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THE ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER 11 6.22.2005 NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM $3.95 GUGGENBUCKS, GUGGENDALES, CO GUGGENSOLES 07 MIAMI NICE LU ARTISTIC Z O GO HOME, LICENSING o DAMN YANKEES 12 Once again, the ever-expanding Guggenheim is moving to new frontiers. TOP OF THE A jury that included politicians, Frank CLASS Gehry and Thomas Krens has awarded 4 the design commission for the newest 17 museum in the Guggenheim orbitto VENTURI AND Enrique Norten for a 50-story structure on a cliff outside Guadalajara, Mexico's sec• SCOTT BROWN ond-largest city. The museum will cost BRITISH TEAM WINS VAN ALEN COMPETITION PROBE THE PAST the city about $250 million to build. 03 EAVESDROP But there is now a far less expensive 18 DIARY range of associations with the Guggenheim 20 PROTEST Coney Island Looks Up brand. The Guggenheim is actively 23 CLASSIFIEDS exploring the market for products that it On May 26 Sherida E. Paulsen, chair of the Fair to Coney Island in 1940, closed in 1968, can license, in the hope of Guggenheim- Van Alen Institute's board of trustees, and but the 250-foot-tall structure was land- ing tableware, jewelry, even paint. An Joshua J. Sirefman, CEO of the Coney marked in 1989. eyewear deal is imminent. Island Development Corporation (CIDC), Brooklyn-based Ramon Knoester and It's not the museum's first effort to announced the winners of the Parachute Eckart Graeve took the second place prize license products but it is its first planned Pavilion Design Competition at an event on of S5,000, and a team of five architects strategy to systematize licensing. For the Coney Island boardwalk. Four London- from Philadelphia—Roman Torres, Patrick years the Guggenheim has charged fees based architects—Kevin Carmody, Andrew Stinger, Mayva Marshall, Adrienne Yancone, for photographing products or people in Groarke, Chris Hardie, and Lewis Kinneir— and Adam Montalbano—took home $3,000 front of the landmark Frank Lloyd Wright took first place as well as the Van Alen's first for third. Nine honorable mentions were also building. That was just the beginning. annual $20,000 New York Prize. They also selected, and all 864 submitted entries— "We're actually continued on page 6 won the opportunity to work with the CIDC an unprecedented number for a Van Alen and Van Alen to refine and build their design competition, according to program man• for a year-round restaurant, store, gallery, ager Jonathan Cohen-Litant—are on view GIANCARLO DE CARLO, and administrative building at the base of at www.vanalen.org. The 11-member jury DESIGN UNVEILING ASIDE, the Parachute Jump, the tallest structure in was composed of architects, designers, and REMEMBERED THE WTC CULTURAL CENTER IS Coney Island. The famed ride, which was local community leaders, including MoMA brought from the 1939 New York World's VERY MUCH A WORK IN PROGRESS design curator Paola continued on page 2 Giancarlo De Carlo, who died on June 4 at the age of 85, was architecture's last great link with the heroic modernism of CIAM. SEEING'S NOT ICFF AND ITALIANS TEST LIFE APART bloc of exhibitors—were When he was invited to join CL\M in 1953, splitting off to establish he offered a scathing critique of pre-war their own fair, an offshoot of existenz minimum, and described Le BELIEVING the furniture world's main Corbusier s Unit^ d'Habitation as "terri• POST-FAIR WRAP The creak and grind of political machinery event, Salone Internazionale ble," and provided the theoretical under• at Ground Zero were all too audible at Faster than you can say I Saloni's organizer Cosmit del Mobile, held every April pinning for Team X. He was, as his dose the tumbrels during the slick roll-out of bruschetta, rumors were fly• reported 7,000 attendees— in Milan. friend Aldo van Eyck said long ago, a mas• the World Trade Center Cultural Center ing and fingers were point• 40 percent architects—to ter of paradox. He was both elusive and The competition played on May 19, attended by Governor George ing during the International its new fair, held on Piers90 absolutely clear. He was both renowned out in the details. While Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Contemporary Furniture Fair and 92. What kept thousands and secretive. One of the foremost archi• Target buses shuttling Presenting the thing took almost as long (ICFF) and the firstlSaloni of professionals from travel• tectural thinkers of his time, he published attendees to the company's as designing it. Architect Craig Dykers, Worldwide New York. Now ing 18 blocks from Javits no unified volume of theory. He was not sponsored events were principal of Norwegian architecture firm in its 17'" year, ICFF, held to the piers? an architect who played at being a theorist, allowed to park in front of Sn0hetta, called