34 acres in Queens West, DESIGN OFFICES DALI GETS DECON at the center of NYC2012's X plan. JFK TO LOWER New York architecture firm Design Daniel Libeskind accepted a request to MANHATTAN Laboratories is designing Big K's new in- design a Salvador Dali museum in Prague HARVARD'S NEW CHAIR A shortlist of four new routes is under house design offices in a 6,000-sguare-foot after he visited the site in February. The consideration for a one-seat rail ride Rodolfo Machado has been named the new Chelsea location. Design Laboratories museum will display up to 1,500 of Dali's between either the Port Authority W/orld Chair of the Department of Urban Planning principals Karen Frome and David Ruff were works, and includes a restaurant, apart• Trade Center Transportation Hub or the and Design at Harvard's GSD. Peter Rowe hired to design a flexible environment that ments for visiting artists, and a theater. MTA Fulton Street Transit Center and JFK announced in late February that on July could accommodate the division's growth. Budgeted at $15.7 million, the privately International Airport The selected scheme 1, 2004, Machado would succeed Alex funded museum is targeting a 2007 and a financing plan will be announced Krieger, who will resume his role as a regu• IMPROVED RETURNS completion date. Libeskind is to unveil a in AprlL model of his design on May 11 in Prague, lar faculty member in the fall. Robert A. Klein returned to HLW Strategies on the 100'" anniversary of Dali's birth. as a new principal in February. Klein PETER'S PAVILION was formerly a senior strategic facilities NATIONAL BUILDING Archigrammer Peter Cook is curating the planner at the New York architecture, RAZING DEUTSCHE MUSEUM'S NEW British pavilion for the architecture engineering, and consulting firm. BANK PRESIDENT Biennale in Venice, which will include Ron Deutsche Bank and its insurers have Chase W. Rynd was introduced last month Arad, Kathryn Findlay, Future Systems, HOSPITAL UPDATES agreed to demolish the Deutsche Bank at a press event at Robert Stern's office Caruso St. John, C.J. Lim, Ian Ritchie, John A five-year $300 million plan to update building next to the WTC site. The site will as the National Building Museum's new Pawson, Richard Murphey, and Peter Cook. the Stony Brook hospital campus features house Larry Silverstein's proposed fifth president. Rynd was the founding execu• The Biennale opens September 5, 2004. a new $18.5 million, 40,000-sguare-foot tower and create 30,000 square feet of tive director of the Frist Center for Visual heart center designed by Kaplan open space. LMDC will purchase the land Arts (1998 to 2003) and the executive McLaughlin Diaz, to be built by ACC for $90 million and pay $45 million for director of the Tacoma Art Museum (1993 Construction. Stony Brook will also receive demolition and site cleaning, which will to 1998). Rynd assumed the position last a new 11,000-sguare-foot glass-walled entry take five to seven months. All parties September after Susan Henshaw Jones SUBSCRIBEiaARCHPAPER.COM space as part of a $169 million, three-story, involved applauded former U.S. Senate left to direct the Museum of the City of 150,000-square-foot addition by Cannon Majority Leader George Mitchell for medi• New York. Design. ating the resolution.

