BRUTALISM - UMass Amherst

PA NE L 2Moving ForwardSaturday, October 23, 1:40 pm UMass AmherstPositive terms such as authentic, bold, iconic, and heroic have been heard asa means of embracing the Brutalist style of architecture, while destructivedescriptions such as cold and ugly have gone mainstream. This panel bringstogether individuals at the forefront of the conversation about the value ofBrutalist architecture and how to address its future. The panel will explorethe impact of cultural perceptions on the Brutalist legacy and how thepublic, educational institutions and other communities are responding toconflicting imperatives. The panel will engage in a dialogue with symposiumparticipants on approaches for gaining support for the maintenance,appreciation and care of Brutalist heritage structures today.Session Chair:Henry Moss, Principal, Bruner/Cott ArchitectsPresenters:Daniel Abramson, Director of Architectural Studies, BostonUniversityMike Boucher, General Superintendent, Consigli ConstructionSarah Felton, Program Manager, Massachussets Division of Capitaland Asset Management & MaintenanceMark Pasnik, Principal, OverUnderAIA Continuing Education Units – 1.5 HSWLincoln Campus Center, 11th Floor Marriott CenterUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst14

TOUR 1UMass Dartmouth Campus TourFriday, October 22, 1:30 pm UMass DartmouthThis tour of UMass Dartmouth focuses on Paul Rudolph’s unified “urban”plan for a public university: one which situates expressionistic, modernarchitecture within a landscape to invoke a sense of place; a place thatrepresents a functional learning environment for students, faculty, staff, andvisitors. To do so, we will focus on Rudolph’s singular design for the LiberalArts (LARTS or “Group I”) building, the park-like setting which surrounds it,and the renovated library’s “response” to it.Tour Guide:Anna Dempsey, Professor of Art History, University ofMassachusetts DartmouthOutside the Claire T. Carney University Library on the QuadUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth15

TOUR 2Bromery Center for the Arts (Fine ArtsCenter) Bridge Renovation TourSaturday, October 23, 4:00 pm UMass AmherstCompleted in 1975, Kevin Roche’s landmark project is an uncompromisinglymodernist, monolithic concrete facility, consisting of several distinctlydifferent units that in combination form a powerful architectural sculpture.The complex is home to the Music, Theater, Dance and Arts departments aswell as a Museum of Contemporary Arts and the 2,000 seat concert hall ofthe Fine Arts Center. The 26,000 gsf Art Bridge - a 600-foot long and 40-footwide bar of classrooms suspended 30 feet in the air – was redesigned bydesignLab to accommodate a wide range of fine arts uses, from traditionaldrawings studios, to a theater rehearsal space, to a state-of-the-art crossdisciplinary recording studio. The tour of the new facility will show thereorganization of interior space and explore strategies for adaptation tomodern uses, improved lighting, wayfinding, collaboration and social spaces,and outline upgrades to the roof and HVAC systems.Tour Guide:Sam Batchelor, Partner, designLAB ArchitectsAIA Continuing Education Units – 1 HSWBromery Center for the Arts (Fine Arts Center) Southwest Entrance to ArtBridge, University of Massachusetts Amherst16

TOUR 3Bromery Center for the Arts (Fine ArtsCenter) Exterior Interior TourSaturday, October 23, 4:00 pm UMass AmherstSince its founding in 1975, The Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts(formerly Fine Arts Center or FAC) has been a central force in the cultural,social and academic life of the Town of Amherst, the University, the FiveCollege campuses, and the Pioneer Valley. This uncompromisingly modernconcrete complex of 220,000 GSF consists of several distinctly different unitswhich are combined to form a powerful architectural sculpture. It wasconceived as a gateway to the campus at the south end of the pond and itsmonumental arcade serves as a pedestrian link between the east and westcampus on what was formerly Ellis drive. The complex contributes to bothpositive and negative perception of Brutalist concrete buildings and its history is marred with celebrations as well as expressions of discontent. Facultywill lead attendees on a recreation of the original 1974 tour offered by Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo & Associates to approximately 100 faculty membersin an effort to showcase the spectacular spaces for public performance andteaching music, theater and the visual arts. (Given the original condition ofmany of the spaces this tour is limited to participants who do not requireuniversal access).Tour Guides:Margaret Vickery, Lecturer, University of Massachusetts AmherstL. Carl Fiocchi, Lecturer, University of Massachusetts AmherstSean Conlon, Production Manager, University of MassachusettsAmherstAIA Continuing Education Units – 1.5 Elective (must self-reportto receive credit)Bromery Center for the Arts (Fine Arts Center) South Entrance PlazaUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstNOTE: Not Accessible to Individuals with Mobility Impairments17

TOUR 4Walking Tour: Southwest ResidentialArea, Whitmore, Herter, Tobin, LincolnCampus Center TourSaturday, October 23, 4:00 pm UMass AmherstThe UMass Amherst campus was established under the Morrill Land Grant in1863. Today it is the flagship of the five-campus University of Massachusettssystem, serving a community of over 36,000 in approximately 13.4 millionsquare feet of buildings. Its most significant enrollment growth occurredafter World War II with over 10 million square feet of space built within 20years with a change in scale from rural to a more urban campus consistingof dense neighborhoods and towers, based on the 1963 master plan byHideo Sasaki. Making UMass a veritable showcase of Brutalism at its zenith,UMass Amherst commissioned the landmark Fine Arts Center (1974) by KevinRoche and Lincoln Campus Center by Marcel Breuer (1970) as well other keystructures by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Edward Durrell Stone and HughStubbins. This tour will start at the Lincoln Campus Center (Marcel Brewer,1970) and walk on the campus grounds, viewing the Dubois Library (EdwardDurell Stone, 1972), Fine Arts Center (Kevin Roche, 1973), Herter and Tobin(Coletti Borthers, 1968 and 1972), Whitmore Hall (Campbell & Aldrich, 1967),and Southwest Residential Complex (Hugh Stubbins & Assoc., 1965-68).Tour Guides:Timothy Rohan, Professor of Art History, University ofMassachusetts AmherstLudmilla Pavlova-Gillham, Senior Campus Planner, University ofMassachusetts AmherstAIA Continuing Education Units – 1.5 Elective (must selfreport to receive credit)Lincoln Campus Center Hotel LobbyUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst18

A RT E X H I B IT SInstallation Art by Daniel DeLucaFriday, October 22, 5:00 pm UMass DartmouthBetween the UMass Dartmouth Library and the College of Visual andPerforming Arts, artist Daniel DeLuca will install sculptural, participatorystructures—frames with chalkboards—and will invite pedestrians andUMassBrut symposium participants to respond to their encounter withUMDartmouth’s theatrical ‘brutalist’ architecture (designed by renownedarchitect Paul Rudolph).Artist:Daniel DeLuca, Distinguished Art Fellow, University ofMassachusetts DartmouthBetween the Library and the College of Visual and Performing ArtsNorman Ives: Constructions andReconstructionsFriday, October 22, 5:30 pm UMass DartmouthThe College of Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth is proud topresent Norman Ives: Constructions & Reconstructions, a major exhibitionof his work as artist and designer. Ives’s abstract typographic art works,innovative posters and brochures plus his elegant symbol designs inspiredgenerations of designers and artists.The exhibition presents examples ofIves’s work beginning in 1951 until his death in 1978. Some of his early worksare shown for the first time including a print of a Victorian house composedby hand stamping large 19th century wood fonts, and a stunning woodcutportrait of his classmate Sheilagh Coulter, printed on Japanese Kozo paper.Artist:Norman Ives, Designer and Artist, American (1923-1978)The College of Visual and Performing Arts GalleryUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth19

