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Commission member Julianna Delgado, who also teaches at Cal Poly Pomona, offered these thoughts: “The Gateway Project is an extraordinary work of architecture and urban design. It is sensitive in multiple dimensions to human needs, scale, and symbolism while finely crafted using processes and materials that are ecologically-friendly. The project embodies the commitment to our environment of an enlightened architect with the goals of a client whose mission is to bring the spiritual into everyday life. The project is a rare contribution to the surrounding city. The Gateway does not just improve Pasadena’s streetscape and walkability, inviting people into the campus, but it also visibly sets the standard for a new style of contemporary architecture that is both ‘green’ and beautiful.” Michelle Amt, WM+P project architect, notes that the Worship Center is designed around the metaphor of hands clasped in prayer, and the library is designed around the notion of hands open to offer and receive. David Allan Hubbard, the scholar and past president of Fuller for whom the library is named, has been described as a man of “unlimited peripheral vision” and that idea is woven into the design in several ways; the building will have daylight, openness, and a connection to campus and community. Both projects are being done in collaboration with House & Robertson Architects. |
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We were happy to learn in June that Global Green named David Orr, a close friend of the firm and important client, as the recipient of its 2007 Green Cross Millennium Awards. Celebrating this honor prompted us to think about what working with David has meant to us. Our practice has been fortunate to work with some of the true leaders and visionaries of the sustainable movement. These clients and patrons have influenced our thinking, clarified our design, and pushed our projects to higher levels of achievement. David is one client who’s had a particularly strong imprint on our practice. He is the chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College and the passionate force behind the development of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center. It has been 11 years since our first job meeting on the Oberlin project. I was a part of the project from that first meeting through the first day of occupancy, and on through commissioning and optimization. It was at turns exhilarating and exasperating (often on the same day). Looking back I realize that is the nature of such pioneering David recently made an appearance at an AIA/ACSA event at Cranbrook, where he reminded a group of architects and educators about the short timeline for action. He urged teachers and practitioners to think about place-making rather than form-making; to keep political economy and equity in mind, and to apply full-cost pricing and life-cycle costing. He surveyed the latest research about sea level rise, carbon parts per million in the atmosphere, and rising global mean temperatures, and reminded the group that there is a 30 to 40 year lag in carbon impact; the impacts we see today were created in the 1970s. “This generation,” he said, referring to today’s college students, “is the last to have a chance to ask these questions.” He made a plea for “No ugliness—human or otherwise, here or elsewhere, now or in the future.” That sounds a little bit like 100% positive. We all have work to do. |
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WM+P Supports Local San Francisco Initiatives William McDonough + Partners at the AIA Convention in May
MBDC Opens Public Review of Cradle to Cradle Certification Criteria |
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In April, Kira Gould served as a juror for the Parsons School of Design’s inaugural Sustainable Design Review student competition. Will Grimm, Assoc. AIA, joined the Charlottesville studio as a senior planner and as part of the Community Design group. He has also worked as an architect and urban designer in Portland, OR, and in Dublin, Ireland, and as an instructor at the University of Missouri. Will received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon and the Portland Urban Design Center. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and was active in the founding of the USGBC’s Missouri Heartland chapter. Will hails from Richardson, TX. Matthias Troitzsch, joined the San Francisco studio as a senior architect. Matthias received both his Bachelor and Master of Architecture from the University of California–Berkeley. His modular house design was a winning entry and part of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art-sponsored HOME House Project competition’s traveling exhibition; he has also been involved with Habitat for Humanity. Matthias is part of the project team on the UCSF project that is a collaboration with Anshen+Allen. Matthias is a native of Hamburg, Germany. Cara Kritikos, LEED AP, has joined the San Francisco studio as an administrative assistant. Cara is returning to her native city after receiving her bachelor’s in environmental studies at Oberlin College. Cara was involved in many organizations at Oberlin, including the Oberlin Design Initiative and the Bike Co-Op. Kevin Scott is an intern in the Charlottesville studio. Kevin has a degree in computer science and business management from Indiana University and earned his Master of Architecture from Iowa State University. He has taught digital representation courses at Iowa State and served in the U.S. Army. Kevin hails from Cedar Rapids, IA. Heather Ouellette is a marketing and communications intern in the Charlottesville studio. As an undergrad she studied English and anthropology at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and holds a Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University. Heather is originally from Fall River, MA. Currently reading: James Bond and Philosophy. Tina Cheng is an intern in the San Francisco studio; she graduated this year from the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. While at UVA, she participated in EcoMOD 3: Seam House, which is under construction now. Tina speaks Mandarin Chinese and is originally from Oakton, VA. Chase Luikart is an undergrad intern in the Charlottesville studio; he joins us from the University of Cincinnati. He was the president of the American Institute of Architecture Students at his school and on the executive board of Students for Ecological Design. Chase is originally from Chagrin Falls, OH. Ryan McEnroe has rejoined the Charlottesville studio for an internship between terms; he’s studying for his dual graduate degree at UVA in architecture and landscape architecture and has just been appointed the AIAS representative for the school for the National Architectural Accreditation Board. He is from Millerton, NY. Lydia White is an undergrad summer intern in Charlottesville. She is a senior honors student in graphic design at Virginia Commonwealth University. Lydia grew up in Virginia and Germany. Favorite font: Helvetica. Chris Dobosz is a summer intern in our San Francisco studio following his first year of M-Arch studies at UC-Berkeley. He received his BS Arch from the University of Michigan. Chris is from Mercedes, TX. Steven Brummond is a summer intern in Charlottesville; he’s in his second year of undergrad studies at UVA (and was in Jose Atienza’s studio last term). Steve is a terrific model-builder and hails from Glendale, MO. |
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As always, we look forward to sharing more news as it happens. Yours, in abundance, Kira Gould AND William McDonough + Partners |
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endeavors. Of course there would be challenges in creating an academic building in northern Ohio that runs on solar power and exports more energy than it uses and treats its own wastewater via the first building-integrated Living Machine. There were no precedents for how we would execute on such lofty ambitions and no roadmaps for how to incorporate the input from such diverse groups as the Amish or NASA, both of whom consulted on the project. Through all the project unknowns, David provided a phenomenal level of constancy. What never wavered during the entire project was his will. It was simply a fact that project objectives would be reached, because they had to be reached. The idea of the project, building as pedagogy, was as important as its physical embodiment. We remain grateful for the chance to work with David and his team. 
Waste Equals Food Becomes Soil