DESIGN UNVEILED from new residential devel• THE NEWLY FORMED HUDSON YARD FOR NATION'S opment. Goldman, Sachs & INFRASTRUCTURE CORPORATION FIRST MUSEUM Co., J.P. Morgan, and Bear, Steam & Co. are the senior DEVOTED TO WWII managing underwriters for issuing the bonds. WWII Phase two continues the Remembered: mid-block boulevard to 42'"' Street and adds a subway Voorsanger station at 41" Street and 10"' Avenue. Infrastructure Named improvements are expected Architect to facilitate private develop• ment of 28 million square ofNational feet of commercial .space, 12.6 million .square feet of residen• D-Day tial space, 960,000 .square feet of hotel space, and 680,000 Museum square feet of retail space by 2035. The redevelopment is Voorsanger Architects of New York has won a nationwide competition for a 300,000-square- also expected to jumpstart foot addition of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. The $150 million expansion the I-million-square-foot includes 80,000 square feet of exhibition galleries and a 400-seat state-of-the-art theater. WEST SIDE STORIES expansion of the Javits The museum is a group of pavilions sited around a1.5-acre open terrace called the Center and a multi-use Parade Ground. The alternating interior and exterior spaces express the global sites and Daniel Doctoroff, deputy and 33"' Streets and between sports and exhibition cen• movements of World War II. The individual pavilions allow unique architectural solutions mayor for Economic lO"" and 11"' Avenues, and ter, officially called the New for specific exhibits and programs while allowing flexibility for future needs. Development and implementing a new .street York Sports and Convention Rebuilding, and Mark Page, system, open spaces, and a A Teflon-coated canopy, called the Canopy of Peace, drapes from 120 to 70 feet over the Center (a.k.a.,the iet.s/Olympic the city's budget director, mid-block boulevard from Parade Ground and provides visual unification of the disparate pavilions. The canopy will Stadium). shade the pavilions and has been engineered to accelerate air movement for a cooling have announced the forma• 33"* Street to 36"' Street. To effect and to collect rainwater. The covered space allows for a number of outdoor activities tion of the Hudson Yards break ground in 2005, the In a February press con• regardless of weather conditions and surfaces for video projection. Infra.structure Corporation initiaJ phase is projected to ference, Doctoroff compared to finance initial infrastruc• cost approximately $2.78 the scale of development to Because the design highlights exterior spaces to such a great extent, Philadelphia land• ture necessities to make the billion and be completed by that of Cxinary Wharf, London. scaping and urban design firm Olin Partnership has been hired to create an outdoor scheme, 30-year redevelopment of the 2013. The project is to be Sidestepping criticism that called Landscape of War, which will use plants such as oak, bamboo, and date palm to rep• Hudson Yards a viable project. funded by payments in lieu Canary Wliarf took a decade resent different geographic regions of World War II. Gallagher& Associates of Bethesda, Phase one includes extending of taxes (PILOT), developer to become a thriving commu• Maryland, will design the interactive and interpretive exhibits. the 7 line to 34"' Street and payments to a zoning-based nity due to poor transporta• Voorsanger Architects beat out Antoine Predock, Davis Brody Bond Architects & Planners, 11"' Avenue, building a plat• District Improvement Fund, tion planning Doctoroff Michael Maltzan Architecture, Polshek Partnership Architects, the partnership of Rafael Viholy form over the existing payments in lieu of sales tax .said,"Here the infrastructure Architects and Wendy Evans Joseph Architects, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, and the Smith l-Lastern Rail Yard between 30"' (PILOST), and tax revenue comes first." JW Group. The museum is scheduled for completion in phases between 2005 and 2009. jw 3 o LU

WITHOUT LICENSE continued from front page define egregious. We can also issue a providing the State Education Department cease-and-desist order. Can we immedi• (SED) with greater facility to sanction those ately enforce it? If an architectural firm in practicing any one of 44 professions, includ• New York has a complaint that says it ing architecture, without a valid license. The caused $3 million in lost business, what new law empowers the SED to issue are the standards for that? We just can't cease and desist orders to alleged viola• act arbitrarily." tors; impose civil penalties up to $5,000 "If we make a complaint against a fairly per violation; order restitution for victims large construction project, we are going of illegal practice of a profession; and con• to be confronted with the best attorneys duct hearings and appeals in the case of in the universe," he added. contested enforcement activities. The SED continues to meet with organi• "Protecting consumers and assuring zations from the 44 professions and others basic competency among the professions in an attempt to remove the ambiguity from are the purposes of state licensing," said the legislation, Munoz said. The AIA, a Assemblyman Ronald Canestrari at the strong supporter of the law, urged its time of the signing. "This law will ensure members to contact the governor in the that professional licensing standards months before passage. Its leadership has are not undermined by individuals acting been involved in this phase of the law's fraudulently." development, Munoz said. He expects the Previously, the SED would investigate language issue to be resolved by the late complaints and then pass the matters to summer or early fall. the state Attorney General's (AG) office There is also the not inconsiderable issue for prosecution. Of the 600 or so com• of money. How can a new law be imple• plaints that the SED normally receives mented without money to pay for it? The each year, some 50 were sent to the AG. Of price tag, according to Munoz, comes to those, the AG's office would only pursue $2 million. His office continues to work with a small number of them, largely because the legislature to try to secure the funding. its caseload was full of matters of seem• But so far, nothing. "We need new investi• ing graver magnitude. gators, hearing officers, stenographers," Collaborative Process Re-configurable Modules Personalized Systems Smart Manufacturing The new legislation cuts the AG's office he said. "We need prosecutors. We need out of the equation and gives the SED the assistants. If we get a confirmed cease- ability to conduct its own prosecutions. All and-desist order, we need attorneys to deal Milder Office Inc. of which, in the words of the state's press with temporary restraining orders." Brooklyn, NY release issued in September, would "pro• He added that the burdens on the SED Telephone: 718.387.0767 vide a much-needed deterrent to would- are increasing even without the new leg• Fax: 718.486.7691 be violators and a punitive mechanism islation. While staffing has decreased www.milderoffice.com where necessary." In other words, the by 7 percent, the volume of complaints new law gives the SED some teeth. But it's is increasing. And, he was careful to note, not so easy to begin chasing the lawless. many of them involve matters of life and Despite the state's message that the law death—doctors practicing without proper would take effect immediately, much still credentials, for example—matters that needs to be done. For one thing, the leg• can't be simply lost in a pile of paperwork. islation is full of ambiguous language. "This needs to be done right, with ade• "For example, the law gives us the quate resources, and we are exploring authority to seek a fine or restitution if the ways to get that funding," said Munoz. conduct is egregious," said Frank Munoz, "It's an extremely crucial piece of legisla• executive director of the SED's Office of tion. But it can't implemented irresponsi• Professional Responsibility. "But it doesn't bly or on the cheap." PETER DUFFY

