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The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Volume 52 , Number 4, December 1989 I JJJ1I 'f.J Archi.tecture l at a Glance

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Brentano's, formerly Scribner's.

Volume 52, Number 4, December 1989 Dear Editor: and working stiffs that strut and fret their hour upon the stage and then are heard Editor: Suzanne Stephens In case a poll is taken about the new no more. Whether Waterstone's books, Deputy Editor: Alex Cohen editorial style of Oculus, please register Art Director: Abigail Sturges Waldenbooks, or Waldo books line the Copy Editors: Renee Cohen, Kate Norment me as against. shelves, browsers will have the Typesetting: Steintype, Inc. opportunity to experience this Printer: The Nugent Organization I find it to be too flip, too undignified, Staff Photographer: Dorothy Alexander wonderful built space called too slangy, and I recommend a return to architecture. The New York Chapter of the previous style. The editor should the American Institute of Architects strive for polished English and good taste Gerald Fritz 457 Madison Avenue to represent our profession. New York , New York 10022 212 -838-9670 Charles K. Hirzel Obituary Executive Committee 1989-1990 Denis G. Kuhn AIA, President We'll try some polished Latin: "de Percival Goodman, who died at age 83 John H. Winkler FAIA ,First Vice President David Castro-Blanco FAIA, Vice President gustibus non est disputandem."-Ed in mid-October, was both an architect Douglas Korves AIA, Vice President and a provocative thinker. A fell ow of the John Ellis AIA, Secretary AJA and a former professor at the James L. Garretson AIA, Treasurer Dear Editor: Columbia School of Architecture, Bronson Binger AIA , Director Wendy Evans AIA, Director Goodman designed more than 50 Harold Fredenburgh AIA, Director Regarding "Scribner's Fate: Fast-Food synagogues throughout the country and Margaret Helfand AIA, Director Books?" (November, page 7): my, my, how wrote extensively on visionary planning. Judith Solomon AIA, Director elitist! Perhaps we have been so busy In 194 7 he wrote Communitas with his Margot Wo olley AIA, Director patting ourselves on the back and brother, the philosopher Paul Goodman. Lenore M. Lucey AIA, Executive Director passing around awards for projects, a A look at utopian plans of the 20th Regina Kelly, Executive Secretary goodly portion of which remain unbuilt century, the book prophetically attacked paper exercises, that we have forgotten the destructive and decentralized Chapter Staff Christine Magnus about reality. We are part of the masses qualities of Le Corbusier's Ville Radie use Annemarie Malley plan. Evelyn Romero Judith Rowe Goodman was an early opponent of Stephen Suggs Robert Moses's elaborate highway © 1989 The New York Chapter of the NOTICE systems, which he believed siphoned off American Institute of Architects. funds that could be better used "improving the center and making livable All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is Do you have an IBM PC neighborhoods." It is ironic that strictly prohibited. Compatible Computer Goodman's primary commissions, suburban synagogues distinguished by OCULUS, published ten times a year, and Printer you would strongly sculptural design, could not September through June, is a benefi t of like to lend Oculus NYC/AIA membership. Public member have materialized without the highways, subscription rates available. temporarily? Please call the postwar suburban migration, and the 684-4377. growth that planners .like Moses For more information on professional and promoted. public memberships please call the Chapter, at 212-838-9670. -A.C. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the Executive Committee or Staff of the Le Corbusier Modular Rule NYCIAIA. Cosed in on alum inum box, the Modular Rule is a plastic-coated fiberglass measuring tape with Cover: DrawingsfromLake Baikal (left) feet/inches and meters on one side, Reweaving the Urban Fabric an d the index (right) to Vladivostok by and Le Corbusier's Modular This new book approaches infill housing as a John Hejdu k (Rizzoli). Back cover: John measurement system on the other, method to encourage community participation and Hejdu k's Southern Friedrichstadt printed in blue, red, and block. contextual design . It contains essays on various housing, Berlin. $20.00 aspects of infill housing as well as selected projects for a site in Harlem. To order coll 212-995-9620. $24. 95, paper, 160 pages, 239 b/ w illus. Princeton Architectural Press To order coll 212-995-9620. 37 East 7th St., NYC 10003 Princeton Architectural Press 37 East 7th st., NYC 10003 DECEMBER 1989 3

NEWS NOTES Competitions, Controversies, Changes

Rafael Vinoly Rafael Vinoly Architects, Dorothy Alexander Tokyo International Forum. Beyond City Limits

Bad news for competitions came in the November 7 defeat of a referendum for funding the East Hampton Airport. The vote was necessary since three of the five town board members, instead of the necessary four, had favored the proposed airport design. The design by G. Phillip Smith and Douglas Thompson is now on hold. It was chosen by the board from five selected by a juried competition that took place this past summer. The jury, which included architects Jordan East Hampton Airport, ranked first by jury, Sanders/Guenzberger Gruzen (chairman), , and William Pedersen, along with John Shanholt of the Architectural Review Board in East Hampton and Suzanne Stephens, had actually ranked the scheme by Joel Sanders and Ernest Guenzburger of New York as its first choice. In its list submitted to the town board, a design by Meyer, Yowell, Gifford of New York was in second place, the project by Smith/Thompson (also of New York) placed third, Voorsanger/Mills' design came in fourth, and one by John Clare Miller (a Cornell professor) was ranked fifth. Two of the town board members didn't like any of the five schemes, but three found the Smith/Thompson proposal to have an "openness and an East Hampton Airport, favored by town board, Smith and Thompson Architects. airy quality." One of the basic problems with all of the schemes chosen by the initial entries from 68 countries. But one coverage of architectural practice and jury was that the board had a strong can understand why: The first prize is 30 give criticism more prominence. All this penchant for the familiar and traditional. million yen, or about $200,000. The only goes on amidst heavy denials from Although the board had conveyed this problem, of course, is that most firms McGraw Hill that Record is for sale. preference to the jury, the jury couldn't spend that amount just in preparing the Meanwhile, 1991 will mark the lOOth find anything familiar and traditional that scheme for the competition. anniversary of the magazine's would fly. Because of the board's split, founding .... Writer Patti Hagan had a the issue soon become controversial, and field day in the October 26 Wall Street polarized into a stylistic debate. The plan Inside Media Journal with the South Garden scheme finally dissolved in this financial impasse. at Battery Park City that Jennifer Now what? .... Rafael Vinoly Architects Beginning with the January 1990 issue, Bartlett and Alexander Cooper are of New York won first prize in the Architectural Record will be showing off designing. Hagan reported Bruce competition for the Tokyo International its redesign. While Oculus has not seen Kelly/David Varnell Landscape Forum - a 1.5 million-square-foot it yet, it sounds as if the old Vignelli Architects had bowed out as a third cultural center with four theaters, specialty, with its big, sumptuous color party in the collaboration because they exhibit areas, and conference rooms, that photographs splashed throughout the thought the design was "arbitrary and will be built by the city of Tokyo. Jurors feature section, will not be the only thing amateurish." The writer went on to I. M. Pei, Fumihiko Maki, Kenzo on the menu. Nancy Butkus, former art berate the artist, "who flaunts her Tange, Vittorio Gregotti, and Arthur director of Manhattan inc., is the design ignorance of plants and gardens," and Erickson selected Vinoly over James consultant for a revised editorial format the architect, "another confessed garden Stirling/Michael Wilford, who placed that will weave technological subjects ignoramus," for creating a series of second with two other architects, throughout the middle of the book outdoor windowless rooms. While the Tomohisa Yuri and Shuei Hashimoto. instead of relegating them to the back garden is to have a modicum of roses Competition was quite keen, with 395 pages. Record also plans to expand its and topiary, it will require high security 4 NYC/ AIA OCULUS

