architecture california the journal of the american institute of architects california council a r cCA works / sectors issue 02.3 Va l u e B u i l d i n g ✺ Government Goes Green ✺ Preservation & Contemporary Design ✺ Modernism & the Model Home arcCA 0 2 . 3 works/sectors issue b u i l d i n g v a l u e Co n t e n t GOVERNING VALUES Government Goes Green: 8 Two New Federal Buildings ✺ Wendy Kohn Excellence in Public Building 12 A Message from the State Architect ✺ Stephan Castellanos, FAIA Newest State Office 16 Building Exceeds Energy Standards ✺ Lisa Kopochinski PAST & PRESENT Some Thoughts on 18 Preservation & Contemporary Design ✺ Stephen J. Farneth, FAIA Is Preservation Creating 22 a False History? Making an Architecture of Our Own Time ✺ William Leddy, AIA Hancock Fabrics 26 Has Moved to the Target Center ✺ Mark Luthringer MODERNISM & THE MODEL HOME Locked Out: 34 Architects in the Suburbs ✺ Dana Cuff The Lustron Home: 38 Fascination with a Prefabricated Modern House ✺ David Thurman Under the Radar 42 Reggie Rodriguez Community Center ✺ Elizabeth Martin Co m m e n t 03 Co n t r i b u t o r s 05 Cr e d i t s 51 Co d a 52 1 arcCA 0 2 . 3 Editor Timothy Culvahouse, AIA a r c C A is dedicated to providing a forum for the exchange of ideas among mem- bers, other architects and related disciplines on issues affecting California archi- Editorial Board Carol Shen, FAIA, Chair tecture. a r c C A is published quarterly and distributed to AIACC members as part of their membership dues. In addition, single copies and subscriptions are avail- Lisa Findley, AIA able at the following rates: Daniel Gregory, Ph.D. Single copies: $6 AIA members; $9 non-members. 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Touschner, AIA Executive Vice President AIA Long Beach Paul W. Welch, Jr., Hon. AIA John Mason Caldwell, AIA speculative residential development highlight Comment ways in which values become institutionalized, here through the policies of lending institutions and homebuilders associations. Sustainability, preservation, speculation— three ways (among many) in which we define our investment in the built environment. Each has its In the first issue of arcCA this year, “Image Mir- more or less obvious political dimension, and each ror,” we looked at how non-architects value archi- is profound in its long-term implications. None, tects. In the second issue, “Citizen Architects,” however, has the harsh immediacy of the politics we profiled architects who bring their own values of urban development in Israel and the Occupied to bear in their communities, applying their archi- Territories. In the July issue of A r c h i t e c t u r a l tectural expertise in ways that extend beyond the Record, Michael Sorkin describes the situation bounds of typical practice. Now, in the current there with characteristic clarity and insight. For issue, we consider some ways in which societal anyone interested in architecture and value, values become manifest in buildings. Sorkin’s article, “Urbanism is Politics: Lessons We have not attempted an exhaustive from a Place Where the Extremes Now Rule,” is survey of the idea of value in architecture, an essential reading. effort that would consume many volumes of our t trim magazine (assuming we could even agree on Tim Culvahouse, AIA, Editor what to include). For readers interested in such a survey, I can recommend volumes 10 & 11 of Cen- ter, the journal of the Center for American Archi- tecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin. These two volumes, straightforwardly entitled “Value” and “Value 2,” explore “the theme of economic value, its nature and relation- ship to other values, to what we do, and ultimately to what and how we build.” Edited by Michael Benedikt, C e n t e r is distributed by University of Texas Press. Rather than a broad survey, we have chosen to take several well-defined samples from what, for us, remains a loosely defined field. The first of these samples is taken at the intersection of environmental sustainability and government leadership. It includes three reports: one on Cali- a r c C A welcomes submissions for Under the Radar. To be fornia’s two newest federal buildings, for LA and eligible, a project or its architect must be located in California; San Francisco, products of the GSA’s “Design the project must not have been published nationally or interna- Excellence” program and exemplars of sustain- tionally (local publication is OK); and construction must have able design; one on a parallel sustainability effort at the state level, as realized in Sacramento’s been completed within the last twelve months or, for unfinished Capitol Area East End complex; and an outline of projects, must be 60%–70% complete. Architects need not be the state’s own design excellence agenda, pre- AIA members. Submissions from widely published firms (as sented by the State Architect. determined by the arcCA Editorial Board) may not be accepted. Our second sample juxtaposes two per- Please send your submissions to the editor by email at spectives on historic preservation and its relation to contemporary design. Photographer Mark [email protected], attaching three to five JPG images Luthringer’s images of abandonment offer a third with a combined file size of no greater than 1.5MB. Describe the perspective on history, memory, and the expend- project in fewer than 200 words in the body of the email, pro- ability of buildings. viding a brief caption for each image, keyed to the image’s file Luthringer’s photographs form a bridge name. (If you don’t have the capability to submit by email, you to the final sample, a consideration, in two parts, of the fate of modernism in the post-war suburb.