Word: rawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising nowadays when decent housing for the working class gets built. Boston's 50-unit Charlestown Navy Yard Rowhouses, designed by William Rawn, are virtually miraculous: cheerful, dignified, altogether grand-looking low-cost housing. The long, low brick structure culminates in a brilliantly fetching waterfront wing -- cylindrical, two stories higher than the main body of the structure, with a copper conical top. Equally heartening is the graceful design applied to a humble fertilizer and hay-bale storage shed for a garden center in Raleigh, N.C. Local architect Frank Harmon unapologetically used homely materials (plywood, corrugated fiber glass) but observed lucid...
...computer industry, the author is a virtuoso of lucid and compelling narrative. Here he gives equal time to client, architect and builders. The result is a three- dimensional view of an activity instinctive to the species, and a subtle examination of cultural and class differences. Architect Bill Rawn's resume, writes Kidder, suggests "the history of a Renaissance man in delirium": political science at Yale ('65); law degree from Harvard ('69); both assistant to the president and assistant chancellor for physical planning at the University of Massachusetts; graphic artist represented by galleries in New York City and Amsterdam; architecture degree...
House's pleasing style owes much to Kidder's muted perceptions of how counterculture values adjust to the financial and emotional demands of running a business. Rawn is a "contextualist" who forsakes the intrusive shapes of modernism for structures that blend with a community's character and history. The Souweine house is Greek Revival accented with designer windows and a red roof. Kidder provides floor plans and a few sketches of detail, but no elevations that could show the reader the front, back and sides of the building. Yet the message is clear: the spacious, functional and comfortable place...