PROFILE Gwendolyn Wright

Alvin Ailey dance space, R.M Kliment & Center for Non-Traditional Employment Frances Halsband Architects. for Women, Neski Associates. and high maintenance and will not off er Oppenheimer, Brady and Vogelstein Over the past year the Buell Centerfor views of the water, nor will it are back in New Jersey-this time at the Study ofAmericanArchitecture at accommodate more than 100 people at Curries Woods, the largest public housing Columbia University has seemed a time. Meanwhile, Nicholas Quennell project in Jersey City. The firm will rather quiet. Nevertheless, some very (Quennell-Rothschild Associates) has redirect its rehabilitation, including the profound changes have been made in supplanted KellyNarnell in this project, restoration of four high-rise buildings its leadership, its program, and its called by Hagan "a topiary version of the and the design of 105 new row house funding. The changes in the relatively Tilted Arc." units .... If you are threatening your young institution -it was founded in client with litigation, the firm name you l983 as part of the university-have will probably want to drop has changed. taken place since Oculus interviewed Proiects in the City LePatner, Gainen & Block is now its.first director, Robert Stern, in l986. LePatner, Block, Pawa & Rivelis. Robert Kliment and Frances Meanwhile, Larry Gainen, another Stern officially assumed the position Halsband's renovated dance studios for name sought by the litigious, has formed five years ago, but stepped down in the Alvin Ailey opened last month at 2ll West the firm of Hutton Ingram Yuzek summer of l988, when Gwendolyn 6lst Street. The size of the space (18,000 Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti. ... Wright was named director. At that square feet), the presence of new, Lynda Simmons, an architect who · is time the board ofadvisors was reduced infused architectural detail, and the also president and CEO of Phipps from 30 to l2 members, the position of ampleness of natural light through large Houses, is the recipient of the Sidney L. assistant director was phased out, and expanses of industrial sash windows Strauss Award from the New York Society two research fellowships were make the dance studios among the best of Architects .... Eisenman Architects established as the core of the new in the city. Because of real estate has been the center of a lot of attention program. pressures the numerous dance studios recently. The Wexner Center for the once crowding midtown have dispersed, Visual Arts, which Through all ofthese changes the center either closing or moving to other areas designed in association with Richard has been renovating one ofthe earliest or operating out of such quarters as Trott and Partners, opened in buildings on the campus for its church basements. Or they have been Columbus in mid-November. But as headquarters. Buell Hall, as East Hall relocated in column-infested office-type important (we hear) was the fact that was renamed, is now complete and spaces- not great for the chasse/pas de Eisenman's office won the SLAM will officially open in January. bouree/jete/jete combinations. Here the (Softball League Apres Moderne) owners of the building actually wanted championships. Eisenman Architects Wright, who is a professor in the to lure the dance company to the beat Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners Graduate School of Architecture, space-and helped out in the three to one. Eisenman, goaded by Harry Planning and Preservation, received renovation. The building already houses Cobb and his group boasting that they her MArch. from the University of two dance groups, plus architect Robert would win, sent them a dead fish by California at Berkeley before going on A.M. Stern and Partners and designer messenger. Cobb had it fried and for her Ph.D. there. She has written two Jed Johnson & Associates. It is returned it to Eisenman wrapped in a books, including Building the Dream: A reminiscent of the days before the bow tie . .. . James Ingo Freed of Pei, Social History of Housing in America renovation and rent increases in Cobb, Freed in association with (1981), and is working on a book on Carnegie Hall drove out similar Ellerbe Becket of Washington, D.C., French colonial urbanism. tenants .... Neski Associates is won the Pennsylvania Avenue restoring and remodeling the Chelsea Development Corporation Commission Oculus: What happened to Stern? Some Firehouse at 243 West 20th Street for to design the International Cultural and say he was forced out because he was use as a training center for non­ Trade Center and Federal Office Building too busy with his practice. traditional employment for women. at the Federal Triangle. This coveted Women who want to go into such fields Washington project involves theaters, Gwendolyn Wright: Is this going to be as construction, auto mechanics, and offices, and related facilities . . .. Masonry a Skyline-type interview [a defunct electronics will be trained at the center, Institute award winners were Davis, publication edited by the current Oculus wnich is oriented toward women who are Brody & Associates with Russo & editor]? Bob was a terrific director. He on welfare or are single parents. The Sonders for Rockefeller Research brought a great deal of national visibility firehouse will have not only classrooms Laboratories at Sloan Kettering Cancer to the center, plus an awareness of a and workshop space but also a fitness Center in New York, and Skidmore, range of issues it should address. There center. .. . Now that Worldwide Plaza is Owings & Merrill for the commercial was a sense among the board and the almost finished, David Childs of SOM buildings and pavilions at Worldwide university that since the emphasis of the -"and Frank Williams are together Plaza. The residential buildings at center was on scholarship, the next again-this time in the design of an Worldwide, also cited in the award, director should be someone who was apartment building at 72nd and and also brick, were designed with there full-time on the architecture Broadway for developers Peter Malkin Frank Williams as architectural faculty and not in private practice as well. and William Zeckendorf. ... consultant. The center has modified its general DECEMBER 1989 5

The six-year-old Buell Center at Columbia University has changed its director, its program, its financial base, and soon its headquarters. The current director tells why.

