DOCSLIB.ORG

FACE of the AIA Diversity: What the Numbers Tell Us

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
FACE of the AIA Diversity: What the Numbers Tell Us VOLUME 13 THE NEWS OF AMERICA’S COMMUNITY OF ARCHITECTS OCTOBER 13, 2006 FACE OF THE AIA Diversity: What the Numbers Tell Us were discouraged in more or less subtle ways by their instructors from embracing architecture as a career, and simply by persevering fought their way through architecture school and into practice. Others, from more privileged backgrounds, found their way into practice with fewer bumps, but not without facing various forms of discrimination in architecture school and beyond. Some have aspired to owning their own firm; others have sought the special status conferred through a full partnership in a large, establishment, majority-owned firm. Still others have found careers in the public service, with its security and solid benefits—permanently or as a stepping stone to private practice. Fi- nally, a small contingent—a little over a hundred, took to teaching full-time in the architecture schools, providing a steady income and offering a modest by Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA many successes to balance the bad supplemental income by taking on news. But all this does little actually to small design projects. “Merely engaging in high-minded advance the cause of greater oppor- debates about theoretical future tunity for black architects. In the Old The mood today. reductions while continuing to steadily West, they had a pithier phrase than Al A small number of black-owned firms increase emissions represents a self- Gore’s sincere but plodding language: operate on the same lines as major- delusional and reckless approach. In Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy ity firms. They win a share of work some ways, that approach is worse whiskey. from private and public sources, than doing nothing at all, because though more from the public patron. it lulls the gullible into thinking that African American architects licensed But many other firms work very hard something is actually being done, to practice in one or more of the to carry on—because they are small, when in fact it is not.” states at press time numbered 1,558, or because they lack the benefits —Al Gore, in a speech at NYU Law of whom 185 are women. There’s of networking, because, as the late School, quoted in The NY Times Sep- no single model. Black practitioners Chicago-based publishing magnate tember 19, 2006 range across a vast spectrum of firm and publisher of Ebony, John Johnson size, ownership, employment status, once told me, they’re “outside the Al Gore’s objection to lots of talk but gender, personal history, location, self- area of gossip.” So they end up with little action in reducing emissions appraisal, and aspirations. a low volume of work and unadven- has something in common with the turous clients, and they miss out on urge to say the right things about the Some of the architects came from opportunities to do pioneering work, challenges facing African American humble beginnings, grew up in attract attention, make the profes- architects, even though there are segregated or all-black high schools, sional journals, and recruit the most VOLUME 13 THE NEWS OF AMERICA’S COMMUNITY OF ARCHITECTS OCTOBER 13, 2006 FACE OF THE AIA talented staff. work not demanded of their majority over the recent past. One bright sign, colleagues. They are often denied the happily, is that profitability levels of One example of barriers benefit of the doubt at promotion time black-owned firms typically rival, even broken when matched against majority and exceed those of majority firms. When John Johnson (1918–2005), was female colleagues. Some succeed planning the new world headquarters despite the odds. For example, Ralph (Note: Where figures designate only for Johnson Publishing in Chicago’s Jackson, FAIA, about whose life more African Americans, it is so stated. Oth- Loop, he turned to Dubin, Dubin, in a later episode, is now the design erwise, the term minorities includes Moutoussamy. John Moutoussamy partner in the 132-year-old Boston Asian and Hispanic/Latino groups and (1920-1995), name partner in the firm Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and a breakdown was not available.) Chicago firm had designed schools, Abbott. colleges, apartment buildings. But he For a start, here are some totals. had never designed and completed Many African American practitioners U.S. Census Bureau’s 2004 Commu- an office building because no white are employed by industry, public nity Survey figures [http://factfinder. person would ever let him do it. agencies, and as faculty at schools of census.gov/servlet] show that out of architecture. This gives offers them a a population of 285,691,501 at the Said Johnson: “Now I’m black and certain security more seldom afforded time of the survey (the population on he’s black. If he can’t build my build- owners or employees in private archi- October 1, 2006, actually stood at ing, whose building can he build? You tectural practice. 299,879,191, but the demographics know, he has the same credentials as breakdowns weren’t yet available), all the other architects, he’s a mem- Some revealing statistics 34.8 million were African American. ber of a respectable firm. And I said, The bare figures defining the status That’s 12.1 percent, a ratio that has ‘All I know is I’m in the publishing of African American architects are remained constant over the past business and I will have to let people nevertheless shameful. I use them as decade. know that you [the bank] turned me the basis of this first episode in the down because I had a black architect, diversity series. Note the low levels of Switching now to the architect fully qualified, and the only reason is black architects as a percentage of population of the United States, the he has never built an office building all architects, when compared to their numbers depend on the source. The before is because you and people like numbers in the overall U.S. popula- 2000 U.S. Census Bureau figures—the you never allowed him to build it.’” tion; the modest levels of black faculty latest available—place the number of in the schools of architecture and the architects at 192,860, a hugely inflated So Johnson, leading publisher of low percentage of black students; figure that includes unlicensed and black-directed media, broke down and the scarce rate of improvement any unregistered individuals who call long-standing biases against black- owned property in Chicago’s Loop and insisted on having the black partner of a Chicago firm design his company’s headquarters. I will cover this and other stories of barrier-break- ing patrons in a later episode of this diversity series. Black architects as indi- viduals By virtue of being in a tiny numeri- cal minority, black architects often work as lone individuals in a firm, and thanks to remnants of racist at- titudes, are often closely scrutinized and expected to produce a level of VOLUME 13 THE NEWS OF AMERICA’S COMMUNITY OF ARCHITECTS OCTOBER 13, 2006 FACE OF THE AIA themselves architects. figure were not the base numbers so prise as one that is at least 51-percent A far more accurate number is the small, as they end up exaggerating owned and controlled by minorities.” 101,179 recognized by the National percentage increases. The number of women principals and Council of Architectural Registration partners rose from 11.2 percent in Boards as having passed the licens- Using the AIA’s own figures in its 1999 to 20.7 percent three years later. ing exam in their state (NCARB neither DDAR, 1% of its 52,000 registered- collects nor maintains demographic architect members are black, 2% are Minorities account for 16 percent data on it registrants on the advice of Hispanic/Latino, and 3% Asian. of architecture staff at AIA member- counsel, according to the summary of owned firms. And though this includes a demographic diversity audit report The black-owned firm non-black minorities (but not women), (DDAR) issued by the AIA in Decem- Here’s another type of measure: the it has not even begun to approach the ber 2005. numbers of black-owned firms. Ac- combined percentage of those three cording to Mann, 608 of the 1,558 minorities in the overall U.S. popula- Now if we see eye to eye with the names in his database have identified tion (about 25 percent). argument—and I see no reason not themselves as firm owners, or 39 per- to—that in a just society African cent, an intriguingly high ratio, which, The good news: American architects’ representation Mann told me, ranges from large profitability in their profession should match their firms such as Columbus-Ohio based Some 75 percent of minority firms representation in the population, and Moody-Nolan all the way to one-per- reported profits of 10 percent or more taking NCARB’s statistic of 101,179 as son firms. (Many of these one-person before taxes, discretionary bonuses a base, then 12.1 percent of architects firm pricipals have regular day jobs and profit-sharing. Not only were the should be black. In truth, the actual ra- as employees and work on indepen- minority firms profits higher than the tio, using Dennis Alan Mann’s Center dent projects after hours. Twenty-one rate for all firms; of those which cited for the Study of Practice, University percent of minority partners are sole a loss, minority firms accounted for of Cincinnati database of 1,558 black practitioners, according to the AIA’s slightly less than the average for all registered architects, is 1.5 percent, a latest (2003) Business of Architecture firms, which was 13 percent.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 2016 Annual Report Message from the VP
    2016 Annual Report Message from the VP: Dear FMD Colleagues, We all worked hard in 2016 so that Duke University could continue to be one of the most prestigious Universities in the country. Facilities Management is an incredible team with a wide variety of skills and the dedication necessary to keep the campus operating smoothly. Three words come to mind when I think of 2016: Construction, Collaboration, and Commitment. FY 2016 was the year of the crane on Duke’s campus; there have never been more construction cranes on campus at one time than over the past year. More than 1.6 million square feet was renovated or constructed on campus this year. As a result, our department had to adapt in order to manage the growth. To manage Duke’s growing campus, our department has to work together. This year four collaborative teams were created to help us do our job more effectively: 1. A Project Steering Team was created to ensure projects receive proper review in a timely fashion. 2. A Critical Systems Team, made up of engineers and operations staff, was created to manage high performance buildings, such as French Science and CIEMAS. 3. A Quality Assurance Team consisting of staff from Project Management, Utilities & Engineering, and Facility Operations was created to improve the transition from construction to occupied buildings. The team is charged with making certain all systems work as designed and can be properly maintained. 4. Lastly, University Environmental Services is working to identify best practices as it relates to a standardized level of service for highly visible areas, starting with the new West Union.
    [Show full text]
  • Community Builders
    Architectural Lighting Design Awards Architensions A Tax Credit for Green Projects architectmagazine.com BLA A Grand Rapids Hub by UrbanWorks The Journal of The American LAMAS Crowding, Density, and COVID-19 Institute of Architects Flipping Agency in Architecture Community Builders Gathering has taken on a whole new meaning, but the winners of the AIA Awards for Architecture show that thoughtful design will always foster connection. treat your building like a work of art photo by Javier Callejas Today’s LEDs may last up to 50,000 hours, but then again, Kalwall will be harvesting sunlight into museum-quality daylighting™ without using any energy for a lot longer than that. The fact that it also filters out most UV and IR wavelengths, while insulating more like a roof than a skylight, is just a nice bonus. ® FACADES | SKYROOFS | SKYLIGHTS | CANOPIES schedule a technical consultation at KALWALL.COM FIRE RATED GLASS #1 MADE IN THE USA USA-MADEUSA-MADE ISIS BESBEST T PROJECT: ORLANDO VA MEDICAL CENTER IN ORLANDO, FL ARCHITECT: RLF ARCHITECTS PRODUCTS: FIRE RESISTIVE & HURRICANE RATED SUPERLITE II-XL 60 & 120 IN GPX HURRICANE WALL SYSTEM SAFTI FIRST is the first and only vertically integrated USA-manufacturer of fire rated glass and framing today, offering competitive pricing and fast lead times. UL and Intertek listed. All proudly USA-made. Visit us today at safti.com to view our complete line of fire rated glass, doors, framing and floors. To learn why SAFTI FIRST is the #1 USA-manufacturer of fire rated glass, watch our new video at safti.com/usa-made.
    [Show full text]
  • 52-57Feature Abele N Magaziner.Indd
    Loyal Classmen At the turn of the 20th century, Julian Abele and Louis Magaziner—a black man and an immigrant Jew—were standouts in Penn’s School of Fine Arts about to launch distinguished careers in architecture. They were also beginning what would be a lifelong friendship. A Magaziner descendant and Abele admirer investigates what brought them together. By Amy Cohen fi rst heard of Julian Francis Abele Who They Were Pennsylvania Museum and School of Ar1902 in 2006 when I was teach- Both Abele and Magaziner achieved no- Industrial Art (now the University of the Iing African American history at table careers—especially so as both came Arts) and then enrolled at Penn’s School Philadelphia’s Julia R. Masterman from marginalized groups, Abele a black of Fine Arts when he was 17 years old. High School. I was intrigued to discover man and Magaziner an immigrant and Upon his graduation in 1902, he was that we had a personal connection of a Jew. only the third African American in the sorts—Abele had been a close friend of Abele had the more distinguished nation to earn a degree in architecture. my great-granduncle Louis Magaziner pedigree. He was born into a prominent He went on to study at the Pennsylvania Ar1900, who was a fellow architecture black family in Philadelphia, a distant Academy of the Fine Arts, becoming the student in Penn’s then School of Fine relative of the esteemed 18th century fi rst black person to receive a certifi cate Arts. At that time, I was a busy teacher religious and civil rights leader, Absalom in architectural drawing.
    [Show full text]
  • Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts Uncovers the Life and Career of One of the First Beaux Arts Trained African Amer­Ican Architects
    Julian Abele Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life and career of one of the first beaux arts trained African Amer ican architects. Overcoming racial segregation at the beginning of the twentieth century, Abele received his architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. Wilson traces Abele’s progress as he went on to become the most formally educated architect in America. Abele later contributed to the architectural history of America by designing over 200 buildings during his career includ- ing the Widener Memorial Library (1913) at Harvard University and the Free Library of Philadelphia (1917). Architectural history is a valuable resource for those studying architecture. As such this book is beneficial for academics and students of architecture and architectural historians with a particular interest in minority discussions. Dreck Spurlock Wilson is a graduate of Iowa State University, USA and the University of Chicago, USA. He was an Associate Professor of Architectural History at Howard University and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Morgan State University and is a licensed landscape architect. Dreck is the editor and a contributing author of the Biographical Dictionary of African Amer ican Architects, 1865–1945 also published by Taylor & Francis. Minorities in Architecture The new Minorities in Architecture series by Taylor & Francis brings to light research from across the globe by and about underrepresented archi- tects to present leading perspectives on a diverse range of topics. Against the background of race, ethnicity and gender, and the intersections between them, it provides the reader with the latest scholarship in the field of archi- tecture.
    [Show full text]
  • Collection V36
    Collection V36 Horace Trumbauer Collection ca. 1898-ca. 1947 2 boxes, 112 flat files, 16 rolled items, 4 lin. feet Contact: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: (215) 732-6200 FAX: (215) 732-2680 http://www.hsp.org Inventoried by: Cary Majewicz Inventory Completed: May 2008 Restrictions: None © 2008 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. All rights reserved. Horace Trumbauer collection Collection V36 Horace Trumbauer Collection, ca. 1898-ca. 1947 2 boxes, 112 flat files, 16 rolled items, 4 lin. feet Collection V36 Abstract Horace Trumbauer was born in Philadelphia in 1868 and became one of the city’s leading architects in the early middle part of the 20th century. He established his own firm in 1890 and, with a team of talented designers, began designing mostly private residences. In 1894, he completed “Grey Towers” for William Welsh Harrison in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Several years later, he designed “Chelton House” for George W. Elkins and “Lynnewood Hall” for P.A.B. Widener, both in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. He also created residences in other states such as New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island. By the middle of his career, Trumbauer had begun designing commercial and public buildings as well. Locally, he designed the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Fairmount Park and parts of the Free Library. He also designed buildings for Jefferson Medical College and the Hahnemann Medical College. He designed several college and university buildings throughout the country, most notably much of Duke University’s campus in Durham, North Carolina. He also designed Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    [Show full text]
  • FREE LIBRARY of PHILADELPHIA, CENTRAL LIBRARY HABS PA-6749 1901 Vine Street PA-6749 Philadelphia Philadelphia Pennsylvania
    FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA, CENTRAL LIBRARY HABS PA-6749 1901 Vine Street PA-6749 Philadelphia Philadelphia Pennsylvania PHOTOGRAPHS WRITTEN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240-0001 HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA. CENTRAL LIBRARY HABS NO. PA-6749 Location: 1901Vine Street, bounded by 19xth , 20>thUi and Wood Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The library faces south onto Logan Circle and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway that runs at a diagonal from Vine Street. Owner: The library is part of the Free Library of Philadelphia system and is owned by the City of Philadelphia. Present Use: Central library Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library system. Favoring French architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they based their design on the twin Ministere de la Marine and Hotel de Crillon on Place de la Concorde in Paris. The library was the first structure to be erected along the city's new parkway, which was likewise inspired by Parisian precedents, namely the Champs d'Elysee. It too was the work of Horace Trumbauer, with architects Paul Cret, Clarence Zantzinger, and French planner Jacques Greber. Intended as a grand boulevard linking City Hall to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Fairmount Park, it was later named for Benjamin Franklin. The parkway and the civic structures and monuments that line it were a product of Philadelphia's City Beautiful movement.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Issue As
    Important note: Please share this digital-only edition of Almanac with your colleagues. Read more. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Tuesday December 8, 2020 Volume 67 Number 21 www.upenn.edu/almanac Mackenzie Fierceton: Sonal Khullar: Yoichiro Mori: 2021 Rhodes Scholar W. Norman Brown Professor Calabi-Simons Professor Mackenzie Fierceton, a University of Penn- Sonal Khullar has joined Penn’s history of Yoichiro Mori, who recently joined Penn as a sylvania May graduate who is currently com- art department as the W. Norman Brown As- professor of mathematics and biology, has been pleting her mas- sociate Professor of appointed Calabi-Simons Professor in Mathemat- ter’s degree at South Asian Studies. ics and Biology, ef- Penn, has been Dr. Khullar came to fective July 1, 2020. awarded a Rhodes Penn from the Uni- An expert in math- Scholarship for versity of Washing- ematical physiol- graduate study at ton, where she was ogy and biophysics, the University of an associate profes- as well as applied Oxford. sor of art history. and numerical anal- Ms. Fierceton Her research, which ysis, Dr. Mori is earned her bach- focuses on the art an internationally elor’s degree in of South Asia from recognized leader political science the 18th century on- in the application from the College ward, has been sup- of mathematics to of Arts & Scienc- ported by grants and important prob- es and is current- fellowships from the lems in biology and ly completing her Mackenzie Fierceton Sonal Khullar American Council biophysics. After clinical master’s in of Learned Societ- completing medi- social work degree after submatriculating into ies, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the cal school at the Yoichiro Mori the School of Social Policy & Practice program Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, University of Tokyo, he obtained a PhD in in 2018.
    [Show full text]
  • Judge Julian Abele Cook.Docx
    Judge Julian Abele Cook, Jr. 1930-2017 Julian Abele Cook, Jr., former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1989-1996), died May 16, 2017 at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was born on June 22, 1930 to Julian Abele Cook, Sr. and Ruth McNeill Cook in Washington D.C., where he attended public schools, graduating from Dunbar High School in 1948. Judge Cook earned a Bachelor of Arts from the Pennsylvania State University in 1952 and served in the U.S. Army (Signal Corps) from 1952 to 1954. Upon his return, he entered Georgetown University School of Law and earned a Juris Doctor in 1957. He subsequently received a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988. Judge Cook was a proud descendant of a prominent civic-minded family in the District of Columbia. His great great grandfather was John Francis Cook, a freed slave who along with other leaders founded the Columbian Harmony Cemetery, the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, and a school for freed slaves. John F. Cook II, his great grandfather, became Recorder of Deeds in Washington D.C. His great uncle, George F. T. Cook, became the first superintendent of colored D.C. public schools. He was also the grandnephew of Julian F. Abele of Philadelphia, who designed Duke University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Widener Library at Harvard, and other classic buildings. In his professional life, Judge Cook had a storied legal career that spanned almost 60 years. After graduating from Georgetown, Judge Cook served as a law clerk to the Hon.
    [Show full text]
  • The Sunday Times Frank Gehry's Plans for the Philadelphia Museum
    The Sunday Times Frank Gehry’s plans for the Philadelphia Museum of Art Published: December 31, 2017 by Jeremy Melvin The architect is famous for the flashy exterior of the Bilbao Guggenheim—but his latest museum project will be all but invisible In 2002, Frank Gehry went with his friend the artist Ellsworth Kelly to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The art world was still buzzing over Gehry’s spectacular Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, completed five years earlier. So when the director, Anne d’Harnoncourt, recognised the stellar pair in her galleries, she went to greet them. “You’ve done this amazing thing in Bilbao,” Gehry remembers her saying. “Could you be interested in doing something where nothing will be seen on the outside?” D’Harnoncourt knew that however forbidding her “temple of art” seemed from the exterior, it had many hidden qualities and enormous unused spaces. These might provide the galleries, education facilities, shops and cafes that museums need in the 21st century. Exploiting them, though, would mean overcoming the barriers between viewers and exhibits that the great neoclassical museums can imply. The Sunday Times At Philadelphia, this is especially difficult, reflects Timothy Rub, who became director after d’Harnoncourt’s untimely death in 2008. The museum is set on a hill that “falls away quickly in all directions”, so, unlike New York’s Metropolitan or the Art Institute of Chicago, it could not expand, perhaps with radically different architecture, into a surrounding park. The only scope for alteration was internal, so something other than the magic of flamboyantly crinkly titanium-clad forms that made Bilbao so striking was needed.