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The Architectural League of New York's Manfredi (Emerging Voices, Class of '97), Emerging Voices program has come to who also served on this year's jury. "A Hearing Voices. be regarded as an important benchmark 'voice' signifies a level of authenticity in the profession. Launched in 1982 by rather than maturity or finality. We looked Emilio Ambasz and Marita O'Hare, the for firms that are still experimenting, even League's then president and executive making mistakes. Winning ttie award gave director, respectively, the idea was to cre• Marion [Weiss] and me a rare opportunity ate a public forum for young architects to to say, yes, this is our voice." share their work and ideas—an especially Some of this year's choices might not valuable opportunity in a late-peaking seem as "emerging" or risk-taking as has profession such as architecture. Said Craig come to be expected of the program. But, Konyk, an Emerging Voice in 1996 and observed Konyk, "What has probably juror for the 2004 cycle, 'Emerging Voices changed since i was selected is the amoum was quite instrumental in my career, a of completed projects that architects have kind of 'coming out' where you become to achieve in order to be considered accepted among the 'arrived' architects." 'emerging." Still, a look at past winners For most of the program's history, the shows that the Emerging Voices selection process of selection has begun with the committees have been prescient more League staff compiling names, culled from often than not. It might be a matter of a magazine articles, editors, past winners, self-fulfillment: "After winning we felt we and other advisors. "Usually we start out had to sustain a high level of quality," said looking at around 40 firms and then narrow Manfredi. "h was the best kind of burden." the field to about 15 to 20, from whom we request portfolios," said Anne Rieselbach, Emerging Voices is accompanied by a lecture program director. "A committee, usually series, sponsored by USM Modular Furniture. made up of past Emerging Voices, League Details in Diary (pages 12-13) or wvvw.archleague.org. board members, and maybe a critic or journalist, then selects the best work that reflects a distinctive 'voice.'" "The crucial point is that the candidate has developed a voice that's driven not by styles or trends but by authentic commit• ment," said Michael Manfredi of Weiss/

