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INDIANA SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS
President Vice-President JAMES McCLURt TURNER, AIA, Hammond ALFRED J. PO^EOUS, AIA, Indianapol s Secretary Treasurer DONALD E. CLARK, AIA, Indianapolis ANDREW A. TOTH, AIA, South Bend Executive Director: DON E. GIBSON, Hon. ISA, Ind anapolls
Directors ROBERT I. SCHULTZ, AIA, South Bend
WALLACE W. GIVEN, AIA, EvansvilU C. EUGENE HAMILTOrj, AIA, Mj.-.cie
JOHN C. FLECK, AIA, Indianapolis JAMES L. WALKER, AIA, New Albany
CARL L. BRADLEY, AIA, Fort Wayne WILLIAM G. RAMMEL. AIA. Fort Wayne
THOMAS R. KEENE, AIA, Elkhart COURTNEY E. ROBINSON, A A, Fort Wayne
Central-Southern Indiana Chapter Northern Indiana Chapter
President President CARL L. BRADLEY, AIA, Fort Wayne COURTNEY E. ROBINSON, AIA, Fort Wayne
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Treasurer Treasurer RALPH YEAGER, AIA, Terre Haute FORREST R. WEST, A.'A. South Bend Immediate Past President Immed ate Past President ALFRED PORTEOUS, AIA, Indianapolis WILLIAM G. RAMMCU, AIA, Fort Woyne
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The Indiana Society of Architects will convene tificates and plaques to the winners in the So• in annual convention on October 8, 9 and 10 a 1 ciety's 1965 Triennial Awards in Architecture French Lick, and plans for an outstanding con• Progri:m. A color slide presentation of each win• vention now are being formulated by the general ning entry will accompany the awards to the ar• chairman of the convention, Bill Strain, AIA, of chitect and owner, and display panels of the win• Bloomington. ners will be shown after dinner. The ISA convention will coincide with member• In addition to the awarding of certificates, it is ship meetings of both Chapters also to be held at planned that each owner also will be given a French Lick, and the first scheduled event is the bronze plaque commemorating the honoring of membership meeting of the Central-Southern In• the project, to be mounted in the award-winning diana Chapter at 11:00 A.M. Friday morning, Oc• building. tober 8th. A late evening presentation by the Little Theatre After an informal lunch in the display area Fri• Group of Indiana University will be staged in the day, the first of two professional seminars will convention hall of the French Lick Sheraton after be presented, and then the Northern Indiana the awards ceremony, according to preliminary Chapter will hold its membership meeting late in plans. the afternoon. This year, a full calendar of activities for the The first purely social event will be the cocktail ladies also is being planned by the convention party Friday evening, also in the display area, committee in cooperation with the Women's Ar• followed by dinner. The newly-appointed dean of chitectural League. It is anticipated that this the College of Architecture at Ball State Uni• will include a style show (similar to the extreme• versity, Dean Charles M. Sappenfield, AIA, will ly popular "strip-tease" show several years ago) be the principle speaker at this dinner, and the and an excursion trip. plan for the proposed Indiana Architectural Foun• dation will be presented by Chairman George C. The program for the convention has been greatly Wright, FAIA, of Indianapolis. The Foundation is expanded from that of previous years, especially being established to aid architectural education in the area of entertainment, in hopes of attract• in Indiana through the establishment of an archi• ing an even greater number of Indiana architects tectural library at Ball State and the creation of to French Lick. Anyone desiring to submit sug• a scholarship program, lecture series, visiting gestions for the convention is urged to contact critic program, etc. The immediate goal of the Mr. Strain (402 S. College Avenue, Bloomington) Foundation will be the raising of $25,000.00. as soon as possible. After dinner Friday, an evening of fun and games. Contracts for display space at the convention Casino Night style, is being programmed. were mailed to potential exhibitors about thirty days ago, and approximately one - half of the On Saturday morning, October 9th, the second twenty-five booths are now under contract for professional seminar will be held, followed by an• this year. Any firms interested in exhibiting at other informal lunch in the display area. On Sat• the convention should contact the Society office. urday afternoon, the Indiana Society will hold its annual membership meeting and election of offi• Program announcements and hotel and conven• cers. tion registration cards will be mailed to all members late this summer, but plans should be The Saturday night Annual Banquet will follow made now to reserve the 8th, 9th and 10th the second cocktail hour in the display area and of October for a wonderful week-end of will feature the presentation of honor award cer• professional activities at French Lick. AIR CONDITIONED BY ECONOMICAL GAS §