A RT E X H I B I T SProjection Art by Professor MarkMillstein and his StudentsFriday, October 22, 6:45 pm UMass DartmouthAt the conclusion of the presentation by Kelvin Dickinson (or just aftersunset), step outside for a video projection event celebrating the UMassDartmouth campus. The series of videos, a montage of colorful imagesaccompanied by sound, will be projected on the Maclean Campus Centerand CVPA exterior walls. The videos will highlight the campus history,architecture, and expansion—and the University’s connection to localcommunities. The work is produced by the students in Professor MarkMillstein’s Video Projection Mapping class in the Art and Design Departmentof the College of Visual and Performing Arts.Artist:Mark Millstein, Professor of Art and Design, University ofMassachusetts DartmouthThe College of Visual and Performing Arts Atrium and QuadUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth20

A RT E X H I B IT SBrutalism in ColorThrough October 31 UMass Amherst“Brutalism in Color”presents the renowned Brutalist architecture of UMassAmherst and UMass Dartmouth in new and colorful ways. Featuring brightlycolored archival photography, original artwork, and representationsof recent renovations to Brutalist interiors, the exhibition will focus ondifferent ways architects, designers, and caretakers have employed color inand around our Brutalist structures. The exhibit highlights the use of textiles,water, paint, and art not only to connect Brutalism to its original vibrantcontext of the 1960s and 1970s, but also to portray these architecturalmasterpieces in an entirely new light.Exhibition Designer, Curator, and Artist:Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson, Master of Architecture Student, Universityof Massachusetts Amherst, Class of 2023Bromery Center for the Arts LobbyUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst21

A RT E X H I BI T SStanding in Silhouette: TheSouthwest Dormitories at UMassThrough December 8 UMass AmherstA city unto itself complete with skyscrapers, plazas, streets and parks, theSouthwest Residential Complex was designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associatesbetween 1964 and 1966 and completed by the early 1970s. It is one of themost significant of the modernist projects which transformed the UMassAmherst campus in the late twentieth-century into the world-renownedresearch university it is today. Drawing upon such images and texts found inthe University archives, the exhibition and accompanying brochure explainthe buildings themselves and little-known episodes in the Southwest’shistory, among them a housing crisis and protest, new in-house educationalprograms like the “Project 10” living and learning experiment, and howstudents appropriated spaces for themselves to make the Southwest avibrant and unique place. The establishment of the Malcolm X CulturalCenter, Stonewall Center, and the Latinx American Cultural Center in the1970s and 1980s further transformed the Southwest Residential Complexinto a place for inclusivity and empowerment. Of course, the Southwest wasnot just the scene of social progress. Noise and partying are part of the itscomplicated history as well. Today, the Southwest faces new challenges asthe campus copes with the COVID-19 pandemic.Research and Exhibition Designers:Callie Krekorian, BS in Architecture, Minor in Art History, Universityof Massachusetts Amherst, Class of 2020Jordan Luther,BS in Architecture, Minor in Art History, University ofMassachusetts Amherst, Class of 2021Research and Exhibition Designers:Lauren Robinson, M.A. Degree Candidate American History, UMassAmherstThe Louis and Hilda Greenbaum Gallery, 302 Elm House, Honors CollegeUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst22

SP E A K E R BIO SDaniel Abramson, PhDDirector of Architectural Studies,Boston University“Moving Forward” PanelDaniel M. Abramson’s scholarship focuses on issues of architecture, economics, society, and government from the eighteenththrough twentieth centuries with a specialization in Americanand European topics. He is the author of three books: Obsolescence: An Architectural History (University of Chicago Press,2016); Building the Bank of England: Money, Architecture,Society, 1694–1942 (Yale University Press, 2005); and SkyscraperRivals: The AIG Building and the Architecture of Wall Street(Princeton Architectural Press, 2001); as well as being co-editor of Governing By Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century (University of Pittsburgh Press,2012) with the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative,of which he is also a founding director. Current projects area second Aggregate volume, Writing Architectural History:Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), plus work on postwarAmerican government centers including a recent article inGrey Room 78 (Winter 2020) on the Massachusetts State Service Center and the American welfare state. Before coming toBoston University in 2016, Abramson taught at Tufts Universityand Connecticut College. He received his B.A. in English andAmerican literature from Princeton University and Ph.D. in arthistory from Harvard University.23