policy to reflect the stamp of the new •A series of seminar discussions focusing special issue of director. on different aspects of American Studies, a journal coming out of the architectural scholarship [a series that University of Wisconsin. Oculus: What is that stamp? Wright initiated under Stern's directorship]. Oculus: What happened to the $5 GW: The center will investigate million gift from Temple Hoyne Buell? historical issues as well as contemporary •A symposium, "Building the City We problems, in the hopes of expanding Need," which will take place in January GW: The center isn't getting the $5 knowledge and heightening the level of 1990, to examine how the city should million right away. At this time $1 million scholarship in each. I would like the decide its urban planning priorities. is available for the renovation and $1 center to explore new directions in million has gone into the endowment for scholarship and be involved in issues of • An exhibit and symposium to operating expenses; the rest remains in the day affecting architecture, urban inaugurate the Arthur Ross Architecture annuities. Both the GSAPP and the design, planning, and landscape design, Gallery at Buell Hall called "Learning university are contributing money to the including how we judge and decide on from the Past: The Uses of History in renovation. In return, the university will environmental and preservation issues. American Schools of Architecture in the receive half of one floor for Maison How can we become more Twentieth Century." The exhibit, which Franc;aise, while the GSAPP receives half knowledgeable about the way in which will be up from March 1 to March 21, is of two floors, and we receive half of the cities take form? co-curated by Alessandra Latour and remaining floor. We will share the myself. ground-floor gallery and the conference Oculus: How do you see the Buell room with the Maison Franc;aise. We also Center's role as distinct from the Chicago •A symposium we are planning with the received other donations totaling Institute for Architecture and Urbanism? GSAPP in the fall of 1990 will celebrate $175,000 to establish the fellowship (See Oculus, September 1989, page 5.) the 25th anniversary of the program. Joan Davidson and Phyllis establishment of the Landmarks Lambert have contributed greatly to this GW: The Chicago Institute is more Preservation Commission in New York. Council of Founders' Fund. concerned with strictly theoretical issues; I don't separate out theory. •A symposium and exhibit in the fall of Oculus: What's the story on the Arthur Theory of architecture is more 1991 called "Critical Urbanism­ Ross gift? Oculus heard that his effectively investigated when it is American Architects and the foundation gave $350,000 to the Buell connected to specific realities. Parameters of Contextualism." Center - through your efforts. At first it was thought that the money would help Oculus: What about the program? •The center is also co-sponsoring a create an exhibition gallery in the national competition for affordable building. Now we are told that since the GW: Since there is to be more emphasis housing in the Bronx in conjunction with Buell Center is part of the GSAPP, the on scholarship within the center, a larger the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the gallery belongs to both the school and portion of our endowment has been put New School for Social Research. the center. Stern had called the Buell into two fellowships. These fellowships Center an "independent agency." How do allow academics - and practitioners Oculus: What will happen to those you keep it straight with the GSAPP - willing to take time off - to come to projects left by the preceding who gets what money? Columbia for a year, or even a semester, directorship? Several books were to be and conduct research on a particular published by the Buell Center, but only GW: Out of the Arthur Ross Foundation project. This work should culminate in one, The Architecture ofth e American gift, $250,000 goes to a plant fund, which something specific, such as a book. Summer: The Flowering ofthe Shingle goes into the general construction of the Style by Vincent Scully (Rizzoli ), has building and therefore is a gift to the This year we have two senior fellows. appeared. GSAPP, the center, and the university. One, Narcisco Menocal of the University However, $100,000 is going to exhibits the of Wisconsin, will be here the entire year GW: The Scully book required a large Buell Center will stage in the Arthur Ross finishing work on a book on Frank Lloyd investment from the Buell Center. Some Gallery. Wright's Usonian vision. The other, books are very expensive to publish, and Robert Bruegmann of the University of generally the person in charge of the Oculus: What is your relationship with Illinois in Chicago, is at the center only exhibit or symposium or the author of Bernard Tschumi [GSAPP dean]? for this semester. He is researching the the book has to submit it to the publisher decentralization of the contemporary in conjunction with the Buell Center. GW: Bernard and I work closely together, American city and the growth of Unfortunately, some haven't gotten far. and of course he sits on the board of peripheral areas. advisors. We both want to see the center The proceedings of the Frank Lloyd and the school take a more active role in As far as other parts of the program go, Wright symposium that took place under the architectural and environmental we have organized a number of events: Stern's tenure are being published in a affairs of New York. 6 NYC/AI A OCU LUS ARCHITECT ABUSE: When should you bite the hand that feeds?

Debra Solomon

Most architects get stiffed by their clients for a developer notorious for slow construction costs as part of an air rights at one time or another-especially if the payments. At a point in the schematic transfer deal involving an apartment client is a developer. The most common design phase, when Serlio is owed fees tower on adjoining property. The form of abuse is the famous missing "final for two months work (about $65,000), he developer began complaining about the payment": the work by the architect is figures out how to make the developer fee immediately. Then he slowed completed, and the client refuses or pay up: he will give him the drawings payments to the architect, as well as neglects to pay the last bill. When the needed to submit to the development cutting back on construction costs­ architect begins legal action, the client authority, which has review powers over which was easy since he was the threatens to countersue because of all the project, as soon as the developer contractor. Finally, the developer those leaky windows. Meanwhile, becomes current. The deadline passes. announced he was suing the architects architects worry about the client Serlio realizes he has to resign or look for a quarter of a million dollars worth staying current with the payments - a like a total wimp. He decides to quit and of things that had gone wrong. The city sticky problem since architects are the developer hires another firm. arranged for the suit to be mediated. It usually working well ahead of their Naturally, Serlio is irritated that a cost Romano and partners $19,000 in thirty-day billing date. The more colleague would blithely go in where an legal bills, and the firm ended up enthusiastic the architect is about the honorable architect has tread, but that's sacrificing 10 percent of its fee. project, or the more diligent about that. meeting deadlines, the more the Question: What should the architect stands to lose in the end. Question: What should Serlio have architects have done? done? Case Ill Being stiffed can occur in a variety of Case II ways. Oculus presents three case A socially well-placed friend referred an studies - all true stories - which A shotgun wedding was arranged eager young developer to an architect, illustrate the complexities of dealing between an architectural firm of named Scamozzi. The developer wanted with the real world. Only the names of Romano, Castelli, Talenti and Bernini and to hire Scamozzi for a renovation and the parties involved have been changed. a developer. The project involved the expansion of a building that would have Case I expansion/renovation of part of a to be approved by the Landmarks city-owned cultural facility the architects Preservation Commission. Although the The architect, Serlio, has been hired to had previously worked on. The developer developer seemed to have the money in design a prestigious apartment building was to pay the architects' fee and place, Scamozzi was careful enough to get a $25,000 retainer as well as a full-service contract. Three and a half months into the design of the building, no further payments had been made. Design by '%f ou Scamozzi put a lien on the developer's building. Then he discovered that the NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE developer didn't own the property and 1970-1990 the current owner, if so inclined, could Heinrich Klotz with Luminita Saban. An exciting, conceivably take action against profusely illustrated survey of 's Scamozzi. A quarter of a million dollars architecture during the last two decades of explo­ sive development. 280 pages. 8" x 12". 600 illus., worth of time and money later, the 250 in color. $75 architect had to face it: he had been had. TERRAZZO: Volume III Question: What should he have Edited by Barbara Radice. "Coverage of architec­ done? ture, interiors, furniture and product design. A great mix." -Interior Design. 160 pages. Fully illus., most in color. : $25 . Also ava il a­ Next month Oculus will present ble: Vol. I: $20. Vol. II: $20. reactions to "Architect Abuse" from ZODIAC: Volume II Barry LePatner, of the firm LePatner, Edited by Guido Canella. "Intelligent attention to Block, Pawa & Rivelis - a lawyer with design at the scales of architecture and the city. whom architects in litigation are familiar. Fascinating material, handsomely presented." - Interior Design. 200 pages. Fully illus. Paperback: If you have an interesting case study or $37.50. Also available: Vol. I: $37.50 would like to offer shark-proof solutions to those cited above, write Oculus. RIZZOLI INTERNATIONAL PUBUCATIONS 300 Park Avenue South/NYC 10010/(212) 982-2300 DECEMBER 1989 7