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By LYNN H. MOLZAN
Recently, architects have focused greater con• interaction among individuals, the activities of centration on their role in the development of man as he interacts with his fellow citizens. This man's total environment. One aspect of this to• development is not a result of high level executive tal environment is the inner-city. policy-making, but is largely dependent on the In the past the inner-city, the high density center attitudes and behavior of the individual citizen of the metropolitan area, was the great meeting as he operates within the inner-city, expressing place, the physical environment that was the his opinions and desires commercially, politically showplace of man's social and economic interde• and culturally. pendence. On market day, on religious holidays, Each day a large portion of the population leaves or whenever a need for concerted action was felt, home and proceeds into the inner-city, to shop, to the inner-city was the only place for such ac• work, to be informed, to be entertained, and as tivity. a lesult, to express opinions. The fact that the Today the inner-city is no longer able physically inner-city becomes the daily environment for a to be the meeting place for the entire populace. large number of individuals places great emphasis It is now important as the base for man's com• on its physical characteristics. Man, for the most munity-wide activities, a highly integrated con• part, has rejected nature in the building of his centration which contains the basic elements cities. He has developed an environment which of man's social existence: financial institutions, is totally dependent upon his ingenuity for its large commercial establishments, seats of govern• form and content. ment, and cultural centers, among others. From This physical, man-made, world of the inner-city this center radiate, or should radiate, the primary creates an image which plays an important role creative forces which stimulate broad activity in setting the attitude of the individual as he through the entire community. The development proceeds about his daily duties. If the image cre• of these primary creative forces is the result of ated is a favorable one, his duties become more pleasant. If it is unfavorable, he may consciously or subconsciously rebel against the environment and become less willing to enter into contact with Mr. Lynn H. Molzan is a Professional Associate member his fellow citizens. Without this contact, the of the Central-Southern Indiana Chapter and the Indiana Society of Architects, and is with the firm of Evans Woollen needs and desires of the individual citizen are & Associates of Indianapolis. He is a graduate in architec• not placed before the public and its commercial ture of the University of Cincinnati, and holds an appoint• and political leaders, and the community will no ment to the Society's Public Relations Committee. Previous longer grow under the direction of its central work of Mr. Molzan for the Society included the design of core. the 1964 convention program and several mailing pieces. This is the first of several articles concerning the architect What factors are important in the creation of a and the city planned by Mr. Molzan for this magazine. desire for interaction in the inner-city? What TA/7 factors create a favorable civic - consciousness 6. Will the project be something to talk about or among individuals so as to promote within them will it be just another one of the endless monoto• a desire to become working participants in its ac• nous additions to an already monotonous land• tivities? Sociologists, psychologists and city plan• scape? Will the project display a fine quality of ners all have their valid approaches. The archi• light and shade, color, texture and detail to de• tect must study all of these, but in the final analy• light the observer? sis, he must be able to transfer theoretical data 7. If a commercial establishment, can the man• into the three-dimensional forms that become the agement be convinced that bright, colorful, taste• physical environment of the inner-city. ful displays and signs will not only add to cus• tomer appeal, but will add also to the visual ap• Each architect called upon to undertake a project preciation of the inner-city? Can they be con• within the inner-city must clearly understand the vinced that civic pride can serve their own good? problems of that area. He must be able to ar• Can they afford not to give their patrons the rive at a solution that will reinforce the desire gift of a better environment? of the individual to return to the inner-city and participate in the decisions which affect his life. 8. Will buildings of significant historical interest The architect's most successful "tool" in reaching be preserved to give the individual a visual link toward this goal is "Humanization," the ability between the past and the present? of the physical environment to reflect its crea• 9. Can a small park or public place be provided tion by humans to serve humans and that hu• where the individual can relax and enjoy talking mans must be able to identify with it. It is this with his fellow citizens? Perhaps even a sidewalk process of identification, a feeling of belonging, cafe? that stimulates civic pride. No one can become identified with, or to take pride in, a physical at• 10. Will the individual be able to enjoy an oc• mosphere which is dull, drab, dreary, dark, dirty, casional bit of greenery, a fountain or a work of and dismal, and which promotes an ultra-monu- art? mentality which is in no way related to human scale. 