On Current New York Architecture

OCULUS on current new york architecture The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Volume 43, Number 4, January 1982 . As 1982 begins, Philip Johnson's allusion to Alberti nears completion atop the AT&T BuiWing. page2 Oculus OCULUS Chapter Reports Volume 43, Number 4, January 1982 by George Lewis Oculus Editor: C. Ray Smith Managing Editor: Marian Page Art Director: Abigail Sturges Typesetting: Susan Schechter The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects The Urban Center, 457 Madison A venue, New York, New York 10022 212-838-9670 George S. Lewis, Executive Director Executive Committee 1981-82: Joseph Wasserman, President Arthur I. Rosenblatt, First Vice President Tician Papachristou, Vice President Robert Siegel, Vice President Terrance Williams, Secretary Alan Schwartzman, Treasurer Frank Eliseo William Ellis Theodore Liebman Nancy A. Miao Stuart Pertz Mildred F. Schmertz NYC/AIA Staff Cathanne Piesla Carol Jones Jeannette Manzo Eileen McGrath Compensation Survey visiting instructors, Huber Bueher © 1981 The New York Chapter of the and Benjamin Evans, were described American Institute of Architects. Light will be shed on how well, or how poorly, employees of architectural as "enthusiastic and well prepared," firms are paid when the results of the and comments included, "One of the recently mailed Compensation Survey most worthwhile seminars that I have are tabulated. This should provide us attended," (architect Ed Shiffer) to, with an essential yardstick for "Got a little lost on the analysis gauging how we measure up to other section" (no name please). The professions and to each other. The workshop included a comprehensive survey forms were sent to all firms, workbook and other valuable and all are urged to respond by reference materials. Another Level 2 January 15. If a firm did not receive a Workshop is tentatively being Compensation Survey form, it should scheduled for the spring, to be call the Chapter office for one. A long followed by a Level 3a program that Wall Street Journal article December will stress methods useful at the 7 on the economics of architectural design stage dealing with issues of practice notes, "What emerges is a siting, massing, spatial organization, picture of a profession that is and systems. fragmented and one whose practitioners are underpaid compared A New, Comprehensive Chapter Design with persons of comparable Awards Program responsibilities and educational Considering the high level of backgrounds." excellence of New York architects' work, it is surprising that the Chapter Energy Workshop has never organized a large-scale Forty-eight architects attended the awards program. Our Residential 2-day AIA Level 2 Energy in Design Awards have been successful Architecture Workshop at the end of and well publicized, but now-this October, and it got good reviews. The cont'd. p. 10, col 2 Oculus page3 The spirit of a century of Columbia University Names and News architects and tyro-architects shines forth in the exhibition "The Making of an Architect" at the National Academy of Design till January 15th. Photo: Courtesy Columbia School ofArchitecture The New York Society of Architects presented James Marston Fitch the Sidney L. Strauss Memorial Award for outstanding achievement for the benefit. of the architectural profession, at its Annual Awards dinner last month .... Ulrich Franzen & Associates are architects of a twin 74-story tower residential project on the Jersey City waterfront .... Fox & Fowle are architects of a planned 30-story office building at 175 Water Street. The building's 400-foot height is planned to be consistent with other buildings along Water Street, and to serve as a uniform background for the South Street Seaport .... Haines Lundberg Waehler were awarded a certificate by the New York Landmarks Conservancy for the restoration of two recently designated Landmark buildings by McKim, Mead & White on West 54th Street, and their client, the U.S. Trust Company, was given the Conservancy's 1981 Chairman's Award .... The Edelman Partnership are architects of a 14-story, 156-unit housing project for the elderly at Grand and Norfolk Stre~ts sponsored by the Chinatown Planning Council .... Iffland Kavanagh Waterbury are architects with Beyer Blinder Belle, associate architects, for an expansion of the CBS Broadcast Center facilities on West 56th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues .... Architect and industrial designer George Nelson has been appointed chairman of the 32nd International Design Conference in Aspen, June 13-18, the theme of which is "The Prepared Professional." Program director of the 1982 conference is Jacqueline Nelson, who collaborates with her husband in George Nelson Associates .... Der Scutt will speak on "Impact of Zoning on High Rise Architecture" at the seminar on "High-Rise Construction," February 1-2, sponsored by the Construction Group Metropolitan Section, American Society of Civil Engineers .... The U.S. Department of Interior declared the Morosco Theater eligible