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	The Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago Architects Oral History Project: Walter Netsch
		Walter Netsch was born in 1920 in Chicago and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Netsch's career included such important commissions as the U. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado; the University of Illinois, Chicago; The Art Institute of Chicago's East Wing; and the Regenstein Libraries at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.
		Netsch was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1967.
	www.artic.edu /aic/libraries/caohp/netsch.html (504 words)

	Dawn Clark Netsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dawn Clark Netsch was the 1994 Democratic nominee for Illinois governor.
		Dawn Clark Netsch (born September 16, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American politician.
		Netsch is currently a professor of Law Emeritus at Northwestern University, and is married to famed architect Walter Netsch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dawn_Clark_Netsch (299 words)

	State Comptroller Netsch's message: Lower spending to match revenue
		Netsch jokes that she is the "visiting grinch," spreading the news of how bad off state government is. Her message has been straightforward: The state's problem is fiscal, not economic.
		Netsch says that the Thompson administration must bear much of the responsibility for the current fiscal problems: "The governor in this state is the chief fiscal manager in that sense, and he was never that interested.'' Netsch says that the former governor's handling of his post-reelection fiscal problems sowed seeds of distrust among voters.
		Netsch recognizes that dilemma and says Burris' warnings were often overlooked: "You know fiscal stuff is not nearly as much fun as a sex scandal." Keeping citizens interested in fiscal matters when there is no crisis may present Netsch a bigger challenge than being the first woman elected to statewide executive office.
	www.lib.niu.edu /1991/ii910614.html (2537 words)

	Examining the legacy of NU’s most iconic architect » North by Northwestern
		Walter Netsch, a Chicago-born architect, designed several structures for NU’s Evanston campus, including the Rebecca Crown Center, the science and engineering library, the Frances Searle Building, the Regenstein Hall of Music and the University Library.
		Netsch made a name for himself in the 1950s when he designed the U.S. Air Force Academy, which was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2004.
		Walter Netsch said the best thing he built in his career was the Lindheimer Astronomical Research Center, a building Northwestern razed in 1995.
	www.northbynorthwestern.com /2007/10/4433/examining-the-legacy-of-nus-most-iconic-architect (1011 words)

	DOCOMOMO
		Netsch applied his Field Theory to the library, stating “you have a sloping site, an irregular site, and to try to put down a symmetrical pattern on that site was irrational.
		Note: The Walter Netsch quotes are taken from the Oral History of Walter Netsch, an interview with Betty J. Blum in 1995, and compiled under the auspices of the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, Department of Architecture, The Art Institute of Chicago, © 1997-2000.
		Walter Netsch is not only a major designer in his own right but also falls within the modernist tradition of that firm with such other giants as Gordon Bunschaft or Bruce Graham.
	www.geocities.com /savetheartsatwells/docomomo.html (1953 words)

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		Netsch is in failing health and confined to a wheelchair due to partial amputations on both of his legs.
		Netsch was a design partner for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he worked from 1947 until 1979.
		Netsch lives in an art-filled cubic townhouse on Chicago's North Side that he built in 1974 according to his Field Theory principals.
	www.architectmagazine.com /industry-news-print.asp?sectionID=1006&articleID=531327 (293 words)

	Walter Netsch at AllExperts
		Walter Netsch (1920-) is a German-American architect based in Chicago.
		Netsch has taught at several universities, received numerous awards and honorary degrees, and currently serves as a trustee at the Rhode Island School of Design and a member of the Board of Governors at Northwestern University Library.
		Netsch is a collector and patron of the arts, along with his wife, Illinois politician Dawn Clark Netsch, to whom he has been married since 1963.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wa/walter_netsch.htm (403 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - UIC Architect Walter Netsch Dead At 88
		Netsch died of pneumonia Sunday at his Chicago home, said his wife, former state Comptroller Dawn Clark Netsch, who was the Democratic candidate for governor in 1994.
		Walter Netsch, a Chicago native who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, spent nearly all his architectural career in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, where he concentrated on institutional projects.
		Netsch took early retirement from his SOM partnership in 1979, but remained a consultant to the firm until 1981.
	cbs2chicago.com /topstories/walter.netsch.dead.2.749092.html (593 words)

	Walter Netsch and Dawn Clark Netsch // Cubelike house is hardly square - Chicago Sun-Times \| Encyclopedia.com
		Walter Netsch and Dawn Clark Netsch // Cubelike house is hardly square - Chicago Sun-Times
		Walter Netsch and Dawn Clark Netsch // Cubelike house is hardly square
		One can never tire of the home of Walter Netsch and his wife, Dawn Clark Netsch.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1P2-4429521.html (135 words)

