tcaup centennial - Taubman College

TCAUP CENTENNIAL
1906
2006
TCAUP
CENTENNIAL
“Time, I have read, was believed by Pythagoras to be the soul and procreative element of the universe.
And it is true, rail against its ravages as we will, that we cannot imagine our human existence
without it: nothing would happen—we would be glued flat against space....”
John Updike, Toward the End of Time, 1997
Time Out!
On our 100th anniversary, it seems appropriate to ruminate on the passage
of TIME. What is the nature of this elusive and ineffable fourth dimension?
Is time a puddle in which we splash around, as some traditional African
cultures perceive it? Or is it a linear continuum that is irreversible, as
Western science would have it? It does seem true that we can’t go back in
time, yet relativity theory tells us that the clock would run backwards if we
traveled faster than the speed of light. Even so, physicists say it would not
be the equivalent of time travel, in which we could, for instance, literally
sit‑in on William LeBaron Jenney’s first architecture classes here in 1876
and bring our 21st century perspective to the discussion.
I’ll never forget a former graduate student’s postscript at the bottom of his
email messages. It read: “Thank God for time, for without it, everything
would happen at once.” It’s true that time separates events that come in a
fast and continuous flow and would otherwise overwhelm us. We should be
immensely thankful time is linear and directional. If it were not, cause would
no longer be linked to effect; many sequences would cease to have meaning,
or would take on entirely new and bizarre meaning. If events were not in
logical order, life would be haphazard, topsy-turvy, and perhaps impossible.
We’d be trying to put our socks on after our shoes, to build the roof before
the foundation, and to swing before the pitcher throws the ball, which might,
by the way, reverse direction mid-flight. Tornadoes, running backward,
would bring order to the built environment, with buildings assembling
themselves in remarkable construction sequences. The proverbial “chicken
and egg question” would be more vexing than ever—or completely irrelevant.
In any case, sorting things out would be very difficult without the clock and
calendar, which grind ever forward.
Too much time, plenty of time, the right time...now, too little time, no time...
later, too late—it takes discipline and grace to pace and regulate time in
our lives. Diurnal rhythms, like eating and sleeping; weekly rhythms, like a
favorite TV program, exercise, or a religious service; and monthly rhythms,
like bank statements, bills, and the moon—these all help mark and modulate
time. Seasons (both nature’s and sports’), holidays and birthdays punctuate
the year. There are remarkably few multi-year cycles that we recognize—leap
year, the Olympics, and presidential elections come every four years, locusts
every 17 years, silver anniversaries after 50 years, and Halley’s Comet returns
every 76 years or so. Decades, centuries, and the very occasional millennium
help mark earthly time, but periods longer than the human lifetime go
relatively unacknowledged. And cosmic time is too awesome and abstract to
fathom, much less measure or be concerned about.
The Centennial is important because it’s one of those rare chances to
celebrate an intergenerational span of time. And to look backward and
forward, inward and outward—to take a time-out and to take stock. These
historical milestones are often observed by erecting honorific architectural
monuments—memorial arches, columns, fountains, stadia, and large
buildings like the Crystal Palace of 1850 London. Taubman College’s plans
are a little more modest—to move the large, truncated classical column that
we left behind on Central Campus to the front of the Art and Architecture
Building and raise the Corinthian capital to its full 55 foot height in honor
of our founder Emil Lorch. (You may remember that in my first Portico
issue eight years ago, I proposed moving the column to North Campus.)
The reconfigured column, designed by a faculty team, is meant to link
our past to present and be emblematic of a future that grows out of both.
We hope that you will join us for the dedication of the Lorch Column and
the Centennial dinner this November. Visit campus for a walk around our
refurbished facilities, attend one of the two Centennial conferences or a
football game.
Besides having 100 years under our belt, what in particular does time have
to do with TCAUP and its mission? Well, it’s certainly fundamental to urban
planning, which is about optimally deploying our resources and building
communities over time. Planning is based on the past and present, but
by definition it’s about preparing for the future. However long the horizon
of time, human beings are uniquely able to worry and speculate about
alternative futures, not to mention plan them. This ability makes urban
planning and real estate development all the more important as the planet’s
population becomes predominately urban (after thousands of years of being
overwhelmingly rural) and its natural resources diminish (after thousands of
years of seemingly endless bounty). The design, planning, and development
of the built environment will become an even more critical and pressing
issue during the next 100 years.