for Federal Landmark status in November. The decision, however, does not guarantee the Morosco's preservation, which is cont'd. p. 10, col. 3 page4 Oculus Romaldo Giurgola Wins AIA Gold Medal for 1982 our profession as an educator and sketches will persuade you that he has administrator, as an author, as a few equals as a draftsman. superlative draftsman, as an enthusiastic AIA participant, and as a His firm, Mitchell-Giurgola, is known designer who pushes the aesthetic to all of us. Their list of National AIA limits. He is respected and admired by Honor Awards includes Columbus 'East the young and the not so young and by High School in Columbus, Indiana; the Modernists and Post-Modernists in Adult Learning Research Laboratory Europe, North and South America, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; and the • Asia and Australia. Th~ foregoing Penn Mutual Towers in Philadelphia. would probably be sufficient Their work, which has been shown in recognition for the AIA Gold every major architectural publication - Medalist, but what distinguishes him in the world, includes commissions in from any of his colleagues in the last Italy, Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela. several decades is that he is a Mitchell-Giurgola received the 1976 Romaldo Giurgola, F AJA, a member practitioner and partner in a firm AIA Firm Award. of the New York Chapter and a whose receipt of awards and whose partner in Mitchell/Giurgola competition wins is without equal. Romaldo Giurgola's firm's success in Associates with offices in New York large-scale competitions is almost and Philadelphia, has won the AJA Romaldo Giurgola's accomplishments unbelievable. His firm won the AIA Gold Medal/or 1982. Nominations for in the world of academia have been Headquarters Competition and the the meda~ which is the Institute 's great: he has taught architectural Wainwright State Office Complex highest honor, are made by national design at Cornell, Penn, Columbia, Competition against national fields; board members and require a vote of Virginia, and at the American and, of course, the Australian three quarters of the members of the Academy in Rome. He chaired the Parliament House Competition was a national board. division of architecture at Columbia world wide event. for five years; he is resident professor Previous Gold Medalists from the at the American Academy in Rome. A particularly endearing quality of their New York Chapter have been Wallace He is on Princeton's advisory council work is that it exhibits and combines a K. Harrison (1967), Marcel Breuer and is a member of the American profound respect and acknowledgment (1968), Philip Cortelyou Johnson Academy of Arts and Letters. His of the past with a truly crisp and (1978), and IM. Pei (1979). title "Commendatore", conferred by optimistic view of the future. It was the President of Italy, was for special thus no accident that Giurgola's firm The nomination of Mr. Giurgola was merit in the field of architecture and was chosen as architect for the US made by William A. Rose, Jr., F AJA, teaching. Capitol Master Plan. who is one of the two AJA board members from New York State. An honor that few Americans would All of the foregoing achievements are Excerpts from his letter of nomination readily recognize- because of its the result of Romaldo Giurgola's follow: uniqueness-is Romaldo Giurgola's ability as a designer who works at election as a member of the what a critic has called "the fine It is my privilege to nominate Academia Nazionale di San Luca in cutting edge." He is an architect of Romaldo Giurgola, F AIA for the 1982 Rome. This international academy is whom Paul Goldberger, New York Gold Medal of the American Institute every bit as distinguished as the Times architectural critic, has said, "is of Architects. Joining me as co French Legion of Honor, and perhaps ... concerned with the question of nominators are Vice Presidents more so because it is older. Election is finding new and more perfect ways to Parker and Notter, Secretary Harmon based on outstanding individual achieve the 'delight' part of Vitruvius' and Directors Martin, Busby, Nelson, contribution to the arts. Included tripartite definition of architecture as Gramman, and Monticciolo. among its former members are commodity, firmness, and delight." Bernini and Bramante. Though born in Born in Rome, Romaldo Giurgola Italy, Romaldo Giurgola had to qualify I urge you to award the 1982 Gold graduated from the University of as a foreigner, because he is now an Medal of the AIA to Romaldo Rome in 1948, suma cum laude, and American citizen. Giurgola. received his Masters Degree from Columbia, which he attended as a Among Romaldo Giurgola's writings Fullbright Fellow in 1951. are his book on Gold Medalist Louis Kahn, first published in 1975 and now Since then his career has indeed been available in six languages. As you multifaceted. He has contributed to review his exhibits, I am sure that Giurgola's brilliantly executed Oculus page5 Gwathmey Siegel & Assoc.

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