Word: netsch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under the elevated walkways is not wasted. In places, the platform level serves as the roof covering for campus classrooms; in others, it shelters ground-level paths from rain, and adjacent outdoor parks, cobblestoned and furnished with old-fashioned fold-up lawn chairs, from wind. There, says Architect Netsch, students can bask and study in balmy weather, as if "loafing in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens...
Slab Rendezvous. Fortunately, the man who designed the Chicago Circle campus prefers subways to taxicabs, is a champion of city living and a fancier of pop and op. He is Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's gangling M.I.T. Grad Walter Netsch, 45, architect of the Air Force Academy's space-frame chapel. Rather than trying to carve out grassy plots, he has opted for the tough, rapidly moving esthetics of the city. His results are what he calls a "microenvironment," a miniature city for learning...
...Netsch used the cold, durable materials of the city-concrete, granite, hard-surfaced brick-to build his university. Mindful that 28,500 students will soon swarm its halls, he barred automobiles from the campus in favor of elevated pedestrian expressways that connect the actual city outside with the academic core of the college. The crisp, die-straight expressways are bordered by stone bollards and giant chains. From the four points of the compass, these airborne paths lead to a 300-ft. by 450-ft. elevated slab, a great, raised court that has become the students' principal rendezvous...
...SORRY TO ADD CORRECTION TO YOUR WONDERFUL AIR FORCE CHAPEL COVERAGE [JULY 27]. WINDOW'S COLLAGE, DESIGNED ON FLOOR OF MY LIVING ROOM, MADE BY JUDSON STUDIOS OF LOS ANGELES, THE DALLES GLASS BY BLENKO GLASS CO. OF WEST VIRGINIA, NOT CHARTRES. WALTER A. NETSCH JR. SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL CHICAGO...
...Spirit. A number of Netsch's colleagues in the field of architecture have criticized him for not relating the building more closely to the setting, on the theory that the jagged structure seems to clash with the rolling mountains around. Yet had Netsch tried to relate more to the mountains, he might very well have ended up clashing with the campus. And to Netsch the community is the main thing: it seems quite natural that the spires should also suggest giant wings, and even the hangar-like quality of the Protestant chapel interior seems in its way appropriate...