The fourth dimension is also integral to architecture. Without time, our
experiencing of buildings would be like viewing snapshots. We would
be glued against the flat, lifeless space that Updike laments. With time,
architectural space continuously unfolds in rich and revealing ways as we
move through it. Also structures change, weather, and wear out over the
years. The architectural designers, our largest faculty cohort, study and
teach the shaping of our spatial experience in time. The urban designers
do the same, but on a larger urban scale. Our architectural historians and
theoreticians are constantly plumbing the past for understanding and insight
that can be applied to the present and the future. Faculty researchers—from
building technology to socio-cultural studies to transportation—investigate
new ideas and test them for validity and value. And each term two dozen
design studios act as both aesthetic antennae and search engines for the future.
We will celebrate our triple mission of teaching, research, and public service
over this academic year. First we will stop the College’s clock on November
3 and 4 with <<Pause>>, an in-house conference that will focus inwardly on
our faculty and what makes them tick, in their own words and images. At the
end of the conference there will be a gala dinner for college alumni, friends,
faculty, and staff. We’ll screen a new film about the college, listen to a song
or two written for the occasion, and exhibit your responses to our “8.5 x 5.5
x 7256” solicitation. In early January we will host a major conference that will
look outward. Two dozen distinguished scholars and practitioners have been
invited from around the world to address “Global Place: Practice, Politics,
and the City.” There will be other exhibits and lectures during the year, as
well as the annual design charrette and UM/ULI Forum, both of which will
focus on Detroit, where the University of Michigan was founded almost two
centuries ago.
In this auspicious moment between our first and second centuries, we
offer a loosely-chronological survey of TCAUP at 100 years in lieu of your
Fall Portico. You have in your hands a pictorial history of some of the
people, activities, and works that have made and continue to make this a
special place. We hope this somewhat random cross-section of the last ten
decades will trigger memories of your time here and add to your personal
understanding and appreciation of time’s continuum—and strengthen your
confidence and belief in the future.
Douglas Kelbaugh
Dean and Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
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William Le Baron Jenney taught the first
architecture classes in 1876.
Jenney’s Delta Kappa Epsilon shant, built in 1879
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Letterhead designed by Irving Kane Pond in 1876.
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A group for women architecture and engineering students
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1914 class photo
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Design proposal for UM bell tower by Eliel Saarinen,
who taught here in 1923-25.
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Screen from the Cyrus Hall McCormick House in Chicago by Louis Sullivan.
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Raoul Wallenberg, ‘35
Wallenberg in costume at the Architect’s Ball
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Irene Chandler, ‘38
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William Muschenheim’s color studies for his Ann Arbor home
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Charles Moore’s thesis project, 1947
Buckminster Fuller was a frequent visitor.
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Library in Architecture and Design Building (now Lorch Hall)
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Eero Saarinen’s North Campus Master Plan in 1950 just after the College’s City Planning Program was established in 1946
(renamed Urban and Regional Planning Program in 1968).
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The Architecture Research Laboratory was founded in
1948 and the Unistrut building erected in 1954.
Bob Ziegelman with unknown guest in 1950s
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Huron Towers under construction in 1960
Class of 1971
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The college moved to North Campus in 1974.
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Dedication Day, Art and Architecture Building, Slusser Gallery, 1975
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“Kegger” in the courtyard, 1978
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James Chaffers, professor of architecture and the nation’s first
recipient of a doctoral degree in architecture
Gaming with Professor Richard Duke
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Students marked the centennial of William Le Baron Jenney’s arrival in Ann Arbor with
a mural proclaiming “Jenney Lives.”
Sky simulator
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Dean Robert Metcalf
Dean Robert Beckley
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Czech-American Studio, 1992
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The annual student show
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Students on a design-build project at Penland in rural North Carolina.
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Lurie Tower under construction, 1996
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Zaha Hadid at Rackham Amphitheatre
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NAAB Accreditation Exhibition, 1999
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Alfred Taubman speaks at the College Naming Ceremony, 1999.