the 90 days allowed for at the Jacob K. Javits but an intellectual whose medium was arch• Industry insiders were Javits, I Saloni buses were design (which included the Christmas Convention Center from itecture. (Not abstract architecture writ• surprised at the news, just across the street. "They told holidays and finding and setting up a May 14 to 17, reported ing, but its concrete profession, embedded months before ICFF, that all us we had to stay over New York office) "the charette from hell." 21,428 attendees, up 14 per• the Italian manufacturers— here," said one idle driver. in its social practice.) continued on page 3 The marathon didn't end with the cent from last year, while traditionally ICFF's largest Explained continued on page 2 unveiling. There were TV appearances De Carlo with two ILAUD students in 1992. and tabloid interviews followed by private walk-throughsfor Ada Louise Huxtable and Robert De Niro. "We're waiting for the Pope to show up next," quipped a PR man at the LMDC. With so much hoopla, people might believe that they saw actual designs for the building that will house the International Freedom Center and the Drawing Center. But these were schematic designs. It's comparable continued on page 4 CO CM 3 O LU THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER JUNE 22. 2005 POST-FAIR WRAP continued from front page PUBLISHER CO When successful architects are asked to name important Phil Robinson of George Little Management Diana Darling influences, they most often mention a favorite professor or (GLM), organizer of ICFF, "We had a collabo• EDITORS o ration with Target. We never received a I— teacher. The great educator-architects like John Hejduk, Cathy Lang Ho request from Cosmit, but the door was William Menking AHson and Peter Smithson, Alvin Boyarsky, and Bernard always open." LU Tschumi must be given credit for shaping the direction of Manlio Armellini, Cosmit's managing Martin Perrin scores of students' careers. director, felt that GLM was not helpful. "We SENIOR EDITOR heard that they did not give information about Anne Guiney The role that practicing architects play in education may be us to people who asked," he said. Abe Gurko ASSOCIATE EDITOR unique among professions in that so many come back to the of Design Downtown, which bills itself as Deborah Grossberg academy. They trudge to classrooms every week for very little "New York's alternative design show" and DESIGN AND PRODUCTION is now in its third year, said,"What ICFF has Daniil Alexandrov pay, and many spend countless hours sitting in end-of-the-year to understand is that it is Design Week not EDITORIAL ASSISTANT jury reviews for a cup of coffee and a donut. Why do they do it? George Little Management Week." Gurko Gunnar Hand It is certainly not easy for an architect to juggle running an and Target provided shuttles for their ven• ues. I Saloni had shuttles three times a day Stephen Martin office and teaching a studio. In fact, many don't do it well; how between Design Downtown and the piers. Jenny Wong often do we hear students complain that their teachers—par• Jaffer Kolb Rumors that GLM booked Piers 90 and 92 ticularly the famous ones—never showed up to class? Ann Chou for the duration of ICFF next year were SALES AND MARKETING DIRECTOR Some architects regard teaching as a way to extend their own dismissed by the office as "not true at all." research; for others, it's a means of recruiting bright young stu• Rumors also abounded that GLM offered huge Karen Begley dents for their offices. But many get involved with schools, discounts on the price of booths to make up for the Italians' departure—something John Leonard whether as instructors, advisers, or jurors, because it keeps Robinson denied, stating, "We're up [in MARISA BARTOLUCCI/ALAN G.BRAKE/ them engaged in the world of ideas. As much as they impart number of exhibitors) by 12 percent. We even ARIC CHEN / DAVID D'ARCY / MURRAY FRASER / wisdom and pragmatism to novices, the latter keeps them up added a Spanish and Swedish pavilion." RICHARD INGERSOLL/JULIE lOVINE / JOE KERR/ However, exhibitor Robin Reigi noted, "When LIANE LEFAIVRE/LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/ on current intellectual, stylistic, and technological thinking. we looked at the map to see where our booth KESTER RATTEN8URY/D.GRAHAME SHANE/ Another—and perhaps the most important—reason why so PETER SLATIN/KATSU TANAKA/GWEN WRIGHT/ was, we noticed that there were no longer any ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER many architects stay connected to schools is that they feel a booths in the supplementary north pavilion. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD sense of professional responsibility. To prepare for this issue's When we asked why, George Little told us that PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A.