11. Will the individual be able to walk on and by surfaces that are clean? Will the project lend it• The architect must ask himself the following self to easy and economical maintenance so that questions: the owner will be able to keep it in satisfactory condition ? 1. Does the individual have free access to the inner-city as a motorist (or a user of public trans• There can be many additions to this list of ques• portation) and as a pedestrian once mechaiiiial tions. Each architect must add those questions transportation is ended? Can the project aid in which relate more directly to his particular proj• the development of such freedom of access? ect. But his goal must remain the same: To cre• ate within the inner-city an environment which, 2. As the individual travels about the inner-city as a result of architectural treatment, becomes will the project be one that helps create a variety more human. It is time for the architect to realize of differing and interesting spatial effects? that the inner-city is important in providing tin- direction for community activity. Since this can 3. Will the project add to the overall city-scape, only be accomplished by individuals acting to• providing a tastefully pleasant addition to an gether within the inner-city, the desire to inter• already interesting group of buildings, or provid• act will not be strengthened unless the architec• ing relief against entrenched monotony? Will the tural profession does its share by promoting a project seem to be proud to be part of the inner- return to human scale, personality and character city? in the buildings it proposes.
4. Will the scale of the project overpower with The plea here is for each individual architect and massive qualities, or can it be designed to openly client to open his eyes, see what is happening in invite the individual to relate himself to it? If a his inner-city and then do something about ex• public building, will the design provide an open panding its positive "human" characteristics invitation to the individual to enter and become while attempting to reverse trends which defeat involved ? "humanization." Civic pride can only be stimu• 5. Will the design promote a feeling of joy, lated by stimulating the pride of each warmth, liveliness and friendliness, or one of de• individual through identification with his • pression or sterility? inner-city environment. 8/IA Smokestacks On The Dunes
By GEORGE N, HALL, AIA
The ridge of sand dunes along the Lake Michigan around the southern end of Lake Michigan from shoreline in northwest Indiana has long been the Milwaukee to Benton Harbor, is dedicated to com• center of controversy between proponents of eco• prehensive planning. The Council is an outgrowth nomic development of the shoreline area and those of an interest in city and regional planning shown insisting on preservation of this unique, beautiful by four Lake Michigan chapters of the AIA. This and historic duneland. The controversy is not new, specific interest, dating from 1961, is symbolic for the arguments of development versus preser• of the architects' recognition of the need for plan• vation have been the history of the dunes country ning which embraces natural regions without re• for fifty years or more. Pressures for economic striction of political boundaries. Through such development at a natural waterway in Indiana interest architects may be expected to contribute (known locally as the Burns Waterway location) their energy to help resolve issues such as that have increased tremendously over the past ten known to the Council as its case study report. years. These have culminated in construction of Project 62-5. industrial facilities. Federal approval of funds for initiation of a Public Port for the State of Indi• The intent of our report is to stimulate objective ana, and Senate proposals for preservation of the comprehensive planning. To illustrate this ap• remaining dunes country through the creation of proach, we have proposed an alternate scheme a National Dunes Park. which is a concept of land-use providing for de• velopment of a Public Port of Indiana and indus• The Lake Michigan Region Planning Council, trial expansion, without destruction or impair• whose concern is the regional city developing ment of the