"The invisibility of our modernist tradition to the general consciousness puts an entire and vital period of our heritage at risk," wrote Arleyn Levee, one of those who tried to save the house, in an e-mail. "We need to find some way to highlight this current disaster and turn it around into a positive learning case study."
The AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2009 COD Ideas Competition, titled "Listening to the Past, Looking to the Future: A House for Today." In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the legacy of modernist design through a concept design problem.
Winners will receive funding to attend the COD Spring Design Conference in Boston and have their work exhibited at the 2009 AIA National Convention in San Francisco. Selected entries will be displayed on the AIA Web site.
DESIGN PROBLEM
Design a sustainable home to replace the demolished Rachel Raymond House designed by her sister Eleanor Raymond, FAIA. The challenge will be to design a new home on the original site using the same program brief as the original house. The design should interpret the ideals of modernism that were so important to Eleanor's work.
Although the Raymond House received a couple of small additions/ alterations over the years of its existence, the focus of this competition is on the original house. The Raymond House was approximately 2,500 s.f. and had two bedrooms, two bathrooms and associated functions such as an entry vestibule, living room, kitchen/ dining, closets, laundry room, and a small office. It should also be noted that the house had a small garage with bicycle storage.
Entrants are asked to use this program as a guide to create a contemporary interpretation of this house using sustainable strategies and following the Living Building Challenge. The proposed solutions should not exceed 2,500 s.f., and entrants are highly encouraged to be creative with the use of space. Due to the fact that the original site has been significantly altered due to the removal of the house, entrants are free to propose the orientation, landscape, and site conditions, but should be cognizant of its geographical location just outside of Boston, Mass.
BACKGROUND
Originally built in 1931, the home was demolished in 2006. The site is located at 9 Park Avenue in Belmont, MA on the grounds of the Belmont Hill School.Cited by Architectural Forum at the time of its construction as the first true modern house in New England, and one of the earliest in the United States, the Raymond House was a signature work of one of the most prominent American woman architects of the 20th century. Raymond, who was an early advocate of the principles of European Modernism, created a masterful blend of local tradition and the avant-garde in a unique, regionally appropriate contemporary residence.
The Rachel Raymond House (1931) on Park Avenue in Belmont, Mass., was recently purchased by Belmont Hill School, a private school for boys. Eleanor Raymond (1887-1989) designed the house for her sister after a 1930 trip to Bauhaus in Germany with her partner, House Beautiful editor Ethel Brown Power (1881-1969). Architectural Forum in 1931 declared the house as "probably the first modern house in Massachusetts."
Eleanor Raymond graduated from Wellesley College (1909) and the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture for Women (1919). Among her other innovative designs were houses made of plywood and Masonite, and the Peabody Sun House (1948), a pioneering solar power design. She enjoyed a long career in Boston, primarily designing residences for clients who were women. Eleanor Raymond was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1961.
REFERENCE
The Rachel Raymond House appears as Fig. 235 in Built in Boston by Douglass Shand-Tucci, and at this Harvard website.
Published works on Raymond include a biography by Doris Cole (1981) and a brief catalog by the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), as well as a recent Boston University Ph.D. dissertation by Nancy Beth Gruskin. All these sources confirm the importance of the house.
All her drawings and writings are in Harvard's special collection department, Francis Loeb Library, Harvard Design School, in container number A7203. Other references to material on the house are:
*B002 Published and Unpublished Materials / Professional Practice : Rachel Raymond House
Note: Box #1 contains House Beautiful (October 1932) and Architectural Forum Master Detail Series articles.
Published in: Published in House Beautiful, October 1932, 200-207 & 263-264. Architectural Forum, Master Detail Series, 413-418
*C007 Photos, Other Graphic Material and Memorabilia / Professional Practice : Photo Rachel C. Raymond House
Content: Flat file contains 9 black and white photographs: 3 mounted with labels for Boston Society of Architects 1938 Exhibit, 16" x 20"; 6 unmounted 16-1/2" x 24", 8-1/2" x 11", 16" x 20", 16-1/2" x 24", 6" x 9-1/2".
*Envelope: E007 Eleanor Raymond Addendum : Photographs and Slides (from Nancy Gruskin) / Quantity: 11 / Dimensions: 3-1/2" x 5" / Medium: b&w / Support: photographic paper
Note: Interior and exterior photographs of Rachel Raymond House. Built 1931. Provenance: Photographs in this series are a gift of Nancy Beth Gruskin.
Please see the following websites for more information:
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~des00011
http://www.bwaf.org/timeline/architect/show/Raymond_Eleanor_A
http://www.arlisna.org/news/conferences/1997/proceedings/tiptoe.html
This document contains images found in magazine articles about the project.
JURY
The Jury for the 2009 Ideas Competition, "Listening to the Past, Looking to the Future: A House for Today," is comprised of the following members:
Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA (chair)
Leers Weinzapfel
Boston, Mass.
Robert Campbell, FAIA
Architecture Critic for the Boston Globe
Cambridge, Mass.
Marcus Springer, RIBA, LEED AP
Sasaki
Watertown, Mass.
SUBMISSION
Submissions will be made in the form of two Powerpoint slides containing the information and images you choose to present your vision for the new house. In order for the judging to be blind, you must not include any identifying information on the slides. Please be sure to name your project and ensure that that name is on both your slides and the registration form.
To register for the competition please email Allison Fax to request the Powerpoint template and a registration form. Payment can be made with check or credit card (Visa, Mastercard or American Express).
Payment by check must be postmarked no later than February 13, 2009.
To submit, please email the slides to codideas@aia.org by 5pm on March 13, 2009.
The winner will receive funding and one free registration to attend the Committee on Design Spring Conference in Boston, to be held in May of 2009.
Fee schedule:
AIA Member: $100
Non-AIA member: $150
Associate AIA member: $75
Student: $30
更多資訊：
沒有留言:
張貼留言