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1 I i v-s Stevens Muldawer Jova Architects Here 1 SATURDAY ONLY, 8 TO 6 Abhor Johnson Design jr dvd van Contlitutkm Stiff Wrlttr OFF UK Is Philip Johnson outfitting the sleek Manhattan skyline with an architectural Nehru jacket? Rarely has a building design caused the consternation 'IS' i.t that blossomed this spring when Johnson, one of America's i premier modern architects, unveiled his plans for the new American Telephone Telegraph Co. headquarters in New York. RERMIMM 8K OF It was aradi- I cal departure 1 from modern architecture a skyscraper that If ljl.l-v.-H I would look for all the world like a giant grandfa-titer's clock. I first saw it, I thought to myself, "Why didn't he put a pendulum on an architecture professor at Georgia Tech Jl SLA Menefee Portman said. "It's absurd as a building.

Why would anyone want to t. 'it Ash Uk jVvVi build such a thing?" i- To some of the architects of Atlanta's striking skyline, i the Johnson's departure from the modernists' stark, more, steel-and-glass school is akin to heresy. Form-follows-function architects the pragmatic design-, era of clean lines, gleaming exteriors, concrete canyons and 'flat tops viewed Johnson's open imitation of classical de- sign, his return to the arches, columns and ornate decorations of the past, as an affront. "It's totally inappropriate and can't possibly succeed," said John Portman, Atlanta's reknowned architect-developer of Peachtree Center. "No one has found a wav vet to reverse Every single White machine left In our stock Is yours for half the original price and even less.

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"One-upmanship to the new group that's been moving that way. But if he's doing that thing as a serious answer to the problems of today's skyscrapers, it's a tragedy. "Either way he has a responsibility to make bis intent clear." Jova used a quote by Mies Van der Rohe, Johnson's men- tor in the modernist movement, to size up the situation. "Van der Rohe said, 'One does not have to Invent a new -architecture every Jova said. "It strikes me that Philip Johnson is saying, 'Well, it's Monday, time to invent a new Modern architecture died on April il, 1972, critic Wolf von Eckardt observed in The New Republic magazine.

That's when the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St Louis was dynamited into rubble. The project built in 1957 and described as 33 identical filing cabinets for families- proof of the rejection of modern architecture, Von Eckr ardt claimed. He did not mourn its demise. So Johnson was certainly not the first to proclaim mod- era architecture "totally Other critics have long called it box architecture, sterile and unlivable. Indeed, local-I architects questioned whether Johnson is leading a parade or' jumping on a wayward post-modern bandwagon.

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"I see John-'son as preoccupied with the superficial elements of the building. If architecture is led by people like him, the profession will go to hell fast." Muldawer, whose firm's designs include President Cart-v er's solar-heated Inaugural stand, said Johnson comes from the design era in which many architects "were in love with the building instead of the people who will use it. if "We're facing a period where survival depends on energy, conservation and the ability of a building to meet the needs of people," Muldawer said. "The trend is toward energy-effi- -dent ii RICH'S WAREHOUSE SERVICE CENTER, 4401 SARR PARKWAY, STONE MOUNTAIN, GA. NO MAIL, PHONE, OR C.O.D.

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