URBAN BRIEFS Report by Alex Cohen

of a special permit to transfer "air rights Arverne, at significant expense, for over Making Madison up to a maximum of 21.6 FAR" from a ten years, hoping to sell about 1,000 units landmark to a site between the center per year. They say the intended unit price Note: Oculus received the following lines of Madison and Lexington Avenues. will "range from $155,000 to $180,000, letter after its initial report on 383 Not only is this potential FAR too large targeting a two-income middle-class Madison. Subsequent developments for any single site in this already family earning between $50,000 and raise more issues. congested area, but it extends an $60,000." Over two-thirds of the units are unfortunate site-specific policy of intended to be two or three bedrooms, I found the last paragraph of Alex special-permit FAR bonuses, instead of and unit size will be approximately 1100 Cohen's article on 383 Madison providing encouraging controlled as-of-right square feet. By 1997, the plan's my view to be subject to diverse midtown growth. G. Ware Travelstead proponents intend to have 5,600 units interpretations. Yes, the preservation who intends to develop 383 Madison, h~s complete. community should have reason to fear stated he is willing to compromise on the that reopening of the Grand Central case size of the tower, initially proposed at an According to one developer whose firm could, in this Supreme Court, undermine FAR of 33. responded to the city's initial Request the constitutionality of the landmarks for Expressions of Interest but was not law. That is, in my opinion, a call for one of the developers who answered the moderation, not litigation. Hopefully, the Rockaways Redux final RFP, "You can't make any money on preservationists' stake in avoiding an these terms at these prices." Similar adverse ruling, when coupled with the Early this month, a joint venture of "manufactured" one-, two-, and economic stake of the developer in Forest City Ratner Companies and Park three-bedroom condominiums aimed at avoiding protracted delay, will produce a Tower Estates anticipates certification of middle-income families on the Bronx heightened mutual interest in an environmental impact study for their River at Shore Haven are selling slowly compromise. Faced with a winner-take­ plans to build 10,000 market-rate at a similar price range of $130,000 to all situation which could go either way, residential units on 302 acres of vacant, $180,000, and that project's developers the responsible parties in this dispute city-owned land on the beach in Arverne, did not have to spend $30,000 per unit must turn to negotiation rather than Queens. Some observers are increasingly in land and infrastructure fees. litigation. The courts are the last place skeptical about the project's feasibility, to take either the metaphysical zoning based on the development terms agreed The developers are not restricted to their issues raised by Steve Kowaloff or the on with the city for this urban renewal announced unit prices, but Paul Travis, fundamental planning issue of seeking a tract in the Rockaways. vice-president of Forest City Ratner, says workable balance between economic that "unless we can hit our target market, development and preservation. While the Request for Proposals permits which prefers low-rise and is priced out market rate housing at Arverne, the of Manhattan, it won't work." Shelly S. Friedman developers paid $90 million to the city Brown & Wood for the land, to be used by the city to Despite the low prices, and despite such build low-income housing elsewhere. In advantages as beach access, self­ addition, the RFP requires that the containment, and security, the proposed Anticipating a legal challenge to its developers spend approximately $210 community could be a tough sell. The earlier rejection of a transfer of air rights million in infrastructure improvements Rockaways have seen construction of from Grand Central Terminal to a for the new community, including road, thousands of units of now substandard proposed 72-story skyscraper at 383 sewer, beach, and boardwalk low-income housing. One housing Madison, the City Planning Commission improvements. These monies cost advocate who visited the area told recommended the creation of a new $30,000 per residential unit. According Oculus, "Those blocks of public housing Grand Central sub-district. This zone will to Dan Willis, Arverne project manager, are very big, dense, and scary. Some of permit the "transfer of one FAR of the probable use of "manufactured the worst drug areas in the city are development rights from Grand Central housing similar to that designed by nearby." Arverne is also adjacent to the Terminal and other landmarks in the Liebman Melting at Shore Haven in the community of Edgemere, which is area" to any site, irrespective of Bronx and built elsewhere by the New blighted by a beach landfill garbage ownership, between 41st and 48th York City Partnership will reduce the dump. Traveling to Manhattan from Streets from the midblock west of carrying cost to the developer. This Arverne take over an hour by subway or Madison Avenue to the mid block east of housing permits a much higher quality train. It appears that Arverne's rise back Lexington Avenue. The creation of this control and a cost savings because it is to a middle-class enclave will be a steep district seems to be a sound policy for constructed in a factory and delivered to and financially risky path. managing density and congestion as the site only when needed." Grand Central's air rights are transferred to nearby properties. NYC Partnership "manufactured units" cost approximately $100,000 to build. But the proposal includes the allowance The developers intend to market 8 NYC/AI A OCULUS

Vladivostok Hermanuz. As internally focused By John Hejduk schemes, they also appear Edited by Kim Shkapich unsympathetic to such successful urban Rizzoli, $50 cloth, $35 paper approaches as Herman Hertzberger's Berlin Apartments, where he emphasizes This is hardly your usual architecture the courtyard more as a place of book. Three places in Russia-Riga, movement from the street to the Lake Baikal, and Vladivostok - have building. been transformed by John Hejduk into -A.C. mental landscapes. These landscapes have spurred him to sketch, write poetry, The Museum Projects: and compose essays and short fictions Josef Paul Kleihues about the building types he encounters Edited by Kim Shkapich and dreams about, as indicated by Rizzoli, $45 "Gymnasium Male and Female," "The Hall of the Stuffed Animals," and "Public This handsomely presented work Punishment Tower." focuses on seven of the sixteen designs for ro 11 c:;eums or exhibit halls that the In the middle of a section on Riga are German architect and planning director photographs of Hejduk's recently of Berlin's IBA has designed since the completed IBA residential blocks and early 1970s. Two of them, the Museum tower in the southern Friedrichstadt area for Pre- and Early History in Frankfurt of Berlin. The housing presents a strong and the German Blade Museum and City case that such creative forays benefit the Archive in Solingen, were recently making of architecture for the real world. completed. The book is impeccably produced and designed-itself a work of art. A discussion about the architecture of -S.S. museums between Kleihues and Dr. Claus Baldus of the Technical University Reweaving the Urban Fabric: in Berlin, plus an introduction by John Approaches to Infill Housing Hejduk, raise key theoretical issues that By Ghislaine Hermanuz, Marta nicely augment the visual component. Gutman, and Richard Plunz The book shares much of the graphic Introduction by Peter Marcuse and ideological spirit of Hejduk's Princeton Architectural Press, $24.95 Vladivostok. (Kleihues's book grew out of an exhibit at , where Expanding on a 1985 national design Hejduk is the dean of the architecture competition for infill housing in central school). The inclusion of a section of Harlem, this compendium includes poetry at the beginning, however, makes historical essays, extensively illustrated, the connection look too forced, and on tenement and public housing spelling mistakes like spacial for spatial evolution and on New York housing suggest that the text editing wasn't design competitions. Unfortunately, the reviewed as closely as the graphic design. book in general, and Ghislaine -S.S. Hermanuz's descriptive essay in particular, includes too few of the 1985 New York Architecture, Volume 2 design proposals and becomes a platform 1989 Design Awards Program for the three authors' ideas. NYC/AJA, $40

What is apparent in the entries that are A well-designed black-and-white featured, specifically those that catalogue of one of the most distinctive protectively privatize the interior awards selections in recent years is portions of each infill block, is the bolstered by substantive jury comments. transposition of the ideal environment Joseph Giovannini's introduction "from the public realm and the city .. . provides another form of commentary to the private realm and the house." criticizing the architecture and implicitly These self-contained designs are some of the jurors' choices. antithetical to "black collective and -S.S. communal life style," according to DECEMBER 1989 9

Which new arrivals should be read, skimmed, or avoided.