SPEA K E R BI O SJohn Amodeo, ASLA, LEED APPrinciple Landscape Architect,IBI Placemaking“Sense of Place” SessionA Principal at IBI Group, John Amodeo has over 40 yearsof landscape architecture experience. He has played a keyrole on a number of award-winning public park projects,many of which have unique historical, urban, or waterfrontenvironments. Practicing a wide range of public- andprivate-sector project types, his work has encompassedmaster planning and design for college and universitycampuses, parks, historic landscapes, U.S. Embassies,corporate amenity spaces, streetscapes, bikeways andnatural resource conservation, and he has also preparedlandscape development guidelines for municipalities withparticular emphasis on sustainable development. His extensiveexperience with public process and regulatory permittingenables him to focus on consensus-building in the early phasesof a project. Mr. Amodeo is a 25-year Commissioner on theBoston Landmark Commission and heavily involved in theBoston preservation community. As a passionate traveler, hisexperiences have inspired his designs; John strives to celebratethe individual history, culture and natural environment ineach of his projects. He received his Bachelor of Science inLandscape Architecture from Cornell University, while alsospending a semester studying at Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh, Scotland. He received his Master of LandscapeArchitecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.24

SP E A K E R BIO SSam Batchelor, AIAPartnerdesignLAB architectsBromery Center for the Arts (Fine Arts Center)Bridge Renovation TourSam Batchelor, AIA a partner at designLAB architects, inBoston MA. He served as Principal in Charge for the UMassAmherst Fine Arts Center Bridge Renovation and the CCRIKnight Campus Arts Wing Renovation. Sam works primarilywith educational and non-profit institutions with a focuson sustainability, education, and the arts. Sam also foundedand led the MassArt Community/Build Studio, and served asPresident of the Board of the Community Design ResourceCenter of Boston. He received his Masters of Architecture fromThe University of Washington, and his BA from Yale University.25

SPEA K E R BI O SRose Botti-Salitsky, PhDAssociate Professor/Program Coordinato ofInterior Architecture DesignUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth“Humanizing the Brutalist Interior” SessionRose Mary Botti-Salitsky(she/her) Ph.D., FASID,IIDA,NCIDQis an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for theInterior Architecture Design Program at the University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth. She has been an active voice inthe field of interior design for over 35 years as an academic,design professional, author and advocate. Dr. Botti-Salitskyis the author Programming & Research: Skills and Techniquesfor Interior Design. 2009 (1st ed.) 2017 (2nd ed.) BloomsburyPublishing, New York, London, New Delhi, Sydney. Thetextbook is on the National Council for Interior DesignQualifications (NCIDQ) exam reference list, for those preparingto pass their certification exam and is part of design librarycollections globally. She was honored by the AmericanSociety of Interior Designers (ASID), New England, as the 2016“Educator of the Year” is passionate about the profession ofinterior architecture design, and has published numerouspapers and presents at conferences focusing on promotingwellbeing of human occupants; their health, safety, andwelfare are on the forefront of her research. She is an activeparticipant in professional organizations is currently theGovernment Affairs representative for the ASIDNE, also hasserved on the ASID National Codes Advisory Council and is aSite Visitor/Chair for the Council of Interior Design Association(CIDA) for Interior Design Programs seeking accreditation orrenewal since 2000.26

SP E A K E R BIO SMichael BoucherGeneral SuperintendentConsigli Construction Co., Inc.“Moving

at UMass Dartmouth" Friday, October 22, 5:30 pm UMass Dartmouth Inside the College of Visual and Performing Arts' voluminous atrium— and in conjunction with the closing of the Norman Ives exhibition— enjoy Kelvin Dickinson's presentation, "A Discovery of Opposites: Paul Rudolph & the Poetics of Brutalism at UMass Dartmouth." Mr.