timeless beauty and usefulness to man of the majestic dunes enhancing and pro• tecting this serene shoreline. We question the further pollution of this shoreline and the need• Mr. George N. Hall, AIA, is a member of the Northern In• less destruction of the duneland, whose scientific, diana Chapter and the Indiana Society of Architects, and educational and recreational value is well known. currently is chairman of the Lake Michigan Regional Plan• We do not question the economic development of ning Committee and a member of the AIA's Committee on this subregion; we encourage it and realize it is Urban Design. A member of the Gary, Indiana, firm of already with us. Our concept intends that the Beine, Hall, Curran and Kane, Inc., Mr. Hall created this report on the Indiana Dunes question for the December, dunes and shoreline become an interrelated and 1964. issue of the AIA JOURNAL, from which it is here re• integral part of the comprehensive subregional printed with special permission. Copyright, 1964, The Amer• plan, achieving a proper balance of land-use to ican Institute of Architects. serve industry, commerce, habitation, recreation
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The case for commerce and industry is both real• Project 62-5 includes an alternative scheme for istic and impressive. The economic demands upon the Burns Waterway Harbor and contiguous in• the State of Indiana to develop a public harbor on dustrial development to illustrate this possibility. its Lake Michigan shoreline are understandable. This concept is not a compromise proposal nor a The great Midwest market demands industrial recommended solution. service within the area. Perhaps it was inevitable that Bethlehem Steel Co. and Midwest Steel Divi• The Dunes Harbor concept of an inland harbor sion of National Steel Corp., join competitively lying behind the dunes ridge involves a minimal their steel-producing neighbors serving this mar• breakwater installation and precludes landfill in ket. Other industries will follow and commerce the lake. Thus, the dunes provide natural protec• will continue to expand here. The "How" of this tion to the retained shoreline, reducing pollution subregional growth is of concern to the Lake of adjacent beaches while permitting continued Michigan Region Planning Council. use of the dunes for recreation and conservation. This concept is neither new nor startling and un• The Public Port at Burns Waterway, as proposed questionably requires many important adjust• by the State of Indiana, indicates that the devel• ments for its realization, especially as regards opment will be located between the properties zoning and land acquisition. The latter requires now owned by Midwest Steel and Bethlehem Steel. full assistance and cooperation by all levels of gov• This site lies along the Indiana shoreline of Lake ernment (in fact new legal procedures seem indi• Michigan, approximately one mile east of the ex• cated) to make it possible for private enterprise isting outlet of Burns Ditch into the lake. The to take its full part in the achievement of this site is about eighteen miles east of the Indiana- comprehensive approach. This lack of method, Illinois state line. The preliminary planning mate• particularly in land acquisition, appears to be a rial available to the Lake Michigan Region Plan• great void and a challenge to comprehensive plan• ning Council indicates that the ultimate develop• ning. The will to plan objectively in the basic in• ment proposed for this Public Port will be con• terest of the region further requires a method structed in three stages. to insure the orderly and proper growth of the region into a beautiful, dynamic and comprehen• As a part of the proposed plan. Midwest Steel and sive whole. Bethlehem Steel will be permitted to fill in the lake to the terminal point of the east and west The Dunes Harbor concept takes the form of an shore connections. This will provide Midwest Steel inverted "Y" from its limited breakwater system with an additional 225 acres and Bethlehem Steel as it follows Burns Ditch and its two branches in• with an additional 300 acres of "made land." This land northwest and east - west. The east - west lakefill will be obtained by leveling the dunes in branch of the harbor is designed to serve Bethle• the area, providing a level site for construction hem Steel and includes a turning basin at its of the proposed facilities. The outer harbor break• eastern extremity. The southwest branch is de• water extends a considerable distance from the signed to serve property now owned by the In• existing shoreline and this offshore projection land Steel Company and includes public harbor plus the landfill on either side will effect a great terminal facilities at its southwest extremity. man-made change in the shoreline. Thus the pro• The north-south stem connecting the break-water- gram now underway will eliminate forever the protected entrance channel of the harbor will IA/11 COLORSHIELD / AMERICAN \ PLASTIC FACED BLOCK 1 BLOCK 1 VCOMPANY INC./
