THE ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER 9.7.2004 $3.95 WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM In July, an interdisciplinary team called Hoboken residents as well as the words of CO WINNING DESIGNS FOCUS FLOW Group was named winner of the a final phone conversation from the 104" I- VIEWS ON LOWER MANHATTAN Hoboken 9/11 Memorial competition. In floor of one of the towers. The island fea• POMPIDOU June, Manhattan architect Fred Schwartz, tures a pool, the "Tidal Well," in the center, LU PENTHOUSE who was also a finalist in the Hoboken encircled by a cast-glass ring, the "Circle competition, won the New Jersey state of Names," etched with the names of O memorial competition. Hobo-ken's 9/11 victims. Hoboken lost O The Hoboken site, Pier A Park, designed 57 residents in the WTC attack, the largest BRANDING LONG by landscape architects Cassandra Wilday loss for any New Jersey community. ISLAND CITY and Henry Arnold, was a gathering spot for The jury included Emma Amos, Henry Hoboken residents in the days after 9/11. Arnold, Anne Buttenwieser, Ray Gastil, While other competition finalists had pro• Donald Genaro, Monica Ponce de Leon, and posed memorials to be built on Pier A Park, Trevor Smith. DEANS LIST the FLOW Group proposed the construction Further south along the Hudson River, of a modest island, Hoboken Island, to be Schwartz's New Jersey state 9/11 memorial connected by a footbridge to the pier. The will be built in Liberty State Park in Jersey TALL TALES Flow Group's sophisticated design won City, directly opposite lower Manhattan. in part because it does not impede Pier A Schwartz, with landscape architect Ken EAVESDROP Park's open space or block its dramatic Smith, designed a memorial titled Empty REVIEWS views of Manhattan. SkyXo have two stainless steel walls, both CLASSIFIEDS FLOW includes architect Jeanne Gang 30 feet tall and 200 feet wide, that flank a PROTEST of the Chicago firm Studio Gang Architects, 16-foot-wide paved bluestone path pointed 9/11 MEMORIALS artist Janet Echelman, aeronautical engi• in the direction of where the WTC towers neer Peter Heppel, structural engineer Aine had stood. The names of the 710 New TAKE SHAPE IN NJ Jersey residents who died at the World Brazil, and architectural lighting designer PATRON TURNED COLUMBUS, Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on the With the future of the World Trade Center site Domingo Gonzalez. planes that crashed on 9/11 will be etched INDIANA, INTO AN and its proposed memorial still the focus of The memorial begins on the pier with the on the walls. The path will cut a swath ARCHITECTURAL HOTBED intense debate, some other 9/11 memorials are low sloping wall, which designers call the through a gently sloping mound that is taking shape on the New Jersey side of the "Narrative Wall," leading to the bridge, sloped toward the city, continued on page 2 Hudson River, within view of lower Manhattan. inscribed with first-person narratives from J.IRWIN MILLER NEW TENANTS KNOW WHAT THEY DIES AT 95 PUBLIC ART BRIGHTENS M^fi^. DU.piNG,-OL«MlfC WANT, BUT DOES THE LMDC? J. InA'in Miller, the family was leading a Indiana architecture search for someone patron who passed to design a new For Hire: WTQj away August 16 after church for their con• a reported "brief ill• gregation; they had Cultural Center ness," always under• chosen Saarinen, but stood the funda• the architect declined. mental relationship The young Miller Architects between architec• continued on page 2 ture and community. On August 11 the Lower Manhattan In 1938, a few years Development Corporation (LMDC) held after he returned a conference to announce a Request for home to Columbu, Proposals for "Architectural Services for from college to help the World Trade Center Cultural Program," run his family's busi• which will comprise two buildings—a ness, Cummins performing arts complex to the north, and Engine, he visited a museum complex to the south. The ten• Eliel Saannen at his WHITE OUT ants, selected in June, will be the Drawing Cranbrook School in Center, the Joyce Theater International Michigan. Miller's Dance Center, the continued on page 2 While the bird's-eye view of the Athens Olympics was dominated by Santiago Calatrava's stadium, on the street level visitors were enchanted by a series of interactive art installations NY STATE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS commissioned by the city of Athens. Of particular note was White Noise White Light, a Julie Fa ' Temporary Landscape ANNOUNCES 2005 DESIGN GRANTS field of white fiberoptic strands sited at the base of the Acropolis, designed by a team led by J.Meejin Yoon, an architecture professor at MIT and founder of Boston-based MY Studio. Equipped with infrared sensors, 400 chest-high end-emitting stalks bent, lit, and whooshed CASH FLOW at the provocationof curious visitors. "Each person wading through left a five-second trail of light and noise," said collaborator Eric Howeler. "It was magical." DEBORAH CROSSBERC Delayed by this year's record-breaking