	Library exhibit built around campus architect - CAMPUS
		From Feb. 7 to March 30, material from Netsch's career as an architect and art collector is being showcased on the first floor of the Netsch-designed library.
		In addition to the library, the Lakefill and Rebecca Crown, Netsch designed five other structures for NU from 1962 to 1977: Lindheimer Astronomical Research Center (which was torn down in 1995), Hogan Biological Sciences Building, Frances Searle Building, Mudd Science and Engineering Library and Regenstein Hall of Music.
		Netsch said he is pleased with the way the library has adapted since he designed it in 1964, a time when card catalogues helped people find books.
	media.www.dailynorthwestern.com /media/storage/paper853/news/2006/02/21/Campus/Library.Exhibit.Built.Around.Campus.Architect-1921042.shtml (501 words)

	Architect Walter Netsch dead at 88 - Examiner.com
		Netsch died of pneumonia Sunday at his Chicago home, said his wife, former Illinois State Sen. Dawn Clark Netsch, who was the Democratic candidate for governor in 1994.
		Netsch, a Chicago native who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, spent nearly all of his architectural career in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he concentrated on institutional projects.
		Other prominent Netsch structures in the Chicago area include the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, the east wing of the Art Institute of Chicago and Hermann Hall, the former student union building at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
	www.examiner.com /a-1443351~Architect_Walter_Netsch_dead_at_88.html (938 words)

	What is MCE? (AIA CES)
		Netsch, you pass the buck and say it's strictly a state licensing issue.
		Netsch, who had parts of both legs amputated and suffered complications from cancer, argued he qualified for a medical waiver from the education requirement.
		Netsch was in the hospital this week and unavailable for comment, said his wife, who made an unsuccessful run for governor in 1994.
	blog.aia.org /ces/2007/04/what_is_mce.html (1353 words)

	Not All Fields are in the Country
		Netsch’s elaborate lighting system had given the core campus a fairlyland appearance at night, but, perhaps because of concerns about security, it was replaced with high intensity lamps on poles and permitted eventually to fall into disrepair.
		Netsch has rightly observed that he cannot be faulted for the failure of the university to provide adequate maintenance, but opinions about what the campus should be have also changed, and the desire for green and openness and light was evident whenever the community had the opportunity to express itself.
		Walter Netsch was quoted as saying of the Circle Campus, “I hope this is the last nineteenth-century campus we ever design.
	www.chilit.org /JonesW1.htm (4455 words)

	Air Age Gothic
		Netsch originally specified sheet-metal flashing to prevent rainwater from entering the interior, but the Air Force Academy Construction Agency deemed it too costly and opted instead for caulk.
		To be sure, some detractors consider Netsch's Cadet Area (the central portion of the campus, with its severe geometry and windswept plazas) downright alienating, a kind of Rocky Mountain Brasilia.
		When Boyle talks about the heating plant or his friendship with Walter Netsch, all the frustrations of his job—the never-ending maintenance issues, the constant pursuit of funding, the bureaucratic turf battles, the leaky chapel—seem to disappear.
	www.preservationnation.org /magazine/2008/may-june/air-age-gothic.html (2436 words)

	He pushed limits of architecture - Topix
		Walter A. Netsch Jr., the maverick, strong-willed Chicago architect whose geometrically complex buildings, including the University of Illinois at Chicago campus and the U.S. Air Force Academy chapel in...
		Netsch participated on a jury of work by my graduate students in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago where I was teaching as an adjunct faculty member.
		The rest of your rant is, frankly, inappropriate for a discussion of the legacy of Walter Netch, who, in case you hadn't noticed, is not responsible for the condition of the overhead projectors at UIC.
	www.topix.net /business/architecture/2008/06/he-pushed-limits-of-architecture (1550 words)

	Sacred, With Space for All
		He says people reacted negatively to two particular aspects of the original design: the amount of glass and the location, which he had placed on a hill overlooking the campus, providing a ramp/walk for the cadets to march to the chapel.
		Netsch says, “In retrospect I recognize that was a very romantic symbol.
		It therefore is the dominant symbol of form; the second symbol of form is color.” Netsch and his associates created a special glass to fit in a standard window frame.
	www.aia.org /nwsltr_print.cfm?pagename=aiaj_a_20050730_sacred_space (761 words)

	The Chronicle: Daily news: 11/28/2001 -- 01
		The architecture of Walter A. Netsch draws on what he calls "field theory" -- an intricate lattice of intersecting shapes that serves as the basis for all of his designs.
		Netsch, who rose to prominence after a series of widely lauded, large-scale projects in the 1960s -- like the United States Air Force Academy Chapel -- but soon fell out of favor with critics.
		Netsch's museum but opted instead to work on the Web, where his scholarship can be more easily read and updated.
	chronicle.com /free/2001/11/2001112801t.htm (796 words)