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12/IA serve Midwest Steel and provide separation of are an integral part of comprehensive planning the conflicting land-uses of Ogden Dunes (a resi• and must be so considered to achieve our objec• dential community on the western bank) and the tive. Proper land-use must be brought to the fore industrial development. This inland harbor scheme as the determining factor for all future genera• lies between U.S. Highways 12 and 20, permitting tions and for all time — that all needs of the transportation service on one combined rail-high• people may be objectively resolved. Through such way bridge crossing the north-south stem of the resolution, the dynamics of this, or any region, proposed harbor. will be controlled and regenerated toward the The Dunes Harbor concept provides ample public region, not any particular segment thereof. terminal facilities, docking space for all contig• The issue joined in the particular controversy re• uous major users with direct access to their prop• lated here is well determined already. The con• erty. The dunes and lake shoreline remain in cern of the architects comprising the Council as their natural state and only the minimal break• expressed in this paper is not only for their own water system will project offshore, there being region but also for similar regions elsewhere in no "made land" required or permitted in the lake. the United States. The recently announced inter• This alternative approach provides a Public Port est of the AIA's Urban Design Committee to stim• of Indiana at the Burns Waterway location to ulate (through a subcommittee on regional plan• serve contiguous and other industrial users with• ning) a greater consciousness of regional out destroying or impairing the important land problems is adequate recognition of the resource of the dunes and shoreline. Council's efforts. On a national scale we have been proceeding in a prodigal manner during past decades to deci• mate our natural resources essential to the needs of man. The problems of urban sprawl, misuse of land, vanishing open space, and a host of other critical land-use questions, have not been consid• ered objectively or comprehensively to relate in• California Competition herent human needs with those economic factors vital to our national development. America still Announced possesses vast areas of open country and there is little danger of these being built over. But, in the region which is the concern of the Lake Mich• igan Region Planning Council, it is clear that we The City of Fremont, California, is conducting must plan and fight to protect our prime open- an AIA approved competition to select an archi• land resoui'ces close to our concentrated urban tect for the city Government Building, for the areas. Hall of Justice, and for the Master Plan for a new Civic-Cultural Center. We must understand that "non-economic needs" are not less important than "economic needs" and The Jury will be Pietro Belluschi FAIA, Paul comprehend our objective of balance and order in Rudolph FAIA, John Merrill AIA, Lawrence Hal- the satisfaction of the environmental needs of prin ASIA, and former Mayor Raymond Tucker man. Balance and order must prevail as part and of St. Louis. The Professional Advisor is Jacob parcel of man's environment if he is to fulfill Robbins AIA. The Civic-Cultural Center will be himself and his desires for production, education, built on 70 acres, next to a 430 acre Park and spiritual consideration and repose. Lake, adjacent to the Central Business District, and served by Freeway and Rapid Transit. Fre• Project 62-5 hopes to point up the vital and ur• mont is a rapidly growing new city on the east gent necessity of resolving critically against fur• shore of San Francisco Bay, whose population is ther unplanned use or misuse of our irreplaceable now 85,000 and will be 220,000 by 1980. resource, land. A way must be found, and soon, The competition is a single stage. Prizes are to achieve proper balance in our further land-use $4,000 first; $3,000 second; and $2,500 third. Pro• programming between economically productive grams will be available after July 15. Applications uses and living and leisure uses. for programs must be received by September 15. Private enterprise will need methods of assistance Registration closes October 1. Deadline for design and cooperation to participate fully and profit• submissions is December 15, 1965. ably in attaining balance between economic and Address communications to the Professional Ad• noneconomic uses of land. Commerce and industry visor, City Hall, Fremont, California 94538. IA/13 A Review: THE ISA's
FIRST SIX MONTHS