The Design Process: Case Studies in read with a monograph of the firm's work Project Development close at hand. By Ellen Shoskes Whitney Library of Design, $45 The foreboding of White's untimely demise pervades the text, and the Shoskes's extremely well-organized and picture Baker paints of White's life is that lucid text summarizes the design of a tortured genius suffering from a development of nine recent projects, weakness of the flesh. This material does, including James Stewart Polshek's however, make for enthralling reading Washington Court apartments; Venturi, and provides a fuller understanding of Rauch & Scott-Brown's Princeton the career of one of America's Molecular Biology Laboratory; and outstanding architects. Duany and Plater-Zyberg's Kentlands - Anne Rieselbach master plan for a Gaithersburg, Maryland, estate. New York Architecture, 1970-1990 Edited by Heinrich Klotz, with It is clear from this study that the clients' Luminita Sabau evolving agendas and unrelenting Rizzoli, $75 interference often definitively shaped and compromised the architects' work. This eclectic assemblage of projects and Shoskes's case studies are weakened, built works by established, soon-to-be­ however, by a lack of critical analysis of established, and unestablished · the impact of institutional clients on the architects in New York (and elsewhere) architects' plans and the creative process. leaves us wondering what "New York - A.C. Architecture" is about. The up-and-down quality of the book itself is reflected in Stanny: The Gilded Life the presentation of the work: exquisitely of Stanford White reproduced drawings of projects by By Paul Baker Agrest & Gandelsonas, nicely presented The Free Press, $24.95 finished work by Steven Holl, and poorly reproduced drawings and/or models by Much has been written about McKim, Arquitectonica and Zaha Hadid. Mead & White's rich and varied architectural designs. In this volume The mishmash of built and could-never­ Baker focuses instead on the flamboyant possibly-be-built selections includes life and friendships of the youngest large-scale towers and small-scale partner, Stanford White. His companions boutiques, visionary schemes for cities, ran the gamut from stalwart society and artists'-colony housing. members who were frequently clients, to Introductions from such critics as Robert talented artists who were frequently Stern, Kenneth Frampton, Douglas collaborators, to young show girls who Davis, Michael Sorkin, Christian were frequently . . This sometimes Norberg-Schulz, and Walter Prigge with interconnected group was invited to Hans-Peter Schwarz swing wildly from frolic at festive feasts elaborately staged the intellectually weighty to the daffy, by White at his infamous Madison Square and some essays are just retreads of Garden tower apartment. apen;us published elsewhere.

In this comprehensive, well-documented The book needs serious editing and a biography, Baker examines White's family point of view. One wonders how the life, his role in the firm, and his working authors decided to leave any architect methods. White's profitable sideline as out-surely it wasn't on the basis of an art and antiques buyer for his friends building type, location, architectural and clients, and his collaborations with approach, or quality of design. But as a artists and sculptors, particularly visual scrapbook (708 illustrations, 271 Augustus Saint Gaudens and Frederick in color) with drawings and photos of MacMonnies, receive attention too. projects that received attention between Unfortunately, the firm's work is 1970 and 1990, it could be a useful meagerly illustrated, and the analyses of reference. White's designs and decorating are best - S.S. 10 NYC/AJA OCULUS

More synopses on the latest in the bookstores.

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Twentieth-Century Architecture Ghirardo discusses the style of new town By Heinrich Klotz architecture in Italy and America,

DIANI GNlAIDO Rizzoli, $75 arguing that they draw on simplified vernacular buildings to create familiar This international survey based on the forms. The public buildings and squares permanent collection of the German of some Italian new towns, with their "' Architecture Museum in Frankfurt has striking de Chirico-like compositions, two characteristics that make it certainly bear more study, as do the few interesting. First, the book attempts to modernist multifamily housing designs show how different architectural created in this country. The reader is left movements such as modernism were in the dark about the role, the working carried out by the lesser-known players methods, and in many cases the names as well as the more celebrated of the architects who created buildings personalities. Second, the presented and towns in this country. Nevertheiess, work is skewed toward , this book reinforces the powerful role especially during the 1920s and 1930s, design can play in shaping and enforcing because it reflects the museum's social control. collections. It is refreshing to see - Anne Rieselbach drawings, models, renderings, and sketches - beautifully assembled and

HEINRICH KLOTZ reproduced-by Farkas Molnar, Bruno Renzo Piano: Buildings and Projects 2 0 '" Cen tury A1·chih "Ct.. 11re Taut, Erwin Schwarzer, and Mies , as well 1971-1989 as more current work by Shin Takamatsu, Introduction by Paul Goldberger Gustav Peichl, and Rem Koolhaas. Rizzoli, $50 -S.S. Renzo Piano's elegant and technically precise work deserves better coverage Building New Communities: than this volume gives. It appears to be New Deal America and Fascist Italy a coffee-table book for architects - By Diane Ghirardo which in itself suggests a strange idea Princeton University Press, $35 about its readership. The book lacks the technical information and detailed The new towns and resettlement drawings that would be helpful and communities created by the totalitarian interesting to anyone in the architectural fascists and the paternalistic New community. Dealers shared certain unexpected characteristics. The building programs, As a coffee-table book it suffers in part Ghirardo believes, were based more on because the 23 of the 270 illustrations idealized concepts of rural communities which are either a full page or a spread than on solutions for economic relief. are blurry. An interview with Vittorio Were the programs removed from the Gregotti is the most interesting aspect, crowded corruption of industrial cities, even though he comes off sounding too they would (theoretically) provide obsessed with Piano's wealthy clients. increased economic production, positive -S.S. government public relations, and tight social controls. DISK CONVERSIONS Ghirardo traces the formal language of OCR SCANNING Italian new towns, where planners and architects combined the order of Roman TYPESETTING town planning with the architectural Disk conve rsion se rvices to and from over 1000 symbols of medieval cities to create cities formats : 3" - 5" - 8" - Mac - IBM . with a definite hierarchy. As she Typesetting fo r directories , catalogs, price lists, describes them, these self-supporting annual reports , newsletters. towns contrast with American El ectronic scanning of typewritten documents government-sponsored communities - 50¢ page. Linotronic Postscript Output. built during the same era which, for the most part, were conceived as satellite STEINTYPE (212) 481-7776 communities oflarger urban settlements. 11 East 36th St., New York, NY 10016 DECEMBER 1989 11

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In case you missed a nything . . .