	Walter Netsch Biography, Exhibits, Northwestern University Library
		Netsch was influenced by Japanese architecture, in particular by tatami mat proportions.
		Netsch taught at the Northwestern School of Law from 1965-92, practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, and was elected Illinois State Comptroller after serving five terms in the State Senate.
		Walter Netsch was inducted as a life member of the Northwestern University Library Board of Governors in October 2004.
	www.library.northwestern.edu /art/walternetsch/netschbiography.html (697 words)

	Later Chicago Work
		ouis Skidmore, John Merrill, Gordon Bunshaft, and Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Mary Anne Crawford, Samuel Marx and Ernest Grunsfeld are but a few of the architects trained at MIT who continued the achievements of their predecessors in Chicago, both in residential and commercial work.
		While it would be too simplistic to assign this varied group of architects any singular design philosophy or characteristic, or to relate them too closely with their predecessors, it is safe to assert that the accomplishments of past generations helped pave the way for these later architects.
		Netsch developed his field theory in an effort to break up the strict rectangularity associated with the office and institutional building plans of the day.
	web.mit.edu /museum/chicago/later.html (290 words)

	Houston Independent School District (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walter Netsch’s “Field Theory” and some houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright are examples of rotations about the origin.
		Walter Netsch has been able to combine several different geometric shapes into one grid called “Field Theory.” This combination of patterns results in a continuous proportional system with infinite mathematical variations.
		This article discusses the history of Netsch’s Field Theory and its use in the design of libraries at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.
	www.uh.edu /hti/cu/2002/v03/13.htm (4469 words)

	History of the University of Illinois at Chicago
		Netsch designed the campus to flow like a “drop of water” in order to accommodate the projected 32,000 students.
		For the second and third phases, Netsch changed the building designs, using his innovative “field theory” to construct three unique buildings, the Architecture and Art building, the Behavioral Sciences building, and Science and Engineering South.
		Netsch’s design for Circle Campus won a number of prestigious awards, becoming a nationally known model for other campuses.
	www.uic.edu /depts/uichistory/campusconstruction.html (418 words)

	Regenstein Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1968, the university broke ground and, in 1970, the library opened at the final cost of $20,750,000.
		The building was designed by the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill led by senior architect Walter Netsch.
		Today, the "Reg" is the flagship institution of The University of Chicago Library system, which is considered among the top five in the world for breadth and depth of material, and receives high marks from users (The Princeton Review placed it in the top five for college students).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regenstein_Library (298 words)

	Welcome to AIA Chicago
		Walter greeted me warmly, looking healthy and well, and led me on a mesmerizing tour of the fascinating home in Old Town he designed in 1974 for his wife, Dawn Clark Netsch, himself, and their impressive art collection (then growing, now exploding).
		Walter led the way in his wheelchair (his legs were amputated several years ago, following complications from diabetes), swiftly navigating the interconnected angular spaces that make up an Escher-like ensemble of ultimately pleasing living spaces organized on various levels, following the tenets of his "field theory."
		I had not seen Walter Netsch, FAIA, since AIA Chicago's 2006 Annual Meeting last December at the University Club, where he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from our chapter at the age of 86.
	www.aiachicago.org /netsch-walter.asp (1496 words)

	Celebrated architect Walter A. Netsch dies at 88
		Netsch, 88 years old, served as a controversial Chicago Park District board president under the late Mayor Harold Washington and later drew widespread notice as the husband of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dawn Clark Netsch.
		Netsch spent nearly all of his career in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), where he concentrated on prominent institutional projects, including his often-criticized master plan and buildings for the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois.
		Netsch lived long enough to witness a resurgence of interest in _ and, in some quarters, a newfound acceptance of _ the modernist architecture of the 1950s and 1960s, including his own work.
	www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/-celebrated-architect-walter-netsch-dies-88-/2008/06/15/3498917.htm (2634 words)

	Daily Iowan - Space-shifting the square
		Rather, architect Walter Netsch, then a partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, invented a design that utilized the geometric trends of 1950s modern art.
		"[Netsch's] buildings come at the end of a major shift in architecture that goes from lighter to a transition, to much more complex, heavier colors and materials," Bruegmann said.
		Calling his design plan "Field Theory," Netsch used geometric shapes as a basis for his projects, in which he twisted and rotated basic forms to create complicated 3-D patterns.
	www.dailyiowan.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=352e18b8-d6bc-45cb-acbc-aea23c6793a8 (528 words)

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