The Indiana Society of Architects, as a state as• with representatives of the Indiana General Con• sociation of the American Institute of Architects, tractors' Association to discuss areas of conflict has just celebrated its first six-month birthday. or misunderstanding within the construction in• Officially, the Society was born on January 1st of dustry. The joint committee has reached agree• this year, and it has enjoyed a most hectic early ment on some twenty-five policy statements and life. recommendations, which are now being reviewed by the governing bodies of each. When approval The accomplishments during this period have has been granted, these recommendations will be been most significant and have far exceeded the printed and distributed to all architects and con• expectations of all concerned with its creation. tractors in the state, probably late this fall. It seems proper that these accomplishments, com• EDUCATION AND REGISTRATION: The main mittee by committee, should be briefly reviewed work of this committee coincided with the Gov• at this time. ernmental Relations Committee in striving to es• GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE: tablish the Ball State College of Architecture at This committee started the year off at a fast pace Muncie. This committee will work with Notre with its activities in the 1965 Indiana General As• Dame and Ball State in the field of architectural sembly. The results of its efforts there included education, and with the State of Indiana to im• the establishment of Indiana's first state-sup• prove registration qualifications. ported college of architecture, and a bill permit• PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS: ting governmental units to pay for professional One of the most active, yet quiet, committees in services even though the contemplated project the State, the members of this committee have ex• is not constructed. The committee also success• amined, researched, photographed, measured and fully defeated a stock school concept and an at• drawn plans of several historic Indiana buildings tempt to weaken the effectiveness of the archi• for filing with the Library of Congress. The com• tectural registration board. Now that the legis• mittee also maintains liaison with other historical lature has gone home for another two years, the and preservation societies in the state, and is committee is turning its efforts to improving en• planning a series of articles for this magazine forcement procedures under the registration act starting later in the year. and in carrying on the liaison work between the profession and the various state offices. ARCHITECTS - ENGINEERS JOINT COMMIT• TEE : Another of the Society's most active groups, PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE: One of the this jointly-sponsored committee currently is re• most active of the Society's committees, the ma• viewing and drafting proposed changes to the Ap• jor products of this committee's work are the plication for Certification of the Administrative 1965 Triennial Awards in Architecture Program Building Council. and modifications to the format of the INDIANA ARCHITECT. Plans to display the winners in the ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY COMMITTEE: Triennial Awards program throughout the state This special committee of Indiana Fellows is now are now being formulated, with the first showing drafting plans for the creation of the Indiana to be at the Indiana State Fair the last of Aug• Architectural Foundation. This program will be ust. Full newspaper publicity is being arranged presented to the ISA's annual convention for rati• for the winners, who will be honored at the ISA fication. convention. In addition, the committee is com• ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOL ADVISORY COM• piling a digest of public relations material im• MITTEE: This special committee, created at the mediately available to Indiana architects, which request of Ball State University officials, has met will be sent to all architects for their use in local twice with the faculty and administration of Ball and individual public relations projects. State to assist in the establishment of the RELATIONS WITH CONSTRUCTION INDUS• new architectural school there, and will TRY : This committee has been meeting regularly become a permanent Society committee. 14/IA The Village Mall, Cleveland, Tennessee. Architect: Toombs-Amisano and Wells, Atlanta, Ga. Builder: Rea Concrete shells Construction Co., Inc., Charlotte, N.C. and lattices bring striking beauty to the Village Mall Beauty is good business at the Village Mall, the new all-concrete shopping center in Cleveland, Tennessee. Twenty-nine shops and stores are thriving, more are getting ready to move in. Of 186,000 square feet of space, more than 120,000 are roofed by the graceful curves of concrete barrel shells. Adding to the architectural interest are the massive concrete beams that overhang the arcade on either side. The arcade itself is provided a dramatic play of light and shadow by the open concrete lattice work above. 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