Herbert Muschamp

O~S : Preservation Foundation forum, took an 0~30: uncivilized turn early on in developer Sparks flew in a brief panel discussion Fred Rose's remarks. Attacking Steven Holl, undoubtedly an Architect following The Architectural League's landmarking as a discretionary zoning with a capital A, decried in a 92nd Street premier of Michael Blackwood 's "The tool, Rose stated that anyone who voted Y discussion the "failure on the part of Deconstructivist Architects." Critic to landmark Mt. Neboh Synagogue (since architecture-school deans to demand Herbert Muschamp commented, "If I demolished) should be "shot." Critic quality architecture on their campuses." lived in Kansas, I'd want to see this film, Paul Goldberger responded, "How According to Holl, Dean Harrison Fraker but I don't. This is what an audience in clever of Fred, in this election year, to of the University of Minnesota, for which Kansas wants to see and know about be the first to connect two critical issues: Holl has completed work on an architecture." He added that the he has coupled historic preservation with architecture and landscape building, "is "promotional movie uncritically capital punishment." committed to great architecture." packaged an architecture represented by Instead of "tacking an addition on the its participants as subversive in a format Hugh Hardy remarked that "while the side," Holl claims he has transformed the [that was] safe, fun, and easy to watch." value of existing buildings may be whole academic complex by "connecting enhanced to generate a profit, a the departments and studios with a Joseph Giovannini, writer/narrator of developer can usually create wealth only unifying figure-eight promenade walk." the documentary, responded that indeed by increasing density, a value often at odds with the interests of preservation­ "decon is quite a suspicious movement N~Z: and criticism of it can be found in my ists." Hardy later said that preservationists upcoming book, The Deconstructivists. "have a tendency to want to see things Few provocative comments came out of Muschamp retorted, 'Tm still waiting for only through sepia-colored glasses." the Architectural League's sold-out that book." discussion with deans Ralph Lerner of 0~16 : Princeton, Michael Rotondi of Muschamp went on to say that while he Sci-Arch, and Bernard Tschumi of did not object to the architecture per se, Alexander Cooper, power broker, took Columbia. While Rotondi (who dissolved it was presented as "liberal," and "was time off to discuss his work with Paul the board of directors that hired him) brought into the film to validate a school Goldberger as part of the 92nd Street and Tschumi have both increased of philosophy that is essentially not Y's "Shape of the City" series. To a personal control over their schools by liberal." deferential lay audience he explained, restructuring, only Rotondi explicitly "When Donald Trump asked us to just defined his mission as "confronting and subverting the status quo by 0~6 : fix up the open space in Helmut Jahn's Trump City plan, we declined. But when consolidating power and authority." As part of "New Schools for New York," he was ready to redefine the project, it the Architectural League brought became an assignment too hard to walk With moderator Mario Gandelsonas together architects Herman away from. " was directing little of the discussion Hertzberger and Christopher toward a relatively unconcerned Lerner, Alexander to present their recent work In a moment of boosterism, Cooper Rotondi took the opportunity to label the and discuss school design. Kenneth added, "Donald Trump has incredible "profession" of architecture a Frampton intervened after two rather visual sense. He cares about the way "loggerhead to institutions of verbose presentations by commenting, things look. That's important in a client." architectural education." He added that "The 'elan' [that Hertzberger strives for architecture schools cannot and should in his work] and the 'feeling' Alexander not be "geared to support the profession; hopes to evoke have quite different 0~1/: architecture must be considered a ideological roots. Elan is essentially a discipline that can be changed on the Before deteriorating into a family margins, not from within." 20th-century idea of creating a modern squabble between the "theatered" Durst society equivalent and superior to the and Schubert families, Cooper Union's ancient society, a myth which appears to colloquium on the "42nd Street have suffered a recent setback. Feeling Redevelopment Project" George has an old root, quite close to religious Sternlieb, laissez-faire planning activist evocation, and has a different pedigree and founder of Rutgers's Center for than elan completely.)) Urban Policy Research, posed a conundrum: "To what extent is attracting new businesses and theatergoers to 0~10: Times Square dependent on a cleanup of 42nd Street? And how much is paying "Toward a Civilized City," the Historic for this sanitizing .. . dependent on .. . Building Committee/Landmarks the developers finding tenants?" Christopher Alexander 12 NYC/AIA OCULUS

AROUND THE CHAPTER by Lenore M. Lucey

grandfathering except as provided for yourself to the Accord and to other Accord on Licensing persons seeking an exception to the proposed legislation. The most recent education and experience requirements, proposal by interior designers in New What ever happened to licensing interior and those who are licensed from another York does not meet the Accord criteria. designers? Despite the well-publicized jurisdiction. In each case strict Accord, interior design organizations in equivalents are required. Support for appropriate certification of various states, including New York, interior designers is a big step, but we continue to produce and promote • Joint regulatory boards. This feel strongly that it is fitting at this time. legislation that would effectively enable proposal calls for a separate interior What can you do? There are many ways designers to practice architecture. While design board; however, it mandates the you can help the Colman legislation: we continue to oppose any legislation presence of architects on that board. • Know that every interior designer is that would infringe upon the practice of asking suppliers to financially support architecture without equivalent training, • Development of a clear definition legislation that is not in agreement with testing' and experience, NYC/AIA has ofinterior designers. The Colman bill the Accord. When you talk to suppliers, joined in support of an interior presents a clear definition of interior consultants, and colleagues, let them certification bill in New York State. designers that does not infringe on the know that there is legislation that is practice of architecture: "rendering or acceptable to architects. If you are not The legislation, A.3446-A, introduced last offering to render services ... in the sufficiently familiar with the legislation, year by Assembly member Samuel preparation of design drawings put them in touch with the Chapter. You Colman (D, Rockland), a licensed pertaining to layouts; furniture can make it clear to all that architects engineer, is supported by the New York arranging; draperies; moveable partition do not appreciate support for legislation State Association of Architects and the systems which do not relate to life safety that is inimical to their profession. American Institute of Architects. We find systems or egress; design and planning • Talk to colleagues, friends, and that the Colman bill fulfills the intent of of furniture; fixtures; and cabinetry. ... " employees. Many are not aware that the Accord signed last year by the AIA, architects can support legislation to the ASID, and the IBD and does not • Licensed architects can continue to assist interior designers in attaining their permit unqualified persons to practice perform interior design services. goals of legal recognition within the architecture. Following are the terms of Outside the parameters of the Accord, parameters of the Accord. the Accord (in boldface type) and the current proposed legislation relating to • Write to your state senator or assembly reference points in the Colman bill. interior design would permit "certified member at the appropriate time in support of A.3446-A. If you are speaking •Title registration. A.3446-A is a title interior designers" to continue or start with your local representative, it is act, not a practice act. business corporations. This form of professional practice is not permitted acceptable to bring up your support for • Four-year minimum professional architects and engineers, and we are not the Colman bill at any time. degree accredited by FIDER or amenable to the availability of a • Be aware that interior design equivalent, NCIDQ testing or corporate shield to interior designers. proponents have been able to obtain equivalent, and a monitored architects' support for their bills by internship. The Colman legislation calls The New York Chapter has strongly claiming they meet the Accord. You for a bachelor's or higher degree; passing supported the efforts of AIA President should ask for complete copies of any of the NCIDQ examination; and Ted Pappas and Benjamin Brewer toward legislation you are asked to support, and combined education and testing equal to resolution of this situation. In addition, compare its provisions with the Accord. seven years, that is, a monitored we have been a leading proponent among If you are feeling pressured, call the internship following education. AIA chapters nationwide in the fight to Chapter and we will put you in touch find appropriate certification for interior with a knowledgeable person to answer • No grandfathering without strict designers since the signing of the Accord. your questions. (Yes, we will supply equivalent education, training, and We strongly support the Colman copies of the Colman bill upon request! testing criteria. There is no legislation, and urge you to compare it Free to NYC/AIA members, $2.00 for nonmembers.)