    [Show full text]
  • 20 on 20 20 Papers
    20 on 20/20 Vision Perspectives on Diversity and Design edited by Linda Kiisk AIA with an introduction by Theodore Landsmark, Esq., Assoc. AIA a publication of the AIA Diversity Committee and Boston Society of Architects © 2003 published by the Boston Society of Architects 52 Broad Street Boston MA 02109 617-951-1433x221 [email protected] www.architects.org Contents 1 Introduction - Isolation and Theodore Landsmark, Esq., Assoc. AIA Diversity in Architecture 5 Editor’s note Linda Kiisk, AIA Invited papers 9 Unedited transcript of the speech Whitney M. Young, Jr. made to the American Institute of Architects in 1968 23 Remarks made at the 2003 American Freeman A. Hrabowki, III Institute of Architects Annual Leadership and Legislative Conference 29 I Need a Sign Kira Alston, Assoc. AIA 33 Reflections on Designing for Diversity Kathryn Anthony, Assoc. AIA, Ph.D. 39 Diversity Needs a New Mascot Darell Fields, Ph.D. 42 Update: Association of Collegiate Bradford Grant, AIA Schools of Architecture and Architecture Education 44 Morgan and Associates: Julia Morgan’s Victoria Kastner Office Practice as Design Metaphor 52 Untold Story: the Black Architect Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA in America 67 The Modernist Black Culture -- Melvin Mitchell, FAIA, NOMA Modern Architecture Nexus 73 Stepping Up to the Plate: Developing Curtis Sartor, Jr., Assoc. AIA, NOMA Replicable Strategies to Facilitate Student Attraction to the Environmental Design Disciplines Peer-reviewed papers 83 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Jill Bambury, RAIC School: Architecture and Identity at a Historically Black University 90 Diversity in Architectural Processes: Lisa C. Henry Benham Identity and the Performance of Place 98 Hampton University Brings Color Shannon Chance to Architecture 102 Maintaining Their Privilege: Carla Corroto, Ph.D.
    [Show full text]
  • Introduction
    DukeDuke UniversityUniversity Campus Master Plan MAY 2000 Nannerl Keohane, President, Duke University Tallman Trask, III, Executive Vice-President, Duke University John Pearce, University Architect, Duke University Larry Nelson, Medical Center Architect, Duke University Medical Center Lee Copeland, FAIA Al Levy, FAIA William Porter, Professor, MIT Lesley Bain, AIA Jeff Benesi Ellen Hendriksen rtyrtytryrtyrtytrytrytrytytryt WEINSTEIN COPELAND ARCHITECTS 121 Stewart Street, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98101 Telephone (206) 443-8606, fax (206) 443-1218 with 119 Pine Street, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98101 Telephone (206) 624-8154, fax (206) 626-0514 Duke University, Office of the University Architect PO Box 90149, Durham, NC 27708 Telephone (919) 681-6066, fax (919) 681-7614 Email [email protected] “These buildings have been constructed . to be the home of the soul of the University and in the belief that these appropriate and beautiful surroundings will have a transforming influence upon students generation after generation and even upon the character of the institution itself.”1 President William Preston Few, Speech to the Graduating Class 1931 “I believe these buildings have had such an influence over our 105,000 living alumni and on all of us who work and study here—reminding us of the seriousness of our mission while defining a sense of place that fosters camaraderie, spiritual and intellectual growth, a sense of infinite possibility and infinite yearning.” President Nannerl O. Keohane, Spring 2000 Table of Contents I. Introduction - Intent of the Duke Plan I-2 - Elements of the Master Plan I-3 - Context I-4 - Campus History I-4 - Campus Master Plan I-6 - Recent Campus Planning I-8 - Regional Context I-9 II.
    [Show full text]
  • University Considers New Athletic Facility for West Vandals Hit Duke
    THE CHRONICLE MONDAY. APRIL 24, 1989 _ DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 84. NO. 139 University considers new athletic facility for West By CHERYL JENKINS less of a problem," Buehler said. The department of athletics is "But during inclement weather, considering plans for a new com­ all the available space is jam­ prehensive sports complex to be med. We definitely need addi­ built on West Campus. tional facilities for indoor According to Tom Butters, di­ activities." rector of athletics, the plans for a He added that Card Gym, center have been discussed which was built in 1930, is open before, but cost concerns "put it until midnight every night, and on the back burner." With the is often filled to capacity. building of a new dormitory and Buehler anticipates the new the ongoing Capital Campaign complex, which would be built on for the Arts and Sciences, there the east side of Wallace Wade were too many programs compet­ stadium, could house six tennis ing for funds, he said. courts, six basketball courts and Recently, however, with the a 200 meter track, as well as building of the new dormitories other facilities. "It could be use­ nearing completion, the subject ful for both club sports and free of the sports center resurfaced. play," he said. He cited new "The current athletic facilities sports centers at Princeton and were built around 50 years ago Emory Universities as possible when the student body was not models for the complex. as large or as active," Butters "Right now we are trying to said.
    [Show full text]