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	Walter Netsch, SOM
Title	FAIA
Born	February 23, 1920; Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died	June 15, 2008; Chicago, Illinois, USA
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Firms	Skidmore Owings and Merrill-SOM (SOM)
Notes
At Great Buildings	http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Walter_Netsch-SOM.html

Contents 1 Works 2 Discussion 2.1 Related Content from Wikipedia 3 References 4 External Links

[edit] Works

• U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 1954.
• Air Force Academy Chapel, at Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1956 to 1962. GreatBuildings page
• Inland Steel Building, at Chicago, Illinois, 1956 to 1957.
• Wells College Library, at Aurora, New York, 1968.   GreatBuildings page
• Project at the University of Chicago:
  • Regenstein Library, Chicago, Illinois
• Projects at University of Illinois at Chicago:
  • University Hall
• Projects at Northwestern University:
  • Lakefill project 1962-68
  • Lindheimer Astronomical Research Center 1966 (Demolished 1995)
  • Rebecca Crown Center 1968
  • O. T. Hogan Biological Sciences Building 1970
  • University Main Library 1970
  • Frances Searle Building 1972
  • Regenstein Music Building 1977
  • Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering 1977

[edit] Discussion

"...in particular, Mr. Netsch’s buildings and urban spaces proved difficult to use and were vilified or even destroyed. Yet many scholars now argue that his body of work represents a significant break from the boxy modernism of the 1950s and 1960s and anticipated the unorthodox, computer-generated shapes of such contemporary architects as Peter Eisenman of New York City and Frank Gehry of Los Angeles." – Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune

[edit] Related Content from Wikipedia

Walter Netsch

See a related page at Wikipedia for additional information.

[edit] References

• "AIA's Best New Buildings from Chicago ", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 542, 2011.1207, pN1.1.
• Walter Netsch. Characteristics of the House as Determined by Space-Use, and its Application to Storage. Thesis, B. Arch. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1943.
• Walter Netsch. “Programming the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School of Engineering, Monterey.” Architectural Record 115, no. 6 (June 1954): 150-7. 11 il. 7 plans. 1 map. 2 charts.
• Walter Netsch. “Die Hochschulanlage der Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado: Die Entwicklung eines Gesamtplans.” Bauen + Wohnen 11 no. 4 (April 1957): 124-28. 3 il. 9 plans. 3 maps.
• Walter Netsch. "What Architecture Is and Is Not." Typescript, 8 p.
• Walter Netsch. "On Political-Economic Horizons." American Institute of Architects Journal 66 (June 1960): 82-84.
• “Background Paper: Architectural Concept of Northwestern University’s New ‘Laboratory’ Library.” May 1964. Northwestern University Archives.
• Walter Netsch. University of Illinois at Chicago Circle-Revisited" in Architecture and the College Proceedings April 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 1966. Department of Architecture, University of Illinois-Urbana (1966): 84-93.
• Walter Netsch. “'The Philosophy' in Comprehensive Building Systems: Threat or Promise?” Building Research 3, no. 5 (September/October 1966): 8-11.
• Walter Netsch. "Impact '67, University of Illinois Architecture." Chicago Tribune (February 26, 1967): R40.
• Walter Netsch. “EE-RLE Fairchild Building at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.” Design Quarterly no. 90-91 (1974): 60-61. 2 il. 1 plan.
• Walter Netsch. “Postmodernism in Context” in “Other Views: Modern Opinions.” CRIT no. 4 (Fall 1978): 17.
• Walter Netsch. "Creativity: A Personal View" in Perspectives on Creativity and the Unconscious, ed. Donald W. Fritz (Oxford, Ohio: Old Northwest Publication, 1979): 9-37.
• Walter Netsch. "Case Study: The University of Blida in Algeria" in Places of Public Gathering in Islam Proceedings of Seminar Five in the series Architectural Transformations in the Islamic World. Held in Amman, Jordan, May 4-7, 1980 (1980): 29-37. 9 il. 5 plans.
• Walter Netsch. "Remembering Nat Owings." Inland Architect 28, no. 5 (September/October 1984): 9. 1 il.
• Walter Netsch, and Lawrence B. Anderson. "Conversation Between Lawrence B. Anderson and Walter Netsch, Lois Craig Attending." Chicago, 1984. Typescript, 30 p.
• Chicago Park District. Preliminary Reorganization Report. Chicago: The Park District, 1986. 157 p. il. maps. diagrams.
• Walter Netsch. Classic Parks-How Can They Live Today? Charlottesville, VA: Division of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, 1987. 12 p. 1 il.
• Al Johnson, Mary Decker, and Walter Netsch. "Final Report of Mayor Washington’s Stadium Review Committee." Chicago: The Committee, 1987. 24 p.
• Walter Netsch. Interview by Betty J. Blum. "Oral History of Walter Netsch." Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997. 474 p.
• Detlef Mertins. “Walter Netsch Interviewed by Detlef Mertins.” SOM Journal 1 (2007): 136-51. 16 il. 14 plans and diagrams.

• “Concepts Behind New Library’s Design Discussed by Architect.” The Daily Northwestern 84, no. 111 (June 1, 1964): 4.
• Robert Bruegmann, ed. Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy. University Of Chicago Press. 1996. ISBN 0226076946.
• Nicholas Adams. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; SOM since 1936. Phaidon Press Inc. 2007. ISBN 1904313558.
• Walter A. Netsch, FAIA: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-2541-2.

[edit] External Links

• Chicago architect Walter A. Netsch dies at 88 - Chicago Tribune, 2008.0615.
• Walter Netsch, Architect, Dies at 88 - New York Times, 2008.0617
• Walter Netsch - Art Institute of Chicago, Oral Histories
• Walter Netsch Biography - Northwestern University Library
  • Bibliographic Sources