Wayne Berg Steven Harris Gary Cunningham Kathryn Dean & James Corner Cass & Pinnell Architects Lars Lerup James Cutler Charles Wolf Winka Dubbeldam Fernau & Hartman Architects Mark Mack Nicholas Goldsmith, FTL Danelle Guthrie & Doug Garofalo Himmel/Bonner Architects William Rawn Sarah Graham, Tom Buresh Ray Huff & Mario Gooden Stuart Cohen and Anders Diane Legge Lohan Warren Schwartz, Angelil/Graham Anne Perl de Pal Architecture Research Office Nereim Architects McDonough, Nouri, Robert Silver Architecture Michele Saee Richard & Bauer Roger Ferri Rainey & Associates Calvin Tsao, Zack McKown Carlos Jimenez Maryann Thompson & Rogers & Marvel Steven Roll Rob Wellington Quigley Sheila Kennedy & Charles Rose Saucier + Perrotte Franklin D. Israel Lawrence W. Speck Frano Violich Marion Weiss & SHoP George Ranalli Walter Chatham Enrique Norten, Michael Manfredi Mehrdad Yazdani Jon Michael Schwarting Ralph Johnson, Perkins TEN Arquitectos Paul Segal & Michael Pribyl Turner Brooks & Will James Tanner, William David Slovic de Bretteville & Polyzoides Wes Jones, Holt Hinshaw Leddy, Marsha Maytum & Marlon Blackwell Marwan Al-Sayed Laurinda Spear/ Paul Haigh Pfau Jones Richard Stacy Sarah Caples & Thom Faulders/Beige Design Arquitectonica Koetter, Kim & Associates, John Keenen & Terry Riley Everardo Jefferson Alan Koch, Lyn Rice, Taft Architects Architects Hank Koning & Karen Fairbanks & Galia Solomonoff, and Susana Torre Peter Papademetriou Julie Eizenberg Neil Denari Scott Marble Linda Taalman/Open Office Lauretta Vinciarelli Bart Prince Samuel Mockbee & Homa Fardjadi, Michael Gabellini Architects Tod Williams Mark Simon L. Coleman Coker Fardjadi/Mostafavi Vincent James Byron Kuth and Guiseppe Zambonini Ted Smith Associates Michael Maltzan Elizabeth Ranieri Mojgan Hariri & Gisue Hariri Frangois de Menil Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, Karen Bausman & Leslie Gill Chuck Hoberman Julie Snow David Lewis Anthony Ames Robert Adam Sulan Kolatan & Paul Lubowicki & Scott Specht and Andres Duany & Elizabeth Norman Day William MacDonaid Susan Lanier Louise Harpman Plater-Zyberk, Architects Espie Dods Ted Flato, Mark Rakatansky Michael Bell Ali Tayar/Parallel Design Ronald Adrian Krueck Eva Jiricna Lake/Flato Architects Wellington Reiter Wendell Burnette Partnership Richard Oliver Adolf Krischanitz Adrian Luchini, Schwetye Brigitte Shim & Ravevarn Choksombatchai & Andrew Zago Martin & Jones, Architects (Missing Link) Luchini Maritz Architects Howard Suttcliffe Ralph Nelson Morphosis Wolf Prix Toshiko Mori Lise Anne Couture & Peter Waldman (Coop Himmelblau) Russell Thomsen, Central Hani Rashid Brininstool & Lynch Peter Wilson Office of Architecture Mojdeh Baratloo & Cliff Balch Kevin Daley & Chris Genik Frank Harmon Louise Braverman Evan Douglis Peter Lynch Ross Anderson, Brad Cloepfil Brian Healy Monica Ponde de Leon & Bentley LaRosa Salasky Frederic Schwartz Stan Allen Craig Konyk Ada Tolla & Nader Teh rani/Office dA Design W. G. Clark Deborah Berke Audrey Matlock Giuseppe Lignano Margie Ruddick Theodore M. Ceraldi Peter Forbes Peggy Deamer & Scott Phillips Craig Newick & Jennifer Siegel/Office of R. James Coote Ralph Lerner Thomas Hanrahan & Linda Lindroth Mobile Design Frederick Fisher Brian Murphy Victoria Meyers Jesse Reiser & Julie Bargmann Eric Owen Moss Patricia Sapinsiey Thomas Leeser Nanako Umemoto David Heymann Stanley Saitowitz Mack Scogin & Merrill Elam Laszio Kiss & Todd Zwigard Carlos Zapata Robert Hull Henry Smith-Miller Harry league David Piscuskas & Rick Joy Joseph Valerie Juergen Riehm Brian MacKay-Lyons Joel Sanders Lisa Rapoport 00 O

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Oklahoma architect Rand Elliott has been scat• company, and his Will Rogers World Airport tering striking modern buildings across the mid- Snow Barn (below), an economical structure built western landscape for 27 years. His designs of to house the airport's snow removal equipment. residences, offices, and industrial buildings are The Snow Barn features a winglike overhang that plainspoken yet elegant, such as his makeover is apt in its airport setting, and provides extra projects for ImageNet, a scanning and imaging shelter in a harsh climate.

