Taste of Shutze at Emory

I took nearly 100 pictures at Emory University, home of several Philip Shutze designs. Well, "designs" is an understatement. I hope to blog about each of them. Here are some hints:

The Haygood Hopkins Gate (1937)


Rich Memorial Building (1946)


Harris Hall (1929)


Emory University Hospital


The KA House


The Chi Phi house (now ZBT)


Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church (1931)


I'm going to the 2010 Philip Trammell Shutze Awards on February 20th in Atlanta You should too. In the run up to the awards I'm doing a batch of posts about Shutze in my "neighborhood." Let me know if you can make it.

Thanks,
Terry
terry @ surf303.com

The teardown starts rocking - big time

I'm participating in Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch. Thought you might like an update on the teardown across the street.

Remember last September? I'm glad I took pictures.

This is the week of stone. It's going to change everything.


I'm been talking with the architect / builder Bob DeFiore of Portico all along but as an amateur I get stuck on the way it looks today,


or the next day,


or the next.


What Bob knew all along was that the stone on the foundation, on the steps, making an arch, running all the way to the top of the gable would unify and balance everything. And it would be a sculpture in itself. Well I'm starting to get it.

This week the masons arrived, put up their scaffolds, and started work. I am very excited. We're all going to see it soon.






Thanks so much,
Terry

P.S. Atlantans: I'm attending the 2010 Philip Trammell Shutze Awards on February 20th. You should too. In the run up to the awards I'm doing a batch of posts about Shutze in my "neighborhood." I'm working on a post about Shutze's Emory University Hospital.

It has some of the beefiest door and window molding in town.


Thanks to Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch.

Philip Shutze's remodeled Dwoskin office abandoned on Peachtree

I worked 2 blocks from the Harry Dwoskin office for almost 20 years. Shutze designed the remodel beginning in 1939. It's a very gentle, classy little building. It always looked old and the better for it's wear. For most of that time it was home to the "Atlanta Area Services for the Blind" now called the Atlanta Center for the Visually Impaired; a charming building that served a worthy cause.

I doubt that there is a cozier, more comfortable sidewalk on all of Peachtree.

Sunday mornings are the only time you can park on Peachtree and even then only near churches.


It has held it's own surrounded by 3 important Peachtree Street churches: Redeemer Lutheran, St. Marks Methodist, and First Baptist (now demolished). Niches, pediments, and arches galore.


It's abandoned now as is Buck Crooks nearby Crumb and Foster Building.




Parking is a problem. There is a lot in the back but I can't find a way in. It may be blocked to discourage urban camping.

Quite a shame. It's a unique building in one of Peachtree Street's great blocks.


"As Shutze passed by the building each day on a city bus, it became his custom to stop and review the mason's work from the previous day. If he noticed too many brick of the same tone clustered together, he would require the masons to tear out portions of their work and rearrange the bricks..." - American Classicist The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze by Elizabeth Meredith Dowling.




My eye has never quite made sense of the of door.


Stacked niches


I'm going to the 2010 Philip Trammell Shutze Awards on February 20th in Atlanta You should too. In the run up to the awards I'm doing a batch of posts about Shutze in my "neighborhood."

Thanks,
Terry
terry @ surf303.com
No pro photography or pro architecture was committed in this post.

P.S. Blue has identified this Shuzte Building just a few blocks from the Dwoskin office. Here is another clue: