ARCHITECTUREAuthor(s): Sherman ClarkeSource: Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Vol. 3,No. 2 (Summer 1984), pp. 52-54Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27947283 .

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SIG AND TOL COLUMNS ARCHITECTURE edited by Sherman Clarke At the Architecture SIG business meeting in Cleveland,

the revised statement of purpose mailed to members in early 1984 was approved. It was revised to include the arts allied to architecture. The proposed name change was not approved. Alson Clark (University of Southern California) has agreed to be moderator for 1984 with prime responsibil ity for planning the 1985 activities in Los Angeles. Joan Benedetti, general 1985 program chairman, reported on plans so far, which include tours of the downtown the aters and Little Tokyo (including the Temporary Contem porary by Frank Gehry; cf. House & Garden, Feb. 1984, p. 150-151). Some suggestions for the 1985 SIG program include something on product catalogs and other emphe

meral materials and perhaps something on the arts and crafts movement (Greene and Greene, for example). Those with program ideas should contact Alson Clark as quickly as possible.

PRESERVATION & RENOVATION Library renovation is the subject of kit 97 (Sept. 1983) from

the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center of the As sociation of Research Libraries. The kit discusses projects at the following universities: Kansas, Rutgers, Iowa State, Oklahoma, Cincinnati, and UC/Riverside.

Louis Sullivan's Guaranty Building in Buffalo has been restored. Its terracotta facade and decorative interior are again in fine condition. Paul Goldberger discusses the Guaranty in the New York Times (Dec. 20,1983, p. C15) and the building was the feature of the Buffalo Evening News Sunday magazine for December 12,1983. When a tower was proposed next to St. Bartholomew's

Episcopal Church in New York City, the preservation com munity vigorously opposed the building designed by Edward Durell Stone Associates. The fight continues. A sim ilar proposal (new building using air rights over and near a landmark building) in January, 1984, for a tower growing out of the New York Historical Society has gotten a more mixed response from the architecture/preservation com munity. The St. Bart's tower is generally thought to be of no great architectural merit in a neigborhood of great and fa mous buildings. The Historical Society's tower, designed by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, is distinguished. The positive architectural aesthetic response complicates the preserva tion issue, (cf. "Do landmarks belong to everyone?" by Paul Goldberger, New York Times, Jan. 22, 1984, p. H30; New York Times, Jan. 25, 1984, report on meeting of Land marks Preservation Committee.)

PERIODICALS There are fifty-four state chapters of the American Insti

tute of Architects, including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, some of which pub lish a journal and/or newsletter. The following list of thirty six titles, compiled by Sally Hanford, represents titles cur rently being received by the AIA Library. Out-of-print serials and those issued by county or city chapters of the AIA have been excluded.

The periodicals in the first alphabetical sequence below can be described as journals. Besides reporting on state chapter matters, they also feature articles on design topics of interest to a national audience; many have color illustra tions. The second sequence is newsletters, mainly reporting state chapter business and short items of architectural interest. The majority of the newsletters are typescript and illustrated in black-and-white.

Architecture California. 1979- (bi-monthly $24/yr.) Cali fornia Council/AIA, 1414 St., Ste. 320, Sacramento 95814.

Architecture Minnesota, v. 1, 1975- (bi-monthly; $12/yr.) Minnesota Society/AIA, 314 Clifton Ave., Minneapolis 55403.

Architecture New Jersey, v. 1, 1967- (quarterly; $6/yr.) New Jersey Society of Architects/AIA, 1000 Route 9, Woodbridge 07095.

Florida Architect. 1954- (bi-monthly; $12/yr.) Florida Association/A A, P.O. Box 10388, Tallahassee 32302.

Hawaii Architect, v. 1, 1972- (monthly; $10/yr.) Hawaii Society/AIA, 233 Merchant St., Ste. 200, Honolulu 96813.

Iowa Architect. 1954- (bi-monthly; $2/single copy) Iowa Chapter/AIA, 512 Walnut St., Des Moines 50309.

The Mississippi Architect, (quarterly; $4/yr.) Mississippi Chapter/AIA, P.O. Box 12515, Jackson 39211.

New Mexico Architecture. 1964- (bi-monthly; $1/single copy) New Mexico Society of Architects/AIA, 425-A Val Verde, S.E., Albuquerque 87108.

North Carolina Architect. 1964- (bi-monthly; $12/yr.) North Carolina Chapter/AIA, 115 West Morgan St., Raleigh 27601 (published by Shaw Communications, Inc., 314 S. Tryon St., Charlotte 28202 for the Chapter).

Northwest Architecture. 1978- (bi-monthly; $20/yr.) Washington Council/A A, McCleary Mansion, Ste. 6, 111-21st Ave., S.W., Olympia 98501 (published by Grawin Publications, 1020 Lloyd Bldg., Seattle 98101 for the Council).

SCAIA Review of Architecture. 1967- (annual; $1/single copy) South Carolina Chapter/AIA, 1522 Richland St., Columbia 29201.

Tennessee Architect. 1944- (quarterly; $12/yr.) Tennes see Society of Architects/AIA, 223V? 6th Ave., ., Nashville 37219.

Texas Architect. 1950- (bi-monthly; $12/yr.) Texas Soci ety of Architects/AIA, 1400 Norwood Tower, Austin 78701.

Utah Architect. 1960?- (quarterly; $12/yr.) Utah Society of Architects/AIA, 555 East South Temple, Salt Lake City 84102 (co-published with the Graduate School of Archi tecture, University of Utah).

Virginia Record. 1878- (bi-monthly $10/yr.) Virginia So ciety of Architects/AIA, 15 South 5th St., Richmond 23219 (co-published by Virgi nia Publishers Wing, 301 East Franklin St., Richmond 23219).

Wisconsin Architect. 1932?- (monthly) Wisconsin Society of Architects, Madison.

A/A Reports. Illinois Council/AIA, 802 Lincoln Tower, 520 South 2nd St., Springfield 62701.

ASO News Journal, (monthly) Architects Society of Ohio/ AIA, 37 West Broad St., Ste. 301, Columbus 43215.

CSA/AIA News. Connecticut Society of Architects/AIA, 85 Willow St., New Haven 06511.

CSA Field Report. Colorado Society of Architects/AIA, 1459 Pennsylvania St., Carriage House, Denver 80203.

Column. New York State Association of Architects/AIA, 235 Lark St., Albany 12210.

Column, (irregular) Arizona Society of Architects, 3738 16th St., Ste. F, Phoenix 85016.

Contact, (irregular) Florida Association/A A, P.O. Box 10388, Tallahassee 32302.

Eagle, (bi-monthly) Alabama Council of Architects/AIA, P.O. Box 237, Montgomery 36101.

KSA Review, (quarterly) Kentucky Society of Architects/AIA, P.O. Box 22238, Lexington 40522.

MCA Newsletter, (quarterly) Missouri Council of Archi tects/AIA, 204A East High St., Jefferson City 65101.

Monthly Bulletin. Oct. 1950- (monthly) Michigan Society of Architects/AIA, 553 East Jefferson, Detroit 48226.

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NCAIA Newsletter. North Carolina Chapter/AIA, 115 West Morgan St., Raleigh 27601.

News, (irregular) Washington Chapter/AIA, 1777 Church St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

Newsletter. Nebraska Society of Architects/AIA, 1910 South 44th St., Ste. 100, Omaha 68105.

OC/AIA Advisor. 1982- (irregular) Oklahoma Chapter/ AIA, 405 N.W. 15th St., Oklahoma City 73103.

PSA News. Pennsylvania Society of Architects/AIA, P.O. Box N, Harrisburg 17108.

f?tA/A Newsletter. 1975- (bi-monthly?) Rhode Island Chapter/AIA, 150 Pine St., Providence 02903.

Resource, (monthly?) Kansas Society of Architects/AIA, 724 Kansas Ave., Topeka 66603.

SCAIA Newsletter, (irregular) South Carolina Chapter/AIA, 1522 Richland St., Columbia 29201.

Texas Society of Architects Newsletter, (irregular) Texas Society of Architects/AIA, 1400 Norwood Tower, Austin 78701.

AThe first issue of Architectural Technology has been is sued by the AIA. It is intended to be a practical guide for the working architect and is received by AIA members. The con tents of volume 1, number 1 include: a review of twenty-five research priorities, an update on professional liability insur ance, Helmut Jahn drawings for a Houston tower, and an swers from the AIA computer hotline. ACopies of the contents page of the premier number, dated

Spring 1984, of Design Issues were distributed at the Design History Forum meeting at College Art in Toronto.This new periodical will focus on graphic and industrial design and is to be published semi-annually in Chicago (School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago 60680; $18/yr; $30 for institutions). AEven though Skyline has ceased publication, similar pub lications continue to be published in the U.S. and elsewhere, including section a from Montreal (P.O. Box 909, La Cit?, Montr?al, Que. H2W 2P5) and Blueprint from Lon don ("hasn't yet made it to American bookstores" per P/A, Feb. 1984, p. 26).

REFERENCE WORKS AThe Getty Trust has assumed financial support of the Avery Index of architectural periodicals at Columbia Univer sity. This will mean more staff for the index and presumably more timely availability of information. The index is scheduled to be an early user of the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). AThe Directory of Minority and Women-owned Engineering and Architectural Firms, 1983 Edition has been published as a joint effort of the AIA and eight other design, professional, women's and minority organizations. The new directory lists 477 firms nation-wide that are owned, controlled and operated by minority-group members or women. Copies of the directory are available through the AIA Service Corp. order fulfillment division (prepaid; $10 for AIA members/ $15 for nonmembers; catalog number 4M709-83). Aln addition to the HABS collection, Chadwyck-Healey has microfiche sets of projects of the Public Works Administra tion, of the photographs of the Carnegie Survey of the Ar chitecture of the South, and of the Royal Commission's his toric British buildings series (and many others). AThe National Architectural Accrediting Board has issued the NAAB Criteria and Procedures (dated Dec. 1983). The program of the Association of Architecture School Libra rians (March 17-19 in Charleston) includes a panel on ac creditation and the architecture library. A New publications and announcements:

Bradfield, Valerie J. Information Sources in Architecture. Stoneham, MA : Butterworths, 1983. ISBN 0-408-10763-4 : $69.95.

Historic America?Buildings, Structures, and Sites. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1983. ISBN

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0-8444-0431-4 : $29.00 (Supt. of Docs, stock no. 030-000 00149-4) HABS by A. Stamm, C. F. Peatross, et al.

Architectural Records in Boston (MassCOPAR ; Nancy Carlson Schr?ck, project director and editor). New York : Garland Pub., 1983. ISBN 0-8240-9126-4

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800 1950. Project begun in 1976 and scheduled for publica tion late 1983.

Decorative Arts Trade Catalogs from the Winterthur Museum. Microfiche set with guide and index, an nounced by Clearwater Publishing Co. in February 1984.

READING AGiovanninni, Joseph, "The many charms of the front porch," New York Times, Dec. 8,1983, p. C12. Review of the show at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in L.A. and the other shows on domestic vernacular architecture called "Home Sweet Home." A'The library's future," RIBA Journal, Sept. 1983, p. 18-19. On the retirement of David Dean as Director of Library Ser vices at the British Architectural Library. Issue includes a biography of new director, Jan van der Wateren (p. 58) and an appeal for support (p. 3). A"Amerikanische Alternativen zum Wohnen einer mobilen Gesellschaft," Stadt, no. 3, 1982. Special issue with a Ger man view of American domestic architecture, including Victorian homes, Chicago, California and the auto, mobile homes, and self-help housing. ARussell, John, "I imagined myself making a replica of Van Gogh's chair," New York Times, Dec. 15, 1983, p. C8. On Master Pieces (Hearst Books, $22.95), wherein Richard Ball and Peter Campbell provide instructions for making Madame Recamier's couch, a Picasso trapezoidal cupboard, etc.

APosner, Ellen, "Hoosier mecca for modern architecture," Wall Street Journal, Jan. 16, 1984, p. 16. On Columbus, Indiana; critique of the lack of relationship between the

masterpieces and the urban setting. ADuka, John, "A British editor sets her own style," New York Times, Dec. 1,1983, p. C12. On Min Hogg, editor of the World of Interiors where the "editorial content is unexpect edly wry, whimsical and realistic all at the same time." AEsquire 1933- 1983 (Dec. 1983) includes among its mov ers and shakers of the last fifty years Philip Johnson (p. 270- 281 ) and Bill Levitt of Levittown (p. 378- 391 ). ANelson, Lisbet, "New deals in art: marketing the architect's fine hand," Metropolitan Home, Feb. 1984, p. 34-40, 105. On the Max Protetch Gallery and its devel opment into probably the premier gallery for architecture related art.

AFiller, Martin, "Romance comes back to Capistrano," House & Garden, March 1984, p. 148-153, 202. On Michael Graves's new San Juan Capistrano Regional Library in the California mission tradition. AMcDonough, Michael, "Architecture's unnoticed avant garde (taking a second look at art in the environment)," in Art in the Land (New York : Dutton, 1983), p. 233-252. On Matta-Clark, Mary Miss, Ferrara, Holt, et al. AFowler, Pauline, "Shaking the foundations: feminist analysis in the world of architecture," Fuse, Feb. 1984, p. 199-204. With a Canadian bent. AMillar, Brenda, "Designing dissent: a combination...cir cus tent, beehive & octopus," Fuse, Feb. 1984, p. 205-208. On the Women's Architecture League and the Women's Cul tural Building Collective, both based in Toronto. AWrenn, Douglas M. Urban Waterfront Development. Washington, D.C. : ULI-the Urban Land Institute, 1983. ISBN 0874206197. Issued in conjunction with its conference on urban waterfronts, mentioned in the Oct. 1983 column.