Preston Scott Cohen

(Cambridge) In most architecture award programs today, the winners always include a predominance of firms Ison Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects doing intelligent, admirable modernist work— Harvard GSD professor Preston Scott Cohen Dutch barn structure inspired by a torus or and then there's often the one architect with an hardly seems emerging, given that his donut shape. Another major recent development idiosyncratic edge. The 2004 Emerging Voices monograph. Contested Symmetries and Other in Cohen's career is his winning the competition awards are no different and this year's funky Predicaments in Architecture (Princeton to design a $45 million addition to the Tel Aviv architect is Tom Kundig of Olson Sundberg Architectural Press) came out in 2001 and he was Museum of Art (above). The design, which Kundig Allen. His Chicken Point Cabin in northern named an emerging talent at the 1996 Venice includes a geometrically complex atrium that Idaho, is a refreshing example of contemporary Biennale. But it's true that he is just now putting draws light three stories below grade, is slated thinking that makes a nod to Northwestern ver• the finishing touches on the long-publicized to break ground this summer. nacular (left and below). It has a spectacular Goodman House (top), a rewrapped 19"'-centurY 20x30-foot glazed wall that opens to the adjacent lake by a giant, hand-turned metal wheel appara• tus. The house can sleep ten, and must be fun when they stoke up the huge bong fireplace for guests. John Friedman and Alice Kimm Architects (Los Angeles)

John Friedman and Alice Kimm Architects, with a deftness and subtly that will surely give founded in 1993. has quickly developed into a the car-dominated city a taste of vibrant pedes• flourishing practice in Southern California. In trian urbanity. The partners are currently design• its recently completed Los Angeles Design Center ing a golf club and commercial building in Korea (above) and Cisco Brothers Showroom renova• and a 47-unit SRO for senior citizens in central tion, partners Friedman and Kimm transformed an Los Angeles. unused courtyard into a vibrant urban space 00 O LJJ ^

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Recently, Pugh + Scarpa has been spreading its innovations with sustain• igh + Scarpa able building beyond its base in Southern (Los Angeles and Charlotte, California and North Carolina. Following Jorth Carolina) up on its 2001 Colorado Court in Santa Monica—one of the first 100 percent energy-independent single resident occu• pancy housing projects in the country— the firm has partnered with Office dA to design a sustainable housing project in Cambridge (left). And now it's constructing Solar Umbrella (below), a private resi• dence in Venice, California, (slated for completion this spring) that uses, almost entirely, recycled building and landscaping materials, and will be completely inde• pendent from the power grid.

Since establishing his practice in 1988, Pierre Thibault has striven to balance building with installation. At all scales, his projects contain ntreal) strong archaeological references—tapping into geographic or material histories while remaining deeply sympathetic toward the temporal nature of constructions. The Museum of the Abenakis (above), a 2,000-square-meter addition to a for• mer convent, is currently under construction near Nicolet on the St. Francis River in his hometown, Montreal. The building's steel frame construction and glass envelope are tempered by an opaque slat system, which barkens to sun shades found on vernacular buildings.

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Lorcan O'Herlihy's notoriety last year jumped when neighbors protested his construction of a condominium next door to the Schindler House, which houses the MAK Center. Ultimately, how• ever, his project was accepted as an admirable >mith Landscape Architect descendent of the tradition of Southern California (New York) modernism. Like Schindler and Neutra, O'Herliihy respects rigorous geometry, a minimal material palette, and rich details. The recently completed This year's only New York Voice, Ken Smith made school, P.S.19 in Queens, in 2003. He is currently 4,400-square-foot Jai House (left) overlooking the his mark on the city by turning Queens Plaza collaborating with the Boston-based Kennedy Santa Monica Mountains exemplifies his approach. dumpsters into planters in 2001, reinterpreting Violich Architects on self-irrigating "container The multi-use U2 Landmark Tower competition the unbuilt Isamu Noguchi design for the Lever landscapes" for seven new commuter ferry piers entry (above) was conceived for the Dublin House terrace last year, and splashing color into along the East River (above). The $10.5 million Docklands regeneration plan. the schoolyard of New York's largest elementary project for the city will be completed in 2005. 3 LU l-H > LU a:

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Architect and writer Jennifer Taylor con• tends that Fumihiko Maki's work is a hybrid of Western ideas and Eastern traditions. Taylor addresses the themes "space," "city," "order," and "making," in her critical architectural biography of Maki identifying his practice "against the background of Japanese society and culture within the framework of modern Peter and Alison Smithson s architecture." House of the Future, 1956 Maki's experiences in the United States—where he earned his M.Archs Alison and Peter Smithson are a hard act to befriended Charles and Ray Eames, with piece of American sci-fi futurism, with (one at Cranbrook, the other at Harvard), describe to an American audience. At one whom they shared a joy for humorous and molded plastic components containing the apprenticed with Jose Luis Sert and SOM, level their historical role seems clear They collectable knick-knacks that created a con• latest domestic gadgets (you have to and built his first building (Steinberg Art were the outspoken British representatives stellation of lightweight visual delights scat• remember that dishwashers in 1950s Britain Center at Washington University in St. of Team X, that group of young iconoclasts tered around the office or home. were just one step below space rockets in Louis, 1960)—were integral in developing who ripped apart the ailing CIAM organiza• Yet having actually visited the United States terms of exoticness). Even the stooge actors the 1960s Japanese organic-industrial tion of elderly modernists in the late-1950s. forthe firsttime in 1958,the Smithsons moved hired to act out life in the future were clad in movement Metabolism and modern Team X was critical of the dull and abstract away from their hitherto mythical view of curious synthetic costumes and wigs, all Japanese architecture. Taylor contends concepts that the previous generation was the country, and began to react against the adding to a Jetson-like space age theme. that it shaped Maki's attention to space as still spouting, particularly the mantras of Americanizing influences that were by then From this point on, however, the Smithsons' "the matter of architecture," urban respon• zoning and functionalism. Instead, they spreading rapidly through British architec• house designs became more preoccupied sibility, order as form, and making "as wanted modern architecture to deal with the ture. Mies was by now definitely out for the with nestling into remote country sites or in that which materializes attention," and actual specifics of urban culture and building Smithsons, and Le Corbusier was in favor making minimal alterations to typical London results in a sophisticated modern inter• production. Team X read avidly about settle• through what had become known as the New house plans. Their own weekend retreat in national architecture apparent in such ment patterns in African villages, and talked Brutalism. If anything, what the Smithsons the south of England consisted of adapting an projects as Hillside Terraces (1966-92), about ways to create a sort of architecture wanted to do was to reinterpret the confident old stone cottage by inserting a double-story Spiral (1985), Tepia (1989), and Makuhari that could express directly how it was made, spirit of postwar American modernism, as glass, timber, and aluminium box. It can be Messe (1998). rather than being dressed up with what they typified by the Case Study House program, read as their version of the Eames Case Study regarded as needless aesthetic preferences. Rather than reams of illustrations fol• but give it a particularly European and English House, but done in a quasi-vernacular style. lowing project descriptions, Taylor uses But the Smithsons also brought very twist. As a result their design work began to The exhibition culminates with a bizarre beautiful black and white photos, draw• idiosyncratic preoccupations to Team X. As veer ever more towards the eccentric if not house in a German forest for a wealthy fur• ings, details, and diagrams to reinforce wunderkinds in the early-1950s, they had downright whimsical. niture manufacturer, who happened also to her readings. However, the book could leaned initially on Miesian inspiration fortheir The Smithsons: The House of the Future be manufacturing some of their equally use analytical drawings to clarify theoret• seminal 1954 Hunstanton School in Norfolk. tea House for Today at the Design Museum in bizarre tables and chairs. The design evolved ical spatial observations. Nevertheless, They then immersed themselves amongst London, which looks specifically at their small slowly overtime, growing into a glorified Taylor has produced a clear and concise the artists and architects of the Independent private house projects across the decades, network of treehouses that combine deliber• work on Maki and Japanese modernism. Group in London, which provocatively cham• neatly sums up this turn in the Smithsons' ately crude timber construction with know• JAMES WAY IS AN EDITORIAL ASSISTANT AT AN. pioned the latest American consumer culture output from U.S.-style consumerism to twee ing architectural references. and could thus be seen as the progenitors of Anglicized domestic design. At the start Alison Smithson died in 1993 and Peter Pop Art. Once again, the aim of the Smithsons comes their showpiece House of the Future, Smithson only last year. They were the last was to shock what they saw as the stale and in effect a stage set erected forthe Ideal Home link to a serious, highly theoretical and unique cozy world of British architecture. They Exhibition in London in 1956. It was a pure episode in postwar British modernism. By focusing on their domestic projects the show does not serve the Smithsons well. By far their best design, the Economist Building in St. James, just off Piccadilly, rates barely a Fumihiko Maki mention. Neither does their worst, the Robin Hood Gardens Estate in East London, proba• bly one of the most hideous housing projects ever built. Any visitor to the show will come away with a very one-sided view of this intrigu• ing but ultimately limited architectural duo.

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In 2002 theVitra store torial experiment contextu- mounted an exhibit devoted alizes and contemporizes the to Jean Prouve (1901-1984), designer's work and process. to celebrate the opening of Curated by Evan Douglis and its new store in the Robert Rubin, the exhibit Meatpacking district. Glossy, focuses on three mid-century new Prouve pieces lined the structures that Prouve basement-level space of the designed and built in France: store, giving viewers (and the Glassmaking School at customers) an appreciation Croismare (1948), the Tropical of the chairs and other items House in Niamey (1949), and created by the industrial the Aluminum Centenary designer. Organized by the Pavilion in Paris (1954). Vitra Design Museum and no Having been either vacated doubt driven by Vitra's 2001 or disassembled, these acquisition of worldwide structures are currently in the rights to reproduce Prouve's process of finding new lives furniture, the exhibit was an in new locations. While this The installation of the exhibi• objects the effect of floating preference for tubular steel Rubin, who loaned many example of the perennial exhibit ostensibly has ambi• tion on Jean Prouve's work above this plastic ocean. It design was rejected by of the pieces in the show, echoes the constructive logic problems associated with tions towards the preserva• begs the question: Is the Prouve in favor of sheet and Douglis have created a of its subject. architecture and even indus• tion of Prouve works, its exhibit about Prouve or is it metal and more easily focused exhibit that provides trial design exhibitions: Just larger significance is the the driving forces behind about the blob? manipulated and then tech• a contemporary context for as photographs, drawings, argument regarding Prouve's the aesthetic and the forms Douglis claims in his nologically innovative fabri• Prouve's work. If it responds and models often struggle to process and how it should of the designer's work. curatorial statement that cation processes. Prouv6's to blob architecture, I would convey the tactile and mon• play into the renewed inter• The exhibit's most dramat• this system is a "newly pioneering constructions imagine that it's because the umental qualities of built est in the historical legacy ic component is no doubt manufactured modulatory with aluminum and sheet curators have decided that structures, replicas often fail of the designer. Few images the blue, blobby wave struc• display system whose con• metal were testaments to his blobs are the next epoch- at giving a sense of the his• of the completed buildings ture designed for the show structive logic is informed belief in mass production making movement in design. torical and functional signifi• are to be found; instead, the by Douglis, a Pratt Institute by Prouve's." He couldn't and industrial techniques. Beyond being a passive hom• be more correct. Designed cance of design objects. show carefully orchestrates professor and director of Beyond the wave, the cura• age to the designer, Three with 3D software and man• In this regard, Jean Prouve: photographs and objects Columbia's architectural tors' interest in modularity Nomadic Structures is a ufactured by a five-axis rapid Three Nomadic Structures like desk chairs and building galleries. At first glance, it's and methods is supported proactive exhibit in every prototyping system, the is an exception. On view at fragments in an attempt to an odd decorative element by construction photos of sense of the word, and an wave display is different than Columbia University's reveal how modularity and a to frame the historic objects, the Tropical House and the example of how architecture the ubiquitous blob designs Arthur Ross Gallery, this reliance on technologically which are supported by a interior of the Aluminum curators curate real architec• that have stultified viewers convincing exhibit and cura• innovative materials were piping system that gives the Centenary Pavilion, which ture shows. ANDREW YANG IS and teeter on becoming reveal that form did indeed A CONTRIBUTOR TO AN AND MANY mere decorative form. follow function. OTHER DESIGN MAGAZINES. Douglis' wave system has a quite rigid logic. 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THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER MARCH 9, 2004

