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Aia Opens Door to Housing Taste the Wine NOVEMBER, 1967 VOLUME 41, NUMBER 3 AIA OPENS DOOR TO HOUSING In an address by Robert L. Durham, F AIA, President, The American Institute of Architects, to the annual conven­ tion of the California Council of AIA, at San Diego, Calif., Oct. 6, 1967, he said: "There is hope, that we approach our new road junction in housing armed with workable design ideas to improve our environment, and with the skills and talent to put these ideas into effect. It is vital, however, that architects, acting as individuals as well as collectively through the Institute, work to insure that government programs enacted at all levels do not foreclose the possibility of improving the quality of our housing - that they, in fact, open the door • Six architects from the NYCAIA area were recipients to good design. of awards from among 100 or more architects for their sub­ missions at the annual convention of the New York State To this end, the AIA must make a basic reappraisal of Association of Architects at the Nevele Country Club in its policies on housing, and issue statements that will inform Ellenville, New York. Edelbaum & Webster for the River­ the public and legislators of the profession's stand. We side Neighborhood Assembly house in New York City un­ owe it to the people of our nation, and to the members of der the Mitchell-Lama law (shown above). Education: all legislative bodies who will be considering housing prob­ Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde for the Hofstra University lems in the near future, to offer carefully conceived and Library and Bridge, Hempstead, Long Island. Single resi­ positive advice and counsel. At the same time, we must dence: Fred L. Liebmann for the residence of Mr. & Mrs. intensify our efforts to inform the public of the elements Jack Amster in Ossining, New York. Institutional: Office and benefits a good community design." of Max 0. Urhahn Associates for the New York City Hall of Science. Commercial: Lee Harris Pomeroy for the Put­ TASTE THE WINE - WAA nam Professional Park medical building, Lake Mahopac, New York. Special award: Michael D. Schwartz on the The Women's Architectural Auxiliary Scholarship Fund of convention theme, Urban Restoration. the New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects, will hold a wine-tasting party at the Marlborough Gallery, BRUNNER GRANT AT $6000 41 East 57th Street, on Friday, November 10, from 5: 30 The Annual Competition for the Brunner Scholarship Grant to 7: 30 p.m. The proceeds will be used for architectural is open to any citizen of the United States engaged in the scholarships that are awarded each year by the Auxiliary profession of architecture and its related fields regardless of to students at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Cooper race, color, creed, marital status or place of residence. The Union, and City College. Mrs. C. Gates Beckwith and Mrs. participant must have a professional background more ad­ Alan Schwartzman are co-chairmen of the event. Mrs. Allen vanced and broader in scope by actual experience than is Kramer, Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes III, Mrs. Bronson generally implied by four or five years of architectural school Binger, Mrs. John Briggs, Mrs. John M. Dixon, Mrs. Wil­ training. The A ward furthers the development of architec­ liam Barnum, Mrs. Sheldon Fox, Mrs. Gillet Lefferts, Jr. , ture in the United States by granting one or more scholar­ and Mrs. Philip Moyer are serving on the committee. The ships for advanced study in some special field of architec­ Marlborough Gallery will be showing paintings by a young tural investigation which will most effectively contribute to Spanish artist, Juan Genoves, and sculpture by the con­ the practice, teaching or knowledge of the art and science temporary Italian sculptor, Pietro Consagra. The wines are of architecture. All proposals must be received by January being donated by 21 Brands, Inc. Tickets, which are $4.00, 15. Applications can be obtained at Chapter Headquarters, may be purchased at the door. 115 East 40th Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10016. OCULUS Volume 41, Number 3 November 1967 AIP PLANS FOR NEXT FIFTY YEARS NEW YORK CHAPTER, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS The American Institute of Planners' fiftieth-year Conference, 115 East 40th Street, New York, New York 10016 - 212 - MU 9-7969 October 1 to 6, 1967, in Washington, D. C. examined pros­ pects for the next fifty years. H. Dickson McKenna ......................................... .... ................. Executive Director A slight backward glance at the start informed the assem­ Margot A. Henkel ........ .............. .......................................... Executive Secretary blage that the typical community planner is under forty, en­ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE tered the field since 1955, and earns between $7,500 and Wiliam B. Tabler, FAIA, Pres. William D. Wilson $12,000 from salary and professional fees. Lathrop Douglass, FAIA, 1st Vice Pres. Stephen A. Kliment From then on the fifty-year future was discussed and Gillet Lefferts, Jr., Vice-Pres. William J . Conklin prophesied by a picked group of experts in the planning, Lewis Davis, Vice Pres. Arthur Rosenblatt sociological and architectural professions, abetted by philos­ Owen L. Delevante, Sec. Giorgio Cavaglieri, FAIA Richard Roth, Sr., Treas. Samuel M. Kurtz ophers, political scientists and historians. In fact, one could quarrel with Gunnar Myrdal's remarks OCULUS COMMITTEE that planners are increasingly addressing only each other. John B. Schwartzman .. ...... .. .............. .................... Acting Chairman and Editor Victor Gruen, FAIA, and NYCAIA member spoke as did Elisabeth Coit Forrest Wilson August Heckscher and Charles Abrams, both Honorary As­ sociates of the Chapter. Charles Blessing, Director of Detroit T-SQUARES & TRIANGLES City Plan Commission, who chaired the opening presenta­ GHETTO CHILDREN TO BE FOCUS of the NYCAIA tion, might be claimed as a sort of Chapter step-child, as and Urban League. Chapter President William B. Tabler, he holds the 1965 Brunner Award. Some excerpts were: FAIA, announced the new "career program" that will in­ Karl Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, planner, sociolo­ clude lectures, and visits to outstanding buildings and, to gist: "The toughest problem will be to rehabilitate the architectural offices. This is not the first time that the human inside of the slums, to lift people out of NYCAIA has attempted to assist the underprivileged. Four cultural impoverishment ... slum-mindedness." years ago, the Equal Opportunities Committee was formed, August H eeksh er, Administrator and Commissioner of New and has raised $30,000 in direct scholarships for Negro and York City's Recreation and Cultural Affairs Administration: Puerto Rican students of architecture. It is hoped that the "It is easy to diminish the Hippies as one more proportion of Negro architects now registered (14 as against fad ... But no serious prophet should disregard 2000 NYCAIA registered architects) will be increased as a the other possibility, that they represent the begin­ result of this program. ning of a withdrawal from the values of concepts NATIONAL AIA FUND RAISING CAMPAIGN which have dominated the Western world for more NEEDS ONLY $75,519 to reach the quota of $993,500. than five centuries . .. The man freed from the The following chart shows the New York Regional Perform­ burden of constant toil would be able ... in Emer­ ance as of September 17, 1967. son's phrase, 'to saunter, and sit and to be inferior and silly.'" #of Members Total Carl Oglesby, resident lecturer at Antioch College: Chapter Members Contrib. Quota Pledged "What we call ghettoes we ought to call colonies Bronx 36 11 $ 2,000 $ 1,900.00 Brooklyn 89 14 5,125 680.00 .. Their appearance in the decaying central cities Buffalo-Western 100 36 5,875 3, 110.00 carries with it nonetheless all the basic features of Central New York 219 86 12,750 11 ,535.00 the conquest and colonizing of 'savage' people ... Eastern New York 107 22 6, 125 2,150.00 Migration from the ghetto to the 'mother country' Long Island 135 9 7,875 1,110.00 is impossible for the native without a scholarship, New York City 1208 325 62,500 58,675.12 Queens 67 4 3,875 135.00 especially if he is not white." Staten Island 22 2 1,250 200.00 Westchester 138 31 7,875 2,350.00 LE BRUN FELLOWSHIP FOR TRAVEL Puerto Rico 55 21 2,750 1,100.00 The NYCAIA, trustee under the will of Napoleon Eugene 2176 561 $ 11 8,000 $82,945.12 LeBrun, will award a stipend of $3000 for travel outside OCVLUS SEEKING EDITOR. The Oculus Committee the United States for the study of architecture. Qualifications would like to find an editor to assume full duties as soon include U.S. citizenship and residence, age 23 through 30 as possible. Those interested please contact John B. years, architectural experience of at least 1112 years, bene­ Schwartzman, at 687-7225. ficiary of no other traveling scholarship, and nomination by a Corporate member of the AJA. The subject of this year's "THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL," a 70-page booklet competition is the "Design of A Metropolitan Area Rapid presenting the award-winning designs in the $2,000,000 Transit Station and Related Facilities." Those interested architectural competition for the modernization of a New should request Nomination forms from the new Chapter York City junior high school to house an innovative edu­ Headquarters after November 15. Program will be available cation program is available from The Great Cities Research January 15, 1968 and theRendu on March 11, 1968. Ad­ Council, 5400 North St. Louis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois dress all enquiries to Chairman, LeBrun Committee, New 60625. York Chapter AJA, 115 East 40th Stree, N.Y., N.Y. 10016. BOOK REVIEWS - TWO BY NYCAIA MEMBERS THE URGENT FUTURE: People, Housing, City, Region, LOST NEW YORK by Nathan Silver (NYCAIA Corporate By: Albert Mayer, FAIA, McGraw Hill, 1967.
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