END-PIECES APhilip Johnson gave the sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City on February 12, 1984. Among other things, he said, "Every time you tear down a building, you diminish a city's spirituality." (cf. New York Times, Feb. 13,1984)

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In another context, Johnson was quoted as saying: "I ac tually don't read; I look at pictures. Architects' books are foolish to read because words don't go with architecture. Some people are not interested in visual architecture, but that's really the only thing that there is in architecture." (cf.

New York Times, Jan. 8,1984, p. H36) A1984 marks the centennial of the first skyscraper. Though the definition of "first skyscraper" could be debated, Wil liam LeBaron Jenney's Home Insurance Company building

was built in 1884 in Chicago. At nine stories but no pas senger elevator, it was the first building whose weight, in cluding exterior walls, was supported by an iron frame, (cf. Michael Leapman, "The first building to scrape the sky," New York Times, Feb. 25,1984, p. 23) Alf you want to live in a Robert Venturi house, the Brant Johnson house in Vail, Colorado, was offered for sale in the New York Times Magazine in February 1984. Call 203-661-3344.

ACADEMIC TOL edited by Barbara Polowy

Acquisitions Request to CRL Many academic libraries belong to the Center for Re

search Libraries (CRL) in Chicago, "a non-profit organization operated and maintained by its member institutions for the purpose of increasing the library materials available to their readers for research...Any materials owned by the Center

may be borrowed by a member library for research use by its readers on the same basis as if it were the library's own

material." ("Research Materials Available from the Center for Research Libraries," 1980, p. 1.)

Unfortunately, CRL has almost nothing in the way of art materials. In fact, Esther Smith, CRL's Collection Develop ment Librarian, has indicated that there is "some question as to whether or not this sort of primarily visual material ought to be collected by the Center at all." Purchases are made by member vote on items proposed by the member ship. To date, few, if any, art-related items have been nomi nated for purchase.

I would like to urge ARLIS/NA members whose libraries are members of CRL to recommend some of the many art research sets which have become available recently, but

which few of our own budgets can afford. Good examples are the Knoedler Library of Microfiche: Complete Exhibition Catalogs ($16,665), or Chadwyck-Healey's Art Exhibition Catalogues on Microfiche ($14,000). Purchase by CRL may be the only way many of us have access to some of these very important research sets.

NEW REFERENCE TOOLS IN PROGRESS: AN UPDATE

At the 1982 ARLIS/NA conference in Boston, the Academic TOL sponsored a session entitled, "New Refer ence Books in Progress," at which several authors de scribed and discussed their forthcoming art reference books. The response to this session was overwhelmingly positive, and another such session was planned for the 1983 ARLIS/NA conference in Philadelphia. In 1983, members of the Academic TOL proposed that the "New Reference Books in Progress" panel become an annual conference session. A special project committee was formed by the Academic TOL to oversee the planning of the annual session, and to main tain a file of information on art reference tools in progress. This file will be of great help in planning conference ses sions, and will also allow the committee to provide an an nual update on titles previewed at past conferences.

The Special Project Committee on New Reference Tools in Progress of the Academic TOL consists of : Janet Clarke Hazlett, Chair (Vassar College); James H. Carmin (University of Oregon); Connie Okada (University of Washington); and Verna Ritchie (University of Northern Iowa). This committee hopes to become known both within ARLIS/NA and within the community of scholars other than art librarians who may be compiling art reference tools. In addition to keeping ARLIS/NA members aware of works in progress, we hope to provide an opportunity during the discussions held after the annual conference sessions for art librarians to make suggestions or proposals for changes in reference tools be fore they are completed. The desired result of this would be the publication of art reference material which accurately serves the needs of art librarians and art library users. The committee is anxious to hear from authors, art librarians, and publishers who are preparing art reference tools or who know of works in progress. The group wants to hear about non-print material as well as books. Please inform a member of the committee if you are currently at work on an art reference tool or if you know of someone who is.

The following information brings us up-to-date on the books which were previewed at the 1982 (Boston) and 1983 (Philadelphia) conferences. For descriptions of the works listed, see the post-conference issues of Art Documentation in which the sessions are described: Art Documentation 1 (May 1982): 52 and Art Documentation 2 (May 1983): 38.

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