Word: netsch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lover, "Bun" set the firm on the high road to quality with Lever House, most recently has turned out the Hirshhorn Gallery for Washington, and the L.B.J. library for Austin, Texas. Notably outspoken, he has been known to tell a client: "Take it all or nothing." In Chicago, Walter Netsch, 48, is dubbed "the professor" by Owings. Research-oriented, he appeals especially to institutions, designed the Air Force Academy. Counterbalancing him is Bruce Graham, 42, a towering, beardless Lincoln who firmly believes that "this is a technocratic age, and technocracy pulls us together." He designed the highly engineered John Hancock...
...appreciation for the excellent interpretative account of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle in the Art section, Jan. 7. The tribute to Architect Walter Netsch is richly merited. All of us at the university have been pleased with the concept of design and the imaginative approach to problem-solving that Mr. Netsch and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill gave to the requirements in constructing a major "commuter" campus within a limited site and the need for operational economy and efficiency...
...From lawn chairs to the 500-ft. truss that is the lintel of the laboratory building, the campus explodes in scale. Even the bricks on the walls and scattered decorative stone bases double in size to harmonize with larger facades. "It's an old Renaissance trick," explains Netsch...
...also borrowed from the Renaissance by erecting one dramatic vertical building to offset the massive horizontal thrust of the plan. But in raising the 28-story administration building as a sort of campanile, he also made it a showcase for structural technology. Since Netsch could take advantage of the decreasing loads the columns had to bear as the building rose, he was able to widen the floors toward the top without thickening the supports...
...campus is built to grow. Both the lab building and the library can triple their size outward from the college's core. One pedestrian expressway points toward Netsch's yet unbuilt art and architecture building, a multilevel, polygonal structure within which students will go from floor to floor in spiral fashion as well as by vertical stairways. Even the more massive structures that rim the campus are open to the city around them. "We use the buildings as gateways," Netsch explains. As urban as the new subway station built to disgorge students right onto one of its walkways...