ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 390
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Mon Aug 4 11:05:51 PDT 2008
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ArchitectureWeek No. 390 is now available on the Web, with these
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EERO AND ONWARD
by Balthazar Korab
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On a December day of 1955, fresh over from Paris, I
walked into the small Eero Saarinen office in Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, with a beat-up box of eight-by-tens of
my Beaux-Arts graduation work. "Can I see Mr. Saarinen?
I'm looking for a job." He did see me, and having
reviewed my prints, asked whether I could start that
very afternoon o for $2.75 an hour pay. I did.
I remember every detail of that bizarre first American
experience of mine and flash back to Taliesin, three
years later, when the pay offered me was one dollar a
day. "The first time I've ever offered to pay anyone,"
insisted the old master. But that's another story.
Back to Saarinen's extraordinary workshop of some 20
people from all over the world. I myself experimented
with a new instrument, the camera, often splitting my
time, day and night, between my pencil and my Leica.
My challenge was to project a virtual reality from those
random, designer-built studies or from the polished
presentation models. The former task was the more
exciting one. We developed a routine where the camera
and the photographer became an integral part of the
design process. The photograph became a visual test for
the designer. We were intrigued by the extent to which
Eero grew dependent on the images, particularly during
the TWA studies.
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AIA/HUD Secretary Awards
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Where a failed urban housing project once stood,
enclosed and separated from its surrounding neighborhood
in San Francisco's Mission District, the mixed-use
Valencia Gardens development now supports an integrated
neighborhood designed to promote safety through
activity.
Architect Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP, with associate
architect Martinez Architects, Inc., lined the sidewalk
with building entries and reintroduced vehicular streets
into the site, connecting it with the urban fabric.
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People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
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Omniplan, Mayse & Associates, and Beeler Guest Owens
Architects in Pearland, Texas - Elliott Marshall Innes,
P.A., with Lord, Aeck & Sargent in Tallahassee, Florida -
Cannon Design in Grand Island, New York - SmithGroup in
Washington, D.C., USA - Gresham, Smith and Partners in
Franklin, Tennessee...
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