62 . 1997
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Detroit Design Charrette
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Michigan Central Station
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Lunch with Alumni
Board of Governors
Accessible treehouse design-build project
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Glenn Murcutt, Saarinen Visiting Professor,
at 2003 thesis reviews
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College Wall of Fame
Michigan Debates on Urbanism, 2004
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Japan Studio
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Michigan Solar House (MiSo*) on the National Mall
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UM Detroit Center
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Douglas S. Kelbaugh
Dean
Tom J. Buresh
Chair, Architecture Program
Jonathan Levine
Chair, Urban + Regional Planning Program
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Jean Wineman
Chair, Doctoral Program in Architecture
Roy J. Strickland
Director, Master of Urban Design Program
The Regents of the University of Michigan
David A. Brandon
Laurence B. Deitch
Olivia P. Maynard
Rebecca McGowan
Andrea Fischer Newman
Andrew C. Richner
S. Martin Taylor
Katherine E. White
Mary Sue Coleman (ex officio)
Design for Lorch Column
Image Citations + Credits
The Art Institute of Chicago: 10
Bentley Historical Library: 11T, 11B, 12, 14,
16, 17T, 17B, 19T, 19B, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27T,
27B, 29, 31T
Tom Buresh: 69, 70T, 71, 75
Christopher Campbell: 55, 58, 60, 66
Angela Cesare: 4
Judy Dinesen: 46R
Melissa Harris: 53
Huron Towers: 32
Paul Jaronski: 50
Phil Jones: 68
Douglas Kelbaugh: 65
Annette LeCuyer: 48
Michiganensian: 13
Bob Moustakas: 43, 46L
Peter Smith, Smith Photography: 80, 88, 90
PLY Architecture: 81
B. Neal Robinson: 76
Keria Rossin: 8
Michael J. Schimpf: 62
William St. Amant: 85
TCAUP Archive: 18, 21, 22, 28, 30, 31B, 33,
34, 35, 36, 37, 40T, 41, 43T, 44, 45, 47, 52, 54,
56, 64, 70B, 72, 77, 78, 87, 92
Christian Unverzagt: 74, 86, 93
Victoria Veenstra: 2, 38, 42
Mark Weston: 73
Heather Webber: 79
Gretchen Wilkins: 84
Wilkins+Comazzi Design: 82
Williams Osler Works, Inc.: 94
Printed in an edition of 9,000 to commemorate the centennial of the college.
Project Editor: Janice Harvey
Design: Christian Unverzagt with Erin Crowe at M1/DTW
Special thanks to Nancy Bartlett, Archivist, Bentley Historical Library;
Seth Shaw, graduate student, School of Information and Library Science
A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
The University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069 USA
734 764 1300
734 763 2322 fax
www.tcaup.umich.edu
Printed and bound in China by King’s Time Printing
Typeset in Monotype Grotesque
ISBN-13 978-1-891197-43-7
ISBN-10 1-891197-43-6
Copyright 2006
The Regents of the University of Michigan
All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means without prior
written consent from the publisher.
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Architecture courses were first taught at the
University of Michigan in 1876. Emil Lorch started
the architecture program with 25 students in 1906.
The first woman to receive an architecture degree
from UM graduated in 1920. Raoul Wallenberg, who
graduated from the college in 1935 saved tens of
thousands of lives in Hungary during World War II.
A program in city planning was established in 1946.
In 1969, the college established the first architectural
doctoral program in the country. The college moved
to North Campus in 1974. A. Alfred Taubman’s
$30 million gift in 1999 was the largest ever to
a school of architecture or planning. A master of
urban design program was established at the college
in 2000. 3/4ths of an acre in size and measuring
90 by 360 feet, TCAUP’s architecture studio is the
largest academic design studio in the country. There
are 7,256 TCAUP alumni/ae living in 50 states and
over 60 countries. The college has a faculty of 80, a
staff of 30, and 585 students. The college annually
hosts 8 visiting professors and 3 visiting fellows.
Centennial Events
Centennial Exhibitions
November 3–4, 2006
<< Pause >>
(Replay/Pause/Fast Forward): TCAUP@100
September/October 2006
Middle_Out
recent work of our award-winning faculty
Saturday, November 4, 2006
Centennial Gala Dinner
November/December 2006
8.5x5.5x7256
TCAUP alumni/ae work
January 4–6, 2007
Global Place: Practice, Politics, and the City
January/February 2007
A Half Century of Publications
student + faculty publications
March/April 2007
90x360÷582
TCAUP student work
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