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Now that it is a more important matter of "Gain or Loss"! ffU" have more to gain than ever before when you select concrete masonry as the element for the wall components comprising the building envelope. Architects and builders have long recognized the superiority of concrete masonry as a more thermal-effective building material. Now with codes and guidelines designed for more efficient, energy-conserving buildings, concrete masonry is the material to use to improve the con servation of energy. Combine this advantage with • Immediate and Local Availability • Fireproofing • Lower Maintenance • Lower Insurance Rates • More Cost-Effective • Soundproof • Structural Integrity CREGO BLOCK COMPANY (505) 345-4451 8028 SECOND STREET. N.W. ALBUQUERQUE. NEW MEXICO 87107 • vol. 22 no. 5 • • sept.-oct. 1980 • new mexico architecture On the cover is a photograph of yesterday's inexpensive energy: the power plant at the abandoned Mon The Editor's Column 3 tezuma Hotel west of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Will solar energy replace cool and NMA News 7 oil as a major source of power and Conron and Lent Receive Award heat for the future? 1980-81 Lecture Series Page 9 announces a special issue Histo ric Landma rks Survey Unde r Wa y in Albuquerque of New Mexica Architecture which To come in the November/ Decemb er Issue," Energy" discusses th is importa nt issue. Building W ith Earth 10 Lucinda Mar sha ll Advertiser 's Index 18 (Cover - POI Ger plant , Montezuma flotel - Robert N ugent, Photograph er) - Off icial Publication of the New Mexico Society of Architects, A.I. A.- Society Officers Cammissian far NMA Presiden t-Randall L. Kilmer John P. Conron, FAIA/FASID,-Editor President- Elect-Robert J. Strader, Jr . Secreta ry-Trea surer-Dale L. Crawford Director-Wilbur T. Ha rris 0 0 0 Director- Kestutis Germanis Bainbridge Bunting-Editorial Consultant o Director- John P. Conron , FAIA MAGAZINE SUPPORTERS: Director- Willia m L. Burns The NMA staff wishes to thank those Director- Stanley J . 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D.C. 20005 2021783 ·3908 III MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO 6 Sept ember-October 1980 CONRaN AND LENT Prince; another room has been tribution to the applied practice of RECEIVE AWARD restored to its 1911 days when the city planning. building had been completely Other lectures scheduled during At the annual awards luncheon remodeled into a history and ar the 1980 fall semester include: of the American Society of Interior cheology museum by famed Santa - September 29, Designing the Designers, ASID, held last August Fe Archeologist, Jesse Nusbaum. Exquisite, by William Turnbull, in New York City, the Santa Fe ar John P. Conron FAIA/FASID, of director and partner in the San chitectural firm of Conron and the Conron and Lent firm accepted Francisco firm of MLTW/Turn Lent were presented with a first the award and also gave a slide bull. Turnbull, who has been part place national award for the work presentation on New Mexico of many national honors awards accomplished on the Palace of the preservation at one of the con juries, has taught at the University Governors in Santa Fe. The Palace, ference seminar sessions. of California at Berkeley, Stanford as all New Mexicans know, is the University, MIT and other institu oldest public building in the United tions. States and one of this nations most 1980·81 LECTURE SERIES - October 27, Energy Conserva important historic structures. Issues in Architecture and Plan tion Issues in Buildings, by Fred S. The ASID Restoration and ning is the theme of the 1980-81 lec Dubin, president of Dubin-Bloome Preservation Awards are sponsored ture series being sponsored by the Associates in New York. An inter by the firm of Scalamandre, Inc., University of ew Mexico School of nationally recognized engineer and whose work in providing carefully Architecture and Planning and the energy management consultant, researched restoration fabrics, Albuquerque Chapter of the Dubin's major design projects in wallpapers, rugs and carpets for American Institute of Architects. clude the Minnesota Mining and over one hundred of our nations All eight lectures will be given on Manufacturing plant in Min historic structures have made them Mondays at 7:30 p.m. in the Kiva neapolis, the Solar Energy world renowned. Auditorium on the UNM campus. Research Institute in Golden, Col Conron and Lent, working close Admission is free . orado, and the Salk Institute for ly with Michael Weber, Director of The series opened September 15 Biological Studies in La Jolla, the History Division, Museum of with a lecture on The Realities oj California. He is co-author of the New Mexico, and his staff, have City Planning by Allan Jacobs, book, Energy Conservation Stan restored and renovated eleven chairperson of the department of dards jor Building Design, Con rooms and the two halls in the city and regional planning at the struction and Operation. Palace of Governors. Careful University of California at -November 17, Evaluation: research preceded each restoration Berkeley . Jacobs, who served as Probing the Sins oj Architecture, decision. Nineteenth century win planning director for the City of by Clare Cooper-Marcus, professor dow and door trim has been San Francisco for seven years, has of landscape architecture at the restored in rooms where evidence had extensive U.