We are very close to reaching appropriate certification for interior designers during this legislative session, and we can do it with your support for A.3446-A. The Chapter and NYSAA will keep you updated. If you are interested in working ot New York City and Long Island on legislative issues (and they are not all related to licensing), call Evelyn Romero Anthony J. Zotollo at the Chapter and sign up for the 445 Northern Blvd .. Great Neck. NY 11021 • 516-487-5400 Legislative Affairs Committee. DECEMBER 1989 13

The presentation for the NYCIAIA 1989 Design Awards October 24 at the Whitney Museum Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza turned out to be a successful debutfor a new type ofequipment. To show slides ofthe award winning schemes, Wayne Berg and Ed Mills on the Awards Committee designed an all-in-one slide projector and screen kiosk. The design ofthe apparatus paid a fitting homage to the museum gallery by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. But better yet, it worked.

NYC/AIA Annual Financial Report The fol owing is a summary of the 1988/89 year-end status and the approved 1989/90 budget. The Chapter fiscal year ends 30 September.

1988/89 1989/90 Year end Budget (appvd 1117/89) Income Dues $370 ,934 $554,277 Administration 54,597 14,000 Prior Year Carryover 22,954 0 Contingent Reserve 15,300 12,000 Fund Raising 0 0 Oculus 976 30,000 Occupancy 2,150 2,050 Documents 66,282 75 ,000 Committees 93,643 107,300 Miscellaneous 2,626 2,000 Total Income $ 629,462 $796,627

Expenses Administration $351,8110 $345,085 Contingent Reserve Fund 0 10,000 Convention Debt 22,640 0 Oculus 105,708 127,600 Occupancy 90,616 115,500 Documents 48,252 55,000 Committees 107,683 117,465 Miscellaneous 1,940 Total Expenses $728,650 $770,650 Fund Balance (Deficit ) (99,188) $ 25,977 Photos: Dorothy Alexander

Notes J-1 Classification Under LL 16 Fire-Retardant-Treated Wood Joseph Bresnan, former Executive According to George E. Berger, Assistant Building Code requirements for Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commissioner for Building Construction, fire-retardant-treated wood are available Commission, has joined the REMCO any premises whose certificate of at the Department of Buildings. Call Group as Vice President, Director of occupancy classifies it as a Class B Hotel Charles M. Smith Jr., Commissioner, at Architectural Services. is, for the purposes of Local Laws 16/84 312-8100. and 16/87, classified as being in The NYC/AIA Citation for Excellence Occupancy Group J-1, except if the in Urban Design Committee needs building is classified as a residential Corredion contributions for its publicity campaign hotel. for the 1991 citations. Make checks We regret that the office of David Elliot payable to AIA Citation for Excellence Liebowitz was omitted in the credits for in Urban Design or call Mark Strauss at Guide to NYC Handicapped the American Airlines/ Northwest 977-6500. Accessibility Laws and State Airlines Terminal at JFK in the NYC/ AJA Codes Available 1989 Design Awards Program (October, 1989 Design Firm Compensation page 16). Survey results are available. Call Liz The Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Block at 581-9600 or mail a check for Association (EPVA) has recently Oculus regrets that in the November $100 payable to: The Society of published the 1989 edition of Barrier­ issue David Paul Helpern's name was Architectural Administrators/New York Free Designs: The Law, Volume I. misspelled and his middle name was Chapter, P.O. Box 2987, New York, N.Y Building professionals may request omitted. 10185. single copies by writing EPVA, 75-20 Astoria Blvd., Jackson Heights, N.Y 11370. 14 NYC/AIA OCULUS

THE CALENDAR DECEMBER 1989

Send Oculus Calendar information to: New York Chapter/AJA, 457 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y 10022. Oculus welcomes informationfor the calendar pertaining to public events about architecture and the other design professions. Information is due in writing by the 1st of the month for the following issue. Because of the time lag between information received and printed, final details of events are likely to change. It is recommended that events be checked with sponsoring institutions before attending.

Raffles City, , Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, 1986. CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

The fact that American architects are in Eason Leonard pointed out that Peter Eisenman. Max Protetch Gallery, 560 demand in the Far East may be good for materials and professional backup are Broadway. 966-5454. Closes December 2. the architects, but not necessarily for the scarce in , and government Irving Browning: City of Contrasts. The architecture - or the host countries. The bureaucracy abundant in Hong Kong and New-Yo rk Historical Society, 170 Ce ntral Park evenings organized by the NYC/ AIA for Singapore. There the firm is currently West. 873-3400. Closes December 3. September 26 and October 3 provided a working on five projects including Housing the Airship. 400 level gallery, Ave ry Hall, Columbia GSAPP. 666-2433. Closes view of the complexities of designing and Gateway, Raffles City, and Overseas December 8. building in strange lands. Paul Rudolph, Chinese Banking Corporation. He also Eason Leonard of Pei, Cobb, Freed & NYC/AIA Affordable Housing - New warned that "some clients may not want York - 1990. The Urban Center. Sponsored Partners, and Robert Sobel of Emery to pay, and the courts are strange. You by the Chapter Housing Committee. Roth & Sons expounded on the problems do have to be careful. " 838-9670. Closes December 10. that architects encounter dealing with The Museum Projects: Josef Paul Kleihues. different building practices, materials, But the programs also demonstrated that Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th St. technologies, contexts and regions. much architecture in Pacific Rim 353-4155. Closes December 22. countries is simply an export, as if it were Neil Denari from Los Angeles. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare St. 431-5785. pulled out of file drawers containing Closes December 23. projects too large to play in Peoria. Constructing Light: Minimal Lighting Because it is unfair to judge the various Design, 1900-1988. Parson's School of Design schemes without being familiar with the Exhibition Center, 2 W 13th St. 741 -8900. Closes BEST SELUNG BOOKS sites, we won't name the specific projects January 12, 1990. As of November 1, 1989 that seemed most flagrantly formulaic. Window on Wonder City: New York in the But some came very close to looking like World's Fair Era. Drawings, watercolors, oils, 1. Jbze Plecnik 1872-1957, Claude and portrait sculpture. The Museum of the City Bond Bread architecture being hawked of New York, Fifth Ave . at 103rd St. 534-1672. Eveno (MIT Press, cloth, $39.95). in the Oriental marketplace. Paul Closes January 14, 1990. 2. Pamphlet Architecture #9 Rudolph, at least, maintains that he Selling the World of Tomorrow: New York's (reissue), Steven Holl (Princeton looked at the local context when he 1939 World's Fair. The Museum of the City of Architectural Press, paper, $8.00). New York , Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. 534-1672. Closes designed the Dharmala Building in August 12, 1990. 3. Drawing into Architecture, Jakarta to have deep overhangs shielding Architectural Design Profile (Academy glass walls to imitate the roof pattern of Paolo Soleri Habitats: Ecologic Minutiae. Editions/St. Martin's Press, paper, New York Academy of Sciences, 2 E. 63rd St. the vernacular architecture. Robert 838-0230. Closes January 28, 1990. $19.95). Sobel mentioned that Emery Roth found 4, Anchoring, Steven Holl (Princeton . Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life itself pioneering the development of in Italy. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave . Architectural Press, cloth, $24.95). certain building types - office buildings 860-1888. Closes February 1, 1990. 5. City: Rediscovering the Center, and shopping centers - in ; the William H. Whyte (Doubleday; cloth, firm is also involved in building high high FRIDAY 1 $24.95). rises. "Thailand doesn't seem to have a 6. Vacant Lots, edited by Carol Willis LUNCH LECTURE context you can relate to," Sobel said. General Charles Williams, President, New and Rosalie Genevra (Princeton "Our conclusion was to forget it. Some York City School Construction Authority. Architectural Press and the said the towers do violence to tradition. Noon. The City Club ofNewYork, 33 W 42nd St., Architectural League of New York, We said, 'Show us an indigenous 40-story 17th floor. 921-9870. paper, $24.95). Siamese tower, and we will copy it.'" -S.S. DECEMBER 1989 15