budget hold-up,theNew York State Council on the Axts Architecture, Planning and Design Program (APD) recently announced the recipients of its 2005 Independent Projects Grants, aimed at promoting excellence in design in the public realm. Seven teams of New York residents— Harry Allen, Alex deLooz and Corey Hoelker, Phyllis Ross, Julie Farris, Mike Silver and Peng Chia, Mary Ann Spencer, and Scott Ruff—were awarded a total of $69,750. The projects range from continued on page 2 o THE ARCHITECrS NEWSPAPER SEPTEMBER 7, 2004 CO While preparing this issue's feature on architectural education, more Diana Darling continued from front page Signature o than one of the eleven deans we interviewed commented that it's an Theater Center, and the International Cathy Lanq Ho exciting time for schools right now. "All the schools are evolving in Freedom Center. The RFP requested that William Menking I—I Interested architects submit a proposal their own way," said Mark Wigley, recently named dean at Columbia detailing both their qualifications and a LU University. "There are important issues to face and schools are rising Martin Perrin rough idea of how they would ultimately to face them. It feels like we're on a threshold." tackle the design. During the meeting at the LMDC offices, planners, developers, Anne Guiney New York enjoys an unusually high concentration of schools offer• and representatives from each tenant ing architecture degrees, and there's no lack of talent which they can Deborah Grossberg organization outlined the plans to a gath• tap into for faculty, critics, and lecturers. Though the deans may jos• ering of architects and Interested parties. The comparatively forthright nature Jonathan Chaffin tle each other over hires, they're confident enough of their programs' of this RFP comes In contrast to the tenor unique identities that they don't seem overtly competitive. Each of the redevelopment process to date. Keith James school's distinctions are an outgrowth of its particular context. For Daniel Libeskind's crowd-pleasing master example, Anthony Vidler sees Cooper Union's Utopian aspirations plan, which included a fairly developed Paul Beatty and his students' "gritty sense of responsibility" as extensions of the concept for the Freedom Tower was quickly shunted aside in favor of the school's history of experimentation and its context in New York. By vision of developer and lease-holder Larry contrast, Princeton, led by Stan Allen, is a small professional school Silversteln's go-to corporate architects seated within a larger humanities context, which gives it its intellec• SOM, who designed 7 World Trade tual character. Peter Wheelwright, chair of the Department of Center. Memorial designer Michael Arad was chosen In a public process, but it was Architecture, Interior Design, and Lighting at Parsons where Paul one that was ultimately overshadowed by Goldberger recently became dean, attributes his department's agility PHILIPPE BARRIERE/ARIC CHEN/ the general disappointment the public MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL / and irreverence to the hands-on, non-doctrinaire nature of the larg• expressed with all the finalist schemes. JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/JAMES PETO/ er school of which it is part—and the fact that it's "not encumbered Perhaps It Is this new openness that LUIGI PRESTINEN2A PUGLISI/KESTER RATTENBURY/ is giving hope to architects who had D.GRAHAME SHANE/PETER SLATIN / by the institutional mantle of a university." GWEN WRIGHT / ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER previously avoided getting Involved In Whatever one's pedagogical position, the distinctions among the the redevelopment. Among the firms that sent representatives to the meeting schools can only be healthy for the profession. Alan Balfour, dean of PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ were Miami-based Arquitectonica (of the M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, argued,"Schools must be increas• kitschy-surfer Westin Hotel on 42"" Street), WHITNEY COX / ODILE DECO / TOM HANRAHAN / SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ ingly different because architectural products are looking so much Rem Koolhaas (who had earlier boy• USA NAFTOLIN / SIGNE NIELSEN / the same and there are so many more issues that must be dealt with." cotted the Innovative Design Study In a HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ JOAN OCKMAN / calculated political move, after losing the KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ The WTC rebuilding effort has only magnified the multiplicity of first planning RFP), and Santiago CaJatrava TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN issues that demand architects' attention. As Grahame Shane notes in (whose PATH station will sit to the east of GENERAL INFORMATION: INFOISARCHPAPER.COM our Protest column (page 16), the myriad conflicting interests and the cultural plaza). Daniel LIbeskind was EDITORIAL: EDITORiSARCHPAPER.COM conspicuously absent from the meeting.