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Architects don't necessarily measure what they know against the collective concerns of the public. To establish Other hurdles we have ce: a level of outreach, we must begin first by establishing LU a dialogue within the profession. The challenge is how encountered are how to a. to balance the technical aspects of city zoning and build• ing codes with design, aesthetics, and socially driven subject the work of urbanism. Other hurdles we have encountered are LU how to subject the work of our peers to a level of scruti• our peers to a level of x'l ny to which they are not accustomed, and how to CL engage them in a competition program that exposes LU scrutiny to which they them to a broader horizon of ideas and innovations. K- CO We've understood the importance of gathering a mix are not accustomed, and of leaders in our field to evaluate the work—with care to avoid subjecting our invited jurors to substandard work or on the other hand, subjecting the local work to how to engage them in Q- misplaced critique. (Past jurors have included Winka a competition program O Dubbledam, George Ranalli, Laurie Hawkinson, Evan X Douglis, and Thomas Hanrahan.) One of the greatest CO moments of the program was when last year's jury that exposes them to a found themselves in an intense debate that they had Over the past decades, Staten Island has experienced an to resolve through force of will. broader horizon of ideas explosion of development. Those looking for a reprieve Documenting this debate and making it available to from city life have contributed to the insensitive and our program's participants is one of the key components and innovations. often perverse rampage of this once pastoral island to our larger aim, of developing an intelligent discourse community. Considering the onslaught of rapid and in our community. We also invite an internationally unconsidered development that Mayor Bloomberg has recognized keynote speaker to each awards ceremony, only recently sought to mitigate through new zoning which—it must be said—is the only real cultural expo• restrictions, it might be hard to imagine the effective• sure imported to the local architectural profession. ness of an architectural awards program. Four years ago, Peter Eisenman inaugurated this tradition in 2001, and however, toward the end of a period of unbridled greed was followed by Steven Holl in 2002 and Terrence Riley by developers and complicit politicians, five architect in 2003. www.flaneur.org friends (Giro Asperti, Timothy Boyland, David Businelli, One of the most laborious and yet necessary features www.notbored.orq/scp- Marcus Marino, and myself) began a series of animated of the program is the yearly journal. Having spent maps.html dinner meetings to discuss and implement a program years at Columbia University GSAPP editing Newsline, o for raising architectural design standards on Staten I understand deeply that publications are the lifeblood z www.soundportraits.org/ Island. After three surprisingly successful and growing of any discourse. The AIA-SI Awards Committee devel• Z) events, the AIA Staten Island (AIA-SI) will host its fourth ops and produces its own journal, which includes full www.aiasiny.org Architectural Awards luncheon ceremony at the Staten documentation of the award-winning work and a topi• a. www.acsa-arch.org/ Island Hilton Garden Inn on May 19'\ cal essay that attempts to sew together contemporary The comradeship we, the five original committee theory with local circumstances. The journal is distrib• www.celluloidskyline.com members, developed has been an essential key to the uted to local libraries, schools, institutions, and even program's evolution. This is not to say there has not been supermarkets! Our idea is to bring the discussion and bitter disagreement, thunderous argument, and painful celebration of architecture beyond the profession, to negotiation. But our energetic discussion has been the Staten Island's general population. After all, if Daniel The Architect's Newspaper is sold at: driving force of the award program's evolution. Our Libeskind, the once obscure Deconstructivist architect, 192 Books shared sense of mission has led us to some extreme is now common content in The New Vor/c Posf and 192 10"' Ave., Manhattan measures, including driving around in search of entries local television news, why couldn't we take on the task MoMA SOHO to solicit to the program; engaging in various antics to of raising a discussion about architecture with the 81 Spring St., Manhattan sway the local newspaper for greater coverage of the everyday homeowner and small business owner? The St. Mark's Books event; and challenging a competing and well-funded discourse matures each year. The most recent journal 31 3'" Ave., Manhattan program run by the local Ghamber of Commerce. contained an essay on "meaning in residential archi• Urban Center Books 457 Madison Ave., Manhattan In running the competition, we have found ourselves tecture" and, to our utter surprise, several lines actual• Micawber Books confronting the same problem every year: How do we ly made it into the local newspaper, The Staten Island 110-114 Nassau St., Princeton address the issues being debated about architecture on Advance. For the committee, that is true achievement. Hennessey & Ingalls an international level along with those concerned with STEPHEN PERRELLA IS A STATEN ISLAND-BASED ARCHITECT 214Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica a local context? We've gained new and unexpected AND AN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR AT THE COLLEGE OF STATEN Prairie Avenue Bookshop insights. Sustaining a dialogue between the profession ISLAND. HE IS THE FORMER EDITOR OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S 418 South Wabash, Chicago, Illinois 60605 and the community is a vital yet disheartening task. NEWSLINE.

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