Croton Reservoir, present site of the West Coast Gateway Competition, Mayor-elect New York Public Library, 1900. Neil Denari. David N Dinkins

SATURDAY2 FRIDAY 8 TUESDAY 19 SYMPOSIUM l,UNCH LECTURE LECTURE Charles and Ray Eames: Quintessential David N. Dinkins, mayor-elect. Noon. The City Charles Gwathmey. Museum Architecture: American Designers. Panel includes Joseph Club of New Yo rk, 33 W 42nd St., 17 th fl oor. In and Around Masterpieces. 4:00 pm. The Giovannini, John Neuhart, and Marilyn Neuhart. 921-9870. Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th St., Room 21E. 353-4220. 10:00 am-4:00 pm. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 2 E. 91st St. 860-6868. LECTURE Alvin Holm, architect and teacher, discusses WEDNESDAY 20 classical style. Sponsored by the Municipal Art SUNDAY3 Society and Classical America. 6:00 pm. The EXHIBITIONS Urban Center. $5. 935-3960. The Design of Tompkins Square Park and SLIDE PRESENTATION Plans for the Future. The Municipal Art Society. Regional Network for Greenspaces. Hooper 935-3960. Brooks, Regional Plan Association. 3:00 pm. The TUESDAY 12 Urban Center. 935-3960. LECTURE NYC/AIA CHAPTER MEETING . The Muses Don't Live Open Meeting sponsored by the Building Here Anymore. 5:00 pm. The Cooper Union, 7 TUESDAY 5 Codes Committee with Commissioner E. 7th St., Room 21E. 353-4220. Charles M. Smith Jr. Current changes and OPEN HOUSE future developments at the NYC Department Philip Winslow's Landscapes. The Parks IDCNY Open House. Includes showroom tours of Buildings. 6:00 pm. The Urban Center. $5. Council. 838-9410. and 1:00 pm showing of Michael Blackwood's 838-9670. "Beyond Utopia." 29-10 Thomson Ave., Long Both exhibits are at the Urban Center and close Island City. 718-937- 74 74. LECTURE on January 31, 1990. James Ingo Freed. Memory of the Holocaust TOUR Museum. 4:00 pm. The Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th The Evolving Times Square Story. St., Room 21E. 353-4220. JANUARY 1990 Conversation with Carl Weisbrod, president of the 42nd Street Development Project, fo llowed TUESDAY9 by tour. 6:00 pm. 1515 Broadway, 52nd floo r. WEDNESDAY 13 NYC/AIA CHAPTER MEETING 935-3960. Open Meeting on professional liability LECTURE insurance. 6:00 pm. The Urban Center. LECTURE Peter Eisenman. The Edge of Between. 5:00 838-9670. Rafael Moneo. What Do Museums Mean pm. The Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th St., Room 21E. Today? 4:00 pm. The Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th St., 353-4220. Room 21E. 353-4220. DEADLINES THURSDAY 14 DECEMBER 8 WEDNESDAY 6 Restoration of the Los Angeles Pan-Pacific LECTURES Auditorium and design of a museum and a senior VIDEO The Modern Movement and the New York service/community center. Sponsored by LA/ AIA. The World of Tomorrow: The 1939 World's Skyline: 1945-1965. With Barry Lewis. Entry fee: $25. 213-380-4595. Fair. The Municipal Art Society. 6:00 pm. The Sponsored by the 92nd Street Y. 6:30 pm. Park Urban Center. $5. 935-3960. East Synagogue, 164 E. 68th St. 996- llOO . JANUARY 2, 1990 Requests for applications due for the Rotch BENEFIT AUCTION Peter Rose. Remnants, Traces, Travelling Scholarship, a two-stage design Westpride Auction. Apple Bank fo r Savings, Transformations. 5:00 pm. The Cooper Union, competition for eight months of wo rld travel. 73rd St. and Broadway. Viewing, 6:30 pm. 7 E. 7th St., Room 21E . 353-4220. Write to Hugh Shepley, Rotch Travelling 498-8l10. Scholarship, 40 Broad St., 6th floor. Boston, Mass. BENEFIT AUCTION FOR DIFFA 02109. LECTURE Edible Architecture - Delicious Designs. Phyllis Lambert. Canadian Centre for Drawings and edible representations by MARCH 1, 1990 Architecture. 5:00 pm. The Cooper Union, 7 E. architects and designers. 7 pm. Sotheby's. York Natural Fibers Fellowship of $10,000 for the 7th St., Room 21E. 353-4220. and 72nd Street. 874-2390. $100.00, $250.00, most innovative project that uses natural $500.00. fibers in interior design, contract or residential. Call Diana Gabriel, 944-9220, THURSDAY 7 ext. 106. THURSDAY 14-SATURDAY 16 TALKS Community Initiated Planning: Prospects HOLIDAY BAZAAR for the Future. Sponsored by the Planning City Spirit Holiday Bazaar. Museum gifts. Center. 8:30 am. The Urban Center. 935-3960. 10:00 am-6:00 pm. The Urban Center. 935-3960. Kenneth T. Jackson, Camilo Vergara. Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American FRIDAY 15 Cemetery. The Municipal Art Society. Noon. The Urban Center. 935-3960. LUNCH LECTURE New York City, The Year Past, The Decade The Modern Movement's Roots: 1910-1930. Past. Ken Auletta. Noon. The City Club of New With Barry Lewis. Sponsored by the 92nd Street York , 33 W 42nd St., 17th floor. 921-9870. Y. 6:30 pm. Park East Synagogue, 164 E. 68th St. 996-llOO. SATURDAY 16 Ralph Lerner. Centre, Center. 5:00 pm. The Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th St., Room 21E. 353-4220. EXHIBITION Building the New York Public Library. Second-floor gallery, The New York Public Library, Fifth Ave. at 42nd St. 221 -7676. The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is grateful to the following for